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This is horrifying. Is there a better way than Christianity to transcend this?

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Any recc.s for non-fiction books that aren't just a biography, or a dull reference/history of x book?

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The deepest thinker on the left (Hegel scholar) Vs the deepest thinker on the right (Nietzsche scholar)... A debate between these two would be priceless
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>>24945076
Jewish control of major financial, entertainment, and NGO institutions. They're important because the people who ACTUALLY run the world view them in high esteem.
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>>24943914
>quoting a genreslop author as an authority
kek
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bump
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>>24942307
Kek
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>>24938370
>Displacing native workers is actually le based you goys
Fucking disgusting, kill yourself posthaste

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>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing

That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
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>>24947986
How do I find a gf that looks like this?

>t. Ohionigga
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>>24948002
notes from the underground
steppenwolf
the bell jar
(vaguely)
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genuinely why is this trash thread on /lit/
so many threads lately that hardly belong even on /his/ or /adv/, much less here
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>>24948168
steppenwolf...?!? REALLY?! HOW.
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>>24947980
She's not even mid, she's just not fat.

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Erich Heckel edition
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>>24948140
Do you ever review them just in case you forgot a word or so?
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>>24948145
Back when I took things a bit more seriously, once I finished the book, I would write some kind of essay or even fiction story using all of the words, and it was a very effective way of committing them to memory. The most effective, even. Ever since I stopped doing that, I only remember about ~40% of the words, meaning I don't have to look them up again the next time I counter them.

I should start doing that again. Thanks for the reminder.
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>>24948140
>fill up with Henry Miller's books, haha, so many obscure words
That's bad writing
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>>24948165
Sounds like a tiring sedulous nisus for recondite knowledge, offending to the ears of people with lesser ambitions...
Better to stay in the glib languorous state of sequacious comfort passive consumption offers, I say!
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>>24947951
I tell her only whores talk to men they don't know. Then I leave without ordering.

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Is as shitty as every other on
this lame ass, fucking has
been site.
Lol.
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Chinese "people " should be fed to those crocs alive
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>>24948151
Someone's clitty is leaking kek

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Is this a good book to start studying informal logic? What exactly should I expect?
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>>24948097
this is the table of contents
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here's another open access book

https://cwi.pressbooks.pub/revisedfundamentalmethodsoflogic/front-matter/table-of-contents/
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The Art of Logical Thinking
by William Walker Atkinson

https://archive.org/details/artoflogicalthin00atki
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Logic Gallery, Aristotle to the Present
by David Marans

https://www.e-booksdirectory.com/details.php?ebook=8793
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMpofmkxKHBJfta_JzekLbWGHUSLUJoLt

How does modern technology change Spengler's predictions? He probably didn't see europe becoming 30% foreigners by 2025 too.
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>>24947777
Alot.
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Do people take Spengler seriously? He's basically doing the equivalent of horoscopes but for historical societies.

I think it's cute how much of a fanboy he was for Mesoamerican civilizations though, a shame he didn't live to see the decipherment of the Maya script
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>>24948148
Should go without saying but due to how old Spengler's writings are a, lot of the information he gives here is seriously outdated

Stuff on Mesoamerica even from 20-40 years ago is missing a lot of major research, let alone 100. Again, he was writing before we could read Maya inscriptions at all.
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>>24948148
whoops, didn't realize that second image didn't continue where the first one left off and skips over a bunch of stuff, oh well
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>>24948062
Quite.
Different ideas?

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"Hemingwrite" edition

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>>24947892
>white dude
they are not publishing non-white dudes either. they are not interested in dudes
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>>24943751
Leave a printed copy alongside your suicide note.
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>>24948067
>bitches about "formatting"
>can't even find one formatting error
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>>24948130
You have several formatting errors. I don't edit for free, pay me.
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>>24947996
One trick I stumbled upon is pasting all the text into a rentry or pastebin and feeding ChatGPT the link to it. Unfortunately, the response length is limited, so if you want specific editing, you'll have to paste in one small chunk at a time. And I don't trust ChatGPT for anything else. I wasted your time. :)

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are there any biographical books about chronically depressed historical figures that went on to accomplish anything?
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>>24947934
>depressed man overcomes suffering and mental illness by participating in a social justice movement
holy peak, german history is THIS good?!?!?
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>>24947940
>mental illness
physical disability*
i had one job.
fml.
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>>24947934
>kills himself
not the kind of person i'm looking for
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>>24947936
i will check out their life stories, thank you
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Nobody who's depressed accomplishes anything.

