Why doesn’t he just muster the jungian spirit of hating trans people to will himself back into shape?
>>24793737>not posting based Carlos Sugar's hagged up now btw
>>24787667Basically.I'd like a non-chatGTP rebuttal.The thing about shriveling is that once you go there, you lack the strength to counterbalance what is fundamentally wrong with you.And then you head down a long downward spiral.A psychologist's job is often to help people to clinically dig themselves out, which assumes they have the strength and integrity to actually do it if pushed.>>24792866Benzos -> permanent damage from the coma induced recovery procedure -> he now lacks the strength to go for his bootstraps and start fixing himself, meaning his sins might actually start haunting him>>24789079Mold is pretty mid.The annoyance and danger are if its not anywhere visible, but its instead in some wall offgassing to a side of a building.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24788280not an argument btwkirkie should have just put his money where his mouth is, or perhaps stuffed his mouth entirely and not walk into majority liberal college campuses being purposefully inflammatory and also vulnerablekilling him just proved his point, guns are a necessesary right to keep retards shut up
>>24794417I can answer the question "are you a christian" without dodging.
>>24794564>I'd like a non-chatGTP rebuttal.Everything in this post is true (>>24787679) and you're a retard if you think it's AI. Go ahead and disprove anything in it. You can't. https://youtu.be/C_32icvWpIg
Tropical Beach 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: >>24667235
>>24793599You are really fucking dumb, low effort bumps on this dead ass thread, no wonder people are pissed.
>>24779368it's underrated.
>>24788196In the traditional cultivation story, the process of cultivation takes years of dedication. Even if you get an extended lifespan and cool powers, is it really worth it if you don't really get to live and instead spend your days meditating alone in a cave? On top of that, people can get stalled in their cultivation and fail to break to the next level regardless of giving their all.In a LitRPG world, we might have cases like a fresh young adventurer who gets ambushed by a random goblin encounter. The goblins get to attack first because it's an ambush. Then... the first goblin does a critical hit with a great-axe, and the poor level 1 adventurer is a goner. His parents will probably grieve for him and wish he had had the sense to avoid dangerous things such as adventures.The thing is, in a properly functioning world (not a parody or similar) the monsters shouldn't be just some danger-free bags of hitpoints standing around outside settlements, ready to be farmed by everyone. Also, there is no reason why leveling up in a LitRPG world would need to have any effect on someone's lifespan except potentially ending it suddenly when one single combat goes badly enough.
How long is your world's history?More importantly, how much of that timeline have you actually developed/meticulously planned out?I have a little less than 4,000 years of history and I've basically written it all at this point, although some parts are much more in depth than others, obviously.
>>24794920I have decided that there should be a massive timeloop (thanks to an unexpected interaction involving the plot and some really powerful magic), so that the setting is both the past and the future of our world, though I suppose the loop is not a complete repetition, so that there will still be variances. This naturally results in a vast amount of history that needs to be tied up together."Meticulous" plotting is another thing entirely. I was just today considering that I should have a kingdom's development over several centuries (or thereabouts) take an entirely different path, so that instead of declining and having a string of weak rulers, the country becomes an evil empire ruled by tyrannical undead...
Why did you turn your back on him, /lit/?Do you really love your spooks that much?
Name a work of art inspired by Stirner. Surely he was impactful enough as a philosopher to achieve this instead of writing a narrow gimmicky polemic.
>>24795215>Child rape and mutilation are just spooks That's why people went with Marx and Lenin, not retards like Stirner.
>>24795221He inspired Marx to move on from Idealism. You can see how it ends up just justifying the status quo by vapid individualism. It's primarily the ideology of petty bourgeois and lumpenproletariat.
>>24795221literally the entirety of our times was inspired by young hegelians
>>24795275hegelians always claim this about everything without proof.
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Every action is immoral, transcendence and movement is immoral but here we are
Posting is a game of wit, insight and math, the lack of which has been noted in these threads.I am part of an elite order of posters. We have targeted this thread for an organized incursion.
