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they named a city after him?
No.
>Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (October 12, 1710 – August 17, 1785) was an American politician and statesman who served as Governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and an American state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War.[1] Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio (originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve), and Jonathan the Husky are all named for him.
Fun fact my best friend grew up in Trumbull county.
I actually am building up to reading about Fortifications but I'm starting with Mercenaries
Trumbull is a county in Ohio and Boardman is named after Elijah Boardman who also came from Connecticut. It's also the town in which I was raised.
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, The Most Devastating Plague of All Time, by John Kelley. It's great.
Been reading a lot on siegecraft, going to pick up a Vabaun translation from the library tomorrow or Wednesday.
>What's something you've learned?
Today's urban warfare has inverted so many pre-modern battle tactics. All the stuff attackers used for centuries now make up some of the best defense fortifications, like tunnel warfare.
good stuff, enjoy!
Descartes' Meditations on metaphysics
i learned that Descartes was a moron idiot who smelled
240 pages in and I'm still waiting for this autist cum socialite to realise that Parisian high-society is totally vapid and that's why he can't write or find any meaning.
Based, dualism was a mistake.
I highly suggest Deleuze's materialist reading of Spinoza - Spinoza: Practical Philosophy. It's short, it explains/interprets a lot of terminology very well, and importantly it challenges more mystical interpretations of Spinoza.
Interesting that you suggest Deleuze - his book on Proust is perhaps my favorite of his works. (I am not the person you were replying to by the way).
La Prisonnière is the best volume, in my opinion. Remember that Proust and the narrator, though they have much in common, are not quite the same.
I've yet to read Proust & Signs, so I might do that in between the Recherche, thanks for the reminder. Does your admiration stop at his literary interpretation/theories, or are you also invested in Deleuze's philosophy as a whole? (Although it would probably not be in keeping with Deleuze to draw such a hard line between the two).
Re: Proust and the narrator, I'll keep that in mind. Perhaps I've tended towards reading it a little too autobiographically so far.
>Perhaps I've tended towards reading it a little too autobiographically so far.
Probably because you’re dumb and should stick to genreslop. Makes sense you keep talking about Deleuze despite being a moron
Thanks for recommending the Deleuze book, I’ll put it on the list. However it’ll take a while to get there as I’m going through philosophy chronologically. So it’ll be Leibnitz next, then some British fellas, etc.
I am curious though, because the mystical interpretation is basically baked in the way I see it. I guess it depends how you want to use the word…
Apologies, if I'd known you were doing a linear read of philosophy I probably wouldn't have recommended it so eagerly. Supplementary texts are important, but we can easily get bogged down in them. Also it entirely depends on what you want to get out of the philosophy in question. good luck with Leibniz & onwards.
What's your problem you little shit?
You’re a monolingual moron
He is Deleuzional
Notes from a Dead House, Dostoevsky
>What's something you've learned?
prisoners could make money
The Man who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer. I started reading and other things are now on hold. I learned reading about a teenage half Indian bisexual rentboy is more engrossing than 18th century Gothic where every chapter reads like a left wing meme. Also a bit about the history of the gold rush in Idaho and clandestine buttfricking in the Wild West.
>crustcore
Ew.
Calvino. It's a love letter to reading and I realized that it's only for people who like to read.
It's nice every few years, like a AAA Ubisoft game. Reminds me of my misspent youth without having to talk to those scumfricks IRL. The bits on love and tantra are spectacular.
Nitric acid is a good oxidizer. Don't work with liquid fluorine if you can help it. Simple solutions are best (after all, we're still using RP-1 and Lox for big space launches). There was a time when you could be an engineer working on cutting edge tech, but the field was small enough that everyone knew everyone else. When scientific men also had literary interests.
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quarter of the way through picrel, won't go much further. I'd read it to my kids at bedtime if I had any, without that it's not compelling outside of the fun prose
sounds neat, might pick it up for a casual read depending on how intense the propellant stuff gets, never was good at chemistry
>falling for Zinn
it's not too late and I hope things get better for you
>quarter of the way through picrel, won't go much further
Volumes 1 and 2 suck but 2.5 and 3 are great.
I've been reading picrel. I've learned that I have been lied to.
>I have been lied to.
what was the worst lie?
