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I'm still reading Ben Wilson's "Metropolis" as I've been very slow this week and I ended up reading almost nothing.
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Still on Journey to the West, a bit over halfway. After a huge introduction of the Monkey King he's taken a bit of a back seat. Definitely more episodic than current fiction tends towards.
Also the last line in the chapter that gives the monk's backstory is fricking wild. For context, at the end of the chapter every wrong has been righted, murdered men brought back to life by dragons, blinded grandmothers made to see by having their eyeballs licked, villains crucified or cut into small pieces and thrown into a river.
"And as for Wenjiao: Wenjiao quietly committed suicide after all."
Wenjiao is the monk's mother who had just been reunited with her entire loving family.
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Getting tired of Murakami's straggotry. I wish Mishima wasn't so difficult so I could read an lgbtq+ author
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I genuinely loved his books, but I quit the habit at "Kafka on the Shore", the 11th as I couldn't dedicate the energy to keeping track of things. I'd recommend "Birthday Stories", an anthology selected by him. It's quite charming.
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Confessions of a mask is pretty good and I don't remember it being particulaly esoteric, so go ahead and enjoy the last based jap
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I want to read it in jappernese though, without looking up multiple words on every page
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Literally the only reason I learned jappernese is so I can tell weebs "yea, I speak Japanese. No, I'vd never watched an 'anime', what's that?"
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Everyone's gonna think you're a weeb
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分かってないよ
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arigato oni-sama
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!linguistics
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Unironically yes.
I mean, also my husband is Japanese, but that was secondary!!!
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
It's quite good so far. I was worried it would be very modern politically and it doesn't seem to be. Just interesting and matter of fact
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Read 1493 next, it's about the Columbian exchange.
The chapters about the Amazon in 1491 are among the most interesting, I love how the book tackles archeology, ecology and paleoclimatology.
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I'll add it to the list! Were you the one who recommended 1491? I know it was someone here who did that lead to me grabbing it.
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Yes, I think I recommended it twice. The book was published in 2006 so I recommend checking some new publications just in case some of it is outdated as archeologists keep digging new findings, especially about the early settlers of the Americas.
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Just finished "Love Triangle" by the maths youtuber Matt Parker. Very enjoyable.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Triangle-Life-changing-Magic-Trigonometry-ebook/dp/B0CFXCP3YN/
https://youtube.com/@standupmaths
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Bible, and all the churches are anti-christ
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!catholics
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Lutheran church is also anti-christ
Matthew 23:9
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."
Thomas Muntzer was right and Luther betrayed the reformation, Catholics won...
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St. Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, 4:
One of the least coherent instances of taking a single line out of context that's contradicted throughout both Old and New Testament.
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He means to not call people "Fathers" in the context of religion, I never said he argued it literally or relating to biological families lmao.
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No, Jesus was saying to hold no man above God, and St. Paul referring to himself as a (spiritual) father in First Corinthians would be a prooftext for Catholic usage of the term.
The link I provided goes on:
So either Ss. Peter, Paul, and John are all wrong or Protestants just fail in contextual literacy. Which is more likely?
I think you're trolling me but you have no idea how much I enjoy talking about my !Catholics faith. It's truly my special 
interest. If it weren't the weekend I'd go all day and night with you. 
Please @ me religious content/questions in the future. 
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Protestantism really is the beginning of American-style Atheism because of the "Actually, I read the Bible and have decided it means this other thing that makes no sense so I can disregard it and years of apostolic teachings from the organization who compiled the book and insert my own interpretation that is limited atonement
/Total Depravity 
/God isn't really real but we should keep puritan morality and worship our idea of science 
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Counterpoint: You're alive and breathing air on Earth and there's a 90% chance that's because of Americans.
A generation of my people spent the best years of their lives so that you could whine about it now cute twink. Literally keep yourself safe.
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I don't care what the Catholic Church thinks bro
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1. why did you ask?
