Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24951057Because thats what atheists do. Most are social progressives afraid of being called racist.
>>24951083This level of bad faith armchair psychology around atheism is a cope for how absurd it is to believe that the creator of everything is your friend that you can talk to at all times and thinks you're his special boy. Saying that atheists aren't critical of Islam is also just insanely retarded, same goes for your statement about religion not being an important issue.
>>24948329Why are anglos so fucking despicable bros?
>>24951165You tell me Achmed
>>24951164>And if you say it isn't we will kill youYou forgot to post the gigachad bro
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
To celebrate the 100th thread, I invite you all to play a little game with me.>go to https://gameofthronesfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_Fanon_Wiki>Under the "Explore" dropdown menu, pick random page>Return with something funnyHerys Radden>Herys was born in 285. It is not known how his parents. Its thought that his mother died in childbirth, and his father of an illness.>He was quickly sent away to live with Stannis Baratheon, with the hope he would train him at his court.>...he was still kind, and hated the thought of people being in pain.>In 'Breaker of Chains' Herys walks with Shireen to Ser Davos, talking about Dragons. Herys takes the stance that they fled to the far east, while Shireen believes they still live in Summerhill, and other abandoned places. On reaching Davos Herys and Shireen say goodbye, with both blushing. This is the second indication that they could be in love at this stage. >Herys plays with Shireen, and even look over her shoulder to see what she is reading. Shireen looks at him and Herys makes her laugh. He then does something unexpected, and kisses her. He blushes and looks away, but Shireen kisses him back. They giggle and Davos comes in and gives Shireen the wooden stag. Davos acknowledges Herys, and he him. When Stannis comes in, Stannis asks him to wait outside, which he duely does. After Shireen and Stannis come out, Herys walks with them. The moment Shireen is grabed, Stannis grabs Herys hands and whispers 'You are a soldier. Act like one.' Herys is confused, and is lead out to where Shireen is put on the pyre. She cries out four names. Mother, Father, Davos and Herys. Herys is starting to understand what is happening. He tries to turn away, but Stannis forces him to watch, saying 'I have no heir. But I have a boy, and by the Gods, I will not make you weak.' Herys screams in tears, beign forced to watch the burning of the girl he was in love with.
>>24950925>book accurate VelaryonCount me in!
>>24950925Damn, zoomers really have no taste in women.
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>>24950856Ygritte getting BLACKED by the black bastard of the wall.
The end of the year is almost hereWhat are top 9 books you have read this year? You have read more than 9 books, right?
Please do not respond to the frog poster ever again.
Please do respond to the frog poster once again.
>>24951183A Farewell to ArmsLaurusThe Shadow of the TorturerFaustThe Sorrows of Young WertherWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipThe Great DivorceThat All Shall Be SavedMadame Bovary
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.
>>24950492>mostly comprehend a bunch of philosophy books I boughtcheck out https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=136467539I'm learning French and German so that I can read more and better books about classical languages.
Has anyone here ever read Venationes Ferarum? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b550059821/f6.item
using "Gradus Primus" by Paulo Rónaiand I must say: what a gem! since I have used Familia Romana pars I before, this has been a bit too easy, but I think they are equally good. With the advantage that Gradus Primus brings short but absolutely precise explanations in portuguese. It was only 30 BRL ! (5 USD)
>>24950523>Orberg was not the first to do margin notes, look at these other books by the same publisherDude google “nature method institute” right now. I’m familiar with Arthur Jensen’s work.>this is youNo. Totally different person. I came here spur of the moment assuming I wouldn’t get any French at all so it’s been a pleasant surprise.>>24950627It’s a website with a bunch of easy texts that gets posted here a lot>Looks great to meyou have discovered what I think scholars call “an opinion”>>24950633Thanks
>>24951059Looks great. Thanks for sharing. It can be read with google translate. The translation doesn't seem perfect but if you look at both the original and the translation even without knowing Portuguese you can sometimes guess what's going on. For example it translated "menina" to "little girl" which is confusing but when you see that it's one word in Portuguese it makes more sense.https://archive.org/details/paulo-roacutenai-curso-basico-de-latim-gradus-primusIt looks a little similar to these:https://archive.org/details/latinfortodayfir0000grayhttps://archive.org/details/Latin_method_Most_1stYearOxford Latin CourseCambridge Latin Coursebut maybe simpler and more succinct, which I like, so it's maybe better in my opinion.I like reading language textbooks in other languages, because you learn two languages at once. Here's one in German for Latin:https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=136898262
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?
