Can someone explain how this works?
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Reading feminist literature about art:>"The pommel of his sword looks like a dick, and he's holding it as if he's masturbating".I swear feminists are like 14 year old horny male teenagers, but then they go to public and pretend they don't like sex.
>>25170752>could>could>couldYour whole argument rests on "looks like it to me" and "if he didn't want me to see it like that, then he could've used a different pose.">stop it from being bulbous?It's on you to prove that a common sword handle design is sexual.>holding their handle around the shaftThat's the other thing, he's not even holding the shaft like you would when masturbating. He's got two fingers resting on the crossguard and the rest are loosely curled up into his palm. That's not how I've ever masturbated.
>>25170780Chastity isn't chaste. Chastity is playing a role to get what she wants. She's taming the man.
>>25170768Also when she's writing that "love" is shooting his last arrow into "chastity's shield" - i think she's talking about depriving certain men until old age with sex and children.Because then these men will be more desperate and go for less desirable women. (possibly including pedophilic women).And i believe that's why today we have delayed adulthood and do longer give high IQ children mentorship or segregate them into elite schools at a younger age.(that may sound weird, but it's something that becomes more apparent as you read these books).
Btw. Germaine Greer wasn't certain whether or not she's jewish. But she wanted to be jewish, dated jewish and learned yiddish.
>>25170793>Your whole argument rests on "looks like it to me"Again, this is what visual symbolism is>"if he didn't want me to see it like that, then he could've used a different pose."Yes, this is what intentionality is>It's on you to prove that a common sword handle design is sexualYou're really stuck on this sword handle design, swords are an incredibly common phallic symbol, I don't know what to tell you>that's not what I look like when I masturbateI didn't ask this, but okay? I'm not sure why you're pretending not to understand this, none of what I'm saying is particularly hard to grasp. The only conclusion I can come to is that you're afraid of something
Imagine you have to design a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be in it. You could be rich or poor, strong or weak, privileged or marginalized.Now decide the rules.What kind of system would you create, knowing you might end up at the very bottom?
>>25170481Ancap/minarchist except ethnonationalist and probably "patriarchal" as well. Anyway the veil of ignorance is just there to scare people with high risk aversion and high time preference. It's a one off thing when the magical switch to the new society happens. In the long run people will rearrange according to their capabilities. After a couple of generations if even that long the initial "random" distribution wouldn't have much effect anymore provided there is a minimum of possible mobility (that is unless you explicitly make things static as part of your magically enforced ideal society) so it's largely irrelevant to the scenario. >>25170847Veridic and heterosexual.
>>25170860Why is it tedious?Anyway, seconding this guy, I would build a Singapore clone, but with more emphasis on quality of life than in capitalist grinding. Curtis Yarvin, before he lost his marbles, used to say that a good regime is supposed to be investing on the well being of their people, that's what I would aim for.
>>25170920How much does probability and chance have to do with political philosophy? >Pic semi-related.
>>25170847100% young female society. No men. Everyone is conceived via cloning. Tasteful sapphicism. Taishō-era Japanese aesthetics. Lots of cute cafés. Venusian nudity. Refinement. Floristry. Embroidery. Poetry. Art. Sweets. Tea. And then trips to the mall. Great selection of clothes and snacks. Sales. Samplings. Sandles which hug the shapely feet of our muses. Girls giggling in each other's arms. Tears. Kisses. Gossip. Salon dates of such a style like some kind of yuri manga—unnumbered nymphettes getting their nails done with matching colors as their bestie while under swell hair steamers. Avocado masks on their faces. Pumice scrubbings underfoot. Frivolity, idleness, fun!
>>251704811x god emperor minimum level clergy/enforcers to do his will (brainwashed from birth to unquestioningly obey the emperor)rest peasants (also brainwashed)
Is this a good translation of the Aeneid?
>>25168841https://youtu.be/wWPrAwRzReM?si=PRrVByYGsxqbbzWr
>>25168841>Wilson's font is bigger than the translator'sFucking lmao
>>25168841no>>25168980the absolute fucking state of literature
>An Encounter>NausicaaThe fuck was his problem/happened to him/he did?
>>25170773Honestly, I like all chapters, except for maybe Telemachus, which is still decent but it’s not the strongest opener. S&C is better in retrospect, especially if you read Hamlet adjacent in time to it, like just before. I like the parallels between Shakespeare and Hamnet, Stephen and his art, Bloom and Rudy, Bloom and Stephen. Mulligan’s interruption halfway through serving to disrupt the order of the chapter. There’s a lot to dissect, more that I haven’t even mentioned I’m sure.Circe and Ithaca are just the best things ever.
>>25170773Proteus is the definitive stream-of-consciousness chapter in all of literature. It really is a masterpiece.
