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Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
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>>24948058
>It's gonna be hard for white people to ever feel like an ethnic community if they never get their real polytheistic traditions back.
white nations existed, had cross flags, did great things, then betrayed the King and withered
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>>24948069
pierces self insert character has seggz with a slut whomst'd've somehow joined a terrorist org. this contradicts what was known to george orwell about female nature, but pierce is a faggot so he doesnt know that. naturally, pierces self insert character of the slut use contraceptives. contraception had been illegal shortly prior to this obscenity being published, and while young men today dont know that, pierce surely did. pierces vision for the future was EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE NOW BUT WITH LESS BROWN PEOPLE
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>>24941203
daily reminder that Jesus Christ is the Savior of all white nations and the true greeks and scots are proud to have been His first converts
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>>24945217
hey mahometan does erhabi have a word for a man doing sex acts with a fertile woman that are intented not to result in pregnancy? like not the woman preventing pregnancy but the man helping her to prevent pregnancy but also sort of pretending to try to get her pregnant at the same time
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>>24949104
What.....go ask a scholar or sheikh. Come Join Islam Brother

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>7 books completed
>12 books behind schedule
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>>24949404
Then you didn't complete them retarded frog
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>>24949427
Is this supposed to be impressive?
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What were the books and what are your thoughts on them
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>>24949416
>working a lot
Quit
>playing more games than usual
Kill yourself
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>>24949460
>Quit
I will soon
>Kill yourself
no, thank you
>>24949458
Blood Meridian, House of Leaves, Ada or Ardor, Earthsea, King in Yellow, Witcher: Claws and Fangs, Ferdydurke.
Half of them were amazing books I want to reread, the other half were worthless slop I don't want to interact with ever again. I'm not going to tell which were which

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>...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.
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>>24948273
>Pro-Nationalists Spain and war veterans
He was based unlike GRRM semi-feminist cucks
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>>24948352
>We're talking about a man who wrote personally to hitler telling him to piss off
Only on autistic anthropological grounds over his antisemitism and because Hitler wanted to promote his works in the lens of Nazism, to which Tolkien did not assent. He didn't call Hitler a heckin' fascist chuddie or condemn his politics.
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>>24948273
>How would you know this much about the Hobbit unless you were an actual fan?
I read the book.
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>>24949426
Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the future, i wouldn't want any of you terminally online losers to finally flip and shoot out a school because of me.
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>>24949426
He called Hitler a ruddy little ignoramus

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The deepest thinker on the left (Hegel scholar) Vs the deepest thinker on the right (Nietzsche scholar)... A debate between these two would be priceless
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>>24942307
Kek
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>>24938370
>Displacing native workers is actually le based you goys
Fucking disgusting, kill yourself posthaste
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>>24932740
this but unironically
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>>24949368
He is a bisexual middle aged Zionist without kids

2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
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Is a River Alive by Macfarlane
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>>24947281
2666
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Non fiction
The Civil War Volume 2 by Shelby Foote
Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesinger
Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Fiction
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
Lincoln by Gore Vidal
Guignol’s Band by Louis Ferdinand Celine

I don’t know if I’m just getting old and my tastes are changing but I liked the non fiction I read this year more than the fiction. Even the fiction I liked was mostly historical fiction. The one exception was Celine. And even that was a qualified like. I kept thinking how much sordidness, squalor, cynical bellyaching and bitching and moaning am I going to put up with. Then there’s a scene near the end where he gives up and surrenders himself to the French authorities and begs them to just send him back to his old unit, don’t shoot him. And the doctors up his disability pension from 70 percent to 80 and reassure him he did his part. He’s an invalid. He isn’t going back.
And I suddenly felt for the bitter louse. I had a similar moment with Death on the Installment Plan when I suddenly felt bad for the chronic bellyacher and miscreant. Just when I thought I couldn’t endure his bullshit anymore.
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>>24947281
I spent most of this year working on my own novel. I did reread Perfume and Frankenstein and I liked them even more than the first time I read them.
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>>24949439
Do you think getting old makes you prefer non-fiction which is why old men read nothing but Stephen Ambrose?

