god damn it. all i wanna read now is classic noir. everything else stinks.suggestions?
>>23396790yeah wish i could help you out but i dunno either.
>>23396563No
>>23397379I’ll probably watch it anyway lol
>>23394754>This pissed me off. >The second he walks in, the woman falls into his arms. No one fucking does that, >and no one talks the way these people do
Ross Macdonald has the cosiest bibliography. HIs stuff is just as good as Chandler
>just stop being a whiny bitchBased lol
>>23398128Let me start pushing this rock up the hill bro
>>23398128>just don't give into desire, bro>oh you want to break the samsara, well that's desire! you can't do that>just don't have to work, be social or have family and you're on your way>oh you have cancer? you must have been an awful person in your past life. heh
>>23398752>oh you want to break the samsara, well that's desire! you can't do thatAccording to this sutta, that's wrong: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN51_15.html>[...]>“If that’s so, Master Ānanda, then it’s an endless path, and not one with an end, for it’s impossible that one could abandon desire by means of desire.”>“In that case, brahman, let me cross-question you on this matter. Answer as you see fit. What do you think? Didn’t you first have desire, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the monastery,’ and then when you reached the monastery, wasn’t that particular desire allayed?”>“Yes, sir.”>“Didn’t you first have persistence, thinking, ‘I’ll go to the monastery,’ and then when you reached the monastery, wasn’t that particular persistence allayed?”>“Yes, sir.”Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>23398819>this desire is ok though if you feel relief from action even though it's not remotely possible to see it to completion unless you are born again as a monk. heh.
Where can I pirate it?
I fell for a few too many /g/ memes and now write everything in Vim. As far as plugins go, I use Goyo, which margins the page to appear inline with a word processor, and vim-pencil, which lets me use J and K to move between displayed lines rather than paragraphs. When editing, I activate the built-in spellcheck. I used to experiment with a handful of grammar tools but decided that it was something I should intrinsically know; as of now, I go at it raw with a copy of The Elements of Style.
Focuswriter (free). You can make nice themes for it.
>>23397888Writing your manuscript by hand is meme. /g/ sheds their computers for ancient Thinkpads with shitty suckless rices; we shed keyboards for IOS notes and No.2 pencils.
>>23397006Does it have dark mode?
>>23397069I never said the jokes I had written down were any good
Let's refute that unemployed retarded Mādhyamika faggot who spams his Niggerjuna copypasta in every Buddhism thread all day every day.>Niggerjuna was the greatest philosopher and refuted everyone with his logic>ummm... but what about these fallacies in his argu->NOOO!!! You can't just be skeptical of his claims and see if they hold water... don't you understand?!?! It's uhhh... "metalogic"... it's not "analytical".... that makes the fallacies okay... you are just supposed to accept it as true uncritically
>>23398224Watered down kant derived from dogma
t. Icchantika
>>23398224When one applies their mind rationally they take one measure of justification and apply it to one measure of a matter. When one applies their mind irrationally, they apply unlike measures to unlike measures.In reference to rational application of mind and irrational application of mind, this sutta is relevant: https://suttacentral.net/an1.306-315/en/sujato310“Mendicants, I do not see a single thing that gives rise to wrong view, and once arisen, makes it grow like irrational application of mind. When you apply the mind irrationally, wrong view arises, and once arisen it grows.”311“Mendicants, I do not see a single thing that gives rise to right view, or, once it has already arisen, makes it grow like rational application of mind. When you apply the mind rationally, right view arises, and once arisen it grows.”
I'm smoking some niggerjuana right now
Reading list for Leibniz?translations would also be appreciated
>>23398608monadology, new system, new essays, theodicy
>>23398614also get this if I remember correctly
Second hand source: LeibnizingA Philosopher in Motionby Richard Halpern
If you want some good secondary lit on him, Robert Adams and Christia Mercer both wrote some excellent books on him. Just for fun: I talked to Christia Mercer one day when she gave a talk at my department and she said that she heavily disagreed with Adams' interpretation along some key points. IIRC, she disagreed with his reading of Leibniz's views on determinism. But this was years ago, so I only have a hazy recollection of our conversation.
What are you reading? What do you think of it?
Been some time since I posted one of these. I finished Fight To The Finish by Allan Mallinson which I enjoyed. I was gifted A Ring of Oaks & Apple by Eoin Brady was very average, as I should of expected for a zombie book. I'm now reading Dune Messiah and finished the first page. I've been meaning to return to The Expanse and start the final trilogy but I'm not sure I want to finish it yet. I've got plenty of WW1 and WW2 books, i've been eyeing up Stalingrad or Berlin by Antony Beevor. So much to read, so little time.
>>23398768But anon, I already have. I'm just exploring the latest atheistic arguments
>>23398742How exactly do you go about reading 6 books at a time? I can do 3 comfortably but 6 seems like it would be a bit bothersome. Maybe if I dedicated one book a day to each specific book. Do you use a specific schedule or do you just read what you feel like?
>>23398520Metal gear solid. It's not great.
