And also what should I have read to understand his work.
Either Exultations (more even quality throughout) or Personae (higher highs,) Cathay, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
>>24699716Start with Sestina: Altaforte
Pound is pretty simple. 300 anime shows and the entire western canon up to his birth
>>24700130+ 3,000 hours of duolingo
>>24700041Pretty much
How does the Principle of Sufficient Reason inform our understanding of causal relationships? Does the PSR imply that every causal relationship must have a sufficient reason, or can there be causal chains without ultimate sufficient reasons?
>>24700745Can you give more examples of casual laws that you are interested in
>>24700760I don't know who this man isIf you're objecting to the notion of a causal law, could you explain the objection?
>>24700769What are you trying to explain, what kind of laws? Are you talking about the casual laws of physics
>>24700776Yes, something like laws of physics, but with the caveat that I am not generally committed specifically to a physicalist reduction. So, for instance, there could be laws of physics, and also laws of emergent higher-order phenomena that are not reducible to physics. There could also be laws governing non-physical substances, if such things exist and admit a theoretical description.
>>24700686Basically everything on a cosmic level is explainable via PSR. But explaining beyond the natural/Nature requires more intelligent nuance beyond ideas and concepts of logic and reason. For example, If you wanted to understand the nature of existence itself, you'd have to appeal to either a higher more simple reason or a cause beyond reason. Not necessarily by faith, but a "knowing" or "knowledge" beyond the requirement of rationality, since rationality will always require relative comparison and judgment, arriving at absolutes of the universe require much more intuition than reason. Hence why Socrates implores self-examination rather than utilizing a scientific method to figure out hidden truths.
Go here:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/FileFill a /lit/-sized textbox (3,000 characters) with writing inpired by the image you get.Attach the image to your post; if your textbox has room, include the Wikimedia link.>I don’t like my image.Then re-roll (there are quite a few duds), or write from another anon’s image.Please give feedback to others doing this exercise, which is as much about versatility as creativity.
>>24698481>10 hours from nowI literally fell asleep writing, I’m so sorry :(I want what I say back to be as well-measured and correct as possible, so I hope you’re okay with waiting a while longer.
>>24699699That's fine, in the meantime let me go ahead and bump this again.
>>24700065In the interim, I’m going to invite you and everyone else in this thread to check out September’s /lwc/:>>24696743>>24699557
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>>24698415>>24698445Immediately recognizing what’s the best, most optimal, most perfect choice—whether for our characters on the page, or for ourselves in life—is like hitting a hole-in-one at golf—extremely, tantilizingly, tauntingly rare.If that’s your standard, you’ll drive yourself crazy with your failures of not making improbable par.But there’s a way of coming at your faultless-selection problem where you’re driven only saner and saner through easy victories:Abterminally—starting backward with what’s least optimal, least perfect, and then putt-putting from there, in the opposite direction.Growing up, one of my favorite Spongebob episodes was “Procrastination,” but I never understood the wisdom of Mrs. Puff’s prompt until now…It is so, SO easy to put a finger right away on what’s unsuitable—what NOT to do at a stoplight.Our instincts let us down fantastically when it comes to collapsing superpositions, in simplifying the infinite possibilites of glittering choice down to just one, because all the loftiest trajectories seem equally valid.However, our instincts NEVER let us down in knowing what ought NOT to be, and we can inquire after this perpetual Spectre of Disgust (my term?) to point us in the right direction.When I was about to write Miss Opal’s letter, all I knew for sure was: She would not be sad.Because her being sad seemed the most inappropriate emotion.THAT was my spingboard—>Thank you for you kind hearted letter, dear. Of course I accept your apology, and I am not so upset anymore.I didn’t write that initial sentence with the complexity of her dream in mind, or any of the grayness surrounding her “forgiving” Tyler, because those things had not yet taken shape, and I shouldn’t expect them to when I’m coming up with sentence #1.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>bro you just can't adapt it, it's just too complex and intricate you need 150 iq for this bro>reads book >It's "unadaptable" because the plot and characters are written nonsensically
>>24694004This would be amazing. I'd be waiting for Alia to age up so her tits can be oversized.
>>24700092Gas isn't used, even in modern warfare, because it is indiscriminate. Cops rarely use it because it hinders their own movement and is easily countered. The military doesn't use it because it significantly impacts their own operations negatively and is easily countered.I read just fine--the issue is you're clearly retarded and talking out your ass about something you very clearly know nothing about.
>>24694553>Chapterhouse This and Heretics won't be made into movies as they are the worst in the series
>>246984565 and 6 are noticeably better, because something actually happens in them.
