>expect genreslop>it's actually the most profound meditations on politics, history, being, and identity that I've ever readWhat the fuck Poland why did you keep this from us for 20 years
>>25022182False. Wacław Sierpiński was a highly prolific mathematician who published several hundred mathematical articles and several dozen mathematical books.
>>25022182gombrowicz schulz kieslowski wajda zulawksi
>>25022482missed 'reading' but in your case consider the subtitles
>>25022182>never heard about Czochralski>never heard about Lem, Zajdel or Zulawski>never heard about Kopernikconfidently ignorant, real intellectual e/lit/e
Why is Science Fiction so much more “literary” than Fantasy?
The classic literature subreddit conducted a vote on the 100 greatest books of all time. This is the result.
>>25022970I mean shit like "the first folio" or "poems by yeats" or "tragedies by sophocles" are cowardly cheats
>>25023044Why not just get chatgpt to read the books for you while you’re at it? Cancer mindset
>Giovanni’s Room Ha what a bunch of faggots
>reddit mentionedhttps://discord.gg/EMq43xYNxq
>>25023114I used chatgpt to identify the following fallacies in your reply:>slippery slope>false equivalence>strawman fallacy>ad hominem>appeal to ridicule>false dichotomy (implicit)
My mom thinks I'm at home looking for a job when, in fact, I spend all day reading books and jerking off.
>>25020876based. These are the greatest years of your life!
>>25021796If my dad does something sexual to my mom I’m not going to be weird about it.
My mum thinks I'm playing videogame when, in fact, I'm writing a funny play about orphans
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>>25020876If it makes you feel any better, by reading books you're being more productive than me when I was in my unemployed arcI spent all my time, aside from jerking off, applying to thousands of jobs online and didn't get diddly shit (two or three initial interviews that went nowhere)I eventually decided to go looking for IRL job fairs, and literally the first one I went to landed me a solid job
I do not understand all that goes on myself, so I cannot explain it to you. Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going treeish, as you might say. Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish. That is going on all the time.
https://discord.gg/EMq43xYNxq
u into ents now?
>28.5 years since publication>Still BTFOs every attempt at logical counterargumentNotice how I wrote "logical" as there are plenty of retard tier counterarguments, the foremost being, "I simply do not care."
quantizing pain/pleasure is fucking incel subhuman nonsense.
>>25020206No. It's a service provided by the high IQ to make sure midwits like you stay in line lest you be exposed as much closer to retard than you want to realize.
>>25020689arguments presented: 0
>>25012827>>25012830>>25012835Taiwan just overtook Korea with .72 fertility rates. This is just 34% of replacement, meaning the population will fall by twice the amount of the Black Death generation over generation.That's the lowest national average, but things are actually worse for some subgroups. Big city educated urbanites are likewise at extinction level birth rates. The fact that the most religious White women have birth rates higher than Libya is papering over that secular ones, especially the educated urban ones, do not reproduce or have one child at 33+. So, this problem will work itself out. Natural selection is itself removing materialist athiesm from the gene/meme pool.
>>25023022>Natural selection is itself removing materialist athiesm from the gene/meme pool.USA is the most Christian country on Earth. Saudi Arabia is the most Islamic country on Earth. Neither is even in the top 100 by fertility rate. The ratings are lead by African countries where religion exist exclusively as humanitarian aid distributor, and which follow such traditional forms of government as "quasi-communist military junta with an auction-like multipolar foreign involvement". They are also the ones experiencing the highest growth of urbanization and industrial production.If only they had the traditional wisdom to know that they are materialsatheisming themselves out of the genepool.
I still love birds Editionprev: >>25015235
Silicon is quite literally the devil.
Jews are quite literally the devil.
Some girls like it hot
>>25022935i did that once but when i hit "post" i got 404 thread does not exist, so i decided to never effortpost again
>>25022868too wordy man doesn't feel like a pro wrote that
People are reading Richard Werner
>>25020609>>25021135no "it" doesnt work there. They use a version of it, but it's not anywhere near German socialist banking.Chinese societies are inherently based on a servile menial labour class. Its completely different to German societies.