Can websites STOP fuckin' using .webp format for images?? Makes it incompatible for saving and crossposting to 4chan, so I have to take a browser screenshot of the image in order to post it here instead of just copy+pasting the link. So goddamn annoying.
>>24795242they’ve been making it more and more awkward to just save an img for the last 7 years or so, whenever google got rid of the ‘view image’ button
>>24795265Right, that too. I've often had to screenshot images directly from the Google search preview because of that very situation.
Why did Tolkien make Sauron the titular character of The Lord of the Rings?
>>24795225>That is to say, HWHITE.No, his point is that Aryan is a linguistic term, not a racial one.>meaning that people arrive to non-Numenorean places with a non-racist attitude, and then quickly the locals divest them of that "generous" outlook by behaving like orc halfbreed trash.Are you stupid? That's the opposite of what he's saying. He's decrying people who simply become accustomed to racism instead of maintaining their disgust of it.
>>24795210>source is Gandalf saying Tom is older than Sauronwhich we can explain in two ways: 1. Tom co-existed with Eru. (impossible, since Tolkien already said Eru was alone. Everything, both good and evil, was created afterwards)2. Tom arrived on primordial Arda before Sauron did. (entirely possible, and they could still both be Maiar. We have evidence already that Ainur arrived on Arda at different times, they didn't all show up at once. Tulkas was a late arriver, Ungoliant a late arriver, mention is made of Melkor summoning spirits from Timeless Halls or Void to his side. There's also the unique case of Sauron in that he originally lived on Almaren with the Valar, as a spy for Melkor. Is Tolkien saying "older" in terms of age?--- and how does one factor in the Timeless Halls in regards to age?--- or is Tolkien referring to age in terms of Arda, where Time exists, and Sauron being a late arrival to Middle Earth, since he was originally a spy for Melkor residing among the Valar?)Tom, according to what we know of him from the Elves, seems to have always been doing his own thing, unassociated with any of the Valar. He could have been the first to arrive in primordial Arda before the other Valar, simply because the others were still listening to Eru's speech. We don't know. What we DO know, is that there are no "uncategorized spirits". All spirits are Ainur, end of story.
>>24795249>What we DO know, is that there are no "uncategorized spirits". All spirits are AinurBoring, reductive, and autistic take. Also wrong. Tom is alien to Sauron not someone he knew previously.
>>24795244>his point is that Aryan is not a racial one.Hence why he was so adamant about being confused for a brownoid from Khand or Near Harad. >He's decrying people who simply become accustomed to racism instead of maintaining their disgust of it.Let's analyze his statement together:>The treatment of colour nearly always horrifies anyone going out from Britain, & not only in South Africa.So initially, most people are horrified of racism. Whether they go to South Africa or some other English colony or tourist site, they arrive there with open minds and generous hearts. >Unfort[unately], not many retain that generous sentiment for long." but what could cause people to lose that generous, non-racist sentiment? And so quickly too?! Heavens, could it be because they finally saw first-hand how the local brown people behaved, and consequently that generous sentiment got a nice dose of reality? (and mind you, this was back when 3rd world countries at least made an attempt to behave civilized, Tolkien would have been HORRIFIED of how they've turned out nowadays)>i have the hatred of apartheid in my bones.Yes yes, noble generous sentiments from a good hearted soul. But noble sentiments when confronted with reality don't last long. I often wonder how Tolkien would respond to the blacks in south africa slaughtering whites. Would have struck close to home, seeing as how he came from there.
>>24795259>Tom is alien to Sauron, not someone he knew previouslynon sequitur. I never said or implied they knew each other. Please learn English if you insist on being on a Numenorean Only forum. >Boring.>my fanfiction so much better.No one cares about your fanfiction. We only care about what Tolkien wrote, and Tolkien was very logical. He never made any mention of any species that existed prior to Ainur, or even co-existent with Ainur. Just the Ainur.
is it true that men read to impress women?
>>24794826is it true that women read to impress other women?
