English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanation, where all you have to disambiguate is context, which they talk about in logic books, is not something which is universal in logic, but rather is a problem of English. Other languages don't have this problem. English is a low IQ language. All it's good for is dumbing down the masses.
>>24965277>English is a low IQ language because you have to use patterns to understand the context of a given statementTwo problems with this1 - That is what IQ is2 - Every Germanic language is like this. I speak German and it isn't significantly different in that regard.3 - You are Indian.
>>2496538410th post best post.
I love English so much bros and I hate how its maligned online by midwits and ESLs. other languages are alright and all, they've got their appeals, but English is something special. only person I've seen come to defend English is Borges, a spic. Orwell might've had an essay as well, I can't remember exactly, I know he had one defending British food which struck a similar chord and I might be thinking of that.if any of you know any essays or whatever to this tune, I'd like to see them. even a measured critique, beyond "muh spelling" and the usual crap.
>>24966833you might be thinking of Politics and the English Language. Robert Graves has also written about it here and there (eg >>24966373)Kingsley Amis wrote a sort of modern usage dictionary where he talks about insights on the language.
>>24965277>the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanationPlace explano hƿæt exactlice þæt is, and hƿy Englisc hæfs hit but oþer dinguaticas do naƿiht.
No literature published post-2020 has gotten even close to how engaging the writing is in this vidya. Face it, games are the new literature medium of the 21st century. Prove me wrong. Oh and pro tip? You can't ; )
one things for sure, Disco Elysium is an example of how "literature" can still have relevance nowadays. like a book is not going to have cultural impact in our diseased times.
>>24966984By this logic, Fourth Wing is the most significant piece of literature of the 21st century
>>24962945There's like four or five coming down the pipe. After the moneymen shattered the studio into pieces, key devs went off to form new studios. Out of all of them, Kurvitz's game is the only one I'm expecting to be good. If you want something that feels similar to DE, try Pentiment. It's really good.
>>24962941I like how you posted this on /lit/ rather than /vrpg/ because it's not an rpg and it doesn't have gameplay.
>>24967021>the moneymen shattered the studio into pieceshey they chose to sell out, turns out even virtue signaling tech bros who pretend to be communist are looking for fat exits
What are some books on chi/qi/ki? I want to know how it works, its benefits and how to build up a chi field.
>>24966644>commie threads>joyce threads>philosophy threads
>>24966644Stay in your manchild, overgrown bedtime story containment threads.
>>24966660Sure, open up your chi’s first though, they sound pretty clogged to me.
You can't learn that stuff in a book because most of the canon isn't translated and serious teachers wouldn't take dumb frogposters as students. Anyway, it's called neidan. You can you can try to read up on that, but you also need to be familiar with the huangdi neijing the yi jing and the dao de jing at the bare minimum.
Book of changes
What's the best way to expand my vocabulary?
Read the dictionary. The A section is quite boring though, I recommend starting with C, it makes me feel quite coxcombical
prompt too vague, depends on intended purposeslearning to simply recognize words as valid according to a dictionary (that is, Scrabble usage) admits of training methods not suitable for other useslearning to apply technical terms / domain-specific language also requires a different sort of approach, since that involves detailed functions of interrelated components: being able to define each of the words of a discipline in isolation doesn't by itself indicate or confer conceptual or operational knowledgeyou also haven't described any starting conditions/assumptions: age, level of ability, first language or foreign language, etc.you should start by learning to ask better questions
>>24966666Kek agrees, crack an austen
>>24966559vocabulary is secondary to good prose and rhetorical technique. a grandiloquent effivacity of loquacious perspicacity will win you few friends.
look up word of the yearthis year it's 'slop"last year it was "blackyxsicopter" and "woe-man"
Thought on Kurt Vonnegut?He's a beloved author and from what I gather he seems like a solid approachable modern novelistWhat are his best works?
>>24964743He's the perhaps the most shameless plagiarist of the 20th century. His writing style, his humor, even his drip, all stolen from picrels nonfic.
>>24964743Breakfast of Champions and Mother Night are his best. Slaughterhouse Five and Cat's Cradle are his most accessible.
