Autumn is here edition
Studying for my HLLQP.
>>24744159Where does that account value come from? A % of the premium paid?
>>24744166The cash surrender value accumulates as a certain percentage of the premiums (the premium minus the administrative fees and the price of the insurance itself), but the amount accumulated is very small for the first few years since the majority of the death benefit is still being paid off. Over time as the death benefit is paid off the CSV grows, and the CSV itself has interest added to it. Eventually the CSV can even pay for the premiums themselves. That's with whole life insurance. Universal life is more complicated and involves mutual funds, but most of what I said above^^^ still applies.
>>24744175So it's both life insurance and a savings account? Neat.
Current reads – Need to finish before I start anything else:>Killing Hope by William Blum >The Dweller in Darkness (novelette) by August Derleth >The Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Remember – Spooktober is 61 days, people!!
Why is Piers Anthony writing pedophilia literature like FIREFLY? I thought he was just a normal fantasy/sci-fi author. What the literal fuck?
um, based?
It's hard to find similar books that portray a confused main character that have reached the highest of the high but still cannot fulfill that emptiness and is ached by a female
Axël?
So all his books are just complaints about women and how he can't fuck because he's old and how much better things were in the past?He seems to love self-loathing but offers no solutions for the future.
>>24742116>just complaints about women and how he can't fuck because he's old and how much better things were in the past?Don't forget cuckery, he is a frog. What were you expecting?
>>24742116If there were solutions for the future he wouldn't have started writing in the first place
>>24742142/thread
>>24744147There IS a solution, it just wouldn't be pretty. Most people are timid and seek comfort by nature and faint at the sight of blood, so doing what would have to be done at this point doesn't even enter their minds, and when they're told it, it horrifies them.
>>24744157>billions must die
opinions on Don Delillo?what is your favorite work by him?
Will I be able to appreciate him as a non-American?I was thinking of buying one of his loa editions because they seem pretty affordable in my country somehow
>>24744112>>Greatest living writerThat's Thomas Ligotti
>>24744106The Delillo register was so cool and hypnotic to me. I wonder now if his work is hollow and if it will last, but that’s because I demand more from art now. Favorite book, End Zone>>24744113How different really is the world? You are exposed to American media, or if not something derivative or similar in form. I think it’s more of a matter of if you like elegant style and your English is good enough to appreciate it. I’ve never been to New York but Delillo is my favorite American writer
The Names is one of my favorite novels
>>24744106i always found it cool that the book Aberration in the Heartland of the Real took its name from Libra
I compared it to ancient Greek literature and I just see the Hebrew Bible as totally devoid of empathy except in Genesis. The Greeks acknowledged and depicted the brutality of war but there is always a sense of the suffering that the losers have to go through, even when they’re the enemies of the Greeks. In the Hebrew Bible it’s just so psychopathic toward people the Jews are fighting and unrelentingly vindictive like, “blessed is he who smashes thy little ones’ heads against the stones.”
>>24741412>>24743367>you spiritual shekel grabberAnd I don't mean you, I mean anyone who is a 'good person' solely for glory in heaven.
>>2474309490% of the cause for this is faked internet propaganda, anti-semitism is an IQ test
>>24743366Christianity was spread by the sword after it became the official state ideology. For the hundreds of years prior to that, it was quite pacifist
>>24741293People always adopt values contrary to their character, jews made compassion the highest vertu because they are soulless sociopaths.
>>24741293must be the jews
I need some great history and historical fiction series. Thanks in advance.
>>24744076Wallersteins The Modern World System
>>24744076The Alexander Romance
>>24744076The one and only, Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Cadfael series
>>24744135Those are cool, I just ordered Will Durant’s Story of Civilisation. Have you tried it?
Thoughts on Sanskrit?
>>24743538DId it have an influence on Latin?
>>24743574Not to my knowledge, though I know the ancient Greeks and Romans did have contact with India.
>>24743518See picrel >>24742519More infos on the triangle?
>>24743849What on Earth does this even mean?
