Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men gone and why have they been replaced with women?
>>25179887>Where have all the serious, urbane, book-reading men goneI'm right here bb, u mirin' my stacks?
>>25184847And that’s why Milton is the boy. Me an’ ‘im goin the paki shop to get a cheeky luco and a pack of mccoys flame grilled steak while everyone else has to work (wankers) and then he goes back to ‘is gaff to master the art of blank verse in iambic pentameter an’ shows me ‘is little story on the devil getting evicted from ‘ev’n or suttin so he starts smashing the landlords dogs’ ‘eds in.
>>25185240kek. that would make a great norf meme.
>>25184965It’s awful, definitely. There are some days where I’m very happy for all women and how they’ve achieved autonomy (shut up you know what I mean) over the past centuries, it’s wonderful to see. the great literary women such as Dickinson, Eliot, the Brontë sisters, Woolf have shown that they can appeal to the cerebral and the emotional. But then, when you experience a bad relationship, and you see shit like the OP and other retarded stuff that they do posted here as well as their foul, overly emotional attitudes and you think… wow I fucking hate women so much.
>>25179887That shelf over the door gives me anxiety.
I've read 15/55 books on my bookshelf.
Very performative
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>>25185034I did, the writing is fine, pretty interesting, but the over engineered formatting makes it hard for me to enjoy. I'm not a sophisticated man.
>>25181010They/them is to remove gender, not to establish the person is plural. Since “I” is non-gendered it would still be used. Try thinking instead of being transphobic. This isn’t /pol/.
>>25185044You would say "we" because "they" and "them" are both plural
>>25184056>finishing a book is an accomplishment you should be proud of because not a lot of people will ever get to do thatshoulda said because it's difficult, not a comparisonmaking. Eh, shes only 18
>>25184056>YAgo to fucking hell dude
Going to teach myself german, what book should I read? I doubt Goethe would have enough of the relevant vocabulary. Maybe something newer, but expansive.
>>25183766
I recommend starting with adapted material at your current level and working your way up.https://rentry.org/german-readers
In addition to what >>25183959 said you should pick up Sandberg’s German For Reading. It will be a miserable slog but an effective one.
>>25183766>Going to teach myself german, what book should I read?
>>25183766Kant if you’re intermediate. Newspapers if you’re a beginner.
>So shall the Son of man be THREE DAYS and THREE NIGHTS in the heart of the earth.>Destroy this temple, and in THREE DAYS I will raise it up.>After THREE DAYS I will rise again.>The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after THREE DAYS rise again.I don't get it. If Jesus died on Friday afternoon and was resurrected by Sunday morning, how is that THREE DAYS and THREE NIGHTS?
>>25184993Depends. Are you leaving for cigarettes or a carton of milk?
>>25184260Jesus died on a Wednesday in 31 ADIts the only dating that makes any sense.https://rcg.org/articles/ccwnof.html
>>25184260>>25185017>What really happenedChrist’s crucifixion took place on Passover day, the 14th of Abib (or Nisan), the first month in God’s Sacred Calendar. This occurred in the year A.D. 31, in which Passover fell on a Wednesday. Many fail to consider the prophecy that the Messiah would be “cut off…in the midst of the week” (Dan. 9:26-27). Wednesday falls in the middle of the week—the very day upon which Passover fell in A.D. 31. According to the Roman calendar, this date was Wednesday, April 25.Between the ninth and twelfth hours (3:00 - 6:00 p.m.), Christ died (Luke 23:44-46). With Governor Pilate’s permission, Joseph of Arimathaea procured the body, wrapped it in linen (John 19:40) and placed it in the sepulcher (Luke 23:50-53). By the time the burial was complete, the Sabbath “drew on” (vs. 54). Thus, the burial took place on Passover day, shortly before sunset.That Passover was a preparation day, in that it preceded an annual Sabbath. This annual Sabbath (called the First Day of Unleavened Bread) was called a high Sabbath or “high day” (John 19:31) and fell on a Thursday that year. It was on this day that the high priest and the Pharisees came to Pilate to ensure that Christ’s tomb was securely guarded and sealed (Matt. 27:62-66).Mark 16:1 records what took place on that Friday: “And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint Him.” (Verse 2 jumps to Sunday morning.) The phrase, “and when the Sabbath was past,” refers to the high day that occurred on Thursday. Since the women could not buy spices on the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday), Friday was the only time they could have done so.Luke 23:56 states, “And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.” After buying the spices, they returned and prepared them to be applied to Christ’s body in the tomb, which they planned to do after resting on the weekly Sabbath.Luke 24:1 states, “Now upon the first day of the week [Sunday], very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulcher, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.” The women found the tomb empty (vs. 3). Two angels in shining garments informed them that Christ was already “risen” (vs. 4-6). Mark 16:2 states that the women were present “at the rising of the sun.” This means Christ was resurrected before sunrise. John 20:1 further tells us that Mary Magdalene came early “when it was yet dark” and found the stone that sealed the tomb was already rolled away. No sunrise resurrection could have occurred—because Christ was already resurrected!
>>25184260Hebrews counted days differently. The Church still does this where next day's vigil starts after evening prayer (vespers).>>25185028Good post. Here's an article by Jimmy Akin you'd like: https://www.ncregister.com/blog/7-clues-tell-us-precisely-when-jesus-died-the-year-month-day-and-hour-revealed, and a follow-up: https://www.ncregister.com/features/gigi-duncan-did-jesus-die-april-3-kdivavbe
>>25185186>All four gospels agree that Jesus was crucified on a Fridayno they dont.its crucial to understand the annual Sabbath fell on a Thursday the year he died.
I didn't sign no "social contract".
>>25185198There are plenty of authors writing about how to fix the world and plenty of movements that tried it. Fasci Siciliani, Georgism, Arts and Crafts, Diggers, Dostojveskij, Tolstoj, Gogol, Murras, Roerich, Technocracy Inc, Proletkult, Sorel.
>>25185198hunter-gatherer way of life
>>25183779What if we renamed it to 'Public circumstance'?
>>25185217Why did they fail? Because they couldn't improve the lives of enough people to spread. Admit it you hunter gatherer utopia anons, this is the best it gets! revolutionaries always fantasize that they will be the ones raping, when in fact, society protects them from stronger sodomizers.
>>25185198Any society that follows the law of Ma'at
Do you guys have any recommendations? Ever since I finished this book I can't seem to get back into other books. The digressions, theology, ahab's speeches where just peak of fiction I ever read. Is there any book with similar depth and breadth?
Paradife Loft
>>25185173>pynchon
>>25185194Got a lifp have we anon?
>>25185222I think you're loft my good fir. Milton is a fuperftar around these partf.
>>25185145American literature sucks
What's the closest real life thing to Spice Melange?
>>25185224a mix of DMT, morphine, and crystal meth.don't ask me how I know this.
Both Patrick Bateman and Mac the Knife are presented as personifications of capitalism as killers. There are some similarities such Bateman being obsessed with high-end brands, and Mac being similarly fussy in making distinctions between high-end furniture.But otherwise they seem to diverge. Mac only kills as business or where it is simply expected of him and proper for a killer to do so. Same thing with fucking underage girls and prostitutes, mostly because it is proper to his class of criminal--the child who is drugged and raped mentioned at the beginning was presumably not even raped by Mac, rather it was suggested he charged others for it. "Off work" he isn't even particularly violent, just a sort of bourgeois who is incidentally a career killer Taken as personifications of evil, Bateman is evil qua mental sickness, whereas Mac the Knife is evil qua banality as Hannah Arendt describedWhich is a more accurate portrait of pure evil? Or capitalism?
>>25184754That's kind of funny considering that is a capitalist mantra tied to the hope that capitalists will deliver on their promises to the working class >>25184771She never claimed to be a philosopher and in truth rejected the label. The work is one of journalism and drew controversy mainly because she didn't think Nazism was uniquely evil, and she was subjected in life, partly as a result of that, to the accusation that she didn't have loyalty to her fellow Jews. Indeed despite being politically on the right, she came to reject Zionism, which she initially supported, on the basis that she found Zionists psychologically similar to Nazis.
>>25184371Fpbp
>>25184348Why does your picture collage have the mummy guy
>>25185072It's from the poster of the National Theatre Threepenny Opera. The actor playing the beggar playing Mac the Knife within the opera is balding in accordance with Brecht's suggestion that the beggar is not extremely attractive but just sort of normal looking and perhaps balding, based on a picture he saw from the Beggar's Opera
>>25184711Gullible boomer take
>Our starting point will be not the modern theory of evolution but the traditional doctrine of involution. We do not believe that man is derived from the ape by evolution. We believe that ape is derived from the man by involution. We agree with De Maistre that savage peoples are not primitive peoples, in the sense of original peoples, but rather the degenerating remains of more ancient races that have disappeared.
It doesn't really matter what's real or not in the conventional sense. Historical matters can never be truly and accurately represented anyway; take ten different people that were all at the same party last week and they will all describe a different version of events. Never mind something that happened ten thousand years ago.All history is aestheticized in that regard, might as well create your own as long as it constructive and congruent with your own goals and beliefs.
>>25185070Birth and infancy are like spring. You weren't born an athletes, but you had the potential to be one. Just as spring is not summer, but will lead to it.When you're old and decrepit and in the winter of your life, you will no longer have that potential.
>>25185099Does the primate have the same potential to be man?
>>25185077Plato argues metempsychosis which is not the same
>>25185177No because the premise of evolutionism as some innate mechanistic process is rejected.Higher consciousness, as observed in humans, didn't arise or emerge via some random process.At most, we might say that apes were used as a base form or foundation on which the human being was instituted. But there is no "natural" progression from apes to man.
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25182494Hogg
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>>25181703Invitation to a beheading
Which philosophers have totally 180d on their previous held views and repudiated themselves?
>>25184808>And modernity doesn't equal liberalism, it also birthed nationalism, totalitarianism, and imperialismThe Roman and Persian Empires were not imperialistic? Is imperialism just when America defends its interests proactively and overtly but doesn't actually conquer any territories nor construct entire fake islands in international waters? Also, Nationalism is, for a very real fact, older than modernity and you can see it in Thucydides.
>>25184653>Fukuyama is actually ahead of the curve in recognizing that America under Trump doesn't even operate as a liberal state anymoreHow? Do they no longer have a seperation of powers? Your complainst, much like Fukuyama's complaints about Trump, amount to pearl clutching.Of course, I wanted a fascist state which defines the common good and the good for the individual which then forces said good on the populace and turning them all into stoico-buddhists. But, some german lady called Arendt said that this is not good. Education is le bad.
I'm not sure why people keep propping China up to be this new burgeoning global leader when virtually all of its significant allies are opposed to Marxism in some way. The Iranian regime is officially opposed to marxism. Hell, you have iranian scholars publishing comprehensive critiques of marx and historical materialism.
>>25185129America doesn't conquer new territories, it just imposes a puppet government on them, transforming formally independent nations into vassal states that have zero control on any internal or external policies. And if they get uppity and try to elect an anti American leadership you either have a million new parties form against you all funded with US money, US financed colour revolutions, sanctions or if all else fails an invasion in the name of "democracy" where a puppet is installed.
>>25185160>virtually all of its significant allies are opposed to Marxism in some wayChina isn't Marxist anymore, Deng turned into ino a state-capitalist economy, and it's going to abandon communism as it gets richer and richer.
>WE WUZ HAVIN SEX AND SHIT
>>25183475>>25184065What's even more fun is that Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza apparently had a sexual encounter with Kundera and described her experience here in an interview, around 16.00:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvhOl_4nRA&t=329sApparently, Kundera had gigantic dick, and it was very painful to her. She didn't enjoy it at all. She also makes fun of the whole thing.Goliarda is the pinnacle of based btw, and the only truly Nietzschean novelist you will ever read (see pic related). I really think she should be read more widely here.
>>25185050She seems annoying as hell
Somebody recommended this book to me once, for whatever reason, and all I remember is the part where a woman is blowing a guy in a car when someone crashes into them, causing her to bite off his dick. Yeah don't wanna try that
>>25185054She's actually a lot of fun, I recommended watching the whole thing. If there's one genuinely deep, vitalistic writer, it's her. It also puts me in a good mood to hear her talk because she goes through the most gruesome detail of her fairly tough life and never stops smiling. I wish I had a person like this in my life.Her novels are great btw.
>>25184382I don't and I won't.
We should be more like the Japanese
>>25180424>NTR>The Japanese art of enjoying the transient nature of relationships
>>25184635>The Japanese art of sharing; of generously offering your fellow man the opportunity to taste the same lips that you have.
>>25173586So hoarding, essentially.
>>25173586What pisses me off about this, on the same level as hygge or lagom, is that tsundoku is not some “concept” invented to describe a specifically Japanese practice. It is an ordinary word. Once you purchase a book, it is 未読 (midoku), “not yet read”, and once you read it, it is 既読 (kidoku), “read” and if you're a compulsive buyer, it becomes 積ん読 (tsundoku), “piled up”. Japanese is keen on forming various compounds on the fly, it doesn't have any meaning lost intranslation. There's no reason to use a Japanese word. It's shorter than “accumulating unread books”? Duh, most words are.
>>25176597Do you not have flyscreens in your country? I've literally never been inside a house in mine that didn't have flyscreen doors on every front/back entrance. They're so ubiquitous you'd think they're required by law, but they're about the one thing in this shithole nanny state that isn't
Are Hunger and Growth of the Soil any good?
>>25184447So as a Hellenic polytheist, will I like it or not?
>>25184530you will love it
knutzi
>>25184447I am a Christian and I loved it.By the way Christianity has a strong existentialism at its core. Read any of the gospels and tell me that there is nothing existential about them.
Is Wayfarers any good?
