What's the best Bible edition?
start by reading a graphic novel of the bible. there are three good editions out there, and they're quite cheap (the first one I read has more than 800 pages and costs no more than 20 quid), particularly the one with three volumes (hardcover), the kingstone bible.then read the real thing. it makes it easier.i've actually become a bible collector. have purchased at least 5 for christmas.
Just finished Isaiah (KJV) and I'm really fucking bored. So far I've only skipped Chronicles Psalms and Proverbs. Can I skip the rest of the prophets and go straight to the Gospels or is there anything good coming up?
>>24866672You are not a Christian if you believe you can have sex before marriage.
I want to read the Bible. Which one do I read? I've got a leaning interest in Catholicism.
>>24865212my signed copy penned by Jesus Christ himself
What are your favourite pre-Disney Star Wars novels?
I thought the Darth plagieus book was really good
Haven't read a whole lot (only EP3 and i think two that were set in the clone wars, those weren't terribly good even to my then-14yo self... oh and i think one of the older Han Solo books where he's trapped with Chewie on Kessel, and it's some refreshingly grim adventures in the slave mines and other shit, dun remember the name but that was good), BUT basically any pre-Disney Star Wars shit is great. KOTOR 2 is legendary lit, and the comics are really good, i've got a bunch of those. I need to finish Darth Plagueis as well as the direct sequel to the EP3 novelization (smth like Darth Vader: The Rise of the Dark Lord), but alas my ADHD meds ain't working and reading books feels like grinding my balls with a cheese grater. I just need to do it, someday.
YLYL edition
>>24871433this attests to the superiority of christianity, mate. see it as a compliment, not as an attack.there is no figure like Jesus Christ. he is unique. even from a non-theological standpoint.
>>24874451genuinely hilarious. this is somebody i know i could have the most engaging useless intellectual redezvous with.
>>24873016lost at Identifying Wood
>>24873016>no I Spy: Haunted Mansion >no Calvin and Hobbes compendium
How has it aged?
I read this recently and thought it was brilliant. Clear and concise prose. I was able to follow the story clearly. I know this is a newfag question but what are some other Orwell kinos I should check out?
>>24875506All his nonfiction is great and worth reading. Aside from Animal Farm, this is regarded as his best fiction.
>start reading this and thinking Winston is literally me>he has consensual sex with a woman half his age
>>24875304As well as his teacher's book, but I evaluate the predictions and not writing skill here, not competent to evaluate that. You get your convenient sedation in your small daily world, but once you dare to step a bit outside your designated realm you do get the boot on your face immediately.
>>24875304In terms of "predictions?" Not very well. Brave New World is the better dystopian fiction, but they're both bad. It's a stupid genre.
Based or Cringe?
>>24875651This book is not pessimistic in the usual sense. Conspiracy Against the Human Race is weird book. Ligotti is too much of an aesthete to write dry philosophy. There is no experience like reading this book if you take it as fiction. Especially the middle chapters become so weird and sinister that you get chills down your spine. You in front of your eyes see the creation turning into a menacing mystery.Thanks for reminding me, I need to read it again >>24875705Fucking kino. See this is what I am talking about. Ligotti is a master of atmospheric prose
>>24875663>the people who are trying to prevent suffering are suffering from things
>>24875651Jewish nonsense. I will breed.
>>24875783Ligotti is not jewish. He said that he would prefer a world in which ego death is a default state of mankind.
>>24875789Unfathomably based. I will now read your non-Jewish nonsense.Ego is the reason dysgenic freaks (like me) INSIST on procreation, while it doesn't alter their pathetic morbid existence but multiplies uglyness and stomps on aesthetic.
Does this book hold all the secrets to life?
so /lit/ has moved from Kant to Hegel nowis this organic at all?
>>24871383One Piece for philosophy students
>>24875788As organic as the movement from Evola to Guenon.
>>24871383yes
>>24871383I’ve always wanted to read the Science of Logic (his actual metaphysics) but I’ve never been able to get around to it because of this. Does anyone know if I can skip directly to it?
Why 120 days of Sodom so popular among Zoomers despite the fact the book is out right degenerated?
>>24869613>performative maleA very obvious projection from women. Their default state is being performative.
>>24870540okay… she’s an editor at stereogum.com and hosts literary salons… what the fuck have you done?
>>24875491At least I have not put my soul at peril by simping for some saturn worshipping thot who crearly needs to be medicated. You think that after a trainload of BBC and then some you will have some chance on her. You only have to close eyes when dreaming.
>>24875460The cringe era has died, old man. Cringe died with zoomers and gen alpha.
Haven't read 120 Days, but i have read Justine to near-completion.It was a very interesting mix of the author's personal fetishes, philosophical treatises justifying the author's fetishes (at the expense of people with regular morals), portrayals of various people the author dislikes as pedophiles (note that the author himself is a pedophile), as well as utterly unhinged, literarily creative expressions of the author's most extreme pedophilic fantasies. Oh, and the whole book is not only immoral, but also completely amoral.The cherry on top is that Justine was quite popular among the aristocratic (Fr*nch) women of the time, which always cracks me up.To summarize, read it if you listen to Infant Annihilator and want something equally creative, but a tiny bit more disquieting on account of the author actually being into the shit he writes about.And i will say, in between the comical amount of rape scenes, there's some quite good humor in there too. I remember the luxuriously wealthy nobleman who kept his wife chained up and drank her blood (a little on the nose but it fits), and the parish of priests who refularly sodomize altar boys before repenting their sins - and doing it all over again.
