Was he right? What comes after the Faustian civilization?
>>24960691Are you implying that the Faustian civilization is the end of the cycle?
>>24960844Poland and Hungary are what Roman Gaule was to Rome. A conquered barbarian backwater being colonized by Romans and the Mediterraneans they had conquered. So was Hungary and Poland colonized by the Germans, and even East Germany, where the Slavic populations were severely oppressed (like work-givers not employing Slavs). This lead to the almost complete extinction of the Slavic dialects in East Germany when during the Middle Ages it was full of them. Likewise, the Austrians made all efforts to keep the Hungarians they had conquered out of government. Then during communism East Germany became dominated by the Soviet Russians again. Once we look at the history from a fully ethnic lense, we realize that the ethnic tensions between Slavs and Germanics reveal a complete analogy towards the ethnic tensions between Romans and Germanics, the modern Germanics having taken the role the Romans had during their day. An everly white and Aryan nation, culturally superior, believing itself to be the epitome of civilization, gradually being degraded by it's brown immigrants in face of a culturally inferior barbarish white and Aryan antagonist.
>>24961284>I wouldn't say totally self reliantWhat are they reliant on? Computer chips? That’s basically about it and they are setting up their own chip lines themselves along with the Chinese who have no qualms about selling those future chips to Russia. Russia can pretty much make anything else it needs and has revamped its machine tool industry since 2022. They dont make large quantities of cheap consumer electronics not because they can’t (the hypersonic missiles and shapeships they make are more advanced) but because its always just been cheaper to buy them from Asia and wouldnt have been profitable to set up factories in Russia.
>>24961392>hypersonicYou had me going there for a second.
>>24961397Kinzhal, Zircon, Avangard and Oreshnik are all hypersonic, these include both tactical missiles systems for the battlefield as well as hypersonic glide vehicles for strategic weapons like nukes. The US has in its arsenals neither hypersonic tactical missiles nor hypersonic glide vehicles. There is really no way to dispute that its objectively true that Russia leads internationally in hypersonic development while the US is barely participating. The US has been eclipsed in hypersonic development not only by Russia, but also by China, Iran and even North Korea.
I’ve read Spengler, Evola, Hitler, Guenon, etc etc. I’ve read the Church Fathers, I’ve read the Bible, I’ve read the Dhammapada and the Sutras and the Vedas. I’ve read Nietzsche and the Greeks and the Scholastics. I’ve read Kant and Hume and Locke and Hobbes and Berkeley. I’ve read Deleuze and agitators, Badiou and Žižek, Agamben and Baudrillard, Heidegger and Husserl, Blanchot and Artaud, Lao Tzu and Confucius. I’ve read Thich Nhat Hanh and Kahlil Gibran, Father John Behr and Father John Meyendorff, Joseph Ratzinger and Anton LaVey, Teilhard de Chardin and Voegelin. I’ve read Fromm, Freud, Jung, Lacan, Lyotard, Derrida, Marcuse, Marx, Adorno, Debord, Weil, Stein, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Melville, Shakespeare, Donne, Marcel, Hesse, Lermontov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gorky, Gogol, Brecht, Beckett, and Genet. I’ve read Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus. I’ve read Joyce and Eliot, Pound and Ginsberg, Zukofsky and Auden, DFW Bukowski. I’ve read Marcus Aurelius and Peter Sloterdijk. I’ve watched television and YouTube. I’ve played video games. I’ve lifted and run, I’ve been an athlete, won and lost. I’ve gone outside and touched the grass, worked until I was fatigued and covered in dirt or mud or clay. I’ve studied and made art. I’ve made love to a woman and broken her heart. I’ve had good friends. I’ve learned the hearts of my family. I’ve traveled. I’ve stayed at monasteries. I’ve attended Churches. I’ve practiced meditation and prayer. I’ve learned and listened to music. I’ve been homeless and wealthy. I’m bored. What else is there? I ask for help.
>>24961415> What else is there? From the looks of it, you have yet to discover the magic of prostate orgasms
>>24961431What can you teach us about sissygasms anon?
>>24961415idk man go for a walk or something
Delete this thread, it's shit.
