what are you all reading?
>>24121163What are you doing in the Catholic general if you don't believe in Catholicism?
>>24113642Uh, starting Albions Seed soon
>>24121181Idk, testing to see if anyone got brains in here.
>>24121175Calling Jesus' teachings suicidal and claiming they needed to be escaped from is Heresy.I don't even get what you are doing in the Catholic general
>>24121190Having brains means agreeing with you rather than with the Magisterium of the Church?You overrate yourself too much
Need books that are redpilling on the IMF, the BIS, how they control the economies of nations, their history, the history of central banking, the evil nature of banking etc.
The IMF and the whole international economic apparatus only control the economies of poor nations for the benefit of the rich in rich nations.
>>24121078https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvvGwujebfZ-4eNdZZqpiVzcCiEbQTakk&si=pvsoA1xBUmu3hbzq
>>24121078The IMF (along with World Bank) was created at Bretton Woods after WWII to manage a system of fixed international exchange rates with the US dollar pegged to gold at the centre to revive world trade and prevent something like the depression happening again. The obvious issue is the US under Nixon unilaterally embraced floating exchange rates and told their creditors to go fuck themselves and they wouldn't be getting gold at the promised rate... so the IMF had to change it mission a bit since the entire idea of fixed rates was abandoned by who mattered.Best case study is Argentina where it's obvious the IMF exists to "help" governments never stop and keep selling USD bonds to international investors and prevent defaults to backstop dollar system still. If the IMF dissapeared every turd world country would end up defaulting on dollar debt pretty quickly and dollar denominated assets globally would shrink massively.>>24121107>The IMF and the whole international economic apparatus only control the economies of poor nations"Developed nations" have been retarded and gotten into toxic relations, a notable example is Britain going to the IMF for a loan in 1976.
with recent events in the west showing us that no matter how much citizens participate in politics, it doesn't matter because the ruling class is sucking up all the wealth in society, resulting in a rapid decline of the standard of livingwas fukuyama was wrong about the human desire for recognition being the main driver for achieving the "best" political system?
>>24120007then what the hell is it?
>>24119990New Zealand should go to the Maori
>>24119698No thanks, that guy hates Albions like like me.
>>24120090It's more like a cake. Which is why the poor can eat it.
>>24120007Okay, give me all your wealth; you should still have infinite left over.
How historically accurate is this shit? Did people ever really live like this or is it purely an idealized antiquity fantasy? For example the huge-ass brothel-cum-temple with hundreds of permanent whore/priestess residents, did something like that exist? Apologies if this should rather go on /his/ but I'm asking about this specific book, after all.
>>24120279FWIW the book in the OP is set in Alexandria during the roman empire, I think Ovidius is referred to as active.
>>24120325That doesn't change anything, the Greeks would have been Romanized to some degree by then if there had been any cultural change at all, not Mesopotamianized.
>>24117644that cover makes me want to FAP
>>24120958Alexander spread Hellenistic culture but he was also a huge Mesopotamianboo and actively fostered Babylonian religion
>>24117644>literally second page of the book>Jews are Aryan Based Louys.
He’s not immature or a bad debater like some have said, he just has latin passion, a property sorely lacking in philosophers these days. When it comes out, it surprises people who expect the discipline to be dry and impersonal.
>>24120545Kastrup is brilliant when he does show spirit. I liked his tidbit about brain extraction, even the network which performs the function still requires training which is indicative of a process that is more than input/output function at a mere data level. I imagine he will probably continue that vein of thought.
Idk who this man is but dear lord is he ugly
>>24120633no u
>>24120545I've watched and read most of his stuff, and cerebrally engaged with his content. What do you want to talk about?As to his hot-headedness: To his defence, it mostly only happens when the other is full of shit, so no loss. Langan, Hossenfelder, Maudlin, etc. I don't like that he doesn't call out Spira for doing seances and talking to the dead sessions. Or his new acceptance/interpretation of UAPs.
