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I question God everyday even thought I claim to be a Catholic
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>>24733365
Evidence <> proof. But Christfags like to gloss over that.
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>>24732649
Most pious Catholic.
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>>24732649
God doesn't like people who tempt him. You're on the level of lucifer.
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>>24732930
It's more like a found object since Moses found Yawheh among the Midians in the Sinai, where he was a bloodthirsty volcano god.
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>>24732811
As is the case with my hands. They must be Creator

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who comes to mind when you hear "elegant prose"?
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>>24733030
This.
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>>24733065
Aristotle
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>>24733030
Clark Ashton Smith. Some of his short fiction is pulp slop, but I'll be danged if his prose poetry isn't some of the prettiest prose I've ever seen in my life.
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>>24733030
>The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies: for, as nature has equipped the lion with claws and teeth, the elephant with tusks, the wild boar with fangs, the bull with horns and the cuttlefish with ink, so it has equipped woman with the power of dissimulation as her means of attack and defence, and has transformed into this gift all the strength it has bestowed on man in the form of physical strength and the power of reasoning. Dissimulation is thus inborn in her and consequently to be found in the stupid woman almost as often as in the clever one. To make use of it at every opportunity is as natural to her as it is for an animal to employ its means of defence whenever it is attacked, and when she does so she feels that to some extent she is only exercising her rights. A completely truthful woman who does not practice dissimulation is perhaps an impossibility, which is why women see through the dissimulation of others so easily it is inadvisable to attempt it with them. – But this fundamental defect which I have said they possess, together with all that is associated with it, gives rise to falsity, unfaithfulness, treachery, ingratitude, etc. Women are guilty of perjury far more often than men. It is questionable whether they ought to be allowed to take an oath at all.”
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>>24733312
Waldun got really good

wait a second, so you're telling me that america's strategy to defeat communism in china was to offshore literally all of their industry there and just wait for the chinese to magically convert into capitalists for some reason?
give me your best book recs to understand this civilisation wrecker of a political decision
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>>24733332
Nope. The world isn't interconnected at all. Jews want people to think it is, but it's not.
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>>24733420
Where was the device you’re writing this message on made, where was it engineered and where were the resources to make it sourced?
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Is it over?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx3ZID1E0sU
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>>24733300
ESL hands typed this
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>>24733428
China isn't the globe, kiddo. That everything is manufactured there is a strike AGAINST globalism.

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Who are the greatest French poets? Which are entry level and enjoyable vs very difficult?
I want to try reading Mallarmé but I've heard he's extremely difficult and nearly impossible to appreciate if you aren't a native speaker/advanced FSL
Ezra Pound and TS Eliot admired Jules Laforgue but I've never heard of him before
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>>24733252
Apollinaire is great, but I'm not sure about reading him in translation
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>>24733309
What's your favourite poem of his?
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Oh I thought Apollinaire was mostly just a poet but he seems to have written a ton of prose as well
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>>24733376
il pleut, because it's kooky

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>Calypso offers Odysseus immortality if he will marry her
>he still says no even though he admits she is way hotter than Penelope

Why?
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>>24733375
She didn’t directly keep him captive though, she saved his life and he was just stranded and she wouldn’t aid him in figuring out how to traverse the ocean. Presumably as an immortal sea demigod that wouldn’t be a limitation for him
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>>24733314
genuinely what's the point of putting on a hijab if you're gonna slather your face with whore makeup at the same time?
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>>24733397
It's like how there are Jewish group where the women are supposed to cover their hair so they wear a wig over it.
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>>24733397
Most Muslims who put themselves out there on video are usually not very devout. Many of them fear that videos and photos taken of them could be used by evil magicians and thus take care to limit exposure (we probably should aswell).
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>>24733397
>>24733422
Truly, no matter what rules man devises foids will find a way to foid

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Any books that disprove this meme?
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>>24732894
Idea that the principle of non-contradiction doesnt quite hold up once self-referentiality gets involved is not exactly a crazy exotic idea, its just Russell's paradox or the liars paradox or the omnipotence paradox or Godel's incompleteness or whatever you want to call it.

Not saying those problems necessarily lead to dialectics as Hegel formulates it, but once you start working with self-referential abstract concepts (which is ultimately the domain Hegelian dialectics is concerned with, not really the application of those concepts in practice) the principle of non-contradiction is no longer an obvious given.
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the principle of non-contradiction applies for objects, and abstractions of objects. That's why getting rid of it completely destroys all of mathematics and everything that rests on it, i.e. all of science. It doesn't apply for subjects, which is what anons ITT have already hinted at. Aristotle says as much when discussing substances (which are subjects), and how they can admit of contraries.
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>>24733231
Why are these thinkers analytics for some reason?
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>>24733405
But dont mathfags get into paraconsistent logic to skert the LNC
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Explain your ideology in three books and four words
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>Jesus Christ is Risen

The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of John
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of Mark
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>>24729521
excellent, with a blessed timestamp to boost
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Hard rain falling
Hyperion
Stoner

To sneed or not?
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>>24729430
The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin
A Christmas Carol, Dickens
The Magnificent Ambersons, Tarkington
: Bah, Humbug! Riff Raff!
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>>24729430
>Siege by James Mason
>Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
>I haven't read any other books so no third book

Clear the world.... by force

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I'll start

"ontological"
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>>24732744
>tfw 130 IQ sperg
How to avoid trooning out?
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>>24733359
if trooning out would make you happier then do it anon
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Retarded thread, first of all, most iq tests never get beyond 160, so youre a fucking retarded midwit for that.

