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J'ai besoin de apprendre ecrivez a francaise. Essayons- la! J'ai ne pas etudier la langue pour annees et annees...
Ecrire a moi svp
Seul regle est traduction complet est interdit. Tu peux traducteur singular mots si tu oublier
Demande moi quelque chose
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>>24797868
I was in that joe rogan water tank for two weeks
And lemme tell ya...ive seen some shit
After i came out i touched myself for the first time in a while and it felt same as always. Although something was off, probably the habit was gone....
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My loneliness has gotten to the point where I'd unironically date a twink. And I do mean date, not just fuck like it's some trap doujin. I'll take anything with a pulse that's of age at this point.
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Whenever I see a video or post criticizing bad writing I become extremely anxious about my own writing and start thinking about the stories I wrote and if they have the same problem and issues (they usually don't) but God, it makes me feel like a hack and a phony
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I whip my dick back'n'forth

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All of a sudden I'm seeing people overuse this new phrase. It entered the vocabulary of ziggers and there's no explanation for what it means or where it came from.

1. Where do these new phrases come from?

2. Why do zigs adopt these new phrases immediately without hesitation?
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>>24797745
>1. Where do these new phrases come from?
Niggers/broccoli heads. Although it's weird over how short a timespan it happened.
>2. Why do zigs adopt these new phrases immediately without hesitation?
Because it's easier for them than to learn how to articulate themselves, also they want to fit in
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>>24797745
>Where do these new phrases come from?
70 iq nigger pop "culture"
>Why do zigs adopt these new phrases immediately without hesitation?
unceasing smartphone use enables social media to act as an incessant agent of peer pressure
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cringe
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>>24797745
The chain is something like
Prison slang -> blacks -> zoomers
Crash out to my knowledge was originally used by prison gangs to refer to someone that performed violent acts on their behalf for little to no benefit to themselves, similar to flunky.
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>>24797928
based negrowhisperer

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How do you find the strength to read a book? I can't do it, as soon as I open a book, I want to read it as quickly as possible. It feels like a chore to me. I'd like to know your thought process when you read a book.
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>>24797365
thank you. I try to read a whole chapter a day and then close the book
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>>24795737
Maybe reading is not for you
I recommend >>>/tv/
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Accept that you're illiterate. There's a board for you >>>/his/
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>>24795979
>tattoos
ngmi
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>>24797894
>>24797892
nah I'm good you can go to these boards yourself

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Why can’t pomo types accept this?
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Foucault didn’t write commentaries on Nietzsche I don’t think

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Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.

It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
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>>24797577
The fact that you faggot trannies think this works is genuinely funny. You have no idea how fun and addictive it is to notice things that are evil and say "that's evil." The more you try to say "lmao why do you care" the more you get noticed as evil-enabling and thus evil.
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Oops, I triggered the Dewicate Feewings of the drunkest cunts on this board.
Not sure what it is with middle-aged addicts calling arbitrary nonsense "evil," put down the fucking pipe Gerald.
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>>24784124
>Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating?
channers don't leave the house
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I use the library regularly but people on this board don't read books never mind going to the library.
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>>24784124
>It's like a legal form of pirating
it literally isn't you fucking retard

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Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
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>>24797474
It literally IS about Trump. During the last handful of pages the Business Plot happens and Douglas MacArthur becomes president, the US enters a new timeline in which Thomas Pynchon is never born and his books are never written. All his characters are now refugees. The "Shadow Ticket" is Pynchon's ticket to the afterlife, he's saying "I'm fucking dead and Drumpf fucking killed me."
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>>24797462
I mean what do you expect? Most people don’t know what gravity’s rainbow is and think Pynchon just started writing books in 2009.
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I forgot this book existed ngl
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>>24797492
Chat, is this real?
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Not gonna lie the random namedrops like Kenosha made me wonder if it was AI ghostwritten

I want to read books so I can spend less time on 4chan but I'm actually really stupid. I'm unable to comprehend what I'm reading most of the time and I keep stuck analazing a specific paragraph because I just can't get it.

