I just bought this, what is the recommended reading order for Lovecraft? Is it set up to just read from start to finish? I know his stuff is loosely connected and I just want to make sure I understand all the references and stuff as I read through everything.
>>7462857
If you read chronologically you'll be fine. I don't think he ever wrote any prequels to his works himself.
just read the fucking book
chronologically you'd be OK fine. but if you want a loose recommendation on some of the mythos related stories to read, here is an order:
Dagon
Call of Cthulu
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Mound
At the Mountains of Madness
Can read other short stories in between, but I wouldn't read Mountains of Madness prior to Dagon, for example.
Unrelated, but The Colour Out of Space is best Lovecraft.
Food for thought
>>7462527
lol
I have to share this on Facebook xD
my favorite pokemon
What if your anime figures are victims of anime medusa?
so /lit/, what do you think of this?
Is Five Nights seriously still popular? Why?
Sounds SP00PY! xDDDDD
What the actual fuck.
ITT: Comfy Christmas Recommendations
Want something to read as my primary book this Christmas break, so looking for some ideas.
Have fond memories of first reading Catcher in the Rye around Christmas some time ago, Herzog too, and would like to replicate the comfy satisfaction.
Thought about Christmas Carol but felt stereotypical.
Any suggestions?Bonus points for Christmas setting
The Moomins
>>7462315
Go back to /lit/
>Working on this story. Looking for criticisms, feedback, suggestions.
"Adele and Drake cannot stop dropping hints about making a 'Hotline Bling' Remix together," Thomas read. Drake, the want-to-be-mohammed of the Jewish run music industry and the coal burning, fat-shamed, monarch butterfly, Adele would be teaming up soon to bring the inferior-tuned music listening world ever more race-mixing pornography to watch on youtube and listen to at the gay clubs that cater to the young white American college whore, Thomas thought as he pondered whether or not to click on the headline from GQ that had appeared on his page suggestions. He decided that the story was already contained in the headline itself and that clicking would be a shekel handover with nothing of value gained, not to say that any of the information he consumed could be considered 'of value' necessarily, but there was a certain amount of value in his selections and clicks and this, therefore, made the act of selection, in certain circumstances, akin to the most free a relatively poor-in-spirit person could hope to be.
Thomas was the equivalent of a basement dwelling faggot, but since he lived in Florida and didn't have a basement, he confined himself to a normal bedroom (obviously with less space than an average basement, but no less disgusting or degenerate).
Despite being a fully autistic white nationalist he ritualistically masturbated to interracial pornography that depicted the superior cocked American black alpha male inseminating the petite American white whore with extreme prejudice and racial-sexual tension. The floor of his bedroom was covered in unwashed clothing that would be re-worn several more times before it made it to the washing machine outside that was constantly being used by his roommate's stoner girlfriend to wash her massive collection of hippy clothing. He would occasionally steal a pair of her panties to masturbate with, but often this would get a little too real and he would go back to imagining a time in the near future when his dominate waifu sexbot mistress would become a financially viable reality and he could go on living out his depraved sexually fantasies of being impaled by massive she-cock.
In addition to the piles of dirty clothing, he had amassed a sizable collection of empty gallon-sized water jugs which he refilled with his piss so that he wouldn't have to interrupt his autistic conspiracy-information consumption or his pornography watching, to use the bathroom. He hadn't figured out a way to take a shit in his bedroom yet, but he imagined that if these habits continued it wouldn't be long before he was catalyzed to get creative. The piss jugs were beginning to accumulate on his closet floor. Fifteen in total. He justified this by considering that the house's water supply ran off an electric pump and that if the Russians, Chinese or muslims were able to run a successful EMP or cyber attack on a local municipal electricity monopoly the fifteen or so gallons of piss would be a-ok to drink (piss being sterile and all) until he could figure out a way to acquire a more reliable drinking water source. So the obsessive compulsive piss hoarding was really just an aspect of his prep.
Later in the day, after he had consumed a sizable amount of information, rhetoric, and opinion, he made his way to the gym. After the muslim attacks in Paris he had begun to workout. He did spic-tier manual labor for a landscaping company so he was relatively in-shape, but his genetic predisposition was not favorable to being completely jacked. He looked more like a slightly underfed Vietnam-era, white-trash infantryman and when he was younger he had occasionally larped as exactly that. Thomas hoped that working out on a regular basis would increase his testosterone levels and that eventually this influx of male hormone would break him free of his zog-prescribed mind-control, the sort of mind control that regularly induced him to masturbate multiple times a day to strap-on, interracial, and femdom pornography.
