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.
>>24951244>There is a difference between a proposition and an argument. An opinion can be backed up with anything at all, or it can be just a statement/proposition with nothing whatsoever backing it up. I asked in order to get anything whatsoever backing it up.none of this needed explanation retard
Every time I spend time focusing on extensive reading I feel like I make dramatic jumps in ability to just read a paragraph and lose a substantial amount of memorized grammar entirely, but the grammar becomes much easier to relearn. Very much a 2 steps forward, 1 step back feeling.
do you know what "fœtus" means in Latin????? it means "little human" !!!!!:) :) :)
>>24951270Audio for this:https://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la-methode-natureHere:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf8XN5kNFkhdIS7NMcdUdxibD1UyzNFTP
https://youtu.be/G_IjB2f9o8A
>anti-natalism is irrefutab-then let me kill you
>>24952394if you keep increasing the resolution of your analysis in science, eventually you get to a point where it stops being purely material
I’m not an anti-natalist but they could reasonably respond you’ve made a false equivalence between never having existed and ceasing to exist. The primary concern of anti-natalists is basically utilitarian, it’s a calculation of suffering - if you kill me now I will suffer a lot for a little bit, people around me are also possibly going to suffer because of my death. None of that would have been the case if I was never born in the first place.“You always kill yourself too late” as Cioran says
>>24952410Next thing you're going to say is that Rupert Sheldrake is a real scientist and Bernardo Kastrup is a legitimate philosopher. Le heckin' consciousnessrino! We are... everything! God exists!
>>24952419If you prevent births you prevent happiness. Therefore from a utilitarian perspective all people should be born.
>>24952410>ifThat's a very cute "if" and all but without approaching or even being concerned by this "if" materialism managed a lot of things like the semiconductors and teh internets you are now using to shitpost here. If that's all a cope then please be a better man, stop engaging in this cope and GTFO.Materialism can be a philosophical dead end without being a "cope from depressed people". >>24952419>basically utilitarian, it’s a calculation of suffering - if you kill me now I will suffer a lotThere are means of death which were neurologically proven to be completely painless. >people around me are also possibly going to sufferAn anti-natalist can just pull a Socrates and explain to all of his close ones that the should be rejoiced that his suffering is finally over and if they are being upset by him being gone then they are selfish and evil people who produce suffering out of pure narcissism, just like anyone who reproduces.
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24950722loanwords and agglutinates don't count
>>24952240When you possess an advanced vocabulary, pedestrian diction bores you to sleep.
>>24949924As an ESL, I'd say Huxley. Never have I had to use google so much while reading than while going through his Point Counter Point. Fucking great book though, but god damn Aldous, chill out with the high vernacular.
>>24949924There were at least 3 words in The Passenger and Stella Maris that I'd never seen in my entire life. Of course I promptly forgot them.
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Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24950581>When the KJV translators openly said they weren’t inspired and that they were revising earlier English Bibles, were they wrong or just being dishonest? I have read the preface. They were wrong, not dishonest. The Assyrian, the rod of God’s anger in Isaiah 10:5-7, did not know that he was being used by God. Same goes for the KJB translators.>If the KJV can override or “fix” the Greek and Hebrew, what’s the point of Greek and Hebrew in the first place? Biblically, a translation is always to a better stage/condition/version (see 2 Sam. 3:10, Col. 1:13, Heb. 11:5). The Hebrew and Greek served their purpose at crucial moments in history (and still serve their purpose today, don’t get me wrong). Today English is the lingua franca and the expansion of English in history coincides quite nicely with the King James. >Which Textus Receptus is the inspired one, since there are multiple editions that don’t agree with each other? I didn’t claim that any Textus Receptus is inspired. I’m claiming the King James Bible is. God can use any foundation; he used sinful men to speak and pen down his word. He spoke his word through a false prophet like Balaam.>And if God only preserved His word in English, why did nobody seem to know that for the first 1,600 years of church history?Today, God’s word is preserved in English. That wasn’t always the case in history, simply because English didn’t appear on the scene until a long time after. The word of God was preserved in Hebrew and Aramaic among the Jews, then later in Greek among the New Testament churches. But even in Paul’s time, people had started messing with the word, see 2 Corinthians 2:17 (“we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God”). God does not limit himself to church history, he has his own schedule, so when “the fulness of the time was come” (Galatians 4:4) his perfect word appeared.