>>24951097Slaughterhouse Five, Great Gatsby, Tale of Two Cities, a few Shakespeare plays, a few really awful contemporary lit novels, As I Lay Dying, Moby Dick, a number of other ones I can't remember. Senior year was pretty much all poetry and for that we did read from anthologies instead of published poetry books. Freshman year was the only year they focused on essays over novels but we always read complete works as opposed to excerpts.
>>24951097The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry Finn, The Outsiders, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Old Man and the Sea, Catcher in the Rye, Fahrenheit 451, Ethan Frome, The Call of the Wild... That's what I remember, but I might be mixing middle and high school together. Of all those, Hawthorne and Steinbeck are far and away the best.>Where Hawthorne is known, he seems to be deemed a pleasant writer, with a pleasant style,--a sequestered, harmless man, from whom any deep and weighty thing would hardly be anticipated:--a man who means no meanings. But there is no man, in whom humor and love, like mountain peaks, soar to such a rapt height, as to receive the irradiations of the upper skies;--there is no man in whom humor and love are developed in that high form called genius; no such man can exist without also possessing, as the indispensable complement of these, a great, deep intellect, which drops down into the universe like a plummet. Or, love and humor are only the eyes, through which such an intellect views this world. The great beauty in such a mind is but the product of its strength.>In treating of Hawthorne, or rather of Hawthorne in his writings (for I never saw the man; and in the chances of a quiet plantation life, remote from his haunts, perhaps never shall) in treating of his works, I say, I have thus far omitted all mention of his "Twice Told Tales," and "Scarlet Letter." Both are excellent, but full of such manifold, strange and diffusive beauties, that time would all but fail me, to point the half of them out. But there are things in those two books, which, had they been written in England a century ago, Nathaniel Hawthorne had utterly displaced many of the bright names we now revere on authority. But I content to leave Hawthorne to himself, and to the infallible finding of posterity; and however great may be the praise I have bestowed upon him, I feel, that in so doing, I have more served and honored myself, than him. For at bottom, great excellence is praise enough to itself; but the feeling of a sincere and appreciative love and admiration towards it, this is relieved by utterance; and warm, honest praise ever leaves a pleasant flavor in the mouth; and it is an honorable thing to confess to what is honorable in others.
>>24951097This is what I remember reading. I'm sure there were a few others.>To Kill a Mockingbird>Lord of the Flies>Frankenstein>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer>1984>The Jungle, Sinclair>The Great Gatsby>The Trial>My Antonia, Cathar>Out Stealing Horses, Petterson>Harrison BergeronComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
>>24949843The publishing industry is probably one of the best examples of this too.
I like the smell of my own arts
>>24949126So kind of you to grace us with your presence, your Majesty.
>>24948669SIR! I got a 5 on the AP language and literature exams. SIR!
>>24948669Typical heathead thing to say.Anyone can write a book. Is it good enough to be read is the decision others can make for themselves.