After doing a chest regiment he left the gym and grabbed a fresh jug of water from the local WaWa. He knew that this type of bottled water was no less likely to contain fluoride or estrogen mimickers, but he concluded that it was probably still more pure than tap water or the sulfur-laden well water at the house. He noticed the nogs working in the deli. He was finally beginning to see them for what they really were: low-IQ, aggressive welfare queens. They were all leeches on society, even the ones who worked. It was important to begin to make the transition from the state-induced constant feeling of sympathy and white guilt toward the poor, brown masses, to a superior feeling of pitilessness regardless of rule-exceptions. Each day he made breakthroughs with this enlightenment. Thomas began to see how the browns had a constant awareness of white sympathy and how they used it to exploit the white man.
His first real action came when he was waiting in a Chic-Fil-A drive thru. The restaurant was located adjacent to a plasma donation center. Thomas knew about this place because it always had a fifty person or more line out-the-door of nogs waiting to donate plasma so they could supplement their welfare check. In addition to disgusting Thomas at the thought of ever having to receive a nog's AIDs infected plasma, it was a further example of a degenerate class of incapable beings.
"Hey mane, you got a dollar? I cane donate plasma 'til tomorrow. I need a buck for the bus," A nog—who had wandered into the the Chic-Fil-A parking lot and noticed Thomas' window down—asked.
For the first time in his life Thomas said firmly, "No," without hesitation. A few seconds later the nog had his bus fare looted from a pair of white college whores eating at one of the outside tables.
Living among blacks in The South it seemed to be understood that there were a certain element of decent, working class blacks who managed to infiltrate white society and lead essentially acceptable lives. It was, however, also understood that there was a far larger population of yooths, nogs and welfare queens who lived in a run down part of the city and were basically responsible for the majority of the crime and poverty. In the last twenty years favorable jewish lending to minorities and government programs to make suburban neighborhoods and schools more 'culturally enriched' had led to the construction and soon after destruction of many a suburban area. Areas that had once been reasonably priced, relatively white 'good-school' neighborhoods slowly, but surely declined under the pressures of ever more black, spic, and eventually muslim infiltration. Thomas, who had lived in these suburbs his entire life began, more and more, to notice how this change was affecting the quality of life, businesses, and aesthetic beauty. Neighborhoods no more than ten years old looked as though they were falling apart at the seams. Trash was everywhere, cars were parked in the grass, gardens were not maintained, and gangs of brown youths wandered the streets shirtless undoubtedly looking for trouble.
Thomas had, on occasion, run into the worst of this sort. The aggressive panhandler attempting to trade a worthless story of sorrow for five spot on the street outside a bar favored by liberal white effeminate hipsters the likes of which Thomas had occasionally larped as.
What has /lit/ done for the field of philosophy lately? Reddit just solved one of the major problems in the field!
>>7461909
>that image
lel
>>7461909
Regardless of the prisoner's *expectations*, he still doesn't know for sure when he will be executed. Even if he were killed on Friday, he'd still be "surprised" on Thursday when he came to the realization that the day of his death must be Friday.
I think the paradox is amusing and certainly resembles in form other valid paradoxes, however, I don't believe in this case it constitute an actual paradox, maybe instead some ambiguity of terms.
Where do i go now that i'm done with the Greeks?
>>7461707
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
>>7461710
i would like more fiction suggestions
>>7461732
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_fiction
I haven't read a book for my own pleasure in years. (not counting those I was forced to read in college) Recommend me something. I wanna get back to reading, but everything seems to be not interesting enough. No pleb shit you get at every "most popular books ever" lists, recommend me something actually good.
READ THE FUCKING STICKY
Moby-Dick
>>7461662
But I have no idea what I want to read. I haven't touched a book in years and I feel like a total idiot who's missing on something cool.I will go with anything ppl will recommend me here.
the only course i've taken has been an introduction to ethics.
i had a phenomenal teacher, and the textbook was great.
for those of you who have taken more, or whom have earned a degree in philosophy, are there any specific textbooks you could recommend to me that i might use to teach myself?
>>7461464
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
historyofphilosophy.net
Are you willing to spend time on specific phil books or are you looking for a 'history of philosophy' kind of text?
>>7461464
>yfw that is a full-size skull carved from a single meteorite
>imagine how much that fucking costs>I want it
Laurie penny has a frist in english for the uni of oxford after a thesis that involved talking about the profoundness of her periods.
Mattress girl has a degree from Columbia, ivy league, exclusive adn expensive as shit.
ITT you either explain why you're dumber than them, or you admit that all arts and humanities academia is shit.
>>7461160
I'll explain why you are dumber than them.
At least they had the ability to type properly and not to make overly logically fallacious arguments as you did.
>>7461160
the after pic should be a rotten corpse desu
BTFO
Beckett was a pretty big guy.
ye he was hung as
ForLucia Joyce
Seriously, considering they didn't have weights back then, this guy is jacked. Did he build fucking railways in his spare time or something?
>you will never have a college experience like the characters in The Secret History
JFMSU
JDIMSA
>you will never have school experiences like the characters in Tatami Galaxy
>you will never have a collage experienace like the characters in your fucking life you dumb sak of shit who thinks these kind of posts have any fucking value or are of interest to any fucking peerson
>>7460978
You want to be implicated in a murder?
