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cec9c7 No.4669 [Open thread]

who would he vote for in 2016?

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cec9c7 No.4670

>implying he wouldn't just school both of them on a live debate and then get executed

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cec9c7 No.4671

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A write-in candidate: "the American people." Since they are so keen on having a government of the people, &c.

More likely, with the hindsight of history, he'd skip voting altogether to go looking for a modern Thucydides. Some displaced superfluous aristocrat who was close enough to see, to understand, and to tell it like it is.

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cec9c7 No.4672

im not a burger

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dd3565 No.4596 [Open thread]

The universe is each and everyone's WILL.

The univere is my will.

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dd3565 No.4650

>>4598

>>4599

>>4641

>>4596

was he autistic?

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dd3565 No.4656

The universe is by inverse, mine.

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dd3565 No.4657

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dd3565 No.4667

>>4656

The universe is your will too.

A fag on /christian/ accused me of solipsism for saying "the universe is my will" when he can say it all the same and be correct.

If I have to be a solipsist to say "The universe is my will" then so be it. Nietzsche would probably call it "passive solipsism".

>>4657

Nice

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e93787 No.5336

A statement that doesn't actually mean anything.

Go study physics in university. Come back in a few years.

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28489a No.4012 [Open thread]

"The universe is my will or the will is my universe?"

or

"To be or not to be?"?

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28489a No.4013

Welcome back Swissanon!

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28489a No.4654

>>4012

>>4013

what did he mean by this?

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bd29ca No.5337

>>4654

>what did he mean by this?

I'm going with

>I'm off my meds! Whee!

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cdea82 No.3398 [Open thread]

To be, or not to be?

Heads, or tails?

The Universe is my will.

Enjoy your trip

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cdea82 No.3424

>>3415

What relevance does your country have?

How do you intend to destroy nihilism? And why?

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cdea82 No.3569

I flipped a coin 400 times in a row and it was still heads. The probability of that happening is absurd, and clearly the universe has been manipulated. We must be guided by unknown forces. We should just subscribe to absurdism until the day when the show ends.

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cdea82 No.3675

>>3569

wow congratulations you got results that had a 1/2^400th chance. This can definitely be used to justify an obtuse view of the structure of the universe, and definitely isn't just proof that humans tend to notice the out of place events, and not the other billions of events transpiring every second around us.

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cdea82 No.4652

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c9114d No.5338

>>4652

If by 'autistic' you mean 'bad at life,' then yes.

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bd0b38 No.4642 [Open thread]

>>3643

what the fuck am i reading

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bd0b38 No.4646

>>4644

>2 unrelated questions both to be answered by one answer

>3 choices, no, no and yes to 1

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bd0b38 No.4647

>do you want to neglect your desires and thereby live off of grass and shit in order to not have to think about anything/be a privileged lazy shit living off of your parents money to not have to think about anything?

>no

>no

>yes

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bd0b38 No.4648

>>4647

and the yes isn't hedonism

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bd0b38 No.4649

>>4642

options are

>no, I want to get as much joy and happiness out of life as possible.

>no, that's boring. I want something more exciting and fulfilling in life.

>sure

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32b0e5 No.5339

>>4649

More or less, yeah.

It's

>Do you want peace?

Duh, yes of course

>You have to give up all your shit. Still want it?

Hmm...fuck that.

>Why not?

YOLO is well described by >>4649

I think the other one isn't as well described. "Peace is for the weak, I value strength," is more what they're going for. The correct stuff makes you stronger. E.g. you can build more houses with a saw, hammer, and nails, than you can with your bare hands.

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b48dd6 No.1589 [Open thread]

Absurdism is the greatest existential philosophy in my opinion. There are many writings on the absurd, it is far less in your face than nihilism, truly the sophisticated existential philosophy.

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b48dd6 No.1795

>>1589

>absurdism

>being this black and white about the world

oohbo3y

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b48dd6 No.1807

>>1795

>shitpost the post

What do you think you are adding to the discussion by telling us this? That your intelligence is unmatched, that you are better than everybody?

If it's so easy to refute then argue, don't just shitpost constantly to no effect.

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b48dd6 No.4637

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

Are there any pitfalls to this philosophy? The only reason I'm curious about it this video clip from Star Trek, tbh I think Existentialism is more rewarding.

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b48dd6 No.4639

why do absurtists claim that human deeds to understand reality are futile?

