I just read The Dancing Girl of Izu and it was very soulful. Has /lit/ read any Japanese books or short stories recently?
I started reading The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, but the incest creeped me out and I stopped. Should I try again or am I not missing out on much?
>>24986909Most short stories by Ryunosuke Akutawaga.He was deeply influenced by Western literature, so it's accessible to say. You can start with the compilation Rashomon and 17 other stories by Ray Rubin.>>24987124gg
>>24986909I read pic rel in one sitting last night, it was pretty good.
>>24986909The Great Mirror of Male Love, Ihara Saikaku
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?
ITT: we post history books about less discussed topicsi'll start>western technology and soviet economic development 1930 to 1945 by sutton - about how the west essentially singlehandedly built up all soviet industry>wall street and the bolshevik revolution by sutton - about american financiers being covertly inserted into the soviet union to fund the bolshevik revolution
>The rise of international jihad and Western ultra-nationalism>In the Management of Savagery , Max Blumenthal excavates the real story behind America’s dealings with the world and shows how the extremist forces that now threaten peace across the globe are the inevitable flowering of America’s imperial designs.>Washington’s secret funding of the mujahedin provoked the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. With guns and money, the United States has ever since sustained the extremists, including Osama Bin Laden, who have become its enemies. The Pentagon has trained and armed jihadist elements in Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya; it has launched military interventions to change regimes in the Middle East. In doing so, it created fertile ground for the Islamic State and brought foreign conflicts home to American soil.>These failed wars abroad have made the United States more vulnerable to both terrorism as well as native ultra-nationalism. The Trump presidency is the inevitable consequence of neoconservative imperialism in the post–Cold War age. Trump’s dealings in the Middle East are likely only to exacerbate the situation.
>>24982238You are a self-hating tranny
>>24982294Start with the Bible m8
>>24982294The second sons of royalty were downwardly socially mobile, pushed out others who basically didn't breed, thus everyone likely has some sort of royal ancestry down the line
>>24981981>scale is incorrectYeah, no kidding. It marks Ft. Hood (marked as Ft. Cavazos on the map as it was known for a few years) 80 miles north of where it should be and then puts farmland where Dallas--Fort Worth is. Also Houston and Miami are also marked as farmland.
>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?
>>24986224Instead we get the 100% more poignant and satisfactory ending of Frodo leaving for a heaven by his own accord. To kill him near the end is too hurtful and a repeat of the loss of Gandalf the Gray. Useless shock value. > the sacrifice required to fight Communism>He thinks Sauron is a stand-in for Marxist-Leninism>He doesn't know what the word "commune" meansTolkien took many inspirations and one of them was the author/artist William Morris. Read about some of his writing. I recommend the book News From Nowhere (short and shows you what a commune is) or The Well at the World's End, if you have the time. Meandering fantasy stuff, not as good as LotR of course.
>>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
I finished reading this yesterday and honestly it was kind of boring.The first few chapters detailing how the Spanish plundered the continent were great but then when it comes to the 20th century he gets bogged down into way too much detail and mentions a bunch of literally whos and corporations that make me lose interest.
>>24987187It wasn't the free market that created Autobus.And China is the only country with a tech ecosystem because they were smart enough to keep out Google and Fagbook.
>>24987371>There's like nine Aerospace companies in India alonewe are talking about successful internationally compettive businesses. india cannot even go to an airshow without causing a catastrophe
>>24987406Is being brown really like a serious debilitating mental illness? What the fuck are you talking about retard?
>>24987397The synopsis for this book makes it seem like a sensationalist 1990s conspiraboomer title that was lightly plausible at the time but is woefully outdated now. Studying the drug trade from the standpoint of economics and co-opration with state (or failing that, non-state) power is far more useful.P.S: The U.S is the chief party responsible for its own drug problems. Maybe if Agency A and Agency B stopped undermining eachother constantly they'd get something done.>>24987192>Brazil who got worse after the Monarchy fell.You don't get to criticize communists for drinking the koolaid just to say this.>>24987424Ah ok.
>>24987161Instruments of Statecraft and Unequal Exchange are macro but the rest are more nation specific.
Can we all agree that he was a mediocre sci fi writer, and that jurassic park was just lightning in a bottle?
>>24987540Easy. John Grisham.
If I offered you one hundred million billion dollars to convince the three average airport book buyer to purchase and read speculative science fiction you'd die only richer the memories of having embarrassed yourself
>>24987557Is there science fiction that is not speculative?
>>24987569https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction
>>24987543Genre writer? Sheeeeit, no wonder the ladies are running lit these days.
So much I want to read, I will never get to the tenth part of it, even if I didn't have to wage slave, but I do have to.
>>24987443Lying in bed isn't going to change that.
>>24987443blessing in disguise.
just stop being a tastelet
why do you read books?
>>24984729Okay maybe not that particular book
>>24983560NTA but I read in public (transit) because I literally don't have the free time to read at home. Get a job and a family and you'll see how much you'll read during commute to/from work and at cafes during lunch break. If people talk to me I ask them to leave me alone, but it happens only a handful of times a year max.
>>24984762>>24984724There's nothing more degrading, humiliating, emasculating, submissive, and more homosexual than performing cringe charades for women. What kind of castrated faggy faggot you must be to groom yourself, spend money, tell jokes, keep attention to the hysteroid (in the original etymological sense) logorrhea, make gifts, be polite, show manners, be a good boy, all for access to a set of hypertrophied tits and a sweaty hole that feels, upon fucking, like an open wound seething with pus.There's absolutely nothing more homosexual in this universe than engaging with women. You maybe one yourself if you like female genitalia so much.
>>24986293>a wife and kids ruins your hobbies and free timeImagine how retarded you sound right now. Just put more effort into it.
>>24982488We are so overdue for massive gladiatorial games featuring women and large predators
Learn the Western Languages.
>>24985830Why the Western ones? Lots of great Eastern literature.
>>24985838>They are not The Canon and are thus irrelevantBloom has many Catalan works in his canon
>>24985843Rob's Words' daddy
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>>24986841You can read a retranslation
>called The Count Of Monte Cristo>by the halfway mark it's actually a bunch of subplots for a bunch of supporting characters with the Count appearing like a guest star>it's a cross between pulp drivel and soap opera>it's even full of filler like any random tv showI'll be done with this before the year's out, and I swear to God, I'm not reading another "YUGE" and "great" novel ever again. Waste of time after waste of time. For God's sake. This is literally the equivalent of comic books but from a few centuries ago.
>>24984191>western canonMonte Cristo was literally released on tissue paper serialized in magazines like a chapter of Naruto hundreds of years ago, and it's still better than 99% of what most people read today.
>>24983883You should watch the anime where she's a space vampire.
Guess there are abridged versions for good reasons
>>24984938>>24985380>>24985609>t. triggered Dumutt
>>24986456>t. Drivel Worshipper (Edition De Luxe)
Disprove Thomas Aquinas on the existence of God.
it's made up
>>24978839Non-Christian theist here:>Who created god?God precedes spatiotemporal causality, therefore making him uncreated.But if you want le fedora answer, you would say "human beings">Why can't there be multiple godsMultiplicity implies unity which implies a first principle. That first principle which is most independent must be highest God. You can suppose there to be multiple Gods but they are not the same.>Why do you assume the creator of this flawed decaying universe is the supreme creator.He isn't. The universe being material accounts for all of its flaws and decay. Matter is the primary cause of evil in the universe. The demiurge knew this yet created anyway because this creation was better than nothing at all. He made it as perfect as possible, despite the natural flaws of forms placed into matter.
>>24987532>non-christian theist>its a gnostic
>>24987548To clarify in the spirit of serious discussion, I personally don't believe the demiurge is malign nor do I believe the material world to be a conspiratorial prison.
>>24977963Dawkins did
