I know it sounds corny but the consolation of philosophy has now saved me multiple times. It saved me from sadness and confusion and it invigorated my faith. It’s the most important book besides the holy scripture.
>>24953371Ignatius. Ignatius J. Reilly.
>>24953341You wouldn't understand, you don't have his pyloric valve.
>>24953057God isnt real but I guess if it saved you I'll give it a pass
>>24953057Is this intellectual bypassing or is this spiritual bypassing?
>>24953057Skimmed it. Nothing caught my positive attention in it.
Kill The Slopper EditionStubbed >>24949498>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24951035What is the use of art?
>>24951035Use case of art?
>>24946378As in Pale Fire?
>>24948625It’s a fictional memoir written by a character who mentions Proust so possibly.
>>24948776He's right you know.
>I don't have enough rice to eat therefore the physical world is both evil+unfixable and we should sit around in a circle pseudo-lobotomizing ourselves during every waking moment o algo.
>>24954211>>24952656The Buddha and his followers generally belonged to the upper classes so not having rice to eat wasn't their motivation for seeking enlightenment.As to why they don't grow their own rice, that would make them self-sufficient, which would deprive the community of the opportunity to earn good karma by supporting them on a daily basis. In Buddhist culture, supporting the monks is a privilege.
>>24954238>In Buddhist culture, supporting the monks is a privilege.Truly a slave religion
>>24954238>actually they don't support themselves and beg to help YOUYeah bro totally makes sense that's not definitely just a super convenient excuse to do nothing
>>24954180>writing letters and numbers was too hard>noticing one picture has 3 dots instead of 2 is the greater challenge>genius btw
>>24954241Yeah, they are so weird for willingly giving to their spiritual leaders, nobody does that>tithes to church / mosque / synagogue / sacrifices to pagan temple
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24937627only if you read what you enjoy
>>24944766TrueTemptations and suffering in the christian framework are not merely obstacles but opportunities. Everything you overcome, anger, desire for pleasure, social validation, lust, pride, has you growing closer to God and closer to seeing him. Our lives suck and life will on this earth will always suck, let's make it for the afterlife brothers.Read ascetical theology, keep a journal and try to better yourself everyday to be more like Christ and the saints.
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>>24954562>Lust provoking imageWhat about my picture provoke lust exactly?You get off to little girls?
>>24954562anon...
There is no humiliation ritual worse than advertising your own writing.
>>24953449It is literally a parallel, every issues you mentioned started with the 19th century society.
>>24953457you cannot be equivocating the printing press and the internet or the colonial empires with the globalhomo monoculture of todaynetworking by joining guilds and organizing anthologies in the 1800s is not the same as acting like a show host on tiktok and youtube
>>24953232Then don't spend your time advertising it? Just put up a pinned tweet or something and go write the next work. I don't actively advertise my writing, I just mention it when asked or if it's relevant, and l have it listed for people to check out/buy. No humiliation involved. In fact, it looks like someone bought another copy today, hope whoever it was enjoys it!
>>24953272And corporate shills who dogpile independents for some reason. Yes it draws some attention but most of it isn't good. At best you are quickly ignored and can get to work on your next thing after picking throught the litter for genuine feedback. At worst you become a lolcow and kill yourself?
>>24953232No there are. It's called job interviews
>Caesar tells of how they mocked the "pygmy Romans" and adds that the whole population of Gaul was disdainful of the smaller stature of the Italian Legionaires.
>>24954245And yet the same pygmy Romans killed a million lankoid gauls and enslaved another million lol
>>24954274manlet cope
>>24954274Nah as usual the Roman success is exporting the idea of Rome. Genetic studies show barely a dent in the local genome meaning there never was any roman settlement of britain. So where does all the roman shit come from? Locals. The same blue woad wearing fucks donned togas for a while (which is absolutely ridiculous given the weather), built in roman fashion, but then the romans fuck off and left to their own devices it all falls into ruin and they go back to trousers and huts before being overrun by the proto vikings that bring longhouse culture.
>>24954286>>24954546this is what happens when instead of waging scorched earth campaigns of genocide you enslave savages or make them your vassals. snowniggers did more damage to rome than arabs did to iran
>>24954546You're talking about Britains, he's talking about Gauls.
How do you learn to philosophize? I read philosophy books but i never learn to philosophize. I never learn to use those fancy words like epistomoleogoogy; i only learn what they kinda mean but i never have a sure feeling of it and have to look it up all the time. Is philosophy only for high iq people? I feel utterly lost so much so i don't even bother to talk about it with other people.
>>24953626I can't find any free downloads. Only this:https://iapweb.org/store/
>>24953626He also made a video about it, don't know if you saw it.https://youtu.be/g8osOVXLu-k
>>24946020Protip: don't
>>24953675>It’s escapism for high iqs and a way to stand above/dissociate from the pains of lifeSounds practically useful! I'll take two!
