This book changed my life for the better
>>24951007>You argueeh? who's arguing? i'm not arguing, i'm telling. specifically, i'm telling you that you're weird. it's ok anon this site was basically invented as a holding pen for dysfunctional mouthbreathers who don't fit in to society. you are at home here. weirdo.>foidweirdo
>>24948842agree
>>24951346projecting?
>>24951211As another circumcised fella, I kind of stopped caring about it. As long as I cum I'm happy. I don't need a woman's approval. They're just pretty looking masturbation aids.
>>24951535>As long as I cum I'm happy. Nobody tell him that circumcised dicks can't cum as hard or fast.
What’s the male version of this? I’m tired as fuck
the ending made me cryI love Reva
The ending made me smile. I hate Reva
>>24944019Bartleby, the Scrivener.
>>24946863>Both are low quality but want high quality. They would NEVER settle for each other.Literally could not have said it any better. People would be happier dating if they were just honest with themselves and know where they stand on the quality scale.
>>24950524So then both are straight and asexual? as in, the nerdiest gayest ugliest people people I ever met were fucking each ragged in the theatre department of High School. Seems like Gay incels just don't exist.
>is arguably the single most racist author in American history>marries a Jewish womanWhat did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
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>>24946601Jews aren't a race, that's Jewish propaganda.>>24947042Just Ashkenazi.
bump
>>24949996When you think about it, white supremacists are actually the least racist people.
what a magnificent, turboneetchud bastard. nothing but respect.
If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
>>24951500Because our literature sucks. Who'd read Walter Scott over Alexandre Dumas? Sterne over Cervantes or Rabelais? Steinbeck over Zola? Dickens over Galdós or Balzac? Hardy over Tolstoy?>reading translationsNot everyone is an EOP.
>>24951528So then you admit that brown people are better writers than white people?
i love Thomas Fuller, i love Jeremy Taylor, and i love reading them after misty walks in the fens. but if i felt i was venerating The WASP Canon i wouldn't read a line of them. death to English culture.
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.
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24950810Huh? They were still popular when I was single in 2023/24, and I am younger. But you are correct with most people saying they are shit and wanting to move away. I heard there are a lot of bots on them now.
>>24950597Depends how hot you are
>>24947357>>24947390>>24947404>don't know how to sustain a conversation with the opposite sex>"this is somehow women's fault">>24947454Say that, but say it in an open-ended way instead of shutting it down:>"yknow I don't tend to read a lot of Genre Fiction, but I remember digging [Discworld / Dune / Harry Potter / Narnia / LotR / Conan / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / whatever you've read that might fit] when I was younger. What about you, what genres do you gravitate towards? What would you recommend if I want to get into it?"You just have to carry yourself like a human being that wants to connect with another human being. Fuck's sake, the Pandemic really torpedoed the social skills of anyone born after 9/11
>>24950810 (You)>reddit spacing
>>24948012All you can really do is either lie to her in agreement or point out that her moral system is flawed. Both are undesirable.
I can't remember anything this guy said.
>>24948663His tombstone will have this quote:"SNIFFPH!"
>>24948663He looks like he's lacking basic nutrients and a balanced diet, he looks underslept, he looks pale like he hasnt been outside for months, he has bags under his eyes like hes been staring at screens all day every dayHe looks sick
>>24951053*"SNIFFPH! And so forth"
>>24948671I read the Penguin volume of his essays and thought most of it was pure garbage, but this is actually good. What do I read of Schopenhauer to get more like this, and less "life is le bad" crap?
>>24948663"I'll dig your mother from the grave and fuck her". Seriously.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24950716>Why don't women ever run a train on a man?that would be cool.
>>24951353fuck off, pseud.this is just another "king bad" thread.we get these daily, *all* SK should be in ONE continent thread to limit the sprawl.
>>24951367>"sex can exist without horror, but horror usually not without sex">[calls person making fun of him for that a pseud]Projection.
>>24951345>not really.Yeah I came the first time I read Ben Drowned
>>24951304I've had a 3 some with two girls but they expected me to do all the work, fucking both while they just made out on the bed, I want 5 girls who fuck me with fury while I just lay back, like IT a real fucking train.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24951164>And if you say it isn't we will kill youYou forgot to post the gigachad bro
>>24951166I'm sorry i don't live in the land of illegal sporks and butterknives so i dont know any arabs
>>24951446Prove it
I was once in love with a girl who liked this guy.Probably should have realised sooner it was never going to work out lmao.
