What did I think?
>>24949615You know why.>he named (((them)))
>>24947559This is not a black space.
>>24947736Green eggs and han only used 50 words
>>24948764"how the grinch ruined christmas" sounds a lot more gay
>>24951693"How the Grinch violated the NAP"
The deepest thinker on the left (Hegel scholar) Vs the deepest thinker on the right (Nietzsche scholar)... A debate between these two would be priceless
>>24951283More likely alt-right or NeoNazi based on that post. Russia hates NATO for encroaching in the east but neonazis obviously also hate NATO because its supposed to keep Germany down and unarmed and keep Nazism from reemerging.
>>24951303Even if Germany left EU and NATO nothing would change there, for Germans to become Nazi they would need a Nazi government in power for decades which isn't happening just because you leave international unions, same reason Germans didn't become liberals after WW2 (many said Hitler dindu nuffin and for Poles to give back territory to Germany even after the war), the children of WW2 generation became liberal, so in the same way the children of those liberals would have to be brought in a Nazi regime to become Nazi.
>>24951331I don't even like the Germans the best, I prefer the French. I know THEY could rule Europe if left to their own devices. A French Empire would probably be superior to the EU.
>>24932734a guy that dated literal models, vs a closoted homosexual idealist
>>24932734Is there any deep contemporary thinker that is neither a communist wrapped in 20 layers of theory jargon nor a fascist shill for the PayPal mafia?
I write for illiterates.
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>>24950850Kek.
>>24950803ok, John Green.
>>24950803This is unironically what MrBeast does.
>>24951675>MrBeastMrBeast makes videos, retard.
I want to read old European myths such as Irish, Swedish or Russians. Is there any infography listing them all so I can go looking for translations? Poetry preferable
>>24951677>I want to read old European myths such as Irish, Swedish or Russians.There's a reason why when it comes to European mythology the Greeks are the ones that get all the attention. Ancient European societies were largely oral based and few of them had writing. So the only thing you'll find for other European myths like Celts, Norse, or Slavs is some heavily edited folktale written by a Christian Monk centuries after they've converted.
>>24951690>some heavily edited folktale written by a Christian MonkYes, I want that regardless
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24948012All you can really do is either lie to her in agreement or point out that her moral system is flawed. Both are undesirable.
>>24948020You're right. His problem is that he's a fedora tipping atheist who doesn't believe in an objective morality.
>>24948036She doesn't kill any. She gets her husband to do it. Thus men are evil and the patriarchy should be dismantled. This is why the world is so awful: men run it and not women.
>>24948395That's because it means the women can get up to hoe shit on social media without the guy ever knowing.
>>24950424If you ask for a date straight away you'll never get anywhere. You have to prove to the woman you aren't weird or a creep first. Only a desperate woman will agree to a date straight away.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>249464534channite reading the Atlantic as an attempt to make himself "serious" politically after decades of semi-anonymously denigrating niggers and muzzies online. He realizes at the age of 30 (or higher!) that Jewish supremacy is the realization of his infantile racial holy war fantasies.Is there anything gayer than a wignat becoming a YIMBY? Most people would respect you more if you remained a stormfag. Every single one of you ends up looking like a small-souled pederast (see Richard Hanania).
>>24950864>if you read a magazine you agree with everything it publishes
>>24950900Checked. My post does not claim or even suggest this thougheverbeit.
>>24950967>My post does not suggest this Yes it does
>>24950967>thougheverbeitkys
If you identify yourself by reading something that makes you appear smart, you are not a reader. You are a poseur. Especially if what you read is only chosen because it's been chosen for you by a consensus of "academics" and "critics" who couldn't hack into the sciences. Literary studies and English departments are by far the least intellectually rigorous on a university campus.
>stonerHere's your (You). Now leave.
>>24950282>melty continuesLol, lmfao even
I can't help but notice all but two are post-modern. Postmodern lit is truly garbage.