I'm only on chapter 5, but I'm convinced
by his case that whole thing was created to protect the interests of the wealthy at the time and to purposely divid the the poor whites and white servents from the enslaved blacks. The worst for sure is the treatment of the Indians. In my opinion, it is among the greatest crimes mankind has committed. I'm enraged by the greed and the sin, world is worst off with the deaths of the cultures natives of the the americas. The whole thing was fricked. I'm so dissolutioned that I really don't know how I should feel about my country at this point. It's very foundation contains something rotten.
Is this the first time you've read a history book or something. People conquer other people. Get over it.
>taking Howard Zinn at face value
NGMI
2666
>I'm so dissolutioned
fricking proofread your IQfy posts
I'm not american and kind of hate America(for different reasons), but this is the most moronic reason to hate it.
You obviously are a teenage zoomer, wait till you read about world history. How many tribes, nations, civilizations were conquered, enslaved, eradicated.
Your reading of these events in history will determine if you will become a moronic leftist
Captcha: SJWH
Every European that hates the US, aside from Russians, is a selfish homosexual who thinks their opinion of the US is more important than anyone else's from outside Europe.
What? Not really. Why would I care if my opinion was "more important" about US than, say, South American?
Give me one reason why anyone in Europe shouldn't hate USA. You becoming the center of power for Western civilization has been catastrophic. Your Israel muppet state is bane of western civilization sending us towers abyss.
Obsessed
Well if it's any consolation we hate you too
Well if you troon out as well, you'll give the author satisfaction. Dont give him an inch.
i hope you enjoy it. check out the oxford history of the us if you havent already.
a couple of poets ive learned about through my studies are anne bradstreet and Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Still the Bible (200/2000 pages) and Herodot (almost done).
NOOOOOO
the guy who uploaded all this shit just recently took it down. I had only installed a few of the books off of it
I'm absolutely devastated
https://mega.nz/folder/utchyAAK#GTVl1fINpekEch95xj8Fmg
Mostly poetry recently so not learning much factually but still taking a lot away where words don’t do justice
I won't give up until anon sees this post
I need those audiobooks
Which ones?
he mentioned it here
Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
I'm reading this
The textbook is fine but I don't understand why they didn't write more original material for each chapter
Also reading Myth and religion of the North by Turville-Petre
I love how he presents information from such a wide range of sources, for example linking a song from the Shetlands about Jesus hanging on the cross to Odin
Also discussing parallels between Odin's theft of the mead of poetry to Vedic stories
sounds interesting, have fun!
> Also reading Myth and religion of the North by Turville-Petre
>I love how he presents information from such a wide range of sources, for example linking a song from the Shetlands about Jesus hanging on the cross to Odin
>Also discussing parallels between Odin's theft of the mead of poetry to Vedic stories
I find this really interesting, I’ve never known much about Norse/Viking paganism and shamanism besides a few of the vague details about Odin and bits of mythology in Beowulf.
Does this guy (Turville-Petre) suggest a Proto-Indo-European culture/mythology that could explain why similar stories seem to be found of Odin and in Vedic stories? Or suggest a method of dispersion of such tales, such that one version of it was passed on to India and another version of it to the Norse? Stuff like that really interests me. Maybe I’ll pick up the book myself.
He points out parallels, says that he isn't an expert in Vedic mythology but that some of the parallels are so striking that they must come from a common source
He compares the Gods involved, Odin to Varuna, Thor to Indra and claims that since in the Vedic story it is Indra who gets the soma, at one point Odin must have replaced Thor in the story
Dune Messiah. Just found out God Emperor Paul Muad'dib has a really b***hin citadel.
Im reading HP Lovecraft's Cthulu mythos and Moby Dick.
Reading a bit of the ol’ Spinoza, about halfway through this. I’ve learned that
1. his metaphysics is more mystical than I expected, close to Meister Eckhart strangely, although expressed in a rationalist autistic way.
2. I appreciate that he sticks to his guns and once he reaches a logical conclusion he just accepts it as fact, unlike some scholastics (Scotus) that sometimes hide behind a sort of ‘God works in mysterious ways’. The only good scholastics are the one that are willing to bite the bullet on what they believe, like Ockham.
3. Turns out Spinoza is the actual ‘first modern philosopher’, not Descartes. Descartes reads like a wannabe scholastic that saw more of the world than the earlier guys, but his mode of thinking is stuck in the past, by comparison.
>Spinoza
>philosopher
Im sorry but no
The Genius of Christianity by Chateaubriand.
So far, I've learned that trinitarianism precedes Christianity.
Can you elaborate?