Is this improvable as a person with low IQ?
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stop trying to analyze what you read and just read it. the only thing that matters is if you can understand what is happening at a basic level. if there is anything deeper in the text it will emerge naturally. i suggest to start off by reading genre fiction, like fantasy or science fiction. that way you can focus more on the plot and understanding what is happening, which is the skill you need to develop to read regularly.
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>>24796537
This will sound like a brainlet cope, but IQ is becoming quite overrated, especially when it comes to issues like the one you just described. Comprehension is a skill. And while general intelligence does play a "general" role, it isn't usually the performance bottleneck, especially in cases where you seem to write just fine. The issue is not brain computation power, but practice. Read more and you'll be able to understand better. Maybe you're predisposed to read poetry, maybe prose, maybe philosophy and maybe math equations. Or maybe you just got carried away reading translations of French and Russian authors, many of which can be an atrocious reading experience.

TLDR: keep reading, it will improve.
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>>24796537
you don't need high IQ to read
it's a skill
start with something simple like children's books
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>>24796741
>Start with simpler books and gradually build your way up
Unironically old advice. Computer screens and video games are the main culprits in our lower attention spans, so it takes work to undo the damage. I always recommend the Little Prince as a starting point
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>>24797897
*good advice

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What do we think of it?
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>>24795251
Has verisimilitude issues with the police side of the investigation, and what the group's doing to manage it (beside shutting the fuck up).
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>>24795251
>What do we think of it?
Her best book.
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>>24795251
Overall I like the book, but the middle section regarding the police investigation and the funeral really drags on needlessly
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She shouldn’t have read her own audiobook. Hearing her Southern accent when the main character is from California and everyone else is from New England was jarring.
It's not my favourite book but I imagine a lot of people hate it to be contrarian. I give her a lot more grace knowing she was so young when she wrote the it.
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>>24795251
Dropped it after two chapters

is this book worth reading as someone who is mostly interested in learning more about CIA/MKUltra tom-foolery in the 60s and doesn't particularly enjoy polluting his brain with true crime slop?

i am also somewhat skeptical that i will learn anything particularly eye opening from a book that was relentlessly shilled by all forms of mainstream media, and who's film rights were bought by netflix.

am i wasting my time with boomer slop?
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>>24789679

> Do you know who else was in the 27 club? the bassist from a literal who band that someone actually famous was in for a year - oh by the way their albums had satanic imagery
> Famous person died on date X the same day the producer of the second album of random band did exactly one year to the day
> Isn't it odd how many of these teenagers from a military town had fathers that served in the military
Programmed to Kill is largely the same despite how much it gets shilled here and on reddit.
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Is Eye of the Chickenhawk any good?
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>>24795097
Everytime I order it it gets lost in the mail. Somebody doesn't want me to read it.
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>>24795105
>>24795097
its on z-library and yes it's very good i would highly recommend it. the 2nd half falls apart a little bit but redeems itself at the end with the section about mark dutroux and the finders cult. it's more or less what got me extremely interested in the CIA / mkultra / and operation gladio.
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Bump
Reading generally about Epstein Stuff. Many such cases. Some things never change.

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How do I get into chud philosophy?
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>>24797477
Required viewing for any aesthete, despite the ridiculous anti-viking bias.
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>>24797398
Sticking your head up your ass and inhaling, of course.
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>>24797477
Its very good. And a very enjoyable viewing. Its charts the development of Western civilization from the fall of the roman empire up to the modern era. But, instead of focusing on that history from a military or political perspective, it presents it through the develop of the arts such as architecture, statues, painting, music, literature etc.

Kenneth Clark was the youngest director of the National Gallery at age 30,so he really was a enthusiast of art history. And, as a presenter, he seems now to be a lost piece of civilization as well.

