With 002 being passed do not expect instant MOASS it could take days, weeks, months (no one knows) before the effects of its passing are felt. All the rules that have been implemented since January now have their final piece and I expect the moon is close but I'm also willing to hold for as long as it takes. I'm not losing anything holding but the hedgies are losing a fuck ton of money. This is a war of attrition If you can run your opponent out of resources they'll have no other choice but to surrender.
In the initial schedule, this week was supposed to cover Waiting for the Damn Fight...., and .... Didn't See That One Coming. While drafting up this recap, it became clear to me that we need to take this first chapter of JPOV slowly, in order to really unpack all of the information thrown at us before he sees Bella. I have adjusted the master schedule here so you can see the adjusted timeline.
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Starting "Book Two" within Jacob's Point of View, we are given a new epitaph, and a new preface.
>"And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
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> William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, Scene i
>"Life sucks, and then you die. Yeah, I should be so lucky".
Rachel Black is back in town, and Paul has imprinted on her, functionally moving into the Black house and driving Jacob nuts. The two rough house for a moment, with Jacob breaking Paul's nose over a bag of Doritos, but it doesn't escalate further - Paul had always had a hairpin temper, but his instinct to fight back had been dulled when he met Rachel, leaving Jacob without an endless sparring partner when he needed to vent.
Jacob was driving himself insane, waiting for word that Bella had "died" on her honeymoon. It is revealed that Jacob's mom died in a car accident, and he lingers on if that will be the cover story for Bella's disappearance post transformation. He wants to preemptively attack the Cullens, but Sam refuses to let him break the treaty before they know there has been a breach.
He takes a moment to listen to the reservation, trying to calm himself with the sound of the wind in the trees and the ocean on the shoreline, but Paul's braying laugh rips him out of the moment of tranquility, and he leaves the house, stalking toward the beach. There, he finds Quil, playing with his imprintee Claire in the waves. Claire is three years old, and at this stage Quil acted as her much abused nanny and protector, keeping her safe on the shore and helping her collect pretty rocks.
Jacob and Quil discuss dating, and Quil urges Jacob to try being with someone other than Bella, when a howl sounds from the forest - Sam. Claire's mother is nowhere to be found, so Quil stays with her at the car while Jacob runs off to see what has happened. Quickly transforming once he was covered by the forest, the pack mind quic
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Discussion Prompts:
- The preface outlines Wilde's view of the role of art and the artist. What lines or arguments stood out to you?
- For our first-time readers: Were you expecting this style of preface? Did you enjoy it?
- "There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." Thoughts?
- "All art is quite useless". Well, is it? Is this tongue in cheek, or is there greater meaning behind it?
Links:
A Dramatic Reading from Librivox
Final Line:
>All art is quite useless.
In going where you have to go and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
Some additional information on the work, including the original German; a list of the aphorisms she chose and an overview of which period of his she favoured - my be found at: https://imgur.com/a/PZCWIp9
Here's Elisabeth, with my bolding:
>I am often asked: “Nietzsche saw it all coming; what would he say about the present”.
That is correct, and I remember countless conversations with his friends, to which I loved to listen, where he painted pictures of Germany’s and Europe’s further developments, that now seem accurate predictions.
Finally I saw, that in many of his works, a lot of these conversations have been preserved. Whilst leafing through the pocket edition I underlined these and have put them together in this book. Other people might make other selections, but I could only follow my own memories.
Here and there a Party-man might be pleased to find passages after his own heart - that may be so, but a few pages later he will find Nietzsche has considered the same matter from another angle. Not for nothing my brother liked to say that each subject or experience may have not just two but four or five sides.
No, he was not Party-man, or, if he could have started a party, then it would have been for all independent, noble souls that he found at all levels of society. For instance, he saw the possibility of an independent self-sufficient sage living in idyllic poverty amongst the workers.
But noble, independent souls do not form parties; for these are individuals who love being themselves.
It has been my fate, that in spite of my age I could still experience, that the brave, honour-fearing, noble soul has become an ideal in our schools and institutions, and our blooming ever upwards striving youth is looking up to this ideal.
Oh, my friends, then perhaps in Germany is spite of all poverty, suffering, humiliation and disunity, we may still experience the marvellous.
