ITT: Post the latest thing of any kind you've learnt from your readings

the black qt

I was wondering how I felt nostalgia reading Dubliners concerning using small change for things, despite never having lived like this

90 years of continuous political upheaval in France left the Third Republic with the same level of inequality that the Ancient Regime had.

that God might exist

that Saramago wrote like a faggot

she's about as 'black' as shaun king.

back when USA society followed the "one drop" rule wherein people with even one drop of black blood were considered black, there existed an act called "passing" where mixed people would "pass" into white society

Thanks for teaching meNella Larsen

always a kek when whites pretend to know shit about black people

Me on right

this is true
zannies were comic relief slapstick supporting characters in the commedia del arte tradition (1300's on)
if you ever get the chance to see it performed live, jump on that

this.
im sick of frances pro-republican propoganda, just go back to being a monarchy or an empire. the bourbon and bonaparte bloodlines are extant. fuck de gaulle, fuck the ps, and fuck the ump/lr

always a kek when blacks pretend to know shit about white people

Insightful. Witty. Two thumbs up.

socialism is the last step of capitalism, and the first step of communism but does not apply in any practical sense to, neoliberal politics directly today.

>bloodlines
Why

Have you been reading "The Pursuit Of Glory" too? Amazing book

she looks like rachel dolezal

That no matter how cultured I become I'll always have a complex that I'm really just a pseud.

I learnt that Oedipus didn't fuck his mom on purpose. All this time I had a misconception that he was an incestual savage.

Before that I learned a lot about buffalo hunting in Butcher's Crossing.

if youre analysing power by researching "how" it works youre making a ton of assumptions you prolly arent aware of

>there are people who think White Women are more attractive.

The Italians and the Mexicans were similar when it came to WII and the Mexican-American War.
Mainly they were both under-supplied and whole fully unready for the conflict.
Also a lot more Indians(Native Americans) then I expected

what's it like having a gf with big boobs like this all of my gfs have had small boobs what can you do with big boobs

titty fuck if your gf's too much of a cunt that given day to either fuck or blow you

if your girl doesn't want to blow or fuck you, the problem is probably not her but you.

canaille means common, as in a common person; a part of the rabble. It comes from the the Italian canaglia - pack of wild dogs.

Learned who Euboleus was and the mythological significance of his pigs

Learned that the name Benjamin can mean "son of the right," as in "son of the right hand," but that the Hebrew word for right also means "South." However, Benjamin was also the son of Jacob and Rachel, and Rachel died shortly after childbirth. This is significant because it be a corruption of the name "Benoni" meaning "son of my pain," or "son of my days," or "son of my age."

I'm reading The Sound and the Fury

Gotta go down on her when she's pissed familia.

sometimes girls (your gf) are cunts, I'm always one for responsibility but females just like to act irrational sometimes, as tests or pure boredom

When you're like 15, sure.

>he can't keep his girl in line

Your problem, not hers.

I suppose when you're not browsing Veeky Forums on an Inuit Ice Carving Forum you're off publishing novels reminiscent of Joyce while being an absolute Casanova with the ladies? And your dad works at Nintendo too at some point, didn't he?

I have no literary talent, sadly. I do alright with girls, though.
My dad is retired. He was a bricklayer.

What'd you read?

Something horizontal communication fascism

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks.

Che Guevera was an interesting sorta Argentinian Kerouac when he was in his twenties and spent some time bouncing around South America from Leper colony to Leper colony befriending the sick, cadging meals off police/hospitals, and getting in wacky adventures.

I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

if you're analysing anything you mean

>Relax don't do it
>When you want to go to it
>Relax don't do it
>When you want to come
>Relax don't do it
>When you want to come
>When you want to come

Americans gave pox infected sheets and sold defective arms to the injuns.

This board is shit

that amazon ceo jeff bezos was at the first ted conference when chris anderson was in charge, and he gave anderson a standing ovation and pretty much saved ted from financial disaster

W....where can i get more of thick black girls

KFC, Churches, Popeyes, your areas local Soul Food restaurant

She's black. Face it.

