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get up early, have breakfast, then 1 hour hard study, 20 minutes hard exercise, repeat (with a forty-minute lunch break) until dinner, give yourself the evening for leisure. revise major notes before bed

yeah, i chose them because they were so obvious to everyone. they were supposed to demonstrate the principle that literature can be analysed objectively. if you really think there's a need to argue that being good at laddering on shoddybattle and being good at using language to communicate...

that's really not what i meant at all. obviously you don't need to read shakespeare to understand human emotion or interaction. but i can guarantee shakespeare tangibly influences your life every day. have you ever said the word "assassination"? because shakespeare invented that word. how about...

oh, the central tenet of calvinism is absolute predestination. free will cannot exist and every step towards an individual human being's salvation is the work of god alone. so uh i guess that fits with most of what j-man has been saying, but it seemed pretty funny in the context of what he's...

wait a minute, you're a calvinist? haha what?

Yo Mr Indigo, sorry to drag this up again now, but some of the things you said got me thinking, or maybe forced me to finally get down on paper some things I’ve been thinking about recently. Anyway, prepare for some major (BAN ME PLEASE)ry and please just laugh at me if I’m being ridiculous. First...

goodness, there's nothing i hate more than the old "emperor's new clothes" argument. people don't look at physics phds and say that they're pretending to understand einstein because it makes them feel smart. dismissing "most of shakespeare's work" doesn't make you a revolutionary against some...

haha, friends of course. i'm sorry to be a grouch! i do think, though, that as you read more widely, your tastes and ideas will change. but nothing i say is going to help speed that process along, you'll come to it on your own.

it's praise for how the book was written, i guess? i don't really see what you're getting at (there are many melville things i wouldn't describe as technically excellent)

haha, i'm discounting your opinions because they're dumb opinions. the high-schooler thing was not a dig - i meant to give you an excuse. if your problem with moby-dick and the old man and the sea was, as you say, about lack of action, then there's no way you could have enjoyed hamlet. it is a...

i can understand a high-school student not getting moby-dick, but what the hell is there to hate about the old man and the sea?

so you believe in a god who created man with - a desire for things that are evil - no understanding of what "evil" is, beyond a minority of cases living in the past five thousand years who understood that doing evil things will result in eternal damnation (and old testament folk were pretty...

just for the non-new zealanders here, getting a national scholarship in any subject while in year 12 is very impressive. nice going md! anyway, i was wondering if a few of you americans could answer a question for me: i applied, and was accepted to a college in the states in mid-january...

do it. one asshole gets his dick chopped off and another goes to prison, everybody wins

goodness, why?

bertrand russell is famous both as a philosopher of logic and a social critic if you're interested in his stuff on logic and mathematics, then read principia mathematica, which he wrote with alfred north whitehead. but you really have to know a lot about maths and symbolic logic going in - it's...

please keep all laughter within the designated fun sector

oh i missed this. thanks for the kind words! i'm not quite sure what you mean by "are you reading english literature?" - i don't study it at an institution, if that's what you're asking. but i do spend most of my time reading (probably more greek and roman lit than english these days) as far...

oh yeah, an appeal to anime. really strengthening your case here