Books like the x-files, that aren't cheap sci-fi?
>>24690577The Shadow Book of Ji Yun
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
>>24690548That's someone else, I'm OP. The anon makes a good point however. Secularists claim societies improve the less religious they become. Not only do they not have a coherent standard for good and thus improvement, but even within their paradigm, it's demonstrably the case that societies do in fact decay the further they move from religion.
>>24690580Are you this hateful thing?>>24689183>>24688822>>24688345
>>24690581Sure am. Wouldn't say hateful, it's completely reasonable to not waste time on non-arguments from trolls
>>24690587You truly are pathetic.
>>24690591Hateful, hypocrite, clown, idiot.
What are your thoughts on 20th century French philosophy?
>>24686587>let the rhizome be a fungus you can kneel and smellimagine that very smell..
>>24686498Anything interesting in it ultimately comes from about half a dozen pre-WW2 german philosophers with questionable politics being filtered through the cemetery of the intellect that is the parisian avant garde scene. Everything wrong and bad about it is a french original, of course.
>>24686527no, not really, Herder, Schopenhauer, Eckhart (even though he's a mystic), Weber (sociologist but fits)>>24686584he does as he essentially states that historical narratives are constructed by power relations, which I agree.
>>24689885>he does as he essentially states that historical narratives are constructed by power relations, which I agree.Historical narratives are constructed by historians as a mediating fictive structure between power and enactment. You need to conduct a sociology of historiography to observe how power is mediated.>>24688575I didn't say French philosophy wasn't interesting. I just said it was too coherent.
>>24686584Derrida is one of the most incoherent. Baudrillard is more accessible.
What does he read?
>>24690105this stereotype should be a woman. very very few men are actually like this if you speak to them alone, it's all posturing for pussy.as for thr question, who the fuck cares. some semipretentious semislop i guess. fuck you.
>>24690216Nah, many young jewish men are just like this.
>>24690233what, really? i wouldn't know. tell me of the many young jewish spirit-european men
>>24690281it's a mixed bag. some Jews have a European spirit, some have a slavshit spirit, and some have an Arabic/sand nigger spirit.
>>24690105My uncle is an EU bureaucrat and he once recommended Sapiens to me.Suffice to say I haven't read it, and will make sure I never do.
Explain this meme
>>24690516The latent revolutionary desire of workers is actually just a feeling of emasculation, and is mostly articulated in power fantasies of outlaws or workers who become wealthy and powerful. Zizek is no Jesse James or John Dillinger or Scarface, and most of his fans are nerds
>>24690457>there is nothing clever about reflectionYou won't be making it to any universals. >>24690510You're getting massively filtered.
>>24690526>The latent revolutionary desire of workers is actually just a feeling of emasculation, and is mostly articulated in power fantasies of outlaws or workers who become wealthy and powerful.You've never been on a picket. Negated negated identity producing from an abjected state a new revolutionary subject that exists in its non-self as a universal subject is an amazing experience. It isn't about being scarface. It is about being a participant in Blair Mountain.
>>24690500Forgot about him. Zizek is still quite famous in academia though, not necessarily in philosophy departments but in other humanities departments for "theory".
>>24690500Also Habermas has been writing since like the 60s so not really comparable
meereenese throne 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: >>24667075
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>>24690193Conspicuous that he does not list Dany
>>24690193Is there any reason he loves Arya besides being a pedo?
>>24690226His wife’s favorite character
>>24689463Honestly I guess this makes sense as to why GRRM would say "they're not truly evil." Because its an anti colonialism metaphor.
What are some books every anon should read?
I'm constantly stuck in my head, will those books help me? Sometimes I ruminate over fictional shit my brain makes up until I get anxious or paranoid. I hate being an introverted sperg. I got OCD and bad anxiety.
>>24688897Siddhartha.
>>24689888U need exercise and meds lowk
>>24688897i should read this get out of your mind book?
>>24689888Have you tried not being a fag?
>Be me>Writing a story where Baal and Molech are the bad guys fighting a group of demigods.>Feed it to Grok in hopes of getting good feedback.>The AI tells me I should show more "cultural sensitivity" when depicting them because of their importance to Spanish and Middle Eastern culture.>The AI just told me to be nice to a god whose whole schtick is child sacrifice and the other one literally has child prostitution in his worship ceremonies as well as promoting human sacrifice.Do any human beings actually think like this or is Grok just that retarded?
>>24690347Carthage and Phoenicia controlled Southern Spain and both worshipped Baal and Molech.
>>24690544I refuse to believe there's a single person on this site who isn't autistic.
>>24690547>t. autistic
>>24690542At least aim for being better than mediocre. being better than a pedo is not an accomplishment or something to brag about, vast majority of people accomplish that without trying.
>>24690540Old fags, represent.
Best books on hollow earth?
>>24690069this thred feel like we could share more 1800s sci-fisee what they believed the future would be or how they thought the center of the earth and space would work
>>24689375maybe Etidorhpa could be good?
