I'm gonna know by Tuesday if I won or shortlisted in the biggest short story competition held in my country. Nervous as a bag of prawns in Tallahassee.
>>24686103Lazy fucks. It used to be tri-annual. What happened?
Wait till you get home and I'll get it done in the morning
>>24686118They spent too much money on fake gold spray paint ..
>>24686103best post on this godforsaken board in a long time
>>24686072yes, it's very suspicious. too much a pastiche to be true.
Wondering if anyone has any good books or stuff to read to understand some of the older religions of EuropeMostly to learn the general facts about themI also want to know more about how and why Pagan religions were conquered by Christianity
>>24681924>Now at that time many of the Hessians, brought under the Catholic faith and confirmed by the grace of the sevenfold spirit, received the laying on of hands; others indeed, not yet strengthened in soul, refused to accept in their entirety the lessons of the inviolate faith. Moreover some were wont secretly, some openly to sacrifice to trees and springs; some in secret, others openly practiced inspections of victims and divinations, legerdemain and incantations; some turned their attention to auguries and auspices and various sacrificial rites; while others, with sounder minds, abandoned all the profanations of heathenism, and committed none of these things. With the advice and counsel of these last, the saint attempted, in the place called Gaesmere, while the servants of God stood by his side, to fell a certain oak of extraordinary size, which is called, by an old name of the pagans, the Oak of Jupiter. And when in the strength of his steadfast heart he had cut the lower notch, there was present a great multitude of pagans, who in their souls were earnestly cursing the enemy of their gods. But when the fore side of the tree was notched only a little, suddenly the oak's vast bulk, driven by a blast from above, crashed to the ground, shivering its crown of branches as it fell; and, as if by the gracious compensation of the Most High, it was also burst into four parts, and four trunks of huge size, equal in length, were seen, unwrought by the brethren who stood by. At this sight the pagans who before had cursed now, on the contrary, believed, and blessed the Lord, and put away their former reviling. Then moreover the most holy bishop, after taking counsel with the brethren, built from the timber of the tree a wooden oratory, and dedicated it in honor of Saint Peter the apostle.Honestly, a sizeable number of, "Why did these people convert?" Is miracles. Moreover, even many people individually convert via miracles. Part of the issue is that any academic will ultimately say whether the above is real or fake; I think it's likely real as Acts of the Apostles show these. We really don't get old religions; they were about power and Christianity was simply a more powerful God grafting everyone onto the new covenant. Read some original missionary journals and letters and you can see what the original Christians saw of pagans. No religion survives Christianity as Christianity is pure Turth, as such it burns away other religions' delusions and they all become either satanic in opposition or heretical if in confused alignment. St. Francis Xavier used to touch beef to people's lips because Indian caste systems were so silly that would make them permanently untouchables. Christians often would just break pagan taboos and nothing bad would happen to them and then people would convert because they realize their culture had serious errors or lies in it. It's like calling someone by their true pronouns today.
>>24687404>I want to keep sinning so the Truth is a lieThanks !
>>24687420There is no "sinning" and the "Truth" is the deranged rambling of an inbred rabbi
>>24687415>Christians often would just break pagan taboos and nothing bad would happen to them and then people would convert because they realize their culture had serious errors or lies in it.subverting taboos is why the current world is in the mess thats in it, so actually those taboos turned out to be in place for a reason. you dont allow the flag of your nation to touch the ground; this is a very pagan idea tied to national cults and old totems. but the christian minds thinks nothing of such a disgrace since the kingdom of god supercedes all the nations. hence why we have niggers wiping their asses with our national flags and nobody does shit. taboos exist for a reason, and breaking them DOES inflict a generational curse that takes centuries to fully manifest
>>24687434Pagan taboos were literally women couldn't be in boats or they'd die. Christian society taboos are don't rape kids or don't watch porn, which aren't taboos but sins.>>24687425>And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.Did you know people who hate Christ have made the most hospitals, schools, and created numerous shelters for the poor, abused, and neglected? Oh wait, lol, they don't at all. Romans used to throw their babies out when they didn't feel like having them and Christians were thought wretched for taking care of them. Cute, right? Maybe you should go read a science book on how to lie and that will help. Or perhaps another TED talk. Have you tried meditating? Maybe a therapist? What about going for walks or lifting weighrs? Maybe you could look up old myths on your iPhone? Or, you could embrace the true Faith and eat God.