Paradise LostI can tell why a lot of writers who came after (especially Blake) were so influenced by it, it's a work of pure imagination
Should i read this shit? Why?
How many books do you read a year?
>>2339385210 to 15 is the sweet spot to me.
>>23393951Nigger, are you counting webcomic strips?
>>2339385222-24
>>23396280What a life
>>23393852The number of books you read is a completely useless stat to compare who has the biggest literary dick. Person A reads 21. Person B reads 60. Who read more?Person A actually read more. 21 books of 900 pages vs 60 books of 300 pages.
All the possible terminologies and creative wording and concepts have all been laid out for us 50 fucking years before we were born. TRY and write Cyberpunk without regurgitating what another book said YEARS ago and that sounds way better, just try.
>>23398686>>23398533I think (You) should leave
>>23398692schizo detected
>>23398692alright fine you got me
>>23398692That was not me, idiot.
>>23398308Just write a noir then make the femme fatal a computer and the mcmuffin your misunderstanding of technology
Pipe Smoke EditionOld Thread: >>23350723
>>23397562Sansa is my least favorite POV.I especially hate her POVs in ACOK because they are redundant with Tyrion also being in King's Landing and having a far more interesting story.
>>23397562We don't victim blame in this general but yeah that's why people start out not liking her character. It took my like three re-reads to soften up and now she has some of the best chapters to me. She didn't know that these people/Joffrey were crazy. It's not unreasonable for a kid to want to be queen and become distressed at having her betrothal broken, and be sent home, and be made to marry some crummy knight instead of a prince.
>>23397562It takes a special kind of retard to blame Sansa for her father's poor life choices
>>23397562based sansa
>>23396534This. I like Dotrice, but the other guys could probably beat him in quality.
>So...ummm...who is your favorite male character written by a woman?Well? Wat say?
Burrich by Megan Lindholm - whoops, sorry make that manly macho man Robin Hobb.
Muto Kenji from Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori.
>>23391218Harry Potter.
Heathcliff obviously
My dick wridden by you
Are his works worth reading?What about his letters/essays?
>>23398291Absolutely. Schiller is in the top fifty of critic-philosophers. He's top five among the Germans.
>>23398291Schiller is a genius. The aesthetic letters are a work that can change your life
>>23398388Marcuse:>Schiller's Letters ... aim at a remaking of civilization by virtue of the liberating force of the aesthetic function: it is envisaged as containing the possibility of a new reality principle.Isn't this what fascism was all about?
>>23398854Just leave this board, you are irredeemable at this point.
>>23398854You see, art is subjective except when it's made by the wrong side or when the wrong side likes this.
So, Im running into a bit of a problem.. Ive REALLY liked this girl at work for a year and we lightly flirt and talk but nothing comes of it. Still in the past few months ive come to realize Im in love with her and want to make her my gf and maybe wife one day. The problem is that we never get too intense in flirting even though there definitely seems to be mutual attraction. (She smiles every time we talk, we both catch eachother staring at eachother) but she seems too shy or Im wrong about it all.Now heres the real issue, last couple weeks another coworker has been flirting with me and now we are fooling around together and possibly will have sex tonight. Shes cute but I dont like her beyond lust n friendliness, and im afraid if I keep it up with her I will ruin my chances with the one I actually want. But im not even 100% sure Im not misreading her attraction to me.What do I do????
Sorry thought this was /wwoym/
>>23398788Women like men with social capital. Women like men other women desire. You gain social capital by fucking this slut coworker. You show the gf material coworker other women desire you by fucking the slut coworker.
>>23398788>The problem is that we never get too intense in flirting even though there definitely seems to be mutual attraction.Sorry anon, but if there had been any kind of mutual attraction between you, you would not just ''flirt'' -and I very much doubt that its even flirting at all- for a whole year. She is friendly towards you and does make smalltalk with her co-worker but nothing more. This has nothing to do with shyness on her part, she has simply no interest in you on a personal level. The second part of your post is obviously just pathetic shitposting, but in the future, in a similiar situation, just go for it and dont wait a whole year for her to make any moves. Oh, and dont be a creep
>>23398788
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but is it true that I am not if I am not thinking?
>>23398832Yes. NPCs are literal insects
>>23398832Hehehe alright frog I'll bite, how do you want to structure the argument for a derivation based on truth values, or do you want to just go the tautology route?
>>23395570Cartesian starewhen a scholastic says something so dogmatic you gotta hit em with the Cartesian stare
>what if, like, the world was just, like, a simulation created by a scary demon to torture you?! and there's no way you could know!!! wouldn't that be scary?okay
When collecting books by series or by author, how much does it matter to you whether all the books are of the same imprint and/or design?Pic related
>>23397995Keep wasting time on le imageboard and pointless discussions. I'll be over here reading.
>>23397995>>23398001Ladies, please. You're both wasting time on an image board
>>23398923Keep wasting time replying to my posts. I'll be over here reading.
>>23397995>>23398001>>23398923Keep wasting time reading. I'm going to be having cool discussions on the 4chan.
>>23398928Reading these posts on an image board, I presume
