>>24626318
>t. either a boomer or a college TPUSA freshman
And I say this as a Rightist.
The free market is not "capitalism".

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I'm writing a non-romantic fantasy book, about a necromancer. The second to last chapter is coming out tonight, and you can read it for free on Royal Road. Along with countless others.
Most male orientated fantasy coming out is now online. Going to Barnes and Noble and browsing is, whether you like it or not, a feminine activity.

>>24627131
Percival Everett was born in 1956 and his first book was published in 1983. He’s neither new nor a millennial

>>24632679
….there are shadowrun novels?

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>>24633794
>born under a black son

>>24596549
This only covers one aspect of his life, but I thought Eric Foner's The Fiery Trial was good. It examines his political relationship to slavery and how his views shifted over time. Also gives a good look into how slavery in general influenced American politics in the early/mid 19th century.

>>24631857
>Wouldnt nationally control central bank would just endless print money?
The argument against this is inflation. You have to keep the masses in check so the ruling class will not print infinite money.

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>>24623725
>Oxford History of the United States
These are some nice looking hardcovers.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/308899-the-oxford-history-of-the-united-states

>>24633409
I have not yet revealed my beliefs, but it is telling that you cannot even imagine a worldview which rejects the Christian God but maintains life has worth and meaning. You are literally brainwashed.

>>24633468
>I have not yet revealed my beliefs
You have in more ways than you realize. I equate humanism to nihilism because it insists upon itself that humanity is the only arbiter of fate.
>but it is telling that you cannot even imagine a worldview which rejects the Christian God but maintains life has worth and meaning.
Correction: Life does not have meaning if God does not care.
>You are literally brainwashed.
The alternative of nihilism is worse than the problem of evil.

Jews Bite foreskins off babies. If this is the peak of morality America was always fucked

>>24633478
You are brainwashed if you think a God is required for a meaningful life. Delusional even. It is not a binary choice between belief in God and Nihilism.

>>24630718
>Schopenhauer felt that if we eliminated strife, people would just fight for no reason because its "something to do"
Schopenhauer clearly didn't interact with very many human beings, then. Humans will engage in bickering and sometimes that does break out into fighting, but it takes extraordinary circumstances to make psychologically normal humans murderous - the most reliable method is to trigger self-defense instincts. Even soldiers in World War I were reluctant to shoot at each other until the top brass (i.e. the state) found sufficiently effective propaganda to trick them into thinking the enemy were subhuman and hateful. I mean if humans were truly as wanton and sinful as the cynics would have us believe, would God have even seen us as worthy of salvation?

>>24633881
I want a giantess to sit on my face

Do you think George knows that Stannis is like the closest to unanimous favorite character of the fans? Do you think he'll tear our hearts out or do you think he'll let Stannis win in the end in some way

>>24633624
>Do you think George knows that Stannis is like the closest to unanimous favorite character of the fans?
not even close outside of 4channelers

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>>24615354
14 years later and Jaimefags still have no answer to this:

>>24633765
The older I get the more I hate Cuckard. Joffrey was too merciful giving him a clean death

>>24633260
ywnbaw

>>24632999
I like this, though the meaning behind where you decided to line break isn't clear to me.

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What's iambic pentameter,
gives you away,
you sound like a faggot
christian altar boy, gay

>>24633288
Assume I presumed there is meaning to find beyond numbers of syllables counted in lines?

no you didn't see that

>>24628780
major themes: manslaughter, apathy

Recording machines on empty bodies,
and some idea of production.

Definite being vice versa on indefinable space,
and some attempt at reduction.

If I had wherewithall to tell you I'd take time to talk tacitly, and temper my toll in telling.

But truthfully it ought not be worth a beggars' tears in shelling.

Blinx the time sweeper.

>>24631593
Not OP but:

Clark Ashton Smith’s “City of the Singing Flame”

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>>24629996
animal fuckers are absolutely digusting but i mean.. im sure an animal would rather fuck or be fucked (not raped) than forced to live in a factory farm cage where they cant move or see light in misery then butchered, which we do to millions of animals a day... lets not even get into horrific live animal testing for useless products like shampoo. while zoophilia might be a hugely gross sexual choice that says a lot about a person, there is really no moral high ground when we abuse animals so horrifically and callously in current society.

>>24629996
zoophilia is impossible to refute on a purely academic standpoint without religion. just like it is not possible to explain why adults brothers and sisters of the same age bracket having sex is morally wrong if the act is consensual and the partners are both sterile/making use of contraceptives.

this is a known issue in philosophy and it cannot be refuted without divine intervention
basically what >>24630022 said.

>>24630022
>fundamental that all moral claims are irrational without belief in God
Whatt if I observe that the vast majority of people are wired similarly to feel bad about some things and feeling bad/making people feel bad is not good?

>>24633738
What does it say about a person? Having some king of mental abnormality that affects your sexuality doesn’t necessarily have anything ti do with your moral compass.

>>24633841
A majority of philosophers are moral realists, anon.

>>24633884
This connects to the second categorical imperative: the imperative of humanity, which directs reasonable actors, through practical imperative will, to “so act that you use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means” (39). This second mandate builds on universality by expanding the scope from inside-out (from the actor to the world, with the world reflecting back on the actor) to a general view of the intrinsic worth and dignity of all humans which ought not to—and therefore cannot—be diminished for selfish purposes. As Kant notes, “without objective end, nothing of absolute worth would be found anywhere” (37). Consequently, taking advantage of another human being necessarily infers, through Kant’s system of morals, that you have committed a paradox in treating an end in itself as a means—a purely irrational action. This relates to the first mandate, as the consequence is others can then also treat you as less than an end in and of itself, eroding not just a trust-based system, but the value of rationale as an a priori tool. This is an existential threat to philosophical systems as a whole, and certainly to morals. Therefore, this principle of humanity is a noble and “supreme limiting condition of the freedom of action” (39), as the mandate demands that intrinsic value of rational actors must be respected and not diminished if universality is to function optimally.

