ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersLast thread: >>23793587
would be pretty funny if Benjen just reappears at Castle Black in the first wall chapter in Winds and stumbles his way into a Lord Commandership
>KILL ALL DORNISHMEN>EXTERMINATE EVERY SINGLE VALYRIAN ABOMINATION>GENOCIDE ALL IRONNIGGERSTOTAL ANDAL SUPREMACYONE THOUSAND YEAR OLDTOWN REICHHEIL HIGHTOWERHEIL HIGHTOWERHEIL HIGHTOWER
>>23819899>>23819752>all the volcanoes, the "stone dragons," everywhere, are restless. Waiting to be woken.Melissandre says he can wake up one "stone dragon" if she sacrifices someone with royal blood.If stone dragons are volcanoes, and volcanoes can be activated with magic, then maybe the magic sword, is actually not a sword but some volcanic activity that killed the Others or made some barrier for them.Maybe the Horn of Winter is actually to make volcanoes to erupt (Waking up the giants) and melt the Wall. Winterfell is over some sort of volcanic activity after all.
>>23821469Theory: Ghiscari are crushed and the Old Blood quickly decides they love Valyrian racial supremacy over slavery.
>>23821870>>23821870>>23821870new
What?What is this Hegelian lallation?
It's called non-duality ...
>>23820366Do you actually have a question here, or are you just bored? You've talked about the Sophist to Tweetophon, you don't lack opinions about it.
>>23820366THE ONE THAT IS NOT THE ONE IS THE ONE
https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/heideggerm-what-is-metaphysics.pdf
>Des qu'il vos plest, or escotez!>Cuers et oroilled m'aportez>Car parole est tote perdue>S'ele n'est de cuer entandue.Translation>Since it pleases all, listen here!>Friends, lend me your hearts and your ears,>For the spoken word has no use>If in the heart it does not roost.I really liked this verse in Chrétien de Troyes "Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion". It reminds me of Fontaines D.C. lyric>When you speak, speak sincere,>And believe me, friend, everyone will hear.I like the beautiful simplicity of both statements.
>>23818507Second line should be "oroilles" and not "oroilled".
Cute horsie
>>23818507>>When you speak, speak sincere,>>And believe me, friend, everyone will hear.lol proven false everyday in the bourgeois republics
>>23820085People react strongly to sincerity, so you're wrong.
It feels like times are changing and a lot more people are willing to cut some slack to Tricky Dick. What are some books which defend him from liberal slander and present a fair and unbiased account of his presidency?
luldicky's so heckin back
Nixon is a real life Shakespearean tragic hero. Almost everyone who ever met the man says he's the smartest most charismatic man they ever knew, and he's brought down by his own character flaws, and for crimes which would be insignificant only 25 years later
>>23820331Gottfried 's autobiography
>>23820364they were insignificant at the time. the previous president helped assassinate martin luther king jr. and nobody cared.
>>23820331Conrad BLACK’s biographyBuchanan
philosphy was worthless, theory inane and books jargon- it was all about money and where you come from, people can drive bentley to yale and enjoy charms of the world while you can read- death to all this
>>23817035Honestly kinda bummed I've spent so much time on philosophy. I'd probably have regretted anything though.
>>23817035Take your head out of that noose frog, you look like a daft loon. Go play some billiards.
>>23817035Philosophy can prove a divine reality though since NDEs are seriously irrefutable proof that heaven really is awaiting us all because (1) people see things during their NDEs when they are out of their bodies that they ought not be able to under the assumption that the brain creates consciousness, and (2) anyone can have an NDE and everyone is convinced by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U00ibBGZp7oSo every atheist or materialist or agnostic would be too if they had an NDE, so pic related is literally irrefutable proof of life after death. As one NDEr pointed out:>"The minute that I kind of woke up on that hillside in heaven I knew that that was more real than any time I've ever spent here on Earth. And I knew instantly that my time here was really but a dream. It's real to us when we're in it, but once I was there in heaven I realized that's more real, that felt more real, and it made much more sense to me than anything here. This is kind of nonsensical at times. In heaven, it's so clear, so real, so rational, so logical, but yet emotional and loving at the same time. Immediately I knew that was real and this was not. Immediately."If NDEs were hallucinations then extreme atheists and neuroscientists who had NDEs would agree that they were halluinations after having them. But the opposite happens as NDEs convince every skeptic when they have a really deep NDE themselves.So NDEs convince people who have them, and so does the extensive scholarly literature on NDEs for the people who actually reads it. The problem, however, is that so many pseudoskeptics never actually read the scholarly literature on NDEs and instead just assume, based on their materialist dogma, that since there can not be any evidence for the reality of NDEs, there is no point actually learning more about NDEs.
>>23818999>999You've been missed NDEfag, I hope you post more
lmao that made me laugh anon, you have a future in writing, you should try writing some essays using your nice aphorisms on the irony of the modern clown world
What other writers depict evil with the same level of tangible reality as Graham Greene?
>>23819925Redpill us on GG
I got like 2 chapters into one of his books, was set in colonial Africa. Did not care for his prose and dropped it to reread Leibowitz again.
