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.
>>24945804What is love and emotion?>Neurotransmitters crossing the synaptic gap and binding into a holeHow does a shape going into another shape cause feeling?>Uh.. erm.. it just does!
>>24946386yes i would fuck you i would live with my soulmate and be happy
>>24945823i was gonna write this but while i was waiting for the countdown i saw u already trvked it out, thanks bruh. u can see happiness in the root "hap" which is like luck or fortune, the pursuit of happiness is not to feel good about your life or whatever ppl think it is today, they mean the pursuit of happiness as taking chances to success, failing fast and failing often to use a contemporary phrasing.
>>24946457>Maybe it's American capitalist brainrot, but here, in EstoniaActually you’re on point here. The state of “relationships” in the US is, well, awful. I look at my married friends and envy none of them; ALL of their wives are terrible imo, but that’s what they settled for and their reward is constant anxiety and weekly therapy sessions with their wives. I’d share the bleak perspective of some of the anons here if I didn’t travel as much as I do outside the country. Remember, here in the US most children come from a broken family/a non two-parent household, so things are kind of fucked here.
>>24949606it's not like the wives are living it up. most wives resent their husbands. that said, it's not like marriages outside of the west are "happier", people just don't feel entitled to be happy. marriage is just something u endure like childbirth or old age.
>evil cannot *uurp* create*plagiarizes Wagner's Ring Cycle*
>>24948051celtic, normans were only a minority in the aristocracy
>>24947882>may have influenced TolkienIt'd be a hell of a coincidence
>>24945653Or, uh, perhaps they were both drawing on the same mythic corpus.
>>24948034>Saxons are not Germanic
>>24945872In the Norse version of the story there is, the Andvaranaut ring
Bolãnobros... it never began...
>>24949594They're trying to cancel Blood Meridian?????
>>24949594God help me if this were real.
So has everybody on this board just read Fagles' Iliad translation? I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translation, and I never see Lattimore mentioned, so I assume for everybody on here the go-to is just Fagles.
>>24938203>I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translationwilson's translation is pretty good, actually. don't believe the shills
I have read the Emilio Crespo translation, which is btw far better than any english translation.
>>24942777I'm so intimidated I can't stop laughing.
>>24942800I'm with this anon. Seems like Green found the perfect mix of readability and translation accuracy by being close to the original meter but dropping it.
>>24949370>La colera o diosa barf
This book changed my life for the better
>>24948842It's past your bedtime, sonny.
>>24946749I've eaten girls out and I've jammed it in raw with no foreplay and gone deep enough to make them cry from cervix pain while choking them, biting their nipples, slapping their asses, pinching their clits and pulling their hair.It depends on the girl, but I'd say about 70% of them genuinely prefer the latter. They don't say it but they normally don't have that hazy fucked-well look to them after normal vanilla kissy kissy clitty rubby lip biting treat-me-well-and-eat-me-out-maybe-anal's-pushing-it sex.To me the interplay between man and woman (and why the early chapters of genesis capture human drama so well) is that of either being your toy or you being hers. Women prefer to be used and abused, at least during sex, maybe less so everywhere else. They're incorrigible little girls at heart that demand discipline outside the bedroom and rough manholding inside.Why is it like this and why this sort of behavior is so prevalent in women regardless of race and status, I do not know. A vestige remains well into their menopausal years, even.
I’ve been with my fiancee for 10 years and I still have trouble finding the clitoris
>>24949340He’s totally right, the straightest thing you can do is pretend to be one of your own cam whores over the phone so you can bring your customers to climax
>>24949590Cool it down anon I'm about to squirt
I just realized that it would be impossible for the so called polyglots of literature to be fluent in all the languages they wrote.
Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 yearsPic related
>>24946208>man is disgusted by modern industrial society and fights back against it>”dude he was just a schizo lol don’t look into it”Psychiatry is a meme and you’re a retard for pushing those memes a truth
That's not how schizophrenia works
>>24944600No, but it seems like he has started to actually believe Leftist nonsense. Being a Leftist is worse than being schizophrenic.
>>24949556There are many overlaps. His dissociation with his own identity is part of that.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24949146What gotchas?
>>24949468I'll illustrate with an example:So I live in a friendly neighborhood and everyone really likes to talk to their neighbours.So This new guy moved into my neighborhood and I as a friendly neighbour introduced myself."Hi I'm Norm McDonald" so he says something something I don't remember his name. He asks what do you do I say "I'm a comic" and I ask him what do you do and he says "I'm a professor of logic at University of something" I don't remember the name that well. So I ask "what does it mean ? I mean what do you do?" so he says it includes syllogism of something something and everything's going over my head so he says let me show you with an example.He asks me do you have Doghouse. I say Yes. He says so you have dog. I say yes so he says so you must have a family. I say I do. so he says that must mean You are a heterosexual. I say yes. So he says that that's logic, "Just by asking you if you have a doghouse I was able to tell that you're a heterosexual" and then I say "well that's something, may be come over sometimes, we will have chicken"And I go to the bus stop because I have bus to catch. But there's no bus and I've been waiting for 10 minutes now with some other people. So this one guy says "I'll light a cigarette and by the time I finish it the bus will come". So the guy finishes the cigarette but the bus still didn't come so I say "well that didn't work" so he says "well sometime it works sometime it doesn't" and so we start talking and he asks me "so how is your day" and I say well something interesting happened to me today, I met a professor of logic" and he says "what's that" So I say " well it has something to do with syllogism something I didn't understand all that well but I can give you an example" and the guy says okay.So I ask him "Do you have a doghouse" and the guy says "No". So I say "Then you must be one of them gays"
>>24949465See>>24949477
>>24948717Ans thankfully will be replaced with Islam In sha Allah and atheists and LGBT will be silenced or put to death
>>24949510Thanks for the coalpost
>age>location>current read
>>24931414>25>your walls>the second foundationwhy is everyone here reading the gayest sounding books ever? Also do americans just read stuff about america?
