This book is reddit. Pure reddit. I spent the entire time reading it repeating the words "This is reddit, this is memes, this is reddit, this is memes..." under my breath.I fucking hated it. I was writhing around on the floor in front of my sofa for the last 30 pages it was so painful
>>25186602this might actually be real but its like a 10% chance as opposed to the regular 0%. regardless this is how i want to be if i see 89 or 90. theres a dude at my church who does pretty heavy house and woodwork well into is mid 80s and if i could be a mix of him and this maybe-copypasta that would be awesome
>>25186823Lurk moar
>>25186602what?
lurk in the smarmy murk of my gangrenous vas defrens, white boy
>>25186602>electrical infetterencei think that’s spelled wrong
Are there any good essats or books that push strong arguments and reasons as to why traditional gender roles are superior to the modern version of womens roles and womens liberation?Stay at home mom = strong children =strong community=happy and healthy peoplesMother raising kids> the state raising kidsPerhaps even some writings that breakdown the mind of people that seem to be so bothered by these ideas
This is the dude that built the Coral Castle in Florida. The sweet 16 section of the book has some grand ideas about relationships and women.
>>25185343it's not really a question of winding back the clock because the family unit evolves alongside technology and economic conditions. as a unit of economic production even the nuclear family has been rendered largely obsolete. from that perspective it's a question of capital ownership, the so-called "traditional" households that you're referring to would be a specific craftsman class within a larger society where the family home is the main site of production. here the husband and wife function as both skilled technicians and business owners, relying on extended family and social links to support themselves. while such arrangements are still feasible in the present they tend to only exist in insular communities (often religious and immigrant groups). it's not enough to simply want a "traditional" home, since the best you can achieve as an individual is a crude simulation thereof at enormous expense (and conspicuous consumption is the logic of the system).just from the perspective of homemaking, the same processes that booted serfs off their land and onto factory floors also reduced wives from skilled producers to consumers. to manage a house five centuries ago required a significant amount of knowledge in food production, storage, textiles, economics, sanitation, etc. all of those now are specialized industrial products one must purchase. good luck finding a contemporary woman who wants to be a stay-at-home wife who also knows how to milk a cow, make cheese, and get stains out of linen without buying cleaning products
>>25187089>I just read through your other posts in the thread and you're basedThanks :)>their horrid mistreatment of women.Yeah. Niggers are too fucking retarded to debate anything and so they beat anyone who disagrees with them.Tradition ends up limiting them because some extremely strong nigger once decided he created the best system ever, and every beta male feared him too much to disagree. They feared him so much that they instill that fear in their children too. "Woah, you can't eat pork, the scary strong jew will beat you up! He really hates pork." "Woah, don't eat cows, the scary jeet will beat you up! He really loves cows!" "Woah, you have to elongate the women's neck, the scary nigger loves women with long necks!"Beating up women is the first and main symptom of a society that can't articulate the reasons behind their system. That system will always fail, because it's inherently irrational.>>25187323>woke feminists love brown muslims , even after you explain to them muslims "opress women"
>>25185412>globalized industrial farming was never criticized chud!!>also fuck capitalism!! Hail MarxKek
>>25187840Who cares if Marx criticized it? He's an idiot. A schizophrenic idiot at that.
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25186733Lol I remember World War Z has Israel the first one to suspect the zombie threat.
Yeeeeeehaaaaw
Fellow readers, how does one promote a book these days? I've already created an audiobook versionNote: This is an earlier cover
>>25187663Buy an ad
>>25187640Also the jews invite all non-infected goyim including Arabs into their nation. Lol!
Does something like this exist in Western literature? An amoral main character with no sympathetic qualities, yet whom you're still supposed to root for?All the examples I can think of a "villain protagonist" either are actually an anti-hero, or you're waiting for his downfall.
>>25176367Just go to Reddit or Amazon and look for female erotica novels under the genre "Dark Romance"
AHAHAHAFuck you Reverend insanity fags, it’llNever be finished, you will never get your ending. All those thousands of chapters for nothing!
>>25187460Perhaps the along the way
This entire genre of "literature" is nihilistic as fuck.
>>25187859I've read plenty with moralfag MCs
How the fuck does this get published?
>>25180855Similar, but with more sex
>>25180847Gooners happened
>>25181457Source for this? Not that I doubt it just wanna keep the studies handy whenever a woman copes about how we’re totally equal>>25180847To think OP’s pic related makes redditors guffaw and clap their hand slike this is peak wit
>>25180847almost 4.5 starts from 2M people btw
>>25181269>chad>reddit humor>reading booksNah, chad is taking her to see the movie, barely pays attention to it, takes her home, fucks her then ghosts her
What books do they read?
