I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24952710You are confusing lying with being wrong.
>>24950487I would go so far as to say that non-existence has never existed. It's logically impossible, because if existence is to exist, it can never have not existed. Because how could existence have come into existence? Only by something that exists, hence existence must exist for it to exist.
>>24955107I actually don't. Both are based.
>>24950487Read "Genealogy of Nihilism" by Conor Cunningham. It's a tour de force of all the major times in the western philosophical tradition where the core philosophical problem was treating Nothing as if it were Something.
>>24955642So... all of Western philosophy beyond a small selection of fragments from antiquity?
Apologize.
Love Kerouac.>>24951681Based.
>>24951681Read Big Sur, The Town and The City, and Lonesome Traveler.
>>24951133The ending is especially important but why would one be disillusioned by it?
>>24953946Kerouac himself was disillusioned by the prior events of the book, and by Dean especially. He figures it was all for naught.
>>24954102NTA, but pretty much sums up his feelings about his entire life desu.
Why is it /ic/, /mu/ and /tv/ all talk mostly about slop, whereas /lit/ is fixated on high art?
>>24955276The average /lit/ user is the smartest but the smartest /lit/ user will never be smarter than the smartest of /x/ and /sci/
>>24955488Or /ck/ where the perennial threads are:- do Americans really? (oh yes we do and you probably do too, or would)- why does McDonald's cost so much?- is fine dining really worth it? The Michelin thing is just a scam right?- what do you eat at the buffet?- who has the best onion powder-black pepper-and-msg seasoned fries?
>>24955318>Effortpost>Dismissed as AI slopWhy bother?
>>24955725>is fine dining really worth it? The Michelin thing is just a scam right?And what's the general consensus on this issue?
>>24955722The old guard that ran generals on serious /x/ topics like astrology, alchemy, evocation, etc. have pretty much given up. The pastebins are still out there I guess.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24947484fpbp>>24948860>foids don't have soulsso it seems.so it seems.>>24949318>>24949327women dont even know if they were raped
>>24954253I'm gonna rape you.
>>24955660>fpbpyou have no clue what that means
>>24950713>>plenty of them are pretty honestIf they are being honest then they simply don't know what they want.
>>24955647So you admit I’m a woman, good.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24950571True but women got married ~14 (Canon Law confirms this is OK)
>>24950571Fucking your wife is not, thoughbeit
>>24953406>>24953755That's just one example, but it can really be anything. The point is if you feel both girls are there just to lay there and do nothing while you fuck both of them, change that arrangement. If you want to make one of them do something else it can be as simple as separating them. You want the pillow princess to stop laying on the bed and doing nothing, pull her partner off the bed and fuck her standing up. If pillow princess wants to keep having fun, she has to stand up and actually do something.
>>24950724you could say this about any book, the thing is he writes a lot and sells, money is everything and (((critics))) make sure to praise him so people keep buying and retarded fanboys defend whatever shit he writes, but at least stephen knows this.
>>24935192why are you libtards like this?
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952613Fuck all that shit. Just read Joyce's works in chronological order.
>>24952693Why would he need to read the Iliad, you pillock?
>>24952613>KJV>JoyceHe was Catholic
>>24953157>Pound saw the genius of FW.Errrrr what?>Nothing so far as I make out, nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization.
>>24952808all of joyce's ancestors had names like o'grady and murphy and they were catholic through and through. he was as irish as you could get.
Are similar, on the one hand, analytical error or synthesis and on the other, the error between the conclusions of a pair of reasonings that contain equivocity, or especially, that contain a false univocity. The fragmentation of reality into several particular “possible worlds” linked to each other from the outside, under the pretense of universality, is like starting from a whole and its parts, then enlarging the whole to contain itself when a part exceeds it, whereas the whole disintegrates at every moment when it is no longer itself. Aesthetically, what is lost is everything that is not the represented formalization. Ethically, it is aesthetics and in metaphysics, everything is lost.Possessing an absolute Spirit would allow analytical truth. But for us, the seduction of the analytic will remain similar to that of the religious, the latter still being the more desirable. — Even if one admits mathematics a priori, concepts need a posteriori object in order to be true - objects that are contingent to the point of being absolutely fortuitous - for is indeterminate what is possible false. Analytics have lost on their own ground.
bump
Sounds like skill issue
>>24954265Yes, anyone who has studied the Greeks and the idealists can see through the analytics like they’re made of glass. You hit the nail on the head in the second paragraph. External reflection. Some of them proudly align themselves with Protagoras. Like the animulculae in Lucretius it makes you laugh until you weep. It’s not an academic game either, the content of this mode of philosophizing is the world we live in, what Fichte called sarcastically the age of common sense.
