>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24948701OP tried to avoid the question because he knew it wouldn't please the roast, yet she insisted, so he responded dryly, expecting the type of response he received. I would have done the same. If some woman asks me about literature I just assume she'll want to talk about some genre fiction or YA trash and I WILL purposefully talk about some modernist tome to fuck with herI don’t need to lie because I'm not desperate for pussy, because I'm not a loser.
>>24947390>I can't choose between Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games lol
>>24947390>you haven't read it? I can lend you my copy :)how spergy are you
>>24947357The first mistake you made was trying to carry a conversation over the dating app rather than just coordinating the first date so you can talk in person.
>>24949457>sends link to anna's archive
Is there anything like this idea?I want to make an app that you pick from a list of like 256 characters, and then you create a custom group of like 6 of them, and then you select like a fantasy year of the calendar.And the app basically generates using their astrological birth dates, numerology and chinese zodiac of their birth dates.And the app generates a sort of basic chapter of some pages.But I don't mean a VN.I mean a final text is composed from hand crafted sentences.
>>24950087>using their astrological birth dates, numerology and chinese zodiac of their birth dates.Nigga whats your obsession with this stop posting it in every board
>what if... the bad guy, um, like rapes and kills and such?The Judge is a cartoony villain, something you'd find in an Alan Moore comic like The Killing Joke.How does anyone take American letters seriously when you realise the entire McCarthy Universe (MCU) was just made to be a backend of Hollywood slop adaptations?
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>>24950037>Manchild so mad he has been continuously scouring the subreddit for le mock ebin take downsLol
>>24950043McCarthy is ubiquitous like Marvel. Of course retards like you will defend his slop.
Hope OP gets shot in the face. THE MAC IS BASED
>>24950073She was 16.
Whats the deal with shakespeare "intellectuals" trying to convince everyone every single line in every single play is actually a completely retarded sexual based pun, is this some kind of psyop?
>>24949933Half of his plays are comedies you fucking imbecile
>>24949933It's a generational problem. Shakespeare scholars are all free-love hippy boomers.
>>24949933Yeah Shakespeare was famously averse to sexual puns.Fun fact: he also hated funny gratuitous violence!
>Villain you have blackened our mother's reputation>Knave I have blacked your momWhat did Aaron mean by this?
>>24949933The only person who understands Shakespeare is my sister and everyone else needs to be shot.>>24949962Theatre wasn't 'art' at Shakespeare's time thoughbeit.
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24949623>either deleted or replacedNo, more like "originally missing". Older transcripts are generally more reliable than newer ones
>>24949334Speaking from a purely literature-based perspective:>KJV = SOVL>all other ((("bibles"))) are soulless
>>24949980We have the originals in the received text. What you are referring to are something that was made, a corruption, after the originals were already inspired by God.
>>24949633>>24949334The ESV-CE is the best way to read the Bible to understand Western culture, as it is a word-to-word translation and includes Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, the Wisdom of Sirach, and Maccabees. Judith is important for understanding Eid Al B'nat. The Wisdoms help you understand the personification and exaltation of wisdom (Hagia Sophia). Maccabees helps you understand medieval Catholic militarism and why Christianity is the fulfillment of the Sky-Patriarch imperialism of all Indo-European theology.
>>24950071I don't think he wants a Catholic study bible. I'm amazed there's even a Catholic version of the ESV, given it's ubiquitous nature in Reformed churches. Did the same committee even translate the deuterocanonical books, or were they sourced elsewhere?Anyway, I suggest the ESV, but not one adapted for Catholic worship.
Any recc.s for non-fiction books that aren't just a biography, or a dull reference/history of x book?
>>24948190Never miss a chance to recommend this book
>>24949422Holy shit, the guy from Minecraft and Jumanji??
Dodge City
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Is this actually poorly written, or is that just the thing where they try to bash him any way they can (small dick, missing testicle, secretly gay, etc.)
>>24942898That is indeed what real niggers do and dont do
Its written in a era where coffee table books where common.Which means one of its uses is to pick it up, and randomly skim it. Which means few people would read it cover to cover, unless it produced anything interesting. So, its not a bible. Its a podcast. I agree with >>24946866The stenograph most likely do all the hard lifting.
why did britain declare war on germany for invading poland again?
>>24942860I second some other anons on here: It reads like an incoherent rant at times. But he clearly lays out his views and beliefs in it.
>>24942860He didn't wrote it
>...and then Bilbo whispered to a thrush, a particularly old thrush perched on the mountain, mind you, who conveyed the message of Smaug's missing scale to Bard, who was very good with a bow, you see, and then Bard shot Smaug with the black arrow, which was a very special arrow, forged by the dwarves under the mountain long ago, which instantly killed Smaug!GRRM's autistic edgelord criticisms of Gandalf are nothing compared to this bullshit. If a modern author wrote this slop he would be thrown into a pit and torn apart by apes.
>>24949426He called Hitler a ruddy little ignoramus
>>24948352>>24949426>>24949474Tolkien disliked nazis and Hitler for being too left-wing.
>>24948248>not knowing the bird languageerlendr
>>24949473>Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the futureNo harm done just don't do it again
>>24948273Tolkien causes disconfort in the untermensch
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946217I watched this movie and had a lot of laughs and thought it was entertaining and delightful. I haven't thought anything else about it.
