Last year when I wasn't ready to date anyone, girls interested in me everywhere. Now that I am, no one. Sigh.

>>24958425
Thankfully I never was read to date anyone and women didn't talk to me anyway so I'm golden.

This old, aggressive, snarling, rude, old black man has taken up hanging out in the same area of the library where I like to read. There's tons of drug addicts and homeless people and unwashed refuse types who hang out there, that's whatever, I have no issue with that. What separates this guy is he watches his videos on his phone on a volume loud enough to where others can hear, and he's even rolled up a joint at the table, causing the entire area to smell like weed. Then, when he saw me looking at him for this, it must have set him off because he started mumbling all kinds of profanities and aggressions -- to me or in general? not sure, I was definitely ready for it to become violent but I just looked away until he left and fortunately it didn't.

Anyway, it's really pissing me off having this guy around, because he's causing other normal, kind people to stay away from the area as well, and silly as it sounds, I like reading around people. Guess I'll have to start reading in a different part of the library... lame.

>>24958439
Report him to the police

>>24958443
There are a couple security guards they have for the place, and the staff are usually good at catching people eating or watching videos too loud. I guess I'll just have to deal with it unless he fully crosses the line at some point. Hopefully he moves to a different area.

>>24956722
I was asking you

>>24957340
I've never read the one you posted, this one on cross examination is the first book specifically about practicing law I've ever read.

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Lawyer here. Currently reading this. I'm two chapters in and it's fine so far, I suppose. I'm told it's a very influential book among civil trial lawyers.

OP, the answer to your question depends on what you mean by books "about" law. I was extremely underwhelmed by Wellman, but I read him expecting systematic cross-examination advice instead of a few hundred pages of anecdotes.

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Also: quick shelfpost. This is a shelf near my home office desk. I have more practice books on my desk (lol) and more at the office. Nearly every book on the top shelf is recommended for my fellow practitioners who try cases. I've never done transactional work for actual clients, so my suggestions on that front are limited (but not non-existent, if there's any interest here).

The books on the bottom right I haven't read; the books on the bottom left are at risk of being discarded due to deprecation or general shittiness. But I almost never get rid of books, so they'll probably be around for years to come.

The printout stacks in front are unread; those on the shelf are read but unfield. Mostly practice resources, but I think there are some historical articles and/or jurisprudence scholarly articles in there, too.

>>24958157
>lawyer here

>>24952406
This was my experience going to an Orthodox Church:

The people were friendly, the church was pretty, but I disagree with needing a "Godfather" to sponsor you in order to join the church. It's not a country club or secret society, it's the House of the LORD and we are all his children. Jesus Christ dying on the cross for our Salvation is all the indication anyone would need that we can turn to him and accept his Truth. I'm sure it's more of a spiritual mentorship thing, but right away it showed how gatekeepy they were. Expounding on that the whole idea of denying people from attending service unless they've fully converted also didn't sit right with me. I could understand (but not agree with) thinking you had to do a specific rite in order to be truly saved, but thinking you have to literally throw people out and block the church entrance unless they've proven themselves worthy to attend is antithetical to the Word of God.

That really lead into their practice of not being able to "convert" until the priest says so. There was someone I met there who had been going to classes twice a week for over a year before the priest finally "allowed" him to take sacrament. Anyone that wants to come to church, especially if they're genuinely seeking the LORD should always be free to attend.

The idea of having to "seal" the holy spirit with anointing oil seemed preposterous, and having to kiss the priest's hands and other icons, praying to/with saints, and considering Mary the mother of everyone in the world and praying to her directly were all blasphemous. As well as needing a "patron saint" and to own an icon of them, Jesus, Mary, and John the Baptist in order to get to Heaven.

I think there could be people in the church that have the right idea, but as an Anon said they are like that in spite of the church not because of it.

