This book changed my life for the better
>>24957136I'm surprised that lighthouse withstood the force of that TRVKE
>>24951011The genetic bottleneck in question was the Neolithic Revolution
>>24947641This. Honestly it's a psyop to get people to have less vaginal preventative sex. My wife cums better from penetration.
>>24950204>with decaying nigrescent tapeworm caviar spilling from the creviceGave me a giggle.
>>24950554Men are the objectified sex.
i don't even know how to describe what i'm trying to ask so i can't really google it but maybe you bros can help mei'm looking for works written about the entire phenomenon of how people come up with the consensus for an "ideal state" of a technology, as in there seems to be a sort of generally agreed upon golden age for every major technology that exists, like video games from 20-30 years ago or cars from the same era, for examplei'd like to know if anyone has written anything serious about it
YOU ALL NEED TO STOP USING WORDS THE MEANING OF WHICH YOU IGNORE.YOU MEAN «OPTIMAL», NOT «IDEAL».
>>24958415to be honest, i'm not even sure which word to even use because it's a mystery to me
>>24958447I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN, BUT I DO NOT KNOW OF ANY STUDIES ON THAT VERY SPECIFIC SUBJECT.THERE IS A THEORY OF ÆSTHETICS THAT POSES THAT ANY ARTISTIC MOVEMENT CONSOLIDATES INTO AN EPOCH WITH THREE DISTINCT SUCCESSIVE PHASES: ARCHAIC, CLASSICAL, BAROQUE; THIS THEORY IS APPLICABLE TO EVERYTHING, REALLY.NOSTALGIA FOR A SPECIFIC PERIOD IS, OFTEN, TOWARD THE CLASSICAL PHASE OF A GIVEN EPOCH, OR HISTORICAL CONTINVVM; THE PHASE AT WHICH THE RUDIMENTS HAVE BEEN OVERCOME, THE CONVENTIONS SET, AND, THE TECHNIQUES, PERFECTED, BUT BEFORE SOPHISTICATION LEADS TO FORMAL TRANSGRESSIONS, AND TECHNICAL LUDISM.IT IS IDIOTIC; NOSTALGIA KILLS; APART FROM THAT, CLASSICISM MAY BE THE PHASE OF PERFECTION, BUT BAROQUISM IS THE PHASE OF OPTIMALITY; THE PHASE AT WHICH MASTERY IS TOTAL, ALLOWING FOR FORMAL PLASTICITY.
Should I start with Eliade or Varg Vikernes for a better understanding of paganism?
Pagan LARPing is just Wicca for autistic incels.
>>24956248Varg is an atheist
>>24958207Nigga who will take urs Indians? Europe being Muslims is finez Islam is based too. Yt ppl who are pagans are larpers and it's gone bro
>>24958207How does having gay buttsex in the woods for Wotan going to protect EVROPA from muslims again?
>>24956248You should start by learning and practicing magic and animism as a magical practice, as that's where paganism (and Christianity, actually) originates.
Do you prefer fantasy, cyberpunk, or space?
>>24958469cyberpunk. space can be good but gets limited after a while and fantasy has too little opportunity for genuine universal insights
Cavaliers vs Roundheads, who had the better literature? I admit the Cavaliers have a larger amount of great writers, but Milton and Marvell for the Roundheads is a nigh unbeatable combo.
>>24953066Sidetracking here, but does anybody know of any good books on the English Civil War?
>>24958215C.V. Wedgewood is known mostly for her book on the Thirty Years War but she wrote a trilogy on the English Civil War which is also quite good. Diane Purkiss also wrote a good one, A People's History of the English Civil War, which features a lot of excerpts from letters and memoirs from folks from all walks of life and beliefs and classes
>>24958245I forgot to also mention by Purkiss, since the books blended together in my memory: The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain. Also includes a lot of excerpts from both sides and follows the lives of multiple regular people over the course of the war
>>24958245>>24958252Thanks Anon. I'll check these out
>>24958252>>24958245Is this feminist propaganda?
Books that give off this phenotype
>>24958416
Moorcock and Bakker desu
>>24958416antkind by charlie kaufman is about such a creature. very funny, a bit overlong.
hating on "nu-males" is such a 2010s phenomenon
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I do that first thing in the morning. Every. Damn. Day.
