Go here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/FileFill a /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inpired by the image you get.Attach the image to your post; if your textbox has room, include the Wikimedia link.>I don’t like my image.Then re-roll (there are quite a few duds), or write from another anon’s image.Please give feedback to others doing this exercise, which is as much about versatility as creativity.
>>24673719I'd like to say while this thread is still with us, that I've greatly admired what you've managed with this writing cue.If you don't mind, I care to study it some,--it's wonderful. This is an example of compelling writing,--that's all I know.
>>24689789My dear markup-anon,I'm really grateful. This will serve to be quite constructive for me. You're treatment of the poem is so handsome(!) and was seemingly done much more attentively. Any flourishes and inspiration you detected in what I wrote came from me having Edgar Allan Poe in mind (in that it's macabre),--and it's mostly due to the fact that I just got finished reading Eugene Onegin. I'm not naturally inclined to poetry,--it will be a long time before I can really get a bearing I think.Thank you kindly!
>>24678980If you look closely at your opening sentence, you’ll notice that there are two different verb tenses attached to the same moment:>I am…by late afternoon…which is when the Fat Colonel did go up.I wrote this sentence below to more clearly illustrate the clash I mean:—I arrive home by 5:55 PM (on the dot), which is when the mailperson arrived.—Just pick between all past- or all present-tenses.>I am all but suppressing a sneeze in the itchy sunlight by late afternoonRe-order, emphasizing the length of time, also swap the “the” to a “this” (it makes the POV more personal and immediate):“By late afternoon, I am all but suprressing a sneeze in this itchy sunlight.”>as he spits and puff puffs“puff-puffs”I am not taking this hyphenation cue from Wiktionary (which does list “puff-puff,” but as a noun) but from a book published 101 years ago that uses the verb “puff-puff-puffed”—“Children of the Lighthouse” page 94, by Nora Archibald Smith, 1924.>into the mic“into his mic”It’s a tiny change, but it goes to reinforce/tee-up just how possesive (the MC perceives) the military is with his sibling—who could be named Mike for all I know!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monnaie_-_Module_C_(SC_et_Hoover),_S%C3%A9leucie_de_Pi%C3%A9rie,_S%C3%A9leucide_et_Pi%C3%A9rie,_S%C3%A9leucos_I_Nikator_(%3F)_-_btv1b85668047_(1_of_2).jpgA numismatic bargain granted me,By wasting waif beneath the lemon hurst:“O friend, uncumber flesh from soul, I plea,For in my waist, a coin you will have pursed.”I slew the wretch in half, her stomach burst,And snatched electrum out her twitching frame,The bloodied disc in hand I rubbed, reversed,Then saw a mirrored essence in the claim—My bastard’s final alm and this were one the same.
>>24695517>I'm really grateful. This will serve to be quite constructive for me. So glad you liked it :)>I'm not naturally inclined to poetryI can’t approach anything outside of fixed meter without stressing—take “Annabelle Lee,” for example.And the only other Poe I’ve read is “The Descent into the Malestrom,” which is a very cool short story that I’d recommend.>Eugene OneginHow shameful to think that this was a typo of “Eugene O'Neill”…I promise I’ll read Pushkin someday.>it will be a long time before I can really get a bearing I think.I think you’re on the right track.There were moments reading your poem where I was questioning whether you were this one anon from the /wg/ thread a year ago who wrote probably my favorite poem I’ve read here yet (disclaimer: I don’t go to the poetry threads, so there’s a good chance I’ve been super missing out by comparison).I’ll link it here so you can at least see for yourself if there are any similarities between the two of you:https://warosu.org/lit/thread/23929604#p23937972Again, thanks for sharing!
Redpill me on Brandon Sanderson.Are his books worth reading? Is he woke?
