>>24687038My diary
>>24687038Anything Buowski
>>24687038rubaiyat of omar khayyam
>>24687038Under the Volcano
>>24687061Bukowski's Post Office is not believable. He only takes 6 months of unauthorised sick leave off due to alcoholism and does not drink nearly enough.1/10: not realistic, insufficient alcoholism._t. postal delivery officer.
The one continuous issue that I've been having with the little bit of sunni literature that I've been getting through, especially related to the biographies, is this constant reminder that this is THE way to live, and if you're not attempting to follow each of the examples set by the sunnah you are drifting further and further apart from goodness itself, and if God forbid you try to deny or argue against the fact that it is the superior way of life in comparison to the countless ones that have formed the whole of human history you are automatically deemed a Kaffir or a heretic at the very least. There's not much room for the experiential, the phenomenological, or for mere curiosity even, and it's a constant exercise in games of Purity solely based on textual evidence as opposed to exalting in the sublime as you would find in, say, a desert father's writings. Not to say that there aren't examples of the latter across islamic literature, as that's sufism in a nutshell, but the fact that they are largely and uniformly deemed as misguided heretics, and that the actual hadiths themselves explicitly argue against trying to find your own inner path through the skies tell you all about the mindset that is encouraged right here. Basically, I'd like to know how muslim thinkers balance this forced dismissal of ''the other'' with the actual experience of life itself. How does someone as brilliantly daring as Ibn Arabi find it in him to continue to hold that way of life as the unquestioned path to the Truth? It all seems so incredibly reductive to me that I find it revolting at times. Are you really supposed to accept that 98% of all of human existence is nothing more than the devil's plaything? I'd have no issues with it if it were a complete rejection of the world, as you'd find in Gnosticism or in Theravada Buddhism, but it's the 2% that really puts things into question here. I'm not writing this post out of malice or anything of the sort, as God is my witness I'm only doing it out of pure bewilderment, and I'm more than willing to call myself ignorant on these matters. Why didn't I post this in a more muslim-friendly corner of the Internet? Well I'm not really here for proselytizing, and I've come across a good number of very sensible Islamic threads on this board over the years believe it or not. If there are more of you well read muslims who have already been through this spiritual rigamarole, then please guide me with some useful books on this matter. I have no issues with untranslated material.Al Ghazali also sucks btw. The guy that I've enjoyed reading the most is this turkish Said Nursi fella, who was at the crossroad between a rapidly modernizing ataturk-driven society and the rotting corpse of the ottoman empire. Cool stuff.
>>24687016>I am a ShiaIn Gaza? Really? How many of there are you? Is Sunni-Shia tensions a thing there, or does the whole Israel thing take precedence? Is the Dogmush clan actually dangerous or is it a LARP? Is there any hope for the communist/socialist movements to make a comeback in Palestine? Sorry for bombarding you with questions but I am curious
>>24687028I would need some more proof that a shia in Gaza is currently posting on horse trading forum.
>>24686139It means all those "muslim" rape gangs in the West should be crucified for their hiraba(banditry)
>>24685275I think that what's more telling is our maintained presence on this retarded website after so many years kek. But I will say this: I cannot claim to truly comprehend traditional salafist literature and fiqh because I have not read any of the 6-book long codexes (think ibn hajar's futh-al-bari) that are typically devised on these matters from cover to cover, which means that there are many nuances in the classical thought of the 4 madhhabs that are lodged in my blind side. The grammatical and syntax focused efforts on exegesis/criticism such as al-jurjani's works were fairly arduous efforts as well, and should make the case for a throughline of a serious intellectual tradition within ''convential'' islam, away from the sufi order of inherited knowledge.I think that ultimately, the crux of the issue lies in the panicking over the clashing of this once insular world with otherness ; or rather, otherness that has been springing up from within, which has never really happened in islamic societies before. It was always either a captor/captive sort of situation, or a gradual acceptance of islam by foreign societies, but never a growing sense of detachment from within. You can understand why a tradition that is wholly concerned with Purity managed to take a radical left turn in order to protect and preserve this proverbial pearl, which is this one, undisputed path to the Truth. That's why every single possible veering out of this path gets swatted away. There was a shock that struck the collective mind of the tradition once the enlightenment's trailblazing machines turned everything upside down, as it laid the ground for the first real, non-hostile, phenomenological contact between the (culturally) christian western tradition and the islamic one, with the advent of muslim generations growing up in a deeply westernized environment. The east is another question altogether. Those two contexts orbit around two axes that are opposites to a degree that's not even funny, and it gets worse when you're always playing the blame game regarding what exactly got us to this point.All I can say is hold onto God's mercy and bathe in the light of his wisdom wherever you can find it.
