Are there any books about dynasties and succession to thrones? Books heavily focused on plot, with involvement of other dynasties as well.I'm not sure what the exact term is.
Are you looking for history or fiction?
>>24697774Julian, by Gore Vidal. And Res Gestae, by Ammian, if you want the primary source
>>24698612Either would be fine
>>24699480Try the accursed kings series
>>24697781>>24699377>>24699691I'll check those out.
Do you think Monks are "wasting" their life? Books about monks? already read A Canticle for Leibowitz and Narcissus and Goldmund.
>>24698719The Koran literally praises Christian monks directly. A Christian monk named Bahira announced the prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.A Christian ascetic named Waraqah ibn Nawfal supported Rasul Allah, peace be upon him, in his early prophetic revelations. When Waraqah died, Nabi Muhammad, peace be upon him, was so depressed that he attempted suicide multiple times. Only to be saved each time at the last moment.The Early Church had a huge part in bringing us Islam. We would not have Islam if not for Christians, and Islam confirms the Torah and Gospel before it. The Koran teaches that Christians are believers that go to Heaven and are the closest spiritual brothers of Muslims.The Arab Christians of Palestine, including Bethlehem, use the name Allah for God as it is the Arabic name for God. Constantly dispelling outright lies about Islam told by zionist propagandists.
>>24700791Personally, I love Christian monks. So did Habib Allah, peace be upon him. He spent a lot of time discussing religion with the monks of Mt. Sinai and drafted a treaty between Muslims and Christians because of it. It is called the Ashtiname of Muhammad, peace be upon him, and the document is preserved at Saint Catherine's Monastery at Sinai today.My favorite Christian monk is Saint Francis, who was also a close friend of Sultan Malik al Kamil and therefore an early proponent of inter-faith dialogue between Christians and Muslims. It is the Sunnah, the tradition of the Prophet, peace be upon him, to have enlightened inter-faith dialogue with Christians. The religiously educated understand the value of this.
>>24700821Muslims have institutions that the West translates as monasteries, but celibate monasticism is not a thing in Islam. Muslims have Zawiyas, lodges for poor and unmarried ascetics led by a Shaykh, like an Abbot, that also serve as houses of worship and houses of learning. These institutions are generally obscure to the West and are found mostly in North Africa and West Asia (Middle East). This is what you would call an Islamic monastery, but celibate monasticism is not allowed. It is rooted in the Sunnah (tradition) of Al Suffah in Madinah. The Prophet, peace be upon him, built a platform in his Masjid (mosque) in Madinah to provide lodging for the poorest and unmarried followers of Islam. He also shared his daily meals with these homeless Muslims and lived in a small home without any luxury.Al Suffah literally means the shade, as the platform was shaded with palm leaves. The Sufi tradition, the Islamic mystical and ascetic tradition, is rooted in Al Suffah. It is the inward, intellectual aspect of Islam that is peaceful and spiritual. Some of these ascetic brotherhoods number in the millions and form an invisible network that spans nations from East to West. Some have chains of transmission directly from the Twelve Imams. Muslims also have saints in the mystical tradition.It is the Sunnah to house and feed the homeless in the Masjid. The Faqir, literally meaning poor, live full time as ascetic mystics inside Masjids and Zawiyas. They spend their days praying, meditating, studying Islam, and doing basic chores as well as economically valuable labor much like Christian monks. Christian monasteries are highly successful institutions as they take vows of voluntary poverty and spend all day working and praying. Some make cheese, candles, incense, and so on. They sell these things to provide for the monastery. Monks are not lazy, they work hard. They achieve complete economic self-sufficiency in balance with nature and in my view are the model of the perfect human society.The Sunnah is heavily influenced by Christian monasticism. For example, praying seven times a day like the Divine Office as well as voluntary fasting and charity. The Sunnah, in my view, provides the model of the perfect human society. It is like celibate asceticism without the celibacy. Shariah, translating as the clear and well-trodden path to water, provides the divine blueprint of the perfect human society where all needs are met and humanity lives in perfect harmony with nature and each other. The Shariah is the combination of the Koran and Sunnah.The mystic seeks spiritual perfection. To become an individual citizen of Shariah by strictly followint the Koran and Sunnah. The ultimate goal of the Muslim mystic is to achieve a mystical understanding of God and to reach a point where it is possible to receive divine revelations and perform miracles.
