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Do you see novels as sources of "omg, profound philosophical and psychological insights!!!"? 2017-07-04 08:10:26 Post No.3038997
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Do you see novels as sources of "omg, profound philosophical and psychological insights!!!"?
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When I say novels I mean non-fiction, and excluding religion and something like Thus Spake Tharathustra, which I think is a philosophy book written as a parable.
I am on the final 70 pages of the Brothers Karamazov and am bored to death. It feels like a long winded, paid by the word, half assed murder mystery / melodrama, with lightly sprinkled half assed jabs by Dostoevsky at stuff he doesn't like, such as Socialism (he has a pretentious 9 year old strawman, not even joking), atheism, psychology, and other stuff I can't remember.
Really, this is it? This is the "book about everything" that was supposed to get my noggin joggin? It seems like any attempt to gain "insights" from this book relies on the same procedure as any other book: a load of half-assed, unfalsifiable*, barely justified extrapolations and conjectures relating to Dostoevsky himself and the times he lived in.
I don't understand. Did I miss the memo or brainwashing session that would have caused me to readily make half-assed extrapolations or conclusions based on parts of novels?
*I'm not saying that unfalsifiable equals wrong. But I could easily make my own unfalsifiable conjectures, and we all know the only reason my ones would be taken less seriously than a Harvard Professor's would be mere fashion.
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You're just a pleb, OP, but that's ok, don't feel bad about it. If you don't get anything out of reading the bros k, just put it down and work on something more your speed.
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>“It has been incorrectly asserted that the fossil remains of man are few and fragmentary. It is argued that from a small basketful of enigmatical bones an entire evolutionary history of humanity is constructed. This might have been the case a half-century ago but it is no longer a valid objection. There are fifteen skulls or fragments of Sinanthropus Pekinensis, and of other prehistoric men there are as many as forty skeletons. For one Piltdown skull which must be given up there are one or two dozen to take its place. Dr. Broom has scurried around South Africa with great zeal, turning up numerous skulls. If a hundred Dr. Brooms were to work as diligently in all the world we might well fill a museum up with prehistoric human fossils. Evangelicals must seriously reckon with this as a real possibility and be prepared for it. The anthropologist cannot be discounted any longer on the ground that all he has to work with is a basketful of controversial bones.” —(Ramm B.L., “The Christian View of Science and Scripture,” [1955])
What did he mean by this?
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>>3038958
>If a hundred Dr. Brooms were to work as diligently in all the world we might well fill a museum up with prehistoric human fossils.
Welp, looks like his prediction came true.
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>>3038958
He meant that he totally failed to take into account this neglected masterpiece.
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>>3039965
>man sacrifices his brain for a woman
Of fucking course.
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Why don't more people talking about the Warring States period?
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>>3038520
Qin a best
Fuck humanity
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The Three Kingdoms period gets more press.
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Where can I find books about his ideas apart from his autobiography?
Its Huey Long in case you dont recognise
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfVnBmpMm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD593z4kzXU
Was Nixon the last democratically elected president?
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America never had a democratically elected president, however that's not a problem because democracy isn't a value in itself.
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>>3038427
WTF I suddenly love Nixon now!
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Does anyone know more about "heroes" of humanity?
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When will Western governments embrace the immortal science of RADNE AKCIJE and send all of their degenerate Sjw university students into back breaking labor battalions to repair their crumbling roads and infrastructure?
NATION
PARTY
YOUTH
AND
ARMY
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>>3038270
Juga thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8W4O0uSQgw
>it was all real
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>Judeoslavia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsKn5KX6XnU
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ITT: Heroes of / for Britain
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What do you think happened to him in later years?
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The damn leaves got him
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>>3038006
He designed jet airplanes?
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Do you think this dude was neurotic?
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>>3037984
Most smart people are.
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G30SPKI, Soeharto or Soekarno? 2017-07-04 02:23:44 Post No.3037831
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G30SPKI, Soeharto or Soekarno?
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2017-07-04 02:23:44
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Apa Fajar yang benci Bumi-bumi nya?
Apa Bulan yang ingin menggantikan Fajar?
Atau, Salah satu Bumi yang merasa lebih dari Fajar dan Bulan?
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can someone decifre this mishmash
dont want to post on /x/ for the obvious reasons of schizophrenia and roleplaying that abound there
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>>3037683
bump
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some non-english-speaking forum is talking about it, id say its a sort of vaucher or token thing printed out after taking some esotheric course or something like that, you know the thing where old people with too much money go and get 'initiated' in 'intensive courses' and take new-agy lectures and so on, but the symbols seem to be all over the place, you got symbols from phisics, alchemy, runes, whatever that shamanistic looking thing with little kolovrats is up there... its probably a new age sincretic mess, but since they are all massed together like that i was thinking maybe they have some meaning in sequence, like a rebus or a code(even tho most likely they mean nothing)
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You know, for a group that yells "Heresy!" a lot, I couldn't recall the Imperium of Man- particularly the Ecclesiarchy- having a holy scripture upon which to base their religion on. Considering they have a heirarchical organized religion and all.
From the Horus Heresy, the Lectio Divinitatus that Lorgar wrote down started the organized religion around the cult of the Emperor. But its only mention is in the Horus Heresy and not much in later 40k Media. In addition you have these bigass books Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition Characters lug around.
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>>3037487
>I couldn't recall the Imperium of Man- particularly the Ecclesiarchy- having a holy scripture upon which to base their religion on
Lectitio Divinitatus, mate
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>>3037487
the lectitio divinitatus is the main script but basically every one of the imperial orders has a charter or codex that it treats as holy scripture. The codex astartes would be what space marine chaplains are hauling around
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Hey /his/ I recently found this in my dad's house, anyone want to help me transcribe it? According to the back it's from 1663
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>>3037391
The back
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>>3037391
Are you blind or what?
I could decipher it immediately, it's so basic as the handwriting itself is fine and the paper in good condition.
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>>3037399
Then what does the 8th word say?
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Was Huey Long the last great Deep Southern politician? 2017-07-04 11:25:17 Post No.3037356
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Was Huey Long the last great Deep Southern politician?
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Who actually cared about the poor? It seems like every Southern politician since him has been protecting the interests of rich whites and no one else.
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>>3037356
What about Jimmy Cuckter? Although he cared more about poor foreigners than poor Americans.
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>>3037356
There is some debate about how much Huey Long actually intended to help non-whites in the south, but it is generally agreed that his policies, regardless of their intentions, benefited blacks disproportionately. For example, one of his more famous programs was to try to combat rampant illiteracy by offering free (government-funded) writing courses for adults. This program, ostensibly intended to benefit poor southern farmers, quickly became extremely popular among African Americans. For many southern blacks, these courses represented their first opportunity in life to receive a formal education.