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>God does not exist, He is being-itself.
Is he right?
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>>24784724
>being does not exist
Was he retarded?
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>>24784820
That is like the most basic Monist comment imaginable - “thinking as being” and being as above change. God wouldn’t exist as he isn’t outside of the creation but rather is part of it.
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>>24784893
I feel like you should first clarify what you mean by God being existence, and what a "shadow-existence" would mean. Perhaps you mean a shadow-existence in a broader sense, like if God is the universe's first moment and his creations are that moment's consequences, but you can't just attribute to God things that don't make sense.
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>>24784925
clive was a P.I.M.P.

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Which epic poems have you read, anons? And what do you think of the epic? Can epic poetry be written in the modern period? Think ‘A’, Cantos, Paterson, and Omeros.
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>>24771243
What truths
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>>24773596
POD?
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>>24784775
Print on demand
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>>24784751
>Divine Comedy
>folk tale
kill yourself
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i havent read hesiod but i intend to

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When you write or speak, do you consciously look for words or are they delivered unto you by Mnemosyne herself?
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>>24778499
One of the funniest parts of /lit/ is that everyone here likes to screech about how twitter is le shitter is le heckin trannies is blah blah but everyone uses images from twitter constantly (this thread, for example) and starts threads based on twitter hot topics constantly
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>>24780458
this image is from reddit, sir
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>>24780458
We get xitter screenshot threads all the time, not one missing in a day. I wonder why we hate xitter so much, it's practically posted by OP (She/They/Shey/Xhi) everyday!!
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>>24778499
Who?
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>>24778499
>Good morning, Clarice

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I read some of the "anti-racist" biographies at the public library, and the level of hatred these brown women have towards white girls is insane. There was one with a black girl at some anti-racist seminar just demeaning and making fun of this white woman doing her best to apologize for her implicit biases and privilege.

With all these books about race being published everywhere, all these experiences as a diaspora. When is the actual unspoken truth going to get published? the burning resentment and hatred that non-white women have towards white women? Or is that too much for the publishing industry?
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>>24784495
None of this really applies to non-diaspora, it doesn't really apply 100% to diaspora either.

I just feel pure hatred and resentment based on race because our culture is undermined and our people are being attacked. Am I being particularly nasty and mean spirited? Yes, absolutely. But this is me being the one nasty person throwing dirt directly back, compared to the hundreds of books and an entire anti-white industry embedded in government and the corporations. But you're right, I'll tone down the hatred and seethe.

>>24784699
I just don't see young women doing the boatscrote shilling anymore to a sizable degree. Sure, some wealthy ones do. But take a cursory look at any pro-boatscrote protest in the UK and it's all old women. Germany has a whole "Omas gegen Rechts" (grannies against the right) because boomers have to 100% make sure we exist as a dispossessed minority in our homelands, it's really really that important to them.
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>>24784110
>but pulling the dick out of my ass will cost me : (
Just a bunch of cowardice and excuses. You're in the era of "black fatigue" becoming one of the most widely shared and appreciated memes on the internet. The public's ready for it, and you didn't even have to do any of the work. Find your balls and start pushing the envelope. Alternatively, make some lifestyle changes and surround yourself with people you don't silently look down on.
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>>24784770
Eh don't worry
I understand why you chimp out like that, as I say before, whites have been completely defang and made the safe target to attack. So its normal you start spraying venom to everyone
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>>24779476
The astronomically overwhelming majority of books published in English in the 2020s are by white people.
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>>24779467
The level of hatred all humans have in general is insane. They're like rats.

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Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

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>>24753638 (Cross-thread)

>Thread Question:
You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
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>>24784312
No, his earlier work wasn't like this at all.