>>24700914>To become an individual citizen of Shariah by strictly following the Koran and Sunnah.The Sunnah is mostly based on Hadith, sayings which are attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. This is a lot of reading, and not all Hadith are valid. Each has a detailed chain of transmission and Sunnis and Shias have different books of Hadith.Seeking knowledge, Ilm, is intellectually rigorous. It is a lot of book reading. The four books of Shia Hadith together contain 44,344 Hadith. A Hafiz is someone who memorizes the Koran from cover to cover and can recite it from memory. Islam has a very rich intellectual tradition with a lot of depth to it, most laypeople do not study Islam at this level.Muslims depend on Imams and scholars to study religion and provide guidance from this. In Muslim nations, Islam is literally the basis of the legal system and courts, where experts in Shariah function as judges and lawyers in Islamic courts under Islamic rulers such as Emirs and Caliphs.To bring things full circle, the Asthiname of Muhammad, peace be upon him, says that Muslims have a duty to protect Christian monks, devotees, and pilgrims. It also states that Christians should not be offended, disturbed, coerced, or compelled into paying a religious tax or from practicing their religion. It effectively grants religious freedom to Christians and exempts them from religious taxation.
>>24700670This is false, monks take a vow of poverty and often spend years as initiates doing the most basic chores before receiving their robes. Being a monk is hard work and not everyone who seeks it are granted it.It was and is entirely possible for someone to go from unrobed initiate to Abbot, head of the monastery. The Christian virtue of charity is what led to academic scholarships, where tuition is granted on intellectual merit regardless of economic status.The various monastic orders each have a clear and defined set of rules which defines the role of each monk. Someone prepares the food, someone keeps the garden and grounds, someone makes the candles, and so on.
This is more like Dark Souls than The Book of the New Sun isSo why do people shill The Book of the New Sun when people are asking for "soulslike" books and books like "Elden Ring" instead of this?
>>24700939Most people have not read the Faerie Queene,
i'm reading it right now and can't believe how entertaining it is. every canto is plot twist upon plot twist, fights, monsters, sexy evil ladies, nefarious sorcerers etc etc. and yeah i get the dark souls thing, even down to people talking in self consciously retarded olde-tyme speech that isn't even how people spoketh backeth then
The first part of this book is a masterpiece. The rest: not so much.
>>24699946>he didn't enjoy Humbert going back to her hometown and in a fit of nostalgia>he didn't feel anything at Humbert meeting with pregnant Lolita and having to pretend he is her parental figure (the ULTIMATE and FINAL cuck)>he doesn't consider the Humbert-Quilty confrontation as one of the most iconic duels in all of literature, equal to Pechorin facing off Grushnitsky in the Caucasus and Kirilov facing off himself.It is so fucking over for ya>>24700082Nabokov's side characters just die off for no reason like Chinese factory workers. When he said he considered them galley slaves he meant he could throw them overboard whenever necessary for the smooth sailing of the plot.
>>24699946Is lit/ contractually required to always have at least one thread about this book going at all times?
>>24700665>galley slaves he meant he could throw them overboard whenever necessary for the smooth sailing of the plot.more so that he wrote non-chronologically so that events stay the same and characters cant "get out of control" and do something outside of his initial or larger plan for the plot, which is what he was responding to with that, and which i think was his intention with the galley proof pun. the surviving characters tend more to be minor once the book ends.>>24700692its a controversial book with two movie adaptations that also happens to be incredibly well written (by an author with controversial opinions known also for hiding things that only later generations find) and either shorter or the second shortest book in the top 10s of those top 100 lists. its only natural.
>>24700933Do you think these threads are used before the coomers jump on over to b to search for the cartoons, and then elsewhere?
>>24699946Why did they make her jewish in this edition?
