When does it get good?
>>25008313Touche.
>>25006854Begin with The Color of Magic, and if you like it, continue with the subsequent books.If you don’t like it, but don’t hate it either, try both Mort and Guards! Guards!.If you don’t like either of them, Discworld is not for you.Discworld books range from OK to great up to Night Watch. After that, it’s a free fall, with the possible exception of Going Postal, Making Money, and the Tiffany Aching series, which are passable.The Tiffany Aching series peaks at I Shall Wear Midnight. Do not read The Shepherd’s Crown.The short stories are worth it; The Science of Discworld series absolutely isn’t.
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>>25008313His cock hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
>>25009284>His cock hung in the sky in much the same way that dicks don't.Fixed that for ya
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>>25008777If you are not a Christian how can you say who is
>>25008777Sorry but I just don't get what you're saying. You don't seem willing to be reasonable. Just pushing an agenda. There's really nothing on this website that's that bad. I think you're working from an extremely dated idea of everything really. Just a bizarre attempt at guilt by association
>>25006377>problems of all churches can be addressedHeretical sects have a fundamental brokenness to them much like fornication.>>25006450>anyone that's read any theological text that this is a Godless place.What have you read? The only sin I've committed in this thread was speaking ill of the dead, which I confessed.>just spazz out because their commitment to the larp has broken their brains.Look through any of the acidic prose from St. Augustine, Hilary of Potier, or Jerome for that matter. I promise you that the desert fathers would call me weak willed for my prose.>>25007855>context they occurNow, say it with me, "LDS 'church' is an erroneous and demonic context for the reading of the Bible that makes other Christians look bad by being so pathetically antithetical to reason and the real Christian tradition of the Catholic Church.">>25007834>which is a meaningless concept and of course self-refuting when one considers that He must be, if also omnibenevolent, responsible for evil.>“All-powerful” more clearly connotes just “very powerful” or “the most powerful”, which is what they mean when they regard God as an unfathomably superior nature to themselves.You didn't "solve" the problem of evil by worshipping a created thing. You just confirmed that Mormonism is idol worship.
>>25006380Praise God for your freedom from that wretched institution. May St. Pio watch over doggedly and St. Augustine bless you.>>25008777>No Christian would ever set foot (metaphorically) in this place, and no Christian ever has.You do not own the definition of "Christian" nor have you proven that you can even use it properly ("A Christian is someone who doesn't go on the interwebs or use the leet haxor known as four channel!!!"). Christ gives a definition of Christian and so does St. Paul: Jesus Christ is Lord. Per Scripture, I just proved I am Christian and have the Holy Spirit. Wow!
>increases your creativity x25
>>24996712t. stephan king
>>25006902Can I pet you
>>24989497>I only went schizophrenic from this shitKek same. I was sent to a psychiatric hospital and the retarded doctors were on vacation, they had me there for a month. Can't recommend boys, sleep 8 hours straight in average.
>>25009053*I must add that it wasn't permanent, I recovered, and it was a misdiagnosis. But certainly felt like I was schizophrenic, the meds were worse than the disease though. It took me more than a year before I went to a different doctor that wasn't retarded and gave me a correct diagnosis and tapered off the meds. I'm still stuck with anxiety and insomnia meds though. We tried taking those off too but I got very moody at times, I told the doc and he put those back.
There's this Vietnamese man who's known to not have slept for decades, he's poor villager who did plenty of interviewhttps://www.ladbible.com/news/world-news/thai-ngoc-81-man-sleep-60-years-329712-20250131
None More Black Edition>Old:>>25000152>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>25009174Uh, nta, but Madoka?
>>25009177oh yeah madoka thx
is anything by sandermeme good?
>>25009077only the ones by Adams.i did like artemis fowl, but the concept of someone continuing a series after the author's death like that feels very disrespectful. i'll treat it as it's own thing
>>25009151Calm down, Dumas.
Is Simone Weil some kind of atheist or what? I don't understand her at all.
>>25006399It delights me to know that these two vile creatures disliked each other. Not even feminist scum can get along with each other.>Oh no! Muh Chinese are starving>Let me support a philosophy in my adoptive homeland that produces the same effect
>>25002310Simone Weil distinguishes between an atheism that rejects false, consoling images of God and an atheism that denies transcendence altogether. The first, which she paradoxically values, purifies the idea of God by refusing any deity that can be grasped, used, or made to explain away evil; it is closer to negative theology than to disbelief and is exemplified by Richard Dawkins and secular humanism. The second type, which she rejects, refuses the existence of any absolute good or reality beyond material necessity. In Weil’s terms, figures like Nick Land and H. P. Lovecraft exemplify this latter atheism: their visions of a cosmos governed by blind forces, inhuman necessity, or indifferent horror leave no room for transcendence, love, or truth beyond power. Where Weil sees honest negation as a possible path toward God, this darker atheism closes the path entirely.