>>24633884
>>24633887
From the categorical imperative of humanity, which first flows from universality, flows the third categorical imperative: the kingdom of ends, which Kant defines as a “supreme condition of [] harmony with universal practical reason” due to this mandate’s advocacy of “the will of every rational being” positioned as “a will giving universal law” (39). As such, this mandate necessitates “renunciation of all interest” (i.e., selfish inclinations) and “volition from duty” (i.e., objective motive, i.e., the primary mover of reason/will, which is then the primary mover of action). This mandate is critical as it bestows upon humans the role of “supreme lawgiver” (40) in a “systematic union of various rational beings,” all of whom “stand under the law” (i.e., moral principles) in a structure that allows “each of them [] to treat himself and all others [i.e., universality mandate] never merely as means but always at the same time as ends in themselves [i.e., humanity mandate]” (41). This is a plain connection to both preceding imperatives as it hits on good-faith and intrinsic value systems in a “kingdom” of rational actors, where each man is both lawgiver and a “member” who is subject “when he gives universal laws in [the kingdom] but is also himself subject to these laws” (41). The crown precept here is to “do no action on any other maxim than one such that it would be consistent with it to be a universal law, and hence to act only so that the will could regard itself as at the same time giving universal law through its maxim” (42), with respect, dignity, fair price and shareholding in lawmaking for all members (43). In totality, the kingdom of ends synthesizes principles from both humanity and universality, as it affords rational lawgivers to manifest maxims that are universally applied to human-members of a kingdom that treat each other as objective ends in and of themselves.

The maxim, “I must always keep my promises” complies with humanity because not being false to others means you are not diminishing their intrinsic worth as inherent objective ends to further only your own goals—you are furthering the goals of all rational actors, as necessitated by that mandate. This maxim further applies to the kingdom of ends because if everyone is a man of his word, then the universal law of the kingdom benefits all of its human-members, maintaining the integrity of respect and dignity that is necessary to a non-sovereign kingdom of ends (the ends, again, being the human-members themselves). This leads to the greatest furtherance of moral worth and happiness for all rational actors.

>>24633796
The Enchantments of Mammom by Eugene McCarraher

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>>24633792
OP's diary

>>24633787
love franimation. have you read shakleton's 'endurance'?
>>24633792
antkind but charlie kaufman. it's a humerous counterargument to the idea that comedy shouldn't punch down. much of the humor is slapstick with our main character, the most oversocialized man on reddit, taking the blows. very funny.

>>24633811
By Lansing? I have not, I will read it though thank you.

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>>24633787
In the kingdom of ice

>>24622259
>white British
tautology

>>24632177
Does he know ?

>>24629044
Sure, why not. As the great philosopher Taylor Swift in the making of shake it off video

>you have to look like like you're having more fun than everybody else

The emptiness of that phrase never left me.

>>24633061
I like how that song was like ten years ago an she was seethingly trying to dunk on people commenting on her obvious trainwreck love life... and now it's a decade later and she's gotten literally fucking nowhere.

>>24622243
It was Halloween in the city, presumably by some clubs and bars.

>>24633851
lmao

>>24633851
Nah Swan in Love is a top 10 moment in literature

niggas be like why didnt he tweet

>>24633675
You learn a new language, mouth breather.

>>24633675
Machine translate or learn the language

>>24633675
Used bookstores or epubs

>>24633741
Interesting

archive.org usually has hundreds of scans of any antique book, anything in the public domain

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>>24631864
The role was made for Grace Jones but the times didnt realise it.

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>>24631864
Why do Americans portray moors as sub saharan africans? The moors were arabs and berbers, neither of which are sub saharan africans. Pic rel is a berber or a "moor"

>>24632302
>boy
The Western boys of yesteryear were gritty, hard, wild; quite unlike today's aquarium-raised variety: clammy, feeble-minded, soft

>>24633086
Nigga please !

>>24633153

Americans, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, usually saw race as a black-white binary. Yes they knew about Indians and East Asians but the main focus was Black-White. So Othello was filtered through that lens.

Also, black actors (not now but years ago) adopted Othello as a noble figure, because the role didn't fit the stereotypes of the time.

Also some American blacks like to calls themselves Moors or otherwise identify with the label.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorish_Science_Temple_of_America

>>24633516
>>24633676
Glad you're enjoying it, friend. Azarinth Healer is also good, but if you don't like female main characters, that's that. She's like Goku levels of battle maniac, though, so I think you would have liked it. DCC is good, avoid spoilers!

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Chapter 4 for Labours of Zucchini is out!!! I shoved it through Grammarly before uploading it, lol.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/128319/labours-of-zucchini-progression-fantasy-sci-fi/chapter/2513961/chapter-4-sashimi-anyone

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>>24633858

kys

jerdarious.org/ahalfbreed

>>24633858
>spoiler
Instantly better than half of authors on RR.

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>>24633869
Yeah, haha, I was kinda disappointed with the grammar, but I don't have time to do it normally. I've also done the same for every other chapter.
>>24633865
Rude :(