>>25187752Audiobooks are like a guided meditation and dont cause the listener to think as actively in the imagination.It doesn't spark all the same neurons>>25187727Kanye should start a book club and go on rants interpretation them
>>25186287From left to right>nothing>Ian Smith’s autobiography>Despite what people say about him being low IQ probably at least basic economic stuff and trade deals. Stuff pertaining to running a business>probably bought Mein Kampf out of curiosity and made it three pages in before getting bored
>>25187765>the guy who make music for the dumbest people alive should start a book club
Leftist tears the Novel
>>25187756Musk is an avid reader, you just assume he doesn't read because he's a techbro type. Sure, his knowledge of the humanities is a void, although he definitely, as already mentioned itt, likes science fiction but also books of popular science the likes of Carl Sagan or Dawkins
the walls of tyrosh 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: >>25132678
Winds is taking so long because Grrm is writing a 200 page sex scene between resurrected Jon and Lady Stoneheart
>>25187435Do Braavosi and other free cities speak it too?
>>25187693No.
>>25187519As the other anon said, Daemon was legitimized. It was also widely whispered that Daeron himself was a bastard born of adultery. Plus he was skinnyfat, peace loving and showed too much favor to the Dornish who were still considered alien by the rest of Westeros
>>25184915Because they’re heckin’ progressive, I guess.
give me some real life "all the fire that we hold tomorrow"s.who are these bookshops even for? booktokkers? bookshelfie instagrammers?
>>25187628>I dont buy brand new books very often, when I do its online because Barnes and noble rarely has what im looking for. They shrunk the history section significantly so now it is hitler, the British royal family and pirates mostly.Can resonate. I stopped going to bookshops because they never restock the nonfiction section. Wanted to go through the entire Byung-Chul Han's bibliography, but every time a new book of his comes out, they put like 3 copies on one of those benches in front of the entrance, they last a week or so and then "You gotta order the book, anon, we don't keep him in stock!"At least my public library has them.>>25187188Those have absurd titles with extremely long subtitles (usually with millenial humor) that summarize the content of the book.https://youtube.com/shorts/dFNP4XSG7The weirdly poetic titles is what YA authors use when they switch to Adult fiction (or Wattpad authors writing their first traditionally published novel).
>>25187163>those who readNah you just like fast food, oink oink piggy
>>25187121Chris Hedges has the best epic titles in this style
>>25187628>They shrunk the history section significantly so now it is hitler, the British royal family and pirates mostly.fuck man.what country?
>>25187812>Nah you just like fast food, oink oink piggyYes, Barnes and Nobles feeds the soul of the ideal Woman.
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>>25187721Bruh the US spends trillions of dollars on the "poor" aka black people who don't want to work.
>>25187801You're supposed to capitalize Black now
>>25187807I shan't.
>>25187815I don't care what you do, I'm just telling you what you should do.
>>25186051There's 8 billion people. For any single thing a person can do, someone else has probably done it, usually many people, and if you hate that person for it, you automatically hate all the other people in that group.The stupid lazy (but in reality tribal) part which I don't subscribe to is if there are other things that the group shares and you start hating anyone who has any of those traits, sometimes even to the detriment of the original reason.If you hate black people because they rob, that's fine, if you hate them because they're black, that means you hate black people who don't rob, and are okay with white people who rob, and you are the plague of society.
What do we rate the tastes of Labour MPs in 1906?
>>25187632it's a function of the british upper class's pure hatred for their native working class. their sole motivation is permanent punishment for the existence of weekends. they're even willing to destroy the country just to keep that up
>>25187763>i remember a time not to long ago when jews were more focused on crucifying corbyn than they were on beating the toriesftfy
>>25187768I agree there's an unpleasant and unhealthy resentment of the population at large, sort of reverse class resentment, from some "upper class" i.e. relatively wealthy people. But I don't completely see the point you're making. Not saying you're wrong or anything, I'm probably missing something obv.
>>25187584>pretty sure this word has no meaning, you haven't had "classicists" since the 17th centuryThis is an established term in contemporary usage. I did my undergrad in Ancient History and Philosophy and my partent school was the Classics department. Lecturers would refer to us as young classicists, and to themselves as classicists. I would see the term used in contemporary publications and the wider community. It just refers to any student or scholar of Greco-Roman studies. Sure the quality of classicists has declined, I was surprised at the proficiency (or lack thereof) particularly among female teaching staff, and among students even on Latin and Attic Greek modules was not expected to be very high to pass.