The church I visited kept, unprompted, throwing a lot of shade at Protestants and insinuating if you weren't Orthodox you would go to Hell, but also that they needed to gatekeep Orthodoxy. As another Anon pointed out to me it was a clear cut case of the Leavening of the Pharisees that Jesus warned about. They seemed welcoming, but there was a general attitude towards all the new people of: "I can't believe YOU figured out Orthodoxy was the correct answer." Another thing they struck me was that even though they were crap talking all the other Christian sects they seemed to think jews were neato and even used "Nazis" as an example of someone who was lost in sin. I didn't even bother asking their opinion on Israel because I wanted to be respectful, but that spoke volumes.

>>24958421
They also had a tradition (a little t tradition, not a Big T tradition, however they reason that) that your "Godfather" had to buy you a necklace that they would ceremoniously put on you after you took the sacrament and THAT'S what "officially" made you Orthodox. One of the new converts told a story about the last person's necklace clasp being faulty which caused the ceremony to get delayed by around 10 minutes which reminded me of a time I saw a Mormon baptism that had something similar happen. It might just be me but it always goes to show how mortal these ceremonies truly are. When I accepted Jesus Christ as my LORD and Personal Savior it was very seamless and impactful and didn't require a whole lot of hullabaloo or gatekeeping. I also didn't like how they also call their Priests Father and do confession like the Catholics do.

I honestly got a lot of vibes that were similar to the time I visited a Mormon church. Even if they have different doctrines it emphasizes blind faith in the heresy through emotional reactions. The orthodox call it "allowing for mystery" and Mormons "put it on a shelf" when something doesn't make sense, but it's a similar system of a hierarchy of bishops and patriarchs that tell you things that don't make sense but you have to trust in them anyway or you're not in the community, can't go to church, and can't be saved.

I think any church that emphasizes baptism, sacraments, and gatekeeping probably is of that vein. I have yet to finish my reading of the Bible (over halfway) but I've always interpreted it as a type of spiritual baptism that you receive through accepting Jesus Christ as your LORD and Personal Savior. Not something that you have to jump through hoops until a bishop decided to annoit you with a secret ritual and the house of God should be open to everyone in the hopes that they will hear the Word and come to accept Christ

>>24958424
I'm addition, I'll say this:

The rock that Jesus established his church upon was the revelation that even though everyone was telling Peter that Jesus was this or that and not to believe him that when he prayed to God for the answer God answered that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. That's what he founded his church on, the church of Christianity which teaches the gospel of Jesus Christ that For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That Jesus Christ died for our sins and rose again three days later and ascended to Heaven and will return come Judgement Day. That church, in whatever form it takesx will endure forever.

The Catholic's claim to fame is that they're based out of Rome and as such must be the best church because that was the capital and most powerful city in the world. Likewise the Orthodox claim to fame is being the churches Paul founded and those they established since but all of those things are earthly boasts. The Bible has many stories but an overarching trend is God exalting a man to lead his people with his Word and then that person or the next generation of people falling astray and doing wrong in the sight of the LORD leading to punishment until someone realizes how far astray they've been lead and leads them back onto the path. There's no reason why that couldn't be the case for Protestantism and even now that most of those churches are falling astray.

What's most needed is for all of us to read the Word of God so that we know the truth and so that the wicked can't make things up to shake our faith or lead us astray. Hardly a week and sometimes not even a day goes by that I don't see someone lying about what's in the Bible and what God would want us to do, and if you don't read the Bible you may not be able to recognize these lies for what they are, either. Read the King James Bible from start to finish. The answer will present itself to you if you open your heart to the LORD.

>>24952443
I would honestly read the entire Bible from start to finish beginning with Genesis and working through to Revelation in order. Everyone tries to discourage that but I feel it's important to see how it progresses and have a frame of reference for what came before and then what happens afterwards.