>“Everything is perverted by this civilization, the gentlemen in suits have fouled and besmirched everything. Lithographs and etchings by old dotards like Picasso, Miro, Dali, and others, which are sold in all the stores, have turned art into a huge unclean bazaar. The money they have is not enough, they want more and more. Paintings in oil, in tempera, are not enough; drawings, watercolors, and gouaches are not enough; to make even more money they do their hackwork on stone and put it on sale in hundreds and thousands of copies. They've devalued everything, the bastards. Many of them are burdened with wives and several families, with relatives and friends; they need lots of money. Money, money and the greed for money, guides these wretched old men. Once rebels, they have turned into dirty operators. The same fate awaits the young men of today. This is why I have ceased to love art.”
>>24687683Was it Chris or Johnny? I hope it was Johnny
>>24686638I'm russian marxist. Limonov was a narcissistic pseud petite bourgeoisie that pretended, in Debord's "Spectacle" meaning, to be revolutionary; it was nothing but a spectacle, a farce. He didn't had proletariat class position to understand proletariat, nor to be revolutionary. Nobody outside of Saint Petersburg and Moscow knew him. His current day party is preoccupied with literal skinheads that get raided by OMOH on a regular basis. Notice how he does not say anything of value in your green text: it's just "le capitalism...turns everything into commodity!" presented as some sort of revelation, and idiotic hate towards art.His books are also pretentious wankery of petite bourgeoisie getting high on his own farts. Don't bother. If you want marxism and capitalism critique, just read Fromm, Althusser, Gramsci, Debord, Fisher, etc.
>>24686638>you can buy things in stores>the west has fallen>art has fallen
>>24687772no you're not. You sound like an average nonce. If you were Russian you would know that his party consisted of liberal romantics with a knack for épatage.
>>24687772>I'm russian marxist. Limonov was a narcissistic pseud petite bourgeoisie that pretended, in Debord's "Spectacle" meaning, to be revolutionary; it was nothing but a spectacle, a farce.I agree but man he was a talented and interesting performer. >>24687973>If you were Russian you would know that his party consisted of liberal romantics with a knack for épatage.The teenager mass was partial that. They get filtered hard by the reality of the NBP (which is poverty and getting punched in the stomach by cops), so only skinheads who get off to that shit remain.
>allegory fucking sucks>read a real book, better a historical one
>>24687920Tolkien doesn't understand what allegory means
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon
>>24687923What does it mean?
>>24687942allegories were used by commentators to reinterpret homer to defend him from the critics. it has nothing to do with the author
>>24687946Are you saying allegories aren't intentional? Because they definitely are
Is it true these books are basically exclusively read by fat, ugly women with low self esteem that long to be desired by men? There is no way anyone actually takes this slop seriously, right?
>NOOOOOOOO PLEASE STOP >TELL YOUR ARYAN WIFE TO GET OFF ME >NOOOOOOOOO DONT STICK IN PLEASE >AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*hops off the edge of the pillow*fucking nazis like literally
>>24686263It made the rounds in English schools too although it wasn't assigned.>>24686701Yeah, Atwood was telling a parable about Iran.>>24687053The sex scene was supposed to be boring. Sex was Offred's job.
I like it when the wife of Erdogan wears red.That said, gals, what do you hold of the series and of the second book: testaments?
>>24687118>The sex scene was supposed to be boring. Sex was Offred's job.I didn't find it boring. There's some rivetting internal monologue: are we making love? Nope, no love here. Am I getting raped? Nope, I have a choice. I could go to the gulag instead. Are we fucking? Nope, I'm not fucking, I am just getting fucked. Yeah, that's it: i am just getting fucked.It's not there in the series. They went with show don't tell
anyone also reading pic related?
>The further you get out of line with your intentions, the more distrustful she will be of your actions and words. And the more distrustful she is, the more insecure she will feel and the creepier you become. For instance, if you approach a woman and stand there and talk about the weather, but you’re staring at her rack the whole time while licking your lips, then you will come cross as creepy. Your actions and words are completely out of line with your intentions and she can see that.>Even if you tell her honestly, “You have great tits,” you will be creepy. Not for lack of intention, but because she doesn’t know you and most women are not comfortable being sexual around men they don’t know. Trust takes time. She has to see that your actions line up with your intentions before she can feel comfortable exposing herself to you and making herself vulnerable.>Women have a lot more to lose from expressing their sexuality than men do. They make babies. We don’t. They get raped and/or sexually assaulted at a startlingly high rate. We don’t. They have five thousands years of sexist cultural history making them feel like a slut. We don’t.>The second you make them feel uncomfortable sexually is the second you become a creep and the second she’s finding an excuse to get away from you as fast as she can.>This is why vulnerability is so huge. When you’re vulnerable around someone you don’t know, it elicits trust in them and they will become more vulnerable toward you in return. The more vulnerable a woman is willing to be around you, the less likely you will be to creep her out.Is he right?
>>24682838Mystery Method is not a good book because it’s for pursuing 9-10s. Most guys haven’t even seen one
>>24682825Even though this guy is white and has statusmaxxed and moneymaxxed with his coping manuals, he still had to go to Brazil to get an ugly wife. This is because he is a 4-5 in terms of looks. Sexual/romantic attraction is not about attitude, confidence, intention or showing vulnerability, it is only about highly inherited, mostly immutable characteristics. He mentions that females have a high investment in reproduction, but does not realise that this causes them to seek the males of high genetic quality. Being a "creep" = being ugly.
>>24687954There is nothing wrong with this btw. Women are doing God's work. There is no bigger tragedy than another generation of ugly men.
>>24687962You fail to understand that the current state of things will produce just as many ugly men, for it allows ugly/low iq women to reproduce more than men who are better looking/more intelligent. Natural selection does not lead to an objectively "better result", if the environment is such that low iq or ugly people reproduce more, then they will be selected for.
>>24687811creepiness is how unattractive one is.vulnerability is unattractive unless it is expressed in a particular way, i.e. one is vulnerable due to x, but one doesn't need their partner's help to resolve it and has a solution/path to resolve the vulnerability.
In what languages have you already read a book (including petit prince )?
EnglishFrenchOld IcelandicJapaneseI want to learn Classical Chinese next
>>24685773Based post
>>24685398what is worth reading in dutch?
>>24686627>I read faster when I'm reading in English.same here. English has next to no grammar. It reads as easily as children's literature does in other languages.
German.Waj wudd juh wont tu ried bucks in lenwitsches sätt Untermenschen ßpiek -- like Polish or French or sätt bastärd of ä lengwitsch sätt is Inglisch?
If there are countless galaxies and potentially infinite universes, what is God's relationship to life that might exist elsewhere?
As absent and as invisible as it is on Earth. God has no favourites. No distinction. No taxonomy. Those were our inventions.
I'm sick of determinism. What books can convince me free will exists?
Freedom is not about having one's actions be underdetermined. Action that is determined by nothing would necessarily be random and arbitrary, the opposite of freedom. Freedom is the self-determining capacity to actualize and communicate the good. The biggest limits on freedom are ignorance and weakness of will.Man doesn't create himself from the aether; he is not self-moving. Neither is he wholly powerless over his own acts. One can be relatively more or less self-determining and self-governing, to the extent that one has unified oneself and is no longer ruled over by ignorance, passion, and the lower appetites.As Saint Augustine says: "...the wicked man, though a king, is a slave. And not only the slave of a single man, but what is worse, a slave of as many masters as he has vices."
>>24686848:-)
>>24686559>crass physicalist reductionismBrains are not consciousness i.e. your unconditioned awareness of the World. "Your ego" is just the body, not the true self.
>>24686533Literally just choose to believe in it. You have free will, you can do that.>y-you're just deterministically forced to think it's real! That doesn't count!1!Ok and? That means no one can ever convince me it isn't real. Checkmate atheists.
>>24686533Don't start with the soulless analytics on this question, that's for sure. They seem to think that freedom is either uncaused action (which is incoherent) or else it doesn't exist (which is a false dichotomy).
If God is eternally complete and self-sufficient, what motivation could there possibly be for creating a universe? Does creation imply a "need" or "desire" within God?
>>24687756I know you have ocd bro. I say random stuff like that when i have sudden desire to say bs
>>24687736>If God is eternally complete and self-sufficient, what motivation could there possibly be for creating a universe?THE LULZ CUNTWe are his rekd video.
>ifThat's a big if.
>>24687736This is the argument id bring to Spinozists
>>24687736Plotinus answers this.
>they're called oliphauntsTolkien really halfarsed this
>>24687665Correct, everyone is a simpering idiot except me.
>>24687405po tard do. boil em mash em stick em in a stew
>>24687427techniques died off and remerged at a latter date.
>>24687427Middle earth is third age Brazil
>You are the lord of the rings, FrodoTitle in the first page. Bravo
Hegel thread. I know a few of you niggers are reading the Phenomenology, where are you in the book and what do you think?
>>24686602Yes, Hegel is very overrated. Fichte is very underrated. But in general idealism is a dead end because man is not first, or, the essence of man is to know that he is not first.
