This book changed my life for the better
>>24951211If a dildo is good enough for a woman, so is a condom wrapped phallus, and so is an unwrapped circumcised phallus.
>>24950869>IGNORANCE IS BLISS!!!you chud incels are some of the most pathetically fragile beings on the planet
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>>24950869the point the excerpt wishes to make is that women cheat to be with men more attractive, in this case a larger penis, than their boyfriend/fiance/husband.
>>24952296A bigger penis is not an aesthetic advantage but a functional one.
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
>>24949906>muh genders, muh cases, muh declensions, muh complexitydone that already mate, got rid of em a 1000 years ago more important things to do like inventing everything
>>24949930It'sOnlyBecauseGermansMakeCompoundWordsWhereTheyStickSeveralWordsTogetherSideBySideAndThenCallItANewWord.Not because German language is untranslatable, it just gets wordy to do it.
>>24952002Actually being able to follow slang filled, context dependent language use, does show mastery of the language. In the same way that being able to read philosophy or politics does too.You can't follow the complexity of shitposting, without having a mastery of the language.
>>24952227https://warosu.org/jp/thread/43699616#p43708631>There are plenty of "successful" and outwardly well-adjusted individuals who are hardcore "weebs". You faggots are just falling for the blackpill that came from all the ironic weebs and twittertrannies that became "the norm" in the last decade because they're all disgusting attention whores that leech of whatever seems popular in the moment.>Normalfags cannibalizing normalfags is all it is.>To think of an example of why the medium has draw so much negative attention one must only not have the memory of an ant and think back to the /pol/ tourists that spammed the internet with le ebbin anime girls with maga hats in 2016. And all of a sudden anime was for nazis. Then twittertrannies co-opted the image because it drew so much attention and now the same tourists that posted anime girls with maga hats associate the medium with trannies. And somewhere along the way every other faggot crawled out of the woodwork and jumped on the bandwagon.>I hope they all die so we can go back to enjoying our various versions of japanophilia in peace and bliss.>There are so many buzzwords in your post that it's impossible to understand whatever point you're trying to makeYes, comprehension is one thing and essential, to not look foolish like this respondent. But one would still never consider that to be model prose a neophyte should emulate.
>>24949847more synonyms does not equal more technical.
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
>>24950831fair, but you will not make satisfying progress in your own mathematics without a sound philosophy
>>24947731Spooks being bad is a spook in itself
>>24947731
Is the concept of a spook a parody of the Hegelian Geist?
>>24952119Yes, whilst also serving as a metaphor for how these ideas haunt and possess one.
>anti-natalism is irrefutab-then let me kill you
>reading up on The Battle of YarmukHe had ONE JOB.
>>24951831>because it's convenient for (((them))).
>>24951830When you consider that they only took over the Ortho portions of it... kind of?The Catholics successfully battled them back, maybe that's a sign of God's favor.
>>24951816Unironically if this clown didn't get into power and the Sassanids ended the Roman Empire in that war Islam might not even be a thing.
>>24951831>but it's very clear to me that all history from this period is very unreliablePretty much all of history prior to the invention of the print is very unreliable and based on a few propagandists hired by the elites. There's whole damn centuries where we have zero information on what even happened!
>>24952251But then we wouldn’t have had his kino comeback against the Persians, thus making history much more boring and less based.
Apparently there’s a phenomenon in American high schools right now of not assigning full novels to students, but only having them read excerpts. I graduated a decade ago, and I distinctly remember us reading Gatsby and Slaughterhouse Five. What novels, if any, were you made to read in high school?
>>24951928gpt summarize this post and write a 200 word eassay. make it as humanlike as possible with some slang thrown in so the old head won't catch on. no capitals.
My 10th grade English teacher made an off-hand remark that we were reading books that she studied in college. You could interpret that as either a compliment to our intelligence or a worry that we weren't ready for such books. If a second grader finished 1984, would you trust that he understood it at a meaningful level? So maybe it's good that we're not reading Moby Dick in high school.