Is she the closest thing to a voice of the Gen Z Generation?
>>24872878>Her writingthat’s not writing, it’s typing
>>24875316people are calling it “the most editor prompted zeitgeist baiting bullshit of all time”
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>>24871573WrongGod didnt intend for woman to give birth but you cant ever truly know intent
>>24875605urban dictionary entries pass for poetry now?
what are some good dutch language books for a dutch learner
>>24870976wat nou, geert?!
went to a dutch church once. they pause the service for a short break where everyone starts eating mint or black licorice candy.
>>24871360Nederlanders willen wel Nederlands met je praten, maar buitenlanders massacreren de taal nog erger dan een west-vlaming. Er is een reden dat elke 'expat'(gore buutnlandr) alleen maar met andere 'expats'(gore buutnlandrs) bevriend is. Nederlandse boeken zijn allemaal bocht, het is oversexte meuk dat alleen nut heeft als haardhout. Ik raad aan om gewoon een Nederlandse vertaling van goede boeken te lezen. Dat of geschiedenis boeken.
>>24874052Umm, no.Scandinavia has Edvard Munch, Edvard Grieg, Theodor Kittelsen, Victor Sjohstrom, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Lars von Trier, Ingmar Bergman, Thomas Vinterberg, Aki Kaurismaki, August Stringberg, Henrik Ibsen, A-ha and ABBA and many other artists that have made a splash internationally.As a Spaniard I have more respect and feel a closer kinship with Scandinavians than I do with the swamp dwellers.The swamp dwellers overthrew their benevolent Spanish overlords only to squander their golden age (which started and partially overlaps with the supposed "Spanish yoke") malinvesting in tulips and get into wars with France and England.I feel no remorse for the Spanish Fury, those godless protties deserved it.
>>24875403Dank je wel voor het uitzicht. Ik heb maar een klein stukje van het land gezien. De welopgevoede (deugende) Nederlandse kerels (opgeleide in het buitenland) die ik ken, spreken graag Engels, zelfs onder elkaar.
>Women have spent centuries writing down exactly what they find desirable in men>And you won't read it
>>24875473state intervention is the entire problem
>>24875638Well i disagree depending on the situation. It doesn't have to be one or the other but a secret third thing.
>>24875479By that logic, antinatalists will breed themselves out of existence.
>>24863373>men are different
>>24875654>I’m quoting something the person I’m replying to never said.
Is this the best Qur'an translation into English?
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>>24874626Sorry Anon, your text is corrupted by the hand of man.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlb81KCvYFA
>>24874639NTA but these differences are vastly exaggerated by the guy.
>>24874576koran is a pile of poop only good for burning
>>24874576Muhammad Assad's is goated
Why does Chinese calligraphy trigger my autism so hard? I just think they're neat
>>24872624Not bad, but 山 component should be written with 3 strokes starting with the ㇗, and the middle "summit" should be the highest. Also, ㇉ should be written in one stroke, not as ㇑+ ㇆
>>24869413ancient script still retain their raw ideal forms, it's a bridge to the minds of pre-conscious human beings.
>>24873358Thanks. You're spot on on the island radical critique, but the portion about the bird radical is a stylistic choice in Japan vs China. Since I am learning Japanese, that one is correct. I had similar issues with 食 and 飲, but that was just me being wrong lol
>>24874255>island radical山 is a mountain, though.
>>24869440How do you translate into coherent speech? Is it just like looking at some picture and describing it in your own words?
Oracular edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24816688>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.
Anything exciting going on in the archeology department? Im craving new discoveries of ancient literature.
Reminder that if you look at Roman authors who are cited on great works lists Augustine is far and away the most consistently listed, and often both confessions and city of God are listed.I’ve seen Virgil’s Aeneid once or twice on a western canon list, but otherwise these authors really only outperform Augustine in broader intellectual recognition and acclaim within the narrow confines of classics departments.
bump>>24873431except for Pompeii idk, I'm not even sure if they can actually get something somewhat readable
>>24871316ok good analysis. Chinese intellectuals in the 80s said much the same things.The state itself is also not Confucian, I was just trying to say that many people have deep understanding of the classics and appreciation for them is the norm in culture.Some of my very pro-Confucian teachers got angry when the CCP removed a statue of Confucius from in front of the Chinese National Museum in Beijing lol
Ελελεύ, Ιού, Ιού
What was it specially about this era that made it so goated?
>>24875607The Elizabethan era had one (1) writer that’s still talked about today, whereas the Victorian era has dozens.>>24875619>there was no feminismlook up the “new woman” movement
>>24875633i would rather have shakespeare than every british novelist writing (and probably the poets too) in the victorian era (and it is not as if shakespeare was the only elizabethan writer with any talent)
>>24875687theater is inferior to the novel
>>24875702even granting that, the greatest playwright of all time is still superior to all but the greatest novelists.
A strong female leader.
For some reason I thought Euros would be more well read than Americans, but I guess that's not the case.
>>24875610It comes from Burgerstans being stupid. No stereotype arises from nothing. There is always truth there.
>>24875636Public transit is one of the best times to read
>>24875678Yeah that's the theory, but in reality only happens off hours when it's not packed. Very few people actually read on public transit.
>>24873010i know this is bullshit when we have literature majors who complain about having to read whole books to the point universities are lowering the reading requirements t
>>24874098I didn’t even know that was a thing until that video. I knew we use manure for fuel and insulation (specifically for chicken coops and such things) in rural villages, that’s all. Just nuke us