>>25003057English language poetry sucks ass and has been downhill since Romanticism.
>>25002325This.
>>25009219quite a funny last ditch attempt but i don’t know why you thought this would work against someone who apparently reads poetry.
>Edgar Allen Poe's Extraordinary Tales translated by Charles Baudelaire>Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep translated by Boris Vian>Virginia Wolf's The Waves translated by Marguerite Yourcenar Why do the French have such great translations? English translation is always done by some literal nobody.
>>25009101>>25009105Obviously there are many examples and off the top of my head I can think of at least a dozen others, but you're being awfully rude and haven't even said 'please' so I don't think I will.
>>25009132>I could but I won'tYou're just mad you got called out. By the way, before the 20th century, who the fuck do you think "into English" translators were? They were people like Alexander Pope or Samuel Johnson. And yes, I could name plenty more, but I won't :^)Even the likes of Paul Auster have famously translated novels. So take that faggot. I've bested you until you can provide copious examples to back your claim.
>>25009185>Alexander PopeWho? >Samuel JohnsonOkay that's pretty cool. Loved him in Reasonable Doubt. >Paul Auster From the opium family? Trust fund kids aren't impressive.If you wanted to name an impressive translator, idk, you could have mentioned Nabokov. But he also translated all of his work into French, so I guess that would just be a self-own, doubtlessly why you had to settle on a bunch of literary backbenchers I've never heard of. Nice try though.
>>25009185NTA, but here's some more examples.>Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven translated by Charles Baudelaire>Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart translated by Théophile Gautier>Mary Shelley's Frankenstein translated by Jules Claretie>Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher translated by Charles Asselineau>Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter translated by Anatole France
>>25009202Totally forgot about Théophile Gautier, nice catch anon.
Kantianism is midwit philosophy. Nietzscheanism beats it as the high IQ philosophy
>>25009236just read the critique of pure reason... you will find a lot of original ideas in there... the whole book is new and original... it prepares for something even better
>>25009248>Are you retarded? I'm not talking about you, I specifically referenced his views on himself....to me, who knows all this stuff already you fucking pseud. i naturally assumed you were implying i believed the opposite of what you were saying or i was ignorant of what you were saying, because most human communication is implicit you fucking dumbass
>>25009255>quote an authors views>get called a pseudYou got sensitive too soon. You've outed yourself as a complete fool. Send me your address so I can Amazon deliver some wipes to clean up the slobber from your keyboard and armor you with a necessary safety helmet. And for God's sake, stop eating crayons.
>>25009261yeah my bad, i tried to interpret the intentions of a vegetable that spouts non sequiturs
>>25009266>i tried to interpret the intentions of a vegetable that spouts non sequiturs
Why is this book held in such high regard? Its sole purpose seems to be trashing Southern Whites and at times borders on torture porn
>>25005380>>25005388>>25005403>>25006302>>25006314>>25006887>>25007246CopeSoutherners are the only americans left who cluster with their british forefathersEllis Island trash are not americans
>>25006652I'm a middle class british man and it hit incredibly close to home
>>25007178Who cares what some pseuds think?
I read the sound and the fury and it was utter dogshit I genuinely think it's just celebrated because it's propaganda for race commies
>>25004583Southern white-trash hicks are subhuman and more than deserve any negative portrayal they get in media.
>Now, let us design the ideal government, using only facts and logic.>To begin with, consider the case of a man with a magic ring that turns him invisible.
>>25007546yeah i know. i made it.
>>25007262I mean, it's a good thought experiment. It asks you to imagine someone who can get away with anything without consequence, and to consider if anything could control their behaviour.
>>25007880Ideas can control behavior. Ideas themselves are selected for and compete in much the same way that living things do. Unlike most life, however, ideas cannot exist on their own. They must parasitize a host to propagate and ensure their continued existence. Thus, ideas that are uniquely effective in steering the behavior of hosts towards the survival of the idea (rather than the host) have become immensely popular and widespread.A person who is free from negative consequences of action is not automatically free from these ideas. They may still be parasitized and bound to values inserted to serve the idea rather than themselves. In other words they do not act because they are convinced of negative consequence where there are none.
>>25007262>let's design our ideal government>now consider a man that is not subject to justiceHere you go, retard
>>25007262>using only facts and logicabsolutely nothing this dick ever wrote was based on "facts", just pedantry and false analogies
Holy shit this chud was right about everything
>>25008886yeah opting out and hoping the superintelligence regards us as ants or wildlife creatures that it allows to survive is probably the most moral choice. thats how i feel having thought about it (and being a person without any sort of influence over anything)
anyone think he looks like the guy who played dick winters in band of brothers
>>25007287Thanks, Right on the Money #2 was really good. It answered the economic problem I always had with Land's work about how you overcome a systemic crisis of overproduction/underconsumption
>>25008886>>25008914The difference with Nick Land is that he regards this process and inevitable and never paints it as a particularly good thing. You ask him what the future looks like, he says Neuromancer or Blade Runner
>>25009240>its gonna be just like shadowrun guiseYou should be embarrassed for indulging this methheads psychosis
Writing style alignment editionPrevious: >>24999041/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Discuss the written works below for practice; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Shitposters should be ignored and reported.Beginner guides on writing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdzv1NfZRMComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25008655Okay good to know. you can still read the transcript
>>25008661Yeah, it is a bit cheesy. It was kind of intentional because he's not really a noble knight. He's more like a brute enforcer.