Is Vonnegut required reading in the USA? If not I don't get why people hate him so muchI thought Slaughterhouse V was great
I have read a couple of his books in Finnish and I didn't find them to be anything special. I suspect that his style translates poorly.
>>24964743Reddit author who writes like a particularly sentimental comic book author. I would not consider him 'required reading'.
Any good books on the Virgin Mary?
>>24965830Anon, you’re talking to multiple people btw. My last comments before this one was the V2 Rahner/Ratzinger pics. There’s never been a more dubious time for appeals to authority as a Catholic because the Vatican was captured by Jews and the secret societies over 60 years ago. All changes to doctrine and Sacraments were made in the name of ecumenism, in either good or bad faith (I think it done mostly in bad faith). If you disagree with these statements, let’s agree to disagree.
I was surprised to learn that there’s only a few sentences about her. Apart from her obvious significance as the mother, there’s really no basis for her popularity.
>>24966399The Apostolic Churches don't follow Sola Scriptura.She is also the Biblical figure treated with the highest respect by angels. The way they treated her is very different from the way they treated other humans.
>>24965877>Disagreeing with your recommendations ans thinking Rahner is a terrible theologian doesn't make one disobedient.>>24965149>These are all Novus Ordo, Vatican 2 theologians. Bad recommendations.Disobedience in spades.>RahnerIt's by Hugo Rahner not Karl Rahner.>>24966139>There’s never been a more dubious time for appeals to authority as a Catholic because the Vatican was captured by Jews and the secret societies over 60 years ago.Repent.
>>24962199The God Delusion by Richard Hawkins
Scaruffi on Beyond good and evil: This is another extremely confusing book. If i didn't know how famous the writer became, i would think that this book was written by an ignorant idiot who didn't study history, and didn't study philosophy, and was simply a verbose, delirious individual. So much for a book that was written to "explain" the obscure ideas of "Zarathustra". In general, the book is an attack on traditional morality. Most of the book is, in fact, just the "attack". He keeps insulting philosophers (and not only philosophers) without really explaining what is wrong with them. It's like me beginning this article by saying that you are an idiot, your father is an idiot, your brother is an idiot, your neighbor is an idiot, etc. End of chapter 1. Full article: https://www.scaruffi.com/phi/nietz3.htmlIs he right?
>>24964180>videogames>artChoose one, manchild.>>24964374Post acned face and disgusting gut.
>>24964498Pretending most people in 4chan don't play vidya, even in /lit/ is a little silly.
>>24962709What's wrong with video games?
>>24961934You forgot your tripcode
>>24962709I've been on /lit/ long enough to get a grasp of this kind of poster;>hates video games despite posting on a website catering to weebs and gamers>a christian who is on a website that posts porn all day>hates the jews despite worshipping one>hates free verse despite not reading poetry>hates modern music despite not knowing anything about classical>pretends not to know who e-celebs are despite being a chronically online person>hates zoomers despite having arrested development and staying on 4chan far past the time you're expected to departhow'd I do
Renaissance edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24914151>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24965428Forgot pic
>>24965429interesting, I didn't notice it in Plautus so far though, but I haven't read all of it
inspired by >>24959810 I made this for Ancient Greek anons
>>24965164Eoƿ cnaƿe 𑀤𑁂𑀯𑀦𑀸𑀕𑀭𑀻 is naƿiht efn þe scripto 𑀲𑀁𑀲𑁆𑀓𑀾𑀢 ƿæs originally ƿriten in, riht? Eoƿ cann perfectlice ƿel justo leorna hit in IΑ𑀲T gif eoƿ vanta.
>>24966875κλῆρον πάλλω
if you don't own this in 2025, you don't love literature.
did anyone try this thing out?
>>24966046My friends and I were talking about how collecting is cool and all but when I said I like collecting books the ereaderfag immediately said I'm just wasting money
>>24966046It gives you instant access to nearly every book you've ever wanted to read, which I think is bad for you for reasons I can't articulate quite well.
>>24966293>too retarded to read product description>believes this means he got "scammed"Behold the intelligence of the average /lit/ user.