>doxx thread Why hello Zhang, what's that? Malwares are not enough anymore?
>>24931414>56>Pacific Northwest>The Two Towers>Revelator by Daryl Gregory
>>24949485there's been zero privacy on the internet for years. they already have all your information
>DOOD, THEY'LL TOTALLY BE ABLE TO PINPOINT WHO YOU ARE FROM THIS INFORMATION PROVIDED!Why are you like this?
Any recommended texts, where to start, etc
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
sf is for progressives, fantasy is for chuds
>>24949515Completely understandable.
>>24949515I've read the summary and I didn't get it at all lol
>>24949335Awesome. Thank you, I'll be going through all this soon.
Continuing a thought from the last thread, I finished Port of Shadows from Glen Cook. Legitimately the worst book I've finished - I should have DNF'd halfway through. I hate saying that because the Black Company he wrote 40 odd years ago was just so fucking good and this felt like a teenage ghostwriter taking over the reins. A story of no consequence without character growth, action, good prose or generally anything interesting happening at all. To any and all people hoping to read this book series, just skip Port of Shadows. Your time is worth more than what this book has to offer.Has anyone read Lies Weeping? Is it closer to the Black Company we all know and love or is it closer to this mess? Should we all just stick to the old stuff from here on out?
What is the oldest book you've read that really disturbed youI just finished reading Matthew Lewis' The Monk and was surprised by how brutal it still is after over two centuries
Has anyone read any of pic related?Who is the true heir of Ligotti?I ask because I have read all of his short stories, and I still yearning for his brand of horror.
>>24946642Just FYI, all of the stories in Matt Cardin's Dark Awakenings were republished in To Rouse Leviathan.Also, an expanded edition of The Secret of Ventriloquism came out.
Well I finished up Loop and I guess the original Ring trilogy. That might be an all time swerve in fiction, probably the best case of fiction within fiction I've read. I got the remaining other two books on my table, can't wait to see what else is in store, though I'm not sure how you follow up that ending.
>>24946566I can't stand her. And she's an absolute bitch in She and Allan.
>>24948954How's the novel itself?
>...and then Bilbo whispered to a thrush, a particularly old thrush perched on the mountain, mind you, who conveyed the message of Smaug's missing scale to Bard, who was very good with a bow, you see, and then Bard shot Smaug with the black arrow, which was a very special arrow, forged by the dwarves under the mountain long ago, which instantly killed Smaug!GRRM's autistic edgelord criticisms of Gandalf are nothing compared to this bullshit. If a modern author wrote this slop he would be thrown into a pit and torn apart by apes.
>>24949426Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the future, i wouldn't want any of you terminally online losers to finally flip and shoot out a school because of me.
>>24949426He called Hitler a ruddy little ignoramus
>>24948352>>24949426>>24949474Tolkien disliked nazis and Hitler for being too left-wing.
>>24948248>not knowing the bird languageerlendr
>>24949473>Oh i'm sorry i badmouthed your precious totalitarian egomaniacal genocidal dictator, i will be more careful in the futureNo harm done just don't do it again
>She was the daughter of a well-known theatrical manager, a willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with colorless eyes and pathetic little pimples just above that kind of small nose which English lady novelists call "retroussée" (note the second "e" added for safety). I don't get it
>>24947835The second e makes it feminine. He's making fun of how shit authors like Agatha Christie pile on hamfisted Gallicisms so that you know how classy and smart they are.
>>24947849Did Nabokov really seethe at Christie too? I sure hope not. All his seething is so greatly disappointing.
>>24947875What do you expect? Everything about him from his opinions to his prose style screams prima donna.
>>24947896What DID Nabby like? If we take Pnin as autofiction he was a well of self loathing who wished he had been born American but also hated Americans. He was obsessed with English but didn't respect a single contemporary author.
>>24947896>THIS IS HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ANALYZE MY BOOK YOU GODDAMN IMBECILESHe's so cool
I can't remember anything this guy said.
>Consider, for example, the writings of the school of Schelling, and observe the constructions that are built up out of abstractions like finite and infinite—being, non-being, other being—activity, hindrance, product—determining, being determined, determinateness—limit, limiting, being limited—unity, plurality, multiplicity—identity, diversity, indifference—thinking, being, essence, &c. Not only does all that has been said above hold good of constructions out of such materials, but because an infinite amount can be thought through such wide abstractions, only very little indeed can be thought in them; they are empty husks. But thus the matter of the whole philosophising becomes astonishingly trifling and paltry, and hence arises that unutterable and excruciating tediousness which is characteristic of all such writings. If indeed I now chose to call to mind the way in which Hegel and his companions have abused such wide and empty abstractions, I should have to fear that both the reader and I myself would be ill; for the most nauseous tediousness hangs over the empty word-juggling of this loathsome philophaster.t. Schopenhauer
>>24948671I read this in Zizek's voice
>To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
theres three kinds of shitters
>>24948663Was it in Slovene?
