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I really don't know how In Your Face (2010) by David Perret and his team at the Perception Lab has not been recommend. It's a professionally written and modern look at faces, evolution, sexual dimorphism, and chiefly, human attractiveness. It's concerned with facts until the ending chapters and is full of illustrations. I don't think it sold very well, but it's authority on this unprecedented subject asserts itself well.
The introduction is so funny, I am going to paste past of it here (it's fair use)
This book is for anyone who is curious about beauty. Its purpose is to explain, from a scientific point of view, our attraction to faces – an attraction that has driven the evolution of our species for millions of years, but that has only recently begun to give up its secrets to scientific study.
While we can normally agree on who has an attractive face, one of my central motivations in writing this book was to bring together the scientific results that demonstrate the diversity in attraction, that is, the reasons why different people find different faces attractive. While the work in my lab at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, has produced some general rules of attractive faces, it didn’t take long for results to emerge that showed that not everyone plays by the same rules or focuses on the same cues when deciding who has an attractive face. Facial attraction is personal – and as we will see, it is heavily influenced by each of our unique upbringings, our experiences as well as our own appearance.
Perception is a well-established and widely taught branch of psychology and medical science that concerns how we make sense of the information coming at us through our senses. Visual perception is the most developed branch of this field. My interest in faces started as a student when I realized that the scientific methods for studying visual perception could be used to study more than just simple things like lines, distance, colour, and movement – they could be extended to more interesting aspects of our visual world. During the course of my doctoral training I became convinced that our brains have sections dedicated to helping us interpret faces. One night, sleepless with excitement, I knew that I would spend my whole career working with faces. I knew that it would be possible to answer many questions about how we see faces, but even then I knew that the subject would be so complex that there was not enough time in one life to address them all.
Once I began working on what makes faces attractive, the reactions my work received from fellow academics and others really surprised me: some people argued that human beauty should not be studied; most questioned whether it could be studied scientifically at all. I still fail to understand both of these convictions. Those that claimed that human attractiveness should not be studied were pointing to the wonderment and sense of magic alchemy surrounding beauty and attraction, which would be despoiled by scientific scrutiny. They argued that objectifying beauty, particularly female beauty, was dehumanizing and discriminatory, and turned individuals into statistics.
In my mind it was, and is, not at all demeaning to understand the origins of our feelings. An athlete is no less admirable because anatomy and sports science can pinpoint which muscles need to be developed to enhance performance. The colours of a butterfly wing or the smell of a lily are no less pleasurable when we know how these sensations are created by the physics of light and the chemistry of odours.
Other critics argue that beauty is subjective; it is in essence a personal feeling. This fact, it is argued, puts beauty beyond the methods of natural science, in the same way that the nature of conscious experience will always be just beyond the grasp of science. I believe that aesthetics, although subjective, can be studied using scientific methods, and it is my hope that many of my results will prove it to you.
My research into facial attraction comes from a strictly biological perspective. In this perspective, finding someone attractive is likely to reflect a purpose – not a conscious purpose but a biological function, much like finding food tasty helps us acquire the calories we need to power our life. In biology, the purpose of life is defined in terms of procreation, producing the next generation and the one after that. Not all attraction is related to sex and procreation, but a lot is. Consequently the book focuses on heterosexual attraction but all chapters also deal with face perception in a way that is independent of sexual preference. Ensuring offspring live long enough and well enough to produce their own offspring means that attraction has a more important role in human relations than simply influencing sexual allure.
If you do take this recommendation up, skip the last two chapters, chapters 10 and 11, as they are largely cope because I guess the subject matter was even too brutal to publish it without the cope injection to soothe neuroses.
@cvh1991 if you're big into books and are interested in looks theory, this is a good read. I bought it as a preowned paperback, but trust me it's quality and could be a hardback and a permanent addition to your collection.
I heard about it a few times, but it took until a reviewer and a viewer of FACEandLMS's work posted his thoughts on Goodreads for me to decide to see what it was about.
The introduction is so funny, I am going to paste past of it here (it's fair use)
This book is for anyone who is curious about beauty. Its purpose is to explain, from a scientific point of view, our attraction to faces – an attraction that has driven the evolution of our species for millions of years, but that has only recently begun to give up its secrets to scientific study.
While we can normally agree on who has an attractive face, one of my central motivations in writing this book was to bring together the scientific results that demonstrate the diversity in attraction, that is, the reasons why different people find different faces attractive. While the work in my lab at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland, has produced some general rules of attractive faces, it didn’t take long for results to emerge that showed that not everyone plays by the same rules or focuses on the same cues when deciding who has an attractive face. Facial attraction is personal – and as we will see, it is heavily influenced by each of our unique upbringings, our experiences as well as our own appearance.
Perception is a well-established and widely taught branch of psychology and medical science that concerns how we make sense of the information coming at us through our senses. Visual perception is the most developed branch of this field. My interest in faces started as a student when I realized that the scientific methods for studying visual perception could be used to study more than just simple things like lines, distance, colour, and movement – they could be extended to more interesting aspects of our visual world. During the course of my doctoral training I became convinced that our brains have sections dedicated to helping us interpret faces. One night, sleepless with excitement, I knew that I would spend my whole career working with faces. I knew that it would be possible to answer many questions about how we see faces, but even then I knew that the subject would be so complex that there was not enough time in one life to address them all.
Once I began working on what makes faces attractive, the reactions my work received from fellow academics and others really surprised me: some people argued that human beauty should not be studied; most questioned whether it could be studied scientifically at all. I still fail to understand both of these convictions. Those that claimed that human attractiveness should not be studied were pointing to the wonderment and sense of magic alchemy surrounding beauty and attraction, which would be despoiled by scientific scrutiny. They argued that objectifying beauty, particularly female beauty, was dehumanizing and discriminatory, and turned individuals into statistics.
In my mind it was, and is, not at all demeaning to understand the origins of our feelings. An athlete is no less admirable because anatomy and sports science can pinpoint which muscles need to be developed to enhance performance. The colours of a butterfly wing or the smell of a lily are no less pleasurable when we know how these sensations are created by the physics of light and the chemistry of odours.
Other critics argue that beauty is subjective; it is in essence a personal feeling. This fact, it is argued, puts beauty beyond the methods of natural science, in the same way that the nature of conscious experience will always be just beyond the grasp of science. I believe that aesthetics, although subjective, can be studied using scientific methods, and it is my hope that many of my results will prove it to you.
My research into facial attraction comes from a strictly biological perspective. In this perspective, finding someone attractive is likely to reflect a purpose – not a conscious purpose but a biological function, much like finding food tasty helps us acquire the calories we need to power our life. In biology, the purpose of life is defined in terms of procreation, producing the next generation and the one after that. Not all attraction is related to sex and procreation, but a lot is. Consequently the book focuses on heterosexual attraction but all chapters also deal with face perception in a way that is independent of sexual preference. Ensuring offspring live long enough and well enough to produce their own offspring means that attraction has a more important role in human relations than simply influencing sexual allure.
If you do take this recommendation up, skip the last two chapters, chapters 10 and 11, as they are largely cope because I guess the subject matter was even too brutal to publish it without the cope injection to soothe neuroses.
@cvh1991 if you're big into books and are interested in looks theory, this is a good read. I bought it as a preowned paperback, but trust me it's quality and could be a hardback and a permanent addition to your collection.
I heard about it a few times, but it took until a reviewer and a viewer of FACEandLMS's work posted his thoughts on Goodreads for me to decide to see what it was about.
Thanks for the recommendation, appreciate it.
I'm presently reading Emile Brontë's Wuthering Heights . For anyone wondering why I am reading a book written by a female, the novel was simply included in a library at my disposal for leisurely perusing. I found Heathcliff, a diabolical and vengeful ruffian, to be an excellent misanthrope and worth acknowledgment.
He manipulates and abuses women for profit, and is willing to smack a pompous harlot in keeping to his vindictive proclivities. Kudos to Emile for writing this ruthless, all-too-human brute.
He manipulates and abuses women for profit, and is willing to smack a pompous harlot in keeping to his vindictive proclivities. Kudos to Emile for writing this ruthless, all-too-human brute.
Do you have a pdf?
The Holy Bible, The Secret of the Rosary by St. Louis de Montfort.
Gonna post some pics from books I've got in my collection, mostly military histories.
Recruitment poster for NORFORCE, an indigenous unit of Australian army tasked with reconnaissance and surveillance in Northern Australia. Additional roles include acting as local area experts and survival instructors for the regular army. They have a secondary stay-behind guerilla warfare role in event of invasion.
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From that book, there is a passage about some old cook on a station who hung himself, and the woman and her husband laughed about it on the radio. The army guy heard this dialogue on the radio. Brutal blackpill: nobody gives a shit about an old cook
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And from another book called Osprey South African Special Forces, there's a kit layout carried by SADF Reconnaissance regiment soldiers.
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Recruitment poster for NORFORCE, an indigenous unit of Australian army tasked with reconnaissance and surveillance in Northern Australia. Additional roles include acting as local area experts and survival instructors for the regular army. They have a secondary stay-behind guerilla warfare role in event of invasion.
View attachment IMG_20240416_235200.jpg
From that book, there is a passage about some old cook on a station who hung himself, and the woman and her husband laughed about it on the radio. The army guy heard this dialogue on the radio. Brutal blackpill: nobody gives a shit about an old cook
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And from another book called Osprey South African Special Forces, there's a kit layout carried by SADF Reconnaissance regiment soldiers.
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Ah yes, there is this thread
I read the book Grendel, its about an incel who goes ER many times
I have read more than 350 books to date (counted), I started a readmaxxin path a few years ago.
This is my personal recommendation:
-1984
-Brave New World
-We from Zamyatin
-Fahrenheit 451 (This is the weakest of the classic Dystopias)
-Das Capital
-The Wealth of Nations
-Mein Kampf
-Plato's Republic
-The Industrial Society and its future
-Books by Perennialists: Evola, Guenón, some by Savitri Devi and Miguel Serrano + The Ibn Asad Trilogy (only in Spanish)
-Fight club
-Some of Asimov
-Some of Lovecraft
-The Aleph of Borges
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
-The Kybalion of Hermes Trismegistus
This is my personal recommendation:
-1984
-Brave New World
-We from Zamyatin
-Fahrenheit 451 (This is the weakest of the classic Dystopias)
-Das Capital
-The Wealth of Nations
-Mein Kampf
-Plato's Republic
-The Industrial Society and its future
-Books by Perennialists: Evola, Guenón, some by Savitri Devi and Miguel Serrano + The Ibn Asad Trilogy (only in Spanish)
-Fight club
-Some of Asimov
-Some of Lovecraft
-The Aleph of Borges
-Kafka's Metamorphosis
-The Kybalion of Hermes Trismegistus
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One of the "I, Inquistor" books by Jacek Piekara. It is edgy Polish dark fantasy.
If you're a fan of the game 'Planescape Torment' or are fond of the notion of a philosophical-laden science fiction work with a dark fantasy lamination that is interwoven with interesting ideas about time, identity, destiny, consciousness and religion: then you an obligation to check out Hyperion by Dan Simmons.
Honestly, if you're looking to get into science fiction in general: do not read Dune, Foundation, Ender's Game, Neuromancer, The Expanse Series, Old Man's War, etc. Put all that shit to the side and read Hyperion instead.
I know that this is a classic and gets talked about ad nauseam in literary circles but this is truly one of the best science fiction works ever written. It's the zenith where all the great essences of fantasy, horror, mystery, and science fiction converge.
It has all the complexities of science fiction along with the niceties of fantasy.
It is a must read.
Honestly, if you're looking to get into science fiction in general: do not read Dune, Foundation, Ender's Game, Neuromancer, The Expanse Series, Old Man's War, etc. Put all that shit to the side and read Hyperion instead.
I know that this is a classic and gets talked about ad nauseam in literary circles but this is truly one of the best science fiction works ever written. It's the zenith where all the great essences of fantasy, horror, mystery, and science fiction converge.
It has all the complexities of science fiction along with the niceties of fantasy.
It is a must read.
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Intensity by Dean Koontz is very good. Think Stephen King but without all of that cuckholdery... When the bitch-foid Cyane was about to get smoked by the antagonist I was on the edge of my seat rooting for the guy. I really connected with the antagonist, honestly Edgler Vess is the most relatable character of them all.
Also I'd recommend anything by Tolkien because his books are at an almost Victorian era of interpersonal relationships aka women are chast, modest and meek. There are so few women in his books that you could count them on your fingers and toes. The children of Thurin was an easy aND pleasurable read. Wouldn't recommend the Silmarillion though, pretty boring for someone that isn't 110% invested into the history of the Valar and middle Earth.
Also I'd recommend anything by Tolkien because his books are at an almost Victorian era of interpersonal relationships aka women are chast, modest and meek. There are so few women in his books that you could count them on your fingers and toes. The children of Thurin was an easy aND pleasurable read. Wouldn't recommend the Silmarillion though, pretty boring for someone that isn't 110% invested into the history of the Valar and middle Earth.
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100 years of solitude is one of the best books I've ever read. So endlessly creative and engaging. I recommend it to everyone
I'm planning to read 6 pillars of self esteem to see if I can increase my self esteem.
Truth, loved that book. Aside from keeping track of all the cookie cutter interchangeable spic names for characters.
I love the overarching philosophical perspective within that book--the implication that consciousness is ultimately a fluke--a biological paradox that makes no sense in accordance with the natural laws of efficiency. Especially in how this notion extends to the aliens themselves and thus their methods of communication. It delineates a very visceral, realistic scenario, in spite of the presence of gene resurrected vampires embedded with something as laughably retarded as the crucifix glitch. It's definitely one of the more unique first encounter, science fiction books on par with something like Childhood's End for example. I'd recommend it to everyone.
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Dividing the Spoils by Robin Waterfield
Honestly, all the literary slop in school (Catcher in the Rye, Flowers for Algernon, The Great Gatsby, The Giver, etc.) are all decent.
I've read the Lord of Flies but ultimately what shook me was Flowers for Algernon. I still think about that book to this day.
I personally think Ubik is PkD's best book. Even though I revere Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep more, since it's the source material for Blade Runner.
The Forever War is great. I think you should read The Mote in God's Eye, even if it's not as good.
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I laughed my ass off reading Wuthering Heights. I couldn't take it seriously at all. But yes, I do agree that Heathcliff is an excellent character and worthy of reverence.
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and the odyssey
Seneca's books are inadvertently the most hilarious thing I've ever read, on par with Wuthering Heights.
Yes, a must read.
reccomend "The Book of Disquiet" by Fernando Pessoa
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
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Read marquis de sade. Anything by him if you want to understand the elites philosophy. Get passed the sex scenes for the dialogue.
Is Kafka on the shore any good
Has anyone read Kolyma Tales before? I heard it's better than Solzhenitsyn's bibliographic works like Gulag Archipelago.
