This is my favorite drama Axel. In the ending scene the Virgin Prince and Princess seemingly have their Disney happily ever after moment. But they realize that the happiness of real life will never match their dreams and so they commit suicide in their moment of triumph.
Have some Apollo documentation. If you're interested in the Space Program then I can highly recommend ntrs.nasa.gov as you can download all sorts of cool PDFs there.
>>17041 I have a JSTOR registration. Go search for something on there and I'll get it for you if you like.
Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology - edited by Bruce Sterling
This is a collection of different 80's era cyberpunk short stories. This collection is particularly interesting, because the actual specifics of the cyberpunk concept, hadn't actually been formed, at this point. So you saw a ton of experimentation.
Personal favorites are : "Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly "Freezone" by John Shirley "Red Star, Winter Orbit" by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson "Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
>>17032 Superb! looks like that book is relatively short. I've had to become accustomed to reading high quantities of shit unfortunately, but maybe this will be useful in a boring afternoon or three.
Never mind me, just posting some stuff I have on my computer. Anyone else here just collects pdf files and end up not reading them? Or only am I this much of a lazy shit?
>>17085 I download most of the books I see online in fear that I will never stumble upon them again. Probably not going to read all of them. But two I´m posting I have read. The Denial of Death is a pretty good one.
Roadside Picnic - the book that inspired the movie and game STALKER. Font is kind of way too big though, don't know how to fix it unfortunately. You may be able to copy the text/import the file into something else if it bothers you.
Synners, a cyberpunk novel, that essentially expands upon the short story "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan. It's mostly about music video production in the cyberpunk age, but there does seem to be some level of mystery brewing. It's a little slow, and a lot long, and it does that thing where they switch characters every goddamn chapter, but overall, it's pretty deece.
These next 2 are too big to upload.
Mark_Alan_Smith_-_Volume_1_-_Queen_Of_Hell.pdf A book about Hecate, and how to summon her. It's occult, and semi-satanic. http://b.1339.cf/eugvmod.pdf
StealThisBook.pdf A book about how America needs a revolution, and also how to bring about that revolution. Written in the 70's. http://b.1339.cf/mbzusik.pdf
I discourage everyone from reading it. Interesting concepts can be taken from it but sailing through the sea of normalshit thoughts i say it's not worth it.
i haven't read some of this stuff for years, the recent wargaming/RPG talk on /games/ and /hob/ inspired me to go digging. maybe someone here is interested.
Biography of some crazy Tsarist who proclaimed that he was the descendant of Attila and Gengis Khan, conquered the capital of Mongolia with a bunch of Cossacks and Mongolian bandits, tried to restore the Mongolian Empire, was bless as a reincarnation of the God of Death by the Dalai Lama himself, and attempt to put back (the already dead) Nicolas 2 on the throne of Russia.
Alright, there were 5 categories: fraud, hacking, misc, phones, & privacy. This pdf has all of the articles from the phone category, which is one of the smaller ones.
>>25201 You know, I was expecting this to be some reddit pill garbage and was about to toss it out after the first few pages, but I'm glad I kept reading because it was actually fairly intelligent and without a hint of retarded "redpilling" one finds on /pol/ or reddit.
Enjoyable read, although I'm not certain about the factual basis for his arguments. Thanks wiz.
White Power by George Lincoln Rockwell. Exposes how stupid and illogical it is to be a leftist, and why it is logical to be a Nazi. Will turn you into a Nazi.
>>30878 I've been going through this, it's heavily focused on style and good habits. It might not suit a hobby solo programmer so much as someone in the industry, but it's still worth learning if you're going to update your programs.
I think I have a couple of other books on different languages if you want as well.
A bit of the history of a fief, mostly as background for grognards that want to be historically accurate, but just interesting stuff if you're into history.
Do any wizzies have pdfs of the following books? >Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser >Confessions of an Antinatalist by Jim Crawford
I don't have much ficton to contribute. I have every publication by Lyle Mcdonald (Expert on Nutrition for bodybuilding, sports and body re-composition in general) so if anyone wants anything from him just ask.
>>33534 From what little I have read it seems IQ is probably ~80% inherited, another 10% due to good/bad combinations of parents genes and epigenetics, and the final ten percent is probably mostly due to environmental exposures in the womb during crucial neuronal development.
After that your base IQ doesn't really go up, it mainly goes down due to various types of living induced damage such as aging and accidents.
>>33675 I always wondered, does this guy actually know what he's doing and just doing it for the laughs or what? Seems like a miracle he hasn't horribly injured himself if not.
>>34210 don't it's shit I've been reading her paper on metafiction, absolute and total garbage, supercilious non-sense, and full of assumptions of non-orthodoxies she treats the subject like a hack read literally anything else (also, sorry lad, I read it in paper, I have no pdf)
A very interesting classic short story (and I mean quite literally, a quick read) about time travel and as a result becoming someone's own grandpa. And father. And uncle. And so on. Perhaps I've said too much.
By the great Robert A. Heinlein of course, a personal favorite.
>>34214 >her paper on metafiction, absolute and total garbage, supercilious non-sense, and full of assumptions of non-orthodoxies I agree with you on all points. I tried to read Peter Barry's Theory book, but I couldn't even keep reading it because I couldn't stand for all those sjw ideas.
Oh, I didn't know there was a thread specific for PDF files. Nevertheless, I posted a PDF of Zapffe's essay “The Last Messiah” here >>37760, in a better format.
>>39358 I got it from a torrent that I found on /k/ in early 2012, there it was known as The Do/k/ument. there is probably an even more updated version of it somewhere.
I'm looking for Zapffe's Den sidste Messias or Om det tragiske, the originals in Norwegian in PDF. Searched the whole net but I couldn't find, not even on archive.org.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=28932613676587669574 Here's two thomas ligotti books that I found and OCR'd, also an epub that contains almost everything that he wrote, including different version of stories and other stories that appeared only in magazines I think.
You shouldn't post that shit without any explanatory text my main dude.
In burgerland you may be entitled to hold and possess things like that - And the CIAs "hey guise blow up your commie guvmint" manuals because you have a bill of rights. Possession. Simple possesions. Even unintentional possession (e.g. by scorlling through the thread and opening every link) is, in and of itself, a crime that will get a wizzie several years in prison in half a dozen eurofag countries. Including my own.
At least signpost the shit so you don't condemn some poor fucker by complete accident.
>>39517 >>39519 Read it back in the day. In fact its general message is that it is impossible to cure love-shyness and "norm up", and thus the only way for such a person is to take certain drugs/psychedelics and fool a succubus into marrying him while the behavioral inhibitors are removed by the altered state of mind.
>>40494 An entertaining read, thanks. I enjoyed the slightly olde-style language too. Late victorian-edwardian english gives a sense of ancient flair without impeding readability.
>>25201 If you like stuff like this look for stuff by mythopoetics. They were left wing MRAs that didn't give a shit about normie bullshit like the nuclear family. http://www.menweb.org/
Where is the best place to find pdfs? I sometimes google search a book that i dont wanna buy offline and just get shady sites that have weird download links that I wouldnt trust
is a Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. Published after Run Melos and The Setting Sun, No Longer Human is considered Dazai's masterpiece and ranks as the second-best selling novel in Japan, behind Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro.[1]
The literal translation of the title, discussed by Donald Keene in his preface to the English translation, is "Disqualified from Being Human". (The Italian translation was titled Lo squalificato, The Disqualified.)
This novel, despite being serialized as a work of fiction in 1948, is narrated in the first person and contains several elements which betray an autobiographical basis, such as suicide—a recurring theme in the author's life. Many also believe the book to have been his will, as he took his own life shortly after the last part of the book was published, on June 13, 1948.
One modern analyst has proposed Dazai was suffering from complex post-traumatic stress disorder when he wrote the book.
>>18056 New posted to WizChan here, if this anon is still about (noting how old the post is) would they happen to have the second edition of the same text on navigation by Groves?
Where do you guys get pdfs? Some books I cant even find on library genesis or soulseek. Are there any good pdf sites even if they are torrents? I have the book I want a pdf of but i have a later edition and wanted to find either the first or second edition because of different photos in the book.
>>17289 Was the person who scanned The Heights of Despair not paying attention, or did Cioran just repeat lots of paragraphs (keeping in mind each chapter is about a page) several times, word-for-word, in a manner that to me at least seems like a mistake?
>>48001 You're a fucking hero, I've been looking for a translation of this forever, apparently there's an academic one in the works at the University of Queensland, but it's taking a long time.
