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>>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!
>>24951376Didn’t she poop on the bed sheet?
>>24952214We know Viserys
I'm afraid they will ruin Dunk & Egg :(
>>24950902alternative option
What's /lit/'s opinion on banning or regulating all forms of fiction and music? Plato wanted poets banned from the Republic, Robert E. Lee distrusted fiction and novels in particular. Not an advocate for it. Rather, I'm just interested in knowing how people would even consider such a thing. As well as whether or not it would do people good in a time where we seem to be inundated with fiction.
>>24952556Plato wanted to regulate fiction too. Pretty sure it is discussed even before music. He even goes into specifics, as to the sort of behaviors allowed for different characters.
>>24953072im sure you have a citation that disproves "divide and conquer"
>>24953108when you scratch under all the academic jargon all you get are cliches, you are a fraud
>>24953127i know, that's how you've just come up with another that you hope will excuse you from justifying your historiographic presuppositions.
>>24952556That's just Islam, for better and for worse, and the Islamic civilization did alright with these guidelines for a few centuries desu.
Which one is his best?
Barfly (he wrote the screenplay)
sex gifs
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.
>>24952328Ive read most of his novels/stories and many of his poems, and I think Ham on Rye is his best work overall
There is no humiliation ritual worse than advertising your own writing.
How do I master the English language as an ESL? Is there a certified /lit/ guide?
Arabic: 12.3 million words; English: 600,000 words; French: 150,000 words; Russian: 130,000 wordsdon't ask me how or if it is true, thats what google says
>>24953135lol donnt know its true tho
Simply read more books. A wide variety of books will improve your vocabulary and grasp of grammar. Start with nonfiction, topics that you are familiar with so you won't be wrestling with the content, just the grammar and vocabulary. Then move to fiction. Contemporary fiction at first, will be easier, but then earlier works of modern literature from the 19th century, or earlier, to test your understanding of grammar. The further back you go with Modern English, the more the definitions of words start to change.Once you hit Early Modern English, the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare, you'll be grappling with writings that often confuse even native English speakers. Which is why you'll be able to find annotated versions of their writings to help with things like unfamiliar grammar, vocabulary, and expressions and idioms particular to their time and place.Some of the most challenging works you can read, to test your understanding of grammar and vocabulary, are philosophical tracts. These will feature extremely long, convoluted sentences as well as specialist terminology and references to obscure works. If you're reading something written more than 60 years ago, the chances of the author dropping in untranslated Latin or Greek phrases increases greatly. This is a challenge to native English speakers though, not necessarily you, who might be more familiar with these languages.
>>24953135You make it seem as if the world of Arabian literature isn't as sterile as its deserts.Also, when you consider that Mahmud, Mahmed, and Mohammed are all different spellings of the same name, the numerical argument you propose doesn't mean much.
>>24953210yeah you're right. if it's not arab then it's english , the language with the most words. (that's the answer I always get mainly when I ask google)
Thoughts on Pyrrhonism?
>>24951215Not a great plan
>>24951215Why are Catholics so dumb?
>>24950720Is it similar to iconoclasm?
>>24951215I know christcucks are intellectually cowardly violent children but it's still shocking to hear it admitted so openly.
>>24950720Pyrrhonism? Hard to say… I’m suspending judgment.
I read Augustine's Confessions which convinced me to get a Bible (picrel) and I've been reading through the gospels and psalms and proverbs and have decided I want to get more serious about studying the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Can any anons recommend me a good study bible to get over winter break? I was considering getting the Ignatius catholic study bible or the Reformation Heritage KJV study bible but I'm open to any suggestions. I've attended catholic mass a couple times and also intend on trying out a Lutheran and a Presbyterian church nearby, but I was raised in a secular household so I have no idea what I'll end up choosing denomination-wise.There was a thread earlier this week about Machen where someone posted some /lit/ and I got some writings of the Church Fathers and Luther I intend on reading through as well, but aside from that and a few youtube videos from online personalities I'm pretty ignorant so I'd be grateful for any help
>>24952417>Ultimately I want a good study bible that won't be TOO biased in how it explains scripture, but obviously any good "study" bible is going to be done theolgians working within some tradition, with some bias. But I want something high quality despite that bias at least.Every study Bible will necessarily be heavily "biased", because the interpretation of the Bible itself depends on it.A Catholic or an Orthodox will interpret the Bible according to the guidance of the Church Fathers (the early Christian writers), a Protestant according to Calvin, Luther, etc. An Atheist professor with his own assumptions (some hidden, some not hidden).There is something called the "Historical Jesus Project" where they pretended to be "scientific" and "unbiased" but it ended up being crap with very strong assumptions and which many times end with the Historical Jesus becoming a clone of the Author. So, a socialist Hippie Boomer ends up with a "Historical Jesus" who is a Socialist Hippie who doesn't really care about spirituality but just wants to bring down the Empire.
>>24952951One example on how "Atheistic Scholars" aren't really as "unbiased and scientific " as they claim is that some of them try to twist Paul's words to claim he didn't oppose same sex acts.When this is one case where you don't even need a tradition of sorts to interpret the text.
Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible for the Old Testament.
>>24952423Also would you be willing to explain why you recommend Sproul as opposed to reading the Church Fathers or, since you're coming from a reformed angle, Calvin himself? Is it a bad idea to get too into the weeds of theology this early or is there some other reason
>trying out churcheslmao this is ridiculous
I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24951132heidegger shows why this doesnt work the way you want it to
>>24951231why should existence condition the concept of absence at all? it seems rather the opposite.
existence isn't the end-all be-all of philosophy, lol. existence and presence (what you're really after) arent even close to the same thing. empiricism would be incoherent if they were, for example.
>>24951231>must exist as a thought and a concept rightwhy should thoughts and concepts exist? why should something infinite be determined by something finite? why should an existence condition an idea? i think you'll find things are rather the other way around: it's in your thoughts that the finitude of existing things gets conditioned.
If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
>>24952424South being Norman is a LARPSoutherners cluster with englishmen and the majority of southerners, even the "southern aristocracy" don't descend from Normans but from lower class english and lowland scottish settlers
>>24952795It is a bit of a larp but to be fair cultural influences can appear where genetic ones don't.A cavalier and a roundhead were probably next to identical genetically, but their cultures were very different. So cavaliers lost the civil war (English) and move to the colonies. Even if a select few move there among the many lower class settlers they will probably have much more money and thus exert much more influence.
>>24953177The cavaliers of the 1640s who moved to the south universally became whigs in the 1680s anyway
>>24953180you must be the "historian" in the plato thread, you're not fooling anyone with your generalizations. "universally" jesus christ fuck off this board, i wont let you rest until you leave.
Wasps are the most soulless demonic race to ever walk the face of the earth. Any American author worth reading had non-Angloid blood in them.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
>>24952886its by harold covington, heterosexual racist boomer
>>24952805difference betwen h. sapiens and h. sexualis Bible explains is h. sexualis is brute beasts i.e. lack souls, easiest way to determine that is the ability to recognize other souls, especially the heroism of our pally ally in the war forced on him by the Christ-killers, thus virtually all american pastors, who become pastor through acquisition of an outrageous master of divinity degree, and soulless vain light fellows who presumably would have been businessmen if they had any talent at all, like the pastor of salem at the time of the satanic witch trials. being an h. sexualis, pierce is incapable of understanding what its like to have a soul or write h. sapiens characters* pierce was known to his contemporaries in the rockwell group as a physical coward. to avoid being around men and have access to children instead, he ran the youth alliance* pierce wrote sex scenes in his novels for young adults, but he couldnt have expected Christ-killers to publish them, he simply wrote sex scenes for the thrill of teaching young adults what sex is like* pierces characters casually use contraceptives and engage in posslqdom, which at the time he wrote were both scandalous behavior that the actual right wing vehemently condemned* in the 90's, pierce explained in his podcast that marriage is an outmoded economic arrangement that is withering away, because piece was a pinko. in reality marriage is a spiritual arrangement that was under daemonic attack from pierce and his pinko friends
>>24945217the difference between lebanese shiites and maronites is maronites work with Christ-killer pm ariel sharon to murder pallies at sabra and shatila while shiites spend their blood and treasure defending the pallies. shiites are in many ways more Christian than peoples whomst call themselves Christian, starting with fighting His enemies and continuing with respecting His institutions of marriage and the family
>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
>>24948669I like writing notes I think are important down. I don't actually care if someone else reads them.It's like, a grocery store is better at providing food, but I like to garden.
>>24948669Because I've written six and I don't need the approval of other people
>>24951847Did you gain any readership?Would you consider yourself a graphomaniac?
>>24948669Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
I'm high IQ and have a lot of empathy and can intuitively understand how people think. Only real problem is being a shut-in with little life experience and while that definitely hinders me I don't think it's a fatal blow. It just means my work should lean heavily into expressing the pain of isolation and alienation.
Penguin always seem to have the best covers but it seems gay to just have a shelf of Penguin stuff. What do?
>>24953044Are you reading everything you own hundreds of times through? That's some commitment.
>>24953044I like my books worn
>>24952993Show me a better cover for that book
>>24952906The answer is to thrift old books or buy them off eBay. >>24953118pic rel
>>24953049It only takes four or five readings
I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
Just read We
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951462I actually don't recommend reading it as you will come to see just how many modern authors and even comedians are completely derivative hacks. (Vonnegut in particular who deserve exhumation and crucifixion upside down for his kleptocratic writings)
>>24951738Love this lil book like you wouldn't believe. Also, for any posters bemoaning the lack of romance in novels for men, Lucky Jim has a great one.
probably American Psycho
Only book that has made me laugh out loud
For me it's American Psycho
I know it sounds corny but the consolation of philosophy has now saved me multiple times. It saved me from sadness and confusion and it invigorated my faith. It’s the most important book besides the holy scripture.
I read it and got nothing out of it. I found it mostly incomprehensible.
>>24953087I get that the poetic parts are quite difficult, with or without knowledge on Greek mythology. But the prose sections are pretty straightforward imo.Also the whole concept of the book is beautiful.
>>24953057I love it, although for me the Commedia has played this role more often. Excellent taste Anon. That book is crammed with wisdom.