>>24949865>poseurkekgood bait
comics reign supreme
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24949550Chesterton is the best novelist of the 20th century.
>>24946217this movie is garbage, it's like antifa's wet dream
>>24946217it's a caricature of all the right-left discourseSimpsons level stupidity and characters
>>24946229The meter's all over the place.Doesn't scan.
>>24949387PTA has said he used Vineland as inspiration for the movie.
Apologize.
>>24951127tldr
>>24950600To his credit Kerouac was a Republican chud who hated his fans and most of the other Beat writers too
>>24950358he gets boiled down to the adventure roadtrip guy but he was in a mission in search of God. i get it. modernity is gay and stifling. agree with the other comment saying he was teeming with soul. love the starry-eyed christianism. it's romantic and intoxicating.>burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop>>24950634>After reading a bit mor of burroughs i realized hes a bit of a one-trick ponyhappened to me too, anon. he's still great tho.
>>24950358God bless.
im reading dharma bums right now and have read atop an underwood and on the road. i like kerouac and will continue to enjoy his works
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.
modern man in search of a soul
>>24951656complete works vol 9
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24950552For most of them yes. And if this were true then I'm not really sure what the Demiurge or the adoption of instrumental reason as a slave to the passions does wrong. Afterall, being is hierarchical, by necessity, but not teleological, and ascent seems to merely be a sort of destruction, a canceling out.But this is the old issue of being unable to distinguish divine, angelic, and human (discursive) knowing, so that God must be beyond thought in order to avoid multiplicity, and is so rendered sterile and in a sense powerless. But then on the other hand God cannot lack what creatures possess (a point Plotinus makes for the Intellect and One, but then doesn't really follow up fully IMO). The distinction that seems to be missing is that things that are many in creatures are absolutely one in God, but known as many to us. They and the distinction between essence and energies, which does not imply multiplicity.
>>24949807Would the higher, benevolent source of reality punch the small, dumb guy? That wouldn't be very benevolent.
>>24950587the problem is that in neoplatonism the monad cannot be understood or known or even thought about
>>24950052Read up on emanationism and Plato's view on the demiurge. Plotinus critiques the gnostics for this and their cosmogony. But the gnostics do have their gems.
>>24949883>Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world/thread
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.
>>24950487Does a magical unicorn inside the sun exist?
>>24951442It does. You just mentioned it, goofy.
>>24950487Nonexistence exists as a metaphysical form. All the things that don't exist are that way because they conform to the form of nonexistence.
>>24950487>How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist?There are pretty much no things that by their own definition don't exist. If we want to be nitpicky, let's go all the way.
>>24951455So everything I mention comes into existence, and thus it is correct to say it exists? So, what if I ask if non-existence exists? According to you, since I mentioned it, it must exist.
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
>>24878110Not op.I think we would get along.
>>24946278To prevent prior clashing, I immediately imagined these birdfolk living on floating cities like in bioshock infinite. I know you specified they're nomads but I struggle to wrap my head around how you plan for a nomadic culture broken into factions to put up a fight against the organized armies of humanity. Anyway, I think putting them in that unreachable realm solves the problem of no prior clashing, and perfectly sets up for war resulting of humanity's advancements in aviation- which lines up with the late 1800s period you mentioned. Humanity's rigid, but high firepower flying machines vs the birdfolks natural affinity for airborne combat sounds like a setup for some really cool fights. This is just what popped in my head when reading what you wrote.
