What's the funniest book you've read?
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>>24951738>and then as its mausoleum.Holy kek.
>>24951462Probably Barry Trotter or The Soddit when I was 14. At the time getting a taste of counter-pop-culture was hilarious.
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Picrel is very interesting. I started it today and considering the level of technology- and bureaucracy and the accelerated development of AI, this seems to be super relevant. Note that I don’t have a stem background and wasn’t interested in it for most of my life. But now I’m hooked.What books develop these or similar themes further?
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>>24951370>>24951370Read this:https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge/page/n107/mode/2up?q=%22WIENER+WORLD%22
>>24951467I will check this out.>>24951705Is this a sci-fi novel?
>>24951705>>24952531I’m just joking, will check it out as well
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
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Sweaty sex with Asha Greyjoy
>>24951177No>>24951376She looks nothing like that anymore>>24951423Merry christmas https://archiveofourown.gay/works/42727560/chapters/107339226
I think today’s the day. 20 years. I officially don’t care anymore about this series. Bye
>>24952524You're leaving?! We have HBO Duncan Egg show on the horizon followed by Hot Dee show and you're leaving?! DON'T LET THE FUCKING DOOR HIT YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT, CHUD!
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.
>>24952220>Mao>Buddhist
>>24952199Pol Pot
>>24951979New Atheism = Amazing Atheist shoving a banana up his butt = Gay and cringe
>>24951987fpbpIncredibly lazy meme for an unfathomably asinine thread.
>>24951979The fact that you personally check half the boxes with your behaviour already is indicative that this is a joke but then why not check all the boxes? You're actually serious? Someone this fucked in the head really walks around and solves captchas?
>...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.
>>24948273Tolkien causes disconfort in the untermensch
>>24948327It's right there on the page that it's an ancient arrow forged by the Dwarves of Erebor and Bard's of the royal bloodline of Dale and proficient with a great yew bow. Seems more than sufficiently set apart a random man with a random arrow.
>>24948273Not every criticism is hatred. A lot of what Tolkien produced very poorly written, but as a whole it's still a good product and more to the point it inspired many movies, games, songs, etc. that surpassed the original books.
>>24948327This would be much cooler if Bard was an actual character through the story and not literally introduced on this page and never mentioned again.
>>24952009I like it but it's more Anglo-Christian worship of the lower classes, mirroring the story of Frodo.Bard is not a noble hero, he's a pleb like a brit who inherited a lucky trinket from his dad who claimed he got it from the king of Zanzibar during his military service but nobody really believes it until it's tested in Antiques Roadshow.
Prop 1 - Substance is by nature prior to its modificationsSubstance is prior to modificications (modes), this makes both logical and ontological sense, in that substance is that which is in in itself and is conceived through itself, in that it is a self sufficient, self caused entity that cannot be contingent upon anything external. Spinoza presents his proof through definitions 3 and 5 as it logically follows, however here I will give more context. This establishes substance as the ontological foundation of reality in that God is not the divine creator of the world, but rather that god is the world, within all that exists. In such substance which is infinite, eternal and indivisible. This rejects the classic view of god (maybe why he got kicked out of the jewish church) that god sits apart from the world. In this modes, or determinations of substance, are not substances in themselves but exist within the substance, in such they are dependent on its existence. In link to Axiom 1, “Everything that is, is either in itself or in another.” (pls read the other writing on axioms for clarification) which reaffirms the ontological priority of substance over its modes, modes are in substance but substance is not in any mode. This reflects Spinoza's claim that all that exists as finite expressions of the infinite attributes of god, this undermines the notion of a transcendent deity, in that Spinoza's god is positioned as necessary to the constitution of all being.
>>24951508How does it feel to be a human skinwalker?
>>24951508Very wrong. Read Spinoza
>>24951517There is literally nothing wrong in what OP presented.>>24951508Yes, I think this is very straightforwardly reasonable from what Spinoza posits regarding substance, God and his modes. I just think there are gaps in what it means from finite modes being derived from infinite modes and the chain of causation of both and between both being indeterminate/infinite. Now, regarding Spinoza's God, I beileve there is no conception of God deserving more hatred than his and I don't mean in any logical, scientific sense (perhaps this is debatable as it reminds me of Advaita Vendata's conception, although it is more naturalized and would be less inconsistent). If Spinoza's God is true, Marquis de Sade is our only true Christ.
>>24951508>i love spinoza even tho im a materialist!!Where lies the contradiction, exactly? Spinoza was a crypto-nihilist atheist jew.
>>24952143i say i love spinoza even tho im a materialist bc he is my fave philosopher even tho he is a rationalist :3 and even tho rationalism and
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
I'm a master of casuistry, you see. As regards "love" I am fully a reductionist-materialist. It's really just the ape brain of a pussywhipped bastard operating there.As for anything else, I can see soul, metaphysics and all the good stuff. So simp if you like; I'll be a materialist about it and laugh at you.
>>24945823LMFAO what a retard.
>>24949784You think medieval peasants wouldn't do the same things if the had the money? Dude they ritually killed old people so that they won't be a burden.
>>24951316How many properties do you have? Savings? You must be rich, may I have some?
