>>24772211
Dubs confirm

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>>24776999
this whole thread is psychotic spergs yelling at each other, all of you have legitimate autism

>>24781067
only non-retard itt. congrats

>>24774581
>stopped a low IQ, low-impulse individual from transitioning
That was very noble of you.

>>24771887
I'm going to cuck him and cum in the book

>>24782686
But you still have a million other books right there at your fingertips.

>>24767052
if you are destitute like me you cant afford to treasure hunt so its fine to have one. if i really enjoy the book i buy it physical later on for a collection.

>>24774705
>They might have a point even though they can’t articulate it
Yeah dude, I should totally rather ignore all the tangible arguments in favor of e-books people with brains make, than the few materially obsessed tards who can barely articulate an English sentence.

>>24783918
Yes but you're only realistically reading a few books at a time and if none of those can hold your attention even slightly maybe you shouldn't be reading at that moment.

>>24767052
I don't use an e-reader specifically, but I do use my phone. I'd prefer a tablet, but I make do with this phone. Does this remove the "S0VL" or the 'mystique'? For me, it's almost the complete opposite. Having access to any assortment of weird epubs online feels more liberating because I can try all the weird stuff I'd struggle to track down copies of, or have to pay a lot on shipping for otherwise. I don't have to worry about damaging my books. I don't have to worry about my poor vision being any issue, as I can resize and change the fonts to fit my needs.

Mind you, I'm not reading top-100 shit, but actively scouring filters for novels in foreign tongues that I'm into. On that note, tap-to-dictionary functionality is a godsend for improving my literacy. I've picked up cool-looking books in the past, but the texts would often be too hard to read unassisted, and the text sometimes too small for my impaired vision, that I just gave up early on. I feel free to tackle even hard reads now because I can know I am not alone without the tools do so, and that capability makes the treasure hunt real to me.

>>24783446
You also need to remember (at least in muttmerica, not sure about the rest) they count latinx, black muts and arabs as white
America is very likely an already white minority country
> By 2100, more than half of all people under 18 will be from sub-Saharan Africa
FUCKING GRIM

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>>24784125
Same here. I love our women, I love our people. Only a white woman can have a white child, and we're humanity's finest. They wouldn't be trying to deny us an identity if they didn't want to be a part of us.

I happen to like white girls. Why do you think I took so much offense to the contents of these books? Most white girls I meet try to take the general feeling of all people into account in the environments they're in. I did charity work for DOC, it was only white girls, and I mean -ONLY- white girls that cared for animals. Not a fucking single brown face there setting possum traps to save the native birds. I've seen hundreds of people at these charities and not a single brown face. I've never seen a brown girl care for an animal, I've never seen a brown man at an environmentalist preservation charity either. I'm a low empathy chud who gets dragged along by my family, but I know what I am and don't deny it.

Non-white girls could be pretty. But take a fucking look at how they treat animals in their third world shitholes. How they whip and beat donkeys all across north africa. Imagine having a child with one and that child inheriting that mentality. Our people are the only ones that care and love about nature and the world. A brown girl could be pretty, but she'd still torture a dog to death if it gave her some advantage.

I'm an apologetic white supremacist because I know my blood is the only blood capable of love. And yes I'm violent psycho myself, but I see what I see in my own people, and love my people for it. Even if they have too much empathy and idealism to be assertive and wish to preserve the most beautiful and caring race that ever existed, I will.

>>24784221
>I happen to like white girls.
You say this as if it was something rare, when pinkos by a wide margin are only interested in other pinkos
>it was only white girls, and I mean -ONLY- white girls that cared for animals.
How many of it is done as a way to gain good boy points though
>How they whip and beat donkeys all across north africa.
True, but you have to admit white pepo can love animals way too much, the whole furbaby stuff for example. I remember I read some ancient guy talking about the romans if I'm remembering correctly, and how their women would not have children and instead would raise and pamper monkeys and other animals as their offspring. Sounds familiar?

>>24784276
No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage. I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as Karens for so long is because they're genuinely nice people, who take the shit you say at face value. It's a way for you people to virtue signal too, go along and care for animals. If you can, that turkroach Hasan Piker couldn't even resist shock collaring and abusing his dog on stream, I doubt you'd last a week before breaking the wings of a small bird. The single claw of a dog is worth the life of 1,000 people who would abuse animals. The English in particular take great offense to animal abuse.

You don't think I'm close to non-whites too? We live in demographic replacement countries after all, and we're forced into the same environments. Do you really think a brown girl hasn't vented to me about how Steve Jobs and Bill Gates didn't actually come from poor families and had nepotism? Dumping all this information on me in a longpost, whining about how social mobility is a myth? You think white people don't see Indians worship tech billionaires like gods? You think I haven't said "don't people in your country get married younger?" (based on a statistical fact) and the person in question just dismissively going "Oh that's just for poor people". Never heard a white person shrug off and say that's for the poors. I might online, but even I wouldn't IRL.

You want to prove me wrong? Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.