>when you’re at a performative male competition and your opponent is reading a romance fantasy novel
>>24795066>performative maleThey don't exist. it's another elaborate shaming tactic and gatekeeping device than women do for fun. See "men writing women" for another example.
I have not met a single woman who was impressed by reading. Further, I haven't met any who knew anything at all.
>>24794826women are not particularly impressed by reading, maybe reading of particular books that they heard about on tiktok, but not by reading in itselfthey would not be impressed if you told them you are reading some literally-what book just because you found the topic interesting
For someone coming from Dharmic metaphysics (Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Yoga), what books would you recommend for learning about and studying Neoplatonism? I mean modern books, besides the historical classics.What I like about Dharmic paths is that they are still alive. You have lots of metaphysical theory, but you also have clear practical paths, simple meditation methods (anapanasati, dzogchen, mahamudra, etc.), and a graded path with stages so you know where you are and what to do next (jhanas, rupas/lokas, samadhi, etc.), how to live the good life (precepts, ashrama, etc.). Are there things like that in Neoplatonism? I am perennialist and curious to study a more "Western" serious metaphysics, which is not just a regurgitation of Kabbalah like most Western occult schools.
>>24794035Read Plato’s complete works and at least Metaphysics by Aristotle for a deeper appreciation of the background of Plotinus and then read the Enneads, then branch off to whatever later Neoplatonist author you want to read.Lloyd Gerson and Eric Perl are good secondary sources.>Are there things like that in Neoplatonism?Sort of, Plotinus is more of a ‘direct-path’ kind of guy in comparison to later Neoplatonists who focus on Tantra-like methods more with stuff like theurgy although his exact method is not anywhere near as precisely defined and explained as in the eastern traditions.
Gregory Shaw is worth a read, both of his books and the Iamblichus source material as well. Hellenic Tantra comes somewhat close to what you speak of.
>>24794035That pic is my insides rn
>>24794035>For someone coming from Dharmic metaphysics (Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Yoga), what books would you recommend for learning about and studying Neoplatonism? I mean modern books, besides the historical classics.Doctrine of the Buddha, George Grimm.
>primary textsPlotinus -- The EnneadsProclus -- Elements of TheologyIamblichus -- Theurgia / De MysteriisDamascius -- Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles>secondariesShaw -- Hellenistic TantraUzdavinys -- Orpheus and Roots of PlatonismHadot -- What is Ancient Philosophy?
Is his critique of the Third Reich valid?
>>24794700Didn’t jewvola advocate magic buttsex? I’d say that nullifies all his “critiques”
>>24794703>and war crimeshuh i didnt know evola was a shabos goy. thats too bad
>>24794703>>Evola criticized its "blood laws" and war crimes, which he saw as a gross misunderstanding of the issues of race and the Jews.Cringe
>>24794836that's probably the only salvageable thing from Evola
>>24794700I heard that he didn't like Nazism's populist aspect because it invites the unwashed masses into government.
How necessary is it to read secondary literature like pic related to understand buddhism vs just reading the pali canon?
>>24795255isn't that mahavira?
Is this generally recommended? I had a good time with the Iliad, but I feel in order to let it stew a bit, I should read something else for the time being.
>>24792986Yes. Then the Aeneid, Metamorphoses, the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and read a bit of the Bible between each of them and you'll have done a basic crash course of the western canon.
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>>24795110I found the Aeneid (Fitzgerald translation) very readable and emotionally charged.Divine Comedy felt like homework.Paradise Lost was brilliant, and fully deserves the "superhuman eloquence" title. But then again so does Shakespeare.
>>24795110This has nothing to do with what I posted.
>>24795246if you’re using milton and dante in the same breath as homer (while somehow excluding shakespeare) you can only be implicitly wrong.
What do we think of it?
It's alright. Not especially bad but completely overrated by zoomers that have never read another book published before 2000.
