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>Antarctica in the 1920s, when Lovecraft began his active work, remained a little-explored region, which fueled the writer's interest in it.

There is nowhere left like this today except outer space, which is objectively cringeworthy.
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>>24736807
The bottom of the ocean, dummy.
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>>24738489
I have spent a good amount of time deep in the forests, no matter how far in you go, how remote you are, you always find signs of humans if you take the time to look.
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>>24738502
must be in north America

Siberian boreals and other waste lands have likely never had any human contact because of how remote and inhospitable they are
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>>24738872
must be in north America.

Also must be retarded and certainly never spent any time in Siberia or norther Russia where things are considerably more inhospitable that Siberia and still filled with artifacts.
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>>24736807
>There is nowhere left like this
>>24736814
>More than 80% of the world's oceans remain unexplored, unmapped, and unseen by humans
>Umm... *YAWN* so what?
I fucking hate you people.

tyrion stroll edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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>>24739612
the Seven gave the Andals the power to conquer Westeros and cast down the blood sacrificing demon worshippers who inhabited it before
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>>24738777
boring and gay fanfic
saying this as a sansa hater myself
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>>24739645
There doesn’t need to be a higher power for those things to exist. It’s literally just a form of soul-magic (or really advanced telepathy, since GRRM is a science-fiction writer after all), which can be aided by certain substances or genetics.
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>>24739670
It was the Rhoynar who gave them the power to do that by teaching them how to work iron and even then they were still btfo by Theon Stark.
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>High Septon dies
>no one gives a shit except the political leaders who see him as a pawn to control the smallfolk
>except the smallfolk don't give a shit about him either

It's kinda crazy, Cersei let a radical sect take over the church and no one gives a fuck until they start doing militant shit. You'd think we'd hear from the smallfolk while Brienne is wandering around bumfuck nowhere like, "Oh yeah the Sparrows are in charge now, things are looking grim/better. They'll drag the kingdom into heresy/greatness as they spread their lies/restore the true faith. And no, I don't care that priest is doing miracles in the name of the Red God, I'm quite content with my nothing happening while I starve to death during the winter."

No, it's only brought up when it's an inconvenience to Cersei and Kevan. Honestly he could've just copypasta'd some early Christian heresies like "The Father is the only uncreated God, the other 6 are created beings or forms" since the Seven emulates a lot of the aspects of Trinitarianism. It'd be SO EASY. But George didn't even take time to write a creed or confession of faith for the Fot7. He is beyond lazy.

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Solid advice or schizophrenic nonsense?
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>>24740112
college is job training. Reading a book 5 times doesnt prepare you for any job.
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>>24740136
> college is job training
unc…
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>>24740112
from my experience professors act like a bridge between the source text and the other scholarly comments made on it. now GPT can replace 90% of them.
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if there's a man who never talks out of his ass that man is charls carroll
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>>24740112
Need it to do what?

>>24740136
>Welcome, Mr. Anonymous. What makes you qualified for this position with our company?
>>I read this book five times.
lol

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What Redditors are saying about Honor Levy

>holy fuck I wish I never read this
>the worst people i know are excited about it
>it’s astounding how poorly she writes
>The one excerpt I saw is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read in my life
>You couldn't waterboard me into reading a full book of that, Jesus Christ

Is she our girl?
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>>24739115
>Her writing gives Pynchon which is what Reddit loves.
Hi Honor. Nice to see you here ragebaiting again
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>>24735928
Why on earth are you obsessing so hard over Reddit?
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>>24738546
kek
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>>24735928
>4chan
did she make this thread?
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>>24740082
almost definitely
no one here has even read her except me (pirated), and i thought her book sucked and i've never made a thread about it and never will

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Nietzsche was so based
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>>24738067
How do you parse the multiple beings you encounter? That's also your own construction.
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>>24738173
>have brain in a fixed region of time/space
>have brain which creates orderings based on its time/space
>create symbol-independent game of space-time orderings
>woah like, i have access to direct reality man
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>>24739962

It's not, and my proof is that it's comparatively much more easy to be a meaningful contributor to some field in maths. You don't have to be mathematics' top guy to make a contribution. In philosophy, you get primarily non-meaningful contributions of cataloguers who analyze concepts, guys who wax eternal about what a previous thinker meant, various ists, le epic "what if we combined x and y philosophies" and droves of charlatan retards. Serious contributions are generally massive winner-takes-all scenarios in philosophy
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>>24736197
My Little Pony?
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>>24740033
yes but actually studying and doing the work for math is harder, maybe thats just a me thing because language is a much easier realm for me than numbers

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Why do you read? Be honest.
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>>24738911
For pleasure and inner healing
https://youtube.com/shorts/UwaIJb_R4Kw?si=wsefMuiouOWKA9b2
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>>24739494
Then fuck chicks. What doesn't give women the "ick" these days? I'd rather be free and a fag than enslaved to a hag
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>>24740061
Burn in Hell queer
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>>24738911
For entertainment generally speaking. If the story isn't thoroughly interesting or a page turner I WILL abandon it. This includes things like history AND philosophy.