>>24948955I absolutely love love. I'm a huge romantic, I want to spend the rest of my life with one guy, going out for coffee, baking scones on Sunday and inviting friends. Holding his hand, dancing in our 50s in big polo shirts. I believe that love is a gift from God. It is supernatural, the ability to love someone's being, not just how they look or talk, what their interests and talents are. But uniquely who they are. I know not everyone loves like this, especially in the gay community, but this is my love, it completes me personally and my life generally. Right now I dated somebody thrice, we kissed and I can't wait to see him again as worries flood my mind about a lack of texts and the 3 weeks until we maybe see each other again. And as I hope and pray that God might bless this relationship, I yearn for everyone to find this. And if it's not him, with God's will it's someone else. God put my love in my heart, I hope he give some someone to make rich with it.
>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.Was unc spittin fax here?
>>24951361The SoundCloud kid is more likely to have actually killed someone than the published hip-hop artist
You will never be white.
>>24951941>black people didn't have music until white people invented itreally bruhand yes, I am quoting you
>>24950708i miss this lil nigga like you wouldnt believe
>>24952318That is accurate you fucking retard.>history didn't happen because it triggers my racism feefee bone
Which one is his best?
Barfly (he wrote the screenplay)
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Factotum >>24952336Great movie, great cast (Charlie's mom from it's always sunny is one of the barflies) but Rourke's Chinaski is very uhh.. well I don't think it's what Buk had in mind. Great performance, but he does his own thing with the character.
>>24952328Pulp. You can tell the man had fun writing it.
>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?
>>24949609>You are supposed to be able to develop your own interpretation of a text, morally and otherwise, without the author spoonfeeding you.Moral interpretations are the lowest form of literary criticism, and I'm not a moral realist so it's largely not something I care about.
>>24948752Harold Bloom read more than you or I and praised McCarthy's prose
>>24950091>noooo he should have been having sex with 40yo roasties with dry, barren pussys
>>24949972>McCarthy is adapted by Hollywood for a reason Shakespeare is the most adapted author of all time.
>>24948666Only capeshit people aka straight while males give a shit about this author. Modern straight white males are the most standard unipolar people on earth. They somehow love to pretend what they stand for is deep is moving but when you look deep into it it's a carbon copy of what the next guy has to say. Most boring shit ever. No wonder they get shit faced drunk, that allows them to come up with whole new ways to interpret all that.
>>24950345Because like so many other people on this website he is probably an adult convert to I'm guessing Catholicism because he finds the imagery of being a le based redpilled tradcath appealing and is now trying to justify this belief post hoc
>>24950345Because christians are intellectual cowards and natural slaves who want to be told what to think, feel, and believe.
>>24950345A select few eventually encounter something beyond this ordinary life and must construct their understanding of their existence in reaction to this encounter, rather than constructing the staircase to such an encounter using reason as a tool. I hope you and all others who wish to believe but rationally cannot one day are graced by such an encounter and are able to see the beauty in all things in the light of it.
>>24950437What is this truth you speak of?
>>24946402same but i dont feel i deserve forgiveness or grace tho i want it for others idk it is late
>>24952103I read it in translation and in French. I prefer the translation.
>>24952084It's less cartoonish and more interesting for it.
I found it quite hard to read I could follow along with the plot easily but the discussions were very hard for me
>>24952398I dont know what you mean by cartoonish. TEP's sci-fi aspects? i thought Serotonin was pretty trivial in its narration and some of its story. the dog sex.
>>24952049My favourite book is his first and it makes me not want to read any of his other works as I strongly imagine he peaked in the first go...
>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24948297She is a viper,a digital succubus meant to drain the vitality of men.
>>24951638Meant to reply to>>24951466
>>24948013You triggered all the losers with this.>They hated Jesus, for he told them the truth.
>>24948013hope she sees this bro
>>24950979I am retarded so the two whites on top look better to me than the doll looking ones on bottom
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24951736what kind of people live in the villas of BA?
>>24951891Unironically, niggers
>>24951891fresh princes
>>24947942No wonder this place is such a shithole then >T. Boliviano
>>24951891"Provincianos," Peruvians, Bolivians, Paraguayans, fresh off the boat Africans.
Why yes, half page descriptions of lamps and countertops with the occasional interjection of brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonics. It certainly deserves all the praise. Were people really that bored in the 80s to enjoy this?I'm not finishing it. I feel my neurons dying in real time. I was right for putting it off for so many years.
>>24946610This book really fell flat for me. I think it would’ve been better if I read it before I’d seen the Matrix, which seems to borrow most of whats interesting in Neuromancer and present it in a far more entertaining manner
I liked the first half of the book, I wanted more future prole stuff in a cool future cyber city rather than spy action stuff on a wacky rastafarian space station
>>24947622it's fineit's cool for what it is and what it contributed to the genre, and the second half of the book has some neat atmosphere.
>>24946610If you wrote about 2025 and then went back in time to 1985 and sold it as a futuristic novel it would seem boring, a parody of futuristic novels, or groundbreaking for being different.>ok, this book is set in 40 years in the future but it's about a total loserWhat does he do?>he works at a supermarketOn the moon?>no, on Earth, stupidDoes he use a flying car/teleportation device/tube to get there?>no he uses a regular car on a regular roadBut the car is futuristic right?>not this one, it still has buttons and runs on unleaded but there are these things called "Cybertrucks" that look futuristic and they're electricBut the electricity is derived from fusion power, right?>no, it's just coal or wind power or solarOK, so are his coworkers at the store robots?>no there's only one robotComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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