If you saw me reading this on a train, what would you think?

If you saw me reading this on a train, what would you think?

>title looks like a Cross

niceeeeee

"Sounds interesting. I might pick up a copy and read that."
Literally said that, verbatim, in my head.

Depends on what you look like.

> ~six months till he realizes the problems he's reading about stem from letting jews hold institutional power in the west.

>Reading on a train? That's got to be the most pretentious, tryhard thing I've ever seen.

6'0 220lbs of muscle with perfectly groomed facial hair and impeccably dressed

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I'd think you are a pseud reading the equivalent of anything on this bookshelf.

Apparently Douglas Murray wrote a book about Lord Alfred Douglas. I wonder if its any good. To be fair I don't know much about him about from some videos of him posted on YouTube typical debateboner shit.

"He must be reading gay porn and is covering it up with something more embarrassing."
Let us know how the book is.

Books-a-million is such a bourgeois dump. Half Priced books is way better.

It's Dymocks, in Australia. It's trash. Thankfully there's a nice second hand bookstore nearby.

>Dymocks

>not going to Kinokuniya

Oh shit, I just remembered. Saw this shit the other week. First time I ever went to Readings.

I wouldn't disagree with your politics but if you were openly flaunting the book I would assume you are an alt-right neckbeard fedora.

I'd confront you by slapping your 'book' to the floor and getting in your face and demanding "YES OR NO DO BLACK LIVES MATTER!?!?"

What would openly flaunting entail?

"what a fucking racist"

Masturbating while reading it.

"wow this guy is woke"

I'd assume a lot more than him just being an alt-right neckbread, then

Plen tier houllebecq

full Rick

Okay, Ignatius.

"all lives matter!"

that is the first book you've read in the last 2 years.
also this is bait

A normal human being in an age of stupidity.

Who are you quoting?

Himself, in the hypothetical scenario of seeing OP on the train.

I'd count you among the unenlightened. not because of your politics, but because you give a shit about politics

"That is a nice cover"

Douglas Murray is useless. He can acknowledge Europe's problems, but would rather die than do something that could be construed as racist.

it actually is
it looks like it should be the cover of a modernist novel. douglas coupland or summat

It's the redpill no one wants to take but ultimately we all have to.

>Rutger Bregman
absolutely disgusting

Damn

>Derrida, Alain De Botton and Descartes on the same shelf

"look at this autistic nazi larper"

I'd want to have a discussion about why Islam isn't a fit religion for the west, and how it desperately needs a New Testament to even have a chance of joining us, but that can't happen because the Quran must be taken as the word of God and cannot be questioned due what it actually says in the book itself.

Why is does everyone left of Noam Chomsky get called a Nazi?

First I'd be surprised to see someone with their head in a book instead of in their phone.
Then I would think ''I wonder what the death of Europe is..'' And then when I read the words in the bottom ''Immigration, identity, islam'' I would think ''oh it's probably someone whining about a few immigrants''

I'd roll my eyes and feel disgusted. I might even take a creepshot and send it to the groupchat with some funny caption like "The ubermensch guys". Chances are the reader is an ugly social reject, average at best, so it'd work.

I'd forget about him by the time I get home, but I'd still have that vague feeling of disgust. I'd grab a cup of coffee, take a sip, and then wonder why I took the train in the first place. Because first of all, I don't need to use trains, and second, it's full of plebs reading trash "authors" who are too afraid to embrace their degenerate racism and xenophobia, even though they'd personally clean Hitler's dick from smegma even if it still tastes like Himmler's shit.
Then I'd think, "wow, imagine someone being proud of this fash bullshit! Now isn't that just fucking sad!" I'd start browsing Veeky Forums a few minutes later, and I'd find out, for the 100th fucking time, that yes, it's still sad as fuck.

felix,,easy on the shitpostin

I had a friend keep telling me about this at a party, and he kept going on and on about it, but would never say the title probably so not to offend the host.

Is that you Konrad, you filthy polak

"user McNotnazi - The strange death of Veeky Forums - /pol/migration. shitposting. memeing."

someone posts about reading on the train being pretentious all of the time. a pre-emptive greentext is the Veeky Forumserary equivalent of 'inb4'

I don't understand many things here. This board is way too intellectual for me, but I like it. /pol/ gave me a headache so I came to Veeky Forums for refuge

Refugees not welcome. Go back to pol.