It must be at the very least INTERESTING.
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>>24740091
ok cool :3

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This book is dogshit. Complaining about the mediocrity of the art establishment is something; but if you do, don't be even more mediocre than them. Just name drops imageboard and memes for nothing, the style is annoying. Could've been worse, it's just a bit more mediocre than the lib art culture it makes fun of throughout the whole book
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BARRY
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>>24733639
This is the gayest thing I've ever read in my entire life.
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>>24728950
Bumping for the Woolston review
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BFTWR (Bumping For The Woolston Review)
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Woolston bros...

Predicted British teenagers in the future talking like idiots and doing violent crime for clout, what else did he get right about the current state of the UK?
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KUBRICK IS A HACK
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well i mean i liked the movie but it was interesting how they replaced the Beethoven statue, that seemed kind of odd, some changes here and there such as removing the true ending of the story, but visually its a very nice movie considering the decoration and scenes
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>>24739792
Basically everything except the endless hordes of brown invaders but he addressed that with 1985
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>>24739792
What are you talking about? Thus is the opposite of the modern UK.
You can go to prison for liking a post in social media. The kids in this book were murdering and raping and easily getting away with it.
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>>24740063
Bold of you to assume the law applies equal treatment to those things.

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The hotel staff, I think, considers us useless freeloaders who have come to America – land of honest laborers with crewcuts – to eat them out of house and home. I know all about this. Everyone bitched about parasites in the USSR too, bullshitted about how you had to be useful to society. In Russia the people who bitched were the ones who worked least. I've been a writer for ten years now. It's not my fault that neither state needs my labor. I do my work – where's my money? Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?
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>>24738398
It's Me, Eddie is more a thinly veiled memoir than a fictional memoir, hence the subtitle. It is pretty good but picrel is what a fictional memoir really is.
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>>24738398
Wow, he wrote three fictional memoirs about a guy just like him where all the facts conveniently align with known facts about him. What are the odds?
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>>24738844
>all the facts
well where's the proof then?
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>>24738318
“NazBol” is a meme ideology, sure but the more I think of it the more I owe the failure of the USSR and its complete and utter dissolution to its multiethnic makeup. All of the minorities in Crimea, in the Stan countries and Asia- all of them revolting and causing problems were what led to the failure of socialism not socialism itself as an ideology. A racial state with closed borders and extremely marginal outside influence is the only way for communism to survive in the current time. If communism were adopted in the US it would immediately fall to minority infighting- think about it. They love rioting but they hate each other.

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I feel so paralyzed, I know a version of me exists out there

Someone who’s happier, freer, more successful, more confident, better looking. But I’m stuck here.
Is it possible to reach him? I want to become a new person. To transform from a caterpillar to a butterfly
Every day is as mundane as the last. I’m still living in my own mind, a captive. With the same thoughts running over and over again
Every daydream is the same
The same room, the same thoughts, the same unreachable desires.
My body is decaying and my mental health is in rapid decline.
The noise of isolation and loneliness is deafening

I know something more exists out there. Beyond the "border" they treat people as human beings. Maybe I could find kindness and safety when it vacated my native land.
Maybe I could find opportunity when it was nowhere to be found in my birthplace.
Maybe there, beyond the "border" I'll find a sophisticated life, I'll find ease, I'll have the chance to live my youth and act my age.
Maybe I could attend a respectful college or school where I could learn and grow.
Where I could meet people ever so diverse in thought and color.

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>>24738382
Thank you**
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>>24735226
>le depressed 16yo doomer who instead of socializing with friends spends all of his time on the internet and then gets sad about it
so fucking gay
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>>24739013
You don't know shit.
I love it how you people keep projecting and assuming your own insecurities
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Oh to be 12 again.
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>>24739052
>I love it how you people keep projecting and assuming your own insecurities
found the insecure nigger. Hit the nerve with my description, huh?

