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>>24742330
Do americans not have libraries?

>>24742289
Nowhere is the gap in dignity between physical and digital releases so wide as with books. A physical volume has personality and provenance; why would I deprive myself of that for no reason? I get it if it's something you simply can't find/afford a physical copy of, but there are countless lifetimes of great books you can find for cheap or free.

I find that borrowing from the library enforces time limits to my reading. Feels more like a deadline and there’s so much to peruse through.

Anna’s archive and libgen straight to my Kobo for everything else.

>>24743089
libraries are for their containment boards for hobos

If it’s digital don’t you worry that the text could be changed by Israelis? They have some pretty bad spy software

>>24742469
Thank you. Even Aquinas agreed

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Lol
In the 2nd part he goes over another counter-argument people often levy against this stance and that is if all human actions are determinate from previous causes then isn't the chain of causality gonna lead all the way back to big G and that is impossible since He is supposed to be all-good and perfect?
Hume's response?
A single paragraph where he goes "oof yeah you know this is actually a really solid point but umm you know we can't question divinity and the explanations for such seemingly paradoxical things is beyond philosophy and uhh wow God works in such mysterious ways!"

Lately ive been getting over my German Idealism pedestal putting influence from this board, and wondering if Kant (with all the flaws of his transcendental idealism) ever truly refutes Hume.
Considering reading him after im done with Bergson

>>24742699
Bergson also BTFO's Kant though, enoy your read

>>24741726
It's well known that reading weakens memory. Singers would dedicate their entire lives to memorising and performing Homer until it was eventually recorded and partially constructed in the court of Pisistratus.

>>24741726
Considering Egypt literally had its own accounts of the Trojan war, the answer is blatantly obvious that they wrote it down.

>>24741726
The ancient Israelites all memorized the Torah and would pass it down orally through the generations until it was eventually written down

>>24741726
the vedas were passed down orally with perfect fidelity so obviously it was possible, but with bardic poetry it presumably evolved as different reciters added their own flavor to it.

>>24741726
You realise there's no definite version and most of the time they had to make it on the go?
>>24741903
Not that hard when ancient means 1945

>>24743274
The Tartar Steppe

>>24742322
Everybody hates Putin.

>>24740118
The churkas were pretty placid though. The ones chimping out were the Balts and Russians themselves.

>>24742314
Israel is teeming with random Slavs that are about as Jewish as a drive thru McRib on a Saturday, basically all of which immigrated in the Soviet era. They’re so abundant they even have their own successful political party.

>>24743267
Is this true? Why would Israel allow them in then? What party are you talking about?

>>24731216
I'd never heard of this goofy motherfucker before this thread, but this quote makes me want to read him.

>Where's my money?

>Worm
>Good
When did this meme began? You guys know that the popularity of something (specially web novels) is not correlated with its quality... Right?

>>24743197
>Because someone claimed Worm is the best web novel ever
nobody claimed that, you legitimate schizophrenic
did Wildbow fuck your wife or something?

Maybe I am actually going to read "Journey to the West".

>>24743248
it's the most readable cultural epic

>Saving the school would have been easier as a cafeteria worker
This is a terrible name for a story. The comedy tag doesn't help it either.
The story itself is so much better than the name implies.

>>24742834
If you sit at the serious table and start talking about jewish fairytales as if they are real, it's going to be mentioned

>>24734677
why are religious people in belief that 'atheism' is some kind of movement to debate and fight? anyone who doesn't believe in a deity is an atheist; no one but a redditor makes it an identity or lifestyle
you should stop legitimizing redditors by responding to them

>>24742841
Atheists have no way to account for ethics, metaphysics or epistemology. What do you make of that?

>>24742713
>lol, lmao even.
I can't be a hypocrite here, anon. This is how I reply when someone bangs me up, too.

>>24742848

Because several major religions (particularly christianity and islam) have an imperative that their religion must be installed in every human being, or as many as possible. For a serious believer of either strain, it doesn't matter whether a non-believer (for example, every baby) keeps it to themselves or is vocal and annoying about it, becuase in principle they're always trying to "help" the non-believer by converting them. OTOH, there is a difference. The quiet atheist still represents a problem for them because he supplies an example that it is possible to live differently (and he'll go to hell and we don't want that for him). The loud, annoying atheist might actually get some people onto his side, which would be even worse and contrary to what each strain is trying to do as a long term goal of cultural reproduction. Happily, the increase in irreligious attitudes pose a serious problem for them, one which they are-unhappily-successfully mitigating by breeding en masse.

The "live and let live", "separation of church and state" attitudes that you're channeling are modern aberrations from the historical norm, and in a sense this liberal ideal is downright unnatural. Whichever culture, society or worldview is dominant, that's the one that spreads and reproduces itself. Sustained equilibrium between competing worldviews is a fiction.

>>24742523
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>>24742285
Is there really any comparison between these four novels? Brat and Novelist, sure, at least in subject (young guys struggling to write novels), but the intent and approach seem pretty different; these are the two I've read. Then Paradise Logic and My First Book are full of modern lingo, and I don't know more than that.