I swear he had an idea for a movie, but he was like, "Fuck, I need to write it as a book first" and he just spewed out the first things that came to mind with no thought.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/james-cameron-write-joe-abercrombie-the-devils-1236235447/

I remember it gets worse as it goes on, good luck anon.
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>>24784463
Needs to be anime
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>>24784463
Having James Cameron do the writing with you seems like an insult even for Abercrombie. Also it's not like Jimbo will ever film it but if it did you know he would outsource city design sp you'd get pajeet AI- Vatican immediately.
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>>24784265
Sorry horsefag. Maybe she'll turn things around in Red God. If she and Darrow lose hopefully she'll get a noble death at least. Abomination redemption arc incoming btw
Also Victra best girl.
>>24784269
This. Ruocchio is a big Iain Banks fan thoughbeit.
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>>24784484
How is it an insult? Cameron writes all of his movies, and he's written some other people's movies too

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just a cool factoid
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>>24784248
Based. Did you get bored of your middle class lifestyle and crashed out drunk and now have found yourself in a drug smoking meth?
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And I'm descended from Arthur
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>>24784290
No I was always poor.
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>>24784303
Same, but also due to population collapse and statistics so is basically every European, just not documented, insofar as there was a specific king that the legend is based on.
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>>24784197
>Fanfic character descended from fanfic character
Wow cool.

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Is LOTR anything more than a trip to candy mountain or what? I never read the book or watched the movies.
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It's a rather plain jane fantasy adventure series.
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>>24784909
like Shrek?
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>>24784910
that is rather satirical, or at least comedically inverted, not plain jane.
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The quest to mount doom definitely drives the plot like you would expect, but LotR is a very 'big' book, and ultimately the quest is the tip of the ice-berg.

The one ring, for example, is a truly clever plot and thematic device, the extent of which took more than one read through for me to fully understand. But I'm a retard, so idk.
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>>24784943
The One Cock Ring

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>be gay hedonist
>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch
>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die
>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"

I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
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You either die unrecognized or live long enough in the minds of others to be horrendously mischaracterized.

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how do you respond without sounding mad ?? OR are you not mad at all ??
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>>24782357
i pirate all my books so all the authors i like stay poor and be fueled by their poverty into writinng better ones thinking those will sell (they won't, i'm just gonna pirate those too)
only retards don't pirate so only books aimed at those retards sell, sad but true
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For me, it's Sarah J Maas.
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>>24784605
SEXO!!
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>>24782357
These are all smut, yeah?--Her and adjacent authors. Can I get a confirmation on that? That would inform me of the mental state of somebody I know. . . who has a library worth of this stuff. Thankss.
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>>24782357
How rockin are her tiddies? Is she doinkable? She's a 4/10 max

I don't read YA as a rule, though I don't care if it exists

>>24784605
Deffo drinkable, she's like an 8/20

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Would a brain which has no sensory inputs - and never had - still have conscious thoughts?
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>>24784853
Considering what can happen to the brains of those subject to prolonged severe sensory deprivation, ex. in solitary confinement, I'm gonna say no, but who knows? I'm sure you could Google the question and get some good guesses and theories.
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>call handyman to fix my cupboard
>see what he's doing
>think to myself "huh, i could've done that myself"
I don't know if it's age thing or a guy thing but seeing things done in front of me and realizing its something I could be able to do is interesting.
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>>24784885
This was me when I locked my keys in my car and watched the smith use a little airbag and grabby strip to open my door in 10 seconds, could've bought those at a hardware store for less than I paid him.
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A couple years back I had an immense bout of depression and lethargy, so all I did for like 3 weeks was lay in bed listening to Youtube videos of mysterious and creepy murder stories, generally unsolved. Anyway, once I got out of it, I realized how stupid it all was, but then I also wondered if you could make videos made up entirely of fake stories and pretend they were real. Because those stories get their power and appeal from the fact that they're true stories, right? But how do you actually know they're true? Some look up the news articles beyond, sure, but for the most part you're just trusting the Youtuber, and that's where the macabre entertainment comes from, but then if there were a channel just making up stories, and the audience didn't fact check them, well, wouldn't it have equivalent entertainment value? They don't actually have to be true, the audience only needs to think they are.

And then this leads to what happens when more and more of the internet becomes just fake AI-generated stories and content.

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Post your own work and critique others.
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>>24780953
nah
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>>24782378
retard
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What's the best poetic form for a depressive poem?
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why did you have to
break my heart so callously
after what we shared
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Rapid, the air begun to cool, and quite
sharply—in the short period since dinner—
as it does on many an autumn night
when April fails in muffling the Sun's fury
during his daily tear across the sky.
The walls of my new house were thin; the gap
between the front door and the porch cement
was wide, and I felt the sting of the East Wind
rubbing its Ocean-scented unguent
over the irritated scab of Earth
I live atop of, as it seeped into,
and throughout every bit of the living-room.
I might've liked the chill a bit better
if I weren't already down to my undies.