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>>24784308
>No actually, I don't think they do it just to their advantage.
I didn't say they only did it because of that doe
>I think the only reason you've gotten away with slandering them as Karens
In what part of my post didn't I even alluded to this?
>go along and care for animals
I personally don't care for it, but my dad and sister rescue animals
The rest of your post is pure seethe so I'm not going to address it. I'm guessing you think I said all of that in bad faith because I call white people pinkos
>Work to take these anti-white books off the library bookshelves, speak up about how white people don't deserve this treatment.
We don't really have those in my country, same with the racial grifting, people have tried to do it but it doesn't stick up here and its quickly dismissed

>>24779579
Chind mortality is fairly speculative to begin with. As are quantifications of the past.

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>>24782631
Very true.
>Skepticism means we ought not affirm universals. Therefore my nominalism wins by default.

>Skepticism means we cannot know the Good. Therefore my liberalism wins and is "good" by default. Everyone must pay into and abide by this system, which we have justified through an appeal to our own ignorance.

>Skepticism means we cannot know being. Therefore my empiricist phenomenal materialism wins be default.

>Skepticism means we cannot know man's essence or things divine. Therefore my voluntarism and exclusive humanism must be the default for all people except in "private" spaces.

>I am skeptical of rational desires, noesis, ecstasis, etc. Therefore we must just assume my instrumental and wholly discursive notion of rationality.

>We must be skeptical about truth. Therefore my deflationism is true. We will be "pragmatic."

"Pragmatism" is normally the catch all solution to skepticism, but it should be obvious that either things are truly "useful" and knowable as such or they aren't. If they aren't, than an appeal to "pragmatism" and "usefulness" is just an appeal to appearances, whatever we currently desire and feel is useful. But this is just a more convoluted path to Thrasymachus, Protagoras, and Gorgias, affirmed over and against Socrates and Plato, by dint of a mere appeal to ignorance.

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>>24779804
100% agree. What is interesting is that Dante's purification and return to the "Earthly Paradise" of Eden is very much framed as a return to nature, not a supernatural transformation (that only comes in the Paradiso). To be natural IS to be oriented rightly towards God.

Dante is in agreement with all the Patristics here. Pic related is a great collection of Patristic thoughts on this subject and their core idea is of course that it is the Fall that is unnatural. The idea of a pure nature is incoherent as it is God "in whom we live and move and have our being," (Acts 17:28). Likewise, the celebration of the body and the Transfiguration militates against such a separation. For Dante, souls must be purged of lust, gluttony, etc. on Mt. Purgatory precisely because the bodily, natural appetites are essential to the diefied man. All of nature is sacramental.

The abuse of Saint Thomas and the rise of the nature/super nature distinction shows that the Reformation wounded the Roman Church quite badly, pushing it into the very corrupting heresies it originally sought to push back on.

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>>24777539
As pointed out, not every modern accepts all of these. I think the more fundamental divide is simply this, that modern thought does not accept any robust form of intellectus/noesis. It also does not accept that contemplative knowledge can be gained from "spiritual exercises" and the cultivation of virtue. Pretty much all prior thought, Eastern as much as Western, admits of this sort of knowledge. That might be why, despite being isolated by vast differences, they are in many respects all more similar to each other than modern thought. In modern thought, everything must be "public" and accessible to the "disinterested observer."

Hindu thought has jñāna and buddhi, Buddhists have prajna, Taoism has its own intuitive knowledge.

The main modern argument about these traditions disagreeing seems a bit weak though. They don't disagree more than modern thought does. Honestly, I think they disagree much less on what is truly important, such as ethics and the virtues. So, why then is contemplative knowledge written off?

It has to be question begging because sheer empirical sense data and discursive reason alone cannot justify the epistemic position that only these are valid and they virtually all past thought is simply delusion or fantasy.

Pic vaguely related, Orthodox monks agreeing with Taoism.

>>24782551
This shit goes so hard man, i know it's largely a matter of taste but i wish every book read like this

>>24780348
How is 100 years and crime and punishment on this? I thought they were challenging but not difficult. Faulkner or any philosophy book is far more difficult

Heart of Darkness is only difficult to get through because of the egregious racism.

>>24780364
Quentin

>>24780348
I literally finished Finnegans Wake an hour ago. It is amazing, I'd likely never recommend it to anyone irl. It was captivating but I don't know if fulfilling is what I'd call it.
I also found The Divine Comedy more difficult.

>>24781613
You are so stupid that it causes me psychic pain

>>24780647
having never read vineland is the ending as ridiculous and marvel-esque as the movie?

i was surprised at how disgustingly bad the ending of one battle after another was, i think overall it would have been salvageable if the glowies killed bob and his daughter or at the very least left them to rot in prison indefinitely. really though i know i have no one else to blame but myself for expecting anything more than what you are given in this schlock of a film. a film about revolution is always going to be doomed to fail when its spawned from the anus of hollywood elite.