2. why shouldn't you care about how the universal church established by the Apostles interpets things? The tradition passed down is a core part of having a morally consistent faith and prevents fractal schisming like the 30 odd thousand protestant ines
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1 John 2:1
1 John 2:13
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Acts 7:2
Romans 9:10
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Read the Bible for yourself and make your own conclusions instead of relying on church authority, thats what Jesus would have wanted
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Who compiled the bible again?
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Jesus quotes many books that are outside of the Bible canon, imo the Catholic Bible isnt even compiled correctly.
You need to be reading the Apocrypha as well.
Also protestant Bibles have nothing to do with the Catholic church, when the KJV 1611 was written for example they took the texts from the ancient hebrew and greek scripts while the Catholics only allowed the Vulgate. The KJV 1611 has more books than the Catholic Canon.
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Matthew 23:9
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Thats what I (and Jesus) been saying bro...
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So all those New Testament epistles are writing to anti-christs, since they're addressed to churches?
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Finished the second 3bp book. I enjoyed the story but the prose is very sus.
It's also fun to observe the chink chauvinism. Early on the book a
assassin attempts to murder the 
protagonist. He then makes a quip about the 
's name literal meaning.
When has a mayoid ever cared about the
chinese naming system? Wow your name is Ching-Chong Ping-Pong and it means The Great White Dragon Who Flies Above the Night Sky 
that's so cool
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Many such cases among 3BP readers, it is not just you Respeitador de menina-piá, supposedly the translators actually improved the prose lol. It's more like old Sci-Fi from the 50s which focuses on grand ideas.
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guria-piá*
Some passages are so lame
The dialogue itself is okay but the way he describes stuff is not good.
The world building is also pretty stupid sometimes. Vuvuzela had a sucessful commie experience
, which spread to the rest of LA . China is a superpower on par with 
, Euros are smug and annoying but irrelevant (correct for once), jeets are never mentioned once, despite being 1/8th of the planet.
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We had a tomboy back at school and one of my mates always referred to her as "aquela menina que parece piá".
Chinkshit lmao, he has to suck the CCP peepee to get published after all
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I have changed strategy and decided to speedread through my textbooks, and then transition to 2 month-ish long exam prep period where I re-read slower and do all exercises.
Either Thomas' Calculus is the best math book I have ever read, or these years of university have finally paid off, I feel like I understand everything I am reading with little difficulty.
Interactive Computer Graphics is the book that inspired me to switch strategy, I feel like the graphics course expects me to be further through it than I am but at the same time not.
On the fiction side I have started reading a story called "Cries of the Disillusioned", it is a story about a bunch of space furries coming into contact with humanity and slowly realizing that humans seem to be able to outclass them in their respective niches and have the capacity for violence unlike anything they have ever seen from an intelligent species before. Apparently the furries have literally never known violent conflict, hilarious.
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Finished foundation, asimov writing style is definitely not for me.
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I enjoyed the entire story arc, albeit it was a few decades ago. What about his writing style don't you like? Maybe get in to I, Robot as a "it was the 50s" primer.
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Unironically how he writes the foids. Its downright low quality romance trash tier. Other than that I think The Foundation trilogy still holds up if you read it before you reach college going age, after that you can find better stuff around the market.
The sad truth is that by this point in time the writing style of the Foundation series has become outdated. Somehow the writing in H.G. Wells The War of The Worlds holds up better.
Isaac Asimov was more an ideas writer and more specifically a short novella and short stories ideas writer. At the end of the day his style of writing could not maintain that level of quality across the board when it came to a longer novel, with some of the characters feeling truly campy by today's tastes, especially when it came to writing women.
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Reading
bloodlines by Will Wight
Recently learned hes just a white
weeaboo 
so that checks out for the chink 
wuxuia genre
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Rereading Huckleberry Finn
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The Wandering Inn is on break, reading a draft of a book "Griefman" that the author wrote as a side-project after their grandma died. Think it's capeshit.
Handful of Zen, Zen without Zen Masters. Both Disc0rdian Buddhism by Camden Benares. Handful is a pretty basic intro so far, looking forward to the later Disc0rdian takes.
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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In limbo rn
Might try Pygmalion
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Usually, when you argue from a comparison, you want that comparison to support the argument.
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