Are these books good? Is there a . . . Um uh. Are here n there better books air thu. Better bike ash. Better books about these topics? Are there?
>>24990891go to sleep buddy
>>24990906Thane anon :) Goodnight pal <3
The more I think about the simulation hypotheses, and the more I learn - the more it seems plausible, even likely
Infinite regress
>>24985382It seems that way because simulations are the closest things to universes we've made ourselves.
It's incoherent. A simulation means a counterfeit of something. If it is not a counterfeit of anything but an original, then it isn't a simulation
>>24987860what do you mean by giving away your soul?
>>24987417You can't imagine any of those, only illusions of those concepts. Actual time travel would shatter causality in ways we can't imagine, ergo we can't imagine time travel.
>fails to account for helicoptersTWO count it TWO hours
>yes your honor my client IS a rapist, but why OUGHT he be punished?
>>24988822To be honest, shaming women for their biological inclination to accept rape is peak incel psychopathy. From a purely naturalistic perspective, there's nothing the forced female can do other than accept rape to ensure reproduction, it's a disadvantageous position.
>>24988896Ridiculous comeback
>>24988822i'm absolutely positive i could make you orgasm if i had you tied up in my basement, so i guess it's ok for me to tie you up in my basement, fag.
>>24988777I know you probably hate Hume and don't really care what I'm about to say, but I think that if you really think and apply his philosophy you get a pretty interesting answer to the question you seem to be implying.The classic "Hume's guillotine" can be summarized as "there is provable no direct causality between an is and an ought". But Hume took this one step further, going as far as to say that there is no provable causality at all, even between is's and other is's, or oughts and other oughts. This would seem to make life unlivable, as we rely on causality for even very basic things. The solution Hume gives is to simply shrug your shoulders and go on with living life. You have no obligation to prove every single action you partake in from first principles. Hume even said, to paraphrase, that when he's at a party with his friends he doesn't really care or need about the philosophical problems he wrote about, he simply relies on the customs and habits So if the judge Hume was talking to read and understood his work, he could just say "we have a custom of punishing rapists, which I am entrusted and desire to enforce" and have all the proof he needs to bypass Hume's challenge. Hume wasn't really trying to tell people how to live, more just dissecting the assumptions we have and saying "huh that's interesting, maybe we can use that somehow". He didn't believe that his observations really had any direct dominion over everyday life.
>>24988904say you have daddy issues without saying you have daddy issues
Alone Once More EditionStubbed >>24982319>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24991017Fights where you don't know the outcome from 10 miles away are way more fun, sadly most readers are self inserting sociopaths.
All xianxia turn to shit once they leave the sect.All academy stories turn to shit once they step out of school grounds.All RPGs turn to shit once they leave the beginner village.No, I don’t give a shit about your stupid war arc, or your MacGuffin quest, or whatever. It’s already been one hundred chapters - go back to the sect already! Fuck!
>>24991267I thought I wouldn't make that mistake with my academy story, but the pressure to keep constantly upping the stakes is insane and there's only so much tension you can build in the school sandbox. Everyone is already bored to death of duels and tournaments and relationship drama. You just HAVE TO leave the academy
>>24991267>>24991279Just put a dungeon underneath the school.There are organized delves into the upper levels by the instructorsMC and friends break curfew to go deeper, tension from the tougher fights and not getting caughtEZPZ
Video game based rpgslop is never not total shit to begin with, would expect them to be at least marginally less shit after they're done killing rats in the basement though, sad if true.
Not trying to trad LARP or Deus Vult or whatever. I've just been feeling ecstasy when I'm reading St. Anselm, and I'm trying to get more of it. Who are some other philosophers or theologians who really made you see the beauty of God, bonus points if it's niche or unique to you. It's a very salutary topic imo
>>24990832Kallistos Angelikoudes
Who is your favourite English Romantic poet? You can learn a lot about someone's personality and intelligence depending on their choice.
The Original 18th century romantics (Gray, Beattie, Thomson, Warton, Chatterton) were far better than the romantics who came after but unforunately because most "fans" of the romantic poets aren't into their poetry at all but prefer gossip and drama about their personal lives they don't get nearly as much attention.You can tell people don't actually read the poets when they spend more time discussing about who byron or shelley fucked or was interested in rather than their actual poetry.