Is there really any difference between spending 2 hours reading a great book vs 2 hours reading a shit book vs 2 hours watching a movie vs 2 hours watching TV vs 2 hours scrolling? Any way you're just killing time, not really accomplishing anything.
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>>24739173
2 years so far
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>2 hours reading a great book
it calms your mind, makes you learn new ideas and understand somebody's thoughts much more, it also makes you more empathetic, also reading is first and foremost a really great method of communication.
>2 hours reading a shit book
it all depends on your taste of course but if we're talking something like Earth, Wind and Fire etc. those books are mainly entertainment and escapism which is not bad but not quite good enough when it comes to reading
>2 hours watching a movie
movies are great and also make you reflect and think, be more empathetic, learn new things; especially if it's some great movie like Frozen River, Night Moves, Sideways, American Woman, Network, The Deerhunter, History of Violence etc. Of course there are dumb movies like the Marvel movies but those are mainly good for entertainment and dopamine hits.
>2 hours watching tv
depends on the series of course, most of them are time filler tier, but if it's a good show like Treme, The Wire, The Night Of, Succession you get all the benefits of watching a great movie but with a longer time frame sort of like you would get from a good novel. Now, of course reading is still more beneficial and "healthier" but there's nothing bad about watching a well written series
>2 hours scrolling
now that is mainly time wasting and dumbing down your brain, with a few exceptions of course but still
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>>24736099
Damn massive dong
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>>24739151
yea but how you know
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>>24736099
well if you want to accomplish something, this dick ain't gonna suck itself

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Without.... You know without p-a-y for them
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>>24738982
None of what you said makes any sense. Piracy isn't supposed to be a way to "make money" and if it ever was it was just people in markets selling burned DVDs or camrecorded movies from the Cinema. That hasn't been the case for a long while now, and piracy is for people who want things for free. How on earth were you making money from it? Do you live in the third world?
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https://standardebooks.org/

https://www.gutenberg.org/

https://archive.org/
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>>24738952
>reading books in pdf and not epub
The state of this board
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A lot of times archive.org only has really shitty scans available, but they have a lot of content the other sites don't. At least seeing a shitty copy lets me know if it's worth pursuing.
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>>24737351
I'm not a thieving kike rat sooo.... I wouldn't know.

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women scare me
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>>24733292
Yes, math done by a notorious race of swindlers and fakers.
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>>24738519
People on 4chan aren't indicitive of normie trends. Whereas most normie women love true crime and extreme smut.
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>>24739145
People that support war the most are always the ones that won’t ever have to fight in one. This applies to all kinds of people, not just women.
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>It's another shutin virgins whine about woememes thread
You pathetic fucks just love being miserable, huh?
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>>24739145
Milspergs are uniformly male. Women aren't interested in that all and are unmoved when a thousand sailors are killed instantly in a magazine detonation. Violence on a statistical scale does not interest them. Rather, women are interested in the relationship between a murderer and a victim because it's "sensual".

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Does the origin of consciousness point to a divine source or can it be purely material?
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>>24738109
Consciousness points to life and is only divine insofar as life as a whole is divine. Consciousness is merely an organ of the animal for the purpose of the development of life in general and its propagation. The origin of consciousness is similar to the origin of any lifeform and is a working of the world-organism into its destiny of becoming universalised.
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>>24738109
Not even the material can be "purely material" as in describable. Every description rests on assumptions, building blocks which a model is constructed out of. Whatever it is in reality that's analogous to those assumptions logically precedes and is beyond anything we're describing.
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>>24739433
Truth can be spoken sarcastically.
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take a look at Thomas Aquinas argument of the eternal nature of consciousness or of the soul. It basically because we know the nature of geometry, perfect lines, perfect circles, we know the formulas for making them, that begs the question, how we know eternal truths such as these, because perfects geometry does not exist in the world, it is as if geometry is the structure by which the human mind operates, so the mind must be something more than just matter.
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>>24738131
Is it?

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>>24738149
I've been posting my wips in wng. Even then they usually get no feedback, which sucks a little but it is what it is.
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How would “fear of being a leader” manifest in a character as a flaw? Is there any way to make it work for a very young character who others really wouldn’t expect to be a leader?
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>>24739926
Look at Aang from ATLA
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>>24739926
Maybe he had parents who are too demanding, maybe he fucked up once and somebody got hurt. "Fear of being a leader" is often fear in general, so the person would be the shy awkward type. Kids don't get the responsibility of being a leader, only if they had to care for a little sibling instead of their parents, I guess.

Younger person leading older people doesn't work that often, unless it's some temporary alliance of an educated noble youth and illiterate peasants, which sounds marxist af

I don't really agree with the other anon's example, because it sounds like "fear of not being perfect", which is such an edgy teen mary sue "flaw" to have
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>>24739926
Read dune.


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