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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:36 PM Author: Fighting useless brakes institution Seriously, pleasure is fleeting and so are you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920862) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:37 PM Author: flickering hissy fit this is pleasurable in a twisted way |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:50 PM Author: Unholy provocative antidepressant drug rehab (High school senior, just read "The Sun Also Rises" for AP English) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920976) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 7:57 PM Author: adventurous bearded water buffalo national Is that what you got out of The Sun Also Rises? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29222419) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 8:48 PM Author: Unholy provocative antidepressant drug rehab Yes, I also got a 1 on the AP English exam.
But I went to a staTTTe school for UG and got some English credit for my ACT score. I kid you not. For MY ACT SCORE.
I learned nothing. Nothing! |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:51 PM Author: Unholy provocative antidepressant drug rehab Sorry, but your ennui has become tiresome. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920979) |
Date: October 7th, 2015 6:36 PM Author: Electric Splenetic Range ("man" who just jerked off) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920864) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:38 PM Author: drab trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920877) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:41 PM Author: mind-boggling party of the first part (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921692) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:52 PM Author: Misanthropic area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920988) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:43 PM Author: house-broken university legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921714) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:46 PM Author: Mewling big locale Yep. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920946) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 6:51 PM Author: Misanthropic area Life isn't about pleasure you dipshit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28920987) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 7:13 PM Author: Haunting boltzmann yeah i think a post called 'life is meaningless' probably isn't arguing that life is 'about' any one particular thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921163) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 7:28 PM Author: Mewling big locale It is, which only makes it more futile and pointless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921242) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 7:29 PM Author: aqua hateful gaping nowag (Self-fulfilling prophecy masterman) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921248) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:14 PM Author: Misanthropic area (degenerate ruski) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921479) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:22 PM Author: Mewling big locale Da. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921542) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:08 PM Author: azure theater stage love of her life what's it about then? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921447) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:14 PM Author: Misanthropic area purpose and knowledge. hth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921480) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:15 PM Author: azure theater stage love of her life you don't fucking know anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921491) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:16 PM Author: Misanthropic area i know plenty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921492) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:25 PM Author: Mewling big locale (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921554) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:21 PM Author: aqua hateful gaping nowag it is about the search for truth, and I mean that earnestly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921532) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 11:35 PM Author: Frozen Henna Sanctuary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28923231) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 7:14 PM Author: Histrionic Fuchsia Dysfunction Not necessarily (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921176) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:07 PM Author: Frozen Henna Sanctuary Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:14 PM Author: Misanthropic area cr
yall niggaz need to get on dat headspace tip. it's a little hippydippy shitapp by some shitlib faggot from the uk but it's actually a very good intro to meditation. i'm an advanced meditator (have achieved nirvana at LEAST two times) and i tried it out and it hits all the right notes. activities like meditation are exactly what degenerate, self-indulgent yuppies like OP need to do to re-center themselves and recalibrate they lives. |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:24 PM Author: angry temple jap 180000 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921548) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:40 PM Author: Misanthropic area ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921682) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:26 PM Author: Mewling big locale Yeah, just $10 million dollars, good health, being young, being decent looking, having prestige, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921558) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 10:33 PM Author: Haunting boltzmann (guy who is going to keep everyone else in the hospice ward awake with his screaming and howling) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28922651) |
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Date: November 24th, 2015 2:25 PM Author: Erotic Rigor 10 mil and weekly sex is the minimum. Everything else is gravy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29244753) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:27 PM Author: Cream garrison coldplay fan I am sitting in my backyard smoking a cigar and chilling with my dog. It is a cool fall night. The cigar is raising my risk of cancer and an early death, but it tastes delicious. It is a peaceful night and crickets are chirping. Life is meaningless and good. Enjoy it while you can. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921562) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:53 PM Author: balding coiffed philosopher-king locus human beings are meaning-making machines. the meaning springs from you when you're working correctly. when you're not, it doesn't, and life appears meaningless. of course to a cold, rational computer, life has no goal. there is no ultimate point that would make sense to everyone. but you're spiritual. your spirit assigns goals and you compute ways to meet them. your spirit, maybe even the culture that created the spirit is broken, but not life itself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921792) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 8:58 PM Author: useless galvanic station "Like Pareto (whom the Straussians greatly admire), Strauss held to a theory of elites. Only a very few individuals, those fitted by 'nature' or 'genius', are morally capable of viewing the full and unadulterated truth -- a truth which is (Strauss believed) horrific -- and only these unelected few (the 'wise') are fit to rule. This truth is that there is, in reality, no such thing as Virtue, Morality, Justice, Goodness, or God -- these are merely shams -- fictions and screens -- for what really exists is material life (and its pleasures), and then void and the absurdity (or meaninglessness) of life. Thus, there is no Justice intrinsic in human relations and no rational basis for Justice whatsoever; the true state of man is simply one of natural hierarchy, the naked relations of dominance and subordination -- i.e., power.
In his brilliant novel, Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow, the great American writer -- who was very close to Allan Bloom and other Straussians at Chicago -- discussed this in terms of the Grand Inquisitor (from Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov). The Grand Inquisitor has been sent to supervise the burning of heretics (free-thinkers) -- and he admits to a confident that he is the preserver of a secret and horrific truth -- that there is no God, no Justice, no such thing as Goodness, no higher truths -- that it is all a fiction -- and that the heretics, in fact, were right -- but that it is a truth that must never be uttered. For the masses cannot endure it; society would devolve into a chaos and violence, living like animals, wallowing in despair -- or man is by nature wicked and 'incapable of virtue'. And so, without these fictions and coercions, civilization itself would implode. Man needs "miracle, mystery, and authority" (as Dostoevsky puts it) to give meaning to their lives, and to maintain them in a state of functional obedience. This is the 'noble lie', the 'pious fraud', that the Grand Inquisitor, to save mankind from knowledge of their awful destiny, must perpetuate. Civic society is thus a form of tragedy. This is pure Strauss." |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 9:00 PM Author: balding coiffed philosopher-king locus 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28921872) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 10:35 PM Author: Haunting boltzmann so leo strauss was basically the dude from my high school humanities class who wore doc martins every day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28922665) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 9:25 PM Author: Insane idiot den lol this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29222831) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 10:54 PM Author: drunken rusted nursing home miracle, mystery and authority... i like that.
i bet society would run just fine because despair is an individual burden. society doesnt help anything anyways, whats the point. hold off the madness? maybe everyone is mad already, so what. |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 10:35 PM Author: pale kitty cat theater WGWAG = sublime, beautiful, eternal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28922667) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 8:15 PM Author: Misanthropic area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29222531) |
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Date: October 7th, 2015 11:36 PM Author: Frozen Henna Sanctuary http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/religion-for-the-nonreligious.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#28923233) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 8:54 PM Author: Talented adulterous school feces easily one of the most 180 blogs out there (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29222694) |
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Date: November 20th, 2015 9:51 PM Author: Misanthropic area guy is good but comes off as such a fuckin millenial fruitcake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29223005) |
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Date: November 24th, 2015 2:26 PM Author: drab trailer park chipotle, cats (and dogs), netflix, in unit washer/dryer. it's all you need in life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3011150&forum_id=2#29244758) |