I would think "man, that guy needs to lose some weight."

You can either kill yourself, or go back there.

Firstly, your grasp on modern usage of smartphones seems accurate. Secondly, your grasp on immigration and Islam is lacking. Have a look into terrorism and rape statistics, please. Or, y'know, just keep up with news from the UK. That's been full of terrorism for months.

I never read political books, but I recently saw an interview with the author and he seemed like a reasonable guy so I got the book and read it. I avoid books like these for the obvious reason, they're probably biased, but this book is pretty straight forward with a lot of good information. Even if you still believe multiculturalism works (it doesn't), the fact of the matter is there's very good reason to be incredibly worried by the millions of people that have flooded into europe. Most aren't syrian refuges, most are fighting age men who come from cultures that contain ideas that are absolutely antithetical to western culture, but even if it was nothing but women and children the amount of people coming over is unsustainable . It's good to see someone who isn't afraid to lay it all out. Compare the life of Muhammed to Jesus and you'll see why these two cultures cannot coexist.

Another soul that could become radical but instead succumbed to conventional politics instead.

I'd think they were a mediocrity with a desperate need to believe they're living in a time of crisis, hoping to compensate for the numbing lack of excitement in their own life by persuading themselves they at least live in some dramatic, grandly tragic wider context.

The character of their preferred fantasy is ironically characterized by the mundanity of their own lives, for what's the greatest frission and excitement they encounter with any regularity? Why, the it's gentle bow wave of anxiety when they here a man speaking arabic on the train. They have crafted a life without incident or danger because of an innate cowardice, an all consuming fear of what is not familiar, and so the meager unfamiliarity that continues to intrude upon their real, waking experience must be extrapolated out into an existential threat to civilisation itself.

I would view them as a conformist without a cause, non-commitally flirting with a synthetic substitute and seeing it as some profound awakening.

>Compare the life of Muhammed to Jesus and you'll see why these two cultures cannot coexist.

Any specific things you can point out? I am unironicaly an uncultured man and have no idea what you implied by this.

Do you live in Europe?

Not that guy but:

>Jesus
A bare-foot hippy that walks around healing people until he gets NAIL'd to a stick by the government for being too radical
The New Testament is a bibliography by his closest friends, and many details contradict one another, and the books change and get translated over and over.

>Mohammed
A warlord who conquered other (richer) groups of people. Told people that his battles were ordained by God so that he'd win.
The Koran is the literal word of God, as spoken by Mohammed to some scribes. The word can't be changed or even translated.

I guess the two religions have such different starting points that they're fundamentally incompatible

>Why are you reading on the train when you have the opportunity to catch a nap?

Interesting. So in Christianity the word of God is delivered through an individual whose reputation pertains to gaining the love of people through his supernatural attributes and charitable acts while in Islam the word of God is delivered through an individual who imposes a strong sense of respect by the fierceness of his character and impressive achievements as a warrior? Is this somewhat the idea behind it?

my nigga

Has anyone here actually read this? Looks interesting but could easily be hyperbolized, biased garbage.

Not quite.
In Catholic theology (some of these details change for other denominations, I believe), Jesus Christ is God.
They talk about the trinity. The trinity is God, however it is made of three components. God almighty in heaven, the holy spirit and Jesus Christ.
However, relating to scripture, Christians have always accepted that the scriptures aren't perfect. They weren't written by Jesus nor dictated by Jesus, but rather a retelling of the story of Jesus' life by a number of third parties

As for Islam, my understanding is that Mohammed was more or less ordained by God to be his representative on Earth. Unlike Christianity, Mohammed isn't actually God. Just a prophet.
I don't know enough about Islamic theology to know how or why Mohammed was selected by God to be his prophet, but, he just is.
I would be keen to learn more desu

Your diagnoses would not be unfitting for a lot of people, and it's a direct response to the OP, but at the same time I can't help disliking the sentiment driving your post. I'm wary of delusion and a kind of political romanticism - the most crude and adolescent example being the attempt to digest the world as if it were a kind of dystopic fiction. At the same time, we do live in a time of profound change - it's part and parcel of the era, and it has been an inescapable condition for quite a little while now and probably will continue to be long ahead into the future. We almost have to grapple with these things, sometimes in absurd and overdramatic ways. Overstatement and understatement have to be applied hand-in-hand together, mediating each other, correcting each other, as if we ourselves were kind of future-historians parsing out increasingly accurate summaries of the world we live in, and the world we will be living in soon. It doesn't make me feel misanthropic or cynical. I almost feel tender. What good am I? I hate the attitude of branding people with psychiatric labels as a means of condescension, or dehumanisation, or to try and make them appear politically irrelevant or ignorant. It's chauvinistic, puffed up. It's a cruel misuse of something medicinal. Using the language to see people as machines, diagnosing dysfunctions so you can disregard them.