E Förster-Nietzsche 1922.
I’m trying form a picture of how the oldest complete copies of The Histories made their way from classical Greece to at least the medieval era.
Let’s say there was a copy written in 400 BCE, we’ll call that an original (understanding that it was as close to the one Herodotus wrote himself as we can get). How would the entire text of the original make it to the 9th-13th centuries?
Were the medieval scribes translating from a Latin copy that had been copied multiple times throughout the span of the Roman Empire? So the medieval scribe was unrolling a Roman scroll from the 2nd century AD, making it something like 8 copies away from the original?
Any insight as to how ancient texts made their way into the medieval era would be greatly appreciated.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the Fourth Annual Subreddit Reread! Breaking Dawn marks the final reread of the core books for this reread cycle, but never fret, future rereads centered on The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner and Midnight Sun are in the works, as well are circling back around to Twilight! As always, I ask that you are respectful of your fellow readers, especially as this book handles more sensitive subjects.
To say that Breaking Dawn is controversial amongst fans is an understatement - many have very strong feelings, both positive and negative, surrounding how the series was completed. This reread is designed to approach the text with fresh eyes, and I ask that you approach with the intent for a civilized discussion, rather than letting discussion devolve into warring factions.
If you are under the age of 16, please tread lightly in this year's reread. As the book deals with more adult topics, so will our discussions, and it is not the job of our primarily of age readers to filter out discussion that isn’t appropriate for younger readers.
I will be linking to appropriate educational sources as these chapters come along, but please advocate for yourself in deciding if these topics are something you can handle this summer - the discussion boards will always be out there for you to revisit later on if you aren’t quite ready yet!
Our schedule goes from today, May 25th 2021, to October 26th 2021, when it closes out with a Movie Discussion. While this is a significantly longer reread period than previous summers, the decision was made to give Breaking Dawn more breathing room for discussion, especially as the longest book in the series.
No links are to be provided anywhere within this series, so please do not ask for any PDF links, or film streaming links.
The exact schedule breakdown is as follows.
Schedule
June 1st - Engaged, Long Night
June 8th - Big Day, Gesture
June 15th - Isle Esme, Distractions
June 22nd - Unexpected
June 29th - Preface, Waiting for the Damn Fight…
July 6th - …Didn’t See That One Coming, ... Because I'm an Idiot,
July 13th - …Things-I-Never-Want-To-Do List, …The Concept of Unwelcome
July 20th - …I’ve Got a Strong Stomach, …Things are Bad When…
July 27th - Tick Tock, TMI Alert
August 3rd - Take Everything I Have, There are No Words
August 10th - Preface, Burning
August 17th - New, First Hunt
August 24th - Promised, Memories
August 31st - Surprise, Favor
September 7th - Shiny, Travel Plans
September
... keep reading on reddit ➡Check out AlienLeaks.org. It's either telling a story by way of peripheral data or the data is main content but the interesting parts on the peripherals in 'unclassified' docs. Basically, look at the Paraphysics PDF. there's a study in there involving a Military Woman and someone remote viewing. She is in a HIGHLY CLASSIFIED base in a mountain. This base is somehow obtaining gold. There are a select few who get to work here. The man described the facility all the way back to it's entrance in Colorado somewhere with a Wisteria Archway. . The peripheral would be the details on the underground facility.
The second release by Alien Leaks was not anti-gravity tech but gravity shielding tech. Again, the peripherals, like timeline, were the important factor in here; ie, who the scientist was, what she did, and when did her trail go cold, etc.
Here's a direct link to the paraphysics doc
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Seeing r/ryuguy post about Macauliffe a few days ago really connected with me, so I found a printed copy of volume one of his life's work. I'm a white dude in the Midwest, family man in my 30s, been following Sikhi for about 6 months. I find myself loving God and desiring God for the first time in my life. I wanted an authoritative English source for more than just SGGS and, as said before, stumbled upon Macauliffe. Figured I would give a review of what I read.
The author starts the preface with correspondence between him and the Sikh scholars and leadership of the time, showing their approval of both his translation of SGGS and the book's historical information. "The Sikh Religion" was the product of 30 years of hard work by Macauliffe and Sikh scholars. He invokes Guru Arjan Ji and says the Gurus wanted Sikhi and translations to spread over the world "as oil covers water".