>>24958013WAHMEN COMMENT
>>24958367Nah that was definitely written by a drunk white guy baiting.t. I get drunk and say shit like that on pol
>>24957973In some ways I find that lit intruiging to read because it offers an insight into the dull mind of a sheltered chick who has spent her entire young adult life moving between higher education institutions in the US and Britain and therefore has zero insight into the real world. Every situation the protagonist finds themselves in is presented in the exact same flat emotional tone, as if the character too is dependent on SSRIs to make it through the day.
Elif Shafak moment
Critical Thinking ; A Concise GuideBowell, Tracy, Cowan, Robert, Kemp, Garyhttps://annas-archive.org/md5/4514ce30a924b80a1f89aed3fe88bdd8
Revised Fundamental Methods of Logicby Matthew Knachel and Sean Gouldhttps://cwi.pressbooks.pub/revisedfundamentalmethodsoflogic
That's a lot of links for a lot of shit OP just skimmed a few pages from.
https://archive.org/details/logicorrightuseo00watthttps://archive.org/details/logick_2507_librivoxtable of contents:https://www.heritagebooks.org/content/Logicsample.pdf
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/24942641
The five-star rating system is a terrible. There are many books I read which ok, but not bad or unenjoyable. Maybe they don't do anything special, or they didn't grip me, or they are too messy. I don't want to give this sort of book a 2 star rating, as that is, to me, a negative rating, and these aren't bad books. Then there are many books which are good and/or enjoyable. Maybe they are well-made slop. Maybe they are objectively good, but simply don't particularly appeal to me. However I can't justify 4 stars (which is for great books) or 5 stars (which is for Great, perfect, or personally important books). There is a huge gap between these two qualities of books to me as a reader, but there is no way to distinguish between them on Goodreads (or similar platforms with five-star-no-half-star rating systems).For me, a six- or seven-star system would be the best. It doesn't matter how natural fives and tens are when they don't align with our needs. Ten is too many (this applies also to five-star-half-star systems). My ideal system:>1: Personal grudge, complete hatred, or abject amateurism>2: All-around bad, but not egregiously so>3: Bad but with moments; ok but not personally appealing; [fine but derivative; perfectly average]*>4: Good but messy; enjoyable slop; objectively good but not particularly personally interesting>5: Great, but not perfect>6: PerfectComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24958113Just give the book a 5 stars, goy
Anon in this world there is hot or cold, good or bad, 1s or 0s.If you need people to know what you think about the book write a review, either people will read it or they won't.
it's real simple>5 stars: loved it>4 stars: liked it>3 stars: ambivalent/indifferent>2 stars: disliked it>1 star: hated it >no stars: didn't finish
The problem isn't the rating system, it's that 90% of the raters are women
You could only use the 4.5 half star no?1 2 3 4 4.5 5
Without God, meaning and morality do not have an objective grounding, yet a bunch of you people live as if your life still has value, or that your choices matter. The moment you deny God, you lose the right to claim that objective value, meaning, or purpose exist, or that something is right or wrong. But you cannot rule out the possibility of God either by default, because of cause and effect, and symmetry and order, etc.If a mathematician was presented with the choice (A) guaranteed 0%, and choice (B) even a slight chance of >0%, the mathematician would be forced to choose (B), not out of fear or despair, but out of logic and rationality. If everything you believe in collapses without a creator, and you can see even a slight chance for His existence, you must have faith in Him; otherwise, your choice is emotional.Most of you people do not want to be logically 100% consistent, and that is why you fail the test. You do not fail the test because you lack proof; you fail the test because you hate the truth.
>>24958284Why do you assume picking a god to believe in creates an objective foundation? Why not simply accept that the universe, as it is, contains objective morality? We know that some experiences will reliably bring positive or negative states of being (pain and pleasure for example), so why can't you just appeal to reality as it presents itself as an objective basis for good and bad rather than creating a Being (which belongs more properly to myth and anthropology)? One doesn't simply prefer pleasure to pain, the essence of what pleasure is has desirability inherent in it. It is desirability in and of itself. Whatever that essence is will be our only possible hope for an "objective" basis for morality. After all, would you want to subscribe to an "objective" morality which diminishes the kind of good life which maximizes the positive states of being I referenced earlier? Isn't it suspicious to you that the "objective" morality of god isn't mass murdering and torture, but instead maps on to a primitive form of maximizing social cohesion? Why not simply cut out the rudimentary aid of a deity and use that as the metric, like the Greek "Eudaimonia"?
>>24957262This guy eats dogs.