#WhiteLivesMatter

>there is a poster in this thread who is unironically triggered that other posters express their attraction to a black girl

God Damn user you made me think

Rousseau once said, "woman will never be more than big children."

He gets it

Big child + small child inside is by definition more than big child. Rousseau BTFO

A LOT from Schopenhauer

But I also "learned" in another book that there is much to be learned, even from people that seem dumber than you. Ya just got to listen to them. It's a sign that you cucks here better get used to us

>shitty frogposter
>reads Schopenhauer
>undoubtedly misunderstands Schopenhaurer

suddenly I regret making that thread about schopenhauer's advanced shitposting strategy guide

its really been a wild ride

born into religious family > think im smart by rejecting god / spirituality (not publically or online) > read, live life

25 now and i'm pretty sure I know why a lot of the worlds most intelligent individuals concluded there must be a higher power

Im not that eloquent and its going to come off as fucking new agey/cringey but real LSD & literature combined with studying physics, biology, psychology & living and my own personal observations on human nature lead me here in this moment

I am the first to admit I know nothing and Im not actually that smart though and my opinions change a lot

anyone else feel this way

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

Charles Bukowski

t. pseudo-intellectual

It had been done before

No

Class four nucleotelekinesis. Apotheosis soon lads

The most recent thing I've learned is that 7th grade me was right for not liking Fahrenheit 451. Thought I'd give it another go since I was so young, but I'm still not that big a fan.

i mainly feel uneasy about the fact that every hallucinogenic user i've spoken to has been so stereotypical

they always talk about how their experiences contained some sort of noetic quality, yet were at the same time ineffable, which makes me wonder what the whole point is.

I'd like to try them sometime maybe but i worry about damaging my conscience, which at the moment I believe is developing quite healthily. sorry for terrible formatting

Its not worth it, just get a solid meditation practice and you get stronger benefits without the brain damage.

I'm far too concerned about finishing the book, (and seeing whatever effects it might have on my life) to ever enjoy it, or reap anything worthy from it

would you mind elaborating? I've never had this conversation in proper detail. what did you take, what was the experience like etc.

I know a dude that fried his brain with shrooms.
I always felt like there was something off about him mentally, then he told me about the time he took 9 ounces of shrooms and had a badass fuckin spiritual awakening and it totally opened his fuckin mind, bro.

Then I met another guy who's hobby is pretty much hallucinogens and he was fried almost beyond being a functional human being. Also very ~spiritual

All drugs do is launch you into altered states haphazardly. This puts significant stress on the nervous system. So when you want to develop your awareness in a contained and balanced manner, you really don't want to yo-yo it back and forth with strange substances.

Every drug user I've met has had a strange glaze to them, you can tell the stuff took its toll. Some remain functional but where they're at isn't anything you cant achieve naturally. I only ever did weed and MDMA then quit once I knew it was going nowhere.

Some may try to say "You didn't do shrooms, LSD etc. so you don't know what you're saying", but its ultimately the same principle in that drugs simply alter your perception; the only real difference between them is how far you are "flung" during the experience.

Trust me when I say you'll get much stronger and lasting benefits from regular mediation than any drug trip. Very few people can even recall much less consciously use what they learn during those trips. Making it effectively useless.

to jus b urself

Tragic catharsis, as described by Aristotle, is a very real psychological phenomenon, and it can be felt in varying degrees. For example, the catharsis we feel when we read a tragedy and identify with the hero is incomparably small when placed next to the catharsis we can feel when something tragic occurs in our lives, and we then identify our own situations with tragic and mythic figures.

I have learned that this experience is extremely painful. It sort of reminds me of some of the posts I've read on here about people that drop too much acid and read Hegel. The Ego just shatters with the horror, but it pulls itself back together through the example of tragic heroes. It's like when Nietzsche described the Dionysian moment of culture countered by the Apollonian; in the exact moment everything reaches its lowest, when the self shatters under the weight of the realization, Apollo appears with Medusa's head, and rationality raises you out of the abyss. Besides the image of Apollo at the Centauromachy, another allegory like Jacob's dream of the ladder after fleeing form Esau fits.

