Be real with me, I haven't read any of their literature, but the website for the local lodge in my area says they're all about personal development, charity, and friendship That sounds pretty nice, honestly, and I think all their symbolism is really interesting. If I join the Freemasons, will I go to hell? That's what I've been told. What's so bad about joining them? What literature should I read that exposed them for being devil worshippers?
>>24784739Horrendous bait, but unironically this is what masons believe which shows how fucking retarded they all are. Guess it's the jew gene
>>24784712Cut back on masturbation while you're smoking glass anon. For a while you'll feel like you're immortal. It's like being on glass but also being aware of the time.
>>24784736The absolute latest is 1583 based on the grand lodge No. 1 manuscript, but I find the Regius Poem compelling enough evidence to say the Free Masons were around at least since the middle of the 1400s. It doesn't have all of the later features of Free Masonry, but it does have the Egyptian LARP and the occultism, the esotericism, and brushes with Luciferianism.
>>24784854Literally the Bibble says that Jesus is the Lightbringer though?
>>24777123What an insane, knee-jerk comment
All there is is art which means there's nothing for art to even mean. It literally peaked in the caves of Europe 30,000 years ago. The only last wonder left in the world is the paranormal so I would like to write solely about High Strangeness in one last vainglorious attempt at writing anything worth reading as we enter the worst and possibly last period of humanity. I'm literally schizo and the paranormal is literally real (but not for everybody).
Yea man i never really thought of that (because my thoughts are relatively coherent)
>>24783593The paranormal is the grime on perceptual reality. Pretty meaningless itself. What is there for me out there?
>>24783590>art peaked in cave paintingsArt Peaked in internet porn.
Bump
by Pynchon, so I imagine someone here is actually reading it, and not just faking an opinion based on hearsay or a glance at paragraph one.After a slow opening few pages, I'm getting into the good stuff - Germans versus Italians in the depresion era, radioactive cheese substitute, the origins of the FBI. It doesn't go for extended description, but it's funny, and the metaphors are pointed in cool directions.
>>24785375It's cool man. I don't think capter one has that much to offer, and the Hicks / Boynt dynamic isn't really there yet. Chapter three is the real kickoff
>>24785379The number of times I've been seven lines deep into dialogue and thinking "who in the fuck is even talking right now" has happened twice in the first 15 pages. Take the opening of chapter 2. Hicks and Skeety arrive at the bomb site. Cool. Now we hop right into chatter at a police outpost--some attribution to say who the hell it is that's saying what would be helpful.
>>24785397Not giving the retarded probably MPD captain a name was probably a direct choice, and I'm guessing it's Hicks calling out the German engineering (damn, they make good ordinance, man)
>>24785397Agreed. Bringing in Skeet doesn't work, and only messes up the clarity of unattributed dialogue - because it should be that Boynt is the boss and smart guy, with Hicks making futile attempts to match his sallies, but then the dynamic between Hicks and the kid is so different that in the absence of clear signalling it's hard to follow the voices
"A big ape with a light touch. The light touch fools women into thinking heās sensitive, which he isnāt."Take notes, you brutes.
Why's there so little Mathematical Fiction, when Science Fiction is so big?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6a7SW8wZA
>>24784023What is this nerd shit about?
>>24784023Because 'science' fiction has literally nothing to do with science. If it did it would be boring as fuck
>>24785195Retardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction
https://www.quantamagazine.org/which-computational-universe-do-we-live-in-20220418/>Algorithmica>In this world, the most natural computational questions are all easy, which makes cryptography impossible. Here, the set of problems with efficient solutions ā a set called P ā doesnāt just contain the problems weāve already figured out how to solve. It also includes all the problems in another set called NP, which consists of the problems for which itās easy to check a proposed solution if someone hands it to you.>Heuristica>In this world, there are problems in NP that arenāt easy to solve, but every problem in NP is easy āon average,ā meaning it can be solved efficiently in most cases. For example, if weāre in Heuristica, then there exists an efficient suitcase-packing algorithm that nearly always succeeds, but that might fail for a few rare combinations of suitcases and items to pack. (These fast and usually successful algorithms are commonly called āheuristics.ā)>Pessiland>This is the worst of all possible worlds. In Pessiland, some problems in NP are hard even on average. For these problems, any efficient algorithm will fail not just occasionally but often. Yet these hard problems are not of a kind that is useful for hiding secret information.>Minicrypt>In this world, some problems in NP are hard on average, and this hardness is enough to build the most fundamental building block of cryptography: a āone-way function,ā which is a function that can be carried out efficiently but canāt be reversed efficiently. Cryptographers have shown that secure cryptography requires one-way functions. And if we have them, we get an array of cryptographic goodies, such as secret key encryption, digital signatures and pseudorandom number generators.>CryptomaniaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24776932It's not racist in content but in essence. "Evil aliens invading" and "ancestral curses" are just niggers invading and niggers passing on their shit genetics.