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
You ever notice how much rarer it is for female SIs to have kids than male SIs?
>>24951633Most fanfic writers are women and most men don't read at all
>>24951633>Why is asoiaf discourse so gynocentricis it?
>>24955234>SIsSergeant Instructors? Small Intestines?
Aryans and baraths lol haha
>First time reading myth of Er in the Republic>nearly 1:1 retelling of the Christian myth of afterlife judgement, down to virtue vs vice/sin, tribulations and suffering for sinners, and Tartarus/hell for worse offenders>wonderful heaven vistas for the virtuous before choosing ones next Daemon and REINCARNATING>the man who supposedly told this tale died in battle and resurrected>all with same book that the Noble lie was introduced to the Western cannonWTF. Is Christianity just a Platonic noble lie -religion? What are the actual origins to this religion? This isn’t even including other religion and myths ranging with the same motifs that predated Christianity.
>>24954076Yeah and the myth and the daemon and the afterlife concepts were all received by Plato from the Egyptians. Christianity goes back to prehistory. Surprise surprise.
>>24954305Most non-Christian evidence of Jesus is just hearsay. Christianity did take over Rome but it was more than 1 generation.
Bump
>>24954285>Christianity being a chimera crafted by only God knows who during and in the wake of the Roman-Jewish warsyeah its an interesting hypothesis and then all the early Christian texts are tendentious. anyway justin martyr is an interesting fellow
>>24955611> justin martyrQrd?
Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
>>24955475How now, anon?
NEW DANIELLEs JUST DROPPED
>>24955665
>>24955667Does she just sit around taking selfies all day
>>24955708bro...she's a dainty woman...
What's a good book to start with Jung? I'm already familiar with psychoanalysis.I am mainly interested in dream analysis and archetypes, but I have researched and found that Man and His Symbols was not written by him personally, but by his assistants, and is actually a simple introduction.
convince me that this isn't all just made the fuck up
>>24953541i kek'd
>>24953463is there no point in continuing with the collected works after this since this looks like everything of jung?
>>24953539>That's what I did and it gave me the impression he was just a charlatan making shit up (but hey, that's psychology after all)That's what he was, he just read some Eastern philosophy and religion shit, because it was popular at the time, and incorporated it into his Western esoterica sex cult shit. That's his only good book really.
Ok so what Jung do I need? There's 20GB, do I need everything or is there a good collected works or something? I don't know why this guy has 20GB it's way too much.
Why aren’t you poltards talking more about this book?It’s basically about christians resisting heroically to barbaric muslim invaders and protecting their land, family and culture
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24948625It’s a fictional memoir written by a character who mentions Proust so possibly.
>>24948776He's right you know.
>>24951065Good art can actually enrich culture and reinforce worthwhile values. Nabokov's slop is utterly ephemeral.
Nabokov is just a pretty word slinger. His stories have no meat on the bone.
>>24954970is beauty not a worthwhile value? i value his humor, the structures, the details. it has made me see the same in the world.
I have ordered my Christmas books. Have you? What books will you read over Christmas? What books will you give as presents? What books do you want for Christmas?
>>24954484here's my list>Derek Parfit - Reasons And Persons>Niall Ferguson - The Square And The Tower>Niall Ferguson - Virtual History >Adrian Goldsworthy - Philip And Alexander >Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana>Henry Sidgwick - Practical Ethics>John Man - Conquering The North>Kwame Anthony Appiah - The Honor Code >Claude Lecouteux - The Book Of Grimoires >David Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years>Italo Calvino - Invisible Cities >Dino Buzzati - Stronghold (aka The Tartar Steppe)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24954795Thanks.
>>24955651>frail, homosexual hands made this post
He would have absolutely loved modern pornography, wouldn't he?
>>24954947OP thinking Nietzsche would love porn is very twitter-brained. Does he think it's de Sade?
>>24954470It's pretty clear to anybody who isn't an autistic retard that I (OP) meant 'modern' as 'present-day'. Don't be obtuse.
>>24954847>DAS FRAÜLEIN
>>24953785Do I have to repost the photo of naked Nietzsche in his cuck polycule?
>>24954925>of at least 2530, imo. Lots of uppity grad students here.