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Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
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here's what i thought to be a cogent take on the story. personally, i find it telling that in pierce's ideal world, two whole continents are rendered uninhabitable. i was told this was the work that radicalized timothy mcveigh. i doubt it. it's just not good.
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>>24941203
William Pierce is shit. read Klassen instead.
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>>24941203
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>>24942542
rockwell's problem was that he was a clown, and so when he attracted followers what they built was a circus
post-WW2 american "white nationalist" thought is a totally worthless desert full of dysgenic retards. there's nothing of value there you didn't already read on /pol/ if you were there prior to 2016. it took people who weren't part of that scene reinventing the few good ideas from scratch in order to make anything useful out of it (and even that is now in the process of rotting, because even though racism is in major ways correct, it attracts dysgenic retards like flies to shit).
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>>24948089
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>>24948133
no, Ben Klassen the real estate salesman.

Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients Edition

FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.

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I can't even imagine a future where the United States could have a peer opponent that could give them a real fight.

Rome had Persia, Britain had France and then Germany, Athens had Persia, but who could be the weaker but close enough enemy that could let America show off?
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>Plan on a low fantasy setting with the big theme being a war breaking out between humans that are roughly on a late 1800s industrializing tech level and a species of intelligent flight capable humanoids with some similar attributes to birds of prey
>The big theme is the difference between a species which had its culture formed through a dexterous hand and horizontal expansion vs. capable wings and vertical movement
>There's no other sapient race and all the diversity will be done through several human powers and birdfolk factions

So far there are a few roadblocks in this I'm not yet sure how to overcome:

>Don't make this Pandora people vs. technological humanity
>How do I make neither humans nor birdfolk too strong?
>What do birdfolk feast on? They lend themselves to nomadism, do they have some sort of pastoral society?
>What do they do with the sick, injured or disabled that cannot fly anymore? They're dead weight
>How do I properly make birdfolk territorial without accidently steering into "Proud, arrogant elves" territory?
>Why didn't humans and birdfolk clash before, and why didn't the birdfolk lose in constant civil wars given their nomadic structure?
>How close to real life humanity can we pattern this before it becomes a turn of the century war with birds?
>What would cause the war to break out in the first place?


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>>24945851
>If I have one principle for my own world, it's that I'll never make a DnD style magic system.
Why precisely is that? And what would you recommend instead to someone looking to make their own system?
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>>24947305
Because I hate videogame based fantasy. It doesn't feel magical to me.

The right way to use magic is simply to make it something completely incomprehensible by rational logic, but eminently logical if you understand its deeper philosophical or narrative themes.

A good example of the latter would be how Victorian fantasy writers wrote magic as more or less a means to run thought experiments.
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>muh soft magic retard
I wish people actually fucking knew what the hard vs soft magic distinction was actually about

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TOTAL NRX VICTORY
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if i were an american, i would use my legal right to form an armed militia to stamp out the tyranny that currently exists
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>>24948031
it exists in your country and you're not doing anything about it
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>>24948029
If there was any doubts remaining to be entertained, Chomsky is more and more looking like a full blown controlled opposition kid diddler or pedo ally. This article goes a long way to rip him a second asshole while exposing the fact that the western elite is a conspiratorial cabal start to finish, a truth which actual radical commie Parenti tried to scream from the roof tops only to fall on deaf ears.

https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/06/03/the-mainstream-and-the-margins-noam-chomsky-vs-michael-parenti/
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>>24948029
Bonding over their mutual love of BBC.

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Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this!

And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best!

Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
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>>24947478
Yeah it really is a blessing. I like asking it to search up information for me. Who financed ocean voyage X by sea captain Y in 1818? Where did the money come from? Who gave the orders? Did Yukio Mishima ever write any critical reviews of D'Annunzio's work? What did Bataille think about de Sade? Make me a list of statements in Don Quixjote. etc.

It's like having a college undergrad do all your dirty research work for you. But instantaneous. And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spot, but the stuff it gets right is sometimes fascinating and has led me down some interesting rabbit holes.
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>>24947969
>all the books of one author
you probably hit the limit of the context window with just one book
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>>24948028
>half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spot
just like a good undergrad research assistant
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>>24947478
>psychological abuse you can inflict upon it
Are you a genuine retard?
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>>24947788
t. fat "person"

Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
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never met a Stirnerite that's been able to actually put his beliefs into his practice to not be a broke gay loser
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>>24948045
no just connect the dots from solipsistic denial of reality
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>>24948046
>you must prioritize acquiring money
spooked
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>>24948046
then you obviously haven't heard of Ben Klassen.
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>>24948046
All billionaires are egoist


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