But also, the higher iq you are, the stronger correlation with mental illness, its like you retards dont understand IQ, its the same with the opposite side of the IQ curve, its just that their mental illnesses are like disabilities rather than personality dysfunctions.

Your idea of what high IQ people are is a complete fabricated delusion.
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>>24733396
>the higher iq you are, the stronger correlation with mental illness
I wonder if back in the cavemen days they thought the same.

>us 60 IQ grugs normal
>100 IQ grug mentally ill
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>>24732767
As opposed to fitness dick in your mouth?

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women scare me
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another incel thread...
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>>24732567
Met a girl who said her favorite Shakespeare play was Titus Andronicus andafter reading it and seeing her visceral reaction being pleasure towards the thought of it made me stay away from that fucking freak.
I would have reported her a witch had we been living 500 years earlier.
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>>24733279
>>24733292
Sounds wrong desu
>>24733293
There is nothing "incel" about this.
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>>24733253
Womeme must be really boring if that's all they read
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>>24732567
pottery

I'm applying for a course in Poland that requires an
>"An essay on why justice is important to you, especially from an interdisciplinary perspective (max. 1,000 characters)"

This is my essay:

Justice as the foundation of civilization

One can argue that justice is the foundation on which every prosperous civilization is built. But what exactly is justice and why is it so important? The roman philosopher Cicero argued that civilization is at its core a collection of people united by their respect towards justice. The ancient Greeks saw justice as divine law that triumphs over chaos and anarchy creating prosperity. Similarly the Vedic concept of “dharma” emphasized the role of law in maintaining social and cosmic balance. Justice is what creates high social trust and what enables people to cooperate, innovate and create with a higher authority guaranteeing that they will taste the fruits of their struggle. Justice is important because it transforms individualist struggle into collective progress and prosperity. An unjust society is fragile and unstable, innovation turns into risk, cooperation into betrayal and work becomes meaningless.

Can u rate it from 1 to 10 and give me suggestions on how to improve it.

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If the universe is a simulation, does our existence still have meaning?
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If the universe were a simulation, then argumentation would be impossible, for knowledge is required for argumentation, and knowledge requires a self which can't be within a simulation.
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>>24733202
Consider the paradox harder, until you apprehend my meaning.
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>>24733336
Why don't you explain yourself you fake ass useless vague homosexual
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>>24733377
Everything is meaningless.
Thus this sentence and the first fail to convey meaning.
But! You've understood all which I've had to say.
Thus everything can't be meaningless.
No?
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>>24732455
The word simulation means to deceive with actions
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Simulation

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Now don't be a meanie and spoil it.
I bought it after having read Anna Karenina- well it's been some years since I've read it.
I don't know if it's the specific book I've gotten but I'm already faced with a bunch of French passages and translations in the footnotes. A bunch of despicable boring nobles.
I should know better than to ask, but it gets better right? And when it does, it's not simply about war, is it? There ought to be some peace as well?
How does it compare to Anna Karenina is what I'm asking.
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>>24733325
>Anna Karenina.
Incomparable prose artistry. The supreme masterpiece of 19th-century literature.
>War and Peace.
A little too long. A rollicking historical novel written for the general reader, specifically for the young. Artistically unsatisfying. Cumbersome messages, didactic interludes, artificial coincidences. Uncritical of its historical sources.
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>>24733355
I don't mind the length. I wouldn't say that your criticisms are what I thought to be the case but I welcome them and thank you for your input. I suppose AK started with a bunch of nobles frolicking around just as well, but there's something about high class dinner parties wherein the author doesn't ridicule the characters which turns me off from reading.
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He's actually dead the whole time
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>>24733355
>look guys! guys look I've just read those quotes where Nabokov talks about writers look!

Post a movie and get a book recommendation.
I'll start.
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>>24732871
Not super similar in plot but atmosphere, I Am Legend by Matheson, or Memoirs of a Survivor by Lessing
>>24733111
Obvious ones are The Trial by Kafka or 1984
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>>24733230
Correction by Thomas Bernhard
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>>24732816
The Crow (1994)

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DUSTROY TROLY

Has any woman in the past 50 years written anything worth reading? Picunrel I haven't read it
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>>24732274
>trad/right wing women don't read at all
Right-wing people read far less compared to liberals, and white right-wing men read way, way, WAY less than any other demographic group. There's a solid chance that /lit/ contains 1/3 to 1/2 of all white right-wing men who read in America.
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>>24733324
she lurks here sometimes and shilled her book here some. I hope she knows I want to impregnate her. I hope she knows I want to coat her face in cum. I don't really care about her books at all, I just want to knock her up. Will I ever be able to do that? No. But I can think about it while jerking off to pictures of her.
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>>24733360
Good for you. It’s nice to have dreams.
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>>24732646
>most books are "worth reading."
So wrong it's not even funny. Given the sheer volume of good books out there and how little time people actually have to read them, the process of picking out what to read should imply selectiveness and careful consideration.
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>>24733004
kek, i do not give a single fuck about your sexual conquest or the utter delusion that this book was responsible for getting a crumb of pussy but okay good luck getting laid anons.


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