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In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
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>>24783296
Everytime i try to read dickens i find it tedious despite being able to read what many consider to be more "difficult". English is my only language and I can read more archaic English.
I just haven't enjoyed any excerpt from Dickens
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>>24781434
That is a deliberate style choice. Like the banging of a gavel or the formulation of a legal document. It's almost like a telegram message, very mechanical and cold, reflected both in the weather/atmosphere of the scene and the contents of it (pertaining to a court of law). It's meant to sketch an unpleasant scene, a scene that makes you uneasy and on edge against the injustices about to unfold.
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>>24783888
He does have a particular style, but once you get into it, there is no one better. I like the whole first few pages of A Tale of Two Cities, but just consider this little excerpt:

France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
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>>24784045
>very mechanical and cold
my kind of literature
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>>24784049
this is just the style of the time, which we generously do not formally refer to as 'deliberately embarrassing'

Which e-reader do you have /lit/? Are you happy with it? Is it complicated to get books to it?

I am thinking about the Kobo Libra but it seems like getting books onto it is an extremely convoluted process that involves Calibre, KOreader, some plugins, and I don't even know what. And then I looked into Calibre and the first thing I see about it is that it doesn't let you put books in your own folders and it copies your entire library according to its folder scheme. Is there a better library program and a better reader or a better overall experience that isn't like installing Linux?

At this point from what I've read I think I should just continue buying actual paper books because this all just sounds like an extreme annoyance.

Or maybe I just need to install a good reader program on Windows. What's a good Windows program to read books in like ComicRack for comics?
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>>24782873
This is the first one I made. I've never drawn in my life so I don't know how good or bad it is but I personally enjoy it. It's not even sexual for me, I just draw what I enjoy looking at and when I do it I enter this sort of meditative state where nothing else exists but me and the curves of this anonymous girl.
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>>24777830
I've got this model of Kindle I forgot the name but it's the more expensive model compared to the paperweight.
I've never seen anyone else use it and apart from its different shape from other models, the difference is that you can choose how "yellow" you want your pages to be. Not really worth the extra price but it has a nice premium feel.
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>>24783795
Oasis have a bigger battery and I think it refreshes fast than all the other Kindles I have owned.
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I have a kindle paper white. I am happy with it except for the cost which is like 160 dollars for the device, 35 dollars for the leather cover and 20 dollars to remove the ads that come on the screen when it sleeps. I have however lost my kindle and had to buy another four times so that goes to show you how satisfied I am with it
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Kobo software experience is the biggest pile of shit I've ever had to deal with. Constant crashing just navigating the device like normal, the battery randomly draining (I'm assuming an issue with the 1st party sleepcover), and random DRM issues cropping up where every book, regardless of format, is just flagged as requiring some kind of authentication. Easily fixed by resetting the device, but crops up a lot.

You have to deal with looking at Amazons storefront on a Kindle, but it's still easy enough to pirate books on one, and the software experience probably just works better. I'd go with a used kindle desu

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Satanic panic edition.
Old >>24736100
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>>24783703
This but the opposite.
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What else would I like if I liked Aickman's brand of subtle horror more than the "woahh it has like a million eyes and a billion teeth and omfg I'm going cuhrayzeee!" brand of horror that is popular nowadays?
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>>24784679
For older, M.R. James, for newer, Reggie Oliver. You could also check out Walter de la Mare for another older author, but I found his prose dry and difficult to get through.
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>>24784679
Dark Gods by T.E.D. Klein
Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell
Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti
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>>24776932
It's not racist in content but in essence. "Evil aliens invading" and "ancestral curses" are just niggers invading and niggers passing on their shit genetics.

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What are some of the funniest /lit/ related things you've seen?
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I don't remember if this one is /lit/ or /mu/ but either way it's still funny
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>>24784579
I mean this German is typing in English and so should be using English format of quotation marks.
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>>24784906
English speakers should be using nordic runes instead of the Latin alphabet.


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