>>24984980Frederick, Baron of Hardenborough, called Novalis
Revolving in their destin'd sphere,The hours begin another yearAs rapidly to fly;Ah! think, Maria, (e'er in greyThose auburn tresses fade awaySo youth and beauty die.Tho' now the captivating throngAdore with flattery and song,And all before you bow;...Tho' num'rous swains before you fall,'Tis empty admiration all,'Tis all that you require;Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>...as it would be hard to persuade ourselves that the author of Childe Harold and Don Juan is not a coxcomb, though a provoking and sublime one.>The Noble Lord is almost the only writer who has prostituted his talents in this way. He hallows in order to desecrate... and raises our hopes and our belief in goodness to Heaven only to dash them to the earth again... putting a pitiful hoax upon [the reader].>He cares little what it is he says, so that he can say it differently from others. This may account for the charges of plagiarism... if he can borrow an image... and heighten it... he thinks he shows his superiority... he wishes to shine by contrast.>This is the satire of a lord, who is accustomed to have all his whims or dislikes taken for gospel... He measures all merit by external rank... Lord Byron... resumes his privilege of peerage, upon occasion.what the fuck was Hazlitt's problem?
>>24984980>blake>romanticYeah because writing in the same time and region as a given literary movement means you're automatically part of that movement, even if you're completely different thematically and stylistically.
Why have nonfiction authors recently started saturating their books with footnotes? I have noticed it in several books I have recently purchased. This is a particularly egregious example.
>>24987268it's so people can actually verify that u didn't just make up a bunch of shit up. obviously for tards who believe all kinds of stupid shit, the idea of actually verifying a source seems weird, but in academia people are actually expecting ur ideas to be based on sth.
>>24987273Back in my day we used a combo of inline citation with detailed citation notes at the end. We did not use on page footnotes. My complaint is about footnotes not about citation in general. No need to be a passive aggressive midwitted bitch.
>>24983187>>24983450I thought that's what endnotes are for
>>24983187Formatting these old books is very, very boring. Takes an afternoon and you're mostly just playing with margin sizes.Let them have the footnotes anon, they had to get a PhD for this and are probably making less than minimum wage. It's probably the only thing preventing them from self-deleting.
>>24983187wake me up when someone makes a whole book that's a footnote to the title
I quit drinking 9 months ago. How badly does this affect my writing?
>>24990825Without being able to compare the before/after sobriety, it's hard to tell. Everybody's different.
forgiveness of sin (deror) in the old testament meant a debt cancellation (jubilee), this was abolished by the pharisees, jesus tried to return debt cancellation and was persecuted for it.if you look at the early history of islam, zakat was quite literally an introduction of the debt jubilee into a usurious society filled with debt slavery that had accumulated too much debt to fully function, this is why the theme of forgiveness is so prominent.now how exactly did zakat function in the earliest generations of islam? everyone nowadays believes zakat is some form of personal charity you give to some random bum or your mosque and thats it.in reality, it was originally collected (this is why zakat is annual) and distributed to free muslims from debt slavery, with duty being eventually being completed when every indebted muslim had reached the nisab (something like a starting capital) of 85-90 grams of gold (10.000 usd today), giving the community financial autonomy and financial freedom to fight for its cause.this is actually a lot more extreme than the biblical debt jubilee, which was every 7 years or so, and only erased the debt, meaning you were simply left with no money to spend.when you realize this shift in perception, its clear why muslims nowadays are so unsuccessful compared to their pious predecessors.
>>24989898antisemitic
>>24989090jubilee being an old jewish tradition is such a profound irony of cosmic proportions. current financial ghouls must wake up from horrible night terrors where revolutionary kings abolish all consumer debt. between nationalizing key industries, criminal prosecution of elites, and mass debt relief its really not that complicated so to what needs to be done
>>24989090i don't think there's much islamic textual evidence for your thesis at all. zakat is a means for redistributing wealth and preventing hoarding, encouraging the wealthy to put their wealth to use(sort of like an unused land tax). this has always been the classical position.
>>24989629Kaputt!
>>24989894i lold
One year anniversary of elite readership
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24990464Ella if you're reading this I'd like to fuck your throat and cum deep into your cunt producing an autistic dumbass on whom I'll dip like a niggerkike
>>24987641well maybe that's a good thing. The alternative is that /lit/ just slowly dies out which has been the current trajectory for a long time now
>>24989946have you even tried reddit?