Reminder to all muslims itt that Jews have won. This wouldn't have been an epic btfo without muslims posturing about being good warriors and all. Oh well, I enjoy the coping :(
>Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.What does that even meanI'm one sentence in and I don't get it
>>24683268That expresses the angst that is supposed to be present in OP—that unsatisfiable tension.
>>24683233Remember when Plotinus described the soul as "amphibious"? This is basically that translated into wordcel.
>>24683233Essentially, it is the nature of human reason to try to answer any questions presented to it, but we can't answer these questions because they are beyond the limits of human reason itself. A crude analogy would be trying to reach for a pen at the other side of your desk but failing because your arm isn't long enough.
>>24683268>>24685909>>24686032>>24686320the true question is (my negros) ... is Kant right ?
>>24687730maybe he just lagged some serious skill here...and just concluded not to touch the balls of the almighty...remember he said : "I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith"maybe someone skilled enough can break through
"Anomaly" editionPrevious: >>24668754/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24687364>>24684651Don't lose hope! Submissions for the Lyttle Lytton contest are still ongoing!https://adamcadre.ac/lyttle/
>>24684651https://pastebin.pl/view/fca49791I also wrote this like 4 years ago....
god i got so little written today lol. it took like 7 hours to do 3 pages (ew)
>>24687349I used to be a neutral plotter, but have suddenly turned into a chaotic plantser
>>24687717im a neutral pantser and the more i write of my story the more i realize the geography of this world is horrifically fucked lol
I finished the Aenid, what now?
Dante, Ariosto, Tasso
>>24686485this, and camoens.
>>24686012what about beowulf
>>24686086you should have already read the bible by the time you hit the Aeneid
>>24685967>I finished the Aenid, what now?Dario Fo, Peter Weiss, Bertold Brecht.Skip shakespeare, he's for losers.
sci-fi written in the mid 19th century is WAY BETTER than the ones written today
>>24685828>sci-fi written in the mid 19th centuryyou mean like Moby Dick?
Name 5 sci-fi novels from the mid 19th century
I prefer Lucian's A true story.
>>24685828Nah
>>24686083>you mean like Moby Dick?Ishmael is a high yellow black cyberpunk homosexual drifter in a world of whale information seeking one big score on an super technologically advanced sea-ship.Split your lungs with blood and thunderWhen you see the white whaleBreak your backs and hack your oars, menIf you wish to prevailThis cyber leg is what propels meFractal harpoon thrust in the skyAim directly for his enhanced browAnd look him straight in the eyeWHITE FAILDATA GRAIL
What are some classical Buddhist works that deal with free will?From what I understand about Buddhist world view, there should be no room for free will, everything should be hardcore determinists. But I read in Gethin's "The Foundations of Buddhism" that the general position is that we cannot control the event around us or our mental states, but we can control how we react to these things, which seems strange in that it would seem to necessitate a "self" apart and beyond these things to make such a decision.
>>24687448>that it would seem to necessitate a "self"Buddhism Is against the idea of a metaphysical self,banself that can control the world and exist outside the world, having a individual Will(chanda) or a Sense of identity(pugdala) are not equivalent with a self(atta)
>>24687448>a "self"Not a self, consciousness. Consciousness isn't individuated or instantiated. Consciousness sees a being writing this post, much like it sees a being reacting to this post with>no uGuess what. There is no you. There is no I. There are apparent posts, and apparent trolls, and apparent rage, and consciousness reacts with buddha nature or without buddha nature.
FlexYourStack
>>24687634>And for the record this is the only type of reading I enjoysaddest thing I've read in quite a while
>>24687694Oh, sorry. I'll go and read some cute and valid lgbt romance stories so I can be in the know :)If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtube. Is it surprising that there are people that exist who like to learn about the world and ideas? Why is that sad. It's not.
>>24687497>ApplebaumNice fiction written by a "journalist."
>>24687720>If I wanted to have fun I would watch anime or youtubefor your own good just shut up
Thomas Ligotti is really the greatest living fiction author from America. I feel so jealous that Americans can understand the full context oh his stories along all of the subtleties of American life, language and its symbols. It is sad to see Americans don't appreciate the presence of such titan among them and then wonder why art is dead. I guess this is fate of all great authors that they become important only after they die. Also there is certain amount of nasty litfic goblins who don't recognize Ligotti's genius, even discredit him whenver his name comes up even though they not even read his books because they're too busy in their academic circlejerks that nobody cares about outside of boring academic shitholes and that's how they perpetuate their careers by kissing each other's asses.
I like him, but I do wish he would repeat himself less often. I swear sometimes he repeats the same expression two three times in the same paragraph.Also anti-natalism is cringe.