I want to add some spiritual significance to a future rifle build I'm working on with the AR 15 platform. Maybe a custom Pistol job. I plan on naming the rifle Asrael after the Hebrew archangel of death and the goatboy from Undertale.
So far I want to write Freidrick Nietszche's quote on monsters written on one side of the receiver. A reminder that when it is brought into service it doesn't have to kill to achieve its goals. To remind the user christian love of thy enemies.
>All I've got so far is Friedrick Nietzche quote on becoming a monsters and the abyss
>Pulp Fiction's Ezekiel 25 17?
>Ron Paul: Christian Just War Theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dyyd4rcuZc
(forgive the /pol/isms)
1/?
>>7460760
"I am become death"
kek
>>7460760
you're a fucking psychopath
Are there any good books on any blackop stuff that the CIA didor movies?
>>7460758
Some of us on here were/are spooks. You'll find the blackops stuff is pornographic without a context.
Films, The Recruit has some very good and very bad insight into the life. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a fantastic film.
Spies and Revolutionaries by Bill Graham covers it extensively in the context of New Zealand. They have one of the most open and laughable intelligence cultures. At one stage, Soviet, British and American spies would meet on friday nights at 7.30pm in Wellington at a Hotel to chat and have a drink.
There are plenty of sources on Intelligence operations, but it depends if you want to know about actual intelligence practises, policy influence/policy making, informing policy or intelligence gathering. Black Ops stuff is done by a tiny community relatively. The vast majority of the work is boring file reading, responding to phone calls and emails from butthurt analysts, listening to people do disgusting things and tolerating absolutely intolerable people simply to get a slither of information.
Imagine making a friend who you must develop your entire personality around, becoming closer to him and consistently working him. Do this for months, occasionally dropping hints about what you would like from him. Do that with a dozen people (if you aren't a lazy cunt, there are a few lazy spooks out there who merely run the circuit) and then imagine that you end up struggling to form connections with people after manipulating them for a living.
Not only is the life of a spook incredibly demanding and psychologically distressing, it takes a specific breed of person who can handle that occupation. The special forces attached to intelligence agencies are quite impressive though. Look into 'the increment'.
If you head to infinitechan and go to 8diamonds, there is a thread which contains hundreds of files on intelligence. It would be worth a look there.
>>7460758
This book. Interesting, readable, comprehensive.
It turns out that most of the CIA's secret operations were total fuckups, and the agency generally had no idea what it was doing.
>>7460812
That's a great one.
For the Presidents Eyes only is good if you are looking for more of the history of the development of these agencies.
I also enjoyed Operation Mincemeat and Agent Zigzag, but they are definitely written more for entertainment, despite being well researched. And they are both focused on British WWII stuff, not CIA
A guy who's had sex with over a hundred women writes a dirty story for you Forever Alones.
From my Kindle Erotica pot-boiler: Summer School Sluts
I dared to kiss her and I swear he next thing I remember, my balls sac was in her mouh as she stroked my shaft. I threw her on the couch and shucked off her flimsy dress and panties. She got on her hands and knees, her elbows hyperextending in a way that was alien and erotic, her long fingers clenched into the cushions as I slid in, still only semi-hard and I fucked her from behind. She was small and toned. I studied the delicate hairs on the back of her neck, the delicate bones of her spine, her shoulder blades, and the dimples above her ass. I admired her brown skin, I liked the way the pigment collected around her asshole and cunt. Her pussy lips were such a deep brown, almost black, it was like her snatch had lipstick. By contrast her hole was bubble -gum pink on the inside. It reminded me of the slick luminescence in a sea-shell . The cunt itself seemed only the size of a quarter, I had never seen a pussy so tight before. Her sparse pubic bush was wiry and stiff. Her hips were narrow but her ass-crack was deep, I spread her cheeks apart and only semi-hard her pussy, slick with juice took me right in. There was a quarter-inch sleeve of bright pink pussy-skin that extended out of her snatch clenched tightly around my cock. I fattened and stiffened quickly inside of her. I watched as each stroke dragged it out and pushed it back. It was like I was turning her inside out. Her ass broke out in goosebumps. I stared for a moment at budding flower of her anus and became quite rigid. I snapped her brasserie off her back. She skillfully slid it off and her breasts fell with a pleasing heft.
I felt an electric surge that started at the tip of my cock. With every thrust I was reaching the limits of her gash ramming her cervix and I could feel the bones of her pelvis bruising my groin as I stretched her.
>>7460635
Actually, I've found that people with no experience at all tend to write better erotica because they don't have bullshit real world stuff to draw from. It's pure fantasy. Pure idealism.
>>7460635
since you live through women, you are a beta.
do not forget to eat pussy, abide by her !