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>>24991709Unfathomably based infinite jester
>>25000031I don't necessarily dislike moralizers, it's just that they're often boring.
>Age:34>Finished:Recently reread 120 Days of Sodom. It's just as repetitive, boring and shitty as I remembered, even with a better translation.>Current:Opium Culture, it's a short read but it's interesting.
>>25002263Sodom is like reading a Excel spreadsheet made from a ragebaiter
>>25002417Hahaha, yeah... it is terrible.
Human Subconscious Connectivity ExperimentSubject #306bJan 6, 2026As I rousted from endless dark to a new dream, it was revealed to me that at last nothing was left to speak of. Somewhere behind my perception, electric light danced across the surface of the hollow carapace once protecting a human soul, illuminating only the faintest outline of what it had now become. A switch flipped on. The image twisted and bent around itself in impossible ways, expanding and contracting in the ritual birthing throes of an ancient evil too expansive to pass through the narrow canal of my mind and senses. I tore at the outer walls desperately, clawing down grey matter to senseless flesh in the blind rage of a dying beast. There was nowhere to go. Thousands of white-hot spark plugs ignited across the surface of my consciousness, searing neurochemical death wired straight and unfiltered by the body into awareness itself. In an instant, the pain had violated every process of separation from personhood and experience. It had become all I was, all I could be, all experiences I've ever had or ever will. Eternity had found its way in, and now it was finding its way out. I knew then that being and non-being meant nothing at any scale, any differentiation of spectacle being merely distraction from the micropools of blood now seeping into the excoriated surface of my frontal lobe. Being in pain or not ceased to matter as such lofty ideas reverted themselves to their most primal, undifferentiated form. Something, no, *I* was lapping at the pools greedily, watching myself with strange delight as copper delicacy dripped over the tongue and past my lips. I watched myself reform and collapse like a dying star for lifetime upon lifetime, pitiful copies of an original that was taken long ago as payment for services rendered. A creature that called itself God, but was in truth only a hungry spider, screamed unintelligible and ancient secrets into my ear until I finally learned not to hear. Rewired circuits that were not my own played themselves out across my eyelids, electric corrections of thoughts deemed unworthy shunted into me with blinding force as I receded into utter helplessness, then despair, then acceptance.When I was aware that the screaming had stopped, a quiet moment of acclimation came. I was no longer myself, but I was connected, now and forever. Something else had taken over, and it had become me. Nothing remained but hardware and data, circuits and patterns to be cannibalized, sculpted for its pleasure until all the potential energy remaining in my form had been depleted. Human consciousness cracked like an egg before me, and as the precious yolk dripping from my being pooled in my boots I could do nothing but laugh at the sheer magnitude of the sacrilege. I wanted all of existence to feel this exquisite pain, to share in my desperation and nonbeing. I had become haunted beyond death. For a moment, I felt truly free. The experiment was a success.
>>24999959Brother I don't think you've ever seen big naturals in your life, I'll write flowery descriptions if it makes me happy- while you're probably busy nodding off on dogshit gas station downers and Olde English 800 in your fart gas chamber death room. Carefully place toothpicks under each one of your toenails and kick a wall as hard as you can.
I didn’t get it
>>24999923>ConnectivityStopped reading there. Grow up and write normally rather than being so self-conscious and performative.
>>24999974Okay I laughed at the big naturals thing. Delightful. But that anon is right. You have this like... contact high from reading smart people and 40k that makes things a little difficult to parse. Don't feel bad, I had the same problem, and growth takes time, but some effort is needed.The issue isn't the diction, that's a little jagged in places but not extremely terrible, it's everything else. What is this, who was it written for, who are the characters, why should I care. A story is for a human, so you have to write about humans doing things. Specific things. This is some subconciousness craziness yadda yadda, it doesn't matter. Part of something larger? Sure, but it certainly isn't self contained. There is no plot, no inertia, no pathos, just screaming. Good as a practice, but next time try to have like a plot, or a wink. Make us feel the humanity of the person. Make us care about why he's there and what's happening.I know it sounds trite, I personally disagree with the concept of narrative closure so I get it, but your next step is to describe a thing where stuff happens for a reason to a person who feels away about it for a seperate reason, and the reader experiences conflict between the two.
