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What book will give me some direction/purpose?
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none
find something you care about
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>>7459442
I can't decide.
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>>7459442
if i had it i wouldn't be asking for it
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Anyone else also guilty of “Tsundoku” - the Japanese word for the new books that pile up on our shelves?
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I'm guilty of this, and glad to know that there's a word for it.
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>>7459246
I have a little over 550 books that I own and haven't read/have only partially read.
Which means I've got nearly 100 per year since I started buying them that I haven't yet read. So probably yeah OP.
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>>7459246
Tsundoku Calibre is what I suffer from.
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How do you get over the feeling of utter insignificance as an individual?
This feeling is especially strong when I'm reading philosophy, and sometimes fiction, because I'm just 1 person out of 7 billion(and counting) and I just feel a deep,slow anger because learning about shit just feels like a waste of time because I could be killed at any time or something.
Those lofty ideas just seem inconsequential when I'm just another cog in the machine.
I know my perspective is the only one that is supposed to matter but I can't really shake this feeling off.
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Reality has a severe nihilistic bias.
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poo
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for me it doesn't have an angering effect, but a depressing one. The feeling that your life, in the end, doesn't matter any more than one sand particle on the beach. But, I learn to live with my depression, mostly ignoring it.
>"In Antiquity, even the slave had hours of leisure and merriment that were all his own; he had his games of dice in the shade of the columns of his master's portico, his coarse jokes, his free chatter, his free life outside his daily routine".
>"The modern slave has not the privilege of loitering, completely carefree, for half an hour. His so-called leisure itself is either filled with almost compulsory entertainment, as exacting and often as dreary as his work, or -- in "lands of freedom" -- poisoned by economic worries. But he is not openly bought and sold. He is just taken. And taken, not by a man in some way at least superior to himself, but by a huge impersonal system without either a body to kick or a soul to damn or a head to answer for its mischief.".
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What's the point of these critiques,senpai?
Being a wagekek is fucking awful but capitalism is so deeply rooted that it's not going away,barring a massive catastrophe.
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Spot on to be honest.
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>>7459170
She's not wrong.
Premises.
1. There exists an entity, G, that is omniscient.
2. If an entity is omniscient, the entity is sound (if the entity believes something, it is in fact true).
3. If an entity is omniscient, the entity is complete (if something is in fact true, the entity believes it).
4. The sentence S is defined as "G does not believe S is true"
Argument.
5. G is sound (1, 2)
6. G is complete (1, 3)
7. >> Assume S is true (Assumption)
8. >> G believes S is true (6, 7)
9. >> G does not believe S is true (4, 7)
10. >> Contradiction (9)
11. S is not true (Reductio from 7-10)
12. G does not believe S is true (5, 11, Modus Tollens)
13. G believes S is true (4, 11)
14. Contradiction (13)
Conclusion.
One of the premises is incorrect. Since 2, 3 are obvious, and 4 is just a definition, 1 must be incorrect. Thus, an omniscient God does not exist.
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>>7459163
This is a very shitty argument.
Oh and this sentence is not true.
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>>7459173
Thank you for your well-reasoned argument!
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Anon, you can't really explain God. You just have to believe.
What did Lenin contribute to Marxist theory?
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"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"
Non-Marxist non-urban non-industrial proletariat (third world, Russia)
Groundwork for nationalisation of proletarian revolution
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>>7459080
Wasn't Lenin opposed to nationalism? If so then why did he write a book advocating nationalism for "oppressed" people?
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What is about "/lit/ is for the discussion of literature. If you want to talk about politics, go to /pol/" that you don't understand, OP?
Keep this off-topic garbage off my board.
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So the novel I am writing has a lot of shoot-outs in it, the characters are able to take on enemies and survive, but its by taking cover, using suppressive fire, flanking, etc..
I am curious how you would write such a combat sequence. Should I describe it blow by blow? How do I describe "he shoots at the enemy soldiers" without it getting repetitive as fuck?
Describing the sounds of the guns? I've tried using words like "barking" and "chattering" to describe the gunfire. But it's hard to insert it between lines of dialogue without feeling samey.
I dunno, anyone got any examples of well-written shootout scenes? My novel is probably a really lame story but I at least want it to be well-written lame story.
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Use your imagination
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>>7459026
Rip off some famous military biographies. One Bullet Away, Storm of Steel, etc.
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Focus on the tactical mindset. Where are they positioning themselves and why? How are they scanning the environment? How do they come out from around cover to shoot without getting shot themselves?
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Was this book ever relevant to the general public? It's clear that, since it's release, it's been loved by poets, critics and prolly those people for whom literature is a major interest. But did it ever affect the general educated public in anything approaching the way that ... say, Shakespeare did?
I get the impression that this book might have been more prominent back when Christianity and poetry in general were more important to people's lives but I dunno.
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>>7458866
Paradise Loft.
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>>7458871
Paradife Loft, my friend.
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>>7458871
/thread
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How do you define 'art'? Can there be an objective definition, or is it a pointless endeavor which everyone has opposing but equally "correct" definitions?
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>>7458777
Beauty achieved through skill.
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>>7458777
>objective
stupid word
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>>7458777
Dunno, read some books on easthetics. Kant's Critique of Judgement is probs an easy starting point.
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I gotta say /lit/ you've inspired me
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>>7458708
All solid buys OP, hope you enjoy The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, it's certainly an interesting read. Also a decent translation of The Iliad, you won't go wrong with Lattimore.
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Don't forget to Traverse with the Travellers
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>being inspired by post-/his/ /lit/
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What are your guilty pleasures /lit/?
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I don't have any. I'm not a sperg.
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i get off to nifty erotica and fanfic smut
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>>7458695
Yeah, these are pretty much garbage.
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I'm planning on working on a book, somewhat inspired by Crime and Punishment, about an Orthodox nun who murders a corrupt bishop.
Is it a decent premise? or is it shit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0Lzzeda1I
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Sounds interesting
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It doesn't matter about plot per se but how you are able to get it down on paper.
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Post the last book you've read, what you thought of it, the book you're reading now or planning to read, your age, and where you're from.
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Botchan. It was pretty good, a lot less serious than Kokoro
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>Bankerott: book about the Norwegian banking crisis. Same old reasons as any other bank crisis and imo way to much filler.
>ekstremisme kjennetegn: Norwegian book about extremism, what is extreme and now to deal with it. Good so far but i can feel a left wing bias.
>The bible
Norway, 18 years old.
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>Read: Dubliners
Well written but kinda boring. Read it because I'm in Dublin right now.
>Reading: Karamazov Brothers
Liking it so far.
I'm from Brazil, 20 years old.
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What's the second most patrician religion, after Catholicism?
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Christianity
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Judaism.
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Catholicism is /pol/ tier trash.
Plotinian Neo-Platonism or nothing, pleb.
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What makes Shakespeare so great? I have read a number of his plays and while they were all enjoyable, I'm not understanding what makes him such a major pillar of English literature.
Not a "Shakespeare is a hack" thread, just legit want to learn what makes him great.
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how many words have u invented
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>>7458539
Shakespeare in this venture to say that the only thing that is privileged and exempt from my disclosure or distribution is a very nice to have boilerplate reduction of etymology. In other words, get doubles
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>>7458577
Witnessed.