>>24957262>Without God, meaning and morality do not have an objective grounding,that's only true for the jews and the people who aped them
>>24958356Its true for all men.
I have knowledge of God's existence from reality, what place does faith have?Faith is about accepting something you cannot justify through facts simply because you want it to be true
Forget Winds of Winter, when is this shit coming?
>>24956395hopefully never
>>24957319>I thought the story was that the draft was written years ago and it's not edited?Anyone who still believes this is an idiot.
Selitos = Iax = Eucanis = CthaehHaliax = Lanre = Tehlu = son of Iax(A great silence descended, and the fetters of enchantment fell away from Selitos. He cast the stone at Lanre’s feet and said, “By the power of my own blood I bind you. By your own name let you be accursed.”)Cinder = Ferula = Menda = son of Lanre and Lyra = ex-husband of Felurian(The door opened, and a man stepped out. [...] He stood proud and tall, with coal-black hair and eyes. “I am the one you think is Menda,” he said in a voice both powerful and deep. “What do you want of me?”)(I tried to steer her in the direction of the Chandrian. “no,” she said, looking me squarely in the eye, her back straight. “I will not speak of the seven." [...] “If you ask of the seven again in this place, I will drive you from it. No matter if your asking be firm or gentle, honest or slantways. if you ask I will whip you forth from here with a lash of brambles and snakes. I will drive you before me, bloody and weeping, and it will not stop until you are dead or fled from fae.”)Remmen = son of Menda and Felurian(Felurian, Lady of Twilight, Lady of the First Quiet)("Chronicler, I would like you to meet Bastas, son of Remmen, Prince of Twilight and the Telwyth Mael. [...] Who, over the course of a hundred and fifty years of life, not to mention nearly two years of my personal tutelage, has managed to avoid learning a few important facts.")Bast = son of Remmen(The question seemed to catch Bast unprepared. He stood still and awkward for a moment, all his fluid grace gone. For a moment it looked as if he might burst into tears. “What do I want? I just want my Reshi back.” His voice was quiet and lost. “I want him back the way he was.”)(Bast likely doesn't know that his Reshi was a chandrian, given Felurian's reluctance to speak of them.)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24958063in a snippet of a story by scarpi, selitos and tehlu are seen to be on the same side opposing the chandrian. what makes you think cinder is menda or that reshi means grandfather?
This guy is severely cringe, on his YouTube channel (where he was playing among us) he made a video saying that jk Rowling had "put lead into the water supply" by implying to children that there are certain "types of people" with her house system in Harry potter. It was "toxic" to do that. So Rothfuss can't create true art because he has to worry about people's interpretation of it. He feels a great need to conform. He needs to write a generic ending to feel safe.But did he know how it would end when he began? It was his first novel so he may have simply wrote it without knowing or expecting that it would become popular.His prose style is quite hideous and overrated even though everyone acts like he's a genius. Le three silences!!!
>The critique of culture is confronted with the last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism: to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, and that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today.I found his reading of the Odyssey quite interesting >[Odysseus] knows only two possibilities of escape. One he prescribes to his comrades. He plugs their ears with wax and orders them to row with all their might. Anyone who wishes to survive must not listen to the temptation of the irrecoverable, and is unable to listen only if he is unable to hear. Society has always made sure that this was the case. Workers must look ahead with alert concentration and ignore anything which lies to one side. The urge toward distraction must be grimly sublimated in redoubled exertions. Thus the workers are made practical. The other possibility Odysseus chooses for himself, the landowner, who has others to work for him. He listens, but does so while bound helplessly to the mast. … The bonds by which he has irrevocably fettered himself to praxis at the same time keep the Sirens at a distance from praxis: their lure is neutralized as a mere object of contemplation, as art. … Odysseus is represented in the sphere of work. Just as he cannot give way to the lure of self-abandonment, as owner he also forfeits participation in work and finally even control over it, while his companions, despite their closeness to things, cannot enjoy their work because it is performed under compulsion, in despair, with their senses forcibly stopped.>The test she sets Odysseus concerns the immovable position of the marriage bed which her husband, as a young man, had constructed around an olive tree, a symbol of the unity of sex and property. With touching artfulness she refers to this bed as if it could be moved from the spot, whereupon her husband, "flaring up" and "rounding on" his wife, proceeds to give circumstantial account of his durable amateur handiwork: as a prototypical bourgeois he is smart enough to have a hobby. It consists in a resumption of the craft work from which, within the framework of differentiated property relations, he has long since been exempted. He enjoys this occupation, as his freedom to Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24958417And the Resurrection was even more significant, but you'll never see any of these Shylocks admit to that.
