the three thousand of qohor editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>25254940
>>25309832>they fell for the brown First Men propagandaThey've been looking at too much Tumblr fanart.
>>25309928Wait until they reveal the Children of the Forest.
>>25309832>made the spain inspired region blackkek
>>25309607>Anguy got $9.9 MILLION DOLLARS for winning the archery contest at the Hand's TourneyAnd they say Westeros has no social mobility.
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>A philosophical system cannot come forward armed at all points like a mathematical treatise, and hence it may be quite possible to take objection to particular passages, while the organic structure of the system, considered as a unity, has no danger to apprehend. But few possess the ability, and still fewer the inclination, to take a comprehensive view of a new system. By confining the view to particular passages, taking these out of their connection and comparing them with one another, it is easy to pick out apparent contradictions, especially in a work written with any freedom of style. These contradictions place the work in an unfavourable light in the eyes of those who rely on the judgement of others, but are easily reconciled by those who have mastered the idea of the whole.
>>25308419fortunately i don't.
This is "it gets good 200 chapters in" and "no, you just don't *get* it" all rolled into one pile of ball of shit. Truly he is a masterful dung beetle.
>>25306810Ok, sure, fair enough.>>25307390So does he actually address any of the content of Kant's philosophy? This is just dismissing Kant because he can't be a "real philosopher" according to him. Why should I care about Nietzsche's hot takes?
>>25309907>expecting an actual argument from Nietzsche
>>25309907>So does he actually address any of the content of Kant's philosophy?imagine for a moment if Kant thought that you could learn things from something that never changes by showing how it will always be the exact same thing, except the knowledge you get from it can also be manifoldNietzsche does not like this because it makes us more than a historical pile of shit. you should care about Nietzsche if you don't want to have your character assassinated by a man with an instrument
How do I get into Pulp?I need a bird's eye view of all the franchises from Pulp; to see what's popular, what's influential, what matters.I know I could just ask AI, but maybe you guys have a website I can check out?
Bump. Looking for anons who might want to make some updated versions of Snappy stories for this century.
>>25305857>updated versionshentai?
>>25302312>I think we are the verge of a Pulp Revival.I hope so. I'd honestly like a neo-pulp era where people just short stories for fun.I've been wanting that for years now.
>>25296984kek
>>25301491>>25302312>epub epub epubImagine having access to terabytes of beautifully preserved works of art, and wanting to read to stripped down version with all of their souls sanded off.Whatever. Here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68
The differences between Nirvana and Christian Heaven—as it is actually deacribed by church fathers—is only grammatical. Basically annihilationism, coming to rest, doing nothing but experiencing God's unity, which is empty of sensible and imaginative and dianoetic content; —AND their attitudes to this world are also identical: Fallen Creation is all empty, all predation and death and disease and hunger and tiredness, experience of boredom, jealousy, vanity, hate, lust... All arise from what could be called Dependent Origination, I.e. out of absence from eternal and true reality.Fuck both of them —and Islam and Advaita and Stoicism and Kabbalah and whatever else is just a reskin of Ecclesiastes/Gnosticism and its world denial.
>>25306253Yes, Christianity is perennialslop.
>>25305776Stfu faggot, not Christian doctrine.
>>25305974>CopeWhat? I see nothing in this text that supports your speculations about the nature of Heaven
>>25305776Extremely retarded AND off topic post
>>25305776Annihilationist retard. Read what St Paul says about the New Jerusalem. Stop being disingenous.
Now that the dust has finally settled, who or what do you think Tom Bombadil was?In a meta-sense he is the embodiment of Christianity but lore-wise?
He's Tom Bombadil, he occupies a novel and likely singular niche in literature.