>>25186084my brother henry george at number five
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.Previous thread >>25146787
>>25184937This is indeed the existentialist/Heilniggerian reading of neesha, which is right, but is kind of incomplete. Neesha is not concerned about the problem of living life "second hand" so much as he is concerned about life-denying ideals/idols. He is very well aware of the fact that everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants, we are all always living life second hand as we belong to traditions, cultures, elitisms, etc. Rather than the problem of second-handness, Neesha is concerned with the problem of life-denial/reality denial. He sees this as an instantiation of the power of value-reevaluation . Our ability to reevaluate is so powerful that we can literally deny life itself, live towards death, live for the sake of false idols/ideals. Note however, that this isn't a widespread "our ability", this is distinctly the ability of intellectuals, philosophers, and in the past, priests. Regular people cannot do this. Everyone doesn't have this ability in them, in fact, most people do not, even with education, or high social status. >>25184938He's not against slavery by any means, or against exploitation, or against denying the authenticity of others.BGE (§188):“Every enhancement of the type ‘man’ has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic society—and it will be so again and again—a society believing in a long scale of gradations of rank and differences of worth among human beings, and requiring slavery in some sense or other.”He constantly describes a need for a pathos of distance, and for groups! to separate themselves from others in order to advance something. Elitism necessarily comes at the expense of someone else. This doesn't mean elites who only stand in a position of commanding either, they have to either command or obey (older cultural developments) depending on the context. And importantly, he repeatedly states that his work is for the few, to be understood by the few.
tripnigger begone
So is math synthetic a priori or analytic?
>>25187753>synthetic a priorimental illness
>>25187753Kant says it’s synthetic because it rests on intuition. Hegel says it’s analytic because it proceeds by equality. Fichte says it’s a meaningless distinction.
There’s a classical criticism of German Idealism — Fichte, Schelling, Hegel — that compares their philosophies to a spider’s web. The Idealists, the charge goes, spin their vast conceptual systems entirely out of inner resources: reason, the self, pure concepts. The result is intricate and impressive, but ultimately self-referential — a web connected only to itself, touching nothing solid outside. Fichte’s ego-philosophy gets the worst of it: how can you derive an entire external world from the pure self-positing Ich? Critics from Jacobi to Herbart to the Neo-Kantians argued that genuine philosophy must begin with something given, not merely posited. The web is beautiful, they said, but it catches nothing.But this criticism rests on a distinction that dissolves under pressure.Consider what “the given” actually means for the empiricist. The world is simply there — presented to a passive mind that receives it. This is supposed to be epistemically innocent, unproblematic, pre-philosophical. But Kant already showed that the given is never simply given: it is always already structured, conditioned, taken up by the forms of intuition and the categories of the understanding. The “raw datum” — pure, uninterpreted Stoff — is itself a philosophical posit, not an observed fact. The critic who appeals to “what is simply given” is spinning a web too. They’ve just forgotten they wove it.Now consider Fichte’s Tathandlung. The Ich is not arbitrarily constructing itself from nothing by an act of sheer will. It finds itself as already there — given to itself, which is exactly what the Tathandlung tries to capture: an act that is simultaneously a fact. The Ich is the one case where the condition of appearing and what appears are identical.Here’s the point: the I‘s self-positing is a limit case of givenness, not its opposite. In the same way that the world’s existence is inexplicably given to the empiricist — no explanation of why anything is given at all, it simply is — the I is inexplicably given to itself. Both are philosophical bedrock. Neither admits of further grounding without regress. The asymmetry the critic assumes between “positing” and “givenness” collapses: they are both primitive, both unexplained, both foundational.The spider-web criticism would only land if the empiricist had some genuinely neutral, unposited ground to stand on. But there is no such ground. The empiricist’s “given” is as philosophically loaded as Fichte’s Ich — it’s just hidden behind the appearance of passivity.
>>25182423You also should read plenty of Hegel first.
>>25182197Vocation of Man I thought was quite good and interesting with the concepts of the butterfly effect, determinism, proto-existentialist leanings et cetera but picrel was too A=A and I=I for my liking, going into a direction of toothless toothpicking
The entire project culminated in... uh... the common sense. Le world is le real, trust le heckin science - DOGSHIT!
>>25187761Honestly there is truth in this. Kant and Fichte in particular don’t stray far from common life even if their theorizing is wild. With Fichte there is the aspect of political radicalism but even so. “You are free, you need to do the right things, the meaningfulness of life isn’t something you deduce it is the starting point for everything else.” What Hegel would call the ‘corpse’ of the system, the mere result, is more or less just this.
>>25187743>butterfly effectYes his thoughts on time, immortality, predestination etc are really eccentric and interesting. My favorite part of that book is actually part 1, the dogmatist section, because he’s at least partly talking about his own youth and the despair he experienced. I know he wrote something called Night Thoughts at the time but it hasn’t been translated. Schelling makes fun of Fichte for VoM and saw it as a retreat into theism, which is ludicrous it’s just a popular presentation of what he had been saying for years. His speculative works definitely won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, nothing wrong with that. But I assure you they are very interesting if you’re masochistic enough to work through them.