Lawful Pantser here. How do I stop the unintended strange consequences and bring order to my new realm?
>>25008682I'm not reading 3500 words in this format. You can present in a reasonable way.
>>25007305Not writers block, but drive to sit down and write. When I draw I get serious art block and same face / same pose, but writing is effortless when I do it. Do you post anywhere else, I've enjoyed these blurbs.
I need book suggestions based on this idea I have for a novel:>new viral disease reaches pandemic levels>starts with flu like symptoms>leads to deadly brain inflammation and death in those with already compromised health>lowers IQ>progresses to various forms of frontal lobe damage >erratic behavior, memory loss, speech disorders and personality changes such as total loss of inhibition>tons of bizzarro world behavior >ends with a violent zombie like state before death >5 childhood friends deal with the issues arising, they mourn the changes their family members undergo >one of them catches the disease, confronts traumas in the form of hallucinations and out of bodies experiences before believing himself to be his own father and committing suicide mimicking his own father's suicide >crescendo is them fleeing a mob of crazed homeless people, one girl gets separated and raped >one guy commits a heroic sacrifice in order to save his girlfriend and gets stabbed to death in a stairwell>body of the novel consists mostly of trying to stay safe, keeping up with the news, while going about their day to day life as the disease progresses and things start falling apartComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25009197The west post 2020
>>25009210precisely what my main inspiration is. I'm basically writing future headlines
>>25009197I'm pretty sure this is just the plot of The Walking Dead.
Books that changed you or your perception of the world, that made you divide your life in before and after them,
>>25008484it's a critique of husserl (phenomenology as epistemology), but also of all western philosophy, since he thinks they are all driven by the same impulses, and have the same problems, the problem of the concept of a first or something on which epistemology could be based, which actually presupposes the identity of thought and being, and thus was latent in parmenides. it's basically an inverted hegelian view of the history of philosophy, where western philosophy is all developments of the same starting point, but in adorno, it's a bad thing. >>25007466the sutra itself is some kind of hyperphantasic cosmic vision, the main effect of reading it comes from its endless repetitions and variations, I can't describe the effect of reading the sutra itself, but the introduction written by Thomas Clearly changed the way I think permanently. He describes how huayan buddhism overcomes all previous schools of buddhism by surpassing one-sided views. people typically look at nagarjuna's philosophy of emptiness as the most profound statement of buddhism, but there are actually several stages higher than that.
>>25008103For me the side effect was more so taking occultist influence more seriously, I was never much of a Hegel fan and the first time I read Goethe's criticism of him I immediately agreed with it. The more interesting part was looking for religious motivations in everyone else, a lot of times thinkers would just repeat their religion's ideas with some make up on top as if it was completely new. Nietzsche also helped with that given the whole genealogy thing.As for what to get out of all of this I would say a lot of ideas have been repeated for at least 1000 years, just go to the source. A lot of the supposedly Christian mysticism many philosophers dabbled with is just kabbalah, for example. For an example in politics: there were "globalists" in Rome as well. And when you read about the origin of things there tends to be less bells and whistles.
Reverend Insanity
>>25007304Kind of prepared me for this day and age
>Schleiden told the philosopher Rudolf Eucken that Gauss read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason five times. The fifth time he is reported to have said: ‘Now it’s dawning on me.”
>>25008194that's really all their is to if. you just keep banging yourself over the head with it until one day it clicks
Makes sense. Gauss was formally trained as a mathematician so other disciplines will take a bit of a windup.
>>25008194This only happened because Gauss didn't have the Cambridge Edition. It is also true for every famous work of philosophy. We lived in blessed times
>smartest 18th century revolutionary mathematician>too low IQ to easily grasp epistemological metaphysicsalso funny to think the anti-pytagorean read Kant
>>25008194yeah this never happened, Gauss thought philosophers were retarded.
English is not my first language, but im already at C1 level. Which literature book should i read to improve it?I mostly read non fiction about tech or crime.Would Mark Twain and Dickens be appropriate? If not, what should i read?Btw im not indian, dont worry. Im argentinian.
>>25008070ShakespeareJohnsonDickensJames
>>25008070Ulysses
>>25008080>>25009166no
No I think Dickens would be a mistakeGive Raymond Chandler, Hemingway, Orwell, Dashiell Hammett and John le Carré a tryDon't bother if it's really difficult