>>24687324Repetition is a literary technique that he got from Bernhard
>>24687346He copied his whole style from bernhard, down to his use of italics
>>24687207nice try Ligotti
>>24687591Nah, he has tons of influences and he doesn't hide them. >Thomas Bernhard>Aloysius Bertrand>Jorge Luis Borges>William Burroughs>Kafka>Louis Ferdinand Celine>E. M. Cioran>Douglas Harding>U.G. Krishnamurti>H. P. Lovecraft>Vladimir Nabokov>Emile NelliganComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
If God is truly infinite and transcendent, can the finite human mind ever comprehend God's nature, or are all our concepts and descriptions merely inadequate metaphors?
>>24687721Maybe via dreams
What's the deal with pseuds and Gnosticism?
>>24687137I would be very interested to know how they understood the soul and the spirit as well... admittedly I don't know a ton about Gnosticism proper, but I recall that many of the writings we've found differ so greatly that it's really unfair to group them all under one umbrella. I think our only knowledge of Gnosticism before Nag Hammadi came from church leaders like Irenaeus who were writing rebuttals.>>24686948Interesting, I had always figured it as a direct offshoot of Christianity developing some time after the current canon had already finalized, but that's probably not accurate. It's easy for me to place it at the end of a timeline of low to high Christologies, but I'm sure the reality is more complex. Those excerpts are fascinating though I can't quite comprehend what they're getting at. I need to sit down and read some of the Gnostic gospels at some point.
It's captivating and appealing on a deep level. I dropped it entirely when I actually understood Christianity and realized it made all gnostic nonsense unnecessary.>>24684434>the metaphysics and details of traditional Christianity are very unappealing.The people who say this have most likely not delved deep into the metaphysics and theology of Christianity
>>24684209>>24684229>>24684613Exactly when people say reality is evil they don't mean just the current or historic human experience of society and suffering of earth.Instead the very foundations of the universe and existence itself are evil. The laws of physics are such that there will always be scarcity due to entropy and a limited mass-energy in the universe. Godels incompleteness theorem proves that we will never be able to understand all of reality, and evolutionary pressures result in eternal competition, conflict and systems of parasitism.It's a heinous reality. Things didn't have to be this way. The laws of physics could have been such that there would be no scarcity and no conflicts. Mathematics could be such that we could understand everything eventually. And evolution could have been such that there would be no pressure for competition.These things aren't fundamental to existence or being. It's just fundamental to our reality, which is why it's evil.Nothing to do with resentment or my personal life. It applies to all lifeforms that exist in this hellish universe.
Lately I've started making threads about any random shit and claiming it has hidden esoteric Gnostic themes
It's a brilliant belief system because it absolves you of all wrongdoing and you don't even have to be critical>anything that goes wrong is the fault of the demiurge>anyone telling you that you're an unemployed schizophrenic is just a hylic agent of chaos you can ignore
why doesn't futurism have any notable novels?
https://youtu.be/tVgqzvRCU_g
This too I think:https://youtu.be/HHWKP3khY0cOr maybe pointing to it. Like cyberpunk but not pessimistic. Futurism aestheticized violence and treated war as exciting and that was also wrapped up in affirmation of technology, speed, and the future. It's optimistically destructive. Nowadays it pulls heavily from video game aesthetics. The Grimes video for 'Power' is very futurist, her and Musk or whatever other weirdos were involved in that knew what they were doing.
>>246860581 no it's not 2 no it doesn't 3 it's trash not worth talking about
>>24686099Holy shit this is bad. It’s also not “futurist” as it’s just calling back to tropes established by movies like “Blade Runner” and other works in the cyberpunk movement.Thinking of recent music with excessive dynamism, maybe iglooghost or something.
IT STARTED WITH A MINOR SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT INCIDENT that was decidedly private in nature... "Do yourself a favor and read the brilliant English translation by Gauger.
Why women are more obsessed with literature than men does?Is literature inherent a feminine hobbit?
>>24686929Might be the first time I laughed at a hobbit reference
It's social conditioningGrowing up I used to read in the library during my lunch breaks at school and I got bullied and called a faggot for it
>Today, a group of schizoid autists who never interact with women will explain to you WHY women do not read *real* books while dodging that most men do not read *real* books either.
>>24684227>Why women are more obsessed with literature than men does?unholy esl or actually retarded
>>24686890are you being paid to be that stupid?
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>Previous:>>24668507>Thread Question:Are there any worthwhile novel novel to comic adaptations or vice versa?
>audio"book"
>>24687332check /t/
>>24687332audiobookbayThat's really what it's called. Google it. It has nearly everything. You need to make an account to download the torrents. Making an account is free. You might struggle to find seeds there too, if the book is old or niche enough. However, the seeding there is pretty good in general.
>>24687236it was actually ironiy all along? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
what lit should i consume in preparation for halloween?
Ligeia by PoeThe White Old Maid and In The Hollow of the Three Hills by HawthorneHe also wrote a good story about a black mass but I can't remember the name of it.Under the Knife by HG WellsThe House on the Borderland
This is a good book if you’re 6 and like goblins.