>>24961415Its clear. You have to kill a man.and possibly
In Ride the Tiger and related writings, Evola treats Heidegger as a revealing but ultimately fatal symptom of modernity rather than as a genuine metaphysical thinker. He concedes Heidegger’s acuity in diagnosing the nihilistic condition of the modern West, including alienation, the loss of Being, and the collapse of meaning into historicity, but argues that Heidegger never escapes the very horizon he critiques. By reducing Being to a problem disclosed within Dasein’s finite, thrown existence, Heidegger, in Evola’s view, absolutizes contingency and temporality. The celebrated “return to Being” thus remains trapped within existential anxiety, authenticity, and historical destiny, none of which transcends the human condition. Evola reads Heidegger’s thought as a terminal philosophy, lucid in its negations and powerless in affirmation, capable only of describing the breakdown of metaphysics and not of reestablishing a superior principle. Heidegger’s rejection of traditional metaphysics therefore does not overcome it but merely abolishes it, leaving nothing in its place but a more refined nihilism.Against this, Evola frames the traditional metaphysical perspective, shared in different idioms by Eastern doctrines and by thinkers like Guénon, as categorically superior. Tradition begins not from finitude or anxiety but from the unconditioned, an absolute and supra-individual principle that is known not discursively but through intellectual intuition and realization. From this standpoint, Heidegger’s insistence on historicity, becoming, and openness to Being is not profundity but regression, mistaking a late and dissolved consciousness for the measure of reality itself. Where Heidegger can only gesture toward a post-metaphysical event of Being that may or may not arrive, Tradition affirms a timeless order that can be actualized here and now by those capable of transcending the human condition. For Evola, this contrast is decisive. Heidegger’s philosophy marks the last sophisticated expression of Western decadence, whereas the traditional metaphysical view, Eastern and perennial, stands as an already complete refutation, demonstrating that Heidegger’s entire project operates on an inferior plane that has forgotten not merely God or Being but transcendence itself.
>first thread where OP seems to actually understand Evola in like a year>first Evola thread effortpost in like a year>it's AI
>>24961232>>24961233Your AI isn't very good at this. "Metaphysics" as a term has its origin in describing what Aristotle's book after the Physics is up to, which it describes as pertaining to what makes being beings as such. Heidegger focuses his critique of Plato on the Forms, which are treated as both the only real beings, and as having presence by being participated in by sensible beings. Now, you could criticize Heidegger for doing little with the Good, but that passage from the Republic implies that Being, which is again the subject of traditional metaphysics, is presence. That element of his critique is untouched. This AI rejoinder is just "oh, traditional metaphysics isn't about Being," it's just skirting by a redefinition.
>>24961451>filteredNta but that bad faith interpretation of platonic forms as the only "real" is almost as bad as AI slop
>>24961470That's the whole shtick of the dialogues, arguing that the Forms, in being eternal and unchanging, are the true beings. Whether that's only an apparent teaching of Plato or not, that's still the thrust of how the Forms are presented, always in distinction from the visible beings on account of the latter undergoing becoming.
>>24961476>filtered
I'm interested in reading different perspectives on Plato's symposium or any writings that deal with the Good. Already planning on reading Ficino's scommentaries but i'd appreciate other writings
Does Schopenhauer's reasoning against suicide feel like bullshit to anyone else? Sure, suicide is an act and affirmation of the will because it is your striving to escape suffering being carried out, but after that, you're fucking gone, there is no more subject for the will to attach to. Even if suicide is willful, what it brings about is will-less. So maybe the will peaks in this final act, but after that it's just pure stillness for the rest of eternity, which is exactly what Schopenhauer wants. So given Schopenhauerian pessimism, why not kill yourself?
Burning TBR Edition>Old:>>24948206>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24959026>>24959023The only solution is weird fat fantasy....
>>24957211What race is Pierce Brown? I want to make sure my slurs are correct when I ask him what's taking so long with red god
>>24961454So you've read 3 of his books, 4 if you To Green Angel Tower was split in half. You've got 20 more to go!
>>24961465TGAT was all one book for me
>>24961469Well there you go, you've read 3 books. You have plenty more Tad to go, and a lot more Osten Ard adventures too. Try The Heart of What Was Lost for example.
God give me some hope /lit/ to make it through another Christmas alone.
>>24960899He doesn't lmaooo, he's just a retard
>>24960269There's no hope though
>>24960269If you want pussy that badly just become a beta provider and look for run down 30+ women. They get quite desperate at that point.