If I were to explain as succinctly as I can the failure of contemporary poetry, I can do no better than to post this meme.
>>24700193I read the new Fiona Benson collection and it was great. Much better than some victorian shit
>>24700797Post a screenshot of a Fiona Benson poem and do NOT post ANY LINKS at ALL or I WILL FUCKING EAT YOU
>>24700805Why are you so angry? You do ah… read books on this ah… literature forum? Why pretend that your only possibly source of reading material is screenshots posted on a Bhutanese embroidery pow-wow? Go to a library nigga.But I managed to find one anyway! She’s not public domain, because of the whole being alive thing, so obviously it’s harder to post.But anyway, I’ve read everything by Matthew Arnold, and I’ve read everything by Benson, Benson is better
>>24700843It's a joke from earlier in the thread, some other anon was having a fucking stroke because another anon posted links to poems instead of screenshots. Thank you for the poem btw I quite enjoyed it
>>24700797>>24700805>>24700843>>24700848Samefag
Can you write better poetry than this? Give it a try.
My modest Balkan honest friendHas never wanted better lifeI wonder why the case with him wasThat his preference really was to die
>>24698804wise words
Cunt, cunt, cuntYou're mother was a cunt onceAnd probably still is
>>24698679>my fertile, brown field>fertilized by white seed>i hate the bulb that grows inside of me>writhing>twisting>from formlessness springs being>fermenting>and parasitic>i've already made>an appointment>at the>abortion clinic> -rupi kaur
>>24698810Unironically good
>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24700882I think your post is weird and gross. I think a man masturbating in public is weird and gross. Your post is equivalent to a man masturbating in public. You're masturbating in public!!!!!!
>>24700882>It offends me therefore it shouldn’t exist
>>24700863Yes.
>>24700882You have to open a book and read it to be offended by it. A group of public masturbaters doesn't have the same barrier for entry.
>>24700894On a long enough line of relativism we can eventually equate child erotica to opposing child erotica? I don‘t think you thought this through. >>24700896Yes>>24700903No>>24700909That doesn‘t make it right.
Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
>>24697005>Lit Quarterlyi have the first three copies and one of my shorts is in the secondare they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
>>24700864>they available online? don't remember if they were print only or notoh i should have clicked the mega kekeke
>>24700711Burgerpunkposting was really a nice time, I'm sad it didn't go on longer than it did. It's a neat idea, really.
>>24700757Here you go, my fine fellow.Shoot me a message on Goodreads if you'd like a free e-copy should you not want to give me shekels.Also available on Barnes and Noble, Target online, Indigo, and other booksellers if you don't like Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Mathew-Kellerman-ebook/dp/B0CJ5S9VWV/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2PHCXT4JURO5W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.47r96R5FH9RZRWfInBm7OvLFFokWFpEOQ5Xj-45NlhPGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.TabOGKwsX5Tioi1x01BELqHlBXBSGqBNE6Ob00XQB8A&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+awakening+mathew+kellerman&qid=1757106143&sprefix=%2Caps%2C238&sr=8-1
>>24700874Pic related is my favourite take on it, although I'm no burgerpunk scholar. The focus is on the impact on the individual, whereas most other attempts I read treated it simply as a setting or set of props to throw around; here there's something interesting implied about how even if you believe you're living outside the system (or maybe in its cracks) you're still subject to the homogenising powers of corporate feudalism, and find yourself a caricature.>>24700864What's the title? The Lit Quarterly editor gave me some recommendations for pieces to read after I got my hands on the PDFs, but I haven't gone through yet.
Thought, in thinking itself, thinks what it is to think as such, and what it is to think as such is to think the object of thought per se, that is, pure being.Pure being, as the formal object of thought, is, analytically, the first concept of thought. As the first concept of thought, it has an infinite extension and no intensional content. That is, it has no given definition. Thought, in thinking pure being, thinks nothing.Thinking nothing is not not thinking. To think nothing is to think thought as unfettered by any given determination. To think nothing is to think the beginning of thought's own self-determination. Thought, in thinking nothing, thinks the illimitability of its formal object: pure being.The opening of the logic repeats Aristotle: thought is nothing before it thinks, for it has no given nature. If it did, it would delimit the formal object of thought.This is all that is needed to get started on the greatest philosophical adventure ever. Please start reading the Science of Logic.