All the episodes, last I checked, are all free on youtube.
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>>24797398
define chud
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>>24797398
Start with Aristotle who endorsed slavery and thought women should have no role in government then move on to Plato who condemned homosexuality and endorsed eugenics

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If DJ Khaled is the modern equivalent to Mozart, would it be fair to say Disco Elysium is the modern equivalent to Shakespeare?
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>>24797774
shut the FUCK up fat stupid frognigger
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>>24797811
Why is this board more pissy compared to every other board except /pol/?
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>>24797774
The modern equivalent to Mozart is probably some psytrance producer with background in classical music, not some fat nigger. Psytrance sucks in most of talented musicians. Or maybe it's Autechre. Their music does have jazzy and classical touches.
As for modern equivalent of Shakespeare, Stephen King at his worst approached Shakespeare better than this Estonian dessicated and frozen in liquid nitrogen Satan's excrement that is Disco Elysium: some boring bullshit game with the most stereotypical detective story in all the chiliocosm that gathered fans among the illiterate gamers for whom it was the first contact with written word, fans among Reddit for quirky snarky humour and the worldbuilding, and fans among 4chan contrarians because it shat on their autistically hated ideology of choice.
Witcher 3 is actually close to a proper book in the way narrative is nested and the way it unfolds. Disco Elysium is the visual and written reification of the perpetually alcoholic and butthurt Estonian soul which, Buddha be praised, doesn't exist in any solid way outside this frozen and cursed shithole. I'm pretty sure that niggers and Jeets and Chinks have souls while Estonians are an insectoid Nazi hivemind: the collective dream of /pol/, reified.
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>>24797859
the non-retarded people on /lit/ tend to crowd in on the bigger discussion threads like WWOTYM or Fantasy General

the low reply threads are where the retards are
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>>24797865
>mozart was some niche hipster underground artist
No

And Shakespeare wrote plays, not novels. If he were alive today he would either do film or video games

What happened to /lit/? In the 2010s the philosophers of choice were all existentialists, Nietzsche being the biggest, but Camus having a lot of following too. Aside from the, some of the post-structuralists were big, and then of older thinkers everyone liked Hume.

Then we went through a weird transition period where German idealism got big, along with some modern esoteric stuff and Indian thought, particularly Shankara.

Now, I keep seeing existentialism and Hume getting shit on and /lit/ is simping for literal Dark Ages thinkers and gushing over Scholasticism.

Are we just running backwards through history fueled by sheer contrarinism?

Mainstream culture was also all about Boomer existentialism in the 2000s and went through a neo-Enlightenment phase. Are the economic conditions of neo-feudalism forcing us back to a neo-medieval philosophical moment? Did the fruits of extreme nominalism finally just turn people off (it probably too late, AGI is going to be born during a period where it will be fed tons of nominalism and emotivism)?
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>>24796244
This, but it applies to Nietzscheanism and liberalism too.
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>>24791485
There is always at least one 100+ reply "fuck modernity" thread up at any given time. This shows the widespread discontent. And it just happens that the Cathlodox traditionalists, with a handful of dyed in the wool neo-neoplatonist academics, articulate by far and away the most coherent alternative to this. It's not that there aren't critiques from the "left" or from Continental philosophy, it's just that they generally just point out the same flaws with less confidence but almost never propose any sort of an alternative except for "expand the welfare state" since they cannot bring themselves to grapple with the fact that not only is Enlightenment solipsitic reason flawed, but so are all the elements post-modernism built on.

Where we the "non-ontology" of the suspended middle and reason as participation is both aesthetically pleasing and has been reasonably well justified in a modern context by a number of thinkers from Ulrich up to today.

