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i buy a lot of books that i dont read, but i opened this rwemerson compilation because it was by my door and i put it in the pocket of my cargo shorts before i went to work it had some stuff about how writing makes you share a mind with other people even dead ones knowledge is power what books have you bought that you haven't read i made a list of mine it doesn't include the remington book i just bought that one  this list leaves out college textbooks i didn't sell back because i dont sell any of them back because i am a hoarder of book
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation - I know that wasn't emerson but it's still a good quote. Maybe read the divinity school address?
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I have a copy of Le Morte d'Arthur that a friend of mine gave me for my birthday earlier this month and a bunch of technical manuals on military tactics that I scavenged from a dead scientists library. I believe those are the only books I own that I haven't actually read. No, wait. I own a copy of "The Song Of Roland" and I haven't read that either.
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Jim Barris posted:I have a copy of Le Morte d'Arthur that a friend of mine gave me for my birthday earlier this month and a bunch of technical manuals on military tactics that I scavenged from a dead scientists library. I believe those are the only books I own that I haven't actually read. You should read the Song of Roland if you want to understand contemporary european politics
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ralph emerson was tragically famous before his time he could have tore down so much hippy nature new age sliz in the 1960s he would have been most of our uncles
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Jul 1, 2017 06:15
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did you guys know that the communist manifesto is only like 40 pages long? i finished that one. it's p miuch "your boss owns you. your landlord owns you. you will make someone else money or you will starve" yeah
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Jul 1, 2017 06:17
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Read Snow Crash, then C++ Primer.
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Jul 1, 2017 06:17
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I like keeping big and smart sounding books around my place in easily visible places
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Jul 1, 2017 06:19
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Harald posted:You should read the Song of Roland if you want to understand contemporary european politics
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Jul 1, 2017 06:21
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Jim Barris posted:I'm more interested in understanding the European politics of antiquity. The modern day is too tragi-comic for me. im fascinated by roman lore. like their spells and stuff
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Jul 1, 2017 06:22
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If they asked me to address a college class I would tell them that they are stupid millennials who don't know real work from a spongebob cartoon Jim Barris posted:I'm more interested in understanding the European politics of antiquity. The modern day is too tragi-comic for me. spoiler alert: they're the same thing
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Jul 1, 2017 06:22
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Mein Kampf eh? D&D is probably mobilizing a task force as we speak
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de_dust posted:I like keeping big and smart sounding books around my place in easily visible places like 12 of the books on my list are those barnes and noble special editions with the leather covers and foil stamped labels and gilded edges and ribbon bookmarks because i am a weak man im like those people that buy every apple product except with ribbon bookmarks Rasta_Al posted:Mein Kampf eh? D&D is probably mobilizing a task force as we speak hey mein k could be lots of things it is mein kempf, i had the idea that people should be 'familiar with the words and methods of history's most succesful demagogue' and it should be required reading in high school or something, then i thought that i should really know exactly what is in the book before i make a statement like that so i bought a copy of it i havent read it hide it when my mom visits no one else visits ArgumentatumE.C.T. fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Jul 1, 2017 |
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Jul 1, 2017 06:23
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:did you guys know that the communist manifesto is only like 40 pages long?
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Orkin Mang posted:im fascinated by roman lore. like their spells and stuff
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Jul 1, 2017 06:26
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GUYS STOP posted:thanks for the synopsis on the ancient pamphlet you read. a manifesto is meant to be a short political summary by definition so its brevity is neither unexpected nor comical well la dee da look at this guy over here that actually reads the poo poo he buys la dee freakin da, y'all
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Jul 1, 2017 06:27
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GUYS STOP posted:thanks for the synopsis on the ancient pamphlet you read. a manifesto is meant to be a short political summary by definition so it's brevity is unsurprising No one likes you
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Jul 1, 2017 06:28
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Jim Barris posted:That's not easy information to track down, what's a good primary source? Have you read The Golden rear end? Can you tell me how to turn a man into a donkey? i could,but wont
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Jul 1, 2017 06:29
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Rasta_Al posted:No one likes you
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Jul 1, 2017 06:29
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:well la dee da look at this guy over here that actually reads the poo poo he buys
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Orkin Mang posted:i could,but wont He also instructed me in other Voudon mysteries but I choose not to share them with you.
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Jul 1, 2017 06:35
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the unabomber manifesto was pretty long. am i to believe the unabomber didnt know his manifesto had to be short. am i believe that a man of the unabombers intellect and training would not know about appropriate length in a manifesto. it seems to me that a manifesto is whatever you loving make of it
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Jul 1, 2017 06:36
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GUYS STOP posted:if you're going do dismiss a statment without any backing facts the new modern presidentialy approved way to do that is to call the stament "Fake News" The Lah-dee stuff is pretty close to the presidential house style but is a waste of characters. Think about your response on a 160 char headline space. choke on your own piss nerd
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Jul 1, 2017 06:37
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Jim Barris posted:a Haitian man told me once that if you bury a dogs skull under someones house you can curse them to have nightmares but that it's necessary that you kill the dog yourself. a lot of rich haitains probably hired help to do it and the slave lying with their wife was left uncursed. its a good requirement for the success of the curse/hex. i never told u any roman spells. and i wont. u offered one up without me giving u anyhing in return or beforehand, like its a quid pro quo with out the quid or whatever my side of it is
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Jul 1, 2017 06:38
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Orkin Mang posted:a lot of rich haitains probably hired help to do it and the slave lying with their wife was left uncursed. its a good requirement for the success of the curse/hex. i never told u any roman spells. and i wont. u offered one up without me giving u anyhing in return or beforehand, like its a quid pro quo with out the quid or whatever my side of it is
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Jul 1, 2017 06:43
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Jim Barris posted:I didn't expect anything I just thought you'd enjoy that. i had a dream i was cursed the other night. a woman gave me a small human being that struggled really violently in my hands then disppeared, cursing me
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Jul 1, 2017 06:44
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Orkin Mang posted:i had a dream i was cursed the other night. a woman gave me a small human being that struggled really violently in my hands then disppeared, cursing me
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Jul 1, 2017 06:52
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:choke on your own piss nerd
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Jul 1, 2017 06:54
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Burroughs viewed the opiate as a sentient mystical force that acted with malice. It desires total and complete stasis according to him. I'm inclined to agree.
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Jul 1, 2017 06:56
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Jim Barris posted:That is worrying. My dreams are so pedestrian in comparison. Last night I had a dream that implied that cocaine and by extension drugs in general were my only respite from my cowardly heart. I was cursed by a needle some years ago and even if I have won the battle in my waking life, for now, in my dreams it still taunts me. It whispers to me 'You know the truth, Jim, you know that it's a coward that lives inside you and I was all that gave you courage'. It wishes to see me miserable then broken and then, finally, in a grave. Drugs are hell. Good luck with your sobriety friend
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Jul 1, 2017 06:58
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Jim Barris posted:Burroughs viewed the opiate as a sentient mystical force that acted with malice. It desires total and complete stasis according to him. I'm inclined to agree. DMT: The Spirit Molecule
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GUYS STOP posted:DMT: The Spirit Molecule is that the one with that rogen guy in a lab coat saying retarded poo poo about drugs
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no thats gravity's rainbow
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