>>25170734Sublime tier:ProteusCalypsoOxen of the SunCirceIthacaPenelopeGood tier:TelemachusLotus EatersHadesWandering RocksSirensComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25168537I start masturbating when I see people in public masturbating
>>25170984I've never read any of these
So... the good guys won?
Wait, the guy who rapes and cucks his closest disciples and mind rapes them, and manipulates them into a massive cannibal, necrophile murder rape orgy (thus consigning them to infinite, unending torment) isn't the good guy?
>>25170619You mean Proyas? No, he's a traitor.
>>25170628>How long have you served Golgotterath(The moment I realized he was the worse option BTW)
>>25170628>>25170637I felt bad for him, all he wanted was to serve God faithfully
>>25171009Proyas is probably the most tragic character in the entire series. And it's also probably one of the very few characters with whom you could actually engage in a modern setting.
What are the most quintessentially American books out there?
>>25168447It's shared with Mexico, Canada, and Australia.
>>25168421Huckleberry Finn is as American as it gets
>>25168421>Most American bookHunger Games>Most accurate description of an AmericanConfederacy of Dunces
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the book where greatest American book and most quintessentially American book overlap
>>25168430rare shoutout, great book
>To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
>>25169862>The paper literally says it doesn't settle the question and that interpreting the data requires assumptions they can't justify.Stop lying. The paper says that although the question of how mental illness and personality disorder moderate antinatalist beliefs is beyond its scope, which itself was to investigate a correlation between mental illness/personality disorder and holding such beliefs, the literature surrounding such questions indicate that those who champion antinatalism are at a poverty when it comes to judging its arguments and weighing its conclusions (due to mental illness/personality disorder)>correlation in a lay populationWe're all members of the lay population unless you're an academic producing literature about antinatalism you narcissistic pseud. >Your protanopia analogy is also completely braindeadCry about it. You retards parrot that enduring an insurmountable amount of pain and suffering is equivalent to sitting through a movie you don't like because you paid for a ticket, lol. >Color perception =/= moral reasoning. Way to miss the point, brainlet. Just as you wouldn't want a subpopulation of people who can't see red to judge contrasts of that colour you wouldn't want a bunch of depressive sad sacks with chips on their shoulders judging the quality of other people's lives. Simple as. Antinatalists are a bunch of immature crybabies who failed to outgrow their teenage angst. Sad. However, the fact they choose to not only stew in their own misery but to also project it outward, via masturbatory tirades that pretentiously prognosticate the sum total of the human condition, moves them from pitiable to contemptible.
>>25169765It basically means the same thing. Short of vegan madness it's undistinguishable from human suffering because the suffering of other non human creatures on Earth is of even drastically lower concern than the already dubious overconcern with human suffering leading to promoting collective suicide. Even taking the vegan hypothesis seriously, you'd only argue for total end of life instead of merely sentient life.
>>25170010>B-but my life hasn't been fair!!! I'm super smart for accepting the truth that all life isn't worth living!!! Can't you see I'm brave for accepting the TRUTH? I'm a super smart edgy brave boy!!!Anon, time to get off of the computer and take out the garbage...>I NEVER ASKED TO BE BORN! I HATE YOU MOM!!!!!HEY! Enough of that. Listen to your mother.>FUCK YOU, WARREN! YOU'RE NOT EVEN MY REAL DAD!
>>25166288You committed every crime?
>>25166338wtf I love black women now???
Is this the definitive guide to post-war Germany? What would you add?
This is a good book on the culture of West Berlin. The movie is also good
/lit/ lied to me; I am a writer, no, I am no real writer, for a real writer gazes long and wearily into the depths of the abyssal night that alone may swallow the world in its disgusting foetor stench bowels of Dis... and, lo, lo, lo, listen, hearken, to this sad tale... for my life is verily uneventful. The literary lifestyle is not what it is cracked up to be, fellow anons. Anon, anon, the Darkness takes me. My name is in periodicals and people have picked my publications, out of the oversaturated market, and said I am a name to look out for. I am a published author with five short stories, a dozen poems, and a book review out. I am now officially a public figure, even if I am not literally known as a household name. I have been paid professional rates, but it is not much because I should probably upgrade to a novel at this point. The payoff is kind of shit; I get spam emails all the time from scammers trying to say they will "review" my work or use my stories for a reading group, but they are probably phishing me. I spend all my time reading and planning, and researching the market, to the point that fiction is no longer as fun to me as it was when I was a child, when I had a sense of wunderkind. Do I really even have a talent for the word, or does the word quicken when I begin to try and force my preconceptions onto this language, in which all life is mediated? Even now, I can feel the clutch of death stroke itself against my hands, as I type this, weary as I am, knowing that I am not a real artist. And that a real artist must lurk here, lurk more into the cold autistic dark, like some savant beast of Lethe, drinking of the ambrosia of some beauty's sex, O horrid night! Wherefore have the beasts of yore awoken in the dark depths of this Arcadian field? I type and write and bleed at this keyboard, knowing that I can never know the real touch of a woman... O strife! O absentee god! Please save me from the intoxicating sobriety of this dull pain!
