The idea of an "ultimate fate of the universe" is a lie spread to keep the masses in line. There is no heat death. All of the literature on this topic is incorrect.Every book written on the topic of the "ultimate fate of the unverse" is full of propaganda meant to threaten and terrify the masses.Dark energy decays into dark matter, and dark matter decays into baryonic matter.
>>24850513>dark energy decays into dark matter, and dark matter decays into baryonic matterthat’s not what any observational data supports. Dark energy is, as far as we can tell, a constant or quasi-constant energy density driving cosmic acceleration. There’s no empirical evidence it decays into anything. Dark matter also appears remarkably stable; if it were decaying into ordinary (baryonic) matter at any noticeable rate, we’d see specific gamma ray or neutrino signatures. We do not.
>>24850513Heat death of the universe isn't going to happen, that's the atheist's "God is dead" solution. You're getting a Big Crunch, a return of everything to its creator and you're going to like it. Science will eventually catch up to what religion has known for thousands of years and when it does you'll remember this post.
>>24850655>muh empirical evidencewell then formulate more hypotheses find more ways to test for them. you faggots are a disgrace to science, the nihilism put out by this field plays right into the religionfags hands. science should be a progressive institution
>>24846232this is actually insanely interesting. reading up on this guy right now. these entelechies- their compossible parts are essentially volitional entities in their own right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24848602>hence why neither want to read Bergson, Whitehead or SantayanaThe only reason why I haven't read Bergson is because he got eternally btfo'd by Einstein on the question of time, Whitehead got retroactively btfo'd by Parmesan cheese and a guenon monkey, and Santayana because he just strikes me as one of those guys known for quick, witty quotes that people like to share on X (and previously on Fagbook) like "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" and "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim".idk, once I hit Heidegger and Wittgenstein, reading any more philosophy just felt kind of pointless, so I decided to go for learning a trade instead (I chose to become a sparky).
>>24850086>once I hit Heidegger and Wittgenstein, reading any more philosophy just felt kind of pointless, so I decided to go for learning a trade insteadGood choice. Don't go anywhere near philosophy books, they clearly aren't meant for a dense midwit such as yourself
>>24845505>checking out 10 books a day from my local library
Is this shit actually good? I watched the movie and didn't like the humor, I tried playing the game back in the late 80s and didn't like the humor, I tried reading it in high school and didn't like the humor, am I just not getting it? It was everywhere at the time, was it just a product of its age and I was of too advanced intelligence for my era?
>>24848604I dunno take a picture of your dome first so I can assess that properly
>>24848604>the entire premise is based off 5 years of internet history?
>>24843126if you didn't like the humor (and you still don't) then there's really nothing for you in it. It's one of the main things it has going for itself, I myself chucked with some of the witty quips, cringed at others, but overall, I don't think it was that good.
>>24848628Seething Trektranny.
>>24846028>>24846148Red Dwarf is deeply grounded in the working class experience. It was pitched to the BBC as "Steptoe and Son in space". As alluded to further up the thread, HHGTTG is far more based on middle class humour and situations. Anon is clearly more sympathetic to the working class and/or find it hard to relate to a more middle class scenario. As a simple example, Arthur Dent owned a house, and David Lister was from Liverpool.
Is it worth it except for the pictures?
>>24849836and you bury your face within the comfort of the dirt
>>24849836atrocious post. imagine filtering yourself this badly.
Jung - Red bookWagner - Brown bookGaddafi - Green bookwhat else?
>>24848873The middest of wits.
vaugely related but I started doing active imagination why does no one talk about this shit it's insane, i don't get why people read the red book you are supposed to actually do it yourself
>says whales are fish fucking droped lol
>>24848223>droped
>>24848223Melville was right all along, whales are a type of lobe-finned fish
>>24849348shut up you clade-loathing freak
>>24848251"mammis lactantem" is kind of a clincher t.b.h.
