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He still filters normies from the grave…
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>>24822092
He did have a dialectic on this from his Extreme Phenomena article. It was comical. He blamed the sexual revolution for causing people to exert sex energy for no purpose. At some point people question what they are and it's all over, the revolution never happened. The process is the endless one from Nietzsche and since there are no answers everyone is a tranny for political purposes and no one is a tranny for all intents and purposes.

>once the orgy is over there never was liberation.
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>>24821167
>french theologian
Did a new Guenon (pbuh) just drop?

>incorrect simulations
Reality itself was always an 'incorrect simulation'. It is a consensus film, imposed by reiterated forces. None are more 'real' than the other, only more forceful. Your tendency towards God on the basis of avoiding 'nihilism' is purely utilitarian, less ontological. If anything these religious hyperrealities do already exist and they compete with deadly force.
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>>24822150
pretty trvkeful i must begrudgingly admit
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Jogging won, Baurdrillard and his purple prose lost
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I plan on reading him soon

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Anybody else working on a novel?

This is the absolutely worst, and I hate every second of it. It’s like I’m in a fight with my brain every day to start writing, then dealing with imposter syndrome the whole time I am writing, and then facing mental exhaustion that eventually forces me to stop. I’m nearing 100k words, and I just want this to be over.

I do think it’s good, though. I built a tight outline, and I’ve stuck to it. Maybe that’s part of why it feels like work, since it’s all architecture like factory work.
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>>24822271
>This is the absolutely worst, and I hate every second of it. It’s like I’m in a fight with my brain every day to start writing,

This is how I feel trying to just write a short story. It is a fight I lose every time.

A novel seems like an insurmountable challenge.
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>>24822874
compared to my cock, sure. but, again, vinyl have varying degrees of thickness
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>>24822908
>vinyl have varying degrees of thickness
enough to warrant a distinction in your already-overwritten goofball novel?
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>>24822271
My issue is that I feel confident in my ability to write, in my prose and all that. I just can't come up with a plot to save my life
I am considering partnering with someone who comes up with the plot and I write the actual bulk of the novel
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When I get a little tense sometimes I just grab a knife and slash myself a couple dozens times across my chest and thighs and upper arms where it's easily hidden. Very cathartic.

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Is it possible to purchase physical copies of the original 1610 Douay-Rheims Bible without the 1752 Challoner revision?
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>>24822206
I'd be interested in this too
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>>24822206
Did it have an introduction?
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>>24822807
https://archive.org/details/1582DouaiRheimsDouayRheimsFirstEdition1Of31609OldTestament/page/n15/mode/1up
It has a section called ‘To the English Reader’.

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>no Honor Levy thread on the catalog

When is the next book?
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>>24822996
What did she mean by this.

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>>24820163
my diary desu
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Lonely
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Man Alone - Mulgan
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>>24822956
> it is often misrepresented as a celebration of the loner, but is more important for its gritty glimpse of life during economic disaster
Your grievous misrepresentation notwithstanding, that sounds interesting. I only New Zealand literature I've read have been Maori-focused stuff.

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Still boggles my mind that Redditors push this “author” so hard. Maybe his 2nd grade level prose glides across their smooth brains so it feels good. Anyway make fun of him for crafting a universe where competence only exists in evil and good only wins through pure happenstance
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>>24817092
>just turn your brain off
i already accepted that when i started the stormlight archive series and it was still worse than expected.
it´s incredible competently written, but everything felt incredibly mechanical.
>the story
instead of just finishing a storythread it gets interleaved with chapters of other characters, which stretches each 80 page substory over 500 pages. it´s a slog but i guess people consider this writing style modern.
>the characters
somewhere between fun caricatures representing an aspect and "realistic" humans, Sanderson writes them with the worst qualities of both. They are juuust a bit too complex to be an archetype, but too shallow to represent real humanity.
>worldbuidling&magic
i expected this to be the load bearing pillar of his writing, but it was incredible stale, overly technical and awkward. At this point i dont even know if its even possible to make "hard magic" interesting.


The best summary i have seen a few years ago was on some thread where someone described Sanderson as the opposite of the messy genre inventor. Usually some author has an incredible idea and tries to bring that creative spark into reality and then fails halfway. Sanderson is the opposite, there is no spark. I think he´s interested in characters but not people or archetypes. He likes magic systems, but doesnt care much about magic. But his competency allows him to write great fantasy content.

His apologists usually say it´s just not high literature and a fun read as you can see itt. But his works wont go into guilty pleasure territory either like any cheap romance novel or isekai slop.