>>24951527She couldn't bring herself to believe in you
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
YeatsPinterBeethoven
>>24949741>Oh no! familiarity with high culture, canon literacy, and taste that isn't purely ironic, meme-based or pop-referential. On a literature board, of all places. Clearly everyone here is just trying to seem smart. Better devalue it quickly so I don't have to participate or feel inadequate.How does it feel to be a gargantuan, insecure faggot?
>>24947744Have you checked out Berwald or Stenhammar, they are severely underrated and my favorite Swedish composers, check out Berwald's Third Symphony especially if you haven't (the other symphonies are comparable in quality too all incredible)
>>24940941Spenser (if including novelists Dostoevsky) ShakespeareWagner/Debussy
>>24949741>pretentious pseudPot, meet kettle.
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
>>24950986How does one find themselves a sexy spaniard seductress?
>>24950729I think they deleted it, fuck
THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE MINIONS OF FEVRE RIVER
100 threads of /grrm/? Here’s a little blast from the past from the /tv/got/ days.>https://vocaroo.com/1oAadeMoX4Wn
>>24951523neat
>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?
>>24950751This is retarded. The inclusion of strong and persistent rhythm doesn’t eliminate the capacity for melody and longer forms. Listen to the Black Saint for an example
>>24951168A small handful of rappers from the 90‘s genuinely lived the image you‘re projecting, as could be said for a handful of artists from any genre. The fact that this doesn‘t pertain to the vitality of the music nonwithstanding. Any rap you hear published today is either a media creation or some kid with a Soundcloud.
>>24951229This is just Middle Eastern music, brought to Southern Italy and Iberian Peninsula by Arabs.
>>24950883Rhythmaxxing is the intellectual's choice.Most people simply do not have the brain power to hold two basic rhythms in their head, let alone multiple complex layered rhythms with changing signatures and patterns.
>No, kill the beautiful instead. The horrifying ugly monsters must destroy the beautiful
Which books should i read to develop a bronze age mindset?Not BAPfag btw, i just really like the bronze age. The epitome of masculinity.Could be fiction or non fiction, dont care.
>>24951444Tl;dr commie faggot
>>24951490Bro is struggling against an unstoppable force (progress) lmaoooCommunism may have never worked, but name one time resisting progress ever worked LOL
>>24951497WW2 was an effective halt on progress
>>24951490uh oh meltie
>>24951431On the contrary you shouldn't read ANY books whatsoever, just become a brute
I just finished reading Journey to the West for a book report. holy shit Chinese books are awesome. Does anyone have the china /lit/ recommendations?
>>24947749>>24947747>>24947549>>24947522Quit samefagging you ugly chink and get off my board.
>>24947749>implying this will helpChinese isn't like speaking American.Average Chinese Story:>general xi looked at lao tsing "we musn't mistake the trees for soldiers, every remembers what the duke of wu says on tuesday">Lao tsing nodded "of course, when traveling on a donkey, look to past red mountain thrice".>Pei Mei interjected "when eating in wu, toast the scholars at wei". all present nodded in agreementEvery other sentence is a reference or idiom drawing on some other story or historical example. You can't understand Chinese /lit/ unless you know Chinese /lit/, or want to constantly be on a wiki like you're playing a turbo-wizard MMOJRPG. Might as well just read the translation as about as much will be lost for a non-native who can't possibly understand all the context.
>>24951501that's what I was implying
>>24947522OP, Journey to the West is a really long multi-volume work--how long did it take you to finish reading it?
>>24947522>>24947530Read Fortress Besieged. That is all
Would anyone be interested in participating? Seems like a nice alternative to Wikipedia reading
>>24951220>post cover in OP>summarize topic using chapter headings>ask some questions at the endDo this and people will participate in your thread.
>>24951220I listen to it in audio version. Can't recommend picrel enough to Americans.
>>24951332Audio can cripple many of these. For such thin volumes they can have a ton of illustrations and graphs. They are not described in audio. Really depends on the content.
>>24951220These short introduction books are awful. Even as introductions they fail. Wikipedia is better, and wikipedia is a festering pile of shit and falsehoods.
>>24951470It is just supplementary materials. Read real textbooks, listen to VSI and all will be ok.
