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>>24933678gay overthinker detected
> 28> London, England>Selected stories of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton
>>24933314Why do you hate it? its really not that bad compared to some other philsophical works
>30>Burgerville>Don Quixote
>>2493141421AustraliaA cultural theory of international relations
Anyone here read much of Marcel Aymé?I'm reading pic related now and the short stories are pretty goodI thought they were all going to be short humerous stories like the eponymous story but some of these are quite heavy albeit strange, my favourite being Le Décret so far in which France under occupation decides to move into the future 17 years His WW2 trilogy seems interesting since I've never read a book about the French experience before but I want toI'm planning on reading pic related and Les contes du chat perché and then moving on to Gautier and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam unless he has others which are essential
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
>>24953135You make it seem as if the world of Arabian literature isn't as sterile as its deserts.Also, when you consider that Mahmud, Mahmed, and Mohammed are all different spellings of the same name, the numerical argument you propose doesn't mean much.
>>24953210yeah you're right. if it's not arab then it's english , the language with the most words. (that's the answer I always get mainly when I ask google)
>>24952977Parrot and nitwit.
>>24949521that other anon pooh poohed this, but I agree with Austen. her use of the English language is sublime and will definitely help. the only thing that kept me reading the generator of boredom that was Sense and Sensibility was the English.
>>24949963This is what people say about Ancient Greek.
I read Augustine's Confessions which convinced me to get a Bible (picrel) and I've been reading through the gospels and psalms and proverbs and have decided I want to get more serious about studying the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Can any anons recommend me a good study bible to get over winter break? I was considering getting the Ignatius catholic study bible or the Reformation Heritage KJV study bible but I'm open to any suggestions. I've attended catholic mass a couple times and also intend on trying out a Lutheran and a Presbyterian church nearby, but I was raised in a secular household so I have no idea what I'll end up choosing denomination-wise.There was a thread earlier this week about Machen where someone posted some /lit/ and I got some writings of the Church Fathers and Luther I intend on reading through as well, but aside from that and a few youtube videos from online personalities I'm pretty ignorant so I'd be grateful for any help
>trying out churcheslmao this is ridiculous
>>24953224You need to remember that Christcucks are retarded. So they join the religion before reading their holy book, or knowing what they understand the religion to be.
>>24953224>>24953276You will never truly understand Orthodoxy without experiencing the Divine Liturgy. Christianity involves active participation, not just passively beliving things like an armchair philosopher.
>>24952386Get yourself a KJV Bible, a copy of picrel, and a copy of Mere Christianity by CS Lewis.
>>24954125Literally no one cares about Orthodox Christianity. It's for discordfags and redpilllosers.I don't care about your doctrine, this is a discussion of study bibles, not convincing OP to go to your church.
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siding with the soviets instead of the germans was easily the most catastrophic mistake of the 20th century, if not the past 200 years
>>24954160Total denial of the will can only be achieved via sokushinbutsu
>>24954153I see fasting as an overcoming of base animal nature, a manifestation of the will... something saintly and divine.
>>24954153>I see starvation as an overcoming, a denial of the will... something saintly and divine.even if they use medication to achieve those ends?
>>24954199No, no... these poor girls are misguided by vanity... but at the foundation they have a saintly impulse towards asceticism
Other than A Christmas Carol. What are the must read Christmas literature?
>>24951790>>24952630>The other Dickens Christmas storiesIs there any order? Are they short stories or is there a nice long one to bite into?
>>24951717Gift of the Magi. You've probably already seen a tv show ripoff of it.
>>24953521There are 5 main Christmas books all of novella-length. The order in which they were written is>A Christmas Carol>The Chimes>The Cricket on the Hearth>The Battle of Life>The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainThere's also a bunch of short stories you can find if you look for them.
>>24951717Dylan Thomas's A Child's Christmas in Wales
>>24951717Today is Jane austen’s 250th birthday. So maybe that?
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24953933https://www.goodreads.com/group/show_book/1029811-sffg?book_id=199142773
>>24953956nice, I unironically love Legends/EU prequel novels. for me it's of course the novel Darth Plageuis, don't sleep on that one anon if you haven't read it.
The first 6 books of dungeon crawler carl have been nice time wasters, but after Shi Maria it has turned the corner and started to become a very nice time waster. Most compelling part of the books by far.
>>2495316424953164I got 70-80 pages in. That line was just an especially egregious one that I happened to remember.Thanks for the response. If you want to send me the sequel once it's done, I'll at least give it a shot. I have faith in your ability to improve.I will clarify that my problem isn't that there's a lot of focus on worldbuilding, it's that the focus is on worldbuilding and almost nothing else. You can have a lot of worldbuilding woven organically into the story without making the whole thing feel like an exposition dump or the Dungeon Master's Guide. Robert Jordan does a really good job of this in the Wheel of Time novels.
>>24953976I'm going to check on that after I'm done with the dark lord trilogy, I hear the ROTS novelization is one of the best star wars books
Reading's fucking gay, I'd rather write and draw.
>>24954172Same, I've take up AI art recently.
>>24954175>reading a bunch of retarded scribbles written by some pseud is straighter than painting thists is not tuff
>>24954172Noooooooo you can't write if you haven't read literally every book that has ever existed noooooooooooooo
all books are shit, "good" books are just the ones a bunch of people gathered around to write long winded reviews gaslighting you into thinking they're good
>>24954172yes and writing and drawing is also gay
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
Guess who just found a copy of picrel for cheap :D
>>24953564the forest is the greatest story in that collection but is marred by the mundane aspects of the story which ruin the horrific revelation
>barron's one story that's Lake Mungo with more womenLove that concept to seeing or dreaming of one's own death
>>24953470>barron turned it into a story about a deer monster that eats people.It's Satan you speedreader.