>>24743503unironically yesyoutube.com/watch?v=4qp_6q9Bds4
Whoever is seething saying the God Delusion is cringe just gets filtered by Dawkings apalling personality & has never read it. He goes into extravagent depth with citations on everything and visciously debunks Christianity & Islam with archeological, geological, historical & other scientific evidence from every applicable field possible to the point where it becomes as blatently fake as Mormonism. He also dives into the church organizations themselves & their history of horrendous corruption. You will come out a changed person when you see religions. They are nothing but cults. It's a must read.
>>24743124The lack of responses to this post is telling that atheist is just an anti-Abrahamic knee jerk ideology
>>24743111I am not impressed with secular morality and secular ethics.
Why don’t you also point out the fact that Dawkins admitted in an interview Fine Tuning is a solid argument for God.
>>24743124Least disingenuous 4chan comment, why lie like this?
>>24743111The question of wether God exists or not is completely irrelevant. America is the most ungodly place on earth and every American is an atheist in practice.
Hi again,few days ago i posted that i started getting into reading as a hobby and a form of self development despite how cringe that sounds.I read 5 books this year:Nietzsche's ZarathustraBlood MeridianNotes from the UndergroundHungerStrangerNow im trying to read pic related,Any thoughts or counter-recommendations?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24743819The other two I am planning to read next:Nausea by SartreThe Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
>>24743819>I want to develop some love toward being alone, living in solitude and being happy with myself, as im going through a painful period in my life.This is an error and you will regret it. Read Tolstoy, Chesterton and the Confessions of St Augustine. The Consolation of Philosophy perhaps also. Then volunteer at a homeless shelter or doing something for disabled kids, etc, where you can have direct and positive engage with other people. I assume that you're quite young, but you will sorely regret cultivating yourself into the kind of gloomy, aloof loner that you're aiming to be.
>>24744043Not OP but we end up regretting whatever we do.
>>24743819Nice choices. Read Sorrows of Young Werther (for keks), Stoner (for feels), and Tartar Steppe (for reevaluation).
>tell mom about Nick Land because she keeps saying ridiculous Elizabeth Warren-type shit like "we just need more regulators to fix capitalism">she tells everyone in the extended family that I'm a groyper, and she's devastatedDoes this happen in your neck of the woods?
>>24744027Go to bed, Nick.
>>24743456Tell her that groypers are based.When she asks "based on what?" you should laugh at her maniacally.
>>24743875God that would be fucking awful. I think he went to Austin which leans toward Rogan which is much much more kino.
>>24744117even worse its patrick bet david
>>24743456>Does this happen in your neck of the woods?No.All my mums are autonomist.
Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2vComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24743969Indeed.
Nice to see the general is back. Are you one of the original anons from this thread?
>>24744091I posted replies in previous threads, but never contributed any work. I just copied the last thread because I want to discuss pulp.One of the works of a previous anon, "The Skull" popped into my mind in the shower a few nights ago, and I've been reading much Conan recently, so..
>>24744100When was the last thread made? A few months by now?
>>24744148Many months ago.Sadly it doesn't seem that there are that many people on /lit/ who are very keen on the pulps. The Sword & Sorcery / fantasy generals seem to do very well though.
Any books like this that are NOT the Audition book or Ryu Murakami?
>>24743246I attempted to earlier this year as a quick, easy read but fucking hell, the writing was infuriatng. I can see how it inspired Stephen King. And I could already tell the vampires were going to be used as an analogy for blacks and hispanics making LA a considerably worse place to live but "they've got feelings too!" I lost interest when he mentioned how he wanted to fuck a female vampire for the umpteenth time.
I read it years ago. I remember liking it. I could appreciate how it inspired the zombie genre.
The hotel staff, I think, considers us useless freeloaders who have come to America – land of honest laborers with crewcuts – to eat them out of house and home. I know all about this. Everyone bitched about parasites in the USSR too, bullshitted about how you had to be useful to society. In Russia the people who bitched were the ones who worked least. I've been a writer for ten years now. It's not my fault that neither state needs my labor. I do my work – where's my money? Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?
>>24743773Was that the idea behind letting in the African ones?
>>24742314>an Israeli visa at a time when even actual jews were hard-pressed to get one of those
>>24731971>>24734025I've never heard this used, but it is funny. I would like us to use this in Britain but it would never catch on. How common is it to use this term for an American?
>>24744009Yes, retard, they left in 1974. Your graph proves my point
>>24738344:skull:
