>>24748791Kindle for reading. Paperback for booktock. Hardcover for scholarship
>>24749325I can confirm the text = better retention notion
>>24750200NTA but one can infer that he's talking about manually loading books onto a reading device that has internet connectivity disabledI have a cheap tablet with a card slot, and I've physically removed its network interface hardwareThere isn't a chance in hell that the books on it get 'updated' without my permission
>>24750608Fair enough, but I guarantee you that he's not talking about that.
>>24750608Also, how can you be certain that the source files you have aren't "updated" already?Unless you're scanning paper books to be the source, in which case I win again.
Uncial edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24697657>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.
>>24748357don't think so, why not dixit? I want to understand why you are trying to mix up the future perfect
Really funny that for all Cicero’s vaunted intelligence he was so totally outmaneuvered by Octavian
>>24750206Cicero is more nuanced than that. Life is more complicated than that
>>24750272That’s my point. A fair amount present him like some demigod “greatest statesman of all time.”
>>24750613Who said that?He is famed for his oratory, his erudition, his rhetoric, his Latin. Seems like you're battling strawmen you created.
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This place and /wng/ share a lot of DNA. They're both filled with tribes of untalented hacks who need mutual reassurance they aren't wasting their lives. And to that degree they're both harmful to the literature and should be shuttered.
"B...but I really do find you attractive, really. I just...""...don't understand it yourself?" she interrupted, but not rudely, because, well, the answer was correct, and a small moment of hesitation before interrupting was an acceptable cue. The room shimmered with the dim light of an old crescent-shaped decorative lamp that shone from the right-side wall, plunging through the ether directly onto the dainty girl's face, creating a cute little light pattern on the dark window panes that let in the calm, mellow darkness of the evening, perfect, so cozily lighting, though in this situation he would've preferred to be in the dark.
Has anyone else noticed this trend of people wanting to get rid of entire tropes, concepts, themes, etc in storytelling purely because a popular media did it poorly at one point? I swear I've seen this so many times.>Grey morality >Humans are the real monsters >Characters dealing with their trauma and having emotional conversations >Critiques of capitalism, consumerism, broader society etc. Instead of wanting these tropes to be written better, people just want to throw them out wholesale purely because they were done poorly by something popular. They want to throw the entire orchard away because of a few bad apples and I think that's utterly retarded. I don't know if it's because of the quality of discussion online slowly going down over the years or what. People talk about how bad modern writers are, but I can't imagine what kind of saccharine sterile shit these kinds of people would produce if they were in charge.
>>24750484Post writing.
>>24750565>Instead of wanting these tropes to be written better, people just want to throw them out wholesaleWhy does everything have to be a copy of a copy of a copy? If a million books did it poorly, it's cliche and trite now and I dont want to be associated with it in any way. If readers want something new and you refuse to give it to them because "no, this time the angry girlboss Mary Sue is gonna work!" then dont complain when you get compared to the shallow, predictable, bargain bin stories that no one likes. >grey morality There's nothing wrong with this, inherently. But it's been done so poorly so many times, is there any meat left on these bones for readers? >oh sometimes good people do bad things and look, my villain is actually sympathetic! So what? Do you have anything new to say? Almost certainly not. And at the end of the day, your morally grey protagonist is still mostly good and wont cross any boundries that are too upsetting, and your morally grey antagonist is still mostly bad who went over the line of good taste, so congratulations. You waffled and did what everyone else did.
He was a good philosopher and I'm tired of pretending he wasn't.
>>24748304This isn't a thread about his private life. And moralfagging is always just projection.
>>24748606Jung wasn't a Buddhist, dumbfuck.
>>24750303It's all satanism and worship of ego
>>24750403Buddhism is literally about letting go of the ego.Christianity, meanwhile, is all about validating it.
>>24748304>Pretty much exactly what I'd expect from a Westerner larping as an eastern mystic guruAs a Brit who lived in the East for some years, I've seen my fair share of supposed authentic buddhist rolling around in very fancy cars, or wearing a very shiny Rolex with their Kasaya. They are all larping these days.
>His Principia Mathematica side hustle imploded. Gödel the God-fearing Christian ruined it.>He had epistemological trolls that any atheist Reddit neckbeard could have come up with and that were less sophisticated than those of Sextus Empiricus and Hume.>His theory of descriptions was completely unnecessary, a midwit answer to something only midwits see as a problem ("[Meinong] argued, if you say that the golden mountain does not exist, it is obvious that there is something that you are saying does not exist -- namely the golden mountain; therefore the golden mountain must subsist in some shadowy Platonic world of being, for otherwise your statement that the golden mountain does not exist would have no meaning. I confess that, until I hit upon the theory of descriptions, this argument seemed to me convincing.")>Even his stupid paradox in naive set theory that bears his name had been prefigured elsewhere in letters from Zermelo.>Continental scholars routinely demonstrated his misunderstandings of Continental philosophers, toward whom he had emotional, Anglocuck revulsions unbecoming of a thinker.
>>24749540hey mr retard here's the xenoparity you wantedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messor_ibericus#Xenoparity
>>24749387>>24748063>Macroevolution comprises the evolutionary processes and patterns which occur at and above the species level. In contrast, microevolution is evolution occurring within the population(s) of a single species. In other words, microevolution is the scale of evolution that is limited to intraspecific (within-species) variation, while macroevolution extends to interspecific (between-species) variation.Even wikipedia refutes you. Stop posting anon, it's embarrassing
I don't get it, why not just call in the monks at Mr Athos to do a tinsey miracle to shut up the atheists
>>24750027Why shut them up? The more they talk the more they embarrass themselves
>>24750082Do a magic trick
>he thinks Aristotle was a nominalist>i.e. the mind thinks of nothing but its own creationimagine turning Aristotle into a solipsist and a representationalist lmaoooocouldn't be me
>>24749281Aristotle may not have been a nominalist but I am an Aristotelian nominalist.
>>24750184Fair. Why does the mind create stuff out of thin air and only understands its own creations?
>>24750478nominalism asserts that only particulars exist. that is the opposite of particulars not being real and being only creations of the mind. your understanding of nominalism is based entirely on your 'realist' preconceptions. you think that everything is a generality or at least that the mind can only know or conceive of generality, hence you equate the denial of the existence of generalities to the proposition that everything the mind knows is made up. But the mind is in fact capable of knowing particulars, and all knowledge is knowledge of particulars, because universals do not exist.
>>24749281I'm an om nom nominalist coz I'm a hungry boi
>>24749281I’m reading the theological origins of modernity by Gillespie which details the nominalist revolution and it all sounds like a crock of shit just to spite Aristotle for having been saved from historical loss by Muslims while trying to protect Gods omnipotence. Denial of universal realism spawned 400 years of strive and gave us our gay modern zeitgeist. I see no reason to deny the existence of platonic forms and their structuring of the cosmos and ideas.
"Jordan Peterson on Jung video. It’s remarkable how Peterson acknowledges that he thinks almost entirely in words. Astonishingly humble. But then again, he also admits he can’t tell the power difference between thinking in words or in pictures. He even seems to regard them as almost equal lol. The reality is that thinking in images is orders of magnitude more powerful than in words. Thinking in images is like coding in machine language versus thinking in words is hiring an indian on Fiverr to “code” in ChatGPT-3 for you. If you think in words you are an idiot, unable to think anything new at all. That’s how Peterson can ramble for hours about “the meaning of truth” without getting anywhere, trying to discover the answer by remixing phrases and wordplay, while a genius foregoes language completely and dives deep inside him and his experiences, and pulls the truth of truth right out of himself. I NEVER think in words. It’s always images, and words come into it only when I want to communicate the thoughts—which is to say very late. Even a little understanding of biology will tell you that image-formation is much older (even animals do it), therefore that is the bare-metal level of brainpower. But Peterson knows nothing about either biology or computing. He’s a mere psychologist after all. I don’t mean to underestimate the importance of language, but language is communication, NOT thought. However, it stands to reason that the strongest, most complex thinkers will also have developed the strongest, most complex language to communicate their complex thoughts. Ergo the dominance of Greek and Greek terminology in philosophy, science and art, while brown languages are simplistic, and black languages barely even qualify as languages, but closer to animal grunts. You can see how my thinking shapes language and not the other way around by the way I evaluate popular usage of every word I use, and often redefine them, or even create brand-new terms to fit my needs, while average people are slaves to popular usage and the dictionary. They don’t think at all, they are dominated by popular usage, which is to say, by stupidities. Isn’t a picture worth a thousand words? In fact it is a million." - A. Kierkegaard
>>24750424Go see him live. -- It's fun.He gets absolutely nowhere. Yet we know the vibe. The notion of half arena trying to care about Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob, etc. -- it's charming.
>>24750424>I don’t mean to underestimate the importance of language, but language is communication, NOT thoughtSubtle but definitive refutation of AI. I have been saying it for long.
>>24750575>150 euros for a two hour eventLol no thanks
What's the smartest book alive
>>24750054Idk about the smartest but I’ve heard this one is really brilliant. The authors other books are also very good.
Books can't be smart
>>24750362Maybe it's not all about you. Maybe looking at least well-kept for others is a concept that seemingly disappeared after the covid lockdowns, as people decided that being ugly in public was okay and the burden was on everyone else to just deal with it.Literally Eric Cartman "I do what I want" mentality.
>>24750054some idiot put all those books on the shelf back to front
>>24750054Fits a lot of poop, don't-cha think?
/bant/ Anonymous Tue 28 May 2019 06:13:20 No.8106590 ViewReport>>8106588>>8106589Don't just repeat what other people have said like a sheeple, have some original thoughts. MikeeUSA brings a unique perspective and adds to the culture of image boards while you are nothing but disposable garbage. I support his efforts to bring sanity to an insane world by making people own up to their own shit rules. There is enough material for him to make a life's work from it. I campaigned against Net Neutrality and has success with the Trump Administration, while MikeeUSA has taken on larger issues that will require nothing less than changing the world. -t. Kurisu
>signed up for the book club>read the book>took two ativans for my nerves>showed up>sat across the street and watched people go in>decided to go home Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?
>>24750379I am a musician. I had a band and played shows and released an album years ago. I've struggled to even find someone to jam with since then.
>>24750318You were supposed to have sons. That's the point of marriage.
>>24750295>Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?How to Stop Being a Faggot, by Who Fucking Cares, Just Stop Being a Faggot.
>>24750536We had a daughter and I'm an incompetent parent. I'm planning on running away to a different city and starting over.
>>24750567run clubs are big now. I hear people use those to date.
Are there any literary works worth reading from this region?I only know of Ibsen's plays and Andersen's tales.
>>24737396"The Tomten" really annoys me as a translation, doesn't that basically mean "The the tomte".
>>24748470I’ve only ever heard pretentious artsy women discuss Edith Södergran. Can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone mention Diktonius.
Sigrid Undset is one of my favourite writers of all.
>>24750381why?
>>24726411>>24728493oh shit i'll be in finland in a week maybe i'll go find your book despite not knowing any finnish :DD
Do you genuinely enjoy reading or are you just pretending to be well read? Be honest
>>24747970I can't even tell which are the books on the top row other than the alchemist, otherwise of the listed ones I've only ever read Ulysses and Odyssey, if that is what's the rightmost book on the bottom. Of the other books, I do not pretend to have read them, in fact, I tend to exude obnoxious smug superiority if they ever get brought up in a conversation and I get the chance to express my disinterest in them. Anyways, while I enjoy reading, I'm pretty inconsistent and bad at it, so I naturally also act as a pseud pretending to have read a lot more than I have.
>>24747970At first I was pretending to impress my parents/teachers then I was pretending to impress myself then I was pretending to impress a girl. Now that i actually have a mind of my own I've come to enjoy reading and stopped forcing myself to finish uninteresting books.
>>24747970>Do you genuinely enjoy readingWhy else would I do it. Having other interest would be more convenient so why pretend.
>>24747970How retarded do you have to be to pretend you've read Paulo Coelho and Margaret Atwood?
>>24750526woman retarded
Is political philosophy/theory dead? What’s the status of the field, and who are the most relevant authors/scholars today? Surely there’s more out there than Deneen and Fukuyama, right? Thiel seems to be ripping his toes into it again with his talks on the Antichrist and world government.
>>24750460I do it in my spare time and have written five works of it. To answer your question: Ikenberry, Gray, Wendt, Mearsheimer
>>24750489>international relations theoryObviously IR theory is alive and well with vigorous debate, but I meant actual political philosophy, with Strauss as an archetypal leader in the post-war generation.
>>24750460What contemporary issues would political philosophy even have to consider and think about? Everything is fake and gay today
>>24750497I'll give you ONE
okay have 2
Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg>Previous:>>24729043>Thread Question:Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
>>24740187Abercrombie- audiobook Hyperion Book of the new sunFor culture Way of kings and the name in the wind
>>24744575You should've kept going.
>>24745855Many agree the series is good. The other anon got filtered. Simple as.
>>24749424Take your meds.
>>24750518Swan Song, Boy's Life and Mine are his best novels. Wolf's Hour is pretty fun too