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b047b2 No.5340

>>1626

>It doesn't strike me as much of a statement, and at best a colour of nihilism

Not possible. If life is absurd, this suggests there is a non-absurd version of existence. If so, nihilism is false. If such a version of existence meta-exists, then it's entirely possible that it could be instantiated.

>>1628

>I realize that if through science I can seize phenomena and enumerate them, I cannot, for all that, apprehend the world.

"Through science I can see things, but not, for all that, see things." At best, Camus is attempting to talk about something else. He's asked the scientist the wrong question, and blaming the scientist for providing an unsatisfying answer to the question he wanted to ask, but didn't.

>>1641

>Any truth claim just seems ridiculous to me

Paradox. Not a real sentence, instead your misunderstanding of grammar.

"It is true [ridiculous] that all truth claims are ridiculous."

>>1647

>The only interesting philosophical question is suicide in an absurdist view

>Should we strike out with vigor and revolt against the inherent paradox that is living?

Shallow. The question of suicide is this: if we reproduce only for the sake of reproducing, wouldn't it also be completely valid to stop reproducing for the sake of not reproducing? Isn't non-existence at least as good as existence?

If we can't not-reproduce for the sake of not-reproducing, doesn't that imply that reprPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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7207b3 No.3988 [Open thread]

Is it us humans who have the strength and will power to destroy the very thing the human mind creates bigger than itself. That it my be in our physical worldly term break able to destroy god and the devil. To destroy the forces of good and evil and to exterminate cosmic balance in our universe. Your opinions much appreciated.

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7207b3 No.4033

Because we as a powerful unity can achieve true neutrality and have the chance to destroy the balance of good and evil. To destroy action is to make peace. To make peace we must destroy chaos and attempt to eliminate the universe as a whole!

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7207b3 No.4036

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What the fuck am I reading.

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7207b3 No.4046

This is more pseudo-intellectual than academic feminism...

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7207b3 No.4049

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>>3988

us humans have will to transcends good and evil of the classical sence. it is though mybe diffcult for us human to work without god and evil compass to guide us. In end, I think will power self bring destruction to human.

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46544d No.5341

>>4046

You dismiss such a heroic effort of pseudo-intellectualism so easily? Pshaw! Pfui!

Remember, if you're Hard to Understand, you're Smart! The deeper you can make the rabbit hole before it's obvious it opens out into sky, Smarter you are!

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0adda9 No.424 [Open thread]

I don't mean this in a derogatory way, although it will come off as that. In a completely curious motivation, what has philosophy done for humankind in the last 100 years? I don't even mean economic benefit, but what are the benefits to the lives of the average human or non-philosopher in the last century? Has academic philosophy, for example, changed social behavior?
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0adda9 No.4610

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>>4607

>beng a positivist

that's fallacious though. you are measuring non-scientific things with a science ruler and saying its bad because it isnt scientific.

in any case you are making an assumption that there is no as yet unknown method that isnt better than the scientific one at revealing truth.

there are also arguements to be made that the science of the mind has thus far failed to even touch on what it means to be human, but ive butchered enough arguments for one post.

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0adda9 No.4621

>>4610

obviously he meant any alternatives proposed so far

>what it is to be human

>being this spooked

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0adda9 No.4623

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>>468

Would buy but it's out of stock and it was five bucks a bar.

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0adda9 No.4625

>>468

Is there any board you're not dwelling in, you gnostic fuckface

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0adda9 No.4629

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>>424

I think an answer to OP's question could be summed up with the single word: postmodernism.

There is a view that philosophy's footprint must be made of a grand, sweeping single vision that changes the world. Postmodernism had made its impression on literature, art, architecture, and culture. It's there, having its effect on things, without eliminating other schools of thought. Even when it mocks them.

Those effects, of course, are not something everyone holds to be a positive.

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54a2cf No.4615 [Open thread]

so why exactly did you delete my posts? i see no reason as to why they would be deleted under the current rules

>1- Respect the Global Rules

N/A

>2- Moderation will be kept to a minimum. Shitposting is not encouraged and spamming the board will result in a ban.

they were no more or less shitposting than that other fellow. and you cannot claim that non-identical posts with a period ~24 hours between them is spam.

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54a2cf No.4626

bump

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54a2cf No.4627

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Greetings OP.