>>24966896you are
One has. I'm reading Capital, volume 2 and I got to Chapter 20. I got a little bit into it and I almost started crying being frustrated with not being able to understand it. Yes, two departments, that's clear, but the exchanges between each of them seem to be written in a terrible way by Marx or I'm just retarded.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/ch20_01.htm#3
>>24965873lolita
>>24965873He's a hegelian is why. Dive into the sciences and see schopenhauer's influence.
>>24965873I cried at pic related because at how frustratingly ugly it was. I barely remember the content but I remember trying to crush the whole booklet between my hands the way you'd crush paper, and being unable to read more than 10 pages a day for how ugly I found the content, the prose and the structure. I had to read it for an Aesthetics exam during my MA. The exam went well.To this day, I just remember blind rage and desire to destroy this - I have completely forgotten what it was actually about. I was also going through a phase of complete rejection of academia, so this likely didn't help.
>>24965873I cried because I couldn't understand that bit where Aristotle talks about sea battles. (It's a logical thing about time and modality. I afterwards learned no one really understands it.)
All Quiet on the Western Front. That book is effective in how the misery just keeps going and going and going...
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24965891He has no children and his wife will eventually pass as well. Who would be his estate? Death of the Author is too strong in GRRM's specific case. When he is dead we will know what his notes and drafts intended for the ending. To avoid that, he would have to avoid writing anything for ASOIAF since 2011, just to keep any resolution locked up in his head. D&D, who loved to take credit for so many things, claimed King Bran was 100% GRRM's idea.GRRM's other works offer insight to how he thinks, so the truly analytical fans eventually will comb all his other works to key his idiosyncrasies to the ending of ASOIAF.GRRM is a boomer so would never consider the Aegon IV option of waiting until his deathbed to announce the ASOIAF setting as open-source. If by some miracle he did, his legacy would be off the charts. Alas, he's a fat boomer with money so he has no drive. It's amazing he even put together books at all instead of eating his own writing implements.The real aggravating thing about his unpublished books is he has an obvious allergy to magic so wrote all these plot threads of magic without any intention to resolve them. The biggest fan theories revolve around magic because GRRM left off at DotD that human diplomacy and martial prowess cannot save Westeros. He stopped publishing books exactly at the cliffhanger which is the bleakest. Every POV is set up for failure, except Bran. For what Bran is about to undergo, and what we've seen happen to Bloodraven, Bran as the ending is about as endearing to the audience as the WEF telling us "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy." GRRM gave into his base desires and cannot allow ASOIAF to have an ending where humans overcome superhuman evil.
>>24949686>No blog posts since early OctoberIs it joever? Did the tranny telling GRRM to his face that he's gonna die finally break him?
>>24965891>>24966600You know what fucks with me, for some reason I assumed Gaben is older than GRRM (maybe because I got into gaming in middle school but only really started enjoying reading in college once I wasn't being forced to read Tom Sawyer or some shit for high school literature class)Now when I see pics of Gaben slimming down but GRRM looking still fat but more wrinkled it feels wrong
>>24950717Euron is kinoRoy Dotrice for maximum kino:https://files.catbox.moe/rvxv67.mp3> “King Crow’s Eye, brother.” Euron smiled. His lips looked very dark in the lamplight, bruised and blue.> “We shall have no king but from the kingsmoot.” The Damphair stood. “No godless man—”> “—may sit the Seastone Chair, aye.” Euron glanced about the tent. “As it happens as I have oft sat upon the Seastone Chair of late. It raises no objections.” His smiling eye was glittering. “Who knows more of gods than I? Horse gods and fire gods, gods made of gold with gemstone eyes, gods carved of cedar wood, gods chiseled into mountains, gods of empty air... I know them all. I have seen their peoples garland them with flowers, and shed the blood of goats and bulls and children in their names. And I have heard the prayers, in half a hundred tongues. Cure my withered leg, make the maiden love me, grant me a healthy son. Save me, succor me, make me wealthy... protect me! Protect me from mine enemies, protect me from the darkness, >protect me from the crabs inside my belly, from the horselords, from the slavers, from the sellswords at my door. Protect me from the Silence.” He laughed. “Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray.”> The priest raised a bony finger. “They pray to trees and golden idols and goat-headed abominations. False gods...”> “Just so,” said Euron, “and for that sin I kill them all. I spill their blood upon the sea and sow their screaming women with my seed. Their little gods cannot stop me, so plainly they are false gods. I am more devout than even you, Aeron. Perhaps it should be you who kneels to me for blessing.”> The Red Oarsman laughed loudly at that, and the others took their lead from him.> “Fools,” said the priest, “fools and thralls and blind men, that is what you are. Do you not see what stands before you?”> “A king,” said Quellon Humble.
