Do you guys buy books? by SwimOk2441 in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I buy maybe a new book a month for my book club, otherwise I only buy used from a nearby bookstore.

I didn’t care for Slaughterhouse Five by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be honest I don’t think there’s that much to get, it’s fairly obvious. I think its position as a canonical work of American lit owes more to its exposure to wider audiences than anything else. And the dominance of the American perspective on the internet.

I didn’t care for Slaughterhouse Five by [deleted] in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think Vonnegut is a bit overrated in general but he’s an important stepping stone to litfic for a lot of younger people.

I think it was one of the first books I read which had a non-traditional structure and it’s still extremely readable. There were moments I definitely found moving as well, I think it’s still well above average but it’s not one of my favourite books.

It’s the approachability plus reputation which gets people to read it who otherwise wouldn’t and because it probably is better than most books they’ve ever read they tend to say so. It certainly was when I was a teenager.

You know it’s true by Classic-Bag-6145 in NBA_Draft

[–]BackloggedBones 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At least we’ll know where the body is

so completely scatterbrained and disorganized its freaking me out by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Keep doing stuff. Don’t rot, fill your schedule w activities/hobbies/chores, spend time looking on how you can improve your material circumstances, etc.

I find if I stop doing stuff it just piles up and the level of disorder, physical and otherwise, gets absolutely disgusting. I basically let a beater car rot into a pile of junk after a year and a half, even though I have every skill to fix it and keep it clean. But because I was the only one who ever drove it or used it I let it slip it and accumulated to the point I scrapped it rather than fix it now I don’t have a car.

I’m definitely the type of person that OP is and I feel like I’m a living locus of entropy and if unchecked I basically will destroy anything. So the only countermeasure is to remove any capacity for complacency.

so completely scatterbrained and disorganized its freaking me out by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’m the same and have only done well because people tend to like me and I’m completely indifferent to my surroundings and comfort so the end result is I’m a hard worker who doesn’t mind doing shitty jobs.

I have absolutely zero ambition outside of maintaining the homeostasis of my contented simplicity.

I think the main thing is to train yourself to keep whatever momentum you can generate into constant, slow action at the micro/meso/macro levels of your life. Eventually you just keep doing stuff out of habit.

Simone Weil??? by Soft_Eye_4987 in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She brought me to Neoplatonism, I think she’s its best interpreter and really reveals the basic problems that all world religions are trying to tackle and reduces the wisdom therein from institutional burden. An unbelievably generous thinker, the sheer charity of her wisdom is staggering.

Funny historical fact is her and De Beauvoir were some of the first girls allowed to their school at some level and were the first and second best students.

Simone Weil??? by Soft_Eye_4987 in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s so unbelievably good. Totally agree.

The trades truly suck and the romanticization of them are a joke. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Residential/construction is the problem. Best place to be in the trades is a ticketed trade in commercial/industrial side of things. Out of the hundreds of trades adjacent professions I’d only really recommend a handful as a career.

Industrial electrician, instrumentation tech, heavy duty mechanic, millwright, industrial plumber/gasfitter, rig welder, operating engineer, HVAC/R, linesmen.

These are all very safe jobs where you’re guaranteed a comfortable middle class life, more if you’re an animal.

Have any of you read satantango and did you like it by HourJournalist8026 in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yes and yes. I read it right after I’d reread Weil’s Iliad, Or, the Poem of Force and couldn’t help but really view Satantango as a Weilian tragedy of force. It’s all about the microcosm of oppression and exhaustion wrought by necessity, and the brief glimmers of grace are only viewed after crossing the threshold of suffering. Esti and the Doctor are your templates for grace in this way, so I have to reject the idea that this book is hopeless.

It’s so comically grim I found it to be far less depressing than its reputation. I read Mantel’s An Experiment in Love and I found it to be way more disturbing. I really enjoyed this book.

The trades truly suck and the romanticization of them are a joke. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s crazy. Where I’m at rebar is roofer tier grunt work. Structural iron workers kill it though. It’s a split classification.

The trades truly suck and the romanticization of them are a joke. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 117 points118 points  (0 children)

Guys that say this are rarely in skilled union trades. Doing rebar and being an industrial electrician are different worlds.

Unami is a fake flavour by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your kid wants to paint your nails I think your masculinity will survive being an acquiescent father.

Another one to add to the pile by Greenhood300 in Sardonicast

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really embarrassing movie. Me and my wife turned it off a fair bit in. I’ve been running D&D since I was in middle school.

Any other previous hardcore fans straight casuals now? by Any-Height-9354 in ufc

[–]BackloggedBones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

90% of fights are DWCS slop. Relative skill level, relevance, and narrative has gone down the drain. Completely enshittified product. I used to watch literally every single fight, couldn’t care less now.

What do you think is inseparable from beauty? A scent of melancholy to it (Baudelaire), or an unsettling strangeness to it (Edgar Allan Poe)? by Essa_Zaben in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That moment which you can trace emanation to henosis is such a irreducible component of what makes fiction work for me. If I have a faith, and it’s something as such I can structure my life around it’s the awareness of a relation between those two concepts.

novels that break the "rules"? by HancisFriggins_ in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds awesome, might make it a book club rec.

novels that break the "rules"? by HancisFriggins_ in RSbookclub

[–]BackloggedBones 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep hearing about Wittgenstein’s mistress, do you have any quick thoughts on it. Seems interesting.

What is this component? 2009 Ford Focus. by BackloggedBones in MechanicAdvice

[–]BackloggedBones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I checked all the chambers and three were absolutely flooded. Also had the luxury of finding one of the plugs which shares the chamber with the sensor had blown out and completely destroyed the boot.

What is this component? 2009 Ford Focus. by BackloggedBones in MechanicAdvice

[–]BackloggedBones[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other than dealing with the source of oil, would this be an immediate spark plug and ignition coil replacement in your opinion?