>>24848460Kek
Best novels by women1. Eliot, 'Middlemarch'2. Burney, 'Cecilia'3. Brontë, 'Wuthering Heights'4. Austen, 'Persuasion'5. Rhys, 'Good Morning Midnight'6. Woolf, 'The Waves'7. Shelley, 'Frankenstein'
>>24849282>1. Eliot, 'Middlemarch'wasn't this the same woman who was seething about austen novels for being too girly? unironic pick me behavior
>>24849880>noooooo you can't critique another woman in any way, ESPECIALLY if you're a womaninteresting
>>24849904learn to read tourist. she criticised austen bitching about being too unrealistic and "femenine". charlotte bronte made better criticism without sounding like a pretentious twat
>>24849875Toni Morrison is not a good writer.
>>24849282>best shits by dogs
The West needs you. These are troubled times. Stop "having fun"."Fun" is not for men.Stop smiling.Always wear a suit.Grow a beard.Be cold.Be serious.Be stoic.Grind for 21 hours a day.Gym for 4 hours (while manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational audiobooks/videos/podcast play on the background).Take a 2min cold shower.Read manosphere/conservative self-improvement/finance/motivational books for an hour.Sleep for 3 hours (at most).Monetize a hobby.Get a passive income.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I study French, German and Latin, study European history and reject American tyranny/corruption
>>24850183>>24850218Conservatism doesn't mean standing still you absolute retards. Holy shit you people are dumb, lol.
>>24846405That would be sigma maleism.Alpha males actually exist. Sigma males are just assholes with no friends.
>>24846217gross spacing
>>24848904but didn't jordan peterson get himself addicted to drugs then fly to russia to be put into a coma because he couldn't get off them, and then he had to learn how to walk again and now can only eat meat and salt or he get real sick and starts crying? what a weird guy.
What am I in for?
A long face.
>>24850409Pure Kino
where are all the contemporary conservative philosophers?
Conservatives spend all their time in a futile attempt to make the clock run backwards and blaming the other for their various spiritual and sexual failimgs.
>>24847254>philosophy without epistemic humilityNow that's a fucking disaster waiting to happen.I bet these people are Act-Utilitarians too.
>>24849075this
>>24847231first philosopher death to make me genuinely very sad >where are theyconservatives are liberals still so they aren't significantly different from left wing onesfew are brave enough to deny the concept of rights and human dignity in toto like mactinyre. Charles taylor is the other one, hubert dreyfus might fall under this but he seems to mostly not talk about potlics apart from random asides in his book that point to "yeah my views might allow a hitler to take power". The traditionalist/view of man as autochthonous seems like a view lots of people do point to, however one of the natural conclusions of that is universities as such and academia as it exists now is basically evil. (As earlier existentialists like nieztsche/heidegger pointed to) The ones who go down that path ala heidegger come to the conclusion our culture situation is so fucking bad doing philosophy is basically pointless, so mcluhan & heidegger would recommend people do art instead and that's where you get people like Terrence Malick. There's the whole Catholic philosophy sphere and they are doing some interesting stuff but I would largely say they aren't being very good "philosophers" they are more just refining very particular issues and avoiding difficult ones.(how to respond to the machine, things like race/ethnicity, language, etc.) There are some more obscure ones. https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-about-Veritas-James-Madden/dp/1666754188I quite liked this one, which was basically entirely ignored when it came out. He has gotten some popularity because he has made an effort to apply someone of the philosophy of mind stuff to ufology as a way to shill his ideas. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24849032embarrassing post
When you read a book, do you visualize the landscape and the people, like a movie scene flowing through your mind?
This thread actually makes me wonder if some people don't enjoy reading plays or even fiction in general just because they can't imagine what's happening.
>>24847693This is exactly how I operate. I've had running stories or 'scenes' that I day dream or think about before bed. I add little bits or change bits, I don't write it down though. I just remember it all.