>>24956339
I'm the first 2000 years after God made Aaron the first priest Aaron fashioned a given calf and lead Israel astray into idol worship, his sons (the next priests) were smote for burning strange offerings to the LORD, the Levites broke their covenant with the LORD and dirtied their bloodlines by breeding with heathen women, and the entirety of Israel is including Judah turned to idol worship so often that after being condemned to wander the desert for 40 years and enslaved multiple times as punishment God finally had to expell them from their own land for the 70 year sabbath because that refused to keep his commandments, and that's all just by the book of Isaiah.

Men will do nothing but fall short of the glory of God. The Word of God is what's important.

>>24958311
If you could somehow condense the first three paragraphs into one you'd set the right pace

>>24958318
It's hard to write compelling exposition. I recently read Demon Copperhead and based on its intro I wanted to try and imitate the sheer amount of soul it radiated, but I find it difficult as shit to do so in a way that doesn't add useless text.

>>24958324
I can cut out at least half the fluff writing, maybe I'll try that in the morning.

>>24958341
Forget exposition. Just make the reader want to know what happens next

>>24958341
I'm with him actually >>24958344
And I would suggest that the first 8 paragraphs are unnecessary and should be cut out. Start with the night of his transformation. That's where story begins to capture attention, so that's where it should start.

>>24958311
>>24958388
i agree, the story should start with the transformation, but i actually dont think you have to cut very much. it makes way more sense if he starts thinking back on his life after discovering that shes hung herself.

>>24956181
Pirandello

>>24957461
>In September 2017, Jorjani was suspended from his teaching position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in response to a covert video recorded by Patrik Hermansson, a Swedish antifascist activist, who presented himself to Jorjani under the false identity "Erik Hellberg", in which Jorjani predicted a future where concentration camps would return to Europe and Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great would appear on European currency by 2050. Hermansson met with Jorjani at an Irish bar in midtown Manhattan in June, where the two talked about a future in which Europe embraces fascism. "It's going to end with the expulsion of the majority of migrants including citizens, who are of Muslim descent, generally" Jorjani said. "That's how it's going to end. It's going to end with concentration camps and expulsion and war. At the cost of a few hundred million people."

>>24956181
You just want any post modern literature.

>>24958294
Based

>>24958294
Based
Gonna read his stuff now

Cancer

>>24958141
Anything else?

Just this picture alone reminds me of that Raymond carver story about a boy who catches a big fish with another boy. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

>>24956672
Hatchet
Where the Red Fern Grows
Olaf and the Echoing Cave
Otto of the Silver Hand
Some of the parts about Winston's childhood were pretty good from 1984
Johnny Tremain

>>24956672
Where the Red Fern Grows

OP is a woman. Boy love around that age is trending among women right now.

China even had to go and ban those type of stories being published because of the rise of female pedophilia and child abuse cases.

Just go to Ao3

>>24958369
I see someone just finished watching Hilary Layne's newest video.

>>24955755
My diary desu

>>24955755
Confederacy of dunces. Catcher in the rye maybe, he was on his way to neetdom. Bukowski was near neet but he coped with violence ans alcohol.

>>24955960
>My day right now consists of reading history books, lifting at my home gym (which my gf paid for) and occasionaly watching some sports.
Sounds comfy.

>>24957022
do /lit/niggas not just feel the pressure of life? stop playing around and man up people will depend on you.

>>24956344
>balding men babytrapping their breadwinner wife
literally what I did. Perfect timing as well because in just one year after I did so I was completely bald. So I went from a 8/10 tall twink prettyboy to some emaciated cancer patient in terms of looks. She can't leave because we have 2 kids now lmao.

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>>24947980
She looks so much better in the gamestop uniform

>>24947980
Haha OP I love vaggo XD

Why exactly the fuck is this thread still up

I'm not gay but it's always funny to see how mid most women are without make-up. Most mid men look better than mid women.

Mmm, implessive
Most honurabre dispray

is it really that hard to dig underground tunnels in 2025

>>24958231
>could just level the mountain with blasting >instead try to show how heggin HARD you OWNED le nature with the cross section cut.

this is the kind of shit that got Sun Wukong kicked out of heaven.
may a jealous pantheon and the Jade Emporer strike down premier Xi for his rational materialist hubris.