I am setting your thread to autosage. To avoid further angst and confusion here is the explanation.

1. Meta threads do happen, but in this case your thread is pointlessly meta. This is because:

2. You will never receive an answer to your question from those responsible. Because:

3. Board ownership has been transferred. And:

4. The new board staff is unaware of what the original issue was.

Surprised? Me too, pic related (the filename especially).

Feel free to continue posting in this thread if you need to so do for some reason. Should the discussion turn to something interesting, or useful to the board as whole the thread can be put back to normal and bumped.

The board owner will make a formal announcement when she gets a chance later today. I would not anticipate any changes, but I have nothing more to say. It's her problem now.

Twenty. Three. Pages. Them's a lotta philosophy. Damn.

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54a2cf No.4630

>>4627

board actually has 25, the bo just deleted 3 of them which is why i made this thread. doesnt matter now though.

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54a2cf No.4634

>>4630

>Deleting stale old threads

Enjuy ur ded board muh niggah

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54a2cf No.4635

>>4634

i posted that many in a matter of hours.

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3874f1 No.4611 [Open thread]

I made a blog about my teenage anxty struggles...

I was wondering if any of you guys can offer some advice?

https://anxty19yearold.wordpress.com/

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3874f1 No.4614

So what's your question(s)?

I mean, I assume you have some either existential or psychological problem you're trying to solve.

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3874f1 No.4617

>>4614

Yes I seem to be suffering from a mixture of an existential crisis and being indecisive. My main concern is being unable to identify any core values or beliefs which I think will make my life more meaningful. Have I been demoralized?

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3874f1 No.4618

>>4617

>My main concern is being unable to identify any core values or beliefs which I think will make my life more meaningful.

what about "liberty" ?

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3874f1 No.4619

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>OP deleted his wordpress

Too bad.

If anything, consult the babbies first existential crisis guide. It's what started my deep perusal of Nietzsche. The Nietzschean affirmation became the great lock on my door to any depressive nihilistic ideas and mindsets. I go through various LibriVox recordings (Bad translations I know.) everyday I work. Other than being nice background noise, there are great pieces of wisdom in his writings that never cease to make me feel greatly cheerful.

>>4617

You couldn't have been demoralized in the first place :^)

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b99473 No.5342

>I've been told my whole life I'm important.

>Oh shit, I'm not important.

>Better pretend this is about high-falutin philosophy.

99% of teenage angst. There's a related one where you suddenly realize you're treated like dirt, and you've always been treated like dirt, even though everyone tells you you're special.

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4af064 No.4608 [Open thread]

potemkin village > universe

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e47e0d No.5344

Most humans are limited to a mental potemkin village. Actually looking at the universe as it is doesn't make the feel awe, it makes them panic and shut down. They're limited to a caricature, typically provided by other humans, in a lovely game of Telephone. It means there's some 100th monkey to gets to decide what all the other monkeys see the world as, almost unconstrained by what the world actually is, but very highly constrained by the extraordinarily limited minds the caricature universe has to fit into.

Which would be fine if the potemkin minds would admit they're limited, instead of chimping out on anyone who sees farther than they do.

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2abd1b No.1263 [Open thread]

Is the Universe finite or infinite?

I want to say infinite (i.e. eternal); that makes us humans shards of eternity, capable of experiencing joy during life.
What about you?
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2abd1b No.1273

This board is deader than dead.
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2abd1b No.1286

>>1263
Alright, so before we answer the question, we should understand it and analyze it thoroughly.
1-What is time
2-Is there anything such as "finite" if we consider everything that is real and conceivable to be one big thing?

Time is a human measuring unit, it isn't it's own thing rather a dimension that can only be functional and meaningful in the presence of other dimensions.
Secondly, if we consider point 2 then, by that logic if the universe is a part of bigger thing and at the same time finite then the 'pre-universe' is to be considered a state of existence that is eternal, hence there is no such thing as finititness. Of course then we can change the definition of finite and infinite and each of us would misunderstand the other but from a transcendental linguistic point of view we are not disagreeing at core.
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2abd1b No.1317

Which part of it?
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2abd1b No.1321

The "Universe" is by definition infinite. Infinity is a quality irreducible to quantity, which is a mistake almost everyone makes.

If you believe our own "universe" is actually a bubble of existence in a quantum void, you're not contradicting anything concerning infinite being, you're merely misusing the term universe.
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942d97 No.5346

Finite.