>A Novel That Helps Explain the Manosphere
lmao i'm out

>>24742504
Give us a summary of Muscle Man

>>24743140
Harold is a depressed professor of English literature at a small liberal arts college. He goes to school hoping to see his work friend Casey, the only other professor he enjoys, who has also been getting him into weight lifting. Harold thinks about weight lifting and his desire to be big and strong and spends much of the book thinking and flexing and wondering where Casey could be. Momentarily concerned that he sees a knife or a gun on a student's backpack, he steals said backpack and begins carrying it around, growing increasingly paranoid that someone will notice or he has been caught on camera. He sits in an empty board room waiting for a faculty meeting to start, hoping no one notices the bag, wondering where Casey is, and flexing. He interacts with some students and then learns the meeting has been moved to another room. He sits through the meeting. It is awkward. No one laughs at his attempts at humor. Casey isn't present so he texts him but does not get a response. After the meeting he goes to the gym. He eats a protein bar in the car on the way there and puts his clothes into the backpack. He lifts weights, wishes Casey were there, thinks about weight lifting, and tries to avoid looking / being caught looking at young women exercising. He goes to the sauna, listening to a weight lifting youtube video on Mishima, while he admires the physiques of the three other men in the sauna. He drops his phone which results in what he's listening to being overheard. One of the men, Asian, engages with him on Mishima. He is about to leave for home when he gets a phone call from another professor asking him to come back to the college for an important meeting. He thinks he's about to be confronted for stealing the backpack and hides it in the bathroom trash. At the meeting he learns Casey has accumulated a number of complaints over things he's said that come off as right-wing coded. Harold compiles a list of things he's heard Casey say and submits this as anonymous testimony. Later, Casey has either been fired or put on leave. Another professor asks Harold if he can help him learn to lift weights. Harold agrees and flexes. Harold realizes Casey was the one who made him dislike the college and other coworkers. He finally feels strong. End of book.

>>24743177
Ich danke dir, mein herr.

>>24743249
Peter Zeihan - Accidental Superpower

>>24743165
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I salute whoever was sitting in the back.

>>24743224
I ain't clicking that. I don't want your porn.

>>24743239
It's just dolphins.

>>24743255
>dolphins
I don't even want to imagine it now.

>>24742930
Oh that one. Says it's a novel though. Looking for actual history honestly.

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>>24741864
not many good books english books dealing with the Somali Civil war, let alone during those years. most books are very general in focus or are mass produced american "battlefield report/retelling" slop to capitalise on the forever wank for black hawk down. here are some books i think are decent
[Abdi, Basha Ahmed 2019]Somalia... Where to?...
good general book about somali history though mostly focuses in from post ww2 to the present. book isnt soley dealing with history as its arguing for somali unity as a solution to current balkanisation of the somali regions. author has written hundreds of pieces about somalia in various journals and papers, had to flee somalia after writing a critial piece about Siad Barre back in the mid 70s.
main pros
>extremely readable, written a bullet point-ish fashion and allows for jumping in anywhere
>cites sources well
cons
>not sure if this book is available outside the US
>third half is mostly dedicated to modern day somali/somaliland politics
>book assumes reader is muslim. may need to read about islam more generally to get stuff
>50% of sources are in arabic or somali

[Kapteijns, Lidwien 2013] Clan Cleansing in Somalia
main book focused on the civil war. specifically the Isaaq Genocide which is scarescly ever actually discussed. pros are

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>>24743082
Thanks. I appreciate the effort

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>>24743091
Adigaa Mudan, Jalle

>>24741864
maybe not exactly what you want but shake hands with the devil by romeo dallaire was pretty good. some interesting theories from him (he led the UN peacekeeping mission) on both sides knowledge and working behind the UN's back

He is legitimately a better person than the people (destiny, vaush, h3h3, etc) who dunked on him at this point

Granted that’s a low bar but still

>>24741817
Has he ever gotten angry before? He always seems so calm and well-meaning.

>>24741817
He looks familiar but I can't recall his name

>>24743230
he gets angry when people bring up that documentary made by that far-right catholic show that interviewed a bunch of recognizable members of his church (by people who watch jesse's channels) who admitted to having gay sex with him

>>24739972
>Extreme narcissist remains narcissistic
Many such cases

>>24739876
>>24739914
A bad trip on LSD fucked my life up for literally a decade. I took it on a dime in senior year and had brainfog, intrusive thoughts and hallucinations for a decade after.
Tried every religion and cope you could think of, nothing solved it expect multiple long silent and difficult buddhist meditation retreats.

>>24739941
DAE think it's suspicious that the anecdote-teller is always involved in his anecdotes? Seems improbable.

Try overdosing.

Excuse me this thread had zero to do with drugs. Can we get back to original topic of the op?

>>24743216
Yes, however this book cannot be understated. It is still a slam dunk. That aside, can you recommend me some of these others I can look into for my own personal study?

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>You will come out a changed person when you see religions

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>>24743111
Refuted and eviscerated

>>24743236
>can you recommend me some of these others I can look into for my own personal study?
A favorite from the theist POV:
https://www.amazon.com/Principle-Sufficient-Reason-Reassessment/dp/0521184398

A favorite from the atheist POV:
https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Hiddenness-Human-Reason-Schellenberg/dp/0801473462

It's not that Dawkins is unaware of such arguments. It's just that he can't handle them with as much erudition as specialists.

>>24743229
>Selfish Gene is embarrassing too.
lol you just outed yourself as a massive idiot