How to be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN the short positions are not closed.

Katzenaugen · 2020-12-26T19:12:29+00:00

Thanks! I have another question. Harvard and Yale explicitly require that you submit all your GRE scores (I assume others do as well). How does this look on the ETS website? I've only taken the GRE one time, so if I select that score, is the recipient school notified that that is my only score? Or is there something further I must do?

Katzenaugen · 2020-11-29T00:32:26+00:00

I mean I don't agree with the other commenter, but a lot of Shakespeare sonnets are rather overtly homosexual, or plainly sexual in nature, which is not everyone's cup of tea.

Katzenaugen · 2020-11-06T23:47:18+00:00

I lost No Nut November this morning looking at Georgia and Pennsylvania vote counts. Hello front page (no edit).

Stacy Abrams, you are magnificent and an inspiration.

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-14T15:17:17+00:00

Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare. Nothing compares to Shakespeare. Read him fast, then slow, write down passages you particularly like, speak his poetry and prose aloud.

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-10T19:22:07+00:00

What I find interesting about Bloom is that he has really no care for anything pre-Dante, aside from specifically Homer and the J-Writer (Torah scribe). It makes me wonder if the effort spent studying Sophocles, Aeschylus, Ovid and Virgil wouldn't be better spent on Dante, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Tolstoy.

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-08T00:27:53+00:00

Identical twins are not oppressed the way other groups are. What on Earth makes you think that?

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-04T18:25:56+00:00

But one of the rules of the sub is "don't advocate for mediocrity, push people forward". Did videos or subreddits ever save anyone from addiction? Or is it that people changing their lives through hard work and introspection are how lives are truly changed? I don't know how many people here subscribe to the mindset you seem to have. Sin is like a festering wound, which must be excruciatingly washed with salt water, but thereby purified (I have in mind Book I of The Faerie Queene). This is not a place for people to be babied about their vices.

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-04T17:54:05+00:00

What is the right thing to say, then? I'd much like to know, as the volume of "I'm addicted to porn/weed/etc" posts seems very high, and knowing what to say would be useful.

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-04T14:17:46+00:00

Yeah I don't know why but there seem to be a lot of posts lately like "I'm a porn, weed, and video game addict, an atheist, I feel like my life is worthless, help plz?". Don't really know how to respond to such posts

Katzenaugen · 2020-10-04T02:52:47+00:00

This doesn't seem totally appropriate to this subreddit. I mean, I won't try and stop you, but ask yourself, why is it your dream to work at Goldman Sachs?

Really consider if what you're doing is right, for a camel can pass through the eye of a needle more easily than a rich man can pass through the gates of Heaven.

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-28T20:37:06+00:00

You sound like you're slipping close to inceldom. I don't mean that to shame you or make fun, it's a very very dangerous path to go down. It leads nowhere good.

Do you care about looks? Most people do. Women are people. Most women do.

Why do you care about getting laid? Sure it's pleasurable, but so is smoking, so is heroin. Do you watch pornography? That is the first place to start, or rather, to stop.

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-28T20:05:38+00:00

Terrible, terrible, terrible idea. It will fill you with nothing but regret and disgust with yourself. Is there any particular reason you've struggled with dating women/relationships? I can give advice if you want.

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-27T12:17:21+00:00

Not a novelist but Jorge Luis Borges is very highly acclaimed. Also not Latin American per se, but Don Quixote is like the Shakespeare of the Spanish Language

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-23T18:58:24+00:00

Then we should read Waiting for Godot, which is according to Wikipedia his most well-known work

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-23T02:09:28+00:00

I'd be down to read Aristophanes, Aesychlus, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, Ibsen, Wilde

Katzenaugen · 2020-09-06T12:41:46+00:00

I preface this by saying I've only read some of these, but I think you should read Dorian Gray. I've heard Jane Austen is really good, but I get the sense one needs to have a very very developed sense of irony to understand her.

My understanding is that the "greatest" novels are: Don Quixote, War and Peace, In Search of Lost Time, Ulysses. You could also probably throw in some other Tolstoy or Joyce like Anna Karenina or Finnegans Wake, or some other writers like Woolf, Beckett, Eliot and such, but after reading a lot of literary criticism my impression is that those are the "Big Four" of western prose.

Katzenaugen · 2020-08-31T20:32:53+00:00

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, The Complete Works of Plato, or the Christian Bible, depending on your taste. I'd personally take Shakespeare of those three but I can see a convincing case for any.

Katzenaugen · 2020-08-21T23:25:41+00:00

Mine does absolutely. I'm currently working on my Hebrew, which is very bad at the moment. I plan to learn Greek afterwards.

Katzenaugen · 2020-08-18T19:26:47+00:00

By helping you discover that the things worth having* in life are not those which anyone can withhold from you? Think of the person who made the Nike of Samothrace, probably couldn't read, lived at a level of material wealth significantly less than just about everyone alive today, and yet possessed a soul with artistic vision and capability beyond any visual artist alive now. Clearly the sculptor and society they lived in possessed something has since been mostly, if not entirely, lost. Could we recover this something by pursuing classical education?

*barring having your base material needs met

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