>name a more manly, masculine, virile workyou can't
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>>24950687Which translation, tho?
>>24950687>You need glory because.. erm.. you just do, okay?
>>24950687This is a tale of heroes, but i recall schiller saying beauty is not to be found in heroic virtues. Come to think of it, he does come off as a mawkish faggot.
Anyone else see Dick Van Dyke as Jason Taverner. Just finished this book. Still scratching my head at how KR 3 turned that girl into a skeleton.
In his 'Lectures on the Mind for Young Samurai', Mishima reflects on being called a nerd for his love of literature during the war.He argues that today's nerds use literature as a safety zone to hide from the real world.He distinguishes between two types of literature.The first, which he calls second-rate, is relatively harmless; it acts as a comforting teacher, offering simple moral lessons and inspiration to those who are struggling, giving hope to the heartbroken, teaching that money isn't everything to the poor, and comforting the weak.The true danger, he warns, comes from "real" literature. This first-rate writing reveals the frightful fate of humanity and teaches through beautiful and captivating prose "that in this life an irredeemable evil lurks at the bottom of human nature", leading the reader to a nihilistic precipice and abandoning them there without solace.The greatest problem arises when nerds who consume this powerful literature fall under the illusion that they arrived at its profound conclusions through their own effort.This creates a false sense of superiority, leading them to become cynics who mock all human effort, sincerity, and passion from a detached and powerless position.As a writer, Mishima knows this "poison of literature" intimately, and admits that he only found a partial antidote later in life through physical action.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24948433if the unwarranted obliteration of innocent creatures isn't evil, then what is? is it even any worse than "true" evil that has an objective if the results are the same?
>>24944237>Mishima reflects on being called a nerd for his love of literature during the war.I think it's more likely he was called a nerd and bullied for being an effeminate fag. Also, all the shirtless pics in the world can't hide the fact they he always skipped leg day.
>>24948244>>24948433>>24948962Evil doesn't exist gayboys, this isn't the 1400s
>>24948574is it really an essay if there are no paragraphs?
>>24948970>Evil doesn't exist>Thats literally what I saiddont call me a gayboy, u fagbag!
Thoughts on Pyrrhonism?
>>24950720I'm not sure if they exist.
>>24950720It's hilarious that, in the 4th century BC, you could found your own "school of philosophy" by traveling to India with Alexander the Great and learning from the gymnosophist grand ascetics that "different people believe different things."We live in hell.
This book changed my life for the better
This book changed me too.
>>24949800>>24949809i don't think it's a "vast majority" but definitely some do. and it's not "rapey" it's perfectly normal consensual sexi suspect it's all to do with upbringing, what they are taught is taboo, all that sort of thing
>>24946749I like rape.
>>24949810plenty of them are pretty honest about it but I generally agree with this guy here >>24950598. besides there's a difference between rough sex and degrading sex (which a smaller subset of women enjoy, too) that a lot of you don't get
>>24950204Maybe you slept with some pre-vaginoplasty porn star or somethingI still stand by what I said. He doesn't even know what a vulva looks like, he can't teach anyone how to pleasure women
Whats the deal with shakespeare "intellectuals" trying to convince everyone every single line in every single play is actually a completely retarded sexual based pun, is this some kind of psyop?
that ain't nothing compared to the restoration era playsI recently read about a play whose entire plot was about a guy who wanted to cuckold as many men as possible by pretending he had EDSadly the killjoy Victorian neo-Puritans tried to brush it all under the rug
yeah people were more serious back thencomedy was not a thing and there were no perverts
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>>24949933not every line but about 60% of it, as we are always taught, the poor sat closest to the stage, , they are rowdy and they like base humor so many lines must be dropped for them, this is known, it is not some conspiracy against you, sorry
>>24950185Same reason Trump goes to half the UFC events
I regularly see threads on JP and Zizek but less commonly Jung and rarely Lacan.I have been reading Lacan on and off throughout the year and it has been pretty revelatory to me. If I were to try to take a stab at summarizing Lacan for anons that haven’t studied him, basically everything is fake and gay, anything not fake and gay is real, and >you are a subject beneath the fake and gay but not exactly a 1:1 product of the fake and gay. Your motif should be to recognize that to understand the real through anything fake and gay is impossible, therefore traverse the fake and gay knowing it’s fake and gay in accordance to your desire(TM). If anyone with more experience in Lacanian thought disagrees with my shit take, feel free to correct. Question: Why is Lacan not talked about as often as Freud and Jung are, or perhaps in general? Is his thought too subversive? Is it because he’s French? Pic related, worst mistake of my life
>>24950506It's because he's the worst prose-writer of the 20th century. Literally no one was worse at expressing his thoughts.
>>24950506My guess would be Lacan is still popular. The likeliest reason he isn't seen much here is due to some of his conclusions.>little o / Big O>little o has already been addressed>Big O is the hypothetical authority or order but it can't draw from pre-societal input>systemization is reducing what do you want to some sort of isomorphism with what do I want>endpoint established when there is an epistemic dud>the point, for convenience of language, is to examine why Big O has seemingly endless power.Think of Freud and Jung as metaphysicians, they're popular here because most anons are just looking for meta or in most cases looking to discharge meta. Many anons are still gaining mastery, there isn't much left on this one, so they haven't fully realized how Descartes works.
