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Someone you invoke when creating art.
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>>25418618
I have 9 muses and 3 fates
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>>25424119
Fag
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>>25424119
Muse works for both genders.
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My dog is keeping me alive, therefore she is my muse.

>Read Bible
>Start to believe in Jesus
>Time to choose a Church denomination
Wait...
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>>25420640
As a Muslim I would say take your shahadah and follow the Quran and Hadith in accordance with Al-Salaf al-Salih.

but, I would then tell you that nobody on this horrendous website has enough religious, philosophical or historical knowledge to help you and you should not come here to ask for anything.
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>>25424714
Go away
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>>25424438
this. it's frustrating how 4chan atheists don't realize that Chriatianity is infinitely more Antisemitic than Hitler was.
How many Jews are there today? Now imagine all of them except for 144,000 killed by Jesus. And then after the general resurrection and Judgment, every non-Christian will tortured forever in fire and worms. Also, just because someone claims to be Jewish doesn't mean they actually are. The only real Jews are the ones who accept their very own Messiah, but the rest are lizards, synagogue of Satan.
Jesus is Lord.
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>>25424725
holy cope
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>>25424714
The Quran says to believe the Bible.

Jesus is Lord.

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America, i hereby charge thee with
a guilty sloth, & thou may'nt plead the 5th.
Answer me then, citizens, once-grand;
all the world was happy in your hand,
and then -- no, I will not speak of it.
Ah let me, while the jambus-throne I sit,
live in a seely world awhile still.
Much misery can a little glitter kill.
I am at war, almost alone, yet I
turn my eyes now up to the august sky,
and there I see great things, a dash enorm,
a sudden golden chevauchée, a storm
upon their keeps & secret places: Lo;
it's so, yet where the bolt will slip, who knows?
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>>25423797
Bet u cant write poetry after eating a big plate of dumplings
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>Still up
I miss when OC was funny.
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>>25424541
>>25424546
i like wei-chuan, yet i'm not dining on
such fare today -- i've chili-pot, and other noms:
charshu, and lots of pop-tarts in the fridge,
the which i eat til fat, like puft-up pidge.
i've looped you both, in one reply, that i
might unfold the meanes, and reasons why
(whereby) i act so rare unshy. this dish,
a fitsome scholar's foode, like beere, and fishe,
is pleasanter the more refined it is,
and yet that's not the point: the point is this;
to practice, shoot the keys; perchance inspire
someone else to grab at this live wire.
an earnest practice, is a lesson too:

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>>25424663
not too bad for AI, but it could use a human's touch
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>>25424692
jannyblest, i'll utmost long weave out
this imaged scroll: on thatte score have no doubt.
this picture was for that long post above,
but i forgot, or it would be above,
instead of here. your salt is crystall-clear,
and yet precipitates from envy, dear,
i know, and so, i give you kind relief
in marking up for you, this unearned leaf.
in plain terms, i will respond no more
unless you will address me, on this score:
theoretically speaking, how
can such a thing be proved or disproved now?
whatever test you pose, i'll duly meet;
and til you pose so, shoot elsewhere thy skeet.

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So, what else should I read to satisfy my autism about boats and sailors especially?

I’ve read, of course, Treasure Island, Master & Commander, the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, The Terror, and a great nonfiction book called Jack Tar: Life in Nelson’s Navy. I couldn’t get into Captain Blood or Horacio Hornblower.
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>runs away with a married man
>gets most of her family killed and destroys the entire realm over dragon dick
>forces her own brother to take her surprise baby as his own bastard, ruins his reputation, and puts the Starks in danger of being wiped out for harboring a Targaryen
>dies

What a bitch


>inb4 Jon is not her son

All but confirmed, I'm afraid.
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>>25424090
what a slop, and THIS gets daily thread? spare me.
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>>25424090
I like the theory that Lyanna is actually a daughter of the Mad King. It would explain her shitty character.
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Seems like a well-written realistic representation of a woman for what it’s worth.
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>>25424090
When did this board become reddit lite?
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>>25424090
Reminder that Robert loved Lyanna so much that he fathered a bastard with a whore while his beloved was allegedly kidnapped and getting raped over and over.