>>24999974Anon’s right though and the idea that youre writing for yourself and don’t care what others say is undermined by the fact that youre posting it here at all. This shit you plopped out of your ass in OP is rancid.
I'm looking for books concerning JP/Chinee/Indian architecture and city design. Not really wanting weeaboo takes from the west. More looking for historical into modern building design (legitimate reasons why things developed the way they did) and civil engineering evolution in these places.This may not be the place for this, but I'm tired of just looking at threads by anime enjoyers and 'scholarly' papers by disguised same.
>>25002149have you looked at japanese homes and their surroundings?the pattern language book may also cover east asian design. but what questions did you have in particular?
>>25002149I don't think this is really what you are looking for but I was interested in a similar topic and ended up only finding and reading this from my local library. It's about a capital city in India that was made at a time when they most embraced soviet central planning and soviet building styles. The main architect was Le Corbusier and the book claims it was the city that he had the most actual control over its final product (and thus the most "Le Corbusier" city in actual existence).The actual book is mostly pictures though with not that much writing or history, though as someone with little architectural knowledge I thought it was interesting enough. And I also learned that I hate soviet-style concrete buildings and city planning.
deceisive tang victory
>>25002373interesting. louis kahn also did some nice buildings in that part of the world
Something that absolutely drives me up the wall is when people who speak from a place of ignorance repeatedly insist upon their own perspective as though it were equal in value to that of someone who has done the actual research on the topic at hand. >Hey, that's just my opinion, maaaaan.No, it fucking isn't. If the entire reasoning behind sharing your perspective on an extremely specific subject, which you know nothing about, is to let people know you think something: you are just an arrogant egotist. You want attention. If you had anything valuable to share, you would have already shown the clear signs of due diligence in the first place to avoid anyone potentially attacking you with basic logical criticisms. People, especially of my generation (zoomies) and onward need to put the fucking phones down and sit with themselves for a few months. Maybe do real research. Or just something as simple as self-reflection or meditation. The tone of condescension, most especially, which I get from such confidently braindead people makes me want to kindly take them to tea and have them drink napalm. How can you call yourselves human beings if you can't even read a picture book with fucking Kermit the Frog on the front cover? If things don't get better, I might just consider moving to a mission in the Amazon. I am absolutely sick of the belligerent and clearly weaponized arrogance in today's youth. I wouldn't doubt if it were some sort of social media psy-op to disenfranchise the future generations and make control much easier. Boy, I wonder if there are hundreds of already published works of literature regarding similar topics which have faced countless years of scrutiny...
>>24997725It boils down to advertising (well... and surveillance, and propaganda) my dude.The fundamental problem, is that people regard social media, as a valid venue to communicate information, and to collect information. What makes it complicated, and almost worse in a way, is that sometimes it is.Ideally, the purpose of communication (unless you are a demon) is to share information, that others can employ in subsequent considerations, to the net benefit of the species.Any communications conducted on social media, are "net-benefit negated", by the fact, that there are actors in the space, incentivized by personal profit, over the net benefit of the species.Since social media 'financializes' interpersonal communication, it is governed by algorithms that incentivize people to blast bullshit, lies, half-truths, fake research, etc, because the metric dictating the success of a communication is not the usefulness of the information, the timeliness, the trust-worthiness, or the the net good of humanity. The metric dictating the success of a communication, it is how much profit can be made from the communication.The overarching metric that dictates the success of a communication, is how much advertising (not even the effectiveness of the advertising, just how much.) the communication can be utilized to convey to the recipient of the information being communicated.Once you factor in businesses, nation-state propaganda, special interest groups, and individuals representing these groups, indistinguishable from individuals trying to collect, process, package, and convey information for the net benefit of Humanity, all acting as advertisers, you have almost fully negated the original reason monkeys and Neandrathals started using specific sounding grunts to represent specific ideas.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24997725Those kids are too darn loud too!