The Cairo Calendar demonstrates that the Ancient Egyptians were excellent astronomers, despite modern day egyptology.
For some reason (read: modern Egyptians are occupying another people's land), Accepted Academic Egyptology dismisses any claim that Ancient Egyptians weren't a primitive people.
This analysis of the Egyptian religious observances of "Going forth of [insert God / Goddess]" shows beyond a doubt that these deities were paired with celestial events such as stars being visible on a given day and time.
>>48014 >For some reason (read: modern Egyptians are occupying another people's land), Accepted Academic Egyptology dismisses any claim that Ancient Egyptians weren't a primitive people. This is total bullshit, both the reason (how is it relevant anyway?) and the assumption that the ancient egyptians were “primitive”. Nobody ever believed that.
>>48591 The reason has some merit but the assumption doesn't and I have not heard it before. Islam has a tendency to belittle and attack anything that came before it(which is a lot) hence the reason why ISIS would destroy Syrian artefacts and such.
>Islam has a tendency to belittle and attack anything that came before it(which is a lot) hence the reason why ISIS would destroy Syrian artefacts and such. The same could be said of most traditions and religions “taking over” a country or population. See christianity and “paganism”. If what you say is right, how come it has taken them fifteen centuries to. destroy syrian artefacts or, say, the afghan buddhas, and how come so many pre-islamic monuments in muslim countries are still standing? What about the ancient greek texts they preserved and translated? And finally, what does modern egypt being a muslim and arabic country has to do with egyptology in general? Has the field ever been dominated by muslim scholars? And is there proof of their bias?
>>48595 Christianity actually tends to do the opposite and glorify them. Because there was no real reason to destroy them, they actually serve as a tourist attraction and were in a country controlled by moderates. Belittling is also different than outright destroying, it's really only extremists that would destroy it. >and how come so many pre-islamic monuments in muslim countries are still standing? What about the ancient greek texts they preserved and translated?
They don't all oppose it, nor have they always opposed it for all time. >And finally, what does modern egypt being a muslim and arabic country has to do with egyptology in general?
Nothing, hence why I didn't say it did, I said the reason(modern Egyptians are occupying another people's land) had some merit but the assumption does not. >Has the field ever been dominated by muslim scholars?
No, funny that. Considering it is in a now Muslim country and all. But as I said, they belittle it. But they don't all do it and there are Muslim scholars of such things.
Anyway, this isn't really relevant to PDFS so I won't continue discussing it.
>>48597 >Because there was no real reason to destroy them, they actually serve as a tourist attraction and were in a country controlled by moderates. Belittling is also different than outright destroying, it's really only extremists that would destroy it. They were tourist attractions for the last hundred years or so, that’s hardly a good reason in the grand scheme of things. Same for the moderate/extremist dichotomy, it is a fairly recent one. How exactly do they “belittle” it anyway?
>>48597 ISIS and Taliban destroyed cultural artifacts because of mostly economic reasons instead of religious reasons. If their ideology somehow made them want to destroy all artifacts, why did the Taliban wait until 2001 to destroy the statue and ISIS years to loot and destroy non-Islamic monuments? Economic reasons are always below the face of ideology.
A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. “Please,” asks the stranger, “draw me a sheep.” And the pilot realizes that when life’s events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries.. He pulls out pencil and paper… And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.
https://works.swarthmore.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1164&context=fac-biology >The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological subdisciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for integrating newly acquired data. During the past decade, nucleic acid analysis, especially genomic sequencing and high-throughput RNA techniques, has challenged each of these disciplinary definitions by finding significant interactions of animals and plants with symbiotic microorganisms that disrupt the boundaries that heretofore had characterized the biological individual. Animals cannot be considered individuals by anatomical or physiological criteria because a diversity of symbionts are both present and functional in completing metabolic pathways and serving other physiological functions. >Similarly, these new studies have shown that animal development is incomplete without symbionts. >Symbionts also constitute a second mode of genetic inheritance, providing selectable genetic variation for natural selection. The immune system also develops, in part, in dialogue with symbionts and thereby functions as a mechanism for integrating microbes into the animal-cell community. Recognizing the “holobiont”—the multicellular eukaryote plus its colonies of persistent symbionts—as a critically important unit of anatomy, development, physiology, immunology, and evolution opens up new investigative avenues and conceptually challenges the ways in which the biological subdisciplines have heretofore characterized living entities.