>>24961452If you want pussy that badly literally just go fuck a hooker. You can buy 5 minute STD tests. Test her before going at it.
The sea wolf by Jack London
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>>24957124verdana because it was designed to be readable at small font sizes
Georgia is by far the best font for books. Berkeley Mono is the best programming / monospaced font
For me it's Palatino, Constantia or Garamond to write/read in.
>Sings Songs>Is a completely unknown race >Has a fairy wife>Can hold a demonic ring and shrink it>He doesn't give af>Doesn't fit in the story>Defies logicIs he Eru Illuvatar or Tolkien taking the piss? whatever he is reminds me of a Leprechaun that's based
>>24960641The story of Arda is just the story of the ancient history of our world.
>>24960077> Lovecraft influence in his comments about the roots of the Earth being "gnawed by nameless things".It’s Yggdrasil being poisoned by Nidhögg you dingus. He lived and breathed the sagas and Welsh and Norman myths. He’s mined it explicitly for creatures and names, places and stories.
>>24961236>being a war criminal before the concepts of war crimes are formulatedJesus Christ anon.
>>24958855>cottagecore that just wants to be left aloneWhat is this unrealistic fantasy doing in a fantasy novel?
>>24960641I also believe this. At least in some capacity. This shit doesn’t just pop out of nowhere
Actually a really good book, full of quotations and allusions to countless classical philosophers, poete and historians in his arguments. His understanding of sola scriptura also makes more sense, since he says an individual reading the Bible cannot draw rules from it until he has read it and studied it thoroughly, otherwise he will not understand context. Also to read exegesis by those who have since no man is infallible. He gives an example of people interpreting God being proof the Trinity, which he says is working backwards, presuming the point and then looking to validate it in scripture. He is still obviously a staunch Trinitarian of course I'd say his weakest point historically is dealing with the canon of scripture. He clearly loves Augustine but how he tries to address Catholic interpretation of Augustine on Scriptural canon (that without a centralized Church, there is no way to determine which books are canon), is less than satisfactory. Nevertheless I otherwise find him the most eloquent theologian I have read and I find him more convincing than Catholic theologians since he is an extremely clear thinker and obviously tried to approach the Bible "scientifically" and learned Hebrew and read the entire old testament in depth in Hebrew to convert Jews--no luck of course and like Luther he became incensed at that, if not so bloodthirsty Biggest problem with his argument today is evolution. Calvin asserts fideism but at the same time argues at length that scripture can be proven rationally as true, because that is what convicts those reject it. But these days it's not really possible to reconcile fideism with rational proofs, and most proponents of fideism basically use it as a way to bludgeon rational arguments, whereas Calvin says Christians should be educated enough to easily handle a rational debate with someone who denies God or the Bible.I doubt Calvin would be a Christian if he were alive today
>>24960337Calvin tries to change the meaning of the Bible through interpretation even more than the Catholics do, and personally instead of via quorum over 1500 years.Luther and his fellows at least try to follow along the lines of what Jesus was doing in spirit in the Gospel, get back to the basics and sweep away all the legalistic nonsense. Whereas, you can't have two Calvinists together in a room without them syllogizing up unrelated passages into some new 3rd derivative interpretation.
>>24960352Lutheranism existed purely as state churches, so of course it was unified. Calvinism was more or less unified until the 20th Century when gay marriage and female ordination became an issue. Baptists and such are not Calvinists, their pedigree comes from Anabaptists. Calvinism unanimously accepts infants baptism and holds communion to be actually be part of practice and involving the real, albeit spiritual only, presence of Christ in the bread and wine
>>24960370>has predestination of any sortI simply sleep.Maybe when its completely dropped, I will consider watching the 68 hour intro to Calvinism course I need to "correctly" interpret the Bible.But until you drop the scholastic tier derived nonsense, I will not listen to a word.
>>24960080This is such a great book
>>24960352>Biblehe folks these books are canon but those are literally heresy
Lmao
Many such cases unfortunately.
>>24959475Is this an actual surprise?
>>24959475Poetry is mental illness
>>24960156>Nabakov has his own sectionlol
There is a strong correlation between enjoying purple prose and underage girls.
What makes a song lyric compelling?
>>24960877the same that makes a line of poetry compelling
>>24960873It has to find a balance between being relatable for the listener while not too generic. Delivery is also important.