>>24958397adorno managed to turn a revolutionary ideology into a new source of legitimacy for liberalism. he was comically wrong
He was just trying to be poetic
im skeptical of all of these freudian- or jungian -----esque attempts to undercover the secret meaning of some classical work, more often than not its just somebody reading too hard into it and inserting their own take into itas for the "writing poetry after auschwitz is barbaric" quote which made chuds here seethe uncontrollably a few weeks back, i think its a fairly reasonable, even if tongue-in-cheek, take: within 30 years civil, european bourgeois society devolved twice into barbarism (and auschwitz is the best though certainly not only example) - after the war the same upper-middle class and the elite went back into making frivolous and circlejerky artalso what the fuck is this new captcha
>>24958446The irony is that Dadaism was meant to make a statement about the barbarism of such art after WWI, but ended up being assimilated by it
Share some books about law that you like. I am reading this one and really loving it.
>>24956722I was asking you
>>24957340I've never read the one you posted, this one on cross examination is the first book specifically about practicing law I've ever read.
Lawyer here. Currently reading this. I'm two chapters in and it's fine so far, I suppose. I'm told it's a very influential book among civil trial lawyers. OP, the answer to your question depends on what you mean by books "about" law. I was extremely underwhelmed by Wellman, but I read him expecting systematic cross-examination advice instead of a few hundred pages of anecdotes.
Also: quick shelfpost. This is a shelf near my home office desk. I have more practice books on my desk (lol) and more at the office. Nearly every book on the top shelf is recommended for my fellow practitioners who try cases. I've never done transactional work for actual clients, so my suggestions on that front are limited (but not non-existent, if there's any interest here). The books on the bottom right I haven't read; the books on the bottom left are at risk of being discarded due to deprecation or general shittiness. But I almost never get rid of books, so they'll probably be around for years to come. The printout stacks in front are unread; those on the shelf are read but unfield. Mostly practice resources, but I think there are some historical articles and/or jurisprudence scholarly articles in there, too.
>>24958157>lawyer here
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
>>24952406This was my experience going to an Orthodox Church: The people were friendly, the church was pretty, but I disagree with needing a "Godfather" to sponsor you in order to join the church. It's not a country club or secret society, it's the House of the LORD and we are all his children. Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our Salvation is all the indication anyone would need that we can turn to him and accept his Truth. I'm sure it's more of a spiritual mentorship thing, but right away it showed how gatekeepy they were. Expounding on that the whole idea of denying people from attending service unless they've fully converted also didn't sit right with me. I could understand (but not agree with) thinking you had to do a specific rite in order to be truly saved, but thinking you have to literally throw people out and block the church entrance unless they've proven themselves worthy to attend is antithetical to the Word of God.That really lead into their practice of not being able to "convert" until the priest says so. There was someone I met there who had been going to classes twice a week for over a year before the priest finally "allowed" him to take sacrament. Anyone that wants to come to church, especially if they're genuinely seeking the LORD should always be free to attend. The idea of having to "seal" the holy spirit with anointing oil seemed preposterous, and having to kiss the priest's hands and other icons, praying to/with saints, and considering Mary the mother of everyone in the world and praying to her directly were all blasphemous. As well as needing a "patron saint" and to own an icon of them, Jesus, Mary, and John the Baptist in order to get to Heaven. I think there could be people in the church that have the right idea, but as an Anon said they are like that in spite of the church not because of it.The church I visited kept, unprompted, throwing a lot of shade at Protestants and insinuating if you weren't Orthodox you would go to Hell, but also that they needed to gatekeep Orthodoxy. As another Anon pointed out to me it was a clear cut case of the Leavening of the Pharisees that Jesus warned about. They seemed welcoming, but there was a general attitude towards all the new people of: "I can't believe YOU figured out Orthodoxy was the correct answer." Another thing they struck me was that even though they were crap talking all the other Christian sects they seemed to think jews were neato and even used "Nazis" as an example of someone who was lost in sin. I didn't even bother asking their opinion on Israel because I wanted to be respectful, but that spoke volumes.
