>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24700882I think your post is weird and gross. I think a man masturbating in public is weird and gross. Your post is equivalent to a man masturbating in public. You're masturbating in public!!!!!!
>>24700882>It offends me therefore it shouldn’t exist
>>24700863Yes.
>>24700882You have to open a book and read it to be offended by it. A group of public masturbaters doesn't have the same barrier for entry.
>>24700894On a long enough line of relativism we can eventually equate child erotica to opposing child erotica? I don‘t think you thought this through. >>24700896Yes>>24700903No>>24700909That doesn‘t make it right.
Has /lit/ ever produced anything worth reading?
>>24697005>Lit Quarterlyi have the first three copies and one of my shorts is in the secondare they available online? don't remember if they were print only or not
>>24700864>they available online? don't remember if they were print only or notoh i should have clicked the mega kekeke
>>24700711Burgerpunkposting was really a nice time, I'm sad it didn't go on longer than it did. It's a neat idea, really.
>>24700757Here you go, my fine fellow.Shoot me a message on Goodreads if you'd like a free e-copy should you not want to give me shekels.Also available on Barnes and Noble, Target online, Indigo, and other booksellers if you don't like Amazon.https://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Mathew-Kellerman-ebook/dp/B0CJ5S9VWV/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2PHCXT4JURO5W&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.47r96R5FH9RZRWfInBm7OvLFFokWFpEOQ5Xj-45NlhPGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.TabOGKwsX5Tioi1x01BELqHlBXBSGqBNE6Ob00XQB8A&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+awakening+mathew+kellerman&qid=1757106143&sprefix=%2Caps%2C238&sr=8-1
>>24700874Pic related is my favourite take on it, although I'm no burgerpunk scholar. The focus is on the impact on the individual, whereas most other attempts I read treated it simply as a setting or set of props to throw around; here there's something interesting implied about how even if you believe you're living outside the system (or maybe in its cracks) you're still subject to the homogenising powers of corporate feudalism, and find yourself a caricature.>>24700864What's the title? The Lit Quarterly editor gave me some recommendations for pieces to read after I got my hands on the PDFs, but I haven't gone through yet.
Thought, in thinking itself, thinks what it is to think as such, and what it is to think as such is to think the object of thought per se, that is, pure being.Pure being, as the formal object of thought, is, analytically, the first concept of thought. As the first concept of thought, it has an infinite extension and no intensional content. That is, it has no given definition. Thought, in thinking pure being, thinks nothing.Thinking nothing is not not thinking. To think nothing is to think thought as unfettered by any given determination. To think nothing is to think the beginning of thought's own self-determination. Thought, in thinking nothing, thinks the illimitability of its formal object: pure being.The opening of the logic repeats Aristotle: thought is nothing before it thinks, for it has no given nature. If it did, it would delimit the formal object of thought.This is all that is needed to get started on the greatest philosophical adventure ever. Please start reading the Science of Logic.
>>24696955>>24697020>>24696903>inauthentic shitAuthentic to what? An anxiety emptied of content or some arbitrary historical contingency? How do you discern between the authentic and the inauthentic? Hermeneutics try to be "authentic" to the historical contingency, but this just leads to relativism. Gadamer tried to solve this problem by going back to Hegel and limiting the scope of dialectics. But for the dialectics to work, it must be thought itself the one that introduces new determinations into the dialectic by its own potency, and this movement must be the same as the movement of the thing itself, or better yet, thought and being must be identical. If those conditions aren't met, the relation between one thought and another (or the moment of synthesis, fusion or whatever you may call it) is external, thus a mere contingency that can be negated with no problem at all; and the relation between what we think and the thing itself is contingent too, thus relativism.The second Heidegger is aware that the hermeneutic circle is indeed vicious, so he tries to go back to the nothingness of anxiety or primordial openness of being before any ontological horizon is posited. His treatment further shows that Heidegger is the one limited by abstract thought, since he's unable to move within being's self-contradiction. This leads him to reject thought, instead of thinking of thought as the self-movement that finds itself in its negation. His reasoning is quite close to Spinoza's. I think that Hegel's critique of Heidegger would be similar to his critiques of Schelling and Jacobi,he was quite critical of isolating both sides of oppositions or uniting them while excluding difference. They accept that everything that is, is being, but when we point to this or that being, we lose being itself and now we have determinate being. Every being is invariantly being, therefore in order to grasp being itself, we must negate every determinate content of being. Thus being is both the absolute affirmation and negation of content i.e. Being and Nothingness are the same and the opposite. Spinoza avoids Nothingness since he's on the positive side, whereas Heidegger stays on the negative side. Because of this reason, the transition from indeterminacy to determinacy fails. Determinacy comes from the self-negation of indeterminacy. It's not just that indeterminacy is both pure positivity or negativity, but that its already determined to be undetermined. If was not determined, then it wouldn't be determined to negate determinacy, and thus it would affirm determinacy. That's implicit on Spinoza's omnis determinatio ist negatio. If determination is negation, then indetermination is the negation of negation. Determinacy is contained within indeterminacy, and determinacy is ideally related to indeterminacy. The ontical is ontological and the ontological is ontical. A thought unable to grasp this movement is not thought but an abstract and dead understanding.
