>>24737899
where do I get that sweater?

>>24737899
Publishers used to pay a $10 bonus if you used a word the editor didn't know.

>>24737357
Schizo nordicist faggot.

>>24737960
Stupid whi' people deserve to go extinct for this.

>>24737855
>the Irish are incapable of working
This is true.

>>24737357
Then why were actual aryans violent, brutal and war-mongering patriarchal conquerors and savages?
>dey was brown
Cope.

>>24737996
Like is the majority of the plebs, but this is a truth few people want to admit. They are lazy, fat and retarded and if it wasn't for the present guise of a more Aryan leadership, they would live in shitty mudhuts wallowing in their own laziness.

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>>24737452
Mark up extensively while reading, and write extensive notes down somewhere. Also, if you ever get the chance to teach the book to an audience, and have to make good slides, and reread the passages, that all helps commit to memory and break it down perfectly. In other words, the second best way to read is to read as an academic researcher, and the best way to read is to read as an academic instructor. This is also why researchers and instructors are so much smarter than random people who read a billion books. It doesn't matter much if you read a book, it matters much more if you can master its material completely.

The only things that truly worked for me
1. copious amounts of caffeine
2. school forcing me to read hard texts which then rewires my brain.

>>24737452
Sounds like a skill issue

>>24737455
Or use the paper to make more joints I dunno

>>24737452
For me it was full time employment
Combination of not having this >>24737454
and needing to remember/pay attention to things for work. Big difference. But still the usual limitations of memory. I suggest making notes or mentally reviewing what you read.

>>24737517
>So can I fix my brain
If it's possible, you must do it through unabashed boredom. Your brain may be undamaged and simply in need of practice, either way just lay off videos, games, 4chan, spend time reading or staring at the wall.

>>24733343
Aristotle's system does contain infinite unmoved movers, every living thing is an unmoved mover as are the objects it 'desires', and time is infinite. Even if you want to restrict yourself to the separated substances there are dozens of them, tho one is first. Christian apologists have destroyed people's understanding of Aristotle's natural theology because they ignore/cut out all the bits that don't fit their faith as if they are not essential, but they are in fact essential. They especially try to sideline all the astronomical stuff but Aristotle's proof does not make sense apart from the astronomy.

>>24737230
I think you're making an interesting point.
Are you saying that Aristotle's first mover would only work under his geocentric model? like having to do with the perfect circular motion or whatever?
But, granting that, don't you think the cosmological argument has been improved over time? Even with astronomy today, motion existing leads to an infinite regress if there is no start to it. Do you hand-waive the infinite regress away or what am I missing?

>>24737916
>Are you saying that Aristotle's first mover would only work under his geocentric model? like having to do with the perfect circular motion or whatever?
The proof only works if change here can only be explained by something moving eternally in heaven in a circle.
>But, granting that, don't you think the cosmological argument has been improved over time?
No, it's gotten worse. Like I said most of these apologists do not understand the role of an unmoved mover in Aristotle's physics because they're not interested in philosophy, they just want a God-proof.
>Even with astronomy today, motion existing leads to an infinite regress if there is no start to it. Do you hand-waive the infinite regress away or what am I missing?
Of course an infinite causal regress is impossible but you do not need God to end it. I don't want to be rude but philosophical arguments about the existence of God are philosophically rather boring, try Kant.

>>24737937
>try Kant.
I think his a priori moral argument for God is underrated. I think it's a sound syllogism.
>you do not need God to end it
What's the argument for that without positing something analogous to God?
>philosophical arguments about the existence of God are philosophically rather boring
I disagree. The only way to skirt the teleological argument is to posit a multiverse and even Bertrand Russel says the ontological argument is sound.

>>24730893
He's talking about skibidi toilet

he was a player in his youth and found that it was pointless

>>24737753
Godfag conditioning.
Christianity is the morbid fear that somebody, somewhere is having a good time.

>>24736780
>Red rising
When was this made

>>24736783
its beyond sloppa, there are regularly posts about it
>inb4 (you)s
kys

>>24736780
David Drake’s Royal Cinnabar Navy series. It’s a send up of the Aubrey Maturin series but in space. It’s really great with excellant worldbuilding and characters.

I don’t see David Drake mentioned very much when sci fi authors are discussed. Maybe he gets lumped into the same category as Ringo and Dietz because his book covers look similar.

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>>24735175
It means breaking out of the modernist worldview. Here’s a good book to help with that.

>>24736072
Why would I care? Apparently I'm a god to you.

The Bible and the gospels function as supports to Christ's church.
If you only study the bible, like many prots, you will not get any closer to the truth of Christ; this is only possible by partaking in his church. It seems at this point that the (legitimate) Orthodox churches are the last ones possessing this truth. I hold hope that the Latin churche might be reunited in this truth by a return to the time they possessed it, i.e., prior to the XIV century

>>24735176
>Since I’m Polish I can’t become protestant
You can become Orthodox like your slavic brothers

>>24735407
What about gospel harmonies? People do seem to be interested in abridging existing gospels, why not when there were only 2? or so the argument to your line of questioning would go. Better to rely on other arguments to support the idea.

>>24737069
wtf? you MONSTER.