>>24842322I can't see or hear anything at all. For me, the main part of the enjoyment I get from reading is how the author is using language, as well as the concepts he's coming up with. I don't like film adaptations of books I've liked, because they're so slow compared to my reading speed and they (by necessity) miss out the myriad of small details and prose quirks of the author. It's just a film and I know the actors are just actors and everything is fake. With text, it feels as real as any of my memories are, because I have no ability to visualise those either. When I think back to things that have happened to me in the past, I'm essentially describing those events to myself in prose. My pet theory of aphantasia is that it's a fundamentally different "operating system" that a certain percentage of people are running.
>>24842322I don't tend to visualise as I'm reading, I just read and remember the words. When I'm thinking about certain scenes afterwards they'll manifest visually without needing to think of the words.
>>24847078>I usually imagine the characters as actors I’ve seen in movies or people I’ve known.exactly the same for me, sometimes when a new character is introduced i need to stop for a few minutes in order to find the right match so the movie in my head can go on
>writes a juvenile book with simple black and white morality for children>filled with plotholes>bad guys are all cartoonishly evil and have no redeeming features>80 years later manchildren still think he's a geniusIs he the biggest hack to ever hack? Being an adult fan of Tolkien is the easiest way to tell someone is low IQ.
Shut up, bitch.
>>24846292I agree that the fanbase is terrible. Tolkien isn't a hack writer and LotR is not a bad book, but it's a good book for children and adults enjoying it is a red flag.I read LotR at age 8 and I liked it at the time. That's probably the appropriate age for it.Adult fans of LotR, more broadly high fantasy in general, are something I'll never understand.
>>24849844you sound like an insecure faggot. go read the silmarillion and then tell me if it's supposed to be read by grade schoolers.
>>24849376/lit/ (and 4chan as a whole) is full of pseudo-intellectuals who think hating popular things makes them cool. GRRM isn't a hack, but you can't see the real genius of his work unless you have 160+ IQ and high-functioning autism like Preston Jacobs. he tells a parallel story in the history of the noble houses, and their relation to the story requires reading between the lines and careful study, which the pseuds of /lit/ can't pick up on, so they call GRRM a "hack"
>>24849459Top kek.Gurmtrannies completely destroyed.
I need an electornic word processor that>cannot EVER connect to the internet>can manage, import, and export text files via usb>has little to no other functionThere's too much shit on my laptop to distract me from writing. I realize there's pen and paper but I don't want to have to rewrite everything I've already written. Any recommendations?
Nigga just get a typerwriter and fax it if you need to nothings going to be as good as that.You’re just hyperfixating on some retard issues so you have an excuse to not write. Typewriters are fairly cheap and u can fax em if you need to or whatever tf
>>24842178>>24842191Holy shit this is hilarious, lazy retards will do anything except sit down and actually write lmao
>>24850358Yep. They externalize their flaws. Such people will never be successful.
>>24842178honestly at this point just use this setup as a virtual machine. SInce it has no GUI it wont need much resources and you wont have to reboot when you'll need to do research.
>>24850473the whole point of the setup is to avoid being able to simply open a web browser to avoid distraction.>>24850358>>24850364lol stop being a pathetic samefag.. we get it, you're better than us and have superior discipline and attention spans and we're all very impressed.
The most badass kid's book in the world.
I assume that, to better understand greek literature, its historical background must be studied first. What is the list of major events that shaped ancient Greece in this context?
