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>>24968979>entertainingWhat are you doing here again?
>>24966911Wrong you're just not from New England
>>24968979Even religiniggers don't bother to read it.
>>24968927>>24968972Added
The Quran is making islam thrive and grow right now while Christianity dwindles. It should be higher than the Bible
Scaruffi on Beyond good and evil: This is another extremely confusing book. If i didn't know how famous the writer became, i would think that this book was written by an ignorant idiot who didn't study history, and didn't study philosophy, and was simply a verbose, delirious individual. So much for a book that was written to "explain" the obscure ideas of "Zarathustra". In general, the book is an attack on traditional morality. Most of the book is, in fact, just the "attack". He keeps insulting philosophers (and not only philosophers) without really explaining what is wrong with them. It's like me beginning this article by saying that you are an idiot, your father is an idiot, your brother is an idiot, your neighbor is an idiot, etc. End of chapter 1. Full article: https://www.scaruffi.com/phi/nietz3.htmlIs he right?
>>24967069you don't have a grasp on any of this
>>24961645filtered
>>24962605>yup, not a philosopherBut enough about Nietzsche!
>>24967409Sounds like he was entirely correct
>>24962386Nietzsche uses ad hominems because he has never read the vast majority of people he references. Kant is a very clear example here given that all his attacks on Kant show less than even a wikipedia level understanding of him. Someone who spends 15minutes reading the SEP article on Kant knows more about him than Nietzsche ever did. And this applies to everyone he mentions.
For all the anons on this board, take notice:When you see a long hyphen like this one>—Know that post which has it has been made by AI. Humans dont use that hyphen cause it isnt on keyboard, we use -, shorter version.
>all this shilling for Apple ITT Fuck off jew.
>>24965600based and red—pilled
>>24965397I memorized alt-0151 as a kid.
>>24966006Isn't AI good at mimicking prolific writers, because it has a lot of their writing to learn from?
Em dash is a lot shorter on mobile
When they catch you, they will kill you, but first, they must catch you.
>>24969154BRIIIIGHT EEEEYES BURNING LIKE FIIIIIRE
>>24969154cartoons are for children, that is why watership down is shown to them but first they must scream
What is the greatest "high school reading" book? Excluding ancient poems and plays
>>24968477This is the quality of posters on lit?Grim
>>24968526>>24968551>>24968587Maybe you guys just went to non-White or poor people schools (public schooling). We read Moby Dick in highschool in my private school.
>>24967268FaustI pity burgers for their sad excuse of an educational system
>>24968653>Posts another epic maymayI accept your concession
>>24969114You're a retard
Bunch of moody faggots born in high echelon society, squandering their money and doing jackshit but pondering about a completely false, irrelevant and subjective view of the universe, and centuries later high school students have to endure a class where they get taught their meaningless mental gymnastics even though it's all reduced to hot air and banal statements the most cooked up hobo in the street could get on its own. As if it would mean anything, as if philosophy ever did anything but being an abstract ivory tower for prissy intellectuals to sit on, pretending to be better because unlike you they read about some old fart passed his time while his valet brought him breakfast in bed.
>>24968977>>24968842The smell alone is enough to make you want to be single for life.
>>24968824>>24968905>philosophy in high schoolIs this a thing? I don't remember school teaching me any philosophy
>>24969146all shit and gay. the best philosophers have all been feeble clerics from the elite and middle classes
>>24968824If you're dumb and uneducated, just say that lmao
>What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.>Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
>>24967488He was a prophet
>>24967488yes, fear knowledge, anti-spiritual man.
I’ve read Blood Meridian and Donkin’s Trooper and Redskin before so I’ve been looking for (if any exist) non fiction accounts of exploration which tap into the paranormal, or otherwise are pretty unique on their own.
>>24968179Alone by Admiral Richard E. Byrdthank me later
I'm not sure if it's paranormal, but the Dyatlov Pass incident was pretty creepy, and there've been a few books written about it.
The Snow Leopard
What's the most humongous book you've ever read?
>>24968128Not the most pages, but in terms of sheer size it is my 6-volume 1001 Nights set
>>24968660But there's even more of them now than ever.
>>24968128Homestuck>almost a million words in text alone >my n-word
>>24968725Y? What's yours?
>>24969157Websloppers routinely read works well over 1 million words.
>If there were a contest for the most stupid idea in politics, my choice would be the assumption that people would be evenly or randomly distributed in incomes, institutions, occupations or awards, in the absence of somebody doing somebody wrong.Is ./ouruncle/ right?
>>24968739Every person doesn't need to have every award for awards to be "evenly distributed". He was clearly referring to the (real and common) belief that in the absence of bias each protected class would have the same proportion of awards as the entire population. You absolute retard.
>>24968764Why
>>24968794Uncle Tom, you illiterate /pol/ moron
>>24968719He's right and the idea goes back to Rousseau, for sure the most disastrous intellectual to ever put pen to paper.
>>24968756Bad take.
