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>>22852871
And Joshua Graham in Honest Hearts.

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>luxury bible

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I read through this thread because the first few posts were interesting but as with many threads on 4chan it has devolved into meaningless shit flinging.

My two cents (not that anyone cares): Everyone is an "NPC" to some extent, that is to say that their thinking (or lack of thinking) is influenced by the society they live in, and many people live their lives on autopilot. People who are contrarian for the sake of contrarianism are just NPCs in the opposite direction. A "PC" (player-character, a non-NPC) would be someone who lives their life by their own terms, and is conscious about it. Something akin to a PC has been described numerous times throughout philosophy: a superman (Nietzsche), a psychic (Plato), a transcended individual (Emerson/Thoreau), a self-actualized individual (Jung). None of these are entirely accurate to the term, and I think it is possible for a PC to conform if they have reached the same conclusion on how to live life as those who shape society for the masses have. But by using NPC as a term and bringing up its counterpart, the PC, you have to consider the medium for which these terms come from - video games. Many video games have a set storyline or goal, and the PC just goes along with that without any real thought. Even if a person is a PC they could still be bound to their storyline - and now this argument becomes one of determinism/fatalism. At the same time, plot/goal advancement in video games are left entirely up to the player and if they simply refuse to play the game with the intent of completing it, the player is then not bound to fate.

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>>15789367

this is 100% true.

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>>15674607

i mean, i am him, so i'm going to disagree.

>>15674618

because he's been backed up building the requested "diversity in america" reading list and its variants. currently at 40 pages.

>>15674645

no he isn't.

>>15674239
and yes, i was there earlier. beautiful evening to sit outside. stop by and say hi next time if you aren't a weird person.

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>>15497465
hey, thanks, good looks. suggestions like that are pretty much why i come back to this board.
if you have any others that might be good additions to that list, let me know. always looking to refine/expand.

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>>15335325
no. though, for what it is worth, and i cannot be more honest or sincere: i intend to redeem it by using it justly.
where does that leave me, ethically? i do not know; i face that question daily. i leave it to you to judge with what info your given.

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hand hurts and is cramping from reading/underlining non-stop. up to about 2 books a day.

what is /lit's answer to physical hand pain? how do you push through it?

the grind may never end.

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Why do I hate fiction and love nonfiction obsessively??

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>>14802660

whats something that someone who often used to frequent the store (havent been there in maybe 5 years?) as a layman would be most surprised to learn about the "behind the scenes"?

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>>14673532

this is low-tier and boring. do you have a specific task in mind, or is it really this braindead nonsense?

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>>14581829

it's more complicated than that. hobbes endorses the idea that you AS AN INDIVIDUAL can and probably ought to go "kicking and screaming" to the gallows; but he also endorses the gallows, and the sovereign's ability to end the life of its subjects (its within an extension of this logic that the sovereign can also ask its subjects to die for it, and execute those who refuse to do so)

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get this dude to come, seen him shilled here before:

penningtonlibrary.com

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more like these? looking for strong academic reading lists on politics and history:

bactra.org/notebooks/

penningtonlibrary.com/reading-lists

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Accept the inevitability of external discomfort and harm, focus on personal virtues like courage, and Amor Fati

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>>12727824

yes he will:

bactra.org/notebooks/

penningtonlibrary.com/reading-lists

between shalizi, who is at carnegie mellon, and pennington, who is at cornell, you can't go wrong.

these are by far the two most expansive/deepest reading list servers in academia right now. shalizi is broader and covers mathematics, but pennington's political stuff is bar-none the best. both seem to update regularly, and pennington just came out with a new site.

you're welcome.

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maybe if we shout loud enough we can summon rapture and have a proper bookshelf thread

i'm tired of these totally pseud shit collections. i want to see a real library.

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who has the largest personal/private collection on /lit? anyone have 5,000 books? 10,000?

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>>12032142
That would require us to find pleasure in the little things in life and not lamenting in thoughts of suicide, hatred, and self doubt.

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>>11938530
An all powerful and all knowing god who constantly tests and torments is basically evil. He knew Adam and Eve would eat the apple, he knew that Job would stay loyal to god, he knew they would crusify Christ, and he knew about all of the other results of the tests he would give prior to doing them. Why else would he do it then if not for his assument? Now he chooses to remain silent in an age where values and ethics are st an all time low. He’s either doing all of this on purpose or he’s not real

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Im a fraud. I play pretend with a life that I despise, a superficial life with too many masks to juggle. I don’t even know which is the real me anymore, or if they are all as real as me. My appearances are devouring me, and while I have gained a tremendous amount of worldly possessions my body and soul feels exhausted. I am nobody who can act like anybody

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