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Spiritually "evil" places?
Not actually evil like Israel or Sudan but somehow "off", like assume all kinds of sinister things g
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Speaking of archetypes
Gay black guy who fucks twinks. Undoubtedly, you've seen him before. But who was the first?
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Place your bets
100 years from now will the consensus on Israel be that it's a genocidal state or a normal state tha
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Deadheads in the Dark by Frederick Seidel
The latest edition of the Paris Review included a white male in its poetry section. The lucky fella
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Truth and the sun
Absolute truth about humanity/the universe is not meant to be understood, and if it was it would pro
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How to cure homosexual etc thoughts? Philosophy did not work
The only reason I got into reading philosophy was to try and cure my homosexual etc thoughts, and it
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Language Question
Is it wrong to use basic, dirt-level language to describe beautiful things? Like those top-rated let
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Explanations vs Choices :: Demographics vs Freedom
I've got a culture-war hook for you: Mainstream center-left culture has a self-imposed deliberate ig
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what's for breakfast?
I find breakfast unique among the meals of the day for its consistency. At least for most of my life
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Are We Reactionary?
Like the title says. I was talking with a friend recently, and he described the board as a "cespool
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book club thread
Just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It's certainly didactic and probably a bit intractable
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What do you think of this one?
I would say minor Nabokov overall, but the entire third act sequence where the blind Albinus is toye
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guitar music
a thread for music in the vein of math rock, noise rock, post-rock, post-hardcore, slowcore, shoegaz
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why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland?
A famous meme from the 2010s posed the question: What will you say when your child asks: why didn't
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Suffering
How do y'all view/rationalize suffering? Particularly the seemingly excessive suffering of some.
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pagans, paganism
Do you think it's possible to bring back paganism? Would you like to?
I admit, I have an inkling
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Soap doesn't burn the pee hole anymore
Did they fix that or am I just better at not getting soap in my pee hole?
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/exercise/
with the warmer weather coming in, my mind has drifted to thoughts of physical activity and getting
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AI
How did worry about AI safety become a tech bro signifier and not the opposite? It’s clear that the
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why aren't you adventuremaxxing instead of grinding sidequests for the apparatus while waiting for d
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Potential
Will God punish me for not realizing my potential? Is the greatest sin to let the gifts of God rot?
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essay / blog post recs
My folder of essays to read while slacking off at work is running thin. Any good recs for good essay
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Happy summer solstice
I have always felt like the solstices come around weirdly early. I know about seasonal lag, and I kn
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tired of dealing with low culture people
get ridiculed for my tastes often. people say i'm "performative". i talk to people about my favorite
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Pawpaw and Commercializtion
Pawpaw, or Asimina triloba, is the largest tree-borne fruit native to the North American continent.
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Is Sam Kriss the best writer alive?
I think he's the only writer left whose work I'm always willing to drop whatever I'm doing to read.
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We affirm that the magnificence of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.
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Sometimes im out and about and see a guy and hes so pretty that a knot starts forming in my stomach
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site updates + meta thread
Hi /pt/,
I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back do
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HMS Implacable
The Royal Navy towed a 150 year old Napoleonic ship-of-the-line out into the English Channel and ble
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Depression
People act like Depression is just this freak pathology that can strike you arbitrarily at any time.
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life lately
the love of my life needs to find my soon
im becoming lesser in soul like a prostitute
my air is w
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Poetic Perversion
It saddens me to know the likes of D. H. Lawrence, Klimt and co are now but impossible for the perve
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Now is the time of iron men.
The world is at a loss, countries are dying. A man long ago, called Oswald Spengler, came up with an
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Frankfurt School
Current consensus of this seminal group. Although I find their progeny tiresome, the likes of Benjam
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how to audiobookmaxx?
admitting to myself and anons that my eyesight is going to wear out if I don't quit the constant scr
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how to have a good time and engage in the social arts as a miser
trying to go PARTY and stop HATING MY LIFE... I know some of you are also MISERABLE and ANTISOCIAL c
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post your work
Post things you've made or are working on
>art
>writing
>recipes
>DIY handiwork
>etc.
whatever
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a question about jane austen
if I (a girl) was a good friend of jane's and told her via letter that I was in love with her how do
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/drgs/
out of curiosity of these users, I'd like to hear about your personalities and whether you are an up
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Meaning and signs in the contemporary world
I’ve been thinking about cultural meaning and how it’s found in things like art and literature beyon
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bad at games
those who are bad at video games, mainly multiplayer games, and i mean unplayable bad, how do you fe
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Why are sober ppl like that?
Every sober guy I've ever met falls into one of two categories:
1. Anxious, intelligent, paranoid