>>23820038Cold War spy thriller Greene - good, a better Le Carre, cynical and intelligentSerious Catholic Greene - bad, heavy handed, boringThe Quiet American
For theirs are the kingdoms of the west.Blessed are those who are stoic,For they shall be respected.Blessed are the powerful,For they shall inherit the west.Blessed are those who are satiated by legalism,For they shall get what they earned.Blessed are the callous,For they shall not feel pain.Blessed are the strong in body,For they shall see victory.Blessed are the soldiers,For they shall be called warriors of God.Blessed are those who persecute for righteousness’ sake,For theirs are the kingdom of west.
Dang! I didn't know based patrician strongman leaders post on 4chan. That's so cool.
>>23820334yet most people nowadays follow augustus, not christ
>>23820353they may claim to follow christ, but do they keep his commandments?
>>23820356This betrays your lack of understanding of Christianity lol
>>23820350Now watch it crumble
Foucault and Derrida would argue that identity is constructed through language, power relations, social contexts, etc., and that the quest for an authentic self is questionable at best because it overlooks the inherently fragmented and constructed nature of identity.It's a similar story with Saussure and Lévi-Strauss.Even Heidegger would argue that constantly trying to be authentic can paradoxically lead to inauthenticity because it becomes just another form of conforming to external ideals about what it means to be authentic.Exactly why should individual self-expression be regarded as anything short of a distraction from either productive social conformity or productive revolutionary nonconformity? As Žižek might say, you can't "be creative" your way out of late-stage capitalism. Is self-expressive social fragmentation not the entire reason the movement(s) on left have failed to enact real social change over the past 60 years?
>>23804843Always thought it was weird how some philosophers connected language to power dynamics, now it all makes sense about all the conflicts and riff raff filling up college campuses with their nonsense in the west.
>>23810261NTA but we don’t sign our posts here
>>23817044Ah, I understand now. That makes sense. Pardon me.
>>23811271cope and doesn't exist
>>23820017You really can't conceive of someone engaging in identity formation passively rather than with conscious intentionality?
Are there any far-right female writers?
>>23812885Cristina Campo
>>23818367She was definitely right wing, how far right is a good question. She did support the nationalist in the Spanish Civil War and said of nice things about Petain after WWII.Her politics were pretty surprising to me, and I think people don’t talk about them (outside of the feminism and lesbianism) because it would make the lesbians who champion her today uncomfortable.
>>23812885Ellen Forest
Taylor Caldwell
>>23818080People were "larpers" at the time. Anyone above working class dressed up a minimum even just to go to a dinner or a bar. It was not normal to go in a tshirt, let alone for a political and literary figures. >>23818244Gertrude Stein was based.
Best books on Indian history?
>>23817255That's Britain's fault
>>23818165Source?
Read John Keay to start with. Whatever you do don’t read Indian historians, the level of retarded cope they’re on is akin to that of Indians in the dating sphere
>>23817226The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
>>23819227Did Indians even have native historians pre-colonization? I've genuinely never heard about one. As I typed this I checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_India and even memepedia has to admit they couldn't into history. Seems like the retarded views on time and existence of classical India are antithetical to studying history, and now they go full retard Nazi style except the Mahabharata is real instead of Thule.
i never come here but i just wanted to say this book sucks
You fit right in why don't you stick around..
Why does there seem to be an epidemic of people online, especially on 4chan, using fake words like “thoughbeit” and “thoughever?” Is this an ESL issue? I need answers.
>>23818290this. some autist on /int/ bullied everyone for years
The whole "thougheverbeit" thing is just another version of the "whomst'd've" meme from years past.
>>23818290>>23818296tsmt
Some Mexican on /int/ got upset about people using "though", so people made fun of him by using it even more.
>>23818271look up "Though" on the so(y) wiki
What are some of the worst written books of all time?
The Thomas Berryman Number. It's Patterson’s debut novel, he's written plenty of slop but this one is a true dud.
>>23817030These.
>>23817037Tarantino is one of the best directors in the sense that Stephen King is one of the best writers.
>>23817030The Plot Against America. I went into it thinking it'd be about Nazis taking over America. Instead, I read the ramblings and "experienced" the angst of a retarded Jewish teenager. I should've read "The Man in the High Castle" instead.
>>23818432>Both the Shelley's are overrated hacks.Woah son calm down. Disliking Mary is fine but P.B.? Have you lost your sense and mind?
What makes his writing so appealing to the female demographic?
>>23818335https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12128257/Mormon-cult-leader-accused-taking-children-young-NINE-wives.html
>>23816129Reader bitches love a reader dude if he's confident. Some of the freakiest girls you'll ever have, too.
>>23817947>he could be bedding mentally ill fangirlsThat sounds so hot
>>23818177Play retro and indie kino. You'll never go back
>>23817947Seek God
I only write to purge my thoughts edition.Prev: >>23814688
>>23821127That's what most of science sounds like to the uneducated. I have an uncle with a grade school education and he reacts like that to the most basic facts of science. Like I'm pulling his leg.
>>23821127m8 it did get restored, that's why you haven't heard about it since you were a kid. course the shit we swapped CFCs for isn't much better for other parts of our environment, but fixing the hole in the ozone layer is one thing modern collective human effort actually did wellp.s. ozone is pretty common, your barber probably uses UV-ozone boxes to clean shit and if you put your hand in one when it's on you'll find out what it does to your cells the same way those kids at raves where they get the wrong UV bulbs do
New thread when?
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