It helps that such an approach can also market itself as a "third position" since it rejects capitalism and conservative liberalism as much as socialism and progressive liberalism.
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>>24797815
Oh, and for people who can't get themselves to embrace the revealed religion of Christianity of Neoplatonist Judaism or Islam, Pagan Neoplatonism is non-threatening enough as a dead religion to allow them to get into it. It also helps that there are a lot of similarities between these and varieties of Eastern thought that have been popular alternatives in the West to date (Hinduism more than Buddhism, but some forms of Buddhism too).

The move to German idealism, particularly Hegelianism, and Romanticism was already a step halfway in this direction. People went to Kant, got dissatisfied the same way his original readers did, and so moved to Schelling and Hegel. But that is already leading you more towards the older view; all that is left is to break the confines of the "close world system" of immanence. Post-modernism, despite being all about immanence, actually helps here because it shows how the closed world system and barriers to transcendence and participation are just historically contingent constructs, and yet also reveals that this is true of post-modernism too, leaving the seeker free to abandon post-modernism as a sort of crutch and make the leap towards Logos.
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>>24791486
Is poetry more useful than philosophy?
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>>24797825
Theory: Christianity adopted neoplatonic thought to try and bootstrap out of the psychopannychism that the texts explicitly describes. This structure, built entirely on it meant that Medieval thought was always built on this ramshackle structure and it eventually collapsed.

He's the best author of our (millenial) generation.
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>>24797300
He truly is kind of like the Emperor of /lit.
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>>24797329
>truly is kind of like
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the themes he chooses to discuss are unremarkable, who wants to read about a chinese man rediscovering his taiwan heritage, especially in 2025, i want new ideas about how technology has completely fucked us, why is it that only older people like houllebecq can write this, younger people are obsessed with resolving their petty crises with identity, they do not yet have the eyes to look at society as something that can be discussed separately, it's all about me, i, etc
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>>24797844
Because 4chan is a bunch of midwit chuds obsessed with ancestory and doomerism.
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>>24797844
The Boomer Gen X and Millennial generations were entirely weaned on greater and greater technologies that infatuated and deluded the ego with free dopamine, inflating the I so beyond sensual reality they cannot imagine any world existing outside of the pleasure spouts. Gen Z's developing years took place after the development of said technologies ceased. This means that even though through now Gen Z has been endlessly blinded by the same pleasure simulacrum they were reconciled to the mortality of the Idols and themselves while the three prior generations tantrum to the grave as a toddler who replaces teat with pacifier with thumb. They are completely intellectually worthless. Gen Z know wisdom and love are the only immortal things as opposed to technology and the self, yet not pursuing them frequently enough because its easier to use social media multiplayer video games porn and forums face friction with the outside world and study still have contributed nothing intellectually.

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If a lot of you people read the books the /lit/ hivemind thinks is good and you still believe in the modernist worldview, are insufferable envious un-constructive assholes, are leftists, etc. then I conclude that reading those books did not actually work improve your character or soul and that reading them is not as important as you say it is. And that I’m just going to read what I want instead.
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>>24793263
>And that I’m just going to read what I want instead.
that is generally what i do.
why you would hold high standards for 4chan is retarded.
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>>24793263
Checked Larry's xitter, he's mad that wikipedia isn't sufficiently deferential to ZOG instititions like the ADL, is complaining about "Qatari control of the media".
Clearly a severely deluded and mentally ill Zio.
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>>24795425
This would be excellent if we were allowed to use the same tools upon the Quran.
(At least Wiki seems good at debunking Hindu/Buddhist mythology too, I haven't heard that anyone over there takes the "out of India" or reincarnation theories seriously.)
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Remember when trannies tried to claim Milady de Winter from The Three Musketeers was actually a trans woman? And then /lit/ went to war with the tranny mods and won? Yeah, that's why I don't trust Wikipedia
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>>24793263
If it wasn't secular what religious perspective are you supposed to use? Christian? Jewish? Muslim? Hindu? Confucian? Is Wikipedia just supposed to take their competing and mutually exclusive worldviews at face value?

Is the Witcher book series worth reading if you liked the videogames?
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no


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