>>24689375French being my mother tongue, I tried to read La Mission de l'Inde en Europe but it was total nonsense.
>>24689375https://alexbeyman.substack.com/p/the-eternal-mysteries-of-vrilFanfic sequel to Edgar Bulwer-Lytton's "The Power of the Coming Race"
>>24689375Certain R. Rankin in some of his comedic satire fantasy books parodies and references Hollow Earth (but it is to be said, that he also parodies and references a lot of things). And due to certain references to his own books it is better to read them in release order.
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.
>>24684386Indeed. My favorite stories were number 2, and the one about the father discovering the ghost of his "abortivus" son.
>>24689457And where do you buy them if not online? It's not like the local Barnes & Noble is going to have any.
>>24690203Used book storesYou may have to travel if the first thing that comes to mind is B&N
I wish more non-literary Latin from antiquity survived. I love letters and graffiti and shit.
>>24690385I know you don’t mean the late empire or religious works but there’s a ton of surviving letters of various significant saints. But I get that you mean more domestic stuff.
Will Borges's reputation ever recover from the recent attacks against him?
>>24689582I'd rather be called a pig than keep up the horseshit that I don't want 5 new twenty year old women running around my house every other week. The only reason guys say otherwise is because of women's tone policing
>>24688614>not having sex out of wedlock is... le bad???
>>24690246It's not a lie. Borges did not have sexual relationships. Also he suffered from sexual impotence. Before becoming impotent, when he was a teenager, he had the chance of losing his virginity with a local prostitute his father took him to but he ultimately decided not to fuck her because he thought his father had fucked her before and didn't want to be in some weird situation like that (semi-incest?). Both his marriages happened when he was already an impotent old man, the first one was a disaster, the second (and final) one was mostly platonic. He literally died a virgin.
>>24690307>Borges>having sexlmao
Where did you all get this information about his sex life from?
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries there was a movement to make English spelling rational by either phonetic spelling reform or an entirely new script. It's never happening. They tried to make it happen for a century, and that was BEFORE computers. By now, the way words are spelled is so entrenched that it's essentially permanent. Obviously there's IPA but it will never be the common orthography, especially since dialects make a "universal IPA spelling" impossible.However, hear me out. If the written word is immovable, then there's still a way to rationalize pronunciation, which is just to pronounce everything how it's written. I'm not saying it's a good idea or wouldn't sound stupid at first, but it's *possible*.It might even be an organic process, there are already obscure words that get mispronounced a lot because most people read them rather than hearing them spoken. Imagine a future where 90% of interaction is typed (some people are almost there, honestly), pronunciation would basically reinvent itself.Is this a serious recommendation or prediction? No. Just something that crossed my mind.
If things keep going the way they are, the world will develop a common pidgin and individual languages will mostly die out or more accurately become dialects of the pidgin.
>>24689331Fuck I hope not.The best defense against it is that it sounds extremely silly to other (some would say fluent) speakers of the language.
>>24689347That would not be an issue because by that point a fluent speaker of English would be the equivalent of a fluent speaker of Latin today; English would be a dead language. Even with the help of the internet this will take centuries.I guess it would technically be a creole by that point but the dialects could be pidgins and never stabilize.
>>24689314Dialects actually aren't too bad. You could try to make it consistent for old Queen's English, and that accent has none of the new mergers (e.g. Americans pronounce "Mary", "merry" and "marry" the same way, it's 3 different sounds in RP) and all the common splits (e.g. trap / bath have a different A) so if you make a system for it, you can easily adapt the system to every other dialect, because functionally they're all the same thing with slight simplifications.
>>24689314"Salmon" is an example of this. The "L" had been silent for hundreds of years, disappeared, was then reintroduced, and now some people pronounce it.
Ultimately, which is more fundamental: the chain of physical causation studied by science, the realm of perfect Forms envisioned by Plato, or the will of a divine being?
>>24688970Both simultaneously
Is this what it feels like to read "a classic that everybody has copied, so it doesn't feel new"?This was derivative and shallow as fuck
>>24681201>Between the absence of aristocracy and the unchecked cultural decline in America, our elite are broadly lowbrowYou've had near unfettered access to diaries and the various surviving royal families. They were never high brow.
>>24687531Same thing he meant when he made Gatsby a Jewish crook obsessed with a shiksa.>>24689156One thing Marxism gets right is that bourgeois values are a kind of illusion; elites don’t actually participate in them, just the bourgeoisie pretending to elite status.
>>24680999Do you know how time and causality work, anon?
>>24687639Maybe don't use words you don't understand mmmkay?
>>24690147>can't tell the difference between "it feels" and "it is"fuck off midwit
I think, fundamentally, his books are about magic. Though he doesn't fit into the conventional horror, suspense, or thriller genres, the thread throughout all of his books is the existence of magic. Good and bad. Cloaked in normalcy so poignant, it makes the magic a terrifying intrusion into the lives of people who would wish it weren't so. It's a violation, and not an entirely benign one. I wonder if he has a mental illness or has experienced telepathy or visions.
