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>>9982368
maybe you got nice pre-written rejection answers

>>9982368
You should still be encouraged by rejection letters that are anything other than form. I'm having a similar problem with mine. It doesn't fit neatly into any genre and has strong, Christian themes. Christian pubs won't touch it because there's swearing and mature themes so it's in a no-man's land for literary works. So now, I'm writing a Western that's more accessible.

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>>9982800
No, they pre-written one's are all the same: Thank you, sorry, good luck.

>>9983076
I try. Good luck. Lord of the Rings has strong Christian themes as well, but an ignorant man might not take notice. Perhaps you're making sure everyone does?

>>9982303
Redpilled books won't get published...

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Ironic /pol/ posting is still /pol/ posting
please remove yourself from BEING

>>9982303
>jewish propaganda
>written by an irish man pre ww2
are you legitimately mentally retarded anon?

>>9981302
Now this is an alternative language thread I can support.

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Explain what this ching chong shit means IMMEDIATELY or there WILL be consequences

>>9981302
How come the top part of the post has so many square shaped characters

>草葺き屋根の里が焼け ポプラ木立の邑が焼け
>世界の底を逃げまどう 無辜なる民の靴の音

but later on down it's all smaller squigglies?

>どこへ逃げたって、敵はその白い翼でどこまでも追っかけてくるんだ。
>だから翼のない彼らは、どこにも繋がってない空を求めていた。

>>9980913
I'll start -

The negative halo of Surrealism, a lime green bunson burner flickering in dream’s egoless cubes, is akin to a dark jewel dangled in a drowning mime’s mouth. The splash makes no sound, but we hear it forever. What could be done to reach the chiaroscuro ballerina, black pink grained, spinning in a streamroom domicile? Surrealism is Eros, the woman in sepia gelatin. How could she be reached? She’d been given a blue ring of ochre that rang and sang, he’d spent nights and days with her, but a gelatin freeze remained. How could she be reached? A word fallen like lead thumbs? A scream so horrifying it would render Lucifer deaf? He couldn’t maintain her face, it shifted. Strange is a mathematics of semiotic dislocation now. This is not Arnim, or Achim, or the uncanny. A sense of dislocation related to civilization is not the same as the uncanny…. A cryptographer struggling with a code as some struggle with poppers of sea salt asthma, and the molecules were pleasing him in nostril shock, porcelain worms freezing into small hickory smoked bullets burning. He found the books of August Yellow in the egoless ice of the library’s bowels, peppered with black and white salt and stone of marble marzipan to the touch. This is when the rapid jasmine sobbed from the earmarked monsoons of rain and the missals turned Latin pink between her thighs. Bathing it’s in even deeper basement, he screams with joy in the neon light. This victory is the victory of Surrealism.

Genome Dice by John Thomas Allen

i wonder if someone in that city look up and go AAAA here comes big flower!!!!

>>9980913
Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_of_Milk

>>9980877
The only drive the night king has is to kill men and get more soldiers to kill more men, he doesn't seem to have the capacity for desiring anything else.

He wouldn't be seeking to acquire anything because everything is already his

Yeah I'm here.
Just kidding I'm not him.

>>9980284
Haha, you fooled me.

>>9980274
I've read the whole collection a couple of times. I might be able to help you out. What do you want to know about that story in particular?

What do YOU think, OP?

Holy shit what an image, I am cracking up

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rights correlate to responsibilities.

the right to speech correlates to the responsibility not to cause harm......but what defines "harm"?....is a "sjw" getting triggered on tumblr being harmed?

I suspect this thread will be shit

The Voynich Hotel is a top-tier manga.

>You've always dreamed about being the one who deciphered the manuscript
not really no.

>>9995800
Next they should try deciphering the bloody postmodernists!

Were mistakes a Christianity for Europe?

>>9995561
Without Europe there would probably be no Christianity left thanks to the moslem hordes.

Was Christianity a Europe for mistakes?

how else is he supposed to pull art hoes

I've gotta blast a wet shit but I don't want to get up

i think i might be getting a cold i wonder if i should go to bed or stay up and shitpost, err, i mean write code all night

>>9995194
that just means they didn't really have anything else to criticize your work beside your grammar

You're like the kid in math class complaining that nobody will ever use trigonometry in real life.

also kys desu

>>9995200
I dunno, because my marks weren't that good, and they genuinely seemed to get pissed off at it sometimes. In second year (or is it, 'second-year'?) I got a paper back once where the marker had added probably 10 semi-colons himself on a page, and then wrote a big arrow from all of them and wrote '???????'.

>>9995210
I'm not complaining, it's just that after learning the correct usage of them it seems no-one ever uses them, which makes me wonder if it's just a masturbatory usage or something. Like, when was the last time you saw a semi-colon used outside of /lit/ on 4chan? I used to think the hyphenated grammar corrections Google Chrome would provide of certain terms would be pretentious as shit to use, but apparently not.

If you believe in a locus of agency, that locus of agency would need to operate somewhere "outside" of the physical and biological properties that are governed completely by laws of action-reaction.

So to believe in free will is to believe in a non-physical part of the person (e.g., soul). So to believe in free will goes against naturalism and materialism. But to NOT believe in free will goes against humanism and in fact our general understanding of personality.

So it's a choice between naturalism or humanism.

And no, there is no compatiablism, because your view of reality either allows for a non-physical Thing (i.e., the locus of agency) to exist OR NOT.

>>9995164
If I understand what you mean, then you are saying that the laws of action and reaction leave no room for freedom of the will in the conventional notion of the term (freedom of the will). As in "the events which unfold could have been different."

We must ask at this point, what does it mean to be "free?"

Could we preserve some of this "freedom of the will" in a politically libertarian sense? I mean to say that it only makes sense to be free from some force. Does the human decision making capability imply freedom from foreknowledge of impulsion?

To be clear, in a deterministic universe does it make sense to say that someone is free from the "coercion" of other people?

Does it make sense that people do not have ultimate freedom, but posses freedom from a countable set of phenomenon?

>>9995248
>We must ask at this point, what does it mean to be "free?"
Forget all that political coercion stuff, until you have at least solved freedom from physical and biological laws of action-reaction. Unless you are willing to grant some part of a person that is "free" from the grip of natural laws (i.e., a non-physical part of the person), then all power-plays are just collective unfolding of the one enormous, physically determined human machine.

>Does it make sense that people do not have ultimate freedom, but posses freedom from a countable set of phenomenon?
The dichotomy is first between DEFINITELY NO freedom and MAYBE SOME freedom. Sure, if you are willing to grant freedom from physical and biological laws then you might start asking how much control etc. But first, are you willing to say that there exists some locus of agency that is essentially non-physical? I.e., a soul that can influence physical reality while remaining separate from it?

pls a mod move this thread to /his/

>>9994960
I don't know but I went to one of his conferences a couple of years ago and at some point I thought he had said "fuck it". I was there as a journalist so I added that to my article and then someone from his team contacted the magazine asking us to change it because he meant to say "forget it". Thought it was funny.

>>9994960
when you meet buda

kill

im a fucking brainlet i dont even like reading yet i lurk here and /sci/ every day because i want to be smart like all of you but i know that will never happen

>>9994603

Okay. There really is only one choice for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV769o7_Fjo

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/6xoiys/comment/dmhfyg3

>>9994528
Look at the sticky

>>9994528
what textbooks you need I have a decent amount

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>>9994528
>Holds the internet in his hands.
>Wants to learn

What do you want to learn?