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Lord of the Llamas posted:I usually do one of these to watch Marr with on a Sunday. Way to attach the picture, me.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Way to attach the picture, me. That's not a 3L of frosty jack though 
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Party Boat posted:Nah nothing that far back, there's lots of theories but it's probably a nickname for George that got associated with pitmen and the region in general. I heard it was to do with the Jacobite rebellions, when Newcastle declared loyalty to King George while rural Northumberland was generally sympathetic to the rebels. Unsure of the accuracy though!
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Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. I am currently trying to work my way through the meditations by Marcus Aurelius and finding them worthy but in a very irritating way, it is all personal responsibility whilst never examining larger problems. Hope everyone is well.
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I have never had herring, I think, but anchovies are tasty, especially on pizza. I also like a variety of cheese and toppings on my pizza (not evenly mixed). Every slice should not be the same!
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. You want a book which covers a humanistic view of society? Reinforcement that mankind is a creative being, a noble and social being whose limits are effectively none, which also examines larger problems which effectively keep down the essence of the species in general, estranging mankind from its very self and others? A book which also happens to deconstruct these large, structural problems and potentially offers a fix? Might have something for you if that's the case.
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haakman posted:You want a book which covers a humanistic view of society? Reinforcement that mankind is a creative being, a noble and social being whose limits are effectively none, which also examines larger problems which effectively keep down the essence of the species in general, estranging mankind from its very self and others? A book which also happens to deconstruct these large, structural problems and potentially offers a fix? Would it be Das Kapital by any chance? I mean I am planning on reading this and other stuff, but I am just interested in improving what I read and how much I read.
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Try Daniel Kahnemann "thinking fast and slow". May have misspelled his last name but that's the title. Barbara Ehrenreich "smile or die" might also hit the ticket.
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Self help books are a weird idea to me, never been able to really get my head around them.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Way to attach the picture, me. I'm trying to lose the entire Christmas ham of fat that's still attached to my stomach and I'm hungry, this isn't helping 
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. In my life experience that's normal experience with Stoic philosophy irritatingly self serving but still making good points.
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OwlFancier posted:Self help books are a weird idea to me, never been able to really get my head around them. I'm glad some people get good out of them but same here. In fact, all I can think of when the term comes up is the George Carlin joke about how a self-help book written by somebody else isn't self-help, its help.
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OwlFancier posted:Self help books are a weird idea to me, never been able to really get my head around them. I mean I know. I'd prefer a self-help book that isn't a self-help book. Whilst I know I am an idiot I still roll my eyes when those sorts of books roll out the platitudes.
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Josef bugman posted:Would it be Das Kapital by any chance? Das Kapital is an economics textbook tbh. The Communist Manifesto is a much better read.
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. If you're into stoicism Seneca's letters are much more educational than the Meditations, and intentionally so - Aurelius was writing to and for himsf with no intentions of publication. Seneca was writing for posterity and even kept copies of his own outgoing letters to ensure their preservation. He's also just a good and fun writer with a flair for conveying ideas that seems to transcend language. But really just buy the collected sayings and anecdotes of Diogenes, he's a far better role model than any Stoic.
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Josef bugman posted:Would it be Das Kapital by any chance?  But in all seriousness read some sociology. It won't make you feel better per se but it will make you think differently about the world, and, at least to me, allow you to come to terms with the fact the world is a lovely place and it's lovely because we made it that way.... that or misanthropic, existential nihilism - YMMV.
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Illuyankas posted:stilton is a blue cheese and extremely proper Never ask an American. War-kester-shirry sauce.
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Josef bugman posted:I mean I know. I'd prefer a self-help book that isn't a self-help book. Whilst I know I am an idiot I still roll my eyes when those sorts of books roll out the platitudes. I mean generally the idea of reading books to improve yourself. The only time I've ever read anything was either fiction for fun or occasionally nonfiction if I need to win an argument. Even communism I already had the basic groundwork and inclination thanks to growing up where I did and how I did, books just gave me some new words to express it in. It's really odd to me that some people can read stuff and have like, revelatory experiences from them, or (want to) change their lives as a result. I don't think I've ever had any experience like that in my life much less from reading something. But I know people who are like that. Impossible to properly empathize with though, an experience I have no reference point for.