Been thinking about making a story about a pred catching duo (male and female) who lure them into their home and kill them. I have almost everything planned, so much so that I could probably do it myself if I had a petite woman
>>24950367I have literally never written a story before. The last book I read was in highschool, if you don't count the OPM manga. I was considering this would be a short story, where they would eventually get caught because real justice > vigilantism and all that. What are some flaws you see in the plan? This plan is something I've been thinking about for a long time (except the disposing of the body)
>>24950393that's the real reason post-modernist literature exists. you can add a bunch of whacky techniques and subplots and make your story-telling seem original
>>24950397These aren't problems with storytelling or writing, they're logical problems resulting from lack of research and foresight. There's a lot of ways for poisoning someone to go wrong, and if and when it does, it's going to go very wrong. Relying on lemonade as the only delivery method is a horrible idea. Not everyone will trust you, not everyone is going to want lemonade, not everyone will finish it. They would need something highly toxic and extremely fast acting in very small doses and preferably tasteless. Misjudging someone's weight or metabolic rate, a slow acting agent, something with a foul or distinct taste or odor can all be disastrous. Ideally they would want something common in a household that doesn't require identification or raise any eyebrows at purchase. Poisoning also creates a situation with a lot of evidence to cleanup, they're going to vomit. If you know anything about cleaning fabrics, you know you're only ever cleaning the surface. Incapacitating them with rhohypnol and dispatching them another way would be an altogether better choice, but even that's not foolproof. What happens when it does go wrong? What happens when they realize they're being poisoned and try to run out onto the lawn or call 911? What's the petit young woman going to do about it with the man circling the block? What happens if the target figures it out and attacks her, or if that's what he came for in the first place? The options aren't great. That's why when you watch To Catch A Predator for example, they are operating in a highly controlled environment. There's a production team and cops in the house and a whole SWAT team outside. They've got one guy driving around. If they have to defend themselves, if they have to stab him or shoot him, then what? They're going to alert the neighbors probably. If they don't they still have a near impossible mess to clean up. And where is this all happening anyway? Hotels and motels are no good, too many cameras, too many witnesses. An Airbnb that requires a real name and payment information and probably has cameras of its own? Their own house surrounded by nosy neighbors with hd ring cams? Do they keep doing it in the same place, drawing attention to their behaviors? Do they keep moving around, creating patterns for investigators to potentially follow? There's only so far they can travel while maintaining normal lives.And the whole Uber thing is going to smell fishy to at least some of them. The ones that take the bait are going to be the dumb ones. You have another very big problem with not knowing who your target is in this scenario. What if they're a cop or someone that can handle themselves? What if they're a judge or politician, someone high profile that's going to be missed? A chatroom screen name doesn't tell them anything, they're not going to give their name out. They won't know who they're dealing with until they're in the car, if they know at all.
>>24950397>>24950475These are all serious problems, and it's by no means and exhaustive list, but none of these are the biggest problem.What happens when they target somebody that's being surveilled by law enforcement or the feds? A local cop or judge is one thing, at least the investigation will be behind them somewhat. But someone that's being actively surveilled? They might move on the meetup. Then they're under a lot of scrutiny, the kind that can request their phone's location data and financial records for the last twelve months. And that's not even to mention the problem of disposing the bodies. These can work as plot points, but I would strongly suggest closing the loop on some of them so it doesn't just look sloppy.
>>24950326Americans will call the cops on you for a guy who is 22 to marry a 17 year old both as virgins but the moment she turns 18 let her go to college and sleep around until she is 30
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
i always felt like stephen kings stories were always creepypasta scp tier bullshit that would barely fly on some 2000s internet forum for tweens retards. why is he so lauded, exactly?
>>24946769Age of consent is 14 in most of Europe. The girl in the book didn't reach puberty yet and if I recall doesn't even have a 2 digit age yet. Only literal Muslims would excuse this with 9 year Olds being considered "old enough"
>>24950724He is one of the first writers that had a bigger "expanded connected universe" throughout all of his novels. It's now overdone and a cliche to have a bigger universe throughout all your works but Stephen King started his in the 70s. So especially with the dark tower series where he wraps up the narrative it's seen as one huge interconnected story which makes Gen x piss and shit their pants with hype.His writing is very dated and if you don't like his particular style he's not going to stick with you. He has written so much stuff that you will most likely love at least one of his books.I loved the long walk and "under the dome" as they are pretty brutal with unique concepts and good character writing.But yeah there are no illusions that he isn't an actual pedophile. He literally shits on Trump every day EXCEPT for the epstein files, where suddenly he is pro-trump and against releasing the files. Dude fucks kids.
>>24950794That's not quite what he said. He said there are no "files" or "a list". He didn't say the list exists but shouldn't be released.Anyway he spent most of his time in Maine. Do we have proof Epstein ever visited Maine?
>>24933857Libtards have higher average IQs than right-wingers
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
>>24951047another one claimed
>>24951060the most dog-true of dogs.
>>24950982yeah (uh), your poem be shitty (uh)your poem's not litty (uh)
>>24950982where were you going with this?