>>24120545He wrote an essay in this anthology, how good is it? I bought it years ago but haven't opened it yet
It is an inevitable consequence of humanity's gift for creative problem solving and propensity for least effort that any set of governing rules eventually ends up as a meta game where only the word of the law but not the spirit is adhered to. It is in this homeostasis of arrested development that great teachers appear, whether (depending on how you perceive the world) by divine intervention or by mere probabilistic inevitably due to the same creative nature of human minds. They dispel the ambiguity of the original words and reaffirm their spirit with new rules that both provide greater clarity and extend the domain of order. The cycle repeats and humanity continues to move forward.
>>24120500Based buddhist-hegelian poster
>>24120500I broke out of this cycle with my writing, you should read it.
Books to understand Russian women?
>>24121113Anna KareninaWar and PeaceThe Lady with the Dog CP
>horrible with grammar>English as a second language>been asking chat gpt to critique my writing as if it were my professor.is this cheating?sometimes it's wrong about some things, but for the most part it's pretty good, it's made my stuff a little better.this won't trigger AI catchers and mistake my stuff as being written by AI will it? i personally doubt it will but i don't know how AI catching software works, like if chat gpt is archiving my stories into it's database will AI detection software read my stories in chat gpts database and accuse me of plagiarizing chat gpt?
>>24120336Why don't you just write in your native language and then translate it?
>>24120336>frogposter>retarded >ESLthe triple crown
About to start this.What am I in for?
>>24120612small hands issue
>>24120467Is Blackadder in this?
>>24120682I would also like to know this; I've found someone nice copies in used book stores but IDK where to find a new copy that isn't a paper back
>>24120682I have Heritage Press, it's out of print but it shouldn't be too expensive second hand.
>>24120587shovld haue said 'uice uirsa'
favorite books about sad japanese women going through their boring sad lives?
>>24119088like a freshly ploughed valley of morning spring, overlooking the misty alps
Damn, that poster makes this both hilarious as well as extremely sad.
>>24119055drunk people sitting on the ground at a station is a pretty common sight in japan and maybe gaijins misinterpret somethingi'm so fucking tired
>>24119055>>24120676where's the ring of half-full water bottles?
>>24119055Any book by Hiromi Kawakami, that's literally what all her books are about.
How do I understand what is being said in Shakespeare's works? I can discern the meaning of some parts but not everything is clear.
>>24118441The worst/best part is that even when you grok the language, the content and meaning is so rich that it's still often difficult to follow lol. It's like chewing fudge. You want to take small bites and savor them. I don't actually like fudge.
>>24119933>Emily Wilson to translate Shakespeare"To be or not. Thats a question we all ask ourselves. Some say its nobler in the mind, some say it's not. In life there is slings and arrows and grunting. Dreams may await us after we die."
>>24120141holy kek
>>24115667Read it a little bit slower, that should help. Reread the section again and keep a dictionary nearby to reference in case any of the archaic terms go over your head. You really should just learn to read it as it is rather than get a modernized version.
>>24115667Don't get filtered. It pays off to read Shakespeare. One piece of advice I can give is read a plot summary beforehand. That might not be the best advice for everyone but it can prove useful for written works that are hard to parse at first look and help you get a general sense of what is actually going on. Keep in mind there are certain works like Romeo and Juliet where that's not really necessary because of how straightforward the plot is, or Julius Caesar because the events are already known and recognizable.
POST A PASSAGE FROM THE BOOK YOU'RE READING AND OTHER ANONS HAVE TO GUESS WHAT IT ISOK I WILL START. CAN YOU GUESS WHAT THIS IS?
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Mogged to death.
>>24118345lying faggot
This shit is so boring. When does it get good?
>>24120107What if you are vulnerable to starving and men with guns are blocking you from your job because other men are pushing your wages down into oblivion? Or is that too much to think about?