>>24696955>Reason isn't that special. It isn't the ground of knowledgeBoth the concept of knowledge and ground entail reason. To give a ground is to give a reason. We say that one thing grounds another one if one is the explanation of the other. In a strict sense, the explanation contains the whole of the explained, since if it's not contained then it's outside the explanation, thus the explained wouldn't be explained at all; and the explained must contain the whole of the explanation, since the explanation is the very essence of the explained, hence if the explained does not contain the explanation then the essential would be something external, but the essence is precisely the internal. The activity between the explanation and the explained is reason as such.On the other hand, what differentiates knowledge from opinion is justification. You could say that knowledge is the web that ties the objects of knowledge together. But the web must always mantain the figure of necessary connection, for if the connections were contingent then the web could be easily negated by anyone.>>24699128I'll give you a hegelian response later. Rn I'm too tired to write
>>24699426An explanation need not and cannot contain the explained in its entirety. It can only gesture at a relationship. Reductionism is in principle impossible and the whole of analytic philosophy has demonstrated what a dead end it is.
>>24696906For that there's the Philosophy of Mind (Encyclopedia v III) and the Aesthetic Lectures
>>24697009>>24699406Heidegger does engage with Hegel's Logic in both Identity and Difference and in the addresses and notes collected in GA 68 (simply published as "Hegel"), as well as a discussion of the Encyclopedia section on nature (Logic: The Question of Truth), and the Philosophy of Right (On Hegel's Philosophy of Right).Heidegger's Seinsfrage, while often coming across as though he were after the Sein of metaphysics, is not in fact what he's after, but rather the phenomenological account of the pre-theoretical experience with beings that allows us to understand them as beings of whatever sort (truly, indifferently, theoretically, falsely, poetically, as equipment, etc.).
Nietzsche gets hit with a trad one-twoRoger Scruton:>“There are philosophers who have repudiated the goal of truth -- Nietzsche, for example, who argued that there are no truths, only interpretations. But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realize how paradoxical it is. (If it is true, then it is false! -- an instance of the so-called 'liar' paradox.) Likewise, the French philosopher Michel Foucault repeatedly argues as though the 'truth' of an epoch has no authority outside of the power-structure that endorses it. There is no trans-historical truth about the human condition. But again, we should ask ourselves whether that last statement is true: for if it is true, it is false. There has arisen among modernist philosophers a certain paradoxism which has served to put them out of communication with those of their contemporaries who are merely modern. A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is "merely relative," is asking you not to believe him. So don't.”Chesterton on Nietzsche>Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of common morality behind it. He is himself more preposterous than anything he denounces. But, indeed, Nietzsche will stand very well as the type of the whole of this failure of abstract violence. The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident. If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.More Scruton on Nietzsche>Nietzsche himself has become a kind of idol. Despite his antagonism towards democracy and mass culture, despite his unashamedly racist attack on the Germans and all things German, despite his advocacy of ‘health’ and strength against the ‘sickness’ of compassion, despite his contempt for socialists, vegetarians, feminists and women generally – despite committing every sin condemned by the morality of ‘political correctness’, Nietzsche is now a cult figure.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24697538Partially true, they do seethe and cope because we are free and they have a deep desire to control everything. But they are fighting over the holy land first and foremost. They dislike America because we helped Israel.
>>24699714>nietzsche is… le paradox>nietzsche is….le mad>nietzsche is….le mean>nietzsche is le….cult figureAmazing arguments, truly shows an in depth and close reading of Nietzsche!
>>24699751You can’t even accurately summarize a few quotes, and yet you are confident that you understand Nietzsche better than a pair of actual philosophy professors with decades of experience in the field. Really makes you think
>>24697451>But you need only ask yourself whether what Nietzsche says is true, to realize how paradoxical it is.not everything that refers/applies to itself is necessarily paradoxical you fucking moron
>>24699395 White Christians are the actual Jews of the Bible. The “Jews” today are not actually Jewish. They are imposters and only why the Christians, the real Jews, can defeat the wannabe Jews
Write a story with five sentences or less and use the Balldo as a prop.
>>24700008>For sale: Balldo, never used
>>24700446Its the only choice for gays.
>>24700421You fuck with your balls not your penis using this>>24700446Once you can get yourself off handsfree you will understand
>>24700806Not true, gays should stick to handjobs, blowjobs and the like
>>24700446Blood and shedded vaginal wall come out of the vagina. Fucking ass is the same suspension of disgust as fucking a woman on her period
Τῆς ὀπώρης edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24669573>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24697959Not sure why an image of a Latin-text reading list of Late Roman-Medieval texts would get taken down, so I am going to assume something screwed up with the site or the jