Any books where a comfortable loser with weak character turns it around, and not just by luck? Basically opposite of picrel?
No, and with this attitude, you're not going to dig yourself out of your hole.Your life is in a downward spiral because of structural brain issues. It's a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. If there is any cure, it involves going outside, getting away from the city, and experiencing nature in all its complexity. But that assumes it's not too late.
>>24950055>pr0nWhat's the matter schizoboy? Afraid to say the actual word?
>>24950068THAT'S your takeaway from all that? You're doomed.
>>24950076Your text wall is the same shit people have been saying about representative entertainment since ancient Greeks talking about theater. Nothing valuable to take away. But why self-censor on 4chan? What are you trying to hide, and from who?
>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
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.
>>24949084Makes sense. Orthobros and tradcaths are some of the biggest idiots as far as knowledge of philosophy is concerned. More than half of them don’t even go to church anyway, so…
>>24949084Where was this? Thread?Also, we seem to have moved from: "Christians in general have ruined Aristotle," to "someone on the Internet said something stupid."
>>24949228It’s just something I’ve seen repeatedly over the years to the point where I suspect it’s become a staple of unofficial and online apologetics.
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>>24949116You’re being absurdity pedantic. First of all, I couldn’t care less about Palamas and what he actually thought. The only thing I care about is Aristotle. Second, the only reason I even bring this passage up is because it was brought up *to me by someone else* as an example of Aristotelian-style thinking from him. The only thing I’ve claimed is that, to the extent that soul, life, essence, activity, etc., operate the way they operate in that passage, it’s clear to me that it’s not Aristotelian. That is the only point that matters to me. Third, whatever that analogy was trying to communicate, it was abysmally executed because the passage seems to operate in a proto Cartesian-esque because it treats the soul as a separate thing from the body (for obvious reasons). He could have picked a much better example.Just an obnoxious comment all around, his comment and yours.
Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24950112Love is not and cannot be present unless there is a very specific structure of biological matter and the presence of certain molecules.
>>24945936No it's actually because most "people" are vile and base subhumans (not me though).
>>24945823>da thing not real because 99% of npc goycattle will never experience it + muh ancients who were very wise because they said so didn't believe in itlower lifeform behaviour, have some ambition you sperm
>>24947130i hate how i know a woman wrote this
>>24945804Two reasons:One, they didn't use "love" in the sense of mere infatuation, as we so often do. Love (and hate) were used also as general categories of action. Which is why the Bible at the same time says you must love your wife (care for her, protect her, emotional presence) and also hate her (not choose her over the Kingdom). But the second, and more important reason, is that they didn't usually fall for the reductionist fallacy. The words you're reading right now are made of flickering pixels. Are they "just" flickering pixels? Well no, they are also references to meaning, they are units of syntax, they have aesthetic value ... none of this is addressed by evaluating pixels as the words' immediate physical form. Because physical evaluation is reductive. And as useful as it is, a reduction by definition doesn't address the entirety of a phenomenon. It is a silent hope of materialists that we at some point will create a formula that will physically address also aesthetics and history and etymology etc. but nothing really warrants this hope at this point. So your view of love hinges on the unwarranted use of "just" in >basically just a powerful drugIf you read the studies you're referencing carefully, you will not find any rational reason for including it. You will only find that within a particular framework, the reduction is done so and so.
Is this actually poorly written, or is that just the thing where they try to bash him any way they can (small dick, missing testicle, secretly gay, etc.)
why did britain declare war on germany for invading poland again?
>>24942860I second some other anons on here: It reads like an incoherent rant at times. But he clearly lays out his views and beliefs in it.
>>24942860He didn't wrote it
>>24950051So they could give Poland to Russia, of course.
>>24950074>he clearly lays out his views and beliefsNo he doesn't. Not clearly at lest. For instance he states that the theoretical basis for national socialism is the racist theory of history to oppose the Marxist materialistic theory of history. Yet nowhere he goes into depth or even superficially explains what that theory entails. It's just mostly vibes and defines itself in opposition to marxistsThe only lucid and coherent part I found was the international politics one, which is written so differently from the rest of the book you'd be lead to think someone else penned it
You lived through the age of opportunity, a type of golden shitposting age if you will.In no previous time period could a man shitpost with such fervor and with such great ease.In the east communism kept people in strict order and behind an invisible firewall. Climbing up the hierarchy truly did require exception shitposting skills especially social ones. The communist block would see a brief glimpse of opportunity for 2 generations, yet it would also be plagued by western elites abusing the falling system for their gains.In the south the african ways have never changed. Shitposting is shunned and crushed by a violent R-selected collective. Reproduce fast, die young, even if external factors don't demand it their genes will drive them to idiocy.In the islamic world a more orderly violence remains but shitposting is still mostly hereditary or limited to truly exceptional individuals.In the far east with rare exceptions the asian blood demands obedience and limited creativity so shitposting is rare there. Perhaps Japan could be considered an exception but not for long.All of these people have some sort of reason to claim the conditions brought them down.But you, who lived in the West, you can truly say "we experienced an unprecedented age of freedom of expression and shitposting opportunities"That time is coming to an end. Years of shitposting recession are coming. Some say years of high austere measures will come with them, others claim a total clamp down on shitposting and non-approved speech due to the upcoming digital ID and surveillance bills.Either way there will be less opportunity to shitpost, all major platforms will be hit, censorship will rise, information of everything that was in abundance before will be limited if available at all. There will be less venues to shitpost and some anonymous venues like these (4chud), now deemed the pinnacle of shitposting, will become obsolete.
>>24950647Tldr.
>>24950481direct biblical analysis is more of a protestant thing, down the hall to the left. Scott Hahn who is a calvanist to catholic convert does more directly related scripture analysis (and John Bergsma), you would probably like them. Certainly you can realize that this 12 minute sermon which has no relation to the problem of evil or some surface level argue about the nature of God is indictative of a much deeper and rich spiritual life that one can engage in, which I am referring to.
>>24950493>direct biblical analysis is more of a protestant thing, down the hall to the left.Yeah, catholics and orthodox christians hate reading their book. They let their priests decide what parts they should know.>Scott Hahn who is a calvanist to catholic convert does more directly related scripture analysis (and John Bergsma), you would probably like themDoubtful, but thanks for the suggestions none the less. I much prefer the academic approach.>Certainly you can realize that this 12 minute sermon which [...] is indictative of a much deeper and rich spiritual life that one can engage in, which I am referring to.Certainly you can realize that me typing to the character limit, half discussing the parts of the old testament that the preacher referenced, slightly less than half directly talking about what the preacher was preaching about(compunction and how to use it to stop making mistakes), and a little bit talking about my reaction to what I was watching. That this was engaging with what he pulled references from, and their use or misuse in his sermon. That this was talking directly about what he was trying to teach you, by summarizing what he said, in my own words. Surely you can realize that this "much deeper and rich spiritual life that one can engage in", is just the standard human experience that literally every culture engages in. Certainly you would have seen that I was engaged with the topic, and was able to understand what was being said.>[...] has no relation to the problem of evil or some surface level argue about the nature of God [...]He wouldn't have been able to resolve any of the various problems of evil/suffering in 12 minutes, as it's the #1 deconversion reason for people leaving christianity. Certainly he wouldn't have actually been able to argue about any level of god's nature(surface or not), in 12 minutes. Aquinas likely made the best attempt at discussing the nature of your god(and it took him around 300 pages to discuss everything he felt he needed to in Summa contra Gentiles Book 1), through the negation process, of listing all the things that your god isn't. I'm not aware of anyone doing a better job than Aquinas in the ~1000 years before him or the ~800 years after him. So there's no possible way that a preacher would outdo one of the best writers that christianity ever had.Certainly you can admit that I was able to achieve whatever expectations you had from me watching that sermon. I would say overachieve, but I'll be fine with you admitting that I, at the very least, managed to achieve them. Showing that atheists do understand, even without having the Holy Spirit to guide in all truths.
>>24945026Jesus The Son of Man by Gibran (along with his other works besides The Prophet) imo ought to get more attention than it does.>Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, "My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree".(from Sand and Foam)
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>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24950477Based Zerg macro > micro scrub
>>24950477See >>24950509>>24950514Commies are mostly consists of stalinist oldfarts in basically everywhere outside of angl*sphere
>>24950477>can't win over blacksTell me “I haven’t watched DuRaRaRa” without saying “I haven’t watched DuRaRaRa”
>>24950519Interesting. Will read. Do you have any other books or sources?
>>24950613No, I only read Tragedy and Hope because I heard it's some conspiracy theory book and decided to see what all the fuss is about. It turned out to be just a dry history book but I was also playing Victoria II at the time combo made me so immersed that I managed to read the whole 1000 page book within a couple of days even though I'm usually a very slow reader. The book kind of made me wish the commerce and banking had more depth in Victoria II, but apparently not even the mods can fix that from what I've heard. Don't trust everything in the book though, I once embarrassed myself on an anonymous messaging board by claiming that the french finance sector of the 19th century was dominated by germanic protestants because that's what the book claimed but then someone pointed out they were just french huguenots from Geneva lol. It also claims that the Nobel family is German rather than Swedish but even I knew that's wrong.
>name an author with a more insufferable fanbaseProtip: You can't
>>24950456yeah, and romanian or gypsy or something. its on his wiki
>>24949929Danielewski. House of Leaves is overrated shit, and the fans will not shut up about it.
>>24949929Jordan Peterson has the worst fan base for a contemporary author by far
>>24949929I have never seen a "Joyce fan"
>>24949929Any feminist.
Apologize.
>>24950358No reason for me to apologize. He is my GOAT.
>>24950358Genuinely used to hate him and the Beats. Now, I (mostly) understand what all the fuss is about. K was teeming with soul.
>>24950600same, but i still hate them except for burroughs. All kerouac does is dickriding cassidy and ginsberg is the most pretentious pseudo-intellectual pederast to ever roam the earth. After reading a bit mor of burroughs i realized hes a bit of a one-trick pony too, but atleast he isnt such a wanker like the rest. Wouldnt want to smoke a spliff with either of them tho
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>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.
>>24945596>>24949785Did you buy a physical copy of Living Latin reader by Paideia?Are Paideia Institute's books available as free downloads? I see nothing on Anna's Archive.
>>24950303I bought a physical. The website looked like aids. It wasn’t expensive, about $13 on Amazon.>>24949785Yeah it’s pretty retarded. It’s apparently supposed to be how one is intended to transition into Latin reading if they did the duolingo course or something. It has margin notes in a way that mimics Orberg sort of. It was kind of a breeze until I hit an unfamiliar enough subject that it was just a wall of unmarked new vocabulary and I got bored. I’ve been too busy with reading French books I’ve been buying in Paris to open it again.It’s amazing though, I did like the most common 100 french words on anki and learned the orthography and I feel like that + my Latin vocab is letting me mostly comprehend a bunch of philosophy books I bought. Thanks Latin!
>>24950492>It has margin notes in a way that mimics Orberg sort of.Ørberg was not the first to write books like that. Ørberg's book is almost a photocopy of these older books.https://archive.org/details/english-by-the-nature-methodhttps://archive.org/details/deutsch-nach-der-naturmethodehttps://archive.org/details/jensen-arthur-le-francais-par-la-methode-naturehttps://archive.org/details/LitalianoSecondoIlMetodoNaturaBut the method is older than that still.https://archive.org/details/firstspanishbook00wormrichhttps://archive.org/details/erstesdeutsches00wormgooghttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044102852332This is you, isn't it?>>>/int/217612905
>>24945596>fabulae facilesWhich Fabulae Faciles are you talking about? There's no book in the Lingua Latina series with that title.I posted some links for you here>>>/int/217614226>>>/int/217614296>>>/int/217614336You said you only learned 100 French words, but can still read French books due to knowing Latin, so they may or may not apply.>>24950492The website looked like aids.Looks great to me. >>24950272 You sure it's the same website?
>>24950492>mostly comprehend a bunch of philosophy books I boughtcheck out https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=136467539I'm learning French and German so that I can read more and better books about classical languages.
Recommend some Soviet literature to me.
>>24948657Every old sci-fy fan recommends the Strugatsky brothers.
Better than Life & Fate because it made the same Westoid critics who praised L&F for its criticisms of Stalin seethe on account of Stalingrad's praise of the Red Army
>>24948657The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Chinghiz Aitmatov
Envy --- Yury Olesha
Ilf and Petrov's The Twelve Chairs
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.
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
Consider the Lobster
>>24947281Balzac and the little Seemstress
«LAS TIERRAS FLACAS» • AGUSTÍN YÁÑEZ.
>>24949471I think getting old makes you prioritise what you actually like, which for many old men is the topics Ambrose writes about
>>24947326I'm convinced Pynchon personally visits this site and writes all of these. When he passes the shilling will end
Will reading a lot of literature make me more attractive to girls at parties?
>>24948436Most Muslims are murtad who worship taghut and become as degenerate as the westerners themselves. The have no adab when dealing with non muslims and no Ihsan and almost no Iman. Many I have met would deserve a proper hand cutting off or lashing
Is there one person who keeps asking this stupid question or just a bunch of new stupid people who visit this board every day?
>>24948364I've done this, it works. But it also helps i have a vast digital library
>>24948428No we fucking don't achmed, go zutt somewhere else.
>>24950370>>24948439You do and if you think that women should be allowed to do what they did in ops video you deserve your replacement