>>24948338I see that high IQ is the new midwit category t. 146 IQ
Anyone here read much of Marcel Aymé?I'm reading pic related now and the short stories are pretty goodI thought they were all going to be short humerous stories like the eponymous story but some of these are quite heavy albeit strange, my favourite being Le Décret so far in which France under occupation decides to move into the future 17 years His WW2 trilogy seems interesting since I've never read a book about the French experience before but I want toI'm planning on reading pic related and Les contes du chat perché and then moving on to Gautier and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam unless he has others which are essential
Ive read most of his novels and theyre all very, very underrated. Always a strange mix of passion, humor and a kind of despair. The WWII trilogy is amazing. Also La rue sans nom if you want an urban set up, or Gustalin and especially La vouivre for a rural set up. This man loved life
>>24952546The internal storage is 8gb, formatted and with software like 5.5 gb. That can't hold shit.
>>24953285>download a copy of lolita>its actually 500GBs of candydoll modelsbookfags will never understand
>>24947268I would but I can't decide what model size I want since I read books of various sizes and a lot of academic booksI'd get one of the l;arger ones like a 10 or 11 inch ones but that seems obvious as fuck I'm not actually doing my job and while a 7" one can pass as a phone and not be cared about, it's too small imo for most of the larger books
hate that there's none of these shits in that are cheap, bw only, and good for annotating books
sirs i would like to have more storage on my kobo libra 2 but im not sure how
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
Hemingway
>>24950722Sublunary is so beautiful.. thanks anon
>>24952871You aint seen nothing yet, apropos Donne:Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.
Bump >>24952545So far it's my favorite
>>24949924Roget
Other than A Christmas Carol. What are the must read Christmas literature?
>>24951717Today is Jane austen’s 250th birthday. So maybe that?
>>24951717Razzle Christmas special. I've got loads of books can I just have nudie mags? Thanks.
>>24954204What did she write again?
Raymond Briggs The Snowman and Father Christmas, but as time marches on these are slowly forgotten. They were on quite heavy rotation to be honest though. Lord of the Rings is quite Christmassy for me. And the Hobbit. Men Only, Mayfair, Leg World or Leg Sex please. Old copies of Knave. Thanks.
Beano annual. Viz Christmas special.
What's the funniest book you've read?
For me it's American Psycho
>>24951840>>24951866This is how I imagine Ignatius with his pirate cutlass
I read "Money" by Martin Amis with Matt Berry's voice stuck in my head and it was hilarious.
>>24953455lol i'll keep this in mind when i get to that one
Books on the topic?I find reading about organized crime fascinating. Too bad im too much of a pussy to join.
One of my favorite mafia books. This is about Roy Demeo and his crew of serial killers. Demeo was a member of the Gambino crime family. These people killed for profit, killed for fun, killed for the sake of just doing something on a Friday night. Absolutely insane story.
>>24952862>homo criminalis
How this book hasn't been made into a movie is beyond me. Probably one of the most riveting organized crime/drug trafficking bios I have ever read.
Biography of Toto Riina, the Boss of Bosses of the Sicilian mafia. He killed judges, politicians, anyone that got in his way. He was a mafioso from the countryside of a small town called Corleone, you may have heard of it :)He literally exterminated the majority of the Palermo clans to take control of the whole mafia.
>>24952862> Too bad im too much of a pussy to join.It’s funny how close this shit resembles the current neoliberal psychosis. “Surely I would not be an exploited expendable pawn! I would rise up the ranks and be recognized for my skills! I can get ahead and become a leader on merit!”I’m thankful The Sopranos killed mafia movies. We need something similar for whatever the fuck drill rap and tiktok videos fuel the lesser cretins.
>>24945827she should literally be arrested for this, it's a crime against literature and humanity
>>24945827JFC. Current century translation.
Joke's on midwit nolan because the leaked 5 minutes of footage is a fucking disaster.
>>24944446Yo, tell me about that OG hero, Muse, the guy who's been through so much. Like, he's the ultimate survivor.This dude was out here catching mad Ls, especially when he stormed that sacred city of Troy - total war zone.He’s seen all the city vibes, met a ton of different peeps, and his brain’s been upgraded from all the crazy stuff he's experienced.And honestly, he’s been through hell and back in the ocean, dealing with all sorts of savage waves and storms,fighting for his life and trying to get back to his crew, who are counting on him.But, no cap, he couldn’t even save his bros, even though he was all about that hero life.They got wrecked because they were being reckless - straight-up idiots - chowing down on cattle of Hyperion’s Helios, the sun god’s herd.And that’s what sealed their fate - lost their shot at coming home that day.So yeah, our guy Odysseus, the OG tactician, he’s out here trying to flex his brains and avoid getting wrecked again.He’s been roaming around, facing all these epic quests, basically the original "save the world" story but with way more drama.Every time he thinks he’s got a grip, the chaos hits him again like Epic Plot Twist after Epic Plot Twist.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
quite the resting bitch face she has. Even with cat ears she looks like she's having a terrible time