>>24949550>Pynchon being the best novelist of the 20th century.kek. Pynchon wouldn't be in the top 20.
>>24949600way to out urself as a 'let
>>24949550Chesterton is the best novelist of the 20th century.
>>24946217this movie is garbage, it's like antifa's wet dream
Any books where a comfortable loser with weak character turns it around, and not just by luck? Basically opposite of picrel?
No, and with this attitude, you're not going to dig yourself out of your hole.Your life is in a downward spiral because of structural brain issues. It's a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. If there is any cure, it involves going outside, getting away from the city, and experiencing nature in all its complexity. But that assumes it's not too late.
>>24950055>pr0nWhat's the matter schizoboy? Afraid to say the actual word?
>>24950068THAT'S your takeaway from all that? You're doomed.
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949807Bro PLEASE I am begging you read more about the things you are talking about. The problem of evil?!? In GNOSTICISM? They literally claimed that the entire cosmos is evil and ruled by evil gods, there is no 'problem of evil' because in their view the evil is rooted in the design of the universe itself.You are also misunderstanding how divinity actually functions in Gnosticism. The high god doesn't actually do stuff, it's like the Neoplatonist 'Intellect' that creates the world of forms, but it has no power or control over the material world. Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world.
>>24949807Gnosticism is a form of substance pluralism and thus is false.
It's a heresy created by Satan or those under demonic influence, don't expect it to make sense. Also, the is no one Gnostic myth or Scriptures, we have a bunch of different surviving texts. So it doesn't really make sense together. Aside from the Demiurge mythos and the edgy stuff in the Apocryphon of John and the Hypostasis of the Archons a lot of the stuff people are attracted to in Gnosticism is actually more coherently and deeply handled in orthodox Patristic works it seems to me. I don't know if it's that people tend to associate Christianity exclusively with modern Anglophone Protestantism, but there is this weird push to sell orthodox (or mostly orthodox) figures as le ebin gnostics, so that Eriugena is inappropriately slapped with the label, and Origen too, or the other Origenists or Eckhart, etc.
>>24949910Satan does not exist and neither does God. Jesus did not rise from the dead and he's never coming back.
>>24949873>what is the point of experiencing Oneness (non-birth and non-death) if you've never earned it?How about, because we hate reality and want out of this fucking mess? I didn't cause these problems, so why should I have to solve them? Your view implies that existence itself is a punishment.
If you identify yourself by reading something that makes you appear smart, you are not a reader. You are a poseur. Especially if what you read is only chosen because it's been chosen for you by a consensus of "academics" and "critics" who couldn't hack into the sciences. Literary studies and English departments are by far the least intellectually rigorous on a university campus.
>>24949987>But you have so many cherrypicked narratives from charlatans trying to sell their specific viewpoint on something to choose from!
>>24950007Sure. A good example is Once Upon a Prime. But I'm not going to depend on a mathematician who isn't a connoisseur of literature
>>24950027>I’m too stupid to sort through bias and reach for a higher understanding!Filtered, stay at the kids table.
>>24950033Brother you were making a better point than the one you think you were making
>>24950040>he's actually convinced himself that his information is the good informationYup, it's over for this manchild
>Only a few more years until the apocalypse starts to unfoldWhy aren't people panicking?
>>24949260That's a good question.
Just got caught up with this series, it's about feudal power armor knights doing battle with terminators and robot demi-gods where the main character kills a female robot so hard that she basically comes back as a female yandere robot that desperately needs to be impregnated by the main character.
>>24948742That sounds awesome. Did you write this?
In his 'Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai', Mishima reflects on being called a nerd for his love of literature during the war.He argues that today's nerds use literature as a safety zone to hide from the real world.He distinguishes between two types of literature.The first, which he calls second-rate, is relatively harmless; it acts as a comforting teacher, offering simple moral lessons and inspiration to those who are struggling, giving hope to the heartbroken, teaching that money isn't everything to the poor, and comforting the weak.The true danger, he warns, comes from "real" literature. This first-rate writing reveals the frightful fate of humanity and teaches through beautiful and captivating prose "that in this life an irredeemable evil lurks at the bottom of human nature", leading the reader to a nihilistic precipice and abandoning them there without solace.The greatest problem arises when nerds who consume this powerful literature fall under the illusion that they arrived at its profound conclusions through their own effort.This creates a false sense of superiority, leading them to become cynics who mock all human effort, sincerity, and passion from a detached and powerless position.As a writer, Mishima knows this "poison of literature" intimately, and admits that he only found a partial antidote later in life through physical action.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24944593Found the complete essay.
>>24948433if the unwarranted obliteration of innocent creatures isn't evil, then what is? is it even any worse than "true" evil that has an objective if the results are the same?
>>24944237>Mishima reflects on being called a nerd for his love of literature during the war.I think it's more likely he was called a nerd and bullied for being an effeminate fag. Also, all the shirtless pics in the world can't hide the fact they he always skipped leg day.
>>24948244>>24948433>>24948962Evil doesn't exist gayboys, this isn't the 1400s
>>24948574is it really an essay if there are no paragraphs?