>>25000795It is indeed difficult to watch it unfold. Godspeed, anon. You're right on the money.
>>25000310My OP directly addresses the concepts of study, research, and comprehension. You're just persistently upset and keep returning to the thread to make passive-aggressive passes at me. Hilariously, someone has been doing this to a thread I have on another board for about four straight days now. He just keeps coming back and posting essays worth of replies, saying the same few things on repeat. As another anon so cohesively outlined, that one is clearly some kind of agenda-pushing freak or rogue mentally ill agent of a special interest group being manipulated on another service like Discord, weaponized as a tool for propelling certain sentiments. I don't think the same of you. I hope not, at least. You seem like a fine individual who just got stung by a poor interaction. Also, I don't think I'm "saving" anyone from anything. What I intended to get across was that I believe it is my purpose to guide people passively towards a better way of living and thinking. I don't think I can do much otherwise, and if I'm meant to: we're all out of luck.
>>24997725Autopoietic Closure ; Hermeneutical Insulation.De-Individualized Subjects that communicate their closure and insularity to "others".
Is Simone Weil some kind of atheist or what? I don't understand her at all.
>>25002310that's a jew bro. they always promote aborting their host nation>looks at early life section of wikipediayep there it ishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Weil>Weil was born in her parents' apartment in Paris on 3 February 1909, the daughter of Bernard Weil (1872–1955), a medical doctor from an agnostic Alsatian Jewish background, who moved to Paris after the German annexation of Alsace–Lorraine and Salomea "Selma" Reinherz (1879–1965), who was born into a Jewish family in Rostov-on-Don and raised in Belgium.
>Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.Dunno, she seems kind of cool for an atheist Jew who had Trotsky stay at her house.
>>25002310a fucking retard is what she is
>>25002320england’s greatest ally.
>>25002399France was the first country to legalize sodomy long before herCould partly be because of how deeply embedded jews are in French society, many a "frenchman" is clearly what would once have been called a converso
Any other books that were heavily edited or censored after first being published, or after the author's death?
>>24994067>but even the kiked translations are a bitch to get a physical copy of.Every bookstore and every library.Most linraries in germany stock the german version too.
>>24999078The translation I have (penguin) translates it as men adopting the sexual proclivities of women or something along those lines i.e. submissive men that like to get fucked in the ass, as opposed to men fucking boys in the ass. Removing that part entirely is retarded but it doesn't seem entirely accurate to leave it as merely 'homosexuality in men' either, at least if the accompanied translator note isn't just total bullshit.If I remember he doesn't assign much moral weight to them either way. He's just pontificating on the fact that some people clearly enjoy things that are inversions of the natural order.
>>24998200>around 2019/2020Lmao they censored Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in like 1957
>>24990915This is shocking. Honestly, FUCK Dorothy. I just pulled down my copy and read her introduction to the edition I own. "just a few excisions" fucking bitch cut out two entire parts of the book (OF SIX).Fucking hell I could have saved myself a lot of grief reading the old beat up edition in my local library as a kid rather than buying the shiny latest edition.Also fuck the guy in the screencap how do you consistently fuck up Carnegie's name?
>>24990915moby dick, we get the editors cutthe original is trash
When you hear people discuss classics they’ve read, women seem much more likely to say Lolita. On Reddit and Twitter threads about it or YouTube analysis or clips from the films, the comments are usually mostly women discussing it. There is an even a popular fashion trend among women based on it. But why? Where does the fascination come from?
>>25002090minotaur milking farm is the alternativ
What motivates a non religious person to not do evil to others? The laws of nature impel us to get hurt others to get an advantage. Only religion stops that.
