Is this kino? I have to pick between it and shadow ticket at my bookstore.
>>24944836Faggot.
>>24944790no, it's shit
>>24946437In what way?
>>24946656There's a chapter that purposes to imitate Finnegans Wake. Of course, the chapter resembles Joyce's masterpiece in none of its beauty or greatness. And this is because Alan Moore's goal wasn't beauty or greatness, it was imitation.
>>24947498Yeah, I saw a short interview where he said "it's longer than the Bible! I've written it for ten years, it's enormous – not that quantity pretains to quality". He does seem to have written it purely for it to be the "thousand page long, dense, unforgettable novel".
How does modern technology change Spengler's predictions? He probably didn't see europe becoming 30% foreigners by 2025 too.
Do people take Spengler seriously? He's basically doing the equivalent of horoscopes but for historical societies. I think it's cute how much of a fanboy he was for Mesoamerican civilizations though, a shame he didn't live to see the decipherment of the Maya script
>>24948148Should go without saying but due to how old Spengler's writings are a, lot of the information he gives here is seriously outdatedStuff on Mesoamerica even from 20-40 years ago is missing a lot of major research, let alone 100. Again, he was writing before we could read Maya inscriptions at all.
>>24948149>>24948148whoops, didn't realize that second image didn't continue where the first one left off and skips over a bunch of stuff, oh well
>>24948062Quite.Different ideas?
>>24948148>how much of a fanboy he was for Mesoamerican civilizationsThat's because he had a good taste. Based Spergler, Mesoamerica was extremely cool.
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
>>24948206>Two Weeks Left Editionuntil what anon??
I need hot dominant muscular barbarian mommies (preferably futa)
>>24948215Malazan has one who goes around harassing soldiers for sex
I just learned about Samuel Delany's support for NAMBLA after being a massive fan of his work, particularly Dhalgren, for years. He made statements from the 1990s where he described their bulletin as promoting "sane thinking" on the age of consent and positioned them as a dissenting voice in the gay rights movement. I'm so disappointed.
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24946190I like the NRSV
>>24946167>and Jehoshaphat begat Lemuel who begat Erud who begat Aram who begat Samoch who begat Asraphal who begat Penuel who begatWow so beautiful and inspiring, let's turns to another passage>he shall take a sheep of the flock a year old, and a hin of oil and a kor of flour, and he shall make a cake of the oil and he shall make a cake of the oil ans flour, of choice flour, to dedicate to the LORD as an offering, and he shall slaughter and prepare the lamb and the thigh he shall place on the fire as a burnt offering, of a pleasing odour to the LORD, and the priests shall burn the entrails thereof as an offering, but the flesh ans the forelimbs they shall cook as their own portion (continues for 100 pages)Brilliant stuff, brings a tear to my eye
>>24947336>isn't everything after the gospels, maybe aside from revelation, just expository teachings OF the gospels?Uh no? Paul never read the gospels, wtf are you talking about.
>>24947413Paul did meet Jesus, though. That encounter is so important there are three references to it in the Acts of the Apostles alone (Acts 9, Acts 22, Acts 26). Paul's meeting with the glorified Christ is the most significant event in world history outside of the gospels themselves. Have you people even read this book?
>>24946190Based, it's wildly out of date. Use the NRSVue instead
I'm really enjoying this so far. Don't see ti mentioned here often (or ever?). The narration is great. It feels conspiratorial and ironic, like he is leaning over my shoulder and laughing with me at the vanity of these people. Where are the Stendhal enjoyers at?
>>24938995Just finished reading it last week, in French. Really enjoyed it.
My translation said julien sorel was of below average height, but I never hear anyone saying thatIs that not present in the original/nost translations?
>>24947720He is a twink bro, Narrator says so a dozen different times in the first part of the book. He is a pretty little twink and the french girls love him.
>>24947720>but I never hear anyone saying thatDo you really need someone to mention every aspect of a book? Fucking idiot.
>>24947720It's a Napoleon parallel
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.
>>24945804Men are waking up to the true nature of reality
>>24948073It is a thing in so far as it is a concept with the attributes I mentioned earlier. You would have to expand on what you mean by "a thing in itself". It is a feeling and a strategy, it is based on hormones and brain structures, but is apprehended by the consciousness as a thing of value. This can and is all rooted in material phenomenon with no need for recourse to anything supernatural.
>>24945804>Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction?I don't think anyone actually thinks this. No, I don't care what academia or wordcels like >>24945823say or do, they are suffocated in their own little worlds.