Privacy by Danielle Chelosky (new story!)>A folder on her laptop held the stories she was not allowed to publish. One boy forbade her because there was an entire paragraph about his dick size (it was complimentary, she didn’t understand the problem). Another was worried his girlfriend would end up finding it. Another said he would cancel her for invasion of privacy. >These were rare instances. Mostly boys were flattered, considered it an ego boost, no matter how they were portrayed. People in general liked to be immortalized. In a way, she resented their narcissism, like they couldn’t appreciate what she’d written because they were just staring at themselves.>The truth was whatever reaction the boys offered was not what she wanted, even if they lavished her with praise, called her a genius, it was never enough. She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved. It never seemed to have the effect that she yearned for, probably because it was impossible. Maybe, she thought, if she killed herself then her words would take on a new, heavier meaning.>She used to think that a boy being mad about a story she’d written about him meant the writing had done its job. It touched a nerve; it was controversial and had a direct impact on real life. Then she decided that mindset was banal, stupid. She thought her writing was at its weakest when it was a weapon.>On the internet she stalked a writer she had once done a literary reading with. During the reading he had spoken candidly about his sex addiction, and his girlfriend at the time stomped off. Now he was dating a different writer and they were constantly writing about their relationship, hosting readings where they read about each other with each other, publishing the history of their love in glossy magazines that paid by the word. She felt put off by this masturbatory spectacle. Like she couldn’t imagine anyone caring about it or finding it as anything other than insufferable. She wondered how one could make interesting art if they viewed their life as a project—then isn’t the project about the project, not about life?
>>24963259literally one of the most cringe-inducing photos I have ever seenjust imagine posing like this
>>24963259>Céline, Houellebecq, William Burroughs, Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller, Marquis de SadeMy fiance has better taste since she likes Tolstoy and Borges
>>24967134>posingThat's a candid shot
>>24967153>fiancé>implying it's a manGAY
brehs...a new Danielle just dropped...
Have you read every page of the meme trilogy? If so, which was best?
>>24967457>>24967467Get the fuck off this board. Reddit is where you belong.
>>24962573I've read all of them. Their quality descends in order of publication.
>>24967578>Their quality descends in order of publication.
No.
Friend keeps insisting I should read Ulysses.If it really belongs here >>24962586, I read Blood Meridian and I thought it was shit.
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
Tyrion Lannister from the Game of Thrones HBO show: “Yo Young Griff Methinks you are a Blackfire…”Young Griffith: “HOLY FUCK do you think fire burns?”
>>24968677you think Raynald de Chattallôn had God's fear in his heart when he dipped the Catholic patriarch of Antioch in honey and left him exposed in the sun for insects to nibble on him for refusing to fund his raid against Cyprus?maybe some rulers actually believed in religion and had it as a priority but i don't believe it was common. after all, the vast majority enabled jews to practice usury in their domains.say, king Louis VII of France. he was haunted for burning peasants to death. but he was also basically raised to be a monk by monks because he was a second son. although i think we can dig up other examples.and returning to ASOIAF, some rulers are portrayed as devout and actually believing in their religion; further debunking big retardbro's original claim.
>>24968677That is the point and what the mouthbreather doesn't understand: that they weren't animated solely by material gain and that spiritual motivations were real. This isn't the same as saying that everyone was a saint and that greed didn't exist at the time, but it seems that one aspect of being braindead is reducing everything to an all or nothing dichotomy.
>>24969052george himself is a believer in the all or nothing view. most characters have no real faith whatsoever, and then you have the likes of baelor and lancel who are complete fanatics and probably insane
I have a really important question and I can't find the answer anywhere, anon. Just how beautiful is truly Shiera Seastar? George seems to imply she kept herself young like Melisandre does, and practices sorcery. She's also presented as the most beautiful woman in the 7 Kingdoms but given how George loves unreliable narrators, how would she realistically compare to Cersei, Dany or Margaery? Is her legend inflated by people and she's just like any other common woman who shits and has ugly phases or is she as beautiful and deadly as the legends present her?Also rank the most beautiful woman of the 7 Kingdoms
What’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle?What’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes story NOT written by Arthur Conan Doyle?
>>24967385OverratedLupin by LeBlanc is better and much more fun to read
>>24967613>pastiche fiction is bad because… it just is, okay?!
>>24967385Haven't read any fanfiction. I think I only read two stories: Speckled Band years ago, and Silver Blaze recently. Speckled Band was on an app called Booktrack which played sound effects in the background to scrolling text. That app doesn't exist anymore. I made a thread a few days ago about Sherlock Holmes. Anyway I think it was pretty dumb that the horse was in the neighbor stable, and the scene where they talked to the trainer at that stable was dumb too. But there was still the murder besides the disappearance of the hourse, so whatever.
The Hound of the Baskervilles and Kim Newman's The Hound of D'Ubervilles, which is a series of stories about crimes from the perspectives of Moriarty and Moran.
>>24967385Speckled Band and Sign of the Four.
Renaissance edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24914151>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.
>>24969121but that being said, I'm listening to the presentation of the alphabet and I can see the appeal, he's engaging, he even introduces the digamma though normally that's not pronounced as it had disappeared in eastern Greek
>>24964381Probably has to do with you learning Latin. If you learned Greek instead, you'd certainly have a completely different view. I've always been stunned at how much more modern the Greek mind was than the medieval. What fucked everything up until the Renaissance was the orientalization of the western mind. That said, I don't think it was all bad.
Opinions on old norse? In an ideal world I would teach my kids latin, old norse and mandarin (plus greek if they are interested), the logic being that would be the root of latin and germanic languages plus mandarin
are there any apps you guys use to build / drill vocabulary or is that not a good approach to take in the first place
>>24969193old norse isn't the root of germanic languages.