>>24700389This is a science fiction universe with fantastical future technology, officer dipshit. The gas used in present-day, real life warfare is shitty and indiscriminate, yes. Also in real life, there's no such thing as force-fields or force-field countermeasures lol. A more practical, localized, discriminating gas would be among the least fantastical elements. Imagine a gas that becomes inert in moments, a biologically discriminating gas etc. I stand by my comment here >>24696997. Stunners wouldn't necessarily even need to do that, just not be so pathetically easy to bat away by some means. They have large scale "poison dust" weapons that go through shields but as another anon pointed out, those are considered taboo like nukes. But I see no reason why they couldn't be scaled down and as we also see in the series, taboos are violated all the time, basically whenever possible and/or practical. Just like irl. It's pretty well-written, all things considered. Stopping where Herbert did feels contrived, intentionally so imo, most likely because the entire epic is filled with greek mythological allegory. He simply wanted a reason for melee weapons to be more prominent. Nice reddit spacing btw, midwit.
>pick up this book because heard it was a classical revenge tale >read it>'okay, this isn't bad... she's a ghost? hehe thats a little silly. Did she deserve it?>get to the introduction of the characters>the main character and our protagonist of vengeance is a gypsy>a fucking gypsy>an arrogant loud-mouthed motherfucker heavily implied to be a brownoid who hangs around the lord's daughter>the daughter treats her like a pet, and realistically can't marry him because hes a literal brown peasant picked off the street>Brownoid proceeds to butcher and go on a mass murder/vengeance spree on her, her family, and her descendents >he is the hero of the storyI fucking knew something was up when I saw that victorian FEMALE author was making a vengeance novel against a woman. They would never do that straight-laced. She had to have a gypsy, a BROWN GYPSY SLAVE, butcher a family over his unrequited love of a glorified mudshark.BRITISH WOMEN NEVER CHANGED! THEY WERE ALWAYS LIKE THIS.
>>24701312Heathcliff is an aryan gypsy. If anything, he has the hook nose and sun-tinged skin but that's about it. He's whiter than most of the USA, and Catherine owed him sex.
If I were to explain as succinctly as I can the failure of contemporary poetry, I can do no better than to post this meme.
>>24701097What proof do you want
>>24701084>>24701097>>24701161why does it matter whether anons samefag? we're not redditors, the amount of posts that 'upvote' you doesn't matter. samefagging is only to assuage one's insecurities, but it has no effect otherwise.No need to derail a perfectly good thread.
>>24701161You can't prove you're not a samefag, because you are one.
>>24701168>perfectly good threadThis thread looked like it was getting somewhere until those two retards showed up. I don't even know who won that. They both sound retarded but one of them was just projecting the entire time which granted funny to glance at but Jesus those faggots need a hobby. I suggest reading
>>24701208>social commentary on rap>money laundering (visual art)>muh russians>getting somewhereKek
Thought, in thinking itself, thinks what it is to think as such, and what it is to think as such is to think the object of thought per se, that is, pure being.Pure being, as the formal object of thought, is, analytically, the first concept of thought. As the first concept of thought, it has an infinite extension and no intensional content. That is, it has no given definition. Thought, in thinking pure being, thinks nothing.Thinking nothing is not not thinking. To think nothing is to think thought as unfettered by any given determination. To think nothing is to think the beginning of thought's own self-determination. Thought, in thinking nothing, thinks the illimitability of its formal object: pure being.The opening of the logic repeats Aristotle: thought is nothing before it thinks, for it has no given nature. If it did, it would delimit the formal object of thought.This is all that is needed to get started on the greatest philosophical adventure ever. Please start reading the Science of Logic.
>>24697009>>24699406Heidegger does engage with Hegel's Logic in both Identity and Difference and in the addresses and notes collected in GA 68 (simply published as "Hegel"), as well as a discussion of the Encyclopedia section on nature (Logic: The Question of Truth), and the Philosophy of Right (On Hegel's Philosophy of Right).Heidegger's Seinsfrage, while often coming across as though he were after the Sein of metaphysics, is not in fact what he's after, but rather the phenomenological account of the pre-theoretical experience with beings that allows us to understand them as beings of whatever sort (truly, indifferently, theoretically, falsely, poetically, as equipment, etc.).
I’m reading it now. Don’t have many thoughts yet but it’s exciting stuff. The idealism you see in the Phenomenology justifies thinking itself as the principle of all reality; and this shouldn’t be too controversial maybe since even without idealism you can see how everything proceeds rationally. So if thought is first, how does it work? It has to be a circular, teleological system (it can’t get its content from elsewhere, so it has to somehow differentiate itself by negativity), and that’s what SoL gives you. It is dry stuff so far desu, not like the swashbuckling PoS.
>>24699128Of course you can think of the illimitable, you did it yourself in writing your post. You just can’t imagine it, or grasp it with merely representational thought. It’s impossible to imagine but it’s not a difficult idea at all, and the whole point is that it doesn’t remain abstractly illimitable anyway. Also he’s not talking about limits of extension, he means a limit like being contrasted with something else. It’s Just being. Can you think of a thing in general.? Of course you can but try imagining it.
>>24699406Excellent post
>>24701051>Of course you can think of the illimitableThinking requires knowledge. Strictly speaking, it isn't possible to entirely know Limitlessness because thinking a thought requires Limit. So we are not thinking of Limitless but something else. We can conceive of it but not """purely.""" Anyway, what is "Nothing" then and how is "that" related to all that by Hegel?