>>25020503Yes, tyrant originally was the title of the guy who performed the debt jubilee.there's a reason the name has a negative connotation now.
>>25021330Solon of Athens?consolidation of power is the only viable way of controlling the flows of capital>>25021304>Chinese societies are inherently based on a servile menial labour classSingapore and contemporary China works partially from menial labor but has shifted significantly ever since Deng's economic reforms, 'how china escaped shock therapy' by Weber is a great book on this.
>>25021619>Solon of Athens?no apparently it's from readings of sumerian tablets, they had a regular debt jubilee every couple of decades because the prince who won the regular succession battle forgave debts which conveniently paralysed all his would be rivals.Until creditor groups got annoyed and stopped it with a coup or something, I got this like 2nd or 3rd hand.
>>25021304"socialist banking" LULRetard over here
Dostoevsky is the most overrated writer in history.His prose is sophomoric and his ideas immature. It's borderline cringeworthy. His body of work must seem like the most profound thing ever if you had never had a profound thought before in your life. So it seems he must be most impressive to precocious 14-15 year old boys. Admiring him past twenty though must be a stamp of some form of intellectual impediment, like the conformism of not holding any real opinions of one's own, resting on argumentum ad auctoritatem--Dostoevsky must be great since people like Freud praised him!Let me be clear. I do not care for the thing he is most praised for--the psychological "depth" of his characters and their actions, or how he supposedly prefigured psychoanalysis in literature (untrue btw). Character depth is like the amount of ingredients in a dish, it doesn't matter if the dish sucks>inb4 food analogyHis settings are boring and plain in a bad way. He has nothing interesting to say and borders on cringeworthy (the Grand Inquisitor chapter from Brothers Karamazov might be the best/worst example of this). The storylines manage to both drag and be far-fetched (with events following from each other in a neat unrealistic line, exactly the idiosyncratic way he wants them, to prove some point he set out to prove since all that Dostoevsky writes are moralistic fables, banal morality plays). Therefore I could not care less for the psychological depth of these characters. I could not care less for all the worlds Dostoevsky sketches out to begin with.And of course there's the question of the actual quality of Dostoevsky's prose, which almost everyone agrees is his weakest part, being turgid, mechanistic and without vibrance. To name a writer I admire far more for comparison, I'll say, I think Joseph Conrad mogs Dosto in pretty much every respect, although with the notable exception of Heart of Darkness his characters possess less psychological depth. But so long as Conrad arrives at deeper, more profound truths and does it in a stylistically superb manner that evokes pure awe and richly colorful mental images, it doesn't matter all that much. And he doesn't make me cringe.
Post manuscript.
>>25020611lol u got shrekt>>25020574that's ad populum, not ad auctoritatem
I trust zero people that talk about an author revealing "profound truths" when discussing literature. Seems similar in meaning to "tour de force" or "what it means to be human"... aka NOTHING!!!
>>25018722>swampgoth daughter
>>25018722What the fuck does that have anything to do with Shrek?
Drop your favorites. For me>Siddhartha >Catcher in the Rye>The Stranger>1984>The Brothers Karamazov>Slaughterhouse Five>Death in Venice
Why does lit slaver over slaughterhouse five? It's not even in his top 3 books.
>>25014322It is a young adult novella after all...
>>25018416do cover artists really
The sound of waves
Ham on Rye bu Bukowski
>Says he's at 1,100 pages for TWoW, unclear how many more to go>Jon Snow seemingly confirmed to have TWOW chapters>Began writing two Dunk & Egg stories earlier last year>Called his relationship with Condal "abysmal"
>>25020944We've all seen what may as well be the ending of GOT back in 2019. I say that because he'll croak before he ever finishes this book let alone the last one.
>>25020980>I do think if I can just get some of these other things off my back, I could finish The Winds of Winter pretty soon. It’s been made clear to me that Winds is the priority"Made clear to me"? No, it's more like you've been lying about that yourself for more than a decade but maybe you're too senile to remember?