>>24783688
lmao internet anger is just impotent screaming into the void, in real life you’re just some meek guy with a low tone of voice. Being angry all the time when interacting with faceless strangers on social media only robs you of that energy you claim to be channeling and posions your soul in the process.

>>24784332
you're absolutely seething, m8

>>24784162
It's ridiculous because that's how Pynchon do, but it's a whole other animal from the movie.

In brief:
>everyone is white
>the mom comes back
>no DNA proof because those didn't exist at the time
>daughter is a cyberpunk ninja

>>24784188
Man and Superman

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>>24784188
Her marriage to Christ is one of the best, but of course the best is Christ's marriage to his Church.

>>24784230
Christcucks are such weird little sickos

Is this that incest manga?

>>24784464
Catholics are heretics that mix the Christ cult with the Roman pagan shit. They are quite sick.

>>24784351
>k

>>24784351
Tfw a twink will never write me a letter like this

I bought the Pléiade edition of Rimbaud but only 200 pages or so are dedicated to his writings the rest is just his letters, I was expecting him to have written more
Which are the best letters to read?

I don't know who this is. Why did you make an eceleb thread on the literature board?

>>24784341
>that one video where he copes and seeths about chuds calling certain books reddit

People who like to pretend they're smarter than they are and tinge on narcissistic.

>>24784213
He got his following because he used to make short meme videos with some clever jokes, then he pulled a bait and switch and started making "booktube" content with a heavy emphasis of leftist themes. His videos about books are nowhere near as successful as his old content and his comment section is full of the same old jokes that /r/books has been regurgitating for years

>>24784341
Pretty much. Dude is a complete midwit.

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>>24778400
The shadowy figures that direct the directors of the US secret services. IE Freemasons.

>>24778412
He's practicing capitalism. He's a failure. Marx was nurtured by the British Fabians. A continuation of statism and the injustice that comes with it is why the backed the Leninist bolshies.

>>24780607
>still Donald J. Trump.
Netanyahu is allowed to browbeat the man. The CIA shot his fucking ear off as a warning not to get in the way of the Mason/Zionist plan. Don't be a fool.

>Xi talk
He is not a king. The party will replace him with another commu-Han they deem "best guy"

>>24778451
Trump already served his purpose in the civilizational cycle, he’s not the protagonist anymore.

>>24782085
This.

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>>24778412
The giga Chad Xi stuff is a bit funny because his image in a lot of inward-facing Chinese propaganda doesn't fit the chad/virgin spectrum. He's not in shape, doesn't exercise, doesn't get angry or cuss out people in public. His image is more like a wise and steady uncle and many of his appearances is giving technical but basically obvious advice to normal people like farmers, engineers or cafeteria workers:
https://youtu.be/o7WG0iim-T8

He's a jack of all trades, Xi is. But in a way that does feel extremely Stalinist.

>>24781338
Prigozhin had more of a "history on horseback" vibe than Putin does.

>>24781338
>too much groveling before the US
do you have any examples?

>>24783740
It is a classic in its own right; you have to read it to see it for its richness, that it could not have been made in modern times in the method of making a novel, even if inspired; it has to be from the ancient times it claims, even if compiled and redacted.

>>24783740
If you're serious, get the annotated version. I've heard from a mormon friend that it's very good.

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>>24783985
>>24783817
2 recommends

>>24783985
based mormon friend haver

This book is really quite something special. It is truly unique. No book confounds the reader like this one.

>>24784364
Second this

>MC gets involved in a feud with another character
>Murders that character and extinguishes his entire bloodline
you see this a lot in chinese novels but isn’t this primitive honor culture behavior?

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>>24784452
it's cool

>>24784452
In the absence of a strongly justice-minded power with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force, how is that not the optimal move?
I suppose one would also want to slaughter their animals and burn their villages to the ground to ensure you don't miss anyone who might hold a grudge after.

Being known for outrageously out of proportion revenge is one way of avoiding conflict in the first place.

>>24784452
I think it's supposed to be reminiscent of Chinese civil war antics and the type of stuff Ghengis Khan would do. I don't think Chinese engage in this type of stuff over family feuds.
Also you could argue it's kill or be killed with these cultivators.

>>24784196
>i thank you for it
You're welcome

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>>24783999
>What causes the Redditor Lexicon?
Xenoestrogen

>>24784161
This, and they are pussies

>>24784130
Gays love camp

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>>24784056
It might feel juvenile because there's no subject. If I say 'fucking hell he's sick' instead of 'fuck you, you're sick', it seems as if I am avoiding confrontation; more importantly, that I am unable to hold a position on something, unambiguously. In that case, the swear words lose their potency, and it becomes obvious that I'm using them in order to signify a potency of thought which I lack.

>>24784115
Already get plenty. My diet, activity. And body are all healthy. I don't drink or do any drugs either. I only pray to God every night to be dead the next day. Thats the only thing I can look forward to anymore. I've just never enjoyed any bit of this

>>24784293
>Already get plenty
how? you don't go outside.

>>24784354
I already said I do everyday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM

>>24783745
what the fuck is TL for us idiots?