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>>24958100
Millennials..

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>>24958100
>socially-liberal right-winger

>>24958372
just a standard jew

>>24958378
I once saw someone on Twitter call abortion a "Jewish sacrament," and considering how often you see Jews as the plaintiffs in lawsuits to expand abortion access, maybe they were right.

>>24958026
Actually both are cool, killing and taking slaves is cool, Muhammad being a warlord bandit is cool. Jesus being God is cool doing miracles and setting the Catholic Church is cool, and the church killing Jews and doing pogroms and having wars is cool, Taliban, kkk, and the holy league are cool and based

>>24958031
stop shitting up the board

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>>24958032
No

/his/

>>24958323
That's a vulva, incel. And an anus.

>>24958330
Haha anon I love semantics XD

>>24958314
People here are cunts yeah

>>24958314
Vaginas are scary

>>24958314
>implying a listening component

No ones discusses the ideas of female thinkers or the work of female writers.

Trannys screech their voices are important, chuds scream they're whores. But no one bothers discussing them.

>>24956379
too many hoops

>>24956682
that's just, like, your opinion, man

i like hoops

>>24956379
I, too, am currently writing a novel where I'd have Trevor Moore play the main character.
Guy had a nice voice.

Hey op i thought i'd give you some material to work with maybe youll be inspired by my experiences

(DONT LAUGH) i never knew my father. I was raped by my gay cousin. my grandfather tried to kill my brother by throwing him out of a two story window. Then he died from cancer. I’v been in dozens of jumpings and countless fights, many of which resulted in my ass getting handed to me. I got listed as a potential school threat due to harmless drawings back in 7th grade resulting in expulsion and rumors involving a second columbine, and everyone involved trying their hardest to get me to do it by relentless bullying that followed me for the rest of middle school. After being diagnosed with ADD right after, and prescribed a stimulant. i developed hyper anxiety disorder and lived in a constant state of paranoia where anything caused a minor panic attack, and the feeling that nowhere was safe. i was Unable to sleep most nights because my heartbeat rarely slowed down enough for me to relax for almost 3 years. I had to wait until i was literally too tired to fight sleep. Closing my eyes was terrifying. This usually resulted in me staying up until i got to school the next morning to pass out in all my classes. Which in turn made me look super depressed to everyone including the bullies, As they at the time believed i was just one push from a school massacre they could say the lived through. a shitty cycle.

>>24957042
I can kinda relate to him because he wrote a song called "God Says" that's all about having OCD. I got OCD too, that song was 100% on the mark

Yes. What you've described is a constant in all of human society.
But you know, I'm starting to believe this is the way it's supposed to be.
The vast majority of people aren't able to nor do they have any interest in existing in a higher state of being. If they are, it's for superficial reasons.

In the past, leaders were bound to the people they served and spent their entire lives to ensure the collective interests of all in their group. But now society's become so atomized that I feel it only natural for them to act selfishly and almost as if they exist in a caste separate from the rest of society.

That aside, democracy has pretty much defaulted to oligarchy nearly everywhere on earth, and I think it's because of the aforementioned reasons.

>>24958139
How do we stop them bro

>>24958170
I don't think we can, at least not right now. Things are just stable enough for them to continue exerting control. I think the only real solution for intelligent individuals is to ride it out in a way that benefits them the most.

>>24958118
nonsense. billionaires and the subjects of plutarch's lives are mere figureheads and representatives of their respective classes. aurelian acted so because he was a parvenu who rose from being a common soldier to an emperor-he acted much as a common soldier would, a harsh disciplinarian with no real education in the arts of rhetoric or persuasion who acted in the interests of the common soldier. so too is elon musk a mere figurehead-an autistic public schoolboy who acts as an autistic public schoolboy in the interests of autistic public schoolboys

>>24958375
>billionaires and the subjects of plutarch's lives are mere figureheads and representatives of their respective classes
this, it's covered by plato in ion