Here are some books about some Autocrats:
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography
Payne is neutral on Franco, which is a rarity for books about him. So this is a very good book about him, his life and his reignSalazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die
Although the title is subjective, Gallagher is neutral on him, and this a very good book like the one above this one
Here are some pdfs of books that you can unZOG yourself with
THE TALMUD UNMASKED: https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Sp...sked-Rev_I_B_Prenaitis-1892-92pgs-REL.sml.pdf
THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/protocols%20of%20the%20edlers%20of%20zion.pdf
The international Jew : the world's foremost problem: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/internationaljew.pdf
THE TALMUD UNMASKED: https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Sp...sked-Rev_I_B_Prenaitis-1892-92pgs-REL.sml.pdf
THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/protocols%20of%20the%20edlers%20of%20zion.pdf
The international Jew : the world's foremost problem: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/internationaljew.pdf
Here is the website for the KJV bible. It has the standard 1769 version and the 1611 version
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org
OFFICIAL KING JAMES BIBLE ONLINE
King James Bible Online: Authorized King James Version (KJV) of the Bible- the preserved and living Word of God. Includes 1611 KJV and 1769 Cambridge KJV.
www.kingjamesbibleonline.org
Here are pdfs of some of the Holocaust handbooks that shows that it is a Jewish fairytale
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/The%20First%20Holocaust_%20The%20Surprising%20Origin%20of%20the%20Six-Million%20Figure%20-%20Don%20Heddesheimer.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Debating%20the%20Holocaust_%20A%20New%20Look%20at%20Both%20Sides%20-%20Thomas%20Dalton.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Lectures%20on%20the%20Holocaust_%20Controversial%20Issues%20Cross-Examined%20-%20Germar%20Rudolf.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Breaking%20the%20Spell_%20The%20Holocaust%20-%20Myth%20&%20Reality%20-%20Nicholas%20Kollerstrom.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/The%20Hoax%20of%20the%20Twentieth%20Century_%20The%20Case%20Against%20the%20Presumed%20Extermination%20of%20European%20Jewry%20-%20Arthur%20R.%20Butz.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Dissecting%20the%20Holocaust_%20The%20Growing%20Critique%20of%20%E2%80%9CTruth%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9CMemory%E2%80%9D%20-%20Germar%20Rudolf.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/The%20First%20Holocaust_%20The%20Surprising%20Origin%20of%20the%20Six-Million%20Figure%20-%20Don%20Heddesheimer.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Debating%20the%20Holocaust_%20A%20New%20Look%20at%20Both%20Sides%20-%20Thomas%20Dalton.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Lectures%20on%20the%20Holocaust_%20Controversial%20Issues%20Cross-Examined%20-%20Germar%20Rudolf.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Breaking%20the%20Spell_%20The%20Holocaust%20-%20Myth%20&%20Reality%20-%20Nicholas%20Kollerstrom.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/The%20Hoax%20of%20the%20Twentieth%20Century_%20The%20Case%20Against%20the%20Presumed%20Extermination%20of%20European%20Jewry%20-%20Arthur%20R.%20Butz.pdf
file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Dissecting%20the%20Holocaust_%20The%20Growing%20Critique%20of%20%E2%80%9CTruth%E2%80%9D%20and%20%E2%80%9CMemory%E2%80%9D%20-%20Germar%20Rudolf.pdf
Here is a book about Mussolini that is very good and written by himself:
My Rise And Fall
It's written by him, so the only bias is his,but no other biases
The Young Hitler I Knew: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/The%20Young%20Hitler%20I%20Knew.pdf
Mine Were of Trouble: A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War
This book is very good and shows the nationalist side of the Spanish Civil War. This one actually reaccounts battles and other military stuff unlike Orwell's book about the Spanish Civil War
MEIN KAMPF The Stalag Edition: file:///C:/Users/beave/Downloads/Mein%20Kampf_%20The%20Stalag%20Edition%20-%20Adolf%20Hitler.pdf
Ted Kaczynski works
Libido Dominandi - Sexual Liberation & Political Control - E. Michael Jones
The Great Oil Conspiracy, by Jerome Corsi
The Great Oil Conspiracy, by Jerome Corsi
the book “YOUR BRAIN ON PARASITES”
Last five acts by Chris docker. Good book for considering rope. Also peacefulpill
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