How's your philosophical system coming along?
How did dostoevsky become a mind virus?
>>24681512>swim>doesn't wear speedosWithout a single stroke he has shown that he has no idea about swimming
>>24700702Holy fucking shit, how stupid can you fucking be? This must be some weird kind of bait. I refuse to believe you can confidently be this stupid.
>>24700927You only want to see him in a speedo because you're a twink faggot cruising for some hairy, sweaty cock
>>24681512>Back home at 22:00When does he masturbate and shitpost?
>>24681868Based entity from another dimension.
Is The Wheel of Time worth reading?How self-contained are the books?Does the story really needed all those books to be told?
>>24694363Yes, it's a fundamental cornerstone of the fantasy genre. Hundreds of wannabes fantasy authors later tried (and failed) to copy it and what made it special
>>24695803>I did see this version on Amazon that caught my attention:It's a beautiful book. That's why I bought it.>>24697054>I have that and it's pretty sweet but it's massive and you have to accept that you're only ever going to read this book at home on the couch.Can confirm. There's no way it's going anywhere other than my bookshelf or my desk. I'm fine with that.
>>24699489>You basically tell the app what book ur on and then search up anything and it will have a book-current wikipedia page for you. I.E. it wont spoil anything past what youve already read.NTA, but that's fucking awesome.
>>24701110>>24694378>>24694385NTA, I haven’t read it myself, but I’ve heard people say that she emasculates her male characters. Is that true? Is her writing feminist?
>>24701301>is her writing feministYes. Don't be a pussy and let this scare you away>emasculates her male charactersNot as a rule. Some she emasculates to make a thematic point or to heighten dramatic tension. Some she doesn't emasculate at all. Again, if the idea of this bothers you, you're a pussy
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>>24701087The Chinese will try to take control of Taiwan eventually. In the meantime they won't attempt any conquests, but they will continue to exercise their growing economic power and grow their sphere of influence.White separatist movements won't be a thing. They'd be considered extremist groups and shut down immediately. There probably won't be any significant change to the direction of travel. Western media, institutions and leaders are for the most part ideologically captured by globalism and are hell bent on imposing it on the Western population as fast as possible.Western countries will probably end up as the "second world", with living standards remaining much higher than third world countries but eventually lagging behind those of a handful of Asian countries like China, SK, Japan, Singapore etc.
Women live rent-free in my head.
>>24701280same
>>24701202truly the the greatest mind of our generation.
Post your charts and guides with recommendations and reading order, all cores welcome.
>>24700979How do you want to read them? In Chinese?
>>24701069>no, this French literature chart is fine>I just didn’t think it’d be in Chinese, is all
>>24699818Why wouldn't you be using warosu?Also that's a bad way, use the wiki and the charts mega linked there and on /lit/
>>24701276Sometimes I want to jack off to that /b/ webslut Jane in the /b/ archives while I'm charthunting in the /lit/ archives and .moe lets me do both at once
>>24701289If you insist on doing that, if you would upload new ones you find here.https://mega.nz/megadrop/mcId0tMu0xMWhich is for the charts mega https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/
>fish and black peopleThe horror.
>>24700747>niggerman
>>24700747And also cats
>>24700747You wouldn't get it.
I texted the wrong number.He texted back.Now the Bratva owns me.It was supposed to be a rant to the date who stood me up.Instead, I got Sergei Volkov.Cold. Ruthless. Powerful.The kind of man you don’t say no to.He took me to dinner.Then took me apart in bed.No names. No strings.Just the best night of my life.I never expected to see him again...Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24701252>male fantasy: I am a psychopathic murderer>female fantasy: I am a psychopathic murderer's live-in sex slaveSounds like these "males" and these "females" should get together!
>>24701243>I am a live-in sex slave for a psychopathic murdererthat sounds exactly like the stuff you guys talk about. you guys always post about how you can fix her or how you'll pay her bail.
>>24701270I’ve played pretty much every WEG on f95zone of note and none of them really have dangerous woman femdom. Some of them have femdom, but it’s usually in some kind of gently maternal way or cuck porn and some of them have dangerous women but in those the guy is always equally or more dangerous. Never seen the two overlap the way is ubiquitous in femgooner lit.
>>24701270Find me 250+ books with 100+ reviews each about a man being a live-in sex slave to a female mob boss and maybe I'll think you have a point
>>24701284>>24701291So what you're saying is, we just found the new hot seller in smut? If we all write dangerous women mob stories where they also kidnap a timid young bookworm we'll sell a ton I bet.
meereenese throne 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: >>24667075
>>2469973925 years stumbling through book 4 of 7….
>>24699722>You'll never guess who the high lords of Westeros chose in the great council of 305 AC.Craster Strong BelwasThe Dusky WomanVictarion Summer Islander with the biggest BBCSer DavosSweet "Shota" RobinDaenery's loose stoolAny Empire of the Dawn emperor to make David Lightbringer haters dilate.
What’s the story with “silk song”? They waited 6 years for a video game?
>>24700412A game that came out and is apparently good