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>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.
>>25187701>Odyssey(again)nice which observations do you have that escaped you on the first read >Seneca's letters to LuciliusKino, it's like getting advice from your former self after drinking deep from the river Lethe (if you hold metempsychosis as an axiom)
Is Familia Romana a good place to start?(I know it has probably been asked many times)
>>25187717Yes. You’ll do great. For the love of all that is good please use the familia Romana companion unless you have a lot of prior experience with language learning, tolerance for ambiguity, and are willing to promise to fix your own problems instead of coming back here a few chapters in complaining that you don’t get it.That plus a lot of independence and looking stuff up as you go.
>>25187717Yes but I think you should supplement with a full autism grammar like A&G.
>>25187719>>25187726Thanks. I got this companion. We'll see how it goes before having to go into serious textbook materials.
were standards just different back then? I can’t really see a guy like him pulling today, when most women's baseline prerequisite seems to be tall, athletic and outdoorsy .
>>25187556Yeah sex is used to control peopleGood sex is ruined by porn brain teaches antisocial sexual behaviorsCeremonial sex magic is real. Its just like perfectly focus on your manifestations and it'll work
>>25187397He was pretty handsome, tall, witty, and athletic (he played football throughout his life); as well as le deep and edgy. He was also a womaniser and serial cheater who was emotionally cruel to his women. He was basically everything a girl seeks in a man.
>>25187397>back thenHouellebecq is still doing it today bro
>>25187397There's women for every niche, they hunt the dick down like truffle pigs
>>25187742>Houellebecq is still doing it today broisn't Houellebecq's whole thing being incredibly bad with women?
Most of Marx's writings are either economic books, critiques of Hegelian thought, or historical analysis. He never left a coherent epistemology or metaphysics, and never really developed an ontology. His only philosophical work that I know of are the Manuscripts of 1844, but they remains very poor in their philosophical content. So why is he considered as one of the major thinkers of philosophy when his thought was as complex and philosophically rich as Montesquieu's thought was ?>dialectical and historical materialismMarx used a hegelian method to analyze history and society, but, apart from the German Ideology, he never really developed it. Even then, he doesn't really present a big and structured account for his philosophical thought but rather relies on a philosophical critique and historical presentation.
>>25187685LVT isn’t something that can “work” or “not work” it’s simply pointing out that labor is what is common to all commodities. It is literally that simple, it’s not a theory of how values arise (why is the artisan’s labor more productive than the porter’s?), Marx doesn’t even pretend to understand this, referencing instead a ‘social process’ which he does not elaborate on because he didn’t know how it worked (no one did at the time), and it doesn’t matter one iota for the arguments he is making in Capital. Anything political or religious is a guaranteed pseud-magnet on this board.
>>25187741>lvtLtv
>>25187707>Value as a human concept is a thing within societyI'm not entirely sure what you mean by this but if you're saying that valuing is something we do as societies, communities, etc., as well as individuals, then yes I agree.Calling it a "thing" is still a misleading way of talking about it in my view, and an inheritance from naive metaphysics. To be more specific: what is primary are (1) personal attitudes (psychological) and (2) collective practices. Subjective accounts of value that Austrian economists tend to prefer tend to look at the former and obscure the latter. Labour theory, as >>25187741 points out, has to do with the latter.The point is that there is not one thing, "value," to be explained by one theory, but multiple actions and processes of valuing, both individual and collective. Just some quick thoughts, perhaps you agree?
>>25187685I don't know what "doesn't work" means here. Any common sense supply-and-demand law suggests that if labor outweighed value, and item would not be produced, and that if value outweighed labor it couldn't do so for very long due to market tendency toward equilibrium. Especially today when arbitrage happens in a fraction of a second down to a fraction of a cent.
>>25187799Economics is a sociological study. If it can't define basic concepts like value or money, then it is worthless.No, I don't. That's the entire premise of Marxist in contrast to bourgeois liberalism. Liberalism says that society arose from individuals whereas Marxism posits that the human individual, especially the modernist individual, is a product of society. This is the exact opposite of social compact theory. Marxism positions that production is a synergy between labor (transformation by man's hand) and nature (transformation by other than man, e.g. weather and so on). The idea that a specific man does his person labor, is a misconception. Marx makes it quite clear that labor theory of value has zero to do with individual labor. Zero. It is a measure of a society's labor. An individual does not have his private labor, he works in the context of a society comprised, in Burke's words, of the living, the dead and the unborn. His very language and identity and skills and tools are derived from incalculable labor by his fellow men toiling everywhere and in every time. Markets appraise values, individuals don't. Markets appraise values based on LTV, that is energy in human labor the good or service requires. In proportion to other goods, that is exchange value.
