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>>24971167There’s more content in books than movies. They also exercise your imagination more than a movie will
>>24971167>every normalfag who describes their favorite book as "kino"
>>24971167Non-white? Double digit iq npc? Woman? Which are you? Honest question.
>>24970875technically pulps were the magazines these stories got serialized in, but nowadays they're practically synonyms
>>24971128He's one the prominent dark fantasy authors, but one where his stories got somewhat undeserved reputations. The Black Company is nowhere near grimdark some people would have you believe, for example.
>American writes about family values, culture and tradition
>>24970471it's certainly not ideal but it is better than a lot of other places at least. and i don't even just mean thirdies, most of europe is worse in that regard.
>>24970896I feel like some of those "no risk" places are labelled thus becase there aren't any forests left to lose
>>24970185>>24970896>My heckin chain restaurants Notice how your picture is a birds POV and not a humans lmao
>>24970896The question isn't just deforestation. The town itself, although surrounded by a beautiful sea of green trees, looks like a society built for sentient cars, not humans. Would I want to live there as opposed to not, thoughbeit? Yes.
>>24961748>women writes about suffering, depression and loneliness
You need to start spelling words with “w” instead of “ v” wherewer “v” appears. This is because “w” is an inherently heroic and wholesome shape, whereas “v” embodies ewerything harmful, deceitful, and willainous (note, I’m only talking about written language, I make the “v” sound as normal when speaking) Trust me, this will improwe your entire way of life.
>>24961669vy vould eny vun do det, keptin?
>>24962800hot
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>>24961669Just post her onlyfans for fuck's sake
>>24961669This turns the v speech into uwu speak.>In wiew, a humblewaudewillianweteran, castwicariouslyas both wictim and willain by thewicissitudesof Fate. Thiswisage, no mereweneerofwanity, is awestigeof thewox populi, now wacant, wanished.
So what did everyone get for Christmas?picrel is the kindle book hauls I got, plus I got 125 dollars in Barnes & Noble credits, which I'm probably to use to get some Marx, Smith, Hegel, and Tocqueville and maybe others, possibly a history of China or something. I also got tons of coffee, some food items and a few articles of clothing. more to come.
>>24971178The Stillborn God i heard is good despite Lilla's liberalism. You should get Charles Taylor's A Secular Age if you don't already have it.
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>buying digital books
>>24971307Its not your money
What's your favourite chapter? Least favourite chapter? Favourite character?
im feeling so fucking stately lately
>>24969553>faveHades, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis >least faveIt's been so long since I read the book but I honestly can't remember disliking any of them >fave characterStephen's grumpy ass dad
fav character would have to be ulysses
>>24969553Favourite chapter is Telemachus, nothing can beat that opening line: Plump, stately Buck Mulligan. Does anything more need to be said? Least favourite chapter has got to be Nestor or Proteus. Quite possibly the most boring and unintelligible chapters ever penned to page.
>>24971169>Nothing can beat that opening line!>misquotes the opening line
The real taboo question nobody wants to touch isn't abortion or suicide but birth itself, because all the other moral dramas start the moment someone is dragged into existence without consent, into a life that is terminal from day one, structurally hostile, filled with pain, discouragement, and moral compromise, and only made bearable through coping mechanisms, illusions, art, religion, distractions, and self-deception. We pretend life is some intrinsic good, that procreation is generous, that motherhood is sacred, and that suicide is the ultimate sin, but flip the picture upside down and it's obvious that life is a slow deterioration embedded with death, that having kids is a way to dump this burden onto someone else to give meaning to your own anxiety, and that morality itself is sabotaged by scarcity, competition, and decay, forcing everyone to become callous just to survive. If being born is already a harm and a manipulation, then continuing to live at any cost isn't automatically noble, and deciding to leave when dignity, autonomy, or ethical agency collapses is a perfectly intelligible response to a rigged condition, especially since most people only endure life by numbing themselves with habits, neuroses, meds, entertainment, and lies until death does the job for them anyway. The "enigma" isn't suicide but why anyone keeps going under extreme misery, and the answer is usually folly, instinct, fear, or illusion, not reason. Suicide doesn't destroy some sacred order, it's already written into being itself as a constant possibility, and the only sane position isn't demanding everyone die now or forbidding it forever, but refusing procreation, living minimally, resisting harm where possible, and staying willing to die if moral or personal dignity demands it, because there is no unconditional duty to stay alive, only a stubborn cultural panic about admitting that life doesn't love us back, even though we desperately love it and wish it could have lasted forever.
Should I gift this book to myself on this christmas day?
