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>spent $105 dollars in a Used book store yesterday
>Only bought 14 books
Heh, the bang from your buck comes from the physical hunt, right? I'm paying for the . . . experience.

>> No.10931526

The transcendent self does not exist. "You" didn't buy any book. Your past you did. You merely inherited them. And it wasn't your money spent on them either as you had nothing to do with acquiring it. Stop complaining and be thankful for the gift. Leave something for future yous to be thankful for. Have a great day. It's your only one.

>> No.10931537
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10931537

>buy 20£ (40$) book
>arrives with a couple of creased pages
>complain
>get 50% off and keep the book
>squash the book between other big heavy books and its good

>> No.10931541

>>10931526
You do not exist, only I do.

>> No.10931547

>>10931537
There's no way a dollar is half a pound

>> No.10931552

>>10931526
Mate, there is a fundemental core nature to a person, encoded in their DNA, and established in their lived body.

Neither memory nor ability dissolves overnight, it is cute but nevertheless absurd to imply a person dies each night and is reborn each morning.

>> No.10931554

>>10931526
i did this last week i wasted a bunch of time doing some bikeshare gig economy crap where u takes bikes from one full rack and ride them over to some empty one on some other block and they give a few cents for your time, i just get my payout now i have 5 bucks in paypal to buy $1 humble bundles with (it was a total waste of time but then again i was listening to audiobooks the whole time) so my self of the now thanks my self of the past for blowing a couple sunny afternoons screwing around with bikes

>> No.10931555

>>10931552
>implying a self subsists longer than a moment
truly there is no helping peepfags

>> No.10931557
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>>10931547
40$ book cover price

>> No.10931560

>>10931547
it used to be in the bush years but since the brexit shit its more like 1.5 dollars per pound i think

>> No.10931578

>>10931552
>Neither memory nor ability dissolves overnight,
I didn't claim such. Of course the body is the same pattern of atoms. But what you define as you is the stream of consciousness that only lasts one waking phase.

>fundemental core nature to a person, encoded in their DNA,
So is your clone you? He has the same dna atomic pattern his consciousness steams from the same brain cells. He even has your memorys.
Only thing different between you is the STREAM of consciousness. Just like the difference between you and your future you

>> No.10931586

>>10931547
>>10931537
>>10931557
>>10931560
Fug. Why is the dollar so weak? It says it's worth 0.71 pounds. I thought Americans could live like kings in other countries because our currency was so strong

>> No.10931594

>>10931586
ever heard of quantitative easing faggot? no but the reason the dollar is kept weak is to stimulate exports, like how china keeps its currency artificially low by buying all our fucking debt, but since oil is a dollar denominated asset we cant get totally funny with it like the chinamen

>> No.10931598

>>10931594
Stop with the big words. I only read fiction.

>> No.10931605

>>10931586
>the units of one currency against another denote its relative weakness

Absolutely ridiculous statement, that makes no sense.

>> No.10931625

>>10931555
just how long is a moment?

>> No.10931631

>>10931594
It would go to shit without oil.

>> No.10931636

>>10931586
>because our currency was so strong
really nigga

The 'Americans could live like kings' thing does kind of hold, but because the cost of living is lower in most other countries: if everybody only makes the equivalent of 2 dollars a day, you can still buy live large off what is by American standards pocket change.

>> No.10931644

>>10931502
$7.50 per book is not bad, the problem is why the fuck are you buying so many books in one sitting? You know they're just going to go on a shelf and sit for a while.

>> No.10933768

>>10931586
Pound was extremely overvalued before Brexit, and still is.

>> No.10933808

>>10931578
Clones do not have the same memories

>> No.10933969

dude a pound is worth 150 yen - Might just move to Japan and live like a king. I'll buy everything lmao

>> No.10934016
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10934016

>have 1,000 dollars worth of books
>have 90 books
>mostly philosophy and Classics and other hidden gems
>tfw going to pass them down to children and make them read at a younger age then I did
>Feels good man
>tfw this also applies to avant music collection and film classics