>>24951906>Our English department has shared that they are not permitted to assign most novelsBy who? Some fat black woman in Administration? These people need to start being ignored, holy shit. Human resources are servants of the Devil wherever they are placed.
We read The Pigman in 8th grade. I remember liking it much more than I imagined I would have.
>>24951097I read >Twelfth Night >Richard III>Macbeth >Hamlet>A Complicated Kindness>The Wars>No Great Mischief Pretty good for Canada honestly, I had a few based English teachers. Thank fuck I never had to read Atwood, though one teacher just had us read a book his sister published
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924>>24949931The Economist magazine had a time when it was paraded as an SAT score booster. maybe literature in another language
>>24952135This. Percy Shelley and William Godwin are great.
David Foster Wallace drove me to the fucking dictionary far far far more than pleasantly flowing read would require.
>>24950722loanwords and agglutinates don't count
>>24952240When you possess an advanced vocabulary, pedestrian diction bores you to sleep.
>The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.-Note on the text, Douglas A. Anderson, 1993What is a book, as Anderson (and presumably Tolkien) means it? For me naively a book and a bound volume is the same thing. Did Tolkien intend for the Lord of the Rings to be published as six books? Wouldn't that make it a hexalogy?
>>24951918Classical books are shorter than chapters though
>>24951767A book (liber) used to be written on a scroll (volumen). A larger work would be organized into books, with the length of each book limited by what could be fit on a single scroll. Eventually the bound book (codex) came into fashion, which could store much more text than a scroll, so when copying older works you'd have multiple books collected into a single bound book.
>>24952099 (Me)Also, scrolls had to be unfurled compared to bound books which could be flipped through, which I assume was another consideration when organizing a work into multiple scrolls.
>>24951793>More examples doesn't answer my question. What is a book?NTA, but think of the bible.Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, etc.Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, etcEach of those are considered to be a "book", in the classic sense. They all get compiled into a collected works, and then we lazily call that a "book" too, but that's a much more recent understanding of a book. It's more recent, because it wasn't viable to produce collected works, until we had the printing press. Before then, a collected works were super rare and expensive, because it had to be copied by hand. It's why christians will commonly say stuff like "Umm.... Ackchyually the Bible is a library and not a book".Contemporarily, a book is a complete story, regardless of it's stand-alone or part of a greater series.Book has 3 obvious meanings, depending on when it's being used.
>>24952086No?
Ever since the internet turned against atheism sometime during the second Obama term, “atheism” itself became a dirty word. Suddenly everyone who was an atheist just a few years before become an expert in Thomism or heyschasm, and decided that believing in evidence was cringe. Religious zoomers started acting like they “won the culture war.” Funny how that works. Since y'all are either literal zoomers who were toddlers during the heyday of new atheism or have the memory of goldfish, imagine it’s 1990 so you can understand why New Atheism mattered. You’re stuck in an evangelical megachurch. The pastor is telling you dinosaurs lived with humans, AIDS is God’s punishment, Israel is our greatest ally, and questioning anything means you’re going to hell. This is also the same institution quietly covering for youth pastors who “fell into sin,” preaching family values while funneling donations into private jets, and condemning divorce from the pulpit while half the elders are on their second or third marriage. This wasn’t fringe, it was normal. Teachers, politicians, parents all nodding along. New Atheism wasn’t about being edgy online. It was a backlash to decades of religious dominance that people memory-holed because 4cuck told them to. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, were abrasive. So? That was the point. Polite disagreement didn’t work with creationist christcuck retards controlling the government and schools trying to ban stem cell research because muh “soulz”Now fast-forward to today and suddenly everyone pretends religion is this harmless aesthetic hobby and atheism is the real extremism. As if the progress of the last 30 years just happened magically. As if secularism didn’t have to fight for every inch. New Atheism didn’t fail. It succeeded so hard that people forgot why it existed and now they’re turning back the clock because irony poisoned their brains. But sure, keep pretending “both sides are cringe” while pastors are back on TikTok telling kids the Earth is 6,000 years old and Drumpf is bringing back dead jew worship in schools. Have fun when you're living in Christian ISIS and shitposting is banned. At least you owned le redditors online.