>>24118626This is the book that made me a communist
>>24118626>When does it get good?Page wise?Bout tree fiddy
>>24120905Nah, your poor comprehension made you a communist. Governance requires pragmatism, addressing the situation at hand instead of forcing it into an ideology and saying the ends justify the means when the ends are unknown and could very well be for the worse just because you know what ever the ends there is a good chance you will be able to use them to bolster you ideology and yourself. Did you ignore Étienne? Or did you just romanticize him and cast yourself in his role?
>>24120905Why do people here hate it so bad when most of the people here would either not notice a chance or have their lives improved? You know how you stop retards and degenerate academia bleeding into the world? You know how you kill bad media? You know how you get people to stop being such wasteful morons and walking eyesores? I dunno. I'm not one of those types to actually support the capital C or S. But come on now.
Life, Death, & the Afterlife EditionWelcome to /wbg/, the official thread for the discussion and development of fictional worlds and settings.Here is where you can share the details of your created worlds such as lore, factions, magic systems, ecosystems and more. You can also post maps for your settings, as well as any relevant art, either created by you or used as inspiration for your work. Please remember that dialogue is what keeps the thread alive, so don't be afraid of giving someone feedback!FAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24120514They are kinda important,thought not obligatory I guess.You do not need one beforehand, that is for sure, you can detail and expand maps of your setting as you go. The most natural method for me at least is to start creating an empty map and slowly filling it with detail with time. But it all depends if you are a top-down writer or if you prefer a down-top aproach.
>>24120792>But it all depends if you are a top-down writer or if you prefer a down-top aproach.Can you elaborate more on these approaches? I'm guessing downtop would be like, starting small with a village or some such and building out?
>>24120798A down-top approach for worldbuilding is starting with the detailed and important things for your story/game, like the villages your protagonists will visit through the story, and based on that, you make the world around it afterwards. For example, maybe your protagonist needs to fight a monster as part of his adventure. Well, if you follow the down-top approach, after detailing the monster, you make some lore for it and integrate it to your setting. Again, you start with the details relevant for your story/game and do the worldbuilding afterwards.On the other hand, a top-down approach is the contrary, making the world first, ignoring the fact that a story/game will take place in it. You detail the monster first and when your protagonist needs to fight a monster you pick one. A good example of this is tolkien.In the case of maps, a down-top approach would be making a map after you finish the story based on the places your character visited, and then complete the map filling the gaps. A top-down approach would be making the map before you write the actual story and make your character move based on that map.Please note that both methodologies are equally valid and it's a matter of personal preference which to use, most of the time you will combine the two. I personally prefer top-down aproaches when it comes to serious worldbuilding, since it will create a more consistent and perfectly crafted setting/world, but I must admit they are harder when it comes to writing the actual story you want to tell.
>>24120514They're not extremely important but they can help you create two important things>culture>conflictHaving a general idea of the landscape, geography, etc, will help you come up with those things. Are two nations at war? Why? What are the rescources of each nation? How large are they? Etc. Even if it's not a giant war, if it's just a story of a guy on a journey, you still need to know what enviorment(s) he's traveling throughIf you can organize all of this in your head, it's not necessary, but also keep in mind that your readers won't be able to see into your head. So a visual aid for them to be able to follow along and imgine scale, for example, is generally a good ideaPersonally, I'm going to create an environmental map of my continent and overlay a political map ontop of it
>>24102115In my world there are two major planes outside of mortal reality, one of Light and one of Darkness. There used to be others, or at least it’s said that there were, even if there’s no proof, but a cosmic disaster caused them to break apart and their pieces to get absorbed by the Light and Darkness planes. If that is the case, then those absorbed planes included the Positive and Negative energy planes, meaning that all healing magic and necromancy can be fueled by energy from either the Darkness plane or the Light plane, resulting in each force having its own version of those kinds of magic. I’m trying to come up with ways that this can manifest, like healing magic from the Light plane being great at healing larger numbers of people at once versus Darkness healing being more focused on healing the user or a single other target at a time, or Light undead being stronger during the day and Darkness undead being stronger at night, can anyone add to this please?Tying into this, I’m thinking that the absorbed planes would include the afterlife planes, so that each of the two planes has regions for both virtuous and evil souls. I was thinking that evil souls that end up in the Light plane feel like they’re constantly looking into the sun and being incinerated with a laser, but I’m not sure how to make the fate of virtuous Light souls stand out from classical depictions of Heaven. Likewise, the evil souls that the Darkness plane claims get to experience being trapped in the dark forever, but what happens to the virtuous ones eludes me so far, would love any help here.>>24119487BTW, loving this idea, hope you develop it further. Are any other couples or siblings among the gods? And given that I plan to have all my gods belong to either the plane of Light or the plane of Darkness (possibly couple pairs like yours, thanks for that idea), besides the domains you listed and a couple other obvious ones like the Sun and Moon respectively, do you have any suggestions on what domains I can give the gods of each plane?