Even if space is perfectly flat, which would imply infinity, the observable universe will always be finite. Light cones and all that. Even if time is potentially infinite, at any point a finite amount of time will have passed. Also, it looks like everything decays and so the universe will have a functional end.

>eternity is high status, and shards of high status are still highish status, I need to be high status to feel joy, and therefore I can feel joy.

Hello monkey. Monkey want to dance? Sorry, I don't understand 'ooga ooga.' Just dance if you want to. You can leave my friends behind.

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cd0b38 No.4134 [Open thread]

>yfw God exists

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cd0b38 No.4135

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>mfw God is dead

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cd0b38 No.4137

Missed this meme tbh

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cd0b38 No.4490

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>mfw God necessarily exists

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cd0b38 No.4526

>equating God and religion

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935a09 No.5347

>>4490

The ontological argument is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

>>4135

"We have killed him, and we'll never be able to wash off the blood."

Also, we're not really talking about 'God' we're talking about, specifically, Jesus. Does Allah exist? How about Yahweh? Zeus? Odin?

How about none of the above, but I'm still not an atheist?

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c18812 No.4523 [Open thread]

In many places online, there is a resurgence of end times beliefs. The fact that people all over the world observe natural phenomena (species die-outs, earthquakes, etc.), plutocratic crypto-history (pick your group - J, J, M, etc.), The Inverse relationship between technological advancement, and social/cultural/economic

/psychological health of the world population, the breakdown of classical culture, the breakdown of the old, the emergence of the alien and the new (cyberpunk, or occult subcultures, waves of new social movements, the transvaluation of morals, etc.) leads many to come to the conclusion that we are witnessing the end of history - as per the prophecies of the book of revelations, lets say. But there isn't just this - the hopis have their own prophecy referring to the "5th World", the hindu's believe in the kali yuga, etc. The most important thing to attempt to resolve is the veracity of these ideas, because not only does this determine how futile the future is, but it allows for an understanding of the major culprits of evil in our world.

Is there any evidence to suggest that these ideas - specifically the Judeochristian end times - is an ancient psyop?

I've heard rumors it is a sort of war game - planned out thousands of years in advance by very intelligent plutocrats aware of the powers of the mass-mind, with their own millenia-old scheme to control history.

So how do we know? Is there any hope for truth in a world of competing knowledge structures, belief systems, etc. --- to establish a real history, and either affirm or dispell eschatological-armageddon thinking? based on the history of the ideas themselves rather than some lazy "secular" assumption that its a silly idea. Consider how this must've been structured if at all - is there an esoteric elite - evil factions that proceed with this as a plan, maybe good factions that warn the world through prophecy and exotericized biblical literature - etc.???

We have to approach this from a more open-minded schema, but also attempt to falsify or affirm this - because it is directly related to how we all - religious or not - orient our history, and therefore our future.

Any sages posses the knowledge Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

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9f3ef9 No.5348

Two separate things.

1.Monkey-human catastrophizing. When you want to show how much you care by being afraid of losing things in the future, then it spirals out of control, and you imagine losing everything so hard you pretend you actually believe it.

2. Things actually ending. If we consider the Roman dark ages and the Bronze Age collapse, there's definitely end times, if not quite so dramatic as the melodramas portray. (It's an affective representation, it's not supposed to be scientific.) There's also substantial evidence for The Flood, most recently due to cometary impacts on the ice age glaciers. That's a real end times. But it's metaphysical end times only in the fact that emotions are metaphysical and it certainly felt like all existence was coming to an end. In fact, all existence was not coming to an end, and if humans evolved once, it can probably happen again. Even if all life is wiped out of not just Earth, but the universe, the planet will keep on spinning.

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d1c2a2 No.4487 [Open thread]

ok, real talk fellas. how many of you have actually read epictetus? how many of you have read the meditations but not the discourses?

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d1c2a2 No.4493

posers, the lot of you.

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d1c2a2 No.4494

>>4493

You call us posers, yet you haven't even read Spinoza.

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d1c2a2 No.4520

I've read the Enchiridion, I prefer it much more than the Meditations, it's much more concise since Aurelius' is more of a journal.

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6726e9 No.5349

Ha! Neither!

Tell me something in them I haven't thought of before. Hint: you can't. The stuff's out there already, the books are a crutch at this point.

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