>>24990775/lit/'s problem is bots. They completely flooded the platform a few years back and ruined the place, now it's better but you're never really sure you aren't talking to chatGPT.The ONLY solution is a walled community imageboard that requires a university email to sign up. Like early Facebook, but based.
I imagine Helen of Troy being blonde#sorrynotsorry
>>24988565>>24988889Im sure she was supposed to be a personification of a concept but likely also modeled on a person, kinda like a celebrity.Doesn't stop her from being portrayed a victim!
>>24989215>irrational hatred>irrationaljej
>>24990072Yes.
>>24990158Helen deserves to be hated and spoken about like she's Hitler
>>24989159Give it two hundred years. The entire ruling class will be Ukranian with Indian CEO characteristics.
I finished reading this yesterday and honestly it was kind of boring.The first few chapters detailing how the Spanish plundered the continent were great but then when it comes to the 20th century he gets bogged down into way too much detail and mentions a bunch of literally whos and corporations that make me lose interest.
>>24982839The whole "que devuelvan el oro" schtick is such a cope. Looking at the South American gold production from just 2024, Peru produced 136,000kg of gold, Colombia produced 65,800kg and Argentina produced 39,700kg, whose sum easily exceeds the volume of gold extracted during that 157 year period, and that's only including 3 countries. If an otherwise resource-rich country has been independent for ~200 years and it's currently a broke shithole, then it's their own fault at that point.
>>24990651You have to take into account the time value of money and the relative value of gold production to the production of the entire economy. Even if it sounds like current production is high, it's a small portion of the current GDP of these countries. In short, 185 tons of gold 500 years ago is worth the equivalent today of much more than you think.
>>24990784>185 tons of gold 500 years ago is worth the equivalent today of much more than you think.Please, post that on /biz/.
>>24979093Is the Latino GIGAvictim mentality a modern innovation or did they inherit this from the Spanish? It’s all their novels are ever about, it’s all their visual arts are ever about.Africans and native North Americans suffered far worse and didn’t let it consume everything else in their culture in the same way. African culture is about tribe, national pride, animist religion, etc. Latin culture is about recounting how the CFO of the American Bannana Incorporated personally raped my uncle, here is my 700 page magical realist novel on the subject.
>>24990805It's what you want to buy, retard. Spics write and make art about other things, but they worth translating or publishing abroad. And regardless, you overstate how much (internationally famous) Latin literature actually mentions or whines about the U.S.It's mentioned when pertinent though, which I'm sure must torture you.
What's the point of him? So many deride his theories, but yet he is so famous regardless. Psychotherapy was his domain but what did he contribute?
Throughout different cultures, centuries (millenias) and locations there seems to always have been a need or invention of some kind of spiritualism. As of now most of the modern world is mostly culturally religious, but otherwise atheist or agnostic. What does that make of this... spirituality "need"? How would people in the future fullfill it? Do we replace it with Nietzschean men and women?
>>24988496Anime feet is the new religion
>>24988496Faith has nothing to do with spirituality. Faith literally means Trust in Greek and Latin. The term Faith in English emerged in the mid-13th century, evolving from Anglo-French and Old French forms like feid and feit, ultimately tracing back to the Latin fidēs, which means trust, confidence or belief, to believe. More generally, "faith" is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept.Example: "I have faith in you, you got this, you can do it." In the Roman world, faith was understood without particular association with gods or beliefs. Instead, it was understood as a paradoxical set of reciprocal ideas: Voluntary Will and Voluntary Restraint. In the sense of father over family or host over guest, whereby one party willfully surrenders to a party who could harm but chooses not to, thereby entrusting or confiding in them. Kind of like in the movie Django when Leonardo DiCaprio had Jamie Foxx and the other guy over for dinner and showed them the skull of the slave he used to own and cracked it in front of them. It was understood as the concept of not harming someone you could obviously harm (this was before the advent of firearms). Example: "I trust you; I have faith in you."
>>24988843>Religious fundamentalists are the only people having kids.We need to sterilize them
>>24988496>Do we replace it with Nietzschean men and womenholy LARP
>>24988850based