>>24952199You can deny God but you can't deny all the bullshit you accuse your opponents of doing.
>>24952246>all the christk1ke boomers not only didn't do anything against it but cheered it on...and todays pastors are no different. the question is how we can go about doing an ezekiel kills all the pastors in israel and replacing them all with people without a master of divinity certification from a faggiversity
>>24952199lemme guess Christ-killers arent atheists
>>24952269rare jewish w
>>24951979Libtards only turned on atheism when it started going after other religions and wouldn’t hop on the intersectional SJW bandwagon in the early 10s, proving it was always just about being anti Christian.
Have you been able to leverage philosophy and literature in your career?Most classical literature and philosophy was intended to be appreciated by educated individuals whose enlightenment would advance their occupations as noblemen, administrators, warriors, poets, clergy, whatever. Even philosophers who had no other occupation taught law and medical students for practical application in their careers.
>>24952196>>24952196Wtf is that the masonic hand???? I thought based prussia was above such judeo-satanic machinations. What is this shit? Has the west always been like this??? No! The elitist prussian junker aristocracy was supposed to sit atop the heap in a beautifully regimented military hierarchy. No no no! Not like this. Why the need for secret societies? WHAT THE FUCK
>>24952196I have no career. I hedge all my bets on entrepreneurship in the not so distant future. My degree is worthless and I currently work in a low-status job performing menial labor. The gamble is using your liberal arts education to deconstruct society down to its frame so that you're able then exploit that under the hood knowledge for gaming the system in personal business ventures.
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24951504Ironic considering Marx hated brown people
>>24951946Something about it subsuming true national interests and depoliticizing the state to the laws of the international economy and the interests of an international cabal of financial kleptocrats who steal and consolidate everything they can while destroying every institution in their way, leading to mass displacement, wars, corruption, and turdies flooding your country 120 years later. Read Schmitts concept of political, stupid globohomo golem.
>>24951946>success is when you rape the third world while making Europe commit democide twice just to become vassal states of the Burger Reich, which restarts the process and flirts with nuclear holocausts multiple times along the wayRead a history book you projecting nigger.
>>24950477>can't win over blacksThere was more than one communist revolution in Africa
didn't germany have Lenin use communism as a weapon to weaken russia during the 1st WWI don't think communism is a terrible governing form, it's issue is that bad people game the system to enrich themselves with power and wealth. And all it's champions are silver spoon elitists
Is it at all possible to have a character in literature whose name starts with "Dark" without them coming across as painfully tryhard?Like, pic related. Darkstar in ASOIAF is universally acknowledged as a doofus and one of GRRM's worst decisions in the latter half of the extant books. I've never encountered a character whose named started with the word "Dark" that it was possible to take seriously. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong books.
>>24952166>read one book seriesYou should read more than GRRMshit.
>write character as a goober>people call him a gooberWhat's the issue exactly?
>>24952166>ASOIAFrenaissance themed rape porno
>>24952166it might help if your work does not produce gaudy looking deviantart fanart like this as well if you want anyone to take you seriously.
>>24952166What is Dark Knight? Only one of the most riveting historical literary figures in history, of course, whose name is still summoned multiply even within the past century,
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.
>24949807>24949873>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?>The Monad allows the Demiurge's reality to exist>By allowing Sophia to create the DemiurgeThe Absoute (the One, Monad) does not allow or disallow. The Absolute is not the creator of reality or responsible for it. An abstracted, knowable aspect of the Absolute is. The how varies by tradition. >24949828There aren't multiple gods in Gnosticism, there is the collective Godhead of the Pleroma. >24949873>the Monad could experience imperfection and the cycle of life. >experiencing OnenessThe Monad does not and cannot experience. There is no experience of oneness. Ego death is a necessity.>To dwell within the Pleroma is to thrive within Heaven-NirvanaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949807>retvrn to the one brother> but (∞ + 1 = ∞), isn't this just another doomer eastern pseudo-suici...>JUST PUT THE GUN IN YOUR MOUTH BRO. LIFE IS SUFFERING!