>>24966713Was it actually a tranny
Is there a chart or reading order for getting the full story of the rise and fall of Rome and everything in between? I'd prefer ancient texts like picrel, but I'd be open to more modern texts.
>>24964778It's not about unknown terms.
>>24966311Nevermind, after spending 3 hours looking through every torrent website possible I found it on bilibili of all places. I love the Chinese
>>24960014I look like that
>>24966328>cap-wringing lowlies
>>24960014Check out "Summoned to the Roman Courts: Famous Trials from Antiquity" by Detlef Liebs. He presents several Roman legal cases throughout Rome's history, and it is quite interesting.
he had the potential to be the greatest writer of all time but he wasted his life getting high
>>24964921Barry Manilow is looking rough these days
>>24964921Wow just like me
>>24964921who?
Simply creating art that only hisself could see
>>24964921Don't you find it convenient that """the greatest author of all time"""" was speaking the same language as you do? Isn't it more likely that you are simply a sheltered retard whose knowledge of literature is limited only to his own sphere?
My lust died the second I wrote the average feminine nature on paper and stratified it according to its moral nature. I am now convinced that the only thing you are supposed to do as a soul, as a man is to wrestle your own flesh into submission, find God and develop a prosperous and altruistic relationship with our creator in order to escape this prison. 99% of women are half humans with no souls, everything they strive for and enjoy is ultimately evil in its nature. The very core of femininity is absolute evil that seeks to devour good men with the same glee and joy youd get from stomping out some dorky kids sand castle.Once I realized why women are the way they are, it's like I've finally been enlightened as to why hermit monks become hermits in the first place. It's all a lie, its all a joke. This planet is a prison, women are archons who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything but they have to pretend to have interests beyond themselves just so men dont become suspicious and notice the huge disparity in the nature of each gender. It's not a complimentary nature, it's completely one-sided and parasitic. The entire role of women is to entrap a mans life force and pull another soul onto this false reality incarnation trap. Thats all they were designed to do. Satan takes a hold of their hivemind vessels with comedic ease and no resistance. They are all beyond corrupt, they fall apart once a month and endure pain unless they fulfill their ill-natured task. There is nothing in this world worth striving for besides Gods love. There is absolutely NOTHING in this world that is worth your place in heaven.
>>24964541>Every single person that posted in this thread is an irredeemable retard.Okay, irredeemable retard.
>>24964744Yeah it's a given I'm included. If I wasn't a retard I wouldn't have even entered this thread. If I wasn't a retard I would've stopped browsing this board years ago like every other person with something interesting to say.
>>24956843>replace women with Jesus/Goddo you have any idea how gay this sounds, you're literally making Jesus into a tulpa
>>24963492Those men were bitching about women in general, not in particular.Men and women will bitch about each other. But you yourself have inexplicably (or perhaps, explicably) felt the need to reveal your gender when it is totally irrelevant to this conversation, and play the "pathetic incel" card indirectly, an in doing so have in some extent proved what the chuds are saying correct by way of the tits-or-gtfo line of reasoning.
>>24963146Grim
Books that give off this phenotype
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>>24966289No he's not. Performative masculinity is its own spectrum aside from nümale. Certain categories might overlap a bit (e.g. Atomic Habits and the Stoicism meme) but trad as a subgenre of performative masculinity is pretty far away from the fags in OP (who're closer to something like White Dudes for Harris).
>>24958416Guns, Germs, and Steel
>>24966757There was a sort of reddit performative masculinity associated with og numales that people seem to have forgotten about. Sometimes like “as a 6’2 bearded guy with the deepest voice you ever heard..I approve of baby yoda” and sometimes more absurd shit like “I don’t need a gun I’d just disarm a home invader”. But performative masculinity is definitely a numale trait it just manifests differently in different types
>>24967032And of course all the lumberjack and victorian gentlemen larp