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There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.
Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
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forget every rec here and LISTEN TO ME
>Architecture as Metaphor
- Kojin Karatani (not to be confused with Kojima)
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>>24947730
>>24947774
Modern cities are contra natura and if there is any justice in this world He will destroy them.
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>>24948304
why are they different than cities in the past?
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>>24947730
Without the excuse of religion i do feel we tend to build very little of the kind of monumental architecture where the whole space can be made subservient to a single concept. Skyscrapers are neat but ultimately as aesthetic statements they are often kind of bland, their insides homogeneous office floors. Very little going on there conceptually outside of 'hehe tall'

The kind of buildings architects now usually use to express their grand masterpieces are musea, opera houses, libraries, or other large freestanding public buildings, although even these rarely have the pure monumentality of religious buildings since they still need to be functional spaces.
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>>24947730
That's because the meme of SOULLESS and UGLY new buildings aren't referring to chinese skyscrapers.

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I like this book.
I think you should read it.
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>>24949375
i think i will. thank you for recommending this book you like, i will be happy to read it someday soon
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>>24949375
There is something slightly farcical and overly stereotyped about its characters that prevents it from being a masterpiece but i am still very fond of it.
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>>24949375
isn't it very long?
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>>24949451
not really desu

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"Hemingwrite" edition

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Please limit excerpts to one post.
Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.
Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.
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(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)

Simple guides on writing:

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>>24948990
"Greg? He was a strong man..."
*two line breaks*
"Greg Engram?..."

vs.

"It's a tautology -- 'a plus..."
*one line break*
"Plus C," his uncle...
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>>24949379
Well the first instance is two separate scenes. The second instance is a single scene.
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>>24941143
>sort of way
>that told him
>was like no other
>seemingly
>began to
>up and
>from his chair with a start
>almost
And many more such cases. These are filler words. ChatGPT can help by pointing them out. As usual, be skeptical and selective.
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>>24949388
There are actually 5 lines in your first part, so there are 5 different scenes. Bravo
>"Greg...
>"Greg Engram...
>"He was...
>"Life of...
>"Yes, yes...
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>>24949428
What is your point?

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Erich Heckel edition
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>>24941253

And further away
From my home
Baying behind me
I hear the hounds
Flock chasing to find
Me alone
A trail of sickness
Leading to me
If I am haunted
Then you will see
Search in the darkness
And emptiness
I'm hiding away

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>>24949319
Everything short of perfection is sin and I can't be perfect.
I'm from the tribe of dogheaded men, sought power in the court of the devil who told me about Christ so now I barely rob or pillage anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6WACiAQkj4
>>24949358
Think about how it actually works. You do control them so when your goal is sin like sloth they give you exactly what you asked for. As you grow weaker from sloth you grow lazier, feeding the established sloth based system more power, more of your will.
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Demons are cringe and are destined to be thrust into Hell to make soijak faces while screaming forever. All they can offer are things you can already give yourself.
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>>24949394
Well, they can offer you human flight, but it's unwise to take them up on it
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Enter the age of the aesthetics of total ego sublimation, absolute enslavement of the soul, my will and my penis i give to the latest egregore, the psychic spirals that rape the continuum of space, me and my band of renegade space faggots heil Hiltler to the idea of stealing the fruits of western civilization while Gustav Holst Jupiter plays in the background, and they grow to become actual human beings, in our bellies, because they were us all along no surprise there.
What? Are you really surprised? You shouldn't be, the fruit of our labor are the fruits of our seed the fruits men. See what we did there? Did you see? Did you see? Did you see? Are you watching? Keep watching, keep watching while nothing happens. In that void, In that void that you keep watching, in that hole, in that absence, in that faggot shaped hole, i am going to stuff you and the last tree that is left, and we will take that as a victory, another one for the white race.

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>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
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>>24948091
I mean, I just haven't had a context where I could develop a friendship with a woman. I'm a coder, back when I worked in an office it was just guys, and my hobbies just don't have women in them, although curiously, that's beginning to change with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
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>>24948169
You'd be surprised. A lot of zoomers are starting to ditch social media for various reasons.
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>>24948701
OP tried to avoid the question because he knew it wouldn't please the roast, yet she insisted, so he responded dryly, expecting the type of response he received. I would have done the same. If some woman asks me about literature I just assume she'll want to talk about some genre fiction or YA trash and I WILL purposefully talk about some modernist tome to fuck with her

I don’t need to lie because I'm not desperate for pussy, because I'm not a loser.
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>>24947390
>I can't choose between Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games lol
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>>24947390
>you haven't read it? I can lend you my copy :)
how spergy are you

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This book changed my life for the better
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>>24949327
Rape=not consented to. It doens't mean they don't like and enjoy it. 10-15% of them report orgasming during rape, as opposed to ~5% during normal sexual experiences.
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>>24949327
You don't get to decide that
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>>24948837
Can they find some place else to go? I don't want to deal with nigger dykes
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I have a big penis and last long enough that this is unnecessary for me. I used to tap out way too soon though
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>>24949380
Men can also orgasm when they’re anally raped. That doesn’t mean they enjoy it. It’s a dissociative response, you fucking retard. It’s a defense mechanism. You should kill yourself.