>>24960873There’s no such thing as a compelling song lyric, vocals are purely textural
>>24961215Insane take
>>24960877How would you analyze that song? I mean, other than Simon and Garfunkel wrote a sad song about a weird dream. What about the neon light? Ten thousand people? Voice and silence?
What books should I read in public to attract women?
I hate when broads ask me what I'm reading because it's always boring to them. They want it to be "The Mystical Misadventures of Lonthrop Niggerman" and presumably they want me to then talk about how surfing in California for two years after my startup failed caused me to rethink my priorities in life and start a more successful startup so that I am now very wealthy and can buy them a hat. However more usually the answer is "It's a terrible book on the early modern revival of classical skeptical discourse on the criterion. I thought it would be better because the subject and title are great, but it's actually an artifact of '90s American graduate students thinking that they can skim the surface of something interesting while saying 'Lacan' a few times and it instantly makes it a monograph." The least offensive answer I've been able to formalize when women ask me what I'm reading is "Oh haha it's boring philosophy stuff." Then they ask "Do you study philosophy?" and I say "Yes" and I can talk about something in general enough terms that they mistake it for California surfer wisdom and there's a nonzero chance they'll sit on my face. But I'd rather they not disturb my circles at all.
>>24953426well so enough she will become the subject of a dark smut herself with a muslim edward
>>24955675In the latin?
>>24953260Try reading Hogg or something similar.
>>24954437the chang gooner
>Ho, ho, ho Merry Christmas /lit/
>>2496074810 million UKROPS pigs. You got that right
https://youtu.be/-CQo1236Hbs?si=RS2XFyCnwfxtzLAO
>>24960714>I'ze red mein camp and schmeeet nigga>I'ze suckin all dem liberalist dicks nigga I'ze a nogocrat and a nogpublican >nigga I finna be dosto hard out here suckin dick n sheeeet I'ze political correct is what I'ze comin atchu wit duhawgYou make a made up holiday crystal clear for me then.
>>24959712>rambles about nonsense cause he is bored as fuck and Engels keeps giving him money so he doesn't need to work>ends up killing millions and millions Honestly? Based
>>24959937crypto-capitalist niggerface the wall
>active retcons before the first chapter is already finished>contradictions >plants -> sun -> animals -> humans>Genesis 2: lol jk humans first then plants then animals>God "rested" on seventh day, also God never rests cause omnipotent>Judas dies two completely different ways in Matthew vs Acts>repetitive as fuck>genealogies that go on for pages listing random nobodies that never come up again>redundant laws section of 600+ rules but half are just "don't do this specific thing" repeated 50 ways>"don't boil kid in mother's milk" mentioned three separate times>deus ex machina routinely intervenes in fucking everything except where it matters>need to win battle? God sends hornets or confuses enemy>need food? mana bread falls from skyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24961401My IQ is substantially greater than yours.Keep up the cope, though. Your jewish fairytale book does not come from God and will not save you.
>>24961404>My IQ is substantially greater than yours.Oh, all great and might IQ oracle!!! How many rotating shapes do you see?!?!?! How many word puzzle can you solve? Did you just say you solved a really really hard crossword and a Sodoku??!?!?!?! How may I worship at your altar and fountain of unfiltered insight?>>24961404>Your jewish fairytale book does not come from God and will not save you.>There is no salvation for you in the book of jewish fables.Your high IQ certainly doesn't give you any amount of originality.
>>24961412The bible is not the word of God. Jesus did not rise from the dead and is never coming back. Read this over and over until it sinks into that brain of yours.
>>24961418>Enjoy the devil's slave ship, midwit.Do you find it instructive that you chose to disagree with "midwit" and not being Satan's pawn?>Read this over and over until it sinks into that brain of yours.No. I will pray for you and stop responding. You are either too wounded to understand that the devil is using your wounds for his ends or you are cooperating with him, which is significantly more unfortunate (albeit maybe both which is quite sad as well).
>>24961435Satan does not exist, retard. Midwits do.The bible is not the word of God, whether spiritually or literally. Jesus did not rise from the dead and he's never coming back. You're genuinely behaving like a low IQ schizophrenic subhuman, it's pathetic.Angels and demons do not exist. If you don't understand this you have a profoundly low IQ.