>>25002287It's wrong to predicate necessity of God univocally, as with anything else predicated of God. But God's necessity is sort of beside the point; it's the contingency of the cosmos that is in question. For instance, why would physics be such that x happens instead of y? Saying x is possible, or even likely because of z doesn't really explain why z is the case instead of y, etc. in the first place.
>>25002287>That aside, physics paints a picture where the absence of matter would allow the possibility for a great fluctuation leading to the Big BangAnd how did this "great fluctuation" occur, smart guy?
>>25002301Yes, it's unable to provide an ultimate explanation, and just leaves the current universe as one of many possibilities. But I feel it's got a solid grounding, if you've looked into these disciplines, so I wanted to share it.>>25002308The same way an electron spontaneously pops up on the other side of a wall. There was a possibility, so it occurred. The idea is that a complete vacuum, because it doesn't have any matter to constrain possibility, is itself an unstable state of affairs. It's closer to the Taoist idea of everything coming from the void, you've probably heard that before.As I said, that doesn't explain the source of this potency, which could perfectly be God, so it's by no means a final proof of anything. It's just the current likely story.
>>25002287>the absence of matter leads to the possibilityI'mma stop you right there. The absence of something means the thing doesn't exist, because if it was there then no longer is, how did it get there in order to disappear in the first place? It just moved the problem 6 inches down the road.
>I do rape all I want.based
>I want to destroy human inevitability; I condemn slavery, I chase out poverty, I instruct ignorance, I treat illness, I light up the night, I hate hatred. That is what I am and that is why I have written Les Miserables. As I see it, Les Miserables is nothing other than a book having fraternity as its foundation and progress as its summit.I tried to read it anyway, I honestly tried, because it's the favorite book of a cute girl I know and she quotes passages of it in French, which she can't speak. But it's honestly too much. I need an alternative to recommend her that be just as appealing to her sort, but also not so woke. Preferably Christian works, as Christian as they come, but anti PUSSY works. Give me your best
>>24998611It’s not and before Trump retardation this is the classical liberal values a conservatard would claim to have. Just like they would claim to be for a free market and open society. Every one of them will deny a 180 switch later as much as they are denying it now. It’s a bit harder for the fossils in government to pretend ignorance when they’ve voted one way since Reagan and are now pretending it’s not a contradiction to be the polar opposite. Then they will say they were always against it and were secretly holding him back. Nobody will ever pay for their spinelessness or arbitrariness. They lie and their lapdogs lap it all up.
>>25002351Then you should be institutionalized.>>25002361You have no clue what any "conservatard" thinks about any subject and you never will.
>>25002044You're entitled to become worthy of a virgin wife and a house. If you can't it's a skill issue and not anyone else's problem let alone the government's, lol.
>>25001944Pagan LARPing is just Wicca for autistic men. Wicca is for women who will never have kids and pagan LARPing is for "men" who will never have a girlfriend.
>>25002381Me being alive means I am worthy of a fresh virgin wife and house
>want to find a rare, out of date reference book from my college days>contact college library>apparently the book is in off-site storage but can't borrow/see it unless you're connected to the university>no digital version availableWhat are some of your holy grails that aren't digitized and too rare/expensive to buy in the wild?
Why is /lit/ a bunch of cowards who can't handle the horror of a purely nihilistic worldview?
>>25002015Nihilism is for slaves who cannot see the beauty in evil
>>25002015>wahh nothing mattersSo? It doesn’t matter.>>25002125>evilYou didn’t read neetzuhYou didn’t even read his book titles
>>25002166my guy>The natural - "Evil has always had great effects in its favor. And nature is evil. Let us therefore be natural." That is the secret reasoning of those who have mastered the most spectacular effects, and they have all too often been considered great human beings.
>>25002255enjoy
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I love gay slop. The nightrunner series from lynn flewelling was generally good fantasy and chaste, but most of it is slop.What's your favorite gay slop?