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>noone mentions Feist's works
Sucks to be you guys.
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>>24820543
Perrin's portions of Dragon Reborn are also kino
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>>24821461
Rand is great yeah, I really do like him as a character and I can see why he's so many favorites. I haven't read enough like true novels since I was a kid reading YA so I'm not comfortable saying he's my favorite but I can see him going up there in the top 10.
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>>24822760
Yup, the reasons I always struggled with this series is the more interesting and crazy Rand, the less PoV we would get. It's one of the many reasons why CoT is ass. No Rand.

Is there anything worse than a movie cover for a book?
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I always loved this cover and I'm so sad I lost my copy with it.
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aye, it's awful, but the cover situation has been clogged in shit for many a year.
look at the cover of today's sci-fi novels and compare them to what was the norm 40 years ago.
the whole sci-fi genre is in the crapper, desu. all that is digestible is being printed independently.
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>>24818307
Could have just used this one instead.
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Literally the second page:
>He was a tall man, thirty-six, born of English-German stock, his features undistinguished except for the long, determined mouth and the bright blue of his eyes, which moved now over the charred ruins of the houses on each side of his.
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>>24818307
5 year old kids dying of cancer I guess

swords from the big chair 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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>>24822405
I'm hoping for those scenes from the book that Anon said he would draw last thread.
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Why didn't Stannis just challenge Renly to a 1v1 to see who would keep the throne between them? Could have used blunted swords or something to make it more enticing an offer.

Better than using dark magic that would turn everyone against you.
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>>24822625
How good of a swordsman is Stannis, he was an accomplished commander and sailor but he was not like Robert in terms of enjoying the fight. Book Renly is described as basically being a Robert clone so its possible that Renly might just beat him. But then again Renly wouldn't even bother since he had the bigger army.
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>>24822598
>tower fingers typed this post
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>>24822825
Naw, if you call out Renly in front of his boys you force him to fight as to not look like a coward.

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Burke seems like a retard to me. I understand his dislike of "metaphysics" or abstract principles, and trying to derive an entire political system from them after abolishing another system into its "molecules" (individual people). I also appreciate that he understands that institutions or assemblies empowered by such abstract principles in a power vacuum CAN act with authority (make themselves obeyed), as he easily could have been sloppier and denied any such possibility. He clearly thinks it's possible, just dangerous and retarded.

But when he tries to positively prove the validity of the English constitution he loses me. He keeps appealing to what the "wisdom of the nation" did, or the "unanimous consent of the people." I understand this is a polemical move meant to counter the "political divines" who are appealing to The People and their consent abstractly. He's trying to say that "The People" DID act, and chose the maintenance of the hereditary principle in the English constitution. But surely he understands that the revolutionaries will just counter with the populist point that the people are hardly represented by a few conservative Whigs in parliament when 1-2% of the country can actually vote.

It's a disappointing book for me. I came in expecting a robust defense of conservative organicism and instead I got special pleading. I prefer de Maistre and Savigny.
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>>24822921
I wouldn't worry about any one argument, since Burke follows the typical rhetorical practice of the time, modeled on Cicero, in which you're supposed to just come up with as many arguments as you can for every point.

Read Pocock's articles on the ancient constitution and on Burke's political economy. Also the chapter on Burke in Pitkin's The Concept of Representation. I found these very helpful in appreciating the Reflections.
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>>24822960
I was just talking to ChatGPT about it and he said that Burke's whole point is NOT supplying an abstract justification of his position since the political can never be justified abstractly, only inherited and tended. That makes more sense to me but I still feel like the rhetorical effect is weak and almost counterproductive if you're on the fence.

I'll read these, thanks. I actually had the Pocock book out from the library once and only got a little bit into it. The only thing I remember is that Burke was more friendly to radical reform earlier in his life, and the dual meaning of "constitution."
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Thomas Paine wrote a rebuttal to Burke. Burke then wrote a rebuttal to Paine which addresses what you mention

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My favorite book is Dragon Rider. What are some other comfy adventure novels?
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She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard
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>>24820901
I'm not into gender politics so I'll pass on this one
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Treasure Island
The Sea Wolf
Captains Courageous
The Riddle of the Sands
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>>24820675
I started reading this, as well as Angels & Exiles, and I think Yves Meynard is my new favorite author.
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The Three Musketeers
The Long Ships
Flashman
White Fang

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>French collage exchange qt is going to move in with my parents and I in November
>I don’t speak a word of the language
Someone please fucking help me saar

Everyone talks about learning Spanish, or Greek or Latin, but would i gain more considering the state of the world by learning Hebrew instead? I used to know the Hebrew alphabet by heart as a kid but its mostly escaped me now. Its for college mainly.
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Biblical Hebrew is good if you are trying to max schizo. But you also need Greek and Sanskrit otherwise you only get a slice of the pie.
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>>24822901
>Sanskrit
nigga who are you trying to fool. Sanskrit's only relevance was in linguistics, and we already figured all that out by the 19th century.
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>I let others think for me
Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru
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>>24820707
Wrong dummy
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>>24820230
If you're going to be a weirdo anyway, learn Yiddish, definitely the best books

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Communism/socialism has persisted as the sole eschatology in Academia for hundreds of years past its time because it remained the only semi-viable myth post enlightenment.

