/lit/ - Literature

>>2009038

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus

>>2009041
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_Saint_Malachy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongqawuse

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

>>2009050
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality

>>2009050
Scary
Didn't know there was such person as an anti-pope either

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pope

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecatonicosachoron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilate_Agno

>>2009074
What exactly can this be applied to?

>>2009091
Not much, it's just a little insight into what mathematics and science are capable of creating

>>2009073
You should enjoy this then

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod

>>2009095

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes

>>2009112
>mfw at first I read this as, "list of sexually attractive popes"

>>2009112
The Renaissance Popes were so awesome. Actually, the Renaissance was so awesome as a whole.

>>2009129
Got me too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffiths_Wainewright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child
Feral children,anyone?

A very quirky article on some oh-so-hip people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganarchism
Fun fact: did you know that from most wikipedia pages, you can reach Adolf Hitler in about 10 links to other articles?

>>2009224

More like five. Easily acheivable.

>>2009251
Agreed, just went from rugby to Adolf Hitler in 5.

>>2009143

>awesome

learn a new word.

Who's in the mood for some Heribert Illig?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

Welcome to the twilight zone, /lit/.

>>2009224
I always heard of it as a variation of the game 6 Degrees of Separation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mordrake

>>2009356

I read that, and I was sure Wikipedia had been trolled. Then I got my copy of "Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine" (a fantastic fucking book, I highly recommend) and discovered that it's true.

Well, now I know where JK Rowling ripped off her first bad-guy from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah-Barbera#List_of_notable_Hanna-Barbera_productions
I fucking dare you not to smile

>>2009397

Well, of course I smiled, but that's because I recently smoked a bowl of Grape Ape, named in tribute to Hanna-Barbera's controversial Tom and Jerry reboot of 1975-6 (as listed in the article).

>>2009397
Challenge accepted.

>Fuck almost got me at Wally Gator!
>Fuck! Almost got me with Wacky Races!
>Doing good now, resisting any possible urge to smile...
>motherfucking MONCHICHIS
>still have one
>lost

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Shud_Case
Really bizarre unsolved murder case in Australia.

>>2009411

Mon Chi Chi
MONCHICHI
Oh so soft aaaand
CUDDLEY
With their thumb in their mouth they're really sweet
And you can pose their velcro feet!
Happy Happy
MONCHICHI

>>2009397
I have spent hours on this wikipedia article before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_sexual_practices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

i'm drawn to morbid wiki pages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Nilsen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Junko_Furuta

>>2010035
FUCK THAT!

I'd have no problem beating the living shit out of people like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_deaths

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

this is like my favorite thing ever. prepare for a fantastic journey through your own ignorance.

>>2010065

>2002: Richard Sumner, a British artist suffering from schizophrenia, went into a remote section of Clocaenog Forest in Denbighshire, Wales, handcuffed himself to a tree and threw the keys out of his reach. His skeleton was discovered three years later.

Not an article, but a interesting trick, if you click on the first link on every wikipedia page, excluding those in brackets, you will usually eventually end up at the page for Philosophy.

This used to be the case for nearly every single page, however since being found out, people changed it so you end up in an infinite loop. Still pretty cool though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

I'm not a big fan of psychology as a science, but some concept make for great traits when outlining your characters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoiac-critical_method

Writers block? Here you go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_methods

>>2009224
Actually, you can get from almost any wikipedia article to any other wikipedia article in 10 clicks or fewer. As of 2007, it takes an average of 3.5 clicks to get from a specific given article to another.

>>2010278
>[citation needed]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Urban_Legends

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Stories_to_Tell_in_the_Dark

Found this while looking at urban legends on Wiki...remember these books?!?! I fucking loved these books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

>>2010118
Well there went 30 minutes of my time

>>2010065
>415: Hypatia of Alexandria, Greek mathematician and pagan philosopher, was murdered by a mob that ripped her skin off with sharp sea-shells. Various types of shells have been named: clams, oysters, abalones, etc. Other sources claim tiles or pottery-shards were used.[19]

Fuck... I hate religions...

>>2010563

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2010/06/the-perniciously-persistent-myths-of-hypatia-and-the-
great-library

>>2010065
>1871: Clement Vallandigham, U.S. Congressman and political opponent of Abraham Lincoln, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound while defending a murder suspect in court. Vallandigham was demonstrating for the jury how the victim could have accidentally shot himself while drawing the gun when his own gun, which he believed to be unloaded, discharged. His client was acquitted.
Best defense argument ever

>>2010681
This is why you always check the chamber. Is it really that hard to remember?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paradoxes

>>2009050
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prophecy_of_Saint_Malachy
So fucking cool.

>>2010759

I thought it was fascinating because Evangelicals love talking about the Rapture and Armageddon, but Catholics usually don't. They def don't believe in the Rapture.