Macauliffe goes on to say that he believes a work of this sort cannot be done again; that the last of the gyanis and knowledgeable old men are dying out, and the dozen dialects used in SGGS are dying out.
The preface is a little bleak, because times in the Panjab were a little bleak 1870-1910. Macauliffe implores the local British government to instate Gurmukhi/Panjabi as official government languages before they die out. The British were using Urdu as the official language out of convenience. The Sikh leaders estimated that less than 10% of Sikhs really knew anything about Sikhi. One even goes so far as to say that since more Sikhs know English than Gurmukhi, Macauliffe's book will do as much to promote the spread of Sikhi in the Panjab as overseas.
He ends the preface by noting that if you go into any library, you can see how much literary effort goes to waste - great illuminated volumes, sometimes the effort of many lives of men, sit dusty and unopened. I am pleased to help him avoid that fate. Macauliffe hopes for a little recognition, though because the work took so long, those he would want recognition from are either dead or grown distant.
I'm halfway through the intro and it is very good so far. He is discussing the history of religion in the Mediterranean and India, and the developments leading up to monotheism, and what makes Guru Nanak Ji's monotheism unique. I thought it would be boring but Macauliffe is a good writer! His narrative is strong.
That's it for today! I'll do a full review of the intro when I finish reading it.
I just finished reading the Trial and of course I thought it was amazing but I come here not to praise Kafka which we are already too aware of but to express my frustrations and frankly my contempt for the translators preface of the Schoeken edition.
Why in the world would he completely spoil the ending in the preface?? I appreciated his insights into translation in general and specifically as it pertains to the difficulty with FK but what the hell.. it definitely took a little something out of the experience to know the ending beforehand.. anyone else notice this?
To end on a brighter note, amazing book 😁
SPLATOON 3 WISHLIST:
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New Idols are an Inkling Girl and an Octoling Boy
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The hub area is much larger than in the previous two games, with lots of little side alleys and hidden areas to explore. With all the added space, many of the features you could access in the menus such as changing your hairstyle have now been given their own designated shops/buildings.
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You can now choose your hair (ink colour) outside of battle in the hub. It's very customizable, with you being able to choose a mix of two colours.
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There is a new Team Death match mode in which the first team to get a certain amount of kills wins. As you have a really small health pool in Splatoon, your health is increased in this mode. You can also find different weapons scattered throughout the map, with teams at a disadvantage having better weapons spawn on their side of the map.
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A new version of turf war where there are 3 teams, and thus three ink colours, fighting against each other. Because of this, many maps have to be modified to make it equal.
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All the returning maps have been very revamped, with a new aesthetic and new gimmicks. Most of the returning maps are maps from the original splatoon that never got ported over to splatoon 2, but with a twist.
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you can choose 2 weapons to go into a turf war or ranked match with, with only ONE opportunity to change to the other per match. This gives each game more variety.
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you can choose two sub weapons to bring into a match, too, but they can be switched between as many times as you like. There is a cooldown, however.
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Apartments: these are animal crossing style, fully customizable rooms that every player has access to in the main hub area. They are just as customizable as the animal crossing homes, and, as you play through the story mode, you'll unlock plushies, posters, furniture and more that you can use to decorate your apartment. Your friends can also visit them.
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There is a new salmon run style horde mode with a much larger variety in gameplay. Sometimes you'll be asked to protect a certain character, kill a certain amount of enemies ,or do something else: the objective is always changing, but you also have to stay alive.
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The story mode has you using a vast train network to traverse different parts of the now post apocalyptic earth, as you are a researcher tasked with learning about what exactly caused the cataclysm and where Inklings remain. Whilst it is in no way open world, it does feature many open areas with lots
(I hope I used that correctly) that being said, I am beginning to write a blog and I want to improve. Is there anywhere I can have people read my work other then on my website and get actual feed back??
Please and thank you.
So for weeks when we were sideways trading, it was all “obv this, obv that”, was that to keep apes interested or was it simply the latest max pain type theory?
Don’t get me wrong, I believe in the MOASS, and as a triple digit hodler for many months I have a lot of skin in this Game(stop), but I would like BS theories called out if they are BS.
Stay safe. Stay stronk. Stay ape.