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>viz.
>to wit
>in a word
>withal
>as it were
>inasmuch
>in light of
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>[sic.]
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>read philosophical text
>notes keep referencing "Ibid"
>have no idea who that is
>try to look him up
>keep getting sent back to the google homepage
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>>24949443
Ibid al-Wasi, an extensive chronicler who organized 40,000 compendiums. Unfortunately his work was all lost during the 20th Century due to the Nazis when it discovered that he was a cryptic Jew

Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
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>>24948046
>Stirnerite
Eek
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>>24947731
> Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses.
Please understand that attempting to be "free of your own circumstances", or a "true egoist" or, even worse, a "stirnerite" is as "spooked" as anything else. It's very similar to the buddhist joke about "but you desire to be free of desire!".
Read everyone and anyone. Steal useful ideas from them (yes, other philosophers also have useful ideas), and discard useless ones. Do not take any of them very seriously, and do not fully buy into any one of them. That will allow you to come up with your own framework, and you will swap out parts of it as your life and opinions change. It will be a syncretic patchwork and not "original", yes, but the point is that it will be tailormade to your life, not anyone else's.
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>>24947751

Marx knew that Germany couldn't afford another Stirner.
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>>24949361
>attempting to be "free of your own circumstances", or a "true egoist" or, even worse, a "stirnerite" is as "spooked" as anything else.
That's not what I'm saying. Egoism is (can be) a spook too. Spooks aren't some """morally wrong""" thing that you have to avoid, they're just tools to pursue your own self interest. Using spooks is necessary thing, even.
The issue comes when you actually fall for the spook, genuinely believe in it, and act against your own self interest because of it. With Egoism this usually happens, as you say, when people become obsessed with the idea of dispelling or fighting against spooks, or being a "true egoist".

My problem with philosophy is that I do not see very much utility in the ideas of philosophers. They believe in the spooks they create, they place them above themselves, and so are unable to fully understand them as they are (what they are useful for).
That is to say, they can't see outside of their own framework, so they fail to convince me that their framework is useful outside of itself.

Could some of these spooks still reasonably be useful to me? Maybe, but I haven't found any that do. I don't think philosophers or their followers are actually more successful in pursuing their own interests than anyone else. Usually the opposite, as they get so wrapped up in these spooks that they forgo the basic things that other people do simply because they haven't been told not to.

I guess the primary benefit is gaining insight into the thought and behaviors of other people. Except very few people actually believe in these philosophies in the real world, and I don't believe that these spooks have very good predictive/descriptive power in determining the actions of other people.

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>>24945626

>2. The Great Gatsby?
Nope. Gatsby doesn't say much about himself, does he? Also, F. Scott Fitzgerald has been found (#77, A Diamond As Big As The Ritz).

>4. must be the Bukowski one but I don't know him well enough to answer
Nope. This one is Sylvia Plath. Bukowski is still out there.

>5. The Old Man and the Sea
Nope. Hemingway is #1 (The Cat in the Rain).

>6. Room with a View
Nope. Both this and #5 are short stories, not often mentioned on /lit/.

>7. La Belle Damme Sans Merci

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>>24946067
The Aleph - opened up my Borges to check.
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>>24946321
Right. (With two pages of assorted stuff he sees in it.)
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Bump.

Second random hint:

Of those unanswered, 30, 33, 35, 44, 59, 71, 75, 76, 85 are female authors.

Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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>>24948146
It was about Brandon Sanderson marketing his books to stupid nerds.
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Anyone else making a "non-magic" world? Everytime I see worldbuilding forums it is either hard fantasy or sci-fi
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>>24949315
A non-magic world would be technically science fiction even if the world contains no futuristic technology. See for example Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.
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>>24878110
Not op.
I think we would get along.
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>>24946278
To prevent prior clashing, I immediately imagined these birdfolk living on floating cities like in bioshock infinite. I know you specified they're nomads but I struggle to wrap my head around how you plan for a nomadic culture broken into factions to put up a fight against the organized armies of humanity. Anyway, I think putting them in that unreachable realm solves the problem of no prior clashing, and perfectly sets up for war resulting of humanity's advancements in aviation- which lines up with the late 1800s period you mentioned. Humanity's rigid, but high firepower flying machines vs the birdfolks natural affinity for airborne combat sounds like a setup for some really cool fights. This is just what popped in my head when reading what you wrote.


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