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Esoterik Kantians assemble!

honestly i don't know what to talk about today. just felt like making an esoterik kantian. i'm reading fichte's concerning the concept of the wissenschaftslehre if anyone wants to talk about that tho.
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>>25423717
>reading philosophy, or really anything, without at least checking secondary lit is midwit behaviour.
that's something a midwit WOULD say.
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>>25416203
What's esoterik Kantianism?
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>>25420767
7
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>>25424331
a forced meme by a /lit/ newfag who doesn't understand kant
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>>25423724
kek

De consolatione editio

>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·
>>25396989

>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·
https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw

>Mέγα τὸ ANE·
https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg

>Work in progress FAQ
https://rentry dot co/n8nrko

All Classical languages are welcome.
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people in the last thread were talking about Arabic and how it lacks good content, but I wonder are Persian and Turkish better?
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>>25424481
In the same vein I’ve always been curious about chagatai. It was a major literary medium for like 600 years or something. But I doubt there’s much scholarship outside of central asia nowadays on it, even though a lot of the corpus is mughal.
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you know the drill

Wikipedia challenge: Go on Wikipedia, click on 'random article' and describe what it is about in your TL.

Easy mode: 50 words
Medium: 75 words
Hard: 100+ words
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>>25424537
Actually there are a few English textbooks on Chagatai and some Russian and Chinese ones as well. The Chagatai-language Tarikh-e-Hemidi is a very important account of late Qing Xinjiang history and has been translated into English, modern Uyghur, and Chinese, and there are also various other histories and documents from Xinjiang and pre-Russian Uzbekistan.
It's easiest to learn Chagatai if you have an understanding of modern Uzbek or Uyghur, it's basically just Uyghur with more Persian grammar and a few words with different meanings
For instance därya is sea in Chagatai and river in Uyghur (Uyghur uses Turkic dëñiz for sea)
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>>25424607
Filum concertinum est quiddam genus fili ferrei hamati, id est, cum spinis. Nomen habet de instrumento musico quod "concertinam" dicunt. Textum in spiris inter palos, potest hostes aut Mexicanos nostris finibus prohibere. Item potest captivos retinere ne ex carcere effugiant. Esti perutile est in bello, tamen periculosum est si tangitur.

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What mass market stuff do you guys enjoy? Surely you don't exclusively read classics or highly literary stuff all the time.
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>>25408606
This question is always retarded because it doesn't make sense if you just replace some of the words with their effective synonyms.
>What bad quality books do you enjoy? Surely you don't exclusively read good books or well written books all the time

Uh, yeah, I do. Why would I read shitty books on purpose?
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>>25422774
The fifth is the most kino book in the series but has some annoying moments. The sixth book is a mixed bag with some good moments.
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>>25422806
Pretentious and delusional. Would be like someone adding caviar and truffles to everything because they think everyday food is bad.
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>>25408606
Popular history
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>>25410569
You might find it better. The first book does read like grittier YA lit and the author starts to move away from that pretty smoothly in the following ones. The Gary Stu issue is hard to get away from, but I liked quite a few of the supporting characters and it's made clear later on that the events of the story depend on more than just him.

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>fuck AI!
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>>25424657
yeah the mechanisms for standardization of thought and behavior in early 20th century cultural industry and production modes are replicated on a vaster and more efficient scale as technology advances, for this tech is used by the same industry and class for the same ends
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>>25424665
and thus, we complete the circle with the ted pill
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>>25424650
>dunning kreuger dumbass needs extravagant language to make a simpleton argument
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>>25424207
I use AI everyday to make photos of my and my characters from my story in the Star Wars universe, I will get chatgpt premium soon too
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>>25424595
>AI is like a tsunami
Get a hold of yourself man!

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>>25424515
>Comes to that realization in an empty wasteland after the world has literally ended
LOL, they starved to death.
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>>25423558
>eva

>mecha

Hi new, I'm dad!
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>>25423630
I haven't seen that but shin gojira was cool
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>>25424524
Nah he just eat asukas hebe pussy
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>>25424524
>can't into optimism
ngmi

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What are some of your favorite allusions to feet in literature? In the Odyssey it says Hebe is the one with beautiful feet
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>>25410382

*My dear Bagginses and Boffins*, he began again; *and my dear Tooks and Brandybucks, and Grubbs, and Chubbs, and Burrowses, and Hornblowers, and Bolgers, Bracegirdles, Goodbodies, Brockhouses and Proudfoots*. ‘ProudFEET!’ shouted an elderly hobbit from the back of the pavilion. His name, of course, was Proudfoot, and well merited; his feet were large, exceptionally furry, and both were on the table.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien, ‘The Fellowship Of The Ring’
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>>25423923
There's a lot of focus on legs and feet in Lawrence in general.
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>>25410382