But here's a Catholic prophecy which is either going to be fulfilled or not fulfilled in the next couple of years.

Why isn't Dawkins all over this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascha_%28brothel%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_sightings

>>2009421
Holy shit.

>>2010771
Seeing as the Catholic Church regards the whole thing as a forgery, I don't think it's worth the attention of Dawkins.

>>2010812
>worth the attention of Dawkins.
lol considering his attention is spent on pretty stupid shit already I wouldn't consider this as much of a downgrade.

>>2010830

>>2010812
Dawkins
>stopped reading
fuck that faggot

>>2010857
>>2010830
Samefag christfag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channon_Christian

>>2010875
>mfw you think you make him look less faggy by posting a pic of him with an indian tranny

also my wikipedia fav: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

>>2010875
Look at me spurt my 15 year old arguments to an audience who already believes in what I say. Look at me debate creationists and retarded religious people instead of arguing with someone with a brain. Look at me act as if religion is the worst ill known to man and profit off my books while people are starving. Look at me convince my fucktarded audience that anybody who disagrees must be a christfag.

I fucking hate Hitchens but even Hitchens isn't as retarded as Dawkins.

>>2010875
>>2010875
why did they take a picture of him because he's with a girl? is this some kind of landmark event for atheists or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwiches

It's one of my favs.

>>2010883

No, a secret cadre of agnostics led by Ron Rosenbaum took that photo of Dawkins posing with the present incarnation of the Hindu goddess Parvati (Kali of the 108 names).

Opinion is divided as to whether Dawkins is, in fact, preparing to announce that he is an avatar of Shiva the Destroyer, come to inaugurate Kali-Yuga.

>>2010896
kali yuga is a weapon wielded by kilik in soul calibur
just saiyan

and another of my wiki favs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals

Shame this promising thread had to devolve into this pile of shit. Fucking summer.

Trolls think I'm mad

>>2010905

Begging your parsnips, but Kali-Yuga is, in fact, a period of 432,000 years when the earth will be ruled by demons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga

Most yogis agree that we are in the middle of it right now.

>>2010880
Jesus, that's horrid. Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish#Billy_Gaffney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_isolate

no more weird rape/torture/murder stuff please, i'm gonna cry if i read another

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioglossia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

This one is in-fucking-credible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletive_infixation

>>2010925
The bastards!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioan_Culianu

>>2010890
That was awesome man, all these jackoffs gonna bitch about religion and miss out on this.

>>2010065
this post right here, man

just spend like 2 hours reading some crazy shit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzimtzum

For all my mysticism-lovin' bros out there.

>>2010941
I read about that in the Bathroom Reader, I thought they were making shit up.

Remember, it's very important not to confuse these 2 medical conditions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

Do not tell a doctor you have Koro if you really have Kuru!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina

>>2010118
This is pretty much every Cracked.com article ever written.

>The character Daria from the animated series of the same name was partly based on Parker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie

A bundle of wtf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument

This thread gave me a braingasm

>>2011084
>bought by Nicholas Cage
Probably the weirdest thing there, and that's saying something.

For those in this thread who were talking about finding Adolf Hitler in 5 clicks, this game would really interest you and it's addictive

http://thewikigame.com/

>>2011090
>filename

>>2011084

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufag

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_charity
I looked this up when i finished grapes of wrath.Interesting story.

>>2011854
>a number of churches in Europe have claimed to possess Jesus' foreskin, sometimes at the same time. Various miraculous powers have been ascribed to it.

>>2011854
>The foreskin given to Pope Leo III by Charlemagne was looted during the Sack of Rome in 1527.
>Foreskin
>Sack of Rome

>>2010118
horey shit

>>2010479
dat footage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_occipital_nerve

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair#Things_that_are_not_hair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostak

>implying the gostak distims the doshes

>>2010890
>that fucking thumb on the first picture
JESUS CHRIST

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocatastasis

>>2012246
You just reminded me of one of my favourite words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocolocyntosis

>>2012236
It only looks deformed because the napkin is hiding a small part of it.

>>2012159
Wait, so you're saying my nosehairs.. aren't.. really.. hairs..???????????????

>>2012194
You reminded me of another word.They use it in business classes to equal something that doesn't exist.Sell X amount of "nothing"".

>>2012308
They're cilia. I thought this was taught in year one bio classes.

This thread

>>2013413
I eat this stuff up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Owens
Jesse Owens single-handedly defeated the Nazis

>You reminded me of another word.They use it in business classes to equal something that doesn't exist.Sell X amount of "nothing"".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_(economics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking%2C_Austria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration,_Florida

>>2015314

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_or_Consequences,_New_Mexico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjaman_Kyle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_Search_Prank_Call_Scam