>>24950056>We have the originals in the received textAnd what is 'the received text', pray tell? It's just a collective term for printed editions of the Greek in the 16th and 17th centuries based on whatever manuscripts the editors had available to them, all were from the middle ages as far as I know. And those editions different from each other as well, so there is no precise definition of what's the 'received text' anyway. There is nothing special or magical about it, especially when we have much older manuscripts.
>>24949633> The ESV would probably be of interest to you given your goals.Interesting. Thanks, I'll look into it. For now I am reading the NOAB, which is basically NRSV with commentary. It's fairly ecumenical and I understand it to have a significant liberal bias, but, for better or worse, a lot of modern western culture is produced by people with a significant liberal bias, so it seems in line with my goals.
>>24950557>since there were multiple revisions and they aren’t identical?For all practical purposes they are the same translation, just with updated spellings and a few typos corrected.I've checked all the editions from 1611 until now. There's nothing you'll find there. But by all means, try.>what’s the point of Greek and Hebrew in the first place?The original language texts show how God's word has remained unchanged throughout this whole time.>Which Textus Receptus is the inspired one, since there are multiple editions that don’t agree with each other?The TR editions are closer than the manuscripts that they came from were, and the manuscripts were sufficient to preserve the original language text. The vast majority of differences between the TR editions have to do with word spellings that have zero effect on the translation, such as whether to spell "Nazareth" with a tau or a theta at the end, or various equivalent word contractions in Greek.You can find every reading the KJV translated from in the TR tradition – specifically, the Beza and Stephanus editions of the TR. This was derived from the manuscripts that were available at that time, going back to the original copies.
>>24950849>based on whatever manuscripts the editors had available to them, all were from the middle ages as far as I know.Stephanus and Beza had access to manuscripts of various ages, including Codex Regius (L) and Codex Bezae.Stephanus' 1550 TR edition listed 15 of his manuscript sources in the inner margins. But we know he also had others that he didn't list as well. He had Codex D, Codex L (Regius), Miniscules 4, 5, 6, 7 (more specifically the part of the manuscript called 2817 today), 8, 9, 38, 42 (w/ Revelation), 82, 111, 120, 237, 398, 2298. These were used in addition to Erasmus' and Colinaeus' more limited sources that they used for earlier TR editions. MSS 42, 111, and 237 were not cited in Stephanus' 1550 apparatus, but were also used by him. The Complutensian edition of 1520 (itself a printed text based on some manuscripts we no longer have) was sometimes mentioned by Stephanus as well.Some of the manuscripts Stephanus cited in his 1550 apparatus are unidentified today among known manuscripts, such as two sources that Stephanus designated with the sigla ια (designating #11), and ιϛ (designating #16) in his 1550 edition. His other 14 sources are all identified by scholarship today, yet he seems to have used at least two (i.e. those he called ια and ιϛ in 1550) that are still unidentified today. This may be his source for many readings.Beza himself added Codex Claromontanus and possibly others to his library by 1582. Though both were aware of these sources, they had little if any effect on their main text. Though they were aware of these manuscripts, they did not follow them when they differed from the established received text. They would have treated Sinaiticus the same way. Erasmus was also known to have actively rejected the few "Vaticanus" readings that he had been informed of.
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951462
>>24951738>and then as its mausoleum.Holy kek.
>>24951462Probably Barry Trotter or The Soddit when I was 14. At the time getting a taste of counter-pop-culture was hilarious.
>>24952538
Picrel is very interesting. I started it today and considering the level of technology- and bureaucracy and the accelerated development of AI, this seems to be super relevant. Note that I don’t have a stem background and wasn’t interested in it for most of my life. But now I’m hooked.What books develop these or similar themes further?
