Overrated or deserving of praise?
>>24949750>both sides are badHe didn't need to tell a 7 minute story to say that
>>24949764He questions the lineage of Jews today and insinuates that they, along with the rest of the inhabitants of the ME, are subhumans who can only kill each other and that the rest of the world needs to forget about them and stop trying to intervene.
>>24949750I actually quite liked Repent, Harlequin. It was a funny satirical story, it’s a pretty basic “authoritarianism mad mmkay?” kind of story but his writing style is entertaining.
He was a based, crotchety old man his entire life. An absolute legend.
>>24948906Is there some alternative iteration of planet Earth you are posting from?
>I don't have enough rice to eat therefore the physical world is both evil+unfixable and we should sit around in a circle pseudo-lobotomizing ourselves during every waking moment o algo.
Does anyone else feel like after periods of reading, your brain is altered in some way? I can't put it into words but it feels like I'm more in touch with my true self or something.
>>24952623You've grafted a piece of some else's mind onto your own.It's a good thing and how you should read, tranime poster.The 5 books a week read-only-file minds of this board will never know such joy.
>>24952633Thanks, Canadian zoophile!
Which books should i read to develop a bronze age mindset?Not BAPfag btw, i just really like the bronze age. The epitome of masculinity.Could be fiction or non fiction, dont care.
>>24952174"Niggers are samurai" is moldbug's most(possibly only) insightful observation
>>24951431>bronze age mindsetwas reading/writing a thing amongst the majority during the bronze age?maybe start by unlearn to read
>>24951444>we cannot do more.weak minded Not all progression is good, not all change is badRejecting any form of technology that make life easier should be rejected to improve your mental-, physical strength and willpower
>>24951431
>>24951431Illiad and Odyssey
If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
because real America (the south) is Norman Clayfuck outta here with that anglo rubbish
>>24951500>If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?i mostly am, translations are zoom-through light reading breaks from real reading
>>24951500Jonathan Edwards was one of the finest theologians ever.. and American.
>>24951540>American parroting as white
>>24952648It's posturing you retard
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>24952577Can they be killed by men with guns?
>>24952601Merreion, Rhialto the Marvelous and the gang most definitely can't be.
>>24951813thx>>24951978thx>>24952272thx
>>24952309>activate the eclipse in the DLC, turn everything into giga nightmare world, and fight Godwyn at the end, but after two goddamn years Faggotzaki decided to end the DLC with a slight upgrade of a boss I already foughtI know this isn't /v/ but this described my feelings 100%
children of time was okay
>name a more manly, masculine, virile workyou can't
>>24951300>they are interchangeable.This is certainly not true, even if you include the sublime as a subset of the beautiful. Regardless, even if the modern usage of beautiful has expanded to include the sublime I think it’s better in discussions like this to use a finer vocabulary
the superior version
>>24950747For whatever reason, heroics have always been considered lowbrow. Maybe its because intellectualism makes a better status symbol because heroism can be common to all?
>>24950687Conan
>>24950687Beowulf. No son or cuck shit. No wife fighting off suitors. Just a man who wants to beat the shit out of different wicked creatures, often with his bare hands
When does it get “good?”
>>24952471When you realize that all the sex stuff is Pynchon's inner demons, he's Blicero, and all that stuff about Weissman and bleaching and colonization and technology is Pynchon's discomfort with his own whiteness. There's no theme or meaning, it's just therapeutic diarrhea. It won awards because its Europhobic racism packaged as something parallel to actual literature. It's so out there that it skirts past immediate recognition for what it is by uncritical thinkers.
>>24952563You guys always have to make things into some idpol thing. There is nothing wrong with saying "hey I think those nazi guys might have been pretty bad dudes'
>>24952588>they’re bad dudes because…they just are ok?!
