Where did everyone get their Veeky Forums chops?

would chill with
>UCL
>20
>Master and Margerita

UMass
28
The Physician

Self taught broker
25
Zadig

UMich
19
The Man Without Qualities or Cyclonopedia

>ITT people brag about their school on an anonymous laotian hot dog eating imageboard

JL?

Never went to college
23
Atlas Shrugged

Sophia
21
Nine Stories

none
22
Blood Meridian

it all makes sense now :)

Colorado School of Mines
24
Ulysses

Aberdeen
25
Lolita

Data mining thread?

State school
19
I don't read many novels but Thus Spoke Zarathustra has so much you can keep coming back to

Harvard
21
I don't read.

>Washburn University
>20
>Gatsby fuck you

>UCI
>24
>The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

georgia southern
25
mason&dixon

How come you guys are still in university over the age of 23?

PhDs?

where they graduated from - what is your first language

embarassing

retard cannot read and cannot think

>georgetown
>26
>JR

kek

michigan state
21
life and fate

>UTexas at Tyler
>26
>Master of Go

>what are non-traditional students

>Colorado School of Mines
do you like rocks n shit?

not him but mines is a pretty well regarded engineering school. super strong petroleum and geology programs, used to be a really solid choice to cash in on the petroleum boom though that might be backfiring a bit now

Veeky Forums user = that asshole in community college who smoked clove cigarettes and thought he was the only person who knew how to read.

I love that book

Georgia Southern
19
The Road

Sussex
20
Ulysses

UPenn
18 (not in college yet)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

ULeth
22
Good Morning, Midnight

I got mine from a bunch of artsy public high school weirdos and the internet then dropped out of journalism school

Umich
21
IJ

none
27
Book of Flying by Keith Miller

Stanford
21
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

uvic
20
ulysses

fuck uvic though

Yeah. Just make something up.

>st. Johns
>27
>The Iliad (in Homeric Greek)

I read the entire Scientology oeuvre.

UWM
22
Moby Dick, Don Quixote, 2666

The streets, bitch
25
Finnegans Wake

This implies that you have read all of the so-called "secret" documents, up to (if memory serves) "O.T. 15". O. T. stands for "Operating Thetan", which are various grades of higher status which one achieves within the Scientologist organization by 1) being a true believer, as it were, 2) paying through the nose to access the material, and 3) then actually reading the material which one has access to as an "O.T. 8, O.T. 9." etc. The "O.T." statuses are what one gains access to after one is declared "clear", which is ironically the same thing as "redpilled", from the Scientologist point of view. Of course, it's just one big blue pill.

The above notwithstanding, I really don't know much about Scientology. I have heard that they bought a compound in Rural New Mexico where Hubbard's writings are kept on metal tablets, to give them some permanence.

The basic questions are: is it true that you have /really/ read "the complete works", as it were,

Even Tom Cruise, one of the top people, is only O.T. 7 or so, as of ten years ago anyway. My point being that these alleged secret writings in the upper echelons are only made available to some select few, probably. This practice of keeping hidden knowledge with religious themes is by definition a practice of an occult organization, and it is notably similar to the purported practices of Crowley's organizations (the A.A., the OTO, etc): you only gain access to such-and-such documents after paying dues in both literal and metaphorical senses, and then you are sworn to secrecy about those documents.

I wonder to what extent if any Hubbard borrowed thematic ideas from Crowley. They were running very similar projects/cults.

He didn't. He jacked most of his shit from Soviet/Nazi mind control experiments and filled in the blanks with a generic scifi plot he cooked up while drunk off his ass.

>Wisconsin
>27
>Mason & Dixon

Why is this board filled with the most pretentious people on the site?

it's necessary, otherwise the plebs wouldn't know they are pleb.

high school drop out
20
The Doors of Perception

>filled in the blanks with a generic scifi plot he cooked up while drunk off his ass.
no he gave his son a lot of speed and kept him talking until the son was convinced he was originally a clam being irritated by sand.

UPenn
22
Lolita

Yup.

youtube.com/watch?v=c41Tjx8DPvY

Im at upenn and also 22. contact info?

>Vassar
>23
>Brideshead Revisited

>pretentious

that word doesn't mean what you think it means pleblet

No.

SDSU
23
Nagai Kafu - American Stories

>Vassar
gay

>23
Yep. I think Brideshead Revisited might give that away too.

fair enough.
see you around maybe

lets compare spooks instead

>Columbia
>19
>The Makioka Sisters

Manitoba
25
The Trouble With Being Born

>University of Michigan
>20
>Hegel's "The Science of Logic"

Brooklyn College
24
The Children of Hurin

>I wonder to what extent if any Hubbard borrowed thematic ideas from Crowley. They were running very similar projects/cults.

Head over to /omg/ on /x/, the library there has big fat stacks of material on both subjects. This is actually a topic of discussion there on and off.

>Community College
>21
>Don Quixote and One Hundred Years of Solitude, in that order.

>NYU
>20
>Stoner

>University of Venice (Ca' Foscari)
>21
>Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Spinoza's Ethics / Hilarotragoedia

Second user hit the nail on the head. I went there for petroleum engineering.

Dartmouth
24
Moby Dick

ACC
20
Slaughterhouse five

I love (You)

>college
19
Angela's Ashes

UNAM
Almost 22
Abaddon el exterminador

University of Toronto (for English lit)
20
The Beetle Leg

>lol
>22
>lolita

>Pierre: or, the Ambiguities