Next to age and disease nothing repels us so much as a deformed figure; even the most beautiful face cannot atone for it; on the contrary, even the ugliest face when accompanied by a straight figure is unquestionably preferred. Further, we feel every disproportion of the skeleton most strongly; for example, a stunted, dumpy, short-boned figure, and many such; also a halting gait, where it is not the result of an extraneous accident. On the other hand, a strikingly beautiful figure can make up for all defects: it enchants us. Here also comes in the great value which all attach to the smallness of the feet: it depends upon the fact that they are an essential characteristic of the species, for no animal has the tarsus and the metatarsus taken together so small as man, which accords with his upright walk; he is a plantigrade.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer, ‘The World As Will And Representation: Appendix’
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>>25410382

Through the young and awkward hours
my lady perfectly moving,
through the new world scarce astir
my fragile lady wandering
in whose perishable poise
is the mystery of Spring
(with her beauty more than snow
dexterous and fugitive
my very frail lady drifting
distinctly,moving like a myth
in the uncertain morning,with
April feet like sudden flowers
and all her body filled with May)

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>1“How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
>O prince’s daughter!
>The curves of your hips are like jewels,
>The work of the hands of an artist.
Song of Songs

thought on his body of work?
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Oh, and here's a webm for your trouble.
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I never got into Goosebumps heavily but the one where the main character ends up in some monster kid's closet and the kid hides him from his parents like a pet until the end reveal that the MC is human but regarded as a monster by whatever the other characters were, stuck with me over the years.
I was reading other fucked up YA at the time anyway, non-horror horror like Animorphs.
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>>25424619
>Goosebumps & Animorphs
>fucked up
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>>25424619
>Animorphs
I went on a date with a chick who spent an unusually long time describing how well Animorphs was written. And she was like 30 years old and working on getting her own novel published. I wasn't sure what to think about anything I heard that day.
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I remember the story about a bullied girl that tries to punish her bullies with black magic, but they take the initiative and turn her into a bird instead, it was fucked up.

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>Speed read? Heavens, no. I prefer taking my time and reading out loud.
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>>25424392
>not having a sister to read romantasy slop with until her brain has subconsciously inserted you into her fantasies forcing her to be overcome with lust as she forces you to engage in incestuous breeding sex with her as she screams out the names of her favorite bazillionare werewolf
Why even live honestly.
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>>25424392
me and who??
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>>25424299
Speedreaders don't read. They are subhumans, really. Fags with a quota.
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>>25424421
Well that too unless it's math.
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>>25424299
Nietzsche spoke of this.

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Communist/socialist society can exist so long as you exclude sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths and BPDs and low IQ morons.
The reason why it imploded and why it was met with so much resistance externally is because of evil people and partly because of ignorant and stupid people, but really more so evil people.
evil people don't like communism or socialism.
mainstream communists and socialists for some reason don't bother with the idea that maybe some people are inherently incompatible with communism.

I would love to live in a commune with good people, but the moment you include evil people in the commune it will implode. This is why it fails. and no, you mostly can't educate them into being good.
There are also some things that mainstream communist literature gets really wrong, like the concept of ownership. you shouldn't own other good people, but owning objects or property that can be used for good is not a problem in and of it self. this might sound close to something like National Socialism but it's really not. Nazis are evil because they don't have a concept of good. they just care about society in a strictly exploitative manner or exhaustive manner. communists are generative, national socialists are degenerative, even if they put a front that says otherwise.

And finally good and evil transcend race. race can maybe be correlated to some extent but it's not a very strong correlation. most white people for example are actually evil, not good. because most humans in general are evil.
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>>25423503
>reddit spacing
yeah, neither you nor your off-topic shit belongs here you vile dung eater
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>>25422490
>it works when we exclude most of the people its supposed to help
You don't know how stupid and/or mentally ill the average person is.
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>>25422490
so, le communism ist real without humans?
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>>25422490
nice, you just reinvented hoppe
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>>25422490
Communes are fine, the problem is when you try to make your communist/socialist society encompass millions of people at once -- partially because you're bound to have cluster C people, but really because it's just impossible to administrate effectively

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/ourgirl/ Dakota is officially releasing a book!
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Wow, another woman publishing a book. I literally can't not wait.
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man those old memes about her being walled look quaint now lmao holy shit
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>>25424507
oh wait maybe i'm thinking of someone else, i have no idea who dakota warren is actually
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>Be Happy I Am a novel Mad
who the fuck designs these covers man
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I have severe woman fatigue


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