>>24949430I see your point, but the mobility offered by a natural ability to fly would make it much easier for such a species to move between settlements. I planned to have them live in the mountains so far (so they can make use of the third dimension) and live off of pastoralism and hunting, since watching over livestock is much easier from the air, particularly if you can just slash wolves or similar predators to death with your claws. To offset this, their numbers will be low and pneumatized skeletons will give them a massive durability disadvantage against humans in close quarters, which makes them less suited for settling (or attacking) large settlements in the plains. Human warfare against them would mostly be tunneling to negate their maneuvering space and artillery to shell their settlements from afar, while the birdfolk would essentially be an airborne guerilla and small raider packs - think of it like the Taliban in the 80s and later on, but winged - and to make up for them lagging behind in tech, you can even add in another human faction supplying them with theirs, if we stick to the Afghanistan example. Not making humanity a monolith working in unison to cull the fowl definitely will be high on my agenda.When it comes to the earliest aviation, you shouldn't be thinking of biplanes and triplanes with fixed machine guns and dashing Red Baron types immediately, but rather aircraft like the Blériot XI, Etrich Taube or the various serial craft of the Wright company. These, alongside airships and balloons will be absolute maximum the human pilots can muster at the beginning of the story, and woefully inferior to the flight performance of the adversaries. But the point is that human tech can mature and develop, and evolution cannot, making it a race against time for the birdfolk to win or at least force a draw before the tech can mature.
>>24868365What do you need to consider when including artificial races like golems, homunculi, etc.?
>>24951559>Who made them?>Are they still being created in the present?>What is/was their purpose?>Are they mass-produced or crafted individually? How much variation there is? Are newer/older models better?>How likely they are to rebel or function not as expected? How does this typically manifest?>Do they have souls? If yes, does the soul just appear or is a soul a necessary ingredient to make them?>Can they reproduce themselves?>Do their bodies heal on their own? Or can they do their own maintenance?>Are they mortal?>Do they have any unusual physiological needs? (Drinking blood, charging with electricity, etc.?) How does this alter their life in the society?>Do they have any unusual physiological afflictions? (Falling apart from rust, etc.?)>Did their maker engineer a weakness in them accidentally or on purpose to keep them in control?>How numerous and widespread are they?>Does their existence have an appreciable effect on the overall economy?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
In a world where 90% of the internet traffic is online video streaming, to detriment of the environment and our minds, why aren't you rejecting modernity and going to the library? The library is literally free and fun for all ages. It is the most environmentally and civic minded thing you can do. Instead of being in a haze of pleasure, living in a digital cocoon of reels and streams, why aren't you forging the future of humanity? The weight of the world is on your shoulders and only you can make a better world.
filled with indian's taking loudly on they phones in gibberish language would not recommend
>>24943918points not addressed in this thread:>all books are bad lololol>why not donate books to the library?>books have germs>i buy books from thrift store
>>24949852I visit sometimes. It's like the cgi Jedi Temple in Star Wars.
>>24943918mine has been under renovation for over a year and im not good with returning books and the bastards always fine you. a fine just makes me more likely to never return the books period and never use the library again. just accept the book a week or three late and waive the fine, behave like humans
Local libraries are dogshit. As a matter of fact thanks to an old librarian I once found out the local public library was better in the 1930s when my hometown was a borderline village than it is today with over 10 times the population.t.br*zilian
How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
>>24948572Just don't think about it.
>>24948572Postmodernism literally gives conservatives an excuse to act like African niggers and retvrn, (moral relativism) but they rejected it for aesthetic purposes, just because the people who invented it were faggots in France with a BBC fetish.
>>24948572The hidden irony is that this thread beautifully illustrates why post modernism is the ultimate truth. Different perspectives, lack of objectivity etc… all right here in this thread.
>>24948572You accept the lessons it is trying to teach you. That your concepts and representations are inherently imprecise and goal-driven... which is fine, since you will rarely (if ever) exercise pointless thought. Post-modern thought contains a lot of humility that got perverted over time. It is, to use JP's language, a valid "anti-dote" to logical positivism and modernism (duh) which would tell you that knowing a handful of logical laws grants you the keys to understand the ontology of the entire cosmos. In actuality we're just hyper-fixating on propositional representations. And postmodernism is showing us a way out. Often destructive, often perverted, but it's a step in the right direction. Models must give way to reality and too many people confuse theory and reality.
thinking back to when I had some respect for Peterstein is weird
