/lit/ - Literature

>>11252416
to die

>>11243980
>it's a Nynaeve is a bitch arc
>it's an "elayne does politics" arc
>it's an "egewene feels out of her depth" arc

Homo Sapiens means "sentient man". Isn't sentience something of a rather clear demarcation? What a 120+ IQ person can achieve is a bit more than stone's throw away from 85- IQ person.
How are the peoples beneath the Sahara, a continent totally free from the pressures of seasonal change, and almost completely free from agriculture(and thus no division of labour to speak of) the same "subspecies" as the rest of us?
Tigers, wolfs, and virtually identical parrots which are semi-isolated reproductively all get their sub-categories, but all humans are the same because a mullato and eurasian exist?

>>10582133

What's so unsound about ad hominems? You can't point out that a pedophile is defending pedophilia? I also just appealed to emotion there. We're not computer programs, logic corresponds to nothing in reality.

>the translator tries way too hard to come up with new terminology as a way to distinguish themselves from the canonical renderings and now you cant understand the secondary lit because it takes for granted you read the standard translation

>>9982454
Human nature is a meme because we know so little about human nature apart from basic biological functions.

>>9917214
>not using "Lo!"

>he didn't start with the romans

>Hello yes anything of worth can be summarized by John Green or Bill Nye in a short video. In any case, language only serves to make the actual information as easy to understand as possible. Rather than write stupid speeches about unfalsifiable garbage, Kneechee could have just written his opinion in plain English in a page or two and he would have written something much more valuable.

>>9485786

>>9484811
>libations
the act of pouring one out on the street for the dead homies has been popularized by gangsta rap and black ghetto culture in general, you autist