>>24696955>>24697020>>24696903>inauthentic shitAuthentic to what? An anxiety emptied of content or some arbitrary historical contingency? How do you discern between the authentic and the inauthentic? Hermeneutics try to be "authentic" to the historical contingency, but this just leads to relativism. Gadamer tried to solve this problem by going back to Hegel and limiting the scope of dialectics. But for the dialectics to work, it must be thought itself the one that introduces new determinations into the dialectic by its own potency, and this movement must be the same as the movement of the thing itself, or better yet, thought and being must be identical. If those conditions aren't met, the relation between one thought and another (or the moment of synthesis, fusion or whatever you may call it) is external, thus a mere contingency that can be negated with no problem at all; and the relation between what we think and the thing itself is contingent too, thus relativism.The second Heidegger is aware that the hermeneutic circle is indeed vicious, so he tries to go back to the nothingness of anxiety or primordial openness of being before any ontological horizon is posited. His treatment further shows that Heidegger is the one limited by abstract thought, since he's unable to move within being's self-contradiction. This leads him to reject thought, instead of thinking of thought as the self-movement that finds itself in its negation. His reasoning is quite close to Spinoza's. I think that Hegel's critique of Heidegger would be similar to his critiques of Schelling and Jacobi,he was quite critical of isolating both sides of oppositions or uniting them while excluding difference. They accept that everything that is, is being, but when we point to this or that being, we lose being itself and now we have determinate being. Every being is invariantly being, therefore in order to grasp being itself, we must negate every determinate content of being. Thus being is both the absolute affirmation and negation of content i.e. Being and Nothingness are the same and the opposite. Spinoza avoids Nothingness since he's on the positive side, whereas Heidegger stays on the negative side. Because of this reason, the transition from indeterminacy to determinacy fails. Determinacy comes from the self-negation of indeterminacy. It's not just that indeterminacy is both pure positivity or negativity, but that its already determined to be undetermined. If was not determined, then it wouldn't be determined to negate determinacy, and thus it would affirm determinacy. That's implicit on Spinoza's omnis determinatio ist negatio. If determination is negation, then indetermination is the negation of negation. Determinacy is contained within indeterminacy, and determinacy is ideally related to indeterminacy. The ontical is ontological and the ontological is ontical. A thought unable to grasp this movement is not thought but an abstract and dead understanding.
>>24696955>Reason isn't that special. It isn't the ground of knowledgeBoth the concept of knowledge and ground entail reason. To give a ground is to give a reason. We say that one thing grounds another one if one is the explanation of the other. In a strict sense, the explanation contains the whole of the explained, since if it's not contained then it's outside the explanation, thus the explained wouldn't be explained at all; and the explained must contain the whole of the explanation, since the explanation is the very essence of the explained, hence if the explained does not contain the explanation then the essential would be something external, but the essence is precisely the internal. The activity between the explanation and the explained is reason as such.On the other hand, what differentiates knowledge from opinion is justification. You could say that knowledge is the web that ties the objects of knowledge together. But the web must always mantain the figure of necessary connection, for if the connections were contingent then the web could be easily negated by anyone.>>24699128I'll give you a hegelian response later. Rn I'm too tired to write
>>24699426An explanation need not and cannot contain the explained in its entirety. It can only gesture at a relationship. Reductionism is in principle impossible and the whole of analytic philosophy has demonstrated what a dead end it is.
>>24696906For that there's the Philosophy of Mind (Encyclopedia v III) and the Aesthetic Lectures
>>24697009>>24699406Heidegger does engage with Hegel's Logic in both Identity and Difference and in the addresses and notes collected in GA 68 (simply published as "Hegel"), as well as a discussion of the Encyclopedia section on nature (Logic: The Question of Truth), and the Philosophy of Right (On Hegel's Philosophy of Right).Heidegger's Seinsfrage, while often coming across as though he were after the Sein of metaphysics, is not in fact what he's after, but rather the phenomenological account of the pre-theoretical experience with beings that allows us to understand them as beings of whatever sort (truly, indifferently, theoretically, falsely, poetically, as equipment, etc.).