This passage slays dogmatists. Hegel was such a rascal.Brain-fibres and the like, looked at as forms of the being of mind, are already an imagined, a merely hypothetical actuality of mind — not its presented reality, not its felt, seen, in short not its true reality. If they are present to us, if they are seen, they are lifeless objects, and then no longer pass for the being of mind. But its objectivity proper must take an immediate, a sensuous form, so that in this objectivity qua lifeless — for the bone is lifeless so far as the lifeless is found in the living being itself — mind is established as actual.The principle involved in this idea is that reason claims to be all thinghood, even thinghood of a purely objective kind. It is this, however, in conceptu: or, only this notion is the truth of reason; and the purer the notion itself is, the more silly an idea does it become, if its content does not take the shape of a notion (Begriff) but of a mere presentation or idea (Vorstellung)-if the self-superseding judgment is not taken with the consciousness of this its infinity, but is taken as a stable and permanent proposition, the subject and predicate of which hold good each on its own account, self fixed as self, thing as thing, while one has to be the other all the same.Reason, essentially the notion, is immediately parted asunder into itself and its opposite, an opposition which just for that reason is immediately again superseded. But if it presents itself in this way as both itself and its opposite, and if it is held fast in the entirely isolated moment of this disintegration, reason is apprehended in an irrational form; and the purer the moments of this opposition are, the more glaring is the appearance of this content, which is either alone for consciousness, or alone expressed ingenuously by consciousness.The “depth” which mind brings out from within, but carries no further than to make it a presentation (Vorstellung), and let it remain at this level — and the “ignorance” on the part of this consciousness as to what it really says, are the same kind of connexion of higher and lower which, in the case of the living being, nature naïvely expresses when it combines the organ of its highest fulfilment, the organ of generation, with the organ of urination. The infinite judgment qua infinite would be the fulfilment of life that comprehends itself, while the consciousness of the infinite judgment that remains at the level of presentation corresponds to urination.
>>24686667He is saying that materialist philosophy is like pissing and idealism is the other one.
>>24686667
Hopefully it’ll be slow at work and I can finish my second reading of PoS. Then I’ll be an absolute knower, in layman’s terms, a mage. I swear he wrote the last section dense af to discourage people from skipping to the end.
Can the term "exists" even be meaningfully applied to God? Since "existence" is a category within the universe, does saying "God exists" place God within creation rather than as the ground of all being?
>>24687773
if god created everything that exists, who created everything that doesnt exist
>>24687773Time to read Buddhism mate.
>>24687773>Can the term "exists" even be meaningfully applied to God? Yes. Existence is not contingent on God
>>24687773Read the paper "Into the Dark" by Eric Perl. He addresses exactly this with the apophaticism of Plotinus, Proclus and Aquinas
Why do men find female authors so trite and boring? I've known well-read dudes who don't read women as a rule just because they feel like they're being subtly nagged or something.
>>24677272I've only read two novels written by women since I've taken reading as a hobby about a year ago, Frankenstien and Jane Eyre. Frankenstien didn't give that vibe at all, probably because it's from a man's perspective, but with Jane Eyere, while I did enjoy it, it definitley felt a bit like that especially towards the end when she has to choose between St. John and Rochester. Kinda gave me the ick cause it read so female fanfic with a side of moralizing.
>>24682623Yeah, I don't see a woman ever coming up with something like Donne's "A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning" or anything by D. H. Lawrence.
>>24687761Though if I wanted to be fair, I always felt like that in literature about love written by men, the woman in question almost never matters as a person but rather as an avatar of femininity, as if it was the thing that the woman embodied to them that these men truly loved and less that one woman specifically, who were quite indistinguishable and interchangeable when discussed at all. I suspect women love much the same way, however. Maybe there is truly only one Man and one Woman that we love regardless of whoever happens to be their representative at a certain time and place.
Mfw litfags shilling Shelley despite ~90% of it having been written by Percy
>>24687887That's a nice cope, but I don't think you're going to convince anyone. You can't even convince yourself.
I really like stories set small town of America. The ones that I know are the Green Town trilogy of Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Farewell Summer). There is also Riverdale from the Archie comics. Gravity Falls, Oregon from the cartoon Gravity Falls. It seems small town settings are quite good for all kind of genres from comedies, adventures, mystery, thriller, romance, etc. Themes of unchangingness versus change, innocence versus growing up, home vs the world, all seem to prop up in these kind of stories which I really enjoy.And I want to read more books that utilize this setting. So any recommendations, /lit/?
>>24685081sinclair lewis - main street
>>24685274Yeah, Updike is the undisputed kang of small town America.
>>24685081Faulkner is required for the Yoknapatawpha County literary universe, but it is also distinctly southern, not generic american small town.
>>24686975no, that's not it either
>>24685274>>24687535What's Updike?
