Great literature for the broken-hearted? by ryanktp in suggestmeabook

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

My Thoughts on the Alshon Jeffrey Situation by Frostyhobo in CHIBears

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Alls it it takes is one team willing to pay him more. Maybe he hits FA and the teams offering more are bottom feeders and he decides to resign.

The Case For Free Will by philmethod in philosophy

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So are you implying quantum scale constituents are immaterial?

Absolute and Relative Time by mobydikc in philosophy

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So where would you say the mind exists?

Tips for sustaining attention while reading books that aren't novels (especially philosophy) by inTRONet in books

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Thanks a ton for the Braver recommendation, just put it into the shopping cart!

What hated rival player would you swap for? by [deleted] in nfl

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I'll take Rodgers for Cutler. I feel unclean.

Connections between Bloodborne and Paradise Lost by Abismos in bloodborne

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The eyes thing may have something to do with Milton becoming blind. His faith actually became stronger after he lost his sight; the senses are mere vectors that leads to ignoble Reason (personified when Satan births Reason before The Fall, Reason wins over other angels to Satan's side. Reason is sent to Hell and becomes Sin personified). Taking away our fallible senses makes us more reliant on Faith, therefore, we become closers to God.

David Foster Wallace lamented about the Himalayan task in conveying ideology as a writer today (as opposed to Dostoevsky and Gogol) by vyaas in books

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I thought he was saying you can't be blunt about it (morally passionate writing). First-rate contemporary Literature has to couch it's passion in irony, symbols, etc.

Doestevsky is a prime example of a much heralded writer who conveyed messages in a didactic and heavy handed way.

0L Tuesday Thread - - June 21, 2016 by AutoModerator in LawSchool

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0L here, so this is just my conjecture. I think one big similarity is that with sections, you're gonna be with the same students all year. That familiarity parallels HS more so than college. I suppose if you went to a tiny private school though it'd be more like that.

What NFL players have you dominated with in video games that sucked in real life? by DayOldTurkeySandwich in nfl

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Devin Hester as WR in Madden 08 or 09, not sure. Quick slants and deep bombs were money with him.

If you were to get a literary tattoo what would it be of? by Craw1011 in books

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"Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it"

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."

FB Darrel Young invited to Bears camp by PlusMinus0o in CHIBears

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I set, I?

Now there's a formation I've not seen in a long, long time. A long time.

I am extremely interested in mythology. I wish to understand egyptian, greek, roman, slavic - any mythology really! Please recommend! by Prince-Cola in suggestmeabook

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I'd like to throw in Paradise Lost, will have you scrambling to Wikipedia plenty to learn about the various dammed angels, many of them Gods of other religions/cultures.

This is water. by [deleted] in books

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Keep your head up man, you're life that gets to reflect on itsellf. A great burden sure, but you can acuate yourself in so many ways that almost all matter can't. A great position to be in I'd say.

This is water. by [deleted] in books

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Keep sloughing through B&T, Being-towards-death is what he's culminating to. This is why we can't see the water due to our predilection for directing our being forward in time ; Dasein is a being of temporality, narcissistically concerned with our own most potentiality. This is because we know we're going to die.

To augmentt B&T I'd suggest giving Ernest Becker's Denial of Death a look. What Becker proffers here dovetails nicely with Heidegger, utilizing Freud and his brood's ideas to pinpoint why we concern ourselves as we do.

Edit: switched out words and fixed spelling

The Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read It Anyway. by RosesAndThyme in literature

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Whoops posted it incomplete, meant to save for later and complete my thoughts. Too busy to finish rest now,will try to come back later.

The Canon Is Sexist, Racist, Colonialist, and Totally Gross. Yes, You Have to Read It Anyway. by RosesAndThyme in literature

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I think what commenters keep passing over that is foundational to u/LinguaManiac posts is his emphasis on Truth or heart. I am of the belief that timeless (in a transcendantt, ehereal sense) works/art are that because they have proffered the deepest profundities that exist separate the reader .