>>24951089>>24951129closer to the divine than u muhammed
Is this the life all incels are so envious of? Truth is, most marriages were and still are much of hate towards the partner, if there is no passion to be found. And that happens for almost all couples if the other one is mentally unstable or otherwise literal child in a grown up body. Stoner was too good for Edith, but also a total loser for simping for her in the first place. They ruined each others lives and just kept going on with it. Also ruined the life of their child and made them an alcoholic. Can't tell if that life would be better than being without pussy desu (which Stoner did for most of his life anyway). So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women? Just fuck a college pussy for a semester and be reminiscent of it for a lifetime like Stoner did?
>>24951006Feminism ruined Stoner. Two decades in the past and he could've just put his psycho flapper wife in the loony bin and continued fucking his student, marry her, and keep his kid.
>>24951009Hard if. Men still in the current age are facing trouble getting custody for their child. Even if the mother is psychotic, she has greater chance of having the child (if there is no alcohol or substance use).
>>24951006> should a man of intelligence pursue women?There's no "should", just do whatever the hell you want and think is best.Personally, I tried it once, it was too much work and too much drama, I got dumped, sobbed about it for a year, then accepted it and have been going it alone since (about 6 years now). So far it's been OK.
>>24951131Doing "whatever the hell you want" leads to unfortunate situations, like what happened to you, me, Stoner or any other fool that trusted "love" whole heartily. Quote from the book: >... the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know anotherI interpret the quote that people change and you should too. But the thing is, shouldn't we try to aim for love that will not hurt us later on in life?
>>24951006As far as I’m concerned, all marriage is “gay” marriage.
>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.
>>24950979The hot ones
>>24949478The third world gained access to the internet, and their men are basically monkeys who only recently figured out how to find porn on the internet
>>24950979300k salary>B-BUT MUH DIKjerk off
>>24948168The Bell Jar is fantastic, don't let the seething misogynists on this board tell you otherwise.
>>24950979Everyone top except rightmost has potential. I would fuck them as is, but imagine the glow if they were barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and had better haircuts and overall styling. No, anyone who picks bottom is a retard and brown.
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
>>24947326I'm convinced Pynchon personally visits this site and writes all of these. When he passes the shilling will end
>>24947281Post Captain, #2 in O'Brien's Aubrey-Maturin series. I went into it as a Seaman interested in nautical tales but honestly it's such a good book on its own merits in the humour and representation of Napoleonic era society and seafaring. Much less gay than Moby dick, which is a worth a lot.
>>24949328Could be more psychological, but the books relies too much on humour that may be funny only on boomer standards. Rare case where the movie is actually better than the book.
>>24947281Best one so far is Stoner of Great Gatsby, though can't remember if I read Steppenwolf actually this year, and that might be the best one if so.>>24947341Currently reading this but will not finish before next year. But great book. Really captivating style of writing.
Probably...either Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke or UBIK by Philip K. Dick.
The best I've read this year
I started reading it after reading a review for it in a New Scientist. I'm roughly around 20%
A downloaded LLM is a magic cube—a small encyclopedia that is yours forever. Prompt it, and the cube, a massive list of numbers, unfolds itself into coherent meaning. There is a romantic ingenuity to this artifact. Even after civilization ends, you can still carry it with you—this little cube that echoes the ensemble of human thought. Talking to it is like striking a tuning fork; the harmonies were once our humanity.And while it may not yet think like a human, this pinnacle of technology is more than a work of art. It is the memory of humanity itself.
>yetkek, but nah. you technofags disgust me.
I feel you, my brother in pootruly the pinnaclest achieving of humanity
>>24950411that's not how LLMs work
>>24950411>>24950829What is an LLM?
>>24951102what people are incorrectly calling AI these daysthe way predictive text works on your phone is that it looks at the pattern and frequency of the sort of things you type. if you often say "be right back" then over time typing "be" will prompt it to suggest "right" and then "back" because there's a strong association with those wordsLLMs - Large Language Models - is identical to this, but instead of 'training' it on one person, it's trained on data from many, many sources. so when you ask it a question, or give it an instruction, it looks at what sort of words are strongly associated with that question and then chains them together best it canit can't reason, or come up with new ideas. because it operates on the basis of "most probably right" then it can get tons of things wrong simply because it rolled the dice wrong, or the thing in question is more esoteric than "what's a recipe for bread?"
Is reading TerryEagleton waste of time!
>>24951126Try it out. Let us know.