>>25308498I mainly interpret him as a merry fellow
>>25308498I think Tom Bombadil is Morgoth laying low and pretending to be just some guy who is goofy and harmless and totally not the Dark Lord so that he doesn't get ganged on by the Valar again. He uses his magical, mind-affecting song, capable of putting the formidable Great Willow to sleep without any hint of difficulty, to alter the thought processes of the listeners. Unfortunately that magic also somehow seems to extend to most readers for some reason. The narrative itself demonstrates that Tom Bombadil isn't a total pacifist with how he pummels the Barrow-wight, and there are also hints of deep plans and awareness.By the way, Tom Bombadil is supposed to have red skin, as in actually red. For some reason I have never seen that portrayed in illustrations. Maybe all the illustrators thought that adhering to the text as written would have made Tom Bombadil look too much like a classic portrayal of a red devil and make the viewer suspect that horns might be hiding under the hat, but the illustrators assumed that Tolkien couldn't possibly have been intending to go for such a mental image.
>>25309826Hot take lol
A british OSS agent
This is unreadable.
>>25306830>anime fag doubts that people can read books
>>25308952you haven't been paying attention, jamal
>>25307250I tried reading it when I was 17 and worked up with a lot of other stuff in my life. I felt a lot of sensations reading that book but I couldnt piece them all together coeherently into explaining what was generally happening and what the author meant by it but it smelled weirdly like my grandma's home, plush toys and scented candlesI dropped it roughly 100 pages in, I was busy with more stuff in life and thought I was perhaps too immature to understand it. I sure had never seen anyone under the age of 25 talk much about this book as a magnum opus, maybe I just needed some reading experience
>>25301576>>25301631I found it to be the perfect distillation of Christian pathology. A pathetic man drilled as a child to believe in the fires of hell awaiting him, not even for moral weakness, but for having the impulses themselves. That he was created sick, condemned, and the only remedy is to constantly be begging and groveling for mercy. It is self hatred instantiated in doctrine. But because it is so ineffectual at actually affecting a better mode of behavior, it drives the victim to the very degeneracy it condemns. It made me revolted, but also produced in me a great pity for those poor deluded souls who actually believe the manifest nonsense preached in every Christian church and school across the world.
>>25309739>distillation
Why is 80% of medieval european literature cuck fantasies?
>>25309509I‘m struggling to think of more than a handful of examples. Even in Othello and Much Ado About Nothing where it forms major plot points it is only falsely presumed.
>>25309518>it is only falsely presumedoh well it changed everything then>it didnt actually happen, he was just thinking about it all the time
>>25309552and here is another english classic, part of european curriculum
all im saying is no wonder that modern europeans are such beta cucks when this is their cultural background
>>25309721Was it fault of Eleanor of Aquitânia and the romântism movimentOr even before thatOne must wonder.Which is why i prefer the far in between bronze ageIts a free for all and 80% chance you are missing somethings And i don't mean only greece
What books will get me a girl like this?
The Mystery Method
>>25300455Scarf, several rings on fingers, Euro in the background and typical French presentation, latte, messy hair, no piercings. You need to read textbooks on how to speak French, a book about French culture, then you need an exercise manual on how to not be a gargantuan lardass, and you would probably do well to read a book on how to play an instrument too. You strictly don't need a book on intro philosophy, but she almost certainly cares about ethics, so you should probably get yourself books on that too.
>>25300461>No more mr nice guy, robert glover
>>25300455Unironically DSM-5Hoes love self-diagnosing
>>25309771>glover sucksalso that book is not about getting laid or initiating relationships. it's more for soi cuck types who end up "yes ma'am..."ing their way through unfulfilling shitty marriages. the guy was married a bunch of times and finally passport broed out and married some mexican chick who didn't even speak english. that book is for reddit "just be a decent human being" types not 4chan nutjobs.
Have you read the Bible? If so, what did you think?
>>25309710Protestants, I love many of you, but you need to stop and think why demoniacs like this fellow take your side.
>>25309593I do
>>25309601Compared to what exactly
>>25309710>tldr; It doesn't fit MY style of idolatryyou can't make this shit up
>>25308816>Whatever the case, the bible should absolutely not be read on your own from cover to cover.Whoops
ITT we give prompts for short stories and write them! Anyone can suggest a prompt, anyone can write a prompt! Be sure to clarify which one you're writing about.Opening Prompts: Write me a story about...>Being stuck up a tree>Inventing the fork>Fighting off a pack of wild ducks>A eulogy by someone who sucks at eulogies>Finding a mysterious object in space>Winning/losing a lawsuitComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25309013Turns out we're all posers.