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>>24951370>>24951370Read this:https://archive.org/details/smiling-man-from-a-dead-planet-the-mystery-of-lyndon-la-rouche-by-hylozoic-hedge/page/n107/mode/2up?q=%22WIENER+WORLD%22
>>24951467I will check this out.>>24951705Is this a sci-fi novel?
>>24951705>>24952531I’m just joking, will check it out as well
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
>>24951214Based
Sweaty sex with Asha Greyjoy
>>24951177No>>24951376She looks nothing like that anymore>>24951423Merry christmas https://archiveofourown.gay/works/42727560/chapters/107339226
I think today’s the day. 20 years. I officially don’t care anymore about this series. Bye
>>24952524You're leaving?! We have HBO Duncan Egg show on the horizon followed by Hot Dee show and you're leaving?! DON'T LET THE FUCKING DOOR HIT YOU ON YOUR WAY OUT, CHUD!
Ever since the internet turned against atheism sometime during the second Obama term, “atheism” itself became a dirty word. Suddenly everyone who was an atheist just a few years before become an expert in Thomism or heyschasm, and decided that believing in evidence was cringe. Religious zoomers started acting like they “won the culture war.” Funny how that works. Since y'all are either literal zoomers who were toddlers during the heyday of new atheism or have the memory of goldfish, imagine it’s 1990 so you can understand why New Atheism mattered. You’re stuck in an evangelical megachurch. The pastor is telling you dinosaurs lived with humans, AIDS is God’s punishment, Israel is our greatest ally, and questioning anything means you’re going to hell. This is also the same institution quietly covering for youth pastors who “fell into sin,” preaching family values while funneling donations into private jets, and condemning divorce from the pulpit while half the elders are on their second or third marriage. This wasn’t fringe, it was normal. Teachers, politicians, parents all nodding along. New Atheism wasn’t about being edgy online. It was a backlash to decades of religious dominance that people memory-holed because 4cuck told them to. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, were abrasive. So? That was the point. Polite disagreement didn’t work with creationist christcuck retards controlling the government and schools trying to ban stem cell research because muh “soulz”Now fast-forward to today and suddenly everyone pretends religion is this harmless aesthetic hobby and atheism is the real extremism. As if the progress of the last 30 years just happened magically. As if secularism didn’t have to fight for every inch. New Atheism didn’t fail. It succeeded so hard that people forgot why it existed and now they’re turning back the clock because irony poisoned their brains. But sure, keep pretending “both sides are cringe” while pastors are back on TikTok telling kids the Earth is 6,000 years old and Drumpf is bringing back dead jew worship in schools. Have fun when you're living in Christian ISIS and shitposting is banned. At least you owned le redditors online.
>>24952220>Mao>Buddhist
>>24952199Pol Pot
>>24951979New Atheism = Amazing Atheist shoving a banana up his butt = Gay and cringe
>>24951987fpbpIncredibly lazy meme for an unfathomably asinine thread.
>>24951979The fact that you personally check half the boxes with your behaviour already is indicative that this is a joke but then why not check all the boxes? You're actually serious? Someone this fucked in the head really walks around and solves captchas?
>...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.
>>24948273Tolkien causes disconfort in the untermensch
>>24948327It's right there on the page that it's an ancient arrow forged by the Dwarves of Erebor and Bard's of the royal bloodline of Dale and proficient with a great yew bow. Seems more than sufficiently set apart a random man with a random arrow.
>>24948273Not every criticism is hatred. A lot of what Tolkien produced very poorly written, but as a whole it's still a good product and more to the point it inspired many movies, games, songs, etc. that surpassed the original books.
>>24948327This would be much cooler if Bard was an actual character through the story and not literally introduced on this page and never mentioned again.
>>24952009I like it but it's more Anglo-Christian worship of the lower classes, mirroring the story of Frodo.Bard is not a noble hero, he's a pleb like a brit who inherited a lucky trinket from his dad who claimed he got it from the king of Zanzibar during his military service but nobody really believes it until it's tested in Antiques Roadshow.
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.
>>24951508>i love spinoza even tho im a materialist!!Where lies the contradiction, exactly? Spinoza was a crypto-nihilist atheist jew.