Well as the resident Jungfag on this board I speak about him because he has a lot to say. The depths of his insight are huge, and the implications of his discoveries are huge. Doing philosophy without knowing Jung is far more hamstringing than doing it without knowing Plato or Aristotle imo.The reason I haven't looked into Lacan is because his influence seems to solely be in being namedropped by French and French-adjacent academics. I've heard he builds on Freud, but Freud was already surpassed long ago and given the worthlessness of Sartre, Camus, de Beaviour, etc. who these academics also namedrop I don't see anything to attract me to Lacan.
>>24950626If you want to start with Lacan, I found the Cambridge Introduction to Lacan to be a great primer. I am better versed in Jungian thought than Lacanian, but I’ve found the Lacanian lens to be rather useful for me personally. Consider giving it a quick glance to see if it’s interesting to you.>>24950606Interestingly, Lacan would reject that there is a “meta” to be reached. Everything is symbols (which leads to the point you raised), quite interesting imo.
What the FUCK was Stephen King thinking?
>>24946769Fornication was considered a sin within Christendom.
>>24938715I mean, that's probably true. It's just not an excuse.
>>24941886kek
>>24933848Why don't women ever run a train on a man?
i always felt like stephen kings stories were always creepypasta scp tier bullshit that would barely fly on some 2000s internet forum for tweens retards. why is he so lauded, exactly?
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
>>24950398What was the last book you read before you dropped out of junior high?
>>24950507Fiction or non-fiction?
>>24950406crazy story. but honesty, what a great way to go. rather than like every other old forgotten hollywood veteran dying to a dull heart attack and two page obit; a murder mystery. go out with a headline.
>>24941253Was talking with crush and other coworkers.Topic of ex came up. And my crush was asked if she still friends with her ex. To which she said yes. And if she still misses him to which she said yesShould I even bother?We've made out before and atuff. We've both kind of pulled back since but I still quite like her. But I can't really do anything if she still pining for her ex right?She had a surgery recently and mentioned a "friend" helping her. It was probably this guy right? And I'm guessing they still mess around here and there?
>>24950721sounds like a whore honestly, making out with a coworker tsk tsk
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924Dwarf phrenology.
Noah Webster
melville and clark ashton
>>24949924David Bentley Hart
words encountered in a 30-page segment from Waverley by Walter Scott: hebdomadal, usquebaugh, latitudinarian, compotation, bibliopolist, manège, varlet, capriole, bartizan, architrave, congé, croupier, nonjuring, spavined, shilpit, sublunary, forisfamiliate
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
Anyone else making a "non-magic" world? Everytime I see worldbuilding forums it is either hard fantasy or sci-fi
>>24949315A non-magic world would be technically science fiction even if the world contains no futuristic technology. See for example Nightfall by Isaac Asimov.
>>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.
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
>>24949679>japanese bug fight videosQrd
>>24940854He's not entirely wrong. Although one should fight for an alternative system thats far better than the current one.
>>24950619The entire point is that we HAVE alternative systems better than the current one, but they're in the past. The two best systems of government are medieval monarchy and aristocratic republic. Evidence across hundreds of years bears out the virtues of these two systems, to the detriment of others. Lewis >>24943914 is right, we need to go back. The best ideas lie in the past, waiting for us to rediscover them.
>>24932740>nietzsche scholar>fighting the good fight.huh???
>>24936191Being NATO bitch helps Europeans to focus on maximizing their dopamine receptor activity while they give USA the reigns on military strength. Simple as. Enjoyment over hard work. I'm not saying it's smart but it is what it is.
A good metric for a genuine writer is: can i read his works on the toilet? If so, congratulations, you managed to find an author that's engaging enough to be fluently read in a low focus environment without issues. If not, well you just found a trendy name for fake intellectuals to prance about.
>>24948107Behold, the final boss of literature
Honor Levy thread?
Reddit.
>>24948107>low focus environmentUnless you're literally a street shitter, squatted over a ditch in a crowded street in Bombay why are you being distracted while shitting? My quiet white tiled bathroom in my 1 bedroom flat is the most distraction-free environment in my home. >no TV>no PC>no Hi-fi>no gf (when I'm shitting)
>>24950628>no gf (when I'm shitting)that's a bit sexist anon, let her in the bathroom with you
Why yes, half page descriptions of lamps and countertops with the occasional interjection of brain dead criminals speaking futuristic ebonics. It certainly deserves all the praise. Were people really that bored in the 80s to enjoy this?I'm not finishing it. I feel my neurons dying in real time. I was right for putting it off for so many years.
>>24946610better read The Differential Engine, it triggers the feminists with the victorian prostitute sex scene
>>24950655>a fewHave you read this book?
>>24946610This book really fell flat for me. I think it would’ve been better if I read it before I’d seen the Matrix, which seems to borrow most of whats interesting in Neuromancer and present it in a far more entertaining manner
I liked the first half of the book, I wanted more future prole stuff in a cool future cyber city rather than spy action stuff on a wacky rastafarian space station
>>24947622it's fineit's cool for what it is and what it contributed to the genre, and the second half of the book has some neat atmosphere.
>age>location>current read
>DOOD, THEY'LL TOTALLY BE ABLE TO PINPOINT WHO YOU ARE FROM THIS INFORMATION PROVIDED!Why are you like this?
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>>24931414>age 28>location Amerikistan>current readThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaOn the Road by Jack Kerouac
>>24935478I'm one of twenty people living in this hellscape province but good luck finding where>>24931414>22>Saskatchewan, Canada>The Mayor of Casterbridge
>27 >Iran>Experiencing Fiction by James Phelan