Are these good books for kids to read?
>>25159915It was made to expose children to witchcraft and satanism disguised as a children's story as they go over children. It's been exposed by satanists and occultists since the 90s.
>>25160145Nah, 6-10 is the ideal age range. Preferably just read the first three or four and then move onto Alice or the hobbit
Literally skip them, they offer nothing but cheap entertainment that won’t get anyone into literature, look at all the adult fans. I feel as though people would get more out of watching the movies like an anon well above me said. They’re slop but they’re enjoyable and not a waste of time like the books are bound to be.
>>25170863ur wrong though, if you have watched the harry potter movies and never read before it is possibly the best entry point into literatureyou will be supplied free mental imaging of every scene
>>25159915If they're at the reading level for it, yes
Why do people put these stupid plastic things in the pages of their books? I just bought this at the thrift store, every page has like 5 of them, and they abruptly stop at page 90.
>>25170839Usually that’s for lines that are well written I presume too, something poetic or rich in prose? But yeah, just highlighting every line spoken as opposed to Brontë’s actual writing beyond the characters… well it feels like an insult almost, since it looks like it’s just plotfagging, there’s more to Emily than that!
>>25170846I mean she’s highlighting phrases she finds “important” or worthy or looking into further, which is fine. Ah, well, it’s their book they can do what they want with it. Whatever facilitates their experience, and at least they’re reading it.
>>25170853>Ah, well, it’s their book they can do what they want with it. Whatever facilitates their experience, and at least they’re reading it.Wrong attitude. Never acquiesce to bullshit.These booktok harpies must be opposed, if only in spirit and nothing else.
>>25170787Wrong lil niglet
>>25170930Nah you’re right, they’re retarded. I just don’t care all that much since they just live in their own bubble, lacking any self awareness. I’ve never seen one actually called out on their bullshit. Actually, have they?
how do I get into reading when I am a 21 year old autist with a 1 minute attention span who's addicted to social media slop. where do I begin?
Start with Prost.
>>25168086Don't start with short stories. Even those are too long.Try The Book of Disquiet.
>>25168086Start with the Greeks
>>25168086Start with manga and graphic novels. Move on to YA and light novels afterwards. Then to whatever genre you're interested in after that.
ITT every possible opinion and starting point
all i ever read was manga, i want to start reading books but what i hate about them is the excruciating detail also most of them have hard language, so any recommendations for a beginner? i'm interested in something existential and depressing.
>>25170064I can’t argue with you there. It does feel good sometimes. But I shall refrain. His OP is very tempting though, it almost feels like bait.
>>25169608> something existential and depressing.Ligotti and Cioran.
>>25170054i don't like comic books
>>25170418Manga is comic books but with cute girls though.
>>25169608read camus: the plague, the stranger
What is the endgame? Understanding self and the world? Has it helped you in your life in any way?How do you decide who to read after the obvious candidates, like maybe the Greeks? Is there a point where you can definitely say, before this philosophy was about real knowledge, after this it's been all logic chopping and academic fart sniffing and 'umm akshuallys' by 'philosophers' who just want papers in their name? I want to into philosophy but the sheer volume of philosophy there makes me question whether I can really pick and choose and absorb the good parts of it and whether it is all worth it in the end.
>>25169066>2026>starting sentence with One doesn't>being this autistic>expecting to influence anyone at all
>>25164183my brain needs something to do, otherwise it will eat itself or give me cancerhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-k9sTAYEQ
>>25170345>>25170233>>25170167Great posts, but you're engaging with someone who is fundamentally a religion-oriented retard, who's aesthetic criteria for inclusion on his side are anti-modernity and deep christfag faith.
>>25164183I started with greeks in high school as a subject matter, then moved to formal logic as a subset of philosophy for math mainly. Then found buddhist philosophy, but only as passing interest from a westerner pov. Years later, got interested in descarte/kant/hume as a matter of debate about causality/free will with friends. Then somehow found my way towards Buddhist philosophy when I took to look at the foundation of causality, then into self hood and identity, then into consciousness then back into hegel, then back into buddhist philosophy and then into husserl, then into buddhist philosophy, then back into western side with chamers and qualia then back into buddhist philosophy I truly think the end game is Buddhist philosophy, it seems to cover all the important aspects of philosophy that is deeply intertwined. I didnt see that right away as I was coming from a western philosophy side of things and I came into the scene in bits/pieces. Chewing and tacking one problem in philosophy at a time and then letting it lead me to the next chained problem.
>>25168702My philosophy teacher did this. His excuse? Augustine was more theology than philosophy.