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
>>24790274I went to the Library of Congress a couple of times and it was awful.Only fat small black women work there who show contempt for you existing (the coat lady would not get up to take your jacket and bag until she saw a black person standing in line.)And on multiple days they blasted music for evening concerts and dancing events. The entire structure would vibrate as they set up their event and later when they danced caribbean dances in the front hall.It was like something out of The Birth of a Nation when blacks run things in Americas government houses.So reprehensible.
>>24795022Awful. Your story has ruined my day.
>>24795022You guys always talk about black people giving you a hard time for being white. Am I the only one without this issue? Older black women especially seem to adore me.
>>24795067Even when you go to the DMV?
>>24795057Trump fired the "librarian of Congress" early this year (black lady appointed by Obama), but if any fixing has been done beyond that is highly unlikely since there seem to be 3 current disputed heads right now. Most the staff is probably still fat black women who only enjoy their work space when it is Ghana dancing nights.One evening I left early because the bass was so loud, and as I was retrieving my coat the coat check lady asked if I had been dancing upstairs in the entrance hall to some Afro beat music to which I plainly replied "No, I had been reading in the main reading room." She immediately dropped my coat before she even had reached me, also dropped her fake smile, turned away and sat back on her stool going through her phone again. Combined with the fact that multiple requested books in the collection have been lost, and though I was told I could request a deeper search by a staff member (which apparently doesn't help find it anyway), I stopped going because it was so depressing.There is no need to look at reading scores, screen habits, or college courses to see how degenerated the US has become in respect to reading. Just look at the Library of Congress and see for yourself how debased our society has become. Some of the halls are still congressmen's offices, there is a Gutenberg bible there, it is across from Congress right next to the Supreme Court all connected by tunnels, but it is in total disregard. That public libraries have become day centers for kids and families, and hangouts for homeless people and AA meetings doesnt surprise me. This country doesn't care an ounce about reading beyond smut and financial self-help literature or passing some exam or fulfilling your job task.
>We have said that pragmatism represents the final outcome of all the modern philosophy and marks the lowest stage in its decline; but outside the philosophical field there also exists, and has already existed for a long time, a diffused and unsystematized pragmatism which is to philosophical pragmatism what practical materialism is to philosophical materialism, and which merges into what people generally call “common sense.” This almost instinctive utilitarianism is inseparable, moreover, from the materialistic tendency: common sense consists in not venturing beyond the terrestrial horizon, as well as in not paying attention to anything devoid of an immediate practical interest; it is “common sense,” above all, that regards the world of the senses as alone being real and admits of no knowledge beyond what proceeds from the senses; and even this limited degree of knowledge is of value in its eyes only in so far as it allows of satisfying material needs and also sometimes because it feeds a certain kind of sentimentalism, since sentiment, as must be frankly admitted at the risk of shocking contemporary “moralism,” really is very closely related to matter. No room is left in all this for intelligence, except in so far as it may consent to be put to the service of practical ends, acting as a mere instrument subordinated to the requirements of the lowest or corporeal portion of the human individual, “a tool for making tools,” to quote a significant expression of Bergson’s: “pragmatism” in all its forms amounts to a complete indifference to truth.
>>24794087hi gaynonfag, why haven't you been posting lately?
>>24794140I still post, but if it's not about Hinduism or Guenon you simply don't think to connect it with me.Guenon is already well-known enough online that my aim of making him more well-known was already accomplished many years ago, so I don't feel any need to expend further effort popularizing him, if I post threads about him at all anymore its really just for amusement to see people's reactions.
>>24793161I never understood that partIn what world does "common sense" make you materialistic ? People become materialistic because of the intellectual shit they have been taught in schools. In French you would say it's "hors-sol" (groundless or earthless)And how the fuck can you become sentimental if you are pragmatic ?
>>24793928Kek
>>24793161Too bad Guenon was an orientalist and didn't authentically investigate western traditions. What a world we could be living in right now.
