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>>19678624
you are full of delusions. take time to examine what you just wrote, what you previously wrote, and how you plainly contradict yourself in order to come off as spiting me.

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What are the best books - or rather translations - on Norse Myths? I only know of the Poetic and Prose Eddas but not sure which translation I should go with and which other books to read. I want to prove basement dwellers who think that Thor should be fat wrong.
Is there some Norse equivalent to the image of the same excerpt from the Iliad being translated by different authors available anywhere so I can see which translation works best for me?
Also, this is potentially a good way of asking for recommendations on books on other World Mythologies, like Mayan, Shinto, Egyptian and whatnot

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>>18514268
>a book about Christian mystics and heretics and the fine line between the two
Christian Mystics and Heretics: The Fine Line Betwixt the Two

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>>14037928
>>14038039
I had a small hope that you were the anon on the other side of the conversation you're referencing. I'm very amused that this turned out to be the case! I certainly will stick around, I always enjoy having a strong outlet for writing out my musings.

>>14037928
You misunderstand. There are so many different nuances about the identity of God that I truthfully could never hope to convey the exact conception I am talking about. In this case, God/Devil refers to what you refer to as god. The entire idea circled around the subversion of omnibenevolence and omnimalevolence. Both of these are two polarities of the same entity. One entity, multiple identities. The identities are of course only useful to describe actions taken in a bivalent system, it's purely a device for dialogue.

Of course, this is ignoring the irony (the cosmic clown laughs eternally) of your response. My description of this system violates many assumptions made about (the unified) God and omnipotence, yet is structured in such a way to accommodate these violations and incorporate them into itself. The implications are intentional, I know fully well what I have wrote. I have done so being very well read in various prominent christain and jewish philosophers. In truth, what I have written relies is not completely from my own personal conception of God. I have instead chosen to write it from a conglomerated conception, in order to convey the ideas to a wider audience.

Think of it like divine horror. What could possibly scare God but a realization that it is not sovereign? In fact, when we put novel abstract systems to the test, we can easily break concepts like infinity, while still preserving their meaning. There is so much more to write, but perhaps it's better saved for a compiled work on the metadivine.

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There's lots of ways to take notes fampai, but my personal method is literally just to do bullet point outlines. Right now I generally read through the book, decide if I want to take notes on it, and if I do, I do the bullet point outline passthrough. Works pretty alright for me. I note down main ideas, if there's other works mentioned, and personal reflections desu. Basically a modified quick lecture notes, but I can take my time with the book instead of listening to a professor.

If you want something more structured, look into like, Cornell notes and shit.

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>>11582946
That's a false equivalence.

I recommend Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson, it will solve your perceived quandary. What you're lacking is a comprehension of the interaction between the right hemisphere of the brain, in conjunction with the limbic system, and the left hemisphere with respect to fantastic narrative construction and chronological articulation of those narratives across individuals through the faculty of speech.

It's a very complex process, and without proper reference schema (primarily consisting of understanding reference framework for the incorporation of the process of determination of the significance of specific objects and concepts for motor output.) then you will not be capable of understanding the explanation.

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English.

The lack of gendered pronouns for every goddamn thing frees up mental faculties to process and articulate abstractions without being arbitrarily beholden to archaic and primitive, unconscious and symbolic grammatical structures.

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>>11530489
Well, there's a reason it's an effective counter measure.

White people discussing racial differences with non-whites are like rich people discussing money with poor people; you're not getting anything we have, and even if you did, you wouldn't know what to do with it.

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>>11523628
>Derrida is conservative though.

Citation needed.

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>>10318145
Sometimes I daydream about being too poor to afford a phone or laptop and having nothing to do all day but work a simple job then walk home to a tiny apartment and cook and read.
Deep down I know it's romanticized bullshit and I would be miserable but the more stressful my life becomes the more I imagine leaving all of my things to go be a hermit with no material possessions beyond books.

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>tfw i already have my ideal /lit/ gf
She's obsessed with kierkegaard and bought me tickets to go see an andy warhol exhibition with her at the high museum of art last weekend
When I visited chicago I bought her this really cool leatherbound copy of all of milton's poems from 1936 and when I got back I showed her the beginning of the third book of PL where he talks about how he hoped god would use his blindness to show him more and she cried
Happiness is out there lads

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Why do you faggots go on websites you hate looking up bloggers you hate just to find excuses to be angry in the same manner as the fat tumblr whales you mock?

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>>8960920
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon

Please halp

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