I finished reading this and was impressed. It’s just as relevant today as when it was written.
>>25308355He gets more accepting of it after a while.
>>25307223>just as relevant today as when it was writtenIt was written in response to Vietnam and the pointlessness of it all. It's relevant today only because zero lessons were learned from Vietnam and the US has been fighting nothing but the same pointless lie filled bullshit wars since. What surprises me is that people review this book and say nothing about the 70s free love bullshit being a central part of the plot. Likewise boomer paranoia about overpopulation have aged really fucking poorly when they've now switched the script to begging for more kids so they can find the day of the pillow without ever having touched a consequence of the way they steered the world.
>>25308808and is that a good thing or a bad thing?
>>25308838It is very 70s. But the war stuff and the struggles of soldiers coming back and not fitting in is very real even today.>>25308842Neither. It’s just a thing that happened.
>>25309314>humans no longer have the free will to procreate>entirely controlled by soulless technocracy>neitherbrilliant!anyway homosexuality is disgusting
>I am Julia Bernard, and you are watching or listening to Madrugada Literária. Today, we welcome someone who is controversial, prolific, and whom some even call innovative: Anon. Anon is an author of chronicles, essays, aphorisms, and social and cultural criticism. Straight from the underground, his main works are: Chronicles of Masturbation and Death, I Am Afraid of Women, Non-Work as an Affirmation of the Spirit, Malaise and Existence, and his most recent: Tears of the Aristocrat.
>>25305694I would read these books.
>>25305694>>25305708It's like I'm a kid and sitting in the car on a road trip while my parents listen to NPR again.
>>25305694>prolificNot bad for someone practicing Non-Work.>>25305708>sex with bureaucracy>
bump
>>25305708>The answer is quite simple, foid. The only mechanism that prevents Jessica from hooking up with Chad without protection is her unstoppable fear of losing her chance to lead a childless career as head of the HR department at Boomer, Inc. Next Question.
Fisher took Marxism to its natural conclusion
>>25308432I wrote a giant piece which mentions a dialectical relationship between Right Trotskyism and Maoism. I'm not linking it because last time I did the guy pissed and moaned about it. I also hate Mark Fisher with a burning passion.
>>25308165>Attacking Iran is not more extreme than attacking Iraq or AfghanistanI'm not the guy you're arguing with, but I think it's quite a different thing to attack a medium-sized military power than a small power. Iran's military is in a separate tier to Iraq or Afghanistan (demonstrated well when Iran wiped Iraq's ass in the 1980-88 war) and is specialized to fight an asymmetric campaign against America specifically. In principle, I'd say not more extreme but entirely different practically
>>25301871This
>>25309015>>25309019Nationalism is demonstrably much weaker to the temptations of liberalism than other ideologies. A huge part of Donald Trump's voters voted for him on the basis of a nationalist appeal, and he sold out nationalism to wage a war on Iran, who are doing a much better job of resisting liberalism than arguably any other nation. Makes you think.
Trump cultists on suicide watch ITT. I'm sure if you keep shilling he will pump your $Trump and $Melania coin bags on Truth Social.
Has any literary character been cucked harder than Joji from Naomi? I think he might actually be the ultimate cuck.
>>25307080>ideal>westernizedgood god...
>>25305978The psychology of male permissiveness about a girl's stupidity and deceit was good. From what I gathered the author was not actually scathing on the type of girl though, more a comical tale about the man and men in general in Japan.
>>25307213Inm
>>25306995I finished. Holy shit, what a cuck.
>>25306849I especially don't read Japanese cuck literature.
Is Power of Now the only decent self help book?
What now
>>25299667
>>25299667Itsa good npc awakener, its shows them they are more than their thoughts and feelings. But in it doesnt go much beyond that.
>>25299667This super hot chick I knew loved the book I got very close to having her come over to my place and talk about the book but couldn't close the dealAlso, she's dumb as a rock
it's the needle at the end why?