Well, it's either that or I've just experienced a rather acute panic attack and I've been reading too much

Not that guy but take in mind that most hallucinogenic users are image conscious teens and twenty year olds and are idiots for that reason. Drugs only gave people like that a social catalyst around which to gather and encourage each other to stay stupid. The psychedelic experience can be therapeutically deconditioning like meditation and can give one vivid realizations of their introspective worlds without some dipshit trying to turn it into a religious odyssey through cognitive hyperspace.

I know a few people like that, the scariest thing is that they genuinely aren't self aware to the point where they don't realise even a possibility of an error in their reasoning

I agree on the whole strange glaze thing. I often feel alienated from those types, almost pissed off at them for how clunky their demeanour is. I have dabbled frequently with weed/mdma and a few other substances, but I don't really consider them to be even nearly similar to acid

definitely agree on the whole hyperspace shit, I don't like how overly dressed up psychedelics are

anyway i dont wanna derail the thread. cheers lads

Good luck dude.

>Sick burn on the Church, there
i learned that shyness is a form of vanity, based as it is in the fear that people won't see that you're as great as you think you are.

very true

>Very few people can even recall much less consciously use what they learn during those trips. Making it effectively useless.
But user, that's the sort of thinking a completely soulless, utterly crushed little corporate drone would apply to any experience.
Some things are worth doing for their own sake. If you seriously do the math about "What's in it for me?" before you do anything you'll stay in bed until you eat the gun. Nothing's in it for you but extinction, ultimately.
The passage to it is your life, their is no destination.

>Every drug user I've met has had a strange glaze to them,
Unless you are underage it is really weird for you to meet people that aren't drug users.

*there is no

including psych meds, anti-depressants, alcohol, basically every other westerner is fucked up all day or recovering from being under the influence.
Sneering at one group but not another just because you don't have to use any drugs and your government has different policies on different drugs is a bit programmed and lame.

>But user, that's the sort of thinking a completely soulless, utterly crushed little corporate drone would apply to any experience.
Post meme words on your own time. Only fools actually learn things that are of no use to them. And I'm sure you're well aware that people always repeat mistakes they don't learn from.

Not sure why you're trying to make this somekind of objective statement, because its really not true unless you're going to resort to saying alcohol or coffee is a drug. You wouldn't exactly be wrong either, but within this context its pretty try-hard.

Alcohol is definitely a drug, just a much more socially acceptable one compared to illicit ones.

I've been lately starting to realize how much of antiquity we have lost, particularly from Greek theatre and the early Roman historians. I really don't care much about all we've lost of Sappho, because what remains is pretty good, but I would kill to read some of Livy's sources or literally any complete trilogy by Aeschylus or Sophocles (baring the Oresteia).

Also Thebes is gay. Probably the gayest place on earth until San Francisco.

That's not necessarily true.
I always understood shyness as based on the fear of negative judgement from others in general, no matter how great you see yourself.

How can you tell if you're a pseud or not?

Introducing a bruja to a short story is a game changer--and I like it.

I learned that Pythagoras started a cult, and most of the things attributed to him (in terms of mathematical developments) probably weren't even by him anyway.

>alcohol is not a drug

Yeah, good spook there user. Its just a drink thing that is very bad for almost every part of your body/systems is all

Where did I say alcohol wasn't a drug?

I learned that no matter how many books I finished this year I still have no gf

Dont seek validation in others user. I know its hard to love yourself, but if you work hard at something you dig people will come to you. Keep your chin up, man. Love is over rated and most love dies man. It fucking hurts, it's not worth it

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Call me crazy but I don't think there's a correlation between number of books you read and likelihood of you acquiring a girlfriend

identify what's an asset, buy it.
don't buy a house, car or have children yet.

there are three kinds of woman, cats, birds and cows.

>Give power to those who are power hungry
This is the only motive for someone to run for public office. They want more power. This is the exact type of person who should not have it.

This is the dumbest thing I've read all day. I hope you're quoting something really shitty.