Write a story with five sentences or less and use the Balldo as a prop.
>>24700008>For sale: Balldo, never used
>>24700446Its the only choice for gays.
>>24700421You fuck with your balls not your penis using this>>24700446Once you can get yourself off handsfree you will understand
>>24700806Not true, gays should stick to handjobs, blowjobs and the like
>>24700446Blood and shedded vaginal wall come out of the vagina. Fucking ass is the same suspension of disgust as fucking a woman on her period
Τῆς ὀπώρης edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24669573>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24697959Not sure why an image of a Latin-text reading list of Late Roman-Medieval texts would get taken down, so I am going to assume something screwed up with the site or the jannies made a mistake. I figure I'll just touch up a mistake I had made on the original image.
Are there any recommended resources for Hellenistic Greek? Is Attic my best bet? I specifically want to read the Argonautica.
>>24700818the Argonautica is written in Homeric, so the periodization here helps you little
>>24700793hope jannies aren't retarded enough to think it's some generic dubs getter, people aren't spamming it
>>24700793>>24698283ad Ioannem rursus volvo
What's one book you enjoy immensely but would be embarrassed to admit so?
>>24700887>Explain why ephebophila is le evil or whatever, without sounding mad. Hard mode: provide sources.
>>24699505qrd on this book? is it some romance for men incelkino or something?
>>24700887Simple. Would you have sex with a 6 year old kid? No, right? Of course not. So then why is it suddenly okay if you put a 1 to the left of it?
Why do McCarthy fags always swallow the bait?
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldI enjoyed it a lot and it practically got me into reading history
Even they are waking up for the fact that women only read porn.
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>>24700472>but its effect on the mind.AKA violent videogames turn kids into mass murderers and school shooters idiocy.
>>24700755You don’t have to agree with it but that logic is popularly applied to pornography while erotica is given a pass.
>>24700755The same logic of "nothing fictional affects the mind" would argue that propaganda doesn't work. Going on a killing spree requires breaking so many in-built natural and societal barriers in the mind that most people simply aren't going to do it regardless of what they consume or think. Plenty of people would love to murder those they have disputes with but don't because of the complications surrounding it and the initial mental hurdle. Sexuality and relationships is much more nebulous and does not have the same mental barriers. Having unrealistic expectations of your partner can be egged on by having friends tell you how much better you deserve, and is incredibly common. Having your friends convince you to murder a bunch of children is very uncommon, and most people would reject it out of hand. Having people's repeated coom fantasies psy-op them around really isn't much of a stretch
>>24700755>AKA violent videogames turn kids into mass murderers and school shooters idiocy.Have you seen how kids treat each other nowadays?
Did he kill himself out of boredom?
>>24689065>manic fuckboy who becomes so obsessed with a woman he plots to kill her ex-husbandkek he really was a living romance novel. Never read any of his bricks but I do respect the hustle.
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>>24697347>God shaped holeHe was a Mennonite and not at all agnostic. His views on religion and his belief is all over his writing. Lane Dean Jr is everything he saw wrong with faith, it is not those who do not believe but those that mistake belief for an identity and Lane Dean Jr does and as most of the 4chan larpers do.
He has an oddly gay voice and mannerisms for a straight man.
>>24699502He's not gay he's just white
For me, it's chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, the most beautiful chapter in literature.
>>24698853There is a place like this in Lithuania, my homeland. It's pretty grim.
>>24694890Zizek hasn't even read it. His whole arguement is that "da Nazis liked it so it's bad!!" He forgets most Nazis were Christians and never extends the same criticism to the Bible
>>24698389Christianity in the third world isn't much better
looks like van buitenen has translated a collection of puranic myths, i'll bet that's as good as anything.
>>24694890Of all the reasons to criticize the Bhagavad Gita, this seems like one of the absolute dumbest
