/lit/ - Literature

>>7371909

>The novel takes place in a fictionalized post-apocalyptic future version of Sudan, where the light-skinned Nuru oppress the dark-skinned Okeke. The protagonist, Onyesonwu (Igbo for "who fears death"), is an Ewu, i.e. the child of an Okeke woman raped by a Nuru man. On reaching maturity, she goes on a quest to defeat her sorcerous father Daib using her magical powers.

Holy kek. It starts out like a bland political propaganda and goes full retard by the end. Is modern sci-fi/fantasy just minority problems with the addition of lasers and spells?

>>5735631

It isn't though.

"Eccentric genius" is okay, but eccentric demands at least some understanding of what normal is to pull off consistently. No one likes, cares about, or wants to employ a man who, while intelligent, is unable to relate to anyone else. NEET is not patrician.

>>5482293

Don't jump to that conclusion. Warmongers will warmongle with whatever is relevant to the population. Codifying standards actually provided something for disparate tribes to rally under and likely played a significant stabilizing factor in Rome's expansion into new populations and in their development of society.

>>5482297

I wouldn't go so far as to bring Hegel into the conversation, I'm not sure the idea applied. If you must, John's concept of "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God and made its dwelling among us" could be relevant to that concept of being, though it's a bit sketchy.

If you want to argue for zen in the bible, you don't need to go much further than several zen koans related to Christianity. I'll post it in a minute because it's pretty good.

>>5344130

Being neat and tidy never hurts and often helps when it comes time to get things done, since you'll know where everything is and will have the necessary space to work.

Is it important? I'd argue it is, in the same way that showering is important. While you don't explicitly have to, people will judge you negatively if you don't.

Short of contrarian sophistry, >implying I care what others think, solipsism or long time scale arguments along the lines of "Nothing matters, you'll be dead in 80 years regardless", I don't see how anyone could come to a different conclusion.

>>5059592

So I did some math out of interest.

I believe it's roughly $200 on average for a tandem jump with an instructor. If you can jump once per month, this means your disposable income must be at least $6.67 a day (but is no more than $13.33 per day, since that would've changed your statement to "at least twice a month"). Let's call it $10. Can you afford to skydive?

We must consider that here are a lot of hidden costs, the biggest being gas. Gas is ~$3.64 per gallon according to the national average, and 23 mpg is also a national average. There are, according to dropzone.com, 313 dropzones in the US. Assuming you live in it and that zones are evenly distributed in all states, that's roughly seven skydiving sites per state. Assuming the state average can be est. thru Alaska and Rhode island, the average state size is ~305,000 square miles. Divide by seven for stations and we get one every ~44,000 sq. miles, which makes their width and height of separation of 210 miles as squares. We'll treat you linearly and place you on a line 57 miles away. That would, according to the above, require 5 gallons of gas roundtrip at a price of $18.20.

So, if you spend literally none of your disposable income for 22 days of the month, yes, you can afford to skydive. But this means you have little to no money for better food, luxuries, other travel, emergencies, dating, saving, or investing. So I suppose the answer is yes, but only if you're near a site or accept near-squalor.

I once had an abusive ex-boyfriend (a known chronic liar) who threatened to kill himself in order to get my attention after explicitly severing contact and refusing to text him. I have no belief that it was my responsibility to get involved and send help (effectively acknowledging that I was still receiving contact and that he could manipulate me through these type of threats) or to respond to support him.

According to your argument, I should've responded in some way. How do you reconcile the idea that all threats should be taken seriously in light of my example?

Hey /lit/.

Do women orgasm while being raped?

>>2599328