>>24947584I have gooned to AI bots hundreds of times, and let me tell you that I can instinctually tell whatever algorithms forms languages that happen to correspond to my prompts is definitely not human in any shape or form. This uncanny valley feeling will simply never go away no more how advanced AI gets, because we know its wrong.
>>24946037Polygamy is how you enforce narcissistic psychopath societies where 90% of the male population hates women. Completely dysgenic and irresponsible.
>blocks your path
>>24945709>1/50th of that with a white womenThere are plenty.
>>24945709You'd be surprised how many muslim women have lost their 'anal virginity'. Its just a larp.
>>24945913Maybe 100 years ago, now unless they marry each other at 16 there is none. Even "trad" women won't veil>>24945916And that in an Islamic society would be lashings or death for Zina
Bump
>>24946801Bump
My lust died the second I wrote the average feminine nature on paper and stratified it according to its moral nature. I am now convinced that the only thing you are supposed to do as a soul, as a man is to wrestle your own flesh into submission, find God and develop a prosperous and altruistic relationship with our creator in order to escape this prison. 99% of women are half humans with no souls, everything they strive for and enjoy is ultimately evil in its nature. The very core of femininity is absolute evil that seeks to devour good men with the same glee and joy youd get from stomping out some dorky kids sand castle.Once I realized why women are the way they are, it's like I've finally been enlightened as to why hermit monks become hermits in the first place. It's all a lie, its all a joke. This planet is a prison, women are archons who genuinely don't give a fuck about anything but they have to pretend to have interests beyond themselves just so men dont become suspicious and notice the huge disparity in the nature of each gender. It's not a complimentary nature, it's completely one-sided and parasitic. The entire role of women is to entrap a mans life force and pull another soul onto this false reality incarnation trap. Thats all they were designed to do. Satan takes a hold of their hivemind vessels with comedic ease and no resistance. They are all beyond corrupt, they fall apart once a month and endure pain unless they fulfill their ill-natured task. There is nothing in this world worth striving for besides Gods love. There is absolutely NOTHING in this world that is worth your place in heaven.
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.)
>>24946958vance is a totally irrelevant fatass queer with a dothead beard who raises her children to worship vishnu. a dog wouldnt follow him but he thinks he can be president. no idea what blormpf was promised in exchange for picking him up but its probably more like when tucker interviewed fuentes, blormpf thought he spoke for millennials
>>24946958future american presidents are hegseth and rittenhouse. screencap this
>>24942860>>24945451>>24946866I just skimmed through it right now and it seems more like a rant than anything. He also seems close-minded, in the sense that he's figured out everything in life and condensed his worldview to a black and white model. It's much more evident in his history of Europe in the 1800's than it is with his hatred of the Jews. He just doesn't seem to understand his own history, or just understands it poorly.
>>24942860Rudolf Hess was his stenographer (most cosmopolitan of the inner circle, raised in Egypt, 5x languages). It likely owes much to Hess' editorial hand, or lack thereof as far as the conversational structure goes. The intended mass readership practically guaranteed something anodyne at best.
>>24947932>capitulation>I definitely understood his history better than himself, b-because... uhhh... he's close-minded!!!Kill yourself you niggerfaggot
Will my ketamine addiction make me a better writer?
>>24947800I had a heroin habit in my youth but i've been clean 25 years and i've written three books and started a literary movement. Drugs are not the answer my dude, you need your brain functioning at its highest possible level.
>>24947800I spent half my life as an alcoholic. I still kind of am, but quit liquor.I was always a writer, and did it professionally, but once I cut down on the booze I could actually finish things, and got novels completed.Drugs aren’t the reason creatives are creative, drugs are how crazy people self-medicate, and being crazy is what makes them creative.
Thanks for reminding me the only white people i talk to on this site are junkies
>>24947800Drugs are not a substitute for creativity, talent, or practice.
>>24947808k feels nothing like an opiate>>24947800experimenting with drugs to come up with ideas is cool, but don't get addicted, and put that shit aside for when it's time to work.>>24948022>Drugs aren’t the reason creatives are creativemost people don't want to admit this, especially people in recovery, but for me, drugs absolutely aided creativity. I'm not a writer though, I'm a musician. I don't really do drugs anymore because I'm an adult with a job and responsibilities, but occasionally I'll smoke weed and I immediately have endless ideas, it's such an unfair cheat code to being creative for me. Additionally, opiates have done a lot for my appreciation of certain types of music, but of course I won't encourage anybody to ever try opiates. Acid obviously is the top player for consuming media and creating.