>>24736937
I’m not a fan of Selby’s writing style, but I’ll check out the other two. I think I saw fat city at my local library.

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I just finished the third book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Temple of Dawn, and the fourth book Decay of the Angel is the smallest yet so I can't wait to get to the ending since I heard many things about it. After that I'll probably read something lighter like Gogo Monster which interests me because it was released all at once when manga is usually released as volumes over several months/years.

>>24734455
This shit is unfuckingfair now, I am trying to start with the greeks and I have to read 1 page of plato and then think about it for awhile. I am not crushing the greeks like a pulp novel

>>24737988
It's not about reading as much as humanly possible, it's about making progress and being accountable to your stack

>>24736912
I didn't read The Troop, I did read The Deep.
I really really hate Nick Cutter's writing style, he's very unsubtle in a way that makes it feel like I'm reading a creepypasta and not a novel.

>>24737552
Agreed. The academic satire wasn't particularly funny or cutting, and it seems especially dated now. Johnny Truant's sections were just a bunch of sexual fantasies that added nothing to the story and were good only for inspiring the name of that one Fall of Troy song.

>>24736136
Oh nice. I never noticed.

>>24736406
If I told you then it you negate the twists.

>>24738015
it would*
Jesus.

What kind of performative male reads Anathem on the train?

>>24731403
>misery machine
keyed
>>24731370
I don't know but it's Jonathan Blow's favorite book and many people regard him as pretentious so it seems to track.

>>24731631
no it is not
>>24731496
trash. reading this inane book will only make you worse off in every way

>>24737047
based

i liked inherent vice and lot 49, but read gr a few years before both of them and i think i got filtered by it a bit
the songs were fun

>>24733380
Do the asian have any literature at all? Except the usual suspect (3 kingdom, genji, journey of the west) why the fuck there is a 2000 year old hole? What they were doing writing wise during the middle age? The renaissance? Englightment? Industrial revolution? Until ww1 and then we get soseki, dazai, mishima and,why not, murakami. But before? Any relevant writer?

>>24737490
you're very stupid. just thought you should know.

>>24737513
That's not a very nice thing to say anon :(

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>>24737569
you're right, i'm just cynical about any "curiosity" expressed by posters on this board. here, if you actually care, picrel is my recommendation. in the future, you'll probably have better luck using wikipedia to find information about this type of question, people here have an extremely narrow view and knowledge of literature.

>>24733824
You wignat poltards are eye-rolling. Your ancestors were grass hut dwelling retard ape nigger barbarians. Seems like you're carrying on that tradition.

>>24737352
Weimar made kino German expressionism cinema
USSR totally dominated cinema since its creation until its fall.

>>24737361
that's a leftist.

New England WASPs are almost universally liberal because they want to preserve american prosperity and give like minded individuals from around the world a chance to enjoy what they've enjoyed for 400 years.
Groypers are children of recent hindoo/latinx migrants raised in the suburbs. The suburban zero-sum mentality mixed with a fear of being sent back to Calcutta results in a creatura that is entirely spiteful and actively seeks to be an object of repulsion.
The irony of them idolozing late imperial russia is that they think of themselves as romanovs, in reality their social class is equivalent to that of illiterate shtetl dwellers in the pale of settlement.

>>24737361
all groypers think they're nick but really they're all a bunch of doyles

>>24737991
mfs think they brahmin, but really they're dalits

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>>24737236
He's kino. Don't post that one.

>>24736958
>decadent literature
So 99.99% of new books for like the past 80 years.

>>24736970
I expected satanists put more thought into their poetry but it's just:
>le satan, god
>I praise thee

>>24737470
>In the 1860s Rops had developed an acquaintance with a Madame Duluc and her two young daughters, Aurélie and Léontine Duluc (age 14 and 17 respectively at that time). A few years later, not long before the estrangement from his wife, he began a ménage à trois with the sisters, apparently with their mother's endorsement. He had children with both, although one child died at an early age.
Um, based?

>>24737590
It's not a satanist's poem, it's Les Litanies de Satan by Baudelaire

>>24737072
A circle is the set of all points that are a certain distance away from an origin point in a two dimensional space. Our inability to draw one perfectly does not imply that this set doesn't exist for any point in the universe.

>>24737456
chatgpt just regurgitated the same premise we agree on. as far as source of it goes, I don't see a way of proving what early humans believed in or that the progress of sciences would halt the moment people have realized it's just a game of symbols.

>>24737478
your inability to show one in real life definitely points to the fact that it doesn't exist anywhere in the universe except your mind.

Anyone who has read Nietzsche knows this isn't true. He praises Jews sometimes, but he's antisemitic twice as often and he's also a proponent of eugenics. It wasn't just his chud sister messing with his writings, Nietszche would clearly be considered some kind of reactionary even if you ignore The Will to Power.
I don't understand why Kaufmann was so obsessed with making Nietzsche palatable to liberal progressives. You don't see people making claims that whenever Evola talks about the metaphysics of rape it's actually irony or metaphorical for the liberation of woman or whatever.

>>24737478
Your set of points is purely a mathematical construct. There are no "points" in the physical universe.

>>24736181
He's right, btw.
t. maths graduate.