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Lmao Sky are still streaming this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanVOkqHfLg
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I really liked existentialism and humanism, which as a lecture transcript is short and easy to read and gently caress me being and nothingness (Sartre's huge written piece) is, like most continental philosophy, indecipherable gibberish.
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Zephro posted:Ancient-philosopher chat: Epicurus is the best Agreed. Also Seneca was an rear end in a top hat.
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. have u read the bibel
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goddamnedtwisto posted:That's the reason judges would wear a black cloth over their heads when passing sentence of death, so God couldn't see them doing something that was supposed to be reserved to him. Why only the death sentence, and why the inch of horsehair already on their head wasn't an effective omnipotence-denial shield, and why the big man wouldn't also be pissed off with them wearing silk stockings and robes with cloth trousers, I have no idea.
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See that just opens up all sorts of options for experimental theology. What materials specifically can God not see through? Can you synthesize a material that blocks divine intervention? Can you, in fact, create a deiphobic force field and what happens if you do? Does it repel popes? If you strapped the force field to a pope could the pope then use it to fly around? Would this result in an alternate timeline involving the immediate reconquista of England by the papal states and their flying swiss guard shock troops the moment Henry VIII tried to excommunicate himself?
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OwlFancier posted:See that just opens up all sorts of options for experimental theology. What materials specifically can God not see through? Can you synthesize a material that blocks divine intervention? Can you, in fact, create a deiphobic force field and what happens if you do? gently caress if its not spandex im in deep poo poo
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Josef bugman posted:Any particular recommendations for sociology books? e: ^^^ It's latex, that's why the pope hates condoms, it stops god seeing your dick. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Thanks Ants posted:Lmao Sky are still streaming this Isn't that wrong because we need to make a deal by December or something so it has time to go through the EU parliament?
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I'd like to second the request for self-help-but-not-self-help books. Any sort of guide for bettering yourself as a person without ideological undertones of pull yourself up by your bootstraps liberalism. Isn't stocism a big part of the ideological background for a lot of the christian capitalist work ethic stuff? I think I read that the philosophical basis of quite a few parts of christianity as we know it comes from the stoics. I don't know how accurate that is though, since I'm not widely read on either of those subjects.
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A Spherical Sponge posted:I'd like to second the request for self-help-but-not-self-help books. Any sort of guide for bettering yourself as a person without ideological undertones of pull yourself up by your bootstraps liberalism. the quran
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. Razzle's Readers Wives
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. Go read The Sirens of Titan
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A Spherical Sponge posted:I'd like to second the request for self-help-but-not-self-help books. Any sort of guide for bettering yourself as a person without ideological undertones of pull yourself up by your bootstraps liberalism. A large part of stoic philosophy boils down to "you're only poor if you feel poor, maaaan", which meshes well with an inherently hierarchical and exploitative social order. It can be a useful outlook on an individual level, but as a component of social policy it's obviously bullshit peddled by wankers with a vested interest in the status quo. Seneca talked a lot about the need for a healthy disdain for material goods (but condemned ostentatious asceitism) while living in a house with a roof literally made of gold. But at least he had the good grace to recognise his own hypocrisy and poke fun at himself.
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Josef bugman posted:Heya everyone. I am trying to improve myself as a person and wanted to ask if there were any books that help with that/ have helped you to think about things in a different way/ you would recommend people read. I distinctly remember thinking while skimming the Meditations, something along the lines of "you're the Emperor mate, do something about it"
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OwlFancier posted:Self help books are a weird idea to me, never been able to really get my head around them. I just recommend people read Camus's Myth of Sisyphus as far as philosophy goes. Embrace the absurdity of human existence. Mind you, I'm sadbrains as hell so clearly didn't work that well.
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forkboy84 posted:I just recommend people read Camus's Myth of Sisyphus as far as philosophy goes. Embrace the absurdity of human existence.
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