I finished Vampire Hunter D vol 2 Raiser of Gales. It was alright. I think I liked the first one more. This was set in a small rural town in the Frontier again but didn't go as much into the world as history as vol 1.I will move on now to Demon Deathchase, it is the one the Bloodlust movie is based on. After I probably will stop the series there and move to some other works after it.
>>24783703I think weāve gone down on scariness the last 20 years. A hesitation to offend doesnāt help. Adjusting for sensitivities and self censorship is killing the online space. But sure if you go back to Poe and Stoker itās not exactly hair raising anymore, itās so proper itās almost prissy. I guess that makes the peak horror era somewhere between the 50s to 90s. Paperback horror era in full swing. Magazines still existed and published weird writing. Some people came in from the zine and underground sphere. The early internet had no filters compared to now, usenets distributed nature made it fucking impossible to kill. Early hosts didnāt give a fuck.
>>24785447Which ones are some of your favourites?
>>24776699Based >>24776714You are retarded. Ligotti has read literally EVERYTHING in his middle, read his interviews. He said that only NOW he doesn't reads novels. But still based of him for not reading novels. >also not separating art from the artist
>used to play a lot of video games>got bored and stopped>used to watch a lot of movies>got bored and stopped>used to listen to a lot of music>got bored and stopped>used to read a lot of booms>got bored and stoppedWhat now?
>>24784293Ur just traumatized u fuckin faggot ā go get EMDR and shit
>>24783367I believe in Nietzscheās dictum that the only way to enjoy life is by risking it. Have you tried speeding?
>>24784453Target Language
>>24783367Agreed with vidya. Was never into movies or music to begin with.I liked anime for a bit, but that is completely exhausted too now.Actually stoked to return to books and serious reading.
>>24784293>I don't drink or do any drugs eitherfound your problem
Is atheism more about not wanting to believe in God than about actual evidence?
>>24784628"Thou shalt not kill" is literally one of the ten commandments, are you stupid?The object of killing is irrelevant to it.
>>24784710>Atheism is confronting hard realityLol
>>2478521260 years ago nobody would care if a grown man made comments about a 25 year old girlToday people will destroy his life over it
>>24785365>The object of killing is irrelevant to it.So we shouldn't kill animals or insects either?
>>24785365Wrong, the object of killing does matter. YHWH ordered the Isrealites to massacre the Caananites as a prerequisite for achieving the promised land. Saul lost his divine blessing when he failed to carry out the genocide of the Amalekites. Elijah and Elisha were directly responsible for dozens (if not hundreds!) of deaths between them in God's name. War and conquest, especially as the chosen people, is clearly a justified reason, as is purging heresy.
Why does every Camus thread on /lit/ immediately devolve into shitposting?
>>24785083
>>24785127>>24785130I don't remember his exact order but he did to his credit game this out. There will never be any philosophical truths to provide what you're truly looking for, even if you stumble upon one the rest of the world will always be uncaring. He even thought that it didn't matter whether you went with random chance or predetermination, neither side has produced anything but contradictions. Even if you reach a theoretical limit you still have to have a practical basis, etc. So if you follow Camus then he is basically tossing his Le Absurdist condition onto you to deal with. He's also of the opinion it may not matter how much you rebel against it since he thought suicide was meaningless. If you try to communicate this to anyone else in order to start a meaning wave then all you do it transfer the condition so you're not going to start a new philosophical way of life but really just tell someone rebellion might be futile beyond exploring contradictions and maybe offering you some happiness. Even if you had the perfect notion then you still have to deal with permanent philosophical ambiguity. >outcomes>most people won't make it to this point>most that do won't be able to surmount all the hurdles>for those that do there might be an admission that it won't matter if they clear all the hurdles>for most who clear all of them the result is a highly vetted existential thinker, the primary reason Camus was unable to avoid the term. Think legitimate authenticity, ability to create value, define life purpose on individual terms, etc.>for the few who clear all of them but recognize all facets of his argument there is just a paradox that if solved could destroy all previous philosophical speculation but solving it might not do much for you and no one has accomplished it in a lifetime. >there are no transfers. >Good Luck champ, Le Absurd awaits!