>>25021231>Keeps to his schedule, whatever you may think of his writingThe slop writer keeps to his schedule because he has no standards. The Stephen King school of "eh good enough". > The debasing defense also doesn't workThe mormon can't write the series, can't emulate the tone and when asked, does not want to. I don't know why retards keep bringing him up. I bailed on Wheel of Time long before the author died but at least he set up a succession plan. George has nothing and is ALSO uninterested in someone else finishing it.Is it some kind of delusion that people keep bringing this up? You're more likely to end up reading Preston Jacob's fanfic as the "true ending" to the series than some other cunt finishing it officially.
I hope he never finishes. At this point it’s just funny.
>>25022327>GRRM is a fat retard fucking over his fans>"BUT SANDERSON THOUGH-"funny how that's all martinfags have left
What books did you read to break free of the Abrahamic paradigm and what path did you ultimately follow?
>>25022813It's a yes or no question. Please answer it without pivoting to absurdism or humor.
>>25021882>CRISPRComplete pseudoscience.
>>25022855No.T. Gf uses CRISPR in her lab
>>25021756This is why Plotinus is a beautiful thinker. Emanationism son.
I decided to try my hand at writing a book. Before becoming a paramedic eight years ago, I spent 16 years as a security professional in the UK – everything from doorman to close-protection bodyguard, as well as working as a prison officer and training others in conflict management and physical intervention. Across those careers I’ve seen and dealt with a huge amount of real-world conflict.I’ve since written a few short books that I genuinely believe could help people, and I’ve published them on Amazon Kindle. Unfortunately, they haven’t gained much traction so far.Is there a good way to market books like these, or any advice on how to get them in front of the right audience?
>>25021543It's a great topic for zoomers with their zero life experience and constant coddling. Unfortunately they can't focus or read so OP will need to present it as a series of 15 second videos to gain any traction.
>>25020386nice! that looks like a good book
I super duper promise to read your book if you upload it to the interwebz for freee
>>25021543Most books on this topic are either theoretical, outdated, or push a single “one-size-fits-all” method. They often skip the basic decisions where things actually start going wrong. My book is different because it’s written from real frontline experience and focuses on the early warning signs, the small mistakes people don’t notice, and how judgement is affected by stress, ego, fatigue, and environment. Instead of selling one method, I compare what works, what doesn’t, and when walking away is the best decision.
>>25020386>AI palette cover
What did I think of it?
>>25022449That's the joke.
>>25022450We need to work on our comebacks.
Animal farm is a criticism of capitalism dressed up a critique of communism because criticizing capitalism was basically a crime at the time.
>>25023039t. Seth Rogan
>>25020539glue has to become hard or it won't workbe careful what you wish for
Why is this so popular among zoomettes?
>>25020291It’s way worse than that.
>>25021505>>25021518Seething ameriturd>>25021291When I was 11-12 I was hunting for Dragon Ball and Naruto hentai doujins and that was in 2007
>>25021301This happens everywhere, but people who were always asocial, unpopular and ostracized feel left out and their brains retroactively justifies their isolation by deeming this behavior immoral. Half of my female classmates, in an almost exclusively white area, were pregnant at 15. The rest were fat.
>>25020006>>25019970Reminds me of faggots who wouldnt let me buy Grand Theft Auto back in high school because "it's rated M! There are no no words!"
>>250226082 nonces, 1 thread
The most long winded discussion about refuting materialism ever: the book. I have enjoyed what I have read so far but I much prefer it when explanations and refutations are as brief and informationally dense as possible. Eg.>”X claim is false because it is operating in relation to WYZ assumptions which do not actually correspond to reality because of TUV”.
>>25020304Return brother. May Allah guide you
>>25020329>Illusion of continuity.that it's being claimed by you to be an illusion is in fact an admission that experience shows that there is a continuity
>>25018608>>btw, from the fact I have intentionality I have deduced all consciousness comes from God and science will never be able to prove otherwiseWell science is bullshit, so I'm inclined to believe he's right.
>>25020329>muh illusionIt's this cognitive dissonance of rejecting a spirit, yet uncritically adopting scientism dogma that I find funny about materialists.
I had a moral crisis when I realised that all of my reading was a rationalisation of my subconscious prejudice that materialism is "reddit" and idealism is "4chan"