But now the technosingularity chuds are marching out of Mecca, and the citadels of tired old left wing thought will be seized with shocking speed.

Maktub.
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>>24821619
he's right, 90% of chuds only care about tranime and vidya
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>>24820620
COMMUNISM IS THE WORST
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>>24820620
>persisted
No, that's capitalism, OP. Plutocratic Masonic capitalism. Yes. In Academia. Rightwing. Always rightwing. Prussian style schooling is for statist rightwing conditioning.
At no point did we try democracy. Voting is a mere placebo, a deception and not for effecting any changes
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>>24821695
Yeah and 99% of tranny commies like him have never read Marx
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>>24821181
Repressed homochud detected. You will never be straight

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Il a raison, vous savez.
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>>24822043
Oui.
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>>24822048
Marc-Edouard Nabe detecté
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La langue française est une aberration phonetique.
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I just read a red book
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Is this from the Sleepwalkers? I remember posting this exact quote here years ago.

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Hi, I'm newbie here.
Recently I was collecting my thoughts and sometimes I discussed it with some people and AIs. Problem is, I'm not sure if they're cool or nah. Firstly I thought of myself as a shyzo fool, now just a fool. I even wrote some of it in a dokie dokie. Some liked it, some not, some called it Manifesto even.
I just want to post it on 4chan. As a .doc maybe, or Google dokie. To have an opportunity to be slaughtered by people opinions. Can I?
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>>24820911
Skimmed it quickly, too lazy to read. I'll just tell you my vision of consciousness.

Consciousness and the 'self' is more of a phenomena than a thing (where a thing is a set of matter and a phenomena is an interaction of matter, like the wind is phenomena because it it not air but interaction of air particles). Consciousness is a process of continuous awareness and evaluation of all things that is brought to awareness by the senses or the mind.

Because it is a *process* that only owes its existence to making choices, it 'disappears' whenever we become slaves, when our choices are constrained by others or by submitting ourselves to an ideal. It doesn't really disappear, because if we submit to an ideal we still make choices and ask 'what does my ideal tell me to do now', but it's rather that eventually all the decisions we take don't serve us directly so the reward loop is broken it should be :
evaluate the world -> make good decisions -> *you* are rewarded,
but it becomes : evaluate the world -> make good decisions -> it serves others,
and so you become depressed because you've forgotten to uphold yourself.

What matters for Free Will is not that you control reality or not, what people wish to find in Free Will, the reason they have a desire for such a concept is because they see the distinction between good things that happen to them due to *their* good evaluation of situations and decisions and good things that happen merely due to external reasons.

The Good is whatever habits and practices protect your volitional choice ( gaining strength, skill, having like-minded friends, developing technologies so as to keep your independence in relation to nature, other individuals, your own emotions eating you whole, or your mind thinking it is sole), because just like any other life your good is merely to exist and continue to exist.


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>>24820911
>Transcendence. It's overcoming your boundaries, overcoming the limitations of reality, becoming more than you are.
Becoming more YOU that you were. Think it a bit differently: you are becoming more yourself shedding false skins. When you overstep your insecurities and decide to create something you literally help the divine to self-purify and to come to awareness.

>By discovering myself I create myself, give myself a form, make it clear to myself, gain an understanding of myself, and understanding of myself gives me the ability of self-control. I can accept and integrate my contradictions and become one with myself.
That's good. An alchemical process of purification, intensification, of becoming more IT than on the previous cycle.

Overall, I think your thoughts are pretty spot on. One must create and develop imagination, which the greatest gift.
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>>24820813
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GUbfCNpgkK66AbjsqznOoBJz1whFBavwTBjPJC3hPZc/edit?usp=drivesdk

This is not a manifesto, it feels like the philosophical musings of someone really stoned, you must rewrite this with the urgency of someone trying convince us that death is imminent and you are the life and the way.
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You have to convert it into fiction like the Underground Man
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How unfortunate.


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