The dregs of society pool together like the dirty puddles they tromp. Dublin is their city. Dubh Linn. Black Pool. The name evokes images of heroin rolling on foil. The Spire watches high over O'Connell Street, a lantern above the oily slick roads, taxis and buses rolling through them, like a needle penetrating the veiny patchwork streets.
>>24946850Dublin is owned by Afghan Bvlls while yt cucks do nothing
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24947357>pretends to be to niche for normies to understand >uses dating apps Lmao
>>24948099I'm on /lit/ because I read books for 3 - 4 hours a day. It's how I spend my pleasure time after work. I don't even own a TV or laptop. Only my smartphone that I need for work. My SO also spends her time reading.I like /lit/ being anonymous and people being able to truly speak their minds. This place isn't supposed to be a hugbox for losers. I don't have a lot of friends but the ones I have are extremely close and high quality, as things should be.
>>24948070Please do not do this anons
>>24948091> Also delete your social media app. It's 2025. That shit is outdated. All my female friends say dating apps are for losers that can't get laid without appsthere is no greater red flag to modern young women than not having social media presence
>>24947871>came to these identical conclusion in taste by "being themselves".Yes, the appeal of all those things is obvious and their popularity will follow a normal distribution.>all these people came the identical conclusion that they like food!?Yes.
I am reading deleuze’s what is philosophy at the moment and the part about the creation of concepts, the analysis of their components and the resulting impossibility of discourse in philosophy is blowing my mind. The discourse becomes impossible or at least fruitless because the terms and concepts discussed, although homophones, aren’t comparable because they’re on different planes of thought and have different components. So we think we are speaking about the same things, while only confusing ourselves and wasting our time. I mean the idea is almost trivial, while the execution and explanation is outstanding.
>>24946235It’s applicable to most things, I guess. But in philosophy it explains why there’s is no common ground like in the sciences, a set of basic principles everyone can agree on.
>>24946235It's an interesting take, it frequently appears to pull from GS, Twighlight of the Idols, and maybe a few other odd parts where you try to move as quickly as possible, think as slow as possible, and sift even slower. The results appear just as varied. You could have 2 guys who tie their left hands together and play stickpin refutation, a sumo match, or just one guy trying to navigate a minefield. The key part for some of this for Nietzsche at least is that the concept is already there so instead of finding a potentiality you basically look for how actual but there isn't really a limit on this. Nietzsche claimed it could isolate specific instincts, you get a theoretical edge for the successive attempts.
how the frick do your formulate any concepts in ur mind.then
>>24947693It says that philosophy is basically just creating concepts, but once they’re established the discussion between philosophical school becomes impossible. Take e.g. a platonist and a Kantian: these two won’t be able to meaningfully discuss the concept of time, because the ancient understanding of time and the transcendental understanding of time are so different, that they can’t possibly talk about the same concept with the same components (which would make a discussion possible).
>>24946039I am familiar with it. I think it's wrong because all concepts are born from contact with the same world, which includes real forms and essences. Of course, Deleuze is extremely committed to the nominalism/individualism of his era, and above all the voluntarist conception of freedom as power (the ghost of the Reformation on almost all modern thought), so we won't agree here. But suffice to say, if there are really such things as cats, dogs, trees, etc. as organic wholes (being, plural) and "whatever is in the intellect is first in the senses" then it seems obvious to me concepts can find common ground.Actually, what undermines communication is a lack of faith in the transcendent and ecstatic powers of reason and the misology that comes from saying "reason doesn't apply here, or there, etc., and thus I will use reason only instrumentally, as a path to power." That is how reason is ruined. Everything is reduced to power relations. But the ontologies of violence whereby truth, form, and telos are themselves always violence because freedom is just potency (freedom from reality you might say) make this slide into instrumental misology inevitable because they render reason sterile. This isn't some awful discovery of modernity thought. The ancients say the same thing about what instrumental rationality driven by the passions (or when the will becomes its own object, the voluntaristic notion of freedom as power) is all over the ancients. It's a major theme right up to Dante, or even in Milton's Satan (although there God has already begun to drift in this direction).My ultimate conclusion then is not that there is no common ground but that Deleuze is just part of a much older pathology stretching back to the Sophists. But his particular brand is really a Reformation pathology that "post" modernism has never left behind because it very much never transcended modernity, but keeps its core assumptions. One can disrupt one's understanding of the Great Chain of Being, the great Ladder of Ascent by becoming infatuated with a mere rung on the Ladder and absolutizing it. But this is simply a misordering of the soul.
This is horrifying. Is there a better way than Christianity to transcend this?
Any recc.s for non-fiction books that aren't just a biography, or a dull reference/history of x book?