>>24785194So what you're basically saying is you have no source for that claim? I've seen some people suggest he would have likely hit the world with a final "complete" philosophical work had he lived, since he died so relatively young, but that is all speculation.>for the few who clear all of them but recognize all facets of his argument there is just a paradox that if solved could destroy all previous philosophical speculation but solving it might not do much for you and no one has accomplished it in a lifetime.One of the basic premises is that it's unsolvable. And it would be a paradox more for science to solve rather than philosophy. But Camus is saying it can never happen, no matter how hard we push. And can you say he's wrong? Our understanding of the universe can keep increasing without end, it will never be complete. The veil of mystery will simply shift further. We will never "understand" everything. We are limited beings dealing with infinities.
>No, I am not an existentialist. (I clearly am)>No, I am not a philosopher. (I clearly am)>No, I do not have an ideology. (I clearly have one)What the fuck was his problem?
name ā11 threads that don't immediately devolve into shitposting i dare you
What does this board think of her?
>>24785283For some, that's the charm of it. Though I will be the first to admit that Jewesses' feet are not everybody's cup of tea.
>>24785288You're telling me there are people who find fat ankles attractive? I don't believe you.
>>24785294It's about the whole picture, baby. I would definitely stick Honor's in my mouth as I look up to her face in utter humiliation, if you catch my drift.
>>24785304There's nothing necessarily humiliating about sucking a woman's toes, especially not a beautiful woman's beautiful toes, but I can see that sucking on the ugly feet of this ugly goblin would be pretty humiliating.
>>24785294I love cankles, hairy feet and toes, hairy legs, strong calves, etc. Fuck this nepo bitch though.
Is LOTR anything more than a trip to candy mountain or what? I never read the book or watched the movies.
>>24784909like Shrek?
>>24784910that is rather satirical, or at least comedically inverted, not plain jane.
The quest to mount doom definitely drives the plot like you would expect, but LotR is a very 'big' book, and ultimately the quest is the tip of the ice-berg. The one ring, for example, is a truly clever plot and thematic device, the extent of which took more than one read through for me to fully understand. But I'm a retard, so idk.
>>24784943The One Cock Ring
>>24784905what is the literary equivalent of the character dynamic between Charlie and the two demon unicorns
Books on how to stop being a narcissist?
you are not a narcissist, you've been convinced by a world that wishes to see you brought low that pride, superiority, confidence and open virility are evil traits
>>24784511>Lasch>Zizek>Sadly, Porn.
>>24785188if you are legitimately "superior" in terms of demonstrable achievement then you are not a narcissist. narcissism is about delusion. secret king complex etc
>>24785186Who's decide who's intelligent or not?
>>24784511If you were a narc you'd be claiming you aren't one.
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24781434That is a deliberate style choice. Like the banging of a gavel or the formulation of a legal document. It's almost like a telegram message, very mechanical and cold, reflected both in the weather/atmosphere of the scene and the contents of it (pertaining to a court of law). It's meant to sketch an unpleasant scene, a scene that makes you uneasy and on edge against the injustices about to unfold.
>>24783888He does have a particular style, but once you get into it, there is no one better. I like the whole first few pages of A Tale of Two Cities, but just consider this little excerpt:France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
>>24784045>very mechanical and coldmy kind of literature
>>24784049this is just the style of the time, which we generously do not formally refer to as 'deliberately embarrassing'
I use a dictionary when I encounter words I dont know, which the participants didnt do. So that alone makes me a better reader than these chucklefuck pinko commies.
>"Would you still love me if I was a bug?">"No."
>>24782254Who the fuck cares about The Metamorphosis, when brilliant novels like The Trial and The Castle were never finished!Oh, how I wish Kafka lived to be an old man...he absolutely would've been discovered in the literary world in his lifetime due to Max Brod's efforts.Although...if Kafka were elderly, he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...
>>24784164>he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...also he could have turned into a bug
>>24784145No I mean the 2000s as a century
>>24784355just say the 21st century, youll avoid all confusion
>>24783555>Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back.I wish I had wings too
>God does not exist, He is being-itself.Is he right?
>>24784925clive was a P.I.M.P.
>>24784724If heās right then thereās simply no need to trouble yourself with God.It would be impossible to know God, God would have no reason to prefer some things over others (morality), there would be no existence outside of the bounds of being. There is a way in which this is the only sense in which an all powerful God could possibly be. Itās just a shame for religions that this God warrants no worship or even consideration.I donāt think it solves anything though, ābeingā and āexistenceā are different but not that different, both are categories of the human mind
>ontotheologyno thanks
>>24784724>prots take 700 years to end up reinventing thomist ontologygrim
>>24784724Sounds like massive cope.
Plato vs three Marxes. Who would win in a fistfight?I think Plato takes it.
>>24784331>wrestling champion vs three dysgenic early industrial age bumsHow is this even a question?
Plato takes him down the cave and shows him who's boss. Then Marx writes a long whiny book about being bullied and communism is born