>>24950334I don't get scared by fiction at all anymore. It's kind of sad.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24953152sure thing mosh, we'll see how it goes when your funnel from burgermoney gets cut off
>>24951759How do you think? Arrogance knows no boundaries.
Atheism won. Atheism continues to increase faster than any religion.
>>24953128>The John Lennox discussionWas super comfy. I think it's more interesting when he's just listening and asking questions, because the smart people generally have better insights than he does.
>>24953846>whenThe US stands to gain more from Israel than from giving neetbuxx to people like you
I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
>>24953192Generally, Strugatsky is in line with your requests. You already had The Doomed City recommended here, which is their big political fiction novel, but for something short-and-sweet I recommend Hard to be a god. It's one aspect of progressivism - the idea that progress and social evolution can be speed-ran - examined up close. Probably one of the most hard-hitting ending I've ever read.
>>24953192Infomocracy
I don't like him. He's all exposition, no plot or character.
Anthem by Ayn Rand
https://www.marxists.org/subject/utopian/index.htmhas fiction and theory
Do you guys ever check out little free libraries
>>24953281>I put Orbit #10 in one because I wanted to buy a higher quality copy for my collection.And I am sure that people thought it was strange to see something like that in there sitting next to Tim Allen's autobiography and some educational books for 4 year olds.
>>24953339So who's your second favorite author, then?
>>24952635I saw Russell Brand's "My Booky-Wook," but I waited too long to seize it for my own.
>>24952635I have literally never seen a single book of value in one of these.
A new one sprung up in my neighborhood recently.
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>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 FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24951618esto maiores autem decrevere patribus ut detur vitae necisque potestas duodecim tabularum more, exempli gratia cui puer sit insignis ad deformitatem cito ut necetur ius est
>tfw listen to Attic Greek after listening to modern Greek for months
are these correct?A) Pueri, legite libros poetarum bonorum!B) Serva pirum magnam horti (aqua) rigat.C) Pulchrae plantae agri agricolas laetos delectant.did it for an exercise
>>24950303I bought a physical copy on Amazon. You're not missing out on much. The story and characters are not very interesting. The print is hard to read (gray main text with light gray margin text). If you're looking for a beginner-level reader, I don't think it's especially well suited for that purpose, and it's not even macronized. I enjoyed it more as a novelty than anything.
>>24953984Looks probably good enough to me. I'm assuming the prompts were something like this.A) Boys, read the books of the good poets!B) The slavewoman waters the great pear tree of the garden.C) The beautiful pants of the field delight the happy farmers.
>>24947268Indeed. But I use mine for reading essays and poetry, and it’s wonderful for that. Still would never read anything substantial on it.
>>24952544Lots of devices dabble in things other than just reading. Lots of devices let you connect Bluetooth keyboards for typing, and headphones for any number of apps. Not just audiobooks, but Spotify/Youtube.You're probably not aware, but having Google Play is a common app on ereaders, because lots are using Android.Lots of retards just leave their Bluethood/Wifi running constantly on all devices, so they drain their batteries for no reason.
>>24952546The internal storage is 8gb, formatted and with software like 5.5 gb. That can't hold shit.
>>24953285>download a copy of lolita>its actually 500GBs of candydoll modelsbookfags will never understand
>>24947268I would but I can't decide what model size I want since I read books of various sizes and a lot of academic booksI'd get one of the l;arger ones like a 10 or 11 inch ones but that seems obvious as fuck I'm not actually doing my job and while a 7" one can pass as a phone and not be cared about, it's too small imo for most of the larger books
How do you learn to philosophize? I read philosophy books but i never learn to philosophize. I never learn to use those fancy words like epistomoleogoogy; i only learn what they kinda mean but i never have a sure feeling of it and have to look it up all the time. Is philosophy only for high iq people? I feel utterly lost so much so i don't even bother to talk about it with other people.
>>24953658Pretentious rubbish. Lucretius says philosophy is like sitting on top of a tower watching a shipwreck. It’s escapism for high iqs and a way to stand above/dissociate from the pains of life, nothing more.
>>24953644Have you read A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy? Try, at least
>>24946724>Math is a sterile tool, an incredibly useful one, but still a mere tool, like a hammer or a sawAll disciplines are "mere tools," including abstract philosophy. The reason for praising math is that it is simultaneously highly useful and incredibly abstract, whereas most philosophy tends to be merely abstract.>human calculatorMental math is more theoretically rigorous than you'd think. You need to have a decent understanding of number theory, especially prime factorization, in order to do it.
>>24946020Skip philosophy. Pray to Jesus and ponder him and you will know who wisdom is. Wisdom -- The Person.
>>24946020Philosophy is basically 'how the fuck should I live life/do X morally'There's no specific science or logic behind it. It's basically an opinion you base on actual facts.IE, most people would agree with pedagogy, it's not 'good' to implement the concept of making a two year recite the alphabet until it collapses from exhaustion but you sure can fucking make a philosophical argument for it and it'll be accepted. It'll be rippped apart but it's a philosophical argument.If you mean 'modern' or 'academic' philosophy, just go to any basic black bitch university and suck off the teachers there claiming that everyone who doesn't align with their modern day globalization viewpoints are retards and start publishing papers.