>>24952143i say i love spinoza even tho im a materialist bc he is my fave philosopher even tho he is a rationalist :3 and even tho rationalism and
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
I'm a master of casuistry, you see. As regards "love" I am fully a reductionist-materialist. It's really just the ape brain of a pussywhipped bastard operating there.As for anything else, I can see soul, metaphysics and all the good stuff. So simp if you like; I'll be a materialist about it and laugh at you.
>>24945823LMFAO what a retard.
>>24949784You think medieval peasants wouldn't do the same things if the had the money? Dude they ritually killed old people so that they won't be a burden.
>>24951316How many properties do you have? Savings? You must be rich, may I have some?
>>24948955I absolutely love love. I'm a huge romantic, I want to spend the rest of my life with one guy, going out for coffee, baking scones on Sunday and inviting friends. Holding his hand, dancing in our 50s in big polo shirts. I believe that love is a gift from God. It is supernatural, the ability to love someone's being, not just how they look or talk, what their interests and talents are. But uniquely who they are. I know not everyone loves like this, especially in the gay community, but this is my love, it completes me personally and my life generally. Right now I dated somebody thrice, we kissed and I can't wait to see him again as worries flood my mind about a lack of texts and the 3 weeks until we maybe see each other again. And as I hope and pray that God might bless this relationship, I yearn for everyone to find this. And if it's not him, with God's will it's someone else. God put my love in my heart, I hope he give some someone to make rich with it.
>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?
>>24951361The SoundCloud kid is more likely to have actually killed someone than the published hip-hop artist
You will never be white.
>>24951941>black people didn't have music until white people invented itreally bruhand yes, I am quoting you
>>24950708i miss this lil nigga like you wouldnt believe
>>24952318That is accurate you fucking retard.>history didn't happen because it triggers my racism feefee bone
Which one is his best?
Barfly (he wrote the screenplay)
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Factotum >>24952336Great movie, great cast (Charlie's mom from it's always sunny is one of the barflies) but Rourke's Chinaski is very uhh.. well I don't think it's what Buk had in mind. Great performance, but he does his own thing with the character.
>>24952328Pulp. You can tell the man had fun writing it.
>what if... the bad guy, um, like rapes and kills and such?The Judge is a cartoony villain, something you'd find in an Alan Moore comic like The Killing Joke.How does anyone take American letters seriously when you realise the entire McCarthy Universe (MCU) was just made to be a backend of Hollywood slop adaptations?
>>24949609>You are supposed to be able to develop your own interpretation of a text, morally and otherwise, without the author spoonfeeding you.Moral interpretations are the lowest form of literary criticism, and I'm not a moral realist so it's largely not something I care about.
>>24948752Harold Bloom read more than you or I and praised McCarthy's prose
>>24950091>noooo he should have been having sex with 40yo roasties with dry, barren pussys
>>24949972>McCarthy is adapted by Hollywood for a reason Shakespeare is the most adapted author of all time.
>>24948666Only capeshit people aka straight while males give a shit about this author. Modern straight white males are the most standard unipolar people on earth. They somehow love to pretend what they stand for is deep is moving but when you look deep into it it's a carbon copy of what the next guy has to say. Most boring shit ever. No wonder they get shit faced drunk, that allows them to come up with whole new ways to interpret all that.
>>24950345Because like so many other people on this website he is probably an adult convert to I'm guessing Catholicism because he finds the imagery of being a le based redpilled tradcath appealing and is now trying to justify this belief post hoc
>>24950345Because christians are intellectual cowards and natural slaves who want to be told what to think, feel, and believe.
>>24950345A select few eventually encounter something beyond this ordinary life and must construct their understanding of their existence in reaction to this encounter, rather than constructing the staircase to such an encounter using reason as a tool. I hope you and all others who wish to believe but rationally cannot one day are graced by such an encounter and are able to see the beauty in all things in the light of it.
>>24950437What is this truth you speak of?
>>24946402same but i dont feel i deserve forgiveness or grace tho i want it for others idk it is late