Plato in the Epinomis "lays down as principles the first good, the word or the understanding, and the soul." On the "nature of the first principle" in his letter to the younger Dionysius he writes thus: "All things are around their king; they exist for him, and he alone is the cause of good things — second for such as are second, and third for those that are third."
Pythagoras observed that the number three "is not a product itself, but it produces all other fractions," hence it was called the "motherless number."
There are further holy trinitarian conceptions to be found among the pre-Christian philosophers as well as in ancient Eastern and European Pagan religions.
>Don Quixote
Sancho's the best character
>Haven in a Heartless World
Can't understand a damn thing at large, maybe I extract a few ideas every now and then. I went out of my way to read Waller's essay on relationships because of the book, which was interesting.
Thucydides
Patience and luck are more valuable than any advantage.
it's good. enjoy it while it lasts
Just finished and still digesting. The only thing I learned is how I regret being that type of jealous person with women “that aren’t even my type”.
>first few chapter seem slow
>ah I like this pace actually
>welp 400 pages of gay getting cucked
>the end
What am I missing here?
Ibn Arabi's Bezels of Wisdom. Its a hard confusing read but still enjoyable.
Fanon's Black Skin White Masks. Fanon really nails race in this book. I'm just more pessimistic about solutions than him.
I’m reading through Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Wharton’s prose is strong and well crafted. There are some parts where she goes into much more detail about the scenes and character appearances. It’s not a detractor but I feel as if it is there to help paint the picture of wealthy New Yorkers. Wish it touched on Archer working in law a bit more.
Meditations
The Idiot, it's been a while since I read a book for hours but this one really clicked on me
Du Fu. Facile repetition, quite a few pieces that have little to no appeal for the non-contemporary reader, probably quite a bit more allusion than is necessary - but for all that, his sensitivity, his lyricism and his ability to convert wide swaths of experience into poetry are absolutely titanic.
>Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Owen Davies
During the witch trials the Catholic side of things had exorcism books such as "The Hammer of the Demons", "The Devil's Scourge" and "Club against Demons", which we're in practice similar to grimoires intended to summon. Some even used the exorcist books to indeed "for purposes of treasure seeking and curing impotency". So far the takeaway has been that magically minded medieval people really liked their talismans and within the clergy there was bunch of treasure hunters and not so holy men. Also older grimoires in general are patchwork of multiple handmade editions without any definitive source really. Messy and silly stuff.
I learned lots of things about Bharat and its people.
Damn ur actually reading the whole thing? Madman. Any particularly interesting facts, insights, favorite moments, etc.?
There's a scene where they ask if sex is more pleasurable for men or for women. The answer they get is that it's more pleasurable for women.
moscow 2042 (in english)
the main character is a russian writer who lives in west germany who managed to avoid detention in siberia (author self-insert, no doubt)
with new advances in tech, he plans a trip to moscow 60 years into the future, curious to see how his country will have turned out
i haven't learned much from it yet, but it's amusing
Holy shit, Wyclif was a fraud.
It’s so fricking good bros
I've learn to...uhm...do not anger prophets.
Yes it is. Too bad the back half of the sequel isn't. It's some tender, though admittedly cringe, prose that is beautiful and the story is solid, what little there is.
At this point I'm not sure if the same man wrote the two books and it's no wonder why he hasn't written a third.
Kant's difficulty is greatly exaggerated. The first parts of the critique are very introductory and the important components (deduction of the pure concepts of the understanding, antinomies etc) aren't impenetrable if you employ secondary sources or lectures. Both of which are readily available online. Compare Kant reading Plato, the latter is easy to read but typically its impossibly difficult to arrive at any solid understanding of his doctrines without illimitation from Proclus. A very dense but clear style of exposition is preferable the deliberately obfuscatory.
Facts, in Plato’s defense he was saying things never said before. And the people of the time were moronic. So it was hard for him to put things down clearly
zarathustra and all the pretty horses
i really like that sleeping tip in zarathustra. the 40 thoughts to remember. idc if zarathustra thinks its silly, hes pretty silly himself
House of leaves
Just bought both Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance by Krasznahorkai, I plan on starting Satantango later on this afternoon.
Concept of the Political by Schmitt. If you have ever wanted to comprehend the modern world, this is a book to read. I own a first edition
mein kampf and so far i got some insight on early 20th century austro-hungarian politics
Blog on you boring bastard
>reading
The Iliad
>learned
That I'm a racist and have scared away all my normie friends through my offensive drunken rambles