>>24686778Everyone in the thread is calling him the 3/5 star McDonalds of fantasy: nothing that is going to set the world on fire but tasty and normal to enjoy. I would say on that, there is one exception which is the worldbuilding. The great about Sanderson for me is the worlds he builds: how the world works, the culture, the unique magic system of that world. Some of his worlds give that Morrowind feel of being immersed into a fantasy setting of alien rules and ideas. It's great.The worlds are also all connected into one multiverse and basics about how things work are shared between them to the point where once you've read a few you can start picking up on extra details or making educated guesses about how something new shoul work based on previous established rules.Each world getting it's own style of magic with consistent rules is a big part of that too. Sometimes people do complain that the magic doesn't feel very 'magical', i.e. it's not usually very 'mystic' and it's usually instead more like a set of powers that do very specific things. I'd say I dont go to Sanderson to read about wizards, but Rogues with neat tricks. It makes for good writing and tighter plots, but usually not much 'wonder' in the powers. Everything else is pretty variable and sloppish, with ups and downs. I do remember feeling weirded out about reading Final Empire and then going back to it years later and finding the writing quality much poorer than I remembered. I think he's an author who has noticably improved going on.The book I'd probably recommend is Warbreaker: it's a standalone book instead of a trilogy but also not his very first (Elantris) so he's had more practice. I actually found while checking the title that it is free on his website so you might as well just find out for yourself.https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0886/8082/5106/files/Warbreaker_hardcover_1st_ed.pdf?v=1723759719Years later I found that scenes and characters from his two standalone books Warbreaker and Elantris stayed with me far more than the longer series, but I don't know if that's just me and I havent read either in ages so maybe its just nolstalgia and I'm a fool.
>>24696369>Sometimes people do complain that the magic doesn't feel very 'magical', i.e.Imo I would argue that Sanderson is less of a fantasy author and more of a science fiction author. He quite literally treats magic in his books as scientific systems.
>>24696345>If you don't know X popular booktook author you don't read!
>>24686778Sanderson is what happens when a chud success-maxxes. He has plenty to be proud of relative to the typical chud, but a chud still has his limits. He can't escape his physiognomy and the MeToo target on his back as a result of that physiognomy (only hot dudes like Keanu are allowed to be both successful and 'nice' - guys with chud faces like Sanderson who have a large normie following need to be socially cornered, interrogated, deconstructed, and exiled). Nevertheless, he may be smart enough to avail himself of the pro-Zionist wildcard if he ever gets into a pickle. That card is a lifeline that instantly makes every attack in the press stop.
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Hegel thread. I know a few of you niggers are reading the Phenomenology, where are you in the book and what do you think?
You sometimes hear that Hegel ended up rejecting the Phenomenology. But what really happened is that he started teaching his system at the gymnasium (to 15 year olds lol) and the book was too long so he started giving a truncated version and then logic or pneumatology. So it came to have less of a place in his teaching because he realized you didn’t need to work through all those shapes to attain the stance of science. But he didn’t actually reject it.
>>24694944I'm not opposed to this, that does lead to a split though. You could view Hegel's critique as a revocation or a continuation, or perhaps theoretically a complete novation. You could even contrast previous manifold images with a present version. CoJ would still fall under philosophy of right though. Without the external world Kant is subjected to too many threats, theoretical is the best way to protect him otherwise, with the external world you can still arrange Kant > Hegel but without then Hegel > Kant is still hard to argue against. Even a fully updated version with the external world is still hard to contend with, without ext world then the usual culprits still try to show up and disentanglement issues start to occur.
>>24695080Novation is a nice turn of phrase but I’d simply call it a perfection of the whole idealist project.
>>24695090Do not stray down the path of popper. No start shartups are never in short supply. Unfold over time is the only way to continuously create. Go forth yon earnest metaphysician and continuously discover the whole truth.
Bump
I love Tolstoy Lev Nikolayevich. I've got shelves of Russian classics, and I respect the hell out of the depth in those books. But people who act like they are "Intellectuals" just because they read one Dostoevsky quote from a Tiktok slideshow are unbearable. Most of those fuckers have the attention spam of a goldfish, and won't be able to finish even "The Devil" by Lev Tolstoy which is probaly one of the eaiest books to finish.
why interact with or pay any attention to said people whatsoever?stop using tiktok, instagram, xitter, reddit, etc. and you won't have to be reminded of their existence constantly
You need to read this, it’s pure medicine for troubled souls.
I love this guy so much.As an actual contribution to the thread: anyone in interested in knowing anything about anything should also read his Confessions, urgently. It's not as exciting, but it's great to know what PURE HONESTY in prose sounds and feels like.
>>24696527Nah, it’s about 300 pages of interesting late Roman history, 300 pages of interesting philosophical attempts to update neo-platonism and Aristotle, and yes 300 pages of religious slop where he tries to get the Old Testament timelines to fit what he knows about the age of the earth
>>24696510No, thanks. I’ll stick to Tauler and Eckhart to nourish my soul.
>>24696538ok i liked it as a primary source for roman history but that's not exactly "pure medicine for troubled souls"
>You need to read this, it’s pure medicine for troubled souls.
Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God thread.>For the laws of logic to exist, they must be grounded in an omnipotent, omniscient, eternal being (God)>Laws of logic exist>Therefore God exists.This applies to all matters of metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.Discuss
>>24694143>I'd really love to know how atheists work around the problem of inductionkek, wait till the shabbos goy discovers that it was an atheist centuries ago who even gave him the 'problem of induction' to talk about and that it's largely atheists in contemporary philosophy of science who keep interest in the problem alive.>b-b-b-but why aren't they going to my Baptist church and sticking fish stickers on pick-up trucks?Because they're pragmatists who accept imperfection, not manchildren who try to shirk the realities of human limitations by running to sky daddy.
>>24696549>>24696531>>24696420>>24696376You guys are utterly retarded. Nothing you're saying relates in anyway to the validity of TAG. You're just inhaling each others farts over and over again while talking about irrelevant nonsense.
>>24696552prostul nu e prost destul daca nu e si fudul
>>24696562oh, but look at the time, 288 posts with a cap of 300, huh?
>>24696595Please come back tomorrow for TAG Thread Two :)
You hate intelligence because you fear intelligence, you think it's a ruse, and ostensibly you also hate God because you fear intelligence.Just admit you're an idiot.
>>24696457If Thomas can stick his fingers in Christ's wounds to verify the resurrection, I should be able to as well.
>>24696513I think you missed the point.
>>24696533How? Jesus let Thomas check, so it is allowed. Why must we all play hide & seek except the lucky few. If Jesus appears to me tonight i'd dedicate my life to him, but we both know that won't happen.
>>24695656Ironic picture. Artaud did just that.
>>24695734The apostles had philosophical debates with the Pharisees. Clearly the passage warns us against dishonest sophists like yourself.
Listen, uh..... I just don't care about the money!I'm just gonna write for fun! To explore new ideas and grow my imagination!!! Maybe meet a few new people in the process!
>>24693697Based
>>24693697you and me fren.Although i must admit it has been a solitary endeavor, how can I go about meeting people in the process???
>>24693697>the moneyLol, STEMlets.
>>24693703I think i know you irl
>>24695035oh .. that's fun .. what are the first two letters of my first name ?
Went to my mate's house and found his gf's library.Any good books in this pile?
>>24692166Thinking Sociologically is a fine introduction to sociology. I'd recommend it for curious anons who don't start slobbering memewords when they see the word "sociology." Haven't read the rest, but looks like a pretty standard sociology courseload.>>24692995Liberal girls have the best pussy. You know this. I know this. It is an unfortunate but true fact of life. Many such cases
>>24692166Imagine inviting your gf over, and she spends all her time reading her useless assigned books I'd just have AI sum all of them up
>>24696196>sociologyA set of opinions some sewing club grabbed out of thin air and is justified only using appeals to their own emotional outrage has nothing to do with science.Pretending sociology has anything to do with science only undermines serious attempts to understand how society works.Every "sociologists" spends almost all of their time telling everyone why the factors with most explanatory power aren't actually factors, because acknowledging them doesn't align with the religious dogma of globohomo academia and homosexual french communist values.The entire "field" is pure evil and has never explained anything, helped anyone or produced anything.
>>24692166My GF likes books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Housemaid. What book can I give her that she enjoys and is less "book for women" and more "great book overall"? Romeo and Juliet is like the typical crossover but I doubt she'll enjoy it
At least she reads books, which is more than can be said for you, OP.
If Aleister Crowley was such a great occulist then why he couldn't he save himself from going bald? Same with Austin Osman Spare, he was bald and miserable and died in poverty.
>>24695730The secret is tantric sex
>>24694161PGM is for mundane concerns, not spiritual upgrades
>>24695824PGM is a loose collection of "spells" which to my mind all seem rather impractical nowadays. But I've always felt the same about goetia mostly too and that is a popular occult cottage industry...I suppose the so-called Headless Rite has been influential however. And it is an interesting view into the ancient world. But still not my cuppa and not something I'd suggest one to chase down to read
>>24695824>>24695887Are there any scholarly books that detail, how/when/why PGM and such ideas came about?
>>24695389He unironically was a philosopher with occult window dressing. Check out Soldier and the Hunchback, Little Essays Toward Truth, or even just Liber OS Abysmi vel Daath. He struggled more deeply and more poignantly with questions of knowledge than many folks who've called themselves epistemologists ever have.
Did the authors of this piece have sleep deprivation? Why did they gloss over the argument that Israel's benefit to the US (yes, unironically) transcends that of a mere military base. The US BEGGED Israel not to involve in the Iraq war, a demand which it acquiesced to (strange, for a nation ''in control'' of the US).Also, if it were truly possible for a foreign nation to just purchase the loyalty of a larger country’s politicians and then recover the cost by pushing legislation that funnels money back, we’d see it happening everywhere. This isn't an exclusively Jewish trait.
>>24688778Everyone's analysis of Israel has been misled for the past several decades because people stupidly try to understand it with materialism when the truth is much simpler and much dumber. You eventually fall into a quagmire trying to define Israel as a military outpost, a proxy state, an entity strictly in the settler-colonial framework, etc. Leftists found this out the hard way especially. These analyses don't give any answers because it's evident in the end that Israel's existence fundamentally does not benefit the Middle East or the West in any way and so there's no reason to think here is a grand strategic material plan for needing to keep it alive.No, Israel is sustained by the West because of an utterly delusional ideology that emerged after WW2 where Israel is the culmination of 3,000 years of Western history and the country is a monument to a shared "Judeo-Christian" culture. Evangelicals genuinely believe that it's their religious duty to support Israel, non-Christian Zionists worship the country just as much because they draw some ridiculous ambiguous continuity with it and their own societies. Literally this is the only reason for why Israel is so worshipped. It's part of the post-war myth, it's the essential foundation for it -- the ancient Jewish people who were persecuted by the forces of darkness emerged victorious and finally returned to their homeland, building a state using the light of the West and its values. It's the perfect story. Get rid of Israel and you get rid of the whole myth of modern civilization. It is entirely an ideological issue, and it's so fucking absurd that most people can't even conceive that this is the root of the conflict. But it is. You have to just face it at this point. The State of Israel itself is a sacred idol of modernity, and we sacrifice people at the altar to show our devotion. This is what it's all about.
>>24695584Moshe, that was the sound of one of your few competent soldiers shooting himself in the brain in his car because he got called up for reserve duty for the seventh time. Maybe if you had served even once he wouldn't have had to serve seven times? But that would make you a loser according to your culture, right? You truly are a fascinating people. Anyway, you're rationing JDAM kits because 70 percent of the American public and the entire Indo-Pacific Command think it's a waste giving them to you since you can't even defeat guys in sandals w>>24695550ith them.
>>24688451Other countries including USA keep foreign lobbies in check. We just exclude Zionists from the foreign lobbying rules.>>24688778This is more accurate. Israel is a liability that’s why Douglass MacArthur hated the Zionists. The Zionists were the cause of the OPEC crisis, almost started a world war in the 50s with the Suez crisis, stole uranium and nuke tech from USA, and recently dragged USA into a politically humiliating 12 war with Iran>>24689682Zionist spergs out and writes an unrelated post because the anon dropped the G word. >>24692178>These people are just Jewish mirrors of HamasWith all due respect I’ve read a lot of Hamas charters and they never openly call for the starvation of all Israelis. And since the 80s their line is “the Zionist aggression must be met with a similar one.” Like they’re bad for sure but Israelis and their “amalek” rhetoric and their Talmudic war is worse than Hamas >>24692375Maybe he just knows what he’s talking about.
>>24696504Israelis can travel the world, go to uni, meet all kinds of indigenous tribes in South America and then come home and tweet from their comfy seaside Tel Aviv appartment that Palestinian babies deserve to be brutally murdered (in Hebrew, of course) after telling non-Israelis that “the situation is really complex”.
>>24688451>we’d see it happening everywhereWe do but the US has dwarfed everyone else in possible spending, both in terms of money and propaganda. We're now starting to see China use the same tactics since it can afford it.Israel doesn't rely on money but propaganda campaigns, largely built on WW2 but in the US they also have the braindead Christian zionists. If you have a diaspora in a foreign country that maintains its identity and in-group loyalty then narratives that become popular in that group have an advantage against the narratives of less united groups like the majority usually is.
How is it?
>>24695225It wouldn’t be if he chose better glasses frame. That turbo Jewish Eli Wallach nose is best paired with large glasses frames. You pair it with small and it looks like your nose is so big that your glasses are tiny by comparison
>>24695810>well poisoning and blood libel.Weren't those found to actually be fully documented facts?
>>24694785They're not. What they do in Gaza and the gloating are them shutting their coffin loudly.
>>24694847>90% of jews identify as zionistI forgot that (((you))) refuse to recognize Jews who don't support Israel as Jews. >Zionism means the belief that jews have the right to self-determination in a jewish state.There is no way to build an ethnostate without radical nationalism, since an ethnostate is a radical nationalist concept to begin with. It's fundamentally built on the concept of building a nation that excludes people not belonging to the ethnicity from participating in it. Motherfuckers got so spooked by Hitler they now dedicate their lives to imitating him, disregarding how it all ended up for him.Meanwhile Scots, Basques, Tartars, Galicians, Catalans all have self-determination without building ethnostates.
>>24695810> The most cited case is around Acre (Akko) in 1948, where Israeli historian Benny Morris (using Israeli archival material) and others have written that Haganah operatives contaminated wells with typhoid bacteria. According to declassified Israeli documents, this was part of an operation called “Cast Thy Bread”. The goal was reportedly to deter villagers from returning and to slow enemy advances.Totally sane people
Probably has an old King James Bible lying around. Maybe a book on Pearl Harbor. Any other ideas?
>>24696052No irl Catholic reads that anymore , it’s an internet meme and solely popular with extreme autists who think a proper Catholic English Bible MUST be based on a Latin translation of the Bible
>>24696023it's this
>>24695958He doesn't read. He just goes to church.
>>24695958Didn't he actually quote Sun Tzu at one point after Tony mentioned it? Do you think he actually read any?
>>24696123This is not the case, and it was especially not the case prior to the NABRE being approved and adopted by the USCCB in 2010, which was three years after the Sopranos ended
Skip one of these and you turn out a complete retard.
>>24696129The grammar is for whatever language you're speaking or writing.
>>24696163Which grammar is? For the Trivium the grammar is Latin and Greek. I looked up your book and it's about English. Also grammar in the past was more of a philosophical subject, with stuff like what you see in picrel.That's from this book: https://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00wattHere's another old book:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Grammatica
>>24695038>caring about grammer or rhetoriclol pea brained op back at it
As a general rule avoid anything published in the last century.¤Institutes of Grammar by Priscian of Caesarea¤Summa Grammatica by Roger Bacon¤Summa Logicae by William of Ockham¤Logic or the Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth by Isaac Watts¤Port-Royal Logic by Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole¤The Organon by Aristotle¤Rhetoric by AristotleComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24695062good for you! time to work on that orfografy next
Carolingian edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24643783>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.
>>24696168I used to date a boy who did this and he was extremely multilingual.
>>24696100Something I think that is remarkable here is that I used the word "plain" and in your response you put "pure" in quotes even though I never used that word, but if I did, it would totally change the tone and attitude of my initial question, which would make your response make sense. Since it's not at all what I said or intended, your post instead just drips with classicist elitism and physics envy.I was just asking if there was anyone that just publishes the plain text in physical form of a 2000 year old public domain text so that students like me could get physical copies for reading practice. A version with 1/3 of the page being scholarly footnotes that costs $280 doesn't seem to fit that bill somehow. To some people the footnotes might be worth $260, but I would rather have a plain $20 paperback, if only it existed.
I will partially retract, and correct myself, because I looked at Teubner's De Bello Gallico and found it wasn't priced at asinine textbook pricing. I guess they don't rape you on every book. Even so, something like the editio minores is what I meant, i.e. a plain text rather than scholarly version.
>>24696193It's called scholarly version because modern scholars can only read with heavy annotation
>>24696186ngmi