Be careful not to see human attitudes as arbitrary movements in a grander narrative that carry an essence of 'wrongness' or 'rightness'. Sometimes fears, even hysterias are confirmed, sometimes not. Sometimes detachment, a refusal to become afraid is vindicated, other times horribly reproached. Without hindsight, appeasers and peace-makers, Churchillians and warmongers aren't so easy to distinguish.

i'd think you're fucking lame.

>I don't know enough about Islamic theology to know how or why Mohammed was selected by God to be his prophet, but, he just is.

He was chosen because God considered him the most faithful and the most sincere in his time. Islam says the same about Jesus: The most faithful mortal of his time chosen by God as his messenger.

Also: Mohammed had visions of archangel Gabriel. It was Mohammed's wife and friends who first believed his visions were "divine". Mohammed was convinced, and Gabriel instructed Mohammed to lead men to God. God spoke through Gabriel, Gabriel spoke through Mohammed, Mohammed spoke to the masses.
Important to note that islam's God is the same as Christianity's God, and Jesus and Mohammed are equals; both prophets with the same mission, but each in his own era and location.

What this means is up to interpretation. One could argue that Jesus was a non-violent prophet because at that time in history God did not require him or his followers to fight, while Mohammed's circumstances made violence and conquer inevitable.

I'm an euphoric atheist so idk

I would think, "finally, someone who can see what's right under their nose: Islam is highly toxic to a secular Western society"

I'm here to stay. Get used to it my xenophobic friend
Fuck you, you should kys with a book, i aint goin anywhere!
Europe is becoming a melting pot and it can function. I agree that some countries have some big issues with immigration like Sweden, Germany, Belgium, France, UK etc. but many European countries don't have so many issues. In the country I live in the situation is somewhat under control, there's not much crime or terrorism and the politicians are working hard on the whole situation. Muslims are not a plague or devilish creatures like fox news want you Americans to believe
So Mohammed had a gay affair with Gabriel? hahahaha that's pathetic but kind of hot

Islam is a poisonous religion, and is in desperate need of a New Testament, but one will not come about with a MASSIVE Islamic war because the Quran does not allow its writings to be questioned. It's to be taken as the word of God, end of story. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but ALMOST all terrorists are Muslims. Muslims are not the innocent little defenceless non-violent people that CNN would want Americans to believe.

I am not America, I am Canadian, and I am looking to Poland and Japan. They have few if any terrorist attacks in the last 5 years, because they are watching out for whatever Muslims are within their borders and heavily restricting more from entering.

one will not come about without a MASSIVE Islamic war*

Speaking of which, the Quran supports war and fighting to a great degree, so it's no wonder that the Islamic world has been essentially in a state of perpetual civil war since the death of Prophet Muhammad.

I've just learned of a terrorist attack in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A Chevy Malibu was drove into a barricade of sorts during a football (American) game, hitting an RCMP Officer, and the driver then got out and repeatedly stabbed him before driving away. Later, in a UHaul truck, an Officer pulled him over and checked his license. The name was similar to the one for the terrorist who owned the Malibu, it was the same person, and then he fled. 4 pedestrians were struck during the chase before the vehicle flipped over near Jasper Ave. I've been there before. The terrorist has been arrested, and an ISIS flag was found in the UHaul vehicle.

This is what Islam is bringing to the west.

Anti-islam terrorist preparing to finish his mental manifesto and anthrax, said train.

I'd think you're a faggot for reading a book on the train. If it's on a national rainway fair enough, but I often see people read 10minutes on the subway. WHY?

>brit/pol/, kipper, closet faggot, wanks to cuck porn,

etc etc

Bigot.

>the ultimate game of thrones and philosophy you think or die
just kill me now...

>would rather die than do something that could be construed as racist.
>implying that's not the most patrician choice

>>Why is does everyone left of Noam Chomsky get called a Nazi?
>implying Chomsky doesn't get called a nazi
he broke ranks and criticized antifa, now he is basically hitler