>>24971323Don't play coy; wanting a better world even for those who don't and won't want one is a brave and beautiful sentiment and betrays your deep empathy. If you didn't bury it under layers of conceptions you would see with crystal clarity that consent and happiness are synonyms.
>>24971360I never argued against or hid empathy. I argued against shoving "consent" into issues where it's tangential.
>>24971362Arguing against consent is arguing against empathy; you don't care about the subject's opinion, and they are just an instrument in your wider plan, whether its improving living conditions or raping their holes.
>>24971370>you don't care about the subject's opinionThere is no subject before/during creation. Hence consent plays no role.
I realized this year that I've been a liberal my whole life. I've just been in a stereotypical post-liberal position of 'current woke isn't real woke' and 'the left should focus on economic conditions instead of culture wars.'I've been familiar with trolling for a decade, but simply turning off the computer solved this problem. I never thought government agencies would directly engage in ragebaiting. I've become more like a woke person - I'm not getting my work done because I'm overcompassionate about society and things that don't relate to me.What I want to know is: what should I do to stop caring about things that don't involve me? I've been reconsidering narcissists. I think there's a paradoxical aspect to narcissists where by only caring about themselves and not caring about others, they end up helping others. What books should I read to not care about society and to have a big ego?
>>24970289The Doctrine of Awakening
>>24971046this is what being stuck in permantly online echo chambers looks like, isreal is conducting ethnic cleansing with the complicity of every western government but the problem is that we care too much about equality.
>>24971112>>24971119Why dont you just force choke me with your aryan telekinesis gland. Or are you out of vrill? Just make a quick run to the hollow earth and grab some from your ancestral dark star alien bros
>>24971112To be fair to him he probably does know a great deal about homosexuality.
>>24971149ethnic cleansing is good but yes, the left's investment of all their energy into maintaining insane virtue-signaling lies like "men are equal to women" or "whites are equal to niggers" or "the healthy are equal to the ill" probably has something to do with your complete inability to achieve real political goals in the world. all your aspirations are simply in the "how does this make me look" category, not in the "what happens on planet earth" category and they have been for so long you've forgotten what it was even like to actually do things instead of projecting appearances. the israelis, for example, have spent decades working out how to most efficiently explode browns, whereas you have spent those same decades practicing expressions of sadness and outrage in the mirror so that you can look more sad and outraged about browns being exploded than the other leftist retards of your acquaintance. so now the israelis are doing what they've learned to do and you are doing what you've learned to do. browns are exploded and sad faces are made. what else could the outcome have been?
im ftm and when i was 18 i read brave new world and when i read the part about freemartins i was like ew can i never be a woman on testosterone, always drugged up and ready to have meaningless sex instead of a man?5 years later im reading island, ok basically how i see sexualityOK i feel like society sees me as the former vibes and thinks im OK with dystopia (theres literally a mpreg emoji in every phone these days) but i want to give off island vibes and never confuse others. Ive heard stories of psychedelics making people detrans but whenever ive tried the same, it reveals my nature as further wanting to change physically regardless of intention. What is the best book after island in this situation?
I've been raised by a feminist mother and teachers in an otherwise chauvinistic town. Is there anything out there which deals with this sort of dual brainwashing. That is, if I act and think according my to male instincts and needs I'm acting out of line, while simultaneously I fail to measure up as a male by the opposite standards. It seems all literature out there assumes one or the other position is a problem but never adresses both of them in tandem.
>>24971203kinda like this
>>24971203unironically. a practical antithetic.
>>24971203Read Upadesasahasri.
>>24971203My advice would be to figure out what you yourself value and think about the issues that have been bothering you. Take your time, cause something like that takes a lot of time and also life experience. Figure out what do you want and then figure out how to get it. Also, read- i would advise to start with the Greeks then go on to stuff that interests you
Book XIII is filtering me hard bros. I get that he is trying to summarize his previous philosophical musings as Bishop into a whole but it's just so convoluted.
This is better than War and Peace.The only issue I have with it was not making a small note at the end, one small paragraph even, that the veterans of the War went to Rio de Janeiro and created there the very first Favela
>>24968973I tend to agree. It's one of my favourite books, and I've recently finished War and Peace and found it rather disappointing. However, I feel like I haven't digested it yet.
It's so funny that he wrote this book and then ran for office as a libertarian
Wtf was that with the aristocrat and the maid at the end? It came out of nowhere.
>>24968973Started reading it in English. It was either weirdly translated or he's just a bad writer. I put it down after 10 pages.>The man was tall and so thin he seemed to be always in profile.That's the 1st line.I have a hard time imagining a stick insect, sorry.I ended up reading Marquez instead.
>>24970937He has a natural style, and you're missing out, but I've read a Romanian translation. Maybe English, being a more streamlined language, makes it sound Kafkaesque.
i would like to start with genesis, naturally, but i have no clue how to begin. should i read a commentary on genesis? an introduction on the old testament as such? i want something that relays the christian, jewish, and contemporary scholarly interpretations of the text so that i can compare all three. what's the best way to go about doing this?
>>24971166If you haven't read the Bible yet I would rawdog it twice through before delving into commentary and comparative theology. If you prefer you can start with the beginning of the new testament or the beginning of the old testament.
I started on the New Testament, which I feel helped me finish the book since I was immersed and it was much quicker to get through. The Old Testament can get very slow especially in the first five books. I would hold off on listening to any commentary unless you're absolutley stumped. Merry Christmas anon.
why are jews so evil? even god thought so
>>24971166>i want something that relays the christian, jewish, and contemporary scholarly interpretations >what's the best way to go about doing this?Becoming Christian, then Jewish, then lobotomized. There is an incredible wealth of symbolism in the Bible that is closed to us because our worldview is so incredibly distant from ancient people, not to mention the difference between our daily experiences altogether. To get started I recommend 'The Language of Creation' by M.Pageau. It's a relatively easy-reading digest of basic symbolic approaches (Christian and Jewish), though at some points it reads just as someone trying to systematize poetry. Then, for the Christian understanding, read the Gospels and then Genesis, paying attention to the narrative similarities. Also pay attention to the problems that Genesis establishes - death, sin and spiritual confusion / demons. 'Religion of the Apostles' by S. De Young nicely expands on the OT problem statement as well as on some brief demonology and the role of the Church as the new Israel. For Jewish interpretations it really depends on what Jewish sect you want to understand. As the saying goes - two Jews, three opinions. I cannot help you there.As for contemporary scholarly interpretations, I wouldn't really waste a lot of time on that. Modern methods worry more about appearing objective than about understanding the text and there are cases where a scholar will outright tell you that Jews and Christians misinterpret and mistranslate a verse because secular archeological methods couldn't reach the same understanding. As though the writers apriori counted on secular philology. Use lexicons where they seem useful, but be aware that you're switching from a magnifying glass to a microscope and only one of those is useful when reading books.
>>24971238read Paul you philistine
Will I like Anna Karenina if I'm an unapologetic mysoginist?
>>24971060People read it too much like a soap opera looking for good and bad but you are correct.
>>24971103>sex is the same thing as lovewhy are virgins so retarded?
>>24971292>why are virgins so retarded?Actually, I find you posting this really ironic. Aren't you in agreement with anon then? Virgins are retarded, according to you, so they treat sex the same as love. Therefore, a virgin woman having sex with a man would never forget him, and she would therefore love less with each consecutive love. Isn't that what the other guy said?
>>24965698>Anna's friends all encourage her to go through with the whoring, and set up the degeneracies for her to do so.>Once it's made public they all distance themselves from her and dont want anything to do with her.Why are women like this? Even in this day and age. They encourage women to divorce and leave their husbands/families, then disappear when she has to deal with the ramifications of that. Or their friends in stable relationships (who also encouraged her to divorce and to go on tinder flings etc after) begin to distance themselves very soon instead of following the same degeneracies they encouraged
>>24970382Sounds very accurate of women in general, especially ones who spent their days on phones all day long while being a "homemaker"
I have been reading Chinese classics lately and finished this one. Out of all of the ones I've read so far, this has to be the greatest.Has /lit/ read traditional Chinese classics like Romance of the 3 kingdoms, Journey to the west, Dream of Red Chamber, Investiture of the Gods, and others?
>>24970749>>24970710...do you think foreigners who want to get into english-written literature should start by reading Beowulf and the Bible?
>>24970735if you guys like Chinese literature you are going to love BOM
>>24970597which one was raise the red lantern based on? that was probably zhang yimou's best movie
>>24971144Wives and Concubines
>>24970749You're reading translations so it doesn't matter anyway. 看不懂中文就没法享受到三国演义字眼的美丽和贴切。>>24970597>>24970725True and correct takes. Those classics are also like 100 chapters and most Chinese people don't read them they only know the stories through TV and films. No Chinese person will ever tell you to actually READ journey to the west they tell you to watch the film.Philosophy like zhuangzi mengzi Confucius etc is worth reading but it's in classical Chinese which is not the same as modern Chinese and most Chinese people today need translations or a lot of footnotes to understand it.
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>>24970992That's all? Are you the anon who asked for a resource on dialogue? Are you? If not, are you her enabler?
>>24971047>post your work>greentext a random word from the first paragraph>comment "dropped">leave without elaborating
>>24971082>her
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>>24970415Sshhh