Write whatever you're thinking out, don't edit it, just write and write until you're finished. Be ti sad, happy, hopeful, pessimistic, it doesn't matter. Let's see if anything slips out from your subconcious.
There once was a pirate named Schtevie the Red and he plundered and smoked cigars bought with that bread! Yes he stayed at one port not for too long but then, a fleet surrounded the isle and he reacted with dread! For his escape was doomed to fail when that admiral his ship blasted sunder with cannon and thunder and the gold and the chests they sunk to the harbors sandy rest and so Schtevie he puffed and came up with a test. Yes he did dress as a harlot and stuffed his shirt full of straw, and he drew with red stearine the most outrageous lips and his eyes with black charcoal an eyeliner most crisp. So he talked to the navy and they were not so wavy yes they did like the way that he carried his wares so he passed as a whore and they all took their turns and they let him go with them to the next couple ports and that's how pirate Schtevie he passed as an Eve yes he did pay the price but not in freedom but flesh and to this day he still dreads to tell the tale of how he did remain so very free Four Six Eight thats the seconds that remain for this story to be published so I guess I wont abate in telling further how the story went, well there was a little murder when our pirate so esteemed set out to reclaim those lost burdens yes you see the chests and gold that laid astrew across the ocean floor some was looted indeed by the navy and townfolks by that sea but then there was the portion that strew out across the bay so he didst gather one new crew and they went diving after stew and what they found was not in scale to those there older golden days but they did pleasingly enough and funded guns and powder and some swords yes that was much enough to organise an ambush gainst the lords. So that very admiral who cause a whole lot ruckus for our pirate he was having tea with his niece in th'utmost decked out estate, there were textiles, marble sculptures, there were luxuries abound but when the pirate and his crew turned up he had a very frown. He said "this is for my ship, for my treasures that I had! For the hole that your navy most enjoyed fore i fled! For the time that i spent recouping my honor, my crew and ship and all the renown i once enjoyed! once more i boast that the admiral he did not win, in the end i will tell them that tea was his last. So say bye to your niece and sip once final time, now i wont press the point but your life is now mine." SO the admiral pleaded and begged for his life and the niece was most dismayed when the pistolsound whined, yes that was the last time anyone saw him alive, and that was the story of how Schtevie survived.
What if I think some personal details that shouldn't be posted?
>>24120685Quit watching see pee?
the dryer is click-clacking. sweet smell of rotting vegetables clings to the top of the can. the dry old woman-cashier was handling celery or something before she put her death fingers on my can and now i can smell the death of the vegetables and i feel her death on the top of my can and i can smell it when i take a sip.
The melody and lyrics of please, please, please let met get what I want have been ringing in my ears for the last two hours two days now of existential crisis over the fact in my 29 years of life i have not experienced love i dont even know what it would look like or if i would be able to experience it even if the occasion comes up women seem to corrupted but so am I I am a slave to my reasons and will probably die alone hopefully its a short life the only thing you get in this life are the things you kill others for and I'm too ashamed and paranoid for that i know i will not get what i want i know my suffering will be without a purpose no one will write it down or take notice of it and whem im dead i will simply be pushed over like a shovel moving dirt what was i given life just to be shown the possibilities and then mocked i need to sleep but i know it i will be the same tomorrow nothing changes