>>24950590Sophia is the one who did itYet gnostics glorify herMost curious
>>24952123Jews hate this one simple trick
>>24950052>"I didn't cause these problems, why should I have to solve them"That's exactly why you MUST solve these problems. It is not your fault that you were born in a burning house. It is the fault of your fathers and forefathers. But if you do not do your part (put the flames out, leave the house) then nothing will get better for anyone at all, especially not the people who will succeed you. If you do nothing, then it DOES become your fault.Existence is only a punishment if you let it be through inaction, selfishness, denial of responsibility, arrogance, apathy, and cruelty towards others. Liberate yourself, anon. Otherwise, we will all remain slaves.
I regularly see threads on JP and Zizek but less commonly Jung and rarely Lacan.I have been reading Lacan on and off throughout the year and it has been pretty revelatory to me. If I were to try to take a stab at summarizing Lacan for anons that haven’t studied him, basically everything is fake and gay, anything not fake and gay is real, and >you are a subject beneath the fake and gay but not exactly a 1:1 product of the fake and gay. Your motif should be to recognize that to understand the real through anything fake and gay is impossible, therefore traverse the fake and gay knowing it’s fake and gay in accordance to your desire(TM). If anyone with more experience in Lacanian thought disagrees with my shit take, feel free to correct. Question: Why is Lacan not talked about as often as Freud and Jung are, or perhaps in general? Is his thought too subversive? Is it because he’s French? Pic related, worst mistake of my life
>>24951256Thanks for sharing, really interesting insights. Has Lacan been useful in your life for anything? Personally, it made me give infinitely less shit about what others think of me and overall I just don’t feel as anxious. It has been easier to be more decisive in life too, caring about the “other” less and trusting my guts more.
>>24952194Jung was the most gifted witch doctor of all. You clearly haven't read his autobiography if you think he didn't emerge organically. To denigrate study is just a regressive purity fantasy. He successfully united real spirituality with the best science and philosophy, and in so doing brought about the next stage in the evolution of consciousness.
>>24952207Can therapeutic wisdom be systematised without losing something essential? Intellect and habit starve out imagination.>You clearly haven't read his autobiographygot me there.
>>24952225What makes you think it's systematised? Jung explicitly says to throw out the theory if necessary and always put the experience of the therapy first. He has many anecdotes where he cured a patient by following an intuition. >Intellect and habit starve out imaginationThey can if they fall into egomania, which Jung also criticised. You seem to be criticising Freudian thought, which thought the unconscious was nothing more than repressed ego, rather than Jungian thought which pointed out that the unconscious is collective, innate, natural, prior to reason and wiser than reason.Science is not contrary to imagination or spiritual experience. Rationalist dogmatism is, which is what science defeated.
>>24952235>You seem to be criticising Freudian thought, which thought the unconscious was nothing more than repressed ego, rather than Jungian thought which pointed out that the unconscious is collective, innate, natural, prior to reason and wiser than reason.I’m critical of this sort of approach to the matter from any corner. Philosophise about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Religion, since you mention it, needs bite, and science can never supply the necessary teeth. Best enforced by drums, moonlight, masks (literal not metaphorical), flowers, divine possession.>brought about the next stage in the evolution of consciousness.here too is where I jib: consciousness doesn’t evolve upward into synthesis so much as return, again and again, to the same human (not cosmic) scale. The eternities of divine commonplace.
sansa editionASOIAF 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-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24949705He saved the Kingdom his father forged. Aenys and his young sons were going to let it all fall apart. His contributions are not mentioned enough.
>>24950717Is that kid in the pic supposed to be Euron or Bran? Or is Euron future Bran?
>>24951214Based
Sweaty sex with Asha Greyjoy
>>24951177No>>24951376She looks nothing like that anymore>>24951423Merry christmas https://archiveofourown.gay/works/42727560/chapters/107339226