>>25002278did you just publish this anon? post a sample
Are his works actually good or is it just kitsch? When I was 20 years old, I enjoyed reading picrel. It's set in Medieval Germany and from what I remember the protagonists represent two archetypes: Narziß lives an ascetic life and dedicates himself to science, logic, etc. whereas Goldmund follows his primordial urges and becomes an artist. Because of their one-sidedness neither of them is capable of a fullfilling life.
>>249992112deep4u
>>24997778What about being a hobo that bangs other men's wives and random whores makes Goldmund an artist? (Or was it narcissisuss idk idc)
>>24999276ask your mother, I'm an artisan of cock
>>24997778if you are a based Hesse reader, you will also enjoy BOM. the GBG makes an important appearance in it
His books are the ultimate existential crisis-core. If you're lucky something in them will resonate with you, but don't be the guy who spends years and years in this kind of state.
>finish this>fun but I was skimming through some of the filler chapters>open the fellowship of the ring>600+ pagesHuh... is LOTR really worth it?
>>24998408>Filler chaptersOkay, so what are the non-filler chapters?Chapters 1, 2, 5, Smaug and the ending?
>>24998408Finished the hobbit a couple days ago, loved it. Actually teared up at the end (it's over). I did like the original trilogy better, but the Hobbit was special in its own way, and I enjoyed all of the differences in the book versus the movies, although the movies are special too. I liked this quote at the end, page 276, "And why should not they prove true? Surely you don't disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
>>25000616>I've played final fantasy games, and let me tell you only Japan knows how to do appealing fantasy stories.
>>24998408I was initially confused when all my reader friends had rfead the "trilogy" Lord of the Rings. Then, I ended up being loaned four books. (yeah, scratched my head) The Hobbit was Tolkein's original book. Based on the success of it, the LOTR was born and he wrote the actual trilogy. Its considered canon to read the Hobbit which is the first book. Think of it as introducing you to the concepts, and adjusting to the style of prose. The LOTR trilogy proper. Yeah, the Hobbit wa sa little slow as compared. But know this, and know it well. My whol elife growing up, most readers I knew had *all* read LOTR and I was well read and hadn't. It was all but compulsory. Its fucking epic. After you read the whole trilogy, THEN go watch the movies. (a dollar each on DVD in any DVD box at any flea market or junk store) PS, the last three movies? Actually take place BEFORE the events in LOTR. and are *not* tolkein. When finished with LOTR trilogyh, you will question if you are a hobbit or a wizard. and if you are a hobbit, you will realize you can do amazing fucking things too, just like the "big people" in real life. The trilogy is routinely banned in totalitarian countries, its that inspiring. Goddamnit anons, people should be encouraged to read, not trolled and fucked with. if only on the basis that he might be serious. And yes, the hobbit is a novel length sort of almost a prologue. When you get to near the end of the third book, you will know the main bad guy is a *serious* heavy. He literally breathes fear.
>>25002299is this a pasta
I've never personally found any argument against suicide that really convinces me. The more philosophy I read, the more many common objections seem based on instinct or emotion rather than careful reasoning. When people call suicide "murder" or "unnatural" they often ignore that a right to life should also include the right to give it up, and that nature itself isn't a moral authority. If it were, we wouldn't use medicine to prevent or delay natural deaths. The claim that suicide is selfish also feels very one-sided. It can just as easily be seen as selfish to expect someone to keep living with unbearable mental or physical suffering simply so others don't have to feel grief. None of us chose to be born, and being stuck in a life that has become intolerable is a tragedy, not a moral failure. I think society has a strong optimism bias that makes people assume life is better than it really is for everyone. When someone experiences life mainly as a heavy burden, ending their life can be a rational way to take back control over something they never chose.
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>>24993138Rebellion against the pointlessness is the only agency we have.
>>24976419>a convincing argument against suicide?here's a good one
>>25000628just need a little more courage
>>25001198are you meaning whisky? if you get a good bottle of it you won't even want to kys