>>24952596Nta but my god you are retarded
>>24952588Rockets are a Cold War motif pointing to the USSR and the US, Blicero was an SS member sure, but also had something or another to do with whites being in South Africa. It's more than just a uniform and Pynchon takes all of these aspects of white countries and puts it into a villain named "Weissman"- literally 'whiteman', then gives him the nickname Blicero meaning "bleaching". It's pretty clear he's talking about all white people being some sort of techno-religious monster. Underneath all of that is this weird series of sexual fiascos which seems to have nothing to do with anything. Pynchon is clearly expressing a discomfort with adjusting to sexual mores and with his own conception of whiteness in the Cold War. You're clearly hoping that passive aggressiveness will give you some sort of out here, but it obviously doesn't. You're just a Europhobic racist yourself.
Other than A Christmas Carol. What are the must read Christmas literature?
The other Dickens Christmas storiesThe Nutcracker by DumasRock Crystal by StifterChristmas at Thompson Hall by TrollopeThere's also The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by Hoffmann and The Night Before Christmas by Gogol that I haven't read yetThe rest are mostly very short
>>24951717Nothing Lasts Forever by Thorpe
Jesus in the Talmud by Peter SchäferSo you know where Jesus is immersed right now and don't have to follow him
>>24951717Dickens wrote four other Christmas books, and also organized a collaborative Christmas ghost story with four other authors, and of course wrote several Christmas short stories.And as long as you're reading old time English ghost stories for Christmas, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and the Stoneground Ghost Tales are quite comfy.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24951768If only Christians acted like this.
>>24951765
>>24948329I like his arguments in favor of Arianism but hate that fucking desk of his.
>>24948379lol I showed my wife and she went, ‘ew.’People can see the autism in his eyes
>>24951743A little meme podcaster who is more famous as a bogeyman on the left than famous among the right is somehow relevant ? STFU
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24951981Anti-Chekhov's Gun, the ultimate technique, few have mastered it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_storyA story about the emotional despair when a boy realizes shagginess doesn't translate once you hit the big leagues. Also, how competition can ruin something even as trivial and inconsequential as shagginess.
>>24951984Now say Merry Christmas you piece of shit.
>>24952100if you say that you end up in a vat of poop for eternity
>>24951420nah but I'm a big balkanology enjoyer. fascinating real life lore. Robert Hayden's "From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans - Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011" is fucking fascinating
>age>location>current read
>>24931414>21>brazil>the iliad (fitzgerald's translation)
>21>North Carolina>Gravity's Rainbow>>24950795עוד אח יקר בלוח קשירת סלים מונגולי!
> 18>Fordham University> Infinite Jest
>>24952058I liked it a lot, read it as a child first and now as a bit of a nostalgia trip. I really enjoyed how the much the author loves animals. It was really interesting for me, the journey into a small mammal's life which we as men do not ever look into. >>24952158חחחח מה אומר גבר
33Brussels, BelgiumSteppenwolf -Hermann Hesse>>24933332What's up my belgian brother
Ever since the internet turned against atheism sometime during the second Obama term, “atheism” itself became a dirty word. Suddenly everyone who was an atheist just a few years before become an expert in Thomism or heyschasm, and decided that believing in evidence was cringe. Religious zoomers started acting like they “won the culture war.” Funny how that works. Since y'all are either literal zoomers who were toddlers during the heyday of new atheism or have the memory of goldfish, imagine it’s 1990 so you can understand why New Atheism mattered. You’re stuck in an evangelical megachurch. The pastor is telling you dinosaurs lived with humans, AIDS is God’s punishment, Israel is our greatest ally, and questioning anything means you’re going to hell. This is also the same institution quietly covering for youth pastors who “fell into sin,” preaching family values while funneling donations into private jets, and condemning divorce from the pulpit while half the elders are on their second or third marriage. This wasn’t fringe, it was normal. Teachers, politicians, parents all nodding along. New Atheism wasn’t about being edgy online. It was a backlash to decades of religious dominance that people memory-holed because 4cuck told them to. Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, were abrasive. So? That was the point. Polite disagreement didn’t work with creationist christcuck retards controlling the government and schools trying to ban stem cell research because muh “soulz”Now fast-forward to today and suddenly everyone pretends religion is this harmless aesthetic hobby and atheism is the real extremism. As if the progress of the last 30 years just happened magically. As if secularism didn’t have to fight for every inch. New Atheism didn’t fail. It succeeded so hard that people forgot why it existed and now they’re turning back the clock because irony poisoned their brains. But sure, keep pretending “both sides are cringe” while pastors are back on TikTok telling kids the Earth is 6,000 years old and Drumpf is bringing back dead jew worship in schools. Have fun when you're living in Christian ISIS and shitposting is banned. At least you owned le redditors online.
>>24952199Pol Pot
>>24951979New Atheism = Amazing Atheist shoving a banana up his butt = Gay and cringe
>>24951987fpbpIncredibly lazy meme for an unfathomably asinine thread.
>>24951979The fact that you personally check half the boxes with your behaviour already is indicative that this is a joke but then why not check all the boxes? You're actually serious? Someone this fucked in the head really walks around and solves captchas?
>>24951979It is not in any sense sane or normal to portray yourself as completely and total superior and the other side as monsters.
Man, you're right, Aristotleanon. Christian apologists are the worst when it comes to anally raping the Aristotelian corpus beyond recognition. They don't fucking understand anything. They don't understand dunamis, they don't understand energeia, they don't understand Metaphysics Zeta, they don't understand syllogisms, and they definitely do not understand the four causes. I just had apologist tell me, definitively, that Palamas was a top scholar of Aristotle (lmfao), and that De Anima isn't about life at all, since according to Palamas, only human beings have life because you somehow need "intelligence" to be "self-subsistent" (fucking LOL). Even when you read Aquinas's commentary on passages like the controversial active intellect, you can see him at pains to make the active intellect cohere with the passive intellect into one united soul. And then he fails to do so. But then magically says "but it has to be the case, and so it is." I ask another apologist, is an intellect which becomes everything, something which changes or otherwise remains as it is? And obviously, they short-circuit. Because obviously, that's the kind of intellect that we have, and it can't be active in any pure sense. So Aquinas is wrong and our intellects are perishable in the sense that it is soul. Oh the horror!!! These fucks have absolutely destroyed Peripatetic commentary throughout history, and they polluted literally everything, especially the translations, with the most hamfisted articulations possible to the point where intelligent conversations with them are not possible. Their brains are wrapped in verbal poison. If you ever get caught up in it, you basically have to spend years unlearning Scholastic hackery as it pertains to the deepest parts of the Aristotelian thought to even have a CHANCE at beginning to understand its depths.
>>24947161>especially the translationsidk Greek so I've never read the originals, is there anyone here who has actually done that and who can attest to that statement?
>>24951908Nta, the grammar of his sentences in Greek can veer wildly between simple and contorted, but the vocab is pretty common Greek, except for "entelecheia."
>>24951833Kek
>>24947161That's because the overwhelming majority of Christians only understand Aristotle through reading Aquinas. So if they do actually read Aristotle, then they're filtering it through what Aquinas used Aristotle for.
>>24950656So there is no thread or example?
Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Slop EditionStubbed >>24943213>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24952564My sick man, the answer depends. Do you have enough backlog to sustain the period of inactivity without ending up in a bind later, or do you not? Then the answer comes clear. I wish you quick recovery from this brainrot.
>>24952454doesn't sound half-badAre there other isekaid people?
>introducing characters that actually matter and will stick around so I can't just write whatever's on the top of my head for once.I can see why so many WN writers either abandon or kill off side characters. Must've had to come up with something and then decided they didn't like them later.
where do you guys read korean WN? every tl site on my bookmark got wiped
>>24952590I don't get why people just keep introducing new characters instead of developing the ones they have. The characters practically write the story for you, why blow up the bridge you've set up?