~1200 BC: the late bronze age collapse. Total civilization reset in the entire Greek cultural sphere. The old dominant Mycenaean culture, as well as what remnants of Minoans existed, all vanished violently in the chaos of the collapse. The old cultures of Greece would only be recalled through myths and legends recorded in later centuries. ~1200 BC - 750 BC: the Greek dark ages. So-called because there is very little written evidence from this period, it is "dark" in the historical record, not because people were more primitive (except perhaps in the faculty of literacy). There's archeological evidence of what went on here, and it suggests small (less than 1000 people) settlements scattered throughout the Peloponnese which saw people gradually re-urbanizing toward the end of the period. Again, not much written down here, but its thought to be when the original versions of myths like the Iliad were formed.~750-500 BC: the Archaic Age. This is where a lot of the persistent cultural identities and myths were created. New writing systems emerge in the 8th century BC and this is also when Homer himself is thought to have lived. The Iliad is believed to be a mythologized record of a real war in the late bronze age collapse, with the historical city of Troy now known to have stood in western Anatolia being destroyed (several times) during that time period. This is also the time period that we first see the "Dorian Invasion" be mentioned by Greek sources, which is thought to be how the Greeks explained the massive cultural shift that occurred in the wake of the bronze age collapse. Modern scholars now doubt any such invasion occurred, but regardless it is what the Greeks believed to have happened so we must talk about it with regard to Ancient Greek culture and literature. City states like Sparta, for example, based their entire cultural identity on the Doric myth. 500-323 BC: Classical period of ancient Greece, so called because many of the great classical works which we associated with Greece date from this period, like Plato himself. The big breakthroughs in mathematics and philosophy occurred in this period, and it was also when Greece was breaking free of the grip of Persia at the start of it, around 500 BC. After shrugging off Persia, Athens and Sparta proceeded to contend with one another in the Peloponnesian War, whose conflict left them so mauled in the 4th century that the whole region was ripe for conquest by the Macedonians from the northwest. Alexander's conquest marks the end of the Classical era. 324-31 BC: post-Alexander Greece, known as Hellenic Greece, which lasted until the Roman annexation. This saw the absolute peak of Greekification of the Mediterranean and even the middle east and Egypt, and a lot of the later Greek philosophers and mathematicians emerged. Stoicism originated from this period, this was the age of geniuses like Archimedes and Euclid.
>>24850177You can find a nice introduction to all things greek in H.D.F Kitto's "The Greeks". It serves as a great introduction to Greek life, thought, history, and so on. From there on out you can go after whatever particular authors you find appealing, but if I may recommend you some:>Greek myths.A huge chunk of their literature and values stem from the myths. There's two major Mythologies you can go for.>Edith HamiltonNarrative oriented, with the poets, playwrights and historians of Rome and Greece. Very enjoyable, albeit not that complete.>Robert GravesMore academically oriented, and somewhat dull. Graves doesn't care much for a compelling narrative as he does for stating the facts. What makes Graves' version so important, is that half of the work is entirely quotes and sources that try to explain the historical setting of certain myths (Such as the rape of Europa).One thing to note however, his sources are all over the place, and certain details like Orpheus being a kiddy diddler are thrown in without a fully reliable source.From there on out, you have the classical historians.>Herodotus' HistoriesA mix of myth and history. Herodotus writes about a lot of characters that are reminiscent of old folk-tales, and you should see them as such. His comments on egypt highlight certain aspects of Greek life.>Thucydides, history of the Peloponnesian warComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>peak>mid>slop>crash out>unaliveWhat the hell is up with modern speech turning into newspeak straight out of 1984? The word "ungood" genuinely wouldn't look too out of place with all the neologisms I just listed.
What's even worse are corporate shills trying to push the "uh actually it's a leetspeak revival, they're just sticking it to the man bro", when the actual solution is to leave the platforms that censor speech
>unaliveCringe.>sewer slideBased.
>>24850549too many syllables man it will always be rope to me and that reminds me i haven't thought about roping in like 24 hours but tomorrow is another day.
>>24850309>The word "ungood" genuinely wouldn't look too out of placeThat's what 'cringe' is
>>24850309>Capital>Fairish>Flimflam>Run mad>Pass beyondWhat in Heaven’s name is become of our language, that it should dwindle into this new projected speech, as foretold by Swift? Soon enough we’ll be saying ill good in earnest, as it'd be good company among these new coinages.