>skilled and competent white men should be in charge, ability and power is what shapes society so you should aspire for itI don’t think she got a fair shake but it’s no wonder she got panned so hard. Being a Russian Jewish immigrant, she was already being suspected by the right wing for introducing communism and believe it or not, many christcucks shed tears over her elevating man above god despite endorsing the Protestant work ethic so ingrained in American culture at the time. Objectivism was clearly ahead of its time.Then the literary jews of course had to pan her. How dare this peasant come to New York and dictate Nietzsche to us instead of getting with the program? There is nothing worse to Jews than someone abandoning their cause in favour of goy ideals and thus she was subject to exile and posthumous ridicule and slander.Anyways the rape scene was kino and true. My trans ex-gf always had rape fantasies, but I’m not as smart and cool as Roark so I never role played it out with her.
>>24793670>skilled and competent white men should be in chargeYeah, like Trump
>>24793670The Soviet Union giving Ayn Rand the ability read and write proves her wrong.
>>24794267Yep, when you make murder illegal, people are oppressed.
>>24793670>>24793700>skilled and competent white men should be in charge,Congrats on missing the point, bozo. The highlighted part seems relevant here.
>>24795219>United States>Freest country on EarthPeople really recommend this jew? No wonder jews are so genocidal.
>The shrewd apprehension of relations according to the law of causality and motivation properly makes one prudent; the knowledge of the genius, however, is not oriented toward such relations; therefore, a prudent person, insofar as he is prudent, is not a genius, and a genius, insofar as he is a genius, is not prudent. — Finally, intuitive knowledge, within whose domain the idea is absolutely found, stands, in general, in direct opposition to rational or abstract knowledge conducted by the principle of sufficient reason of knowing.>Everyone knows that it is rare to find great genius combined with prominent rationality; rather, on the contrary, geniuses are often subject to vehement emotions and irrational passions. The basis of this, however, is not weakness of reason, but lies partly in the uncommon energy of the whole manifestation of the will that constitutes the individual genius and that expresses itself through the great vehemence of all his volitional acts; and partly in the fact that, in the genius, intuitive knowledge predominates over abstract knowledge, through the senses and understanding. Hence the decisive orientation toward what is intuitive, with the impression of such knowledge being so powerful that it obscures colorless concepts, action no longer being guided by these concepts but by that impression, thereby becoming irrational: because of this, the impression of the present is quite powerful upon the genius, carrying him toward the unreflective, the emotion, the passion.>Hence also the fact that the genius—since, as a rule, his knowledge has in part withdrawn from the service of the will—does not think, when engaging in conversation, either about the person with whom he speaks or about the topic under discussion that so vividly engages him: thus, he also judges and recounts in an extremely objective manner that which concerns his own interests, without concealing what prudence would conceal, and so forth. Finally, they tend toward monologues and can generally display many weaknesses that indeed verge on madness.The World as Will and Representation — Book III: On the World as Representation — §36
>>24794412Oh
I just started reading this but I’m still in the appendix.When Schopenhauer talks about genius is he describing it in a way that is similar as to what we would call a hyper fixation in today’s language, or like some kind of possession by a spirit via the Will?It seems like he is very much not describing genius in the traditional and academic sense as it is somewhat dogmatically known. Schopenhauer seems to be using it more like a verb than a noun
>>24794565>When Schopenhauer talks about genius is he describing it in a way that is similar as to what we would call a hyper fixation in today’s language, or like some kind of possession by a spirit via the Will?>It seems like he is very much not describing genius in the traditional and academic sense as it is somewhat dogmatically known. Schopenhauer seems to be using it more like a verb than a nounfor Schopenhauer, genius is the capacity to lose oneself in contemplation of an object without reference to practical ends or personal desire. The genius is able to become “the pure subject of knowing,” seeing the Platonic Idea behind phenomena. This is not an act of volition, but a cessation of volition. Most people are prisoners of the Will—they perceive only insofar as things serve their desires. The genius, by contrast, momentarily silences the Will and becomes a transparent medium through which reality contemplates itself
>>24794782I also asked ChatGPT
>>24795220What?
