>Frodo captured>show him turning into a wraith or a jew or something>Sam still takes the ring and Sting>Sam destroys the ring>Gandalf rescues him at Mount Doom>better demonstrates the sacrifice required to fight Communism>makes for better scene when Mouth of Sauron shows they have Frodo's mithril coat, elven cloak and "western blade" (i.e. Sam's sword).Why didn't the otherwise commendable JRRT see this?
>>24986224>Sam>able to destroy the ring
>>24986224>muh subverted expectationsNeck yourself.
>>24986244technically he does
>>24986242I've played final fantasy games my whole life and this is not even close to fantasy genre like only the Japanese can imagine. Just overrated dungeon and dragons western shit
Op, Eru knew that no one on Middle Earth could destroy the ring willingly, but the inhabitants must try by taking the ring to the precipice. Frodo nor Sam were capable of destroying the ring, which was why Gollum was there; him tripping to his (and the rings) doom was Eru finishing up the job, as they had proven their mettle to advance to future ages.
I'm ready for the third series.
>>24986500Must be thinking of someone else. Bakker never officially gave up writing, but it's taken a backseat due to low sells, publisher issues, and the fact that he lost a lot of material in harddrive crash he had years ago. He started posting to his blog again for the first time in five years though.
>>24987085>harddrive crashThere's that meme again. How does this keep happening to people? The guy devving that Fear and Hunger game dumpstered all his files once too. That's slightly more forgivable then losing... Writing materials?Not that I can really talk. I just backup my shit on Google Drive (cancer) and email word docs to myself just in case.
>>24986499The sranc fuck wounds, they don't have a preference for the honey of unwashed anus
>>24986402Gnosis is considered sorcery no?
>>24987573Yeah but a sorcerer who is also a prophet is a shaman, like how a sorcerer who has no school is a wizard. This book has its own jrpg class system.
Image and topic say it all, I have all three and debating which to read to kick off the new year. I wish I could do wild sheep chase or south of the border again but Ive read them both.Also I have the missing chapters downloaded and annotated WUBC but is it really necessary to read it this way or can I just read what’s in the shitty translation?General Murakami thread if you like.
>>24983314Wind up bird 100%
>>24983377You have poor taste (low intellect)
>>24983314I haven't read the other two but wind up bird chronicles was OK.
>>24986120OP here, ngl I went this route, but don’t tell the others so the thread keeps going
>>24986105
The polls for the main voting have closed. Now it has come for the tiebreaking.>https://forms.gle/eXmHiPgimFmzUwMA6Each book will be scored on a scale from 0 to 4. The scores from all voters will be added, and books will be ranked by their total score.You can edit your responses after voting. To limit one vote per person, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or viewable in any way.The Top 100 before tiebreaking are in picrel. The full information is in this spreadsheet.>https://files.catbox.moe/iek244.odsVoting closes on Jan 7, 23:59 EST. Thank you for voting!
Mein Kampf was an option this year and I don't think it made the top 100 cut, the years prior where the faggot running the poll refused to allow it is now shown to be a stupid censoring jew as a result
>>24986944300 legitimate votes vs 100 illegitimatevotes is better than 50 legitimate votes and 25 illegitimate votes. Again though, the focus should be on eliminating the illegitimate rather than preventing.
>>24986682>https://forms.gle/eXmHiPgimFmzUwMA6can't vote unless I vote on all the books, including ones I haven't read
>>24987422just give them all 0s if you dont want to vote ?
>no Book of Mormon is African Bible bout to kms desu
Victoria EditionPrevious: >>24975069/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.
>>24987589Actually, i changed the ending to make the point a bit more clear. Does this help make it more interesting?I died at age 43. My coworkers arrived in the morning and found me barricaded inside of the office. They found my corpse beside the printer with a letter opener in my hands. According to my coworkers, I had a look of terror on my face. The coroner wrote heart attack as my cause of death. They found no traces of drugs or physical injury during the autopsy. The morgue cremated me on Thursday, and my ashes were scattered into the Eastward winds. They will not settle into the Earth.
Please rate>Please rate"Devastation, Armageddon! A hawk flies towards Mouse City!" cried the town crier mouse."We must retreat to our burrows at once," said the black mouse.But even as his first whisker twitched (the really sensitive one he had bent as a child), an uncommonly fat brown mouse staggered to the center."Gentlemen," said the brown mouse, who wore spectacles and a coat. "There is a possibility that this 'hawk' may simply be a swarm of sparrows casting a hawkish shadow. Or swamp gas. Have you considered this?""Is it just a swarm of sparrows? Is it swamp gas?" asked white mouse."No.""Then why mention it?" cried the town crier mouse, who did not cotton to philosophers in particular or brown mouse in general. "I just wanted to know if you considered it."Black mouse took charge. He and white mouse lit the matchstick torches, they sharpened the sewing needle longswords, hid the she-mice, buried the cheese, and even managed a sip of ginger ale before lunch. "When's the damn thing coming?" asked white mouse. "Look up little mice, and meet your master!" replied the hawk. His voice carried everywhere, his shadow enveloped them all. Everyone had hidden underground where claws and beak were useless. All but one brave soul. The brown mouse had an expression of philosophically-minded heroism on his face, which is difficult to imagine in a mouse, so it is easier to picture him frowning. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24987631>It must be reiterated to the reader that he was an uncommonly, remarkably fat mouse.please cut this but i liked the rest of it in the comedic melodrama way. turning to the reader and winking is too much even for this place tho
>>24987513Appreciate it, will do>>24987562Thank you friend
>>24987631>who did not cotton to philosophers in particular or brown mouse in general.>The meaning of cotton shifted from "to get on well" to "to get on well together," and eventually to the sense we know today, "to take a liking to." The "understand" sense appeared later, in the early 20th century.What in the goddamn? Pretty cool excerpt thoughbeit.
Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton are the three greatest writers in the English language and if you haven't read them you are effectively illiterate.
>>24985831>Btw have you read Johnson? Your description of Shakespeare is reminiscent of his ideas.I have but I can't remember him. I love Milton and Houseman, myself. Johnson disliked the former to an extent.I rated Chaucer above Shakespeare because I agree with you! I'm very intellectual myself, but mostly yearn for the particular; I prefer to access the more eternal aspects of the world via non-fiction, myself. When I read poetry I just want it to tug at my heartstrings or be enjoyable.
>>24985416Why do midwits bother to make threads with the most predictable takes on the planet? You could’ve given some nuanced or insightful commentary on any one of those writers that would’ve done their legacy justice, but apparently you’re too retarded to have anything of value to say about them.
>>24986708Yes, frankly. Just look poetry today--basic meter filters "poets." As a matter of fact I respect Herbert, Donne, and the Metaphysicals generally, and given the density of theme and tightness of form they exhibit I might not have disagreed so sharply with you had you cited them rather than Chaucer and Shakespeare, though I still think that English, due to its hybrid character, excels in prose more so than poetry.
>>24986733>No he doesn'tYes he does, nigger.>Modern poetsWho famously suck ass.
>>24987212>Yes he does, nigger.No, I've done the customary Middle English prep, and I can firmly say he almost always has perfect rhymes.>Who famously suck ass.Yeats doesn't suck ass.
Who are your influences? I'll start with mine:- Plato- Nieztsche- Peterson- Jung- Deleuze- Yarvin- Butler- Schopenhauer- Paul Ricouer-Hegel
>>24978753>music>literature board
>>24981565>I bet you're absolutely insufferable.>Anyway, Burke, Hume, Machievelli, Cicero, Le Bon. Schmitt to a certain degree but not without some suspicion.Pot, meet kettle.
Schopenhauer influenced me the most.
>>24978571>Peterson>YarvinWow great choice of grifters to have got life directed by.My only influences are Pavlov, Herbert Spencer and Machiavelli. If you need anything else you are either dumb or unemployed or both.
>>24987211yarvin may be a grifting namefag but moldbug is a pretty smart pseudoanon, for the 21st century at least. if only he wasn't as cowardly, he'd probably still say wise things like land. although land left xitter whereas yarvin has recently joined it so perhaps i'm just spewing from my cakehole there.
>This is how we recognize the man who has tendencies toward an inner quest: he will set failure above any success, he will even seek it out, unconsciously of course. This is because failure, always essential, reveals us to ourselves, permits us to see ourselves as God sees us, whereas success distances us from what is most inward in ourselves and indeed in everything.Does this autist have a point? Are failures more conducive to moral salvation than success? Is my loser life finally going to be of some use?
>>24984571This board and the rest of the site is full of aging millennial sois.
>>24984812Pretty based, Anon. Cioran is for chads.I wish you joyful new year reading ecstatic over the top pessimism of the guy that tells it like it is and reminds us that we are not alone in this darkness of creation that we love to hate recursively.
>>24986062Happy new year to you too, anon
>>24984553Damn that's a funny quote
>>24983970Good postI like you!
Privacy by Danielle Chelosky (new story!)>A folder on her laptop held the stories she was not allowed to publish. One boy forbade her because there was an entire paragraph about his dick size (it was complimentary, she didn’t understand the problem). Another was worried his girlfriend would end up finding it. Another said he would cancel her for invasion of privacy. >These were rare instances. Mostly boys were flattered, considered it an ego boost, no matter how they were portrayed. People in general liked to be immortalized. In a way, she resented their narcissism, like they couldn’t appreciate what she’d written because they were just staring at themselves.>The truth was whatever reaction the boys offered was not what she wanted, even if they lavished her with praise, called her a genius, it was never enough. She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved. It never seemed to have the effect that she yearned for, probably because it was impossible. Maybe, she thought, if she killed herself then her words would take on a new, heavier meaning.>She used to think that a boy being mad about a story she’d written about him meant the writing had done its job. It touched a nerve; it was controversial and had a direct impact on real life. Then she decided that mindset was banal, stupid. She thought her writing was at its weakest when it was a weapon.>On the internet she stalked a writer she had once done a literary reading with. During the reading he had spoken candidly about his sex addiction, and his girlfriend at the time stomped off. Now he was dating a different writer and they were constantly writing about their relationship, hosting readings where they read about each other with each other, publishing the history of their love in glossy magazines that paid by the word. She felt put off by this masturbatory spectacle. Like she couldn’t imagine anyone caring about it or finding it as anything other than insufferable. She wondered how one could make interesting art if they viewed their life as a project—then isn’t the project about the project, not about life?
>>24986463So why does your waifu worship him?
>>24986471She's UR waifu. I banged these chick's and had relationships woth the and know how mid they are. You are the one simping and fantasizing bitchass whitoid bitchmade bitchnigga kys
Dad-yelles Child-rape-noncesky
>>24986555This, t b h
>>24965319>>24965321I said it earlier in this discussion but good lord this human being is so comically passive. I feel like she's literally looking at her life like she's sitting at an art gallery, hmming and huhing at the people she encounters with no real purpose. Everything she encounters is treated like exhibits at an art museum too, consumed and criticized as if looking at some graduate student's 7/10 portraiture in a cold white gallery. "The one thing which we seek with insatiable desire is to forget ourselves, to be surprised out of our propriety, to lose our sempiternal memory, and to do something without knowing how or why; in short, to draw a new circle. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. The way of life is wonderful: it is by abandonment. The great moments of history are the facilities of performance through the strength of ideas, as the works of genius and religion. "A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going." Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason, they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart."Does anything happen to this human that actually makes them stop and realize how fucking hermetic they are? Do they ever transcend this self-obsessed psychically-cloistered monologue? Or is their whole reality just this droning on about how everything reminds her she's stuck inside her skull?
So the One is absolutely simple yet has the power to overflow itself and generate the Indefinite Dyad/Nous, just because? This power doesn't violate it's absolute simplicity? And then the Forms of the Nous don't formally exist in the One, but somehow eminently. They begin to exist formally and distinct when the Nous reflects back on the One, but the Nous is ultimately perceiving and reflecting back the Forms that exist eminently in the One. This seems like a cop out to me. Nothing comes from nothing, but Plotinus wants the One to have all the forms yet free of the consequences that his axioms would imply (ie multiplicity, which is bad and evil). Aristotle was more honest to say that God/the One is thinking. Even if this introduces some kind of multiplicity, Plotinus thinks he gets to avoid that by having the Forms exist, but not really, in the One.
>>24986804(Faggot)>crypto-Aristotle threadUnqualified "Being" does not need to partake of Intellection to then become the Qualified Intellect. Since Qualified Being knows itself as the Intellect, it isn't One, but One-Many. Emanation or emitting anything at all is in analogy but not in reality of the three principles of Good or One, Mind or One-Many, Soul or One and Many(sequentially within time). Matter is not a principle unto itself for it exists for the Soul to become an enmattered living being, but nevertheless is the fourth eternal ungenerated principle in the manner of it being the furthest extent in the schema away from the One as it is why it cannot produce anything further that makes it different from itself besides comparative distinctions of matter to smaller matter, ad infinitum, is still material. Asking why is there many things rather than one thing is answered by Necessity thereof to have such eternal principles govern the All. Forms as in Shapes does not exist in Pure Being, while Forms as in Ideas exists in a hypostatically simpler mode where all the Ideas overlaps and converges to the vanishing point of the Formless One, as failed yet approximated expressions of the inexpressible, the sweetness of this ambrosia is not the sweetness of phenomenal sweets, where antinomies are blurred in our mortal blindsight but the divine insight into that which isn't even divine is very bright, where all the Forms radiates back into the One without abandoning the Formations that ritually draws forth the shapeless shape enmattered and shaped through effectively of the finality, the end of the effect.
>>24986804Crypto-geometry thread with the mention of axioms, one, size/magnitude and shape
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>>24982152>schools, popular social movements, and even the government in most cases teach you to be hedonist, nihilist, and a moral relativistNo they don't.>rise in youth religionAlso not happening. Go outside. Get off the internet. Talk to people and breath fresh air.
>>24987055Dude loves reading about ancient Jewish laws around how much money your daughter is worth to marry her to her rapist and how your daughter should be stoned to death on your doorstep if you marry her off as a non-virgin.
>>24978972>I like small niche thing/community>I am compelled to share small niche thing/community I like with millions of strangers from whom I can derive absolutely no benefit materially or psychologically that have ruined absolutely everything else they’ve been allowed to touchI will NEVER understand this impulse.
>>24987336Yes. Greek and Norse texts about the exact same thing too.
>>24987093>Troon Jr is mad
On fairies:>The origins of the magical content of the pagan cults can be traced back to the fairies, who were a real, neo- lithic people, smaller in stature than the natives of northern Europe or England. They were a pastoral people who had no knowledge of agriculture. They fled before stronger, technologically more advanced murderers and missionaries who had contempt for their culture. They set up communities in the in- lands and concealed their dwellings in mounds half hidden in the ground. The fairies developed those magical skills for which the witches, centuries later, were burned.>The socioreligious organization of the fairy culture was matriarchal and probably polyandrous.>the fairy culture was still extant in England as late as the 17th century when even the pagan beliefs of the early witches had degenerated into the Christian parody which we associate with Satanism. The Christians rightly recognized the fairies as ancient, original sorcerers, but wrongly saw their whole culture as an expression of the demonic. There was communication between the fairies and the pagan women, and any evidence that a woman had visited the fairies was considered sure proof that she was a witch.>There were, then, three separate, though interre- lated, phenomena: the fairy race with its matriarchal social organization, its knowledge of esoteric magic and medicine; the woman-oriented fertility cults, also practitioners of esoteric magic and medicine; and later, the diluted witchcraft cults, degenerate parodies of Christianity
>>24985906It's far older than that. Both were inspired by ancient Irish myths.
>>24987520It was made up wholesale by a woman named Margaret Murray who got it by autistically cross-referencing hundreds of Scottish witch trials which themselves mostly reference Anglo-Saxon mythology.
>>24987529My knowledge is fairly limited, so please forgive me for any mistakes. My understanding is the Irish creation myth involves a progression three different invasions, the Formians who were short and swarthy but had magical powers because Ireland, the Tuath Dé Danann, mighty heros and demigods, and the Milesians, mere mortal men from Northern Spain whom bested the Tuath Dé Danann on their own terms, banishing them over the Cliffs of Moher.
>>24987098i sport new balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path
>>24987594The witch cult hypothesis has very little to do with actual Irish mythology. It does posit that the cult originated with a pre-Aryan race of Asiatic shepherds and does identify these shepherds as the origin of fairy myths, but for evidence the hypothesis mostly points to the holidays that early modern witch covens were supposed to celebrate, claiming that they don't align with any holidays celebrated by any agricultural Indo-European people and therefore concluding that the shepherds' religion lived on in secret for thousands of years until it gradually evolved into the witch cult which was wiped out during the witch trials.
What book would you go to if you felt like starting over with something? With something being anything regardless of what...
>>24987466Would
>he reads poetry to impress women
>>24985975Sorry I just woke up
I’d like to impress those titties with my dick.
>>24984820When I was in my late 20s, I got invited to a poetry reading a few times, got to know those people pretty well. And let me tell you, the dudes are either narcissistic incels with delusions of grandeur or creepy rapists that WILL drug any woman's drink.
modern wom*n don't care about poetry because they think romance is a tool of the patriarchy to keep rape culture alive.
>>24984820Holy boobers
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
/soi/ tards really are the stupidest niggers on the site lmao
>>24987218Do I get 72 of these on death if I submit to the Arab pedo?
>>24987308>If the metaphysics in question never intersect with observable reality, then they are identical to something that does not exist.Setting aside that this is a blatant question-begging fallacy that presumes the conclusion that it sets out to prove, every single account of a metaphysical reality does not posit it as totally unrelated to phenomenal reality but every single metaphysical doctrine conceives of absolute or metaphysical reality in doing things like being intimately involved in generating, preserving, ordering, dissolving and making intelligible all the constituents of phenomenal reality. So this idea of the metaphysical reality being this totally separate and unrelated thing that has no involvement or relation with phenomenal reality even a qualified one is just this fanciful strawman you invented as cheap ploy to dismiss metaphysics, it's nothing more than sophistry, and it's not even superficially impressive like good sophistry is, it's a bad attempt at sophistry that makes you look dumb.
>>24979365Uh oh, it's getting based in here.
>>24987143Huh. NTA, but I had been wondering about exactly this. I think I'm beginning to understand what you're talking about. Do you have any further suggestions or advice in addition to reading the Qur'ran and surveying the Hadith?
