Originally Posted by The Batlord

You sold timeshares.

Originally Posted by elphenor

it's pretty rare that the truly great are of upstanding moral character

go sell insurance or something if you are, get out of Art

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by Marie Monday

*cringes into another dimension*

Originally Posted by elphenor

though I'm sorry if you're a big MJ fan or something, you should probably contemplate what liking a nonce says about you

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Really? I agree that morality is pretty boring from an aesthetic standpoint.

There are exceptions like Thoreau and Tolstoy where their lifestyle was intrinsic to their art but in general a strong orthodoxy makes Jack a pretty dull boy.

I’m thinking woke hip hop or Fugazi. Basically something too sanitized.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You sound like Buffy after they dragged her back from Heaven.

Originally Posted by WWWP

I want to open a school for MB's lost boys and teach them basic coping skills and build up their self esteem and strengthen their emotional intelligence and teach them about vegetables and institutionalized racism and sexism and then they'll all build a bronze statue of me in my honor and my bronzed titties will forever be groped by the grubby paws of you ****ing whiny pathetic white boys.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

Not too sure which book I'll read next about these are the 3 in the thought of next; which one should I start?
- "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli (for the 2nd time)
- "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho (for the 1st time)
- "The Secret History of the World" by Mark Booth (for the 3rd time)

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

"The Power of Positive Thinking" by Norman Vincent Peale

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

After further bookshelf organizing, I came to the conclusion to start "How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie

Originally Posted by jwb

A middle class job sounds like a boring menu option at a brothel

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

genuinely interested

Originally Posted by Mindfulness

I have plans to read that book still but started the Zohar book tonight. It's really good so far, excited to read. Almost finished with the Dale Carnegie book but still have a ways to go on the Robert Greene book.