>>24958421They also had a tradition (a little t tradition, not a Big T tradition, however they reason that) that your "Godfather" had to buy you a necklace that they would ceremoniously put on you after you took the sacrament and THAT'S what "officially" made you Orthodox. One of the new converts told a story about the last person's necklace clasp being faulty which caused the ceremony to get delayed by around 10 minutes which reminded me of a time I saw a Mormon baptism that had something similar happen. It might just be me but it always goes to show how mortal these ceremonies truly are. When I accepted Jesus Christ as my LORD and Personal Savior it was very seamless and impactful and didn't require a whole lot of hullabaloo or gatekeeping. I also didn't like how they also call their Priests Father and do confession like the Catholics do.I honestly got a lot of vibes that were similar to the time I visited a Mormon church. Even if they have different doctrines it emphasizes blind faith in the heresy through emotional reactions. The orthodox call it "allowing for mystery" and Mormons "put it on a shelf" when something doesn't make sense, but it's a similar system of a hierarchy of bishops and patriarchs that tell you things that don't make sense but you have to trust in them anyway or you're not in the community, can't go to church, and can't be saved. I think any church that emphasizes baptism, sacraments, and gatekeeping probably is of that vein. I have yet to finish my reading of the Bible (over halfway) but I've always interpreted it as a type of spiritual baptism that you receive through accepting Jesus Christ as your LORD and Personal Savior. Not something that you have to jump through hoops until a bishop decided to annoit you with a secret ritual and the house of God should be open to everyone in the hopes that they will hear the Word and come to accept Christ
>>24958424I'm addition, I'll say this: The rock that Jesus established his church upon was the revelation that even though everyone was telling Peter that Jesus was this or that and not to believe him that when he prayed to God for the answer God answered that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. That's what he founded his church on, the church of Christianity which teaches the gospel of Jesus Christ that For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again three days later and ascended to Heaven and will return come Judgement Day. That church, in whatever form it takesx will endure forever. The Catholic's claim to fame is that they're based out of Rome and as such must be the best church because that was the capital and most powerful city in the world. Likewise the Orthodox claim to fame is being the churches Paul founded and those they established since but all of those things are earthly boasts. The Bible has many stories but an overarching trend is God exalting a man to lead his people with his Word and then that person or the next generation of people falling astray and doing wrong in the sight of the LORD leading to punishment until someone realizes how far astray they've been lead and leads them back onto the path. There's no reason why that couldn't be the case for Protestantism and even now that most of those churches are falling astray. What's most needed is for all of us to read the Word of God so that we know the truth and so that the wicked can't make things up to shake our faith or lead us astray. Hardly a week and sometimes not even a day goes by that I don't see someone lying about what's in the Bible and what God would want us to do, and if you don't read the Bible you may not be able to recognize these lies for what they are, either. Read the King James Bible from start to finish. The answer will present itself to you if you open your heart to the LORD.
>>24952443I would honestly read the entire Bible from start to finish beginning with Genesis and working through to Revelation in order. Everyone tries to discourage that but I feel it's important to see how it progresses and have a frame of reference for what came before and then what happens afterwards.
>>24956339I'm the first 2000 years after God made Aaron the first priest Aaron fashioned a given calf and lead Israel astray into idol worship, his sons (the next priests) were smote for burning strange offerings to the LORD, the Levites broke their covenant with the LORD and dirtied their bloodlines by breeding with heathen women, and the entirety of Israel is including Judah turned to idol worship so often that after being condemned to wander the desert for 40 years and enslaved multiple times as punishment God finally had to expell them from their own land for the 70 year sabbath because that refused to keep his commandments, and that's all just by the book of Isaiah.Men will do nothing but fall short of the glory of God. The Word of God is what's important.
What are some famous examples of weird literature or theatre?
>>24956181Pirandello
>>24957461>In September 2017, Jorjani was suspended from his teaching position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in response to a covert video recorded by Patrik Hermansson, a Swedish antifascist activist, who presented himself to Jorjani under the false identity "Erik Hellberg", in which Jorjani predicted a future where concentration camps would return to Europe and Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great would appear on European currency by 2050. Hermansson met with Jorjani at an Irish bar in midtown Manhattan in June, where the two talked about a future in which Europe embraces fascism. "It's going to end with the expulsion of the majority of migrants including citizens, who are of Muslim descent, generally" Jorjani said. "That's how it's going to end. It's going to end with concentration camps and expulsion and war. At the cost of a few hundred million people."
>>24956181You just want any post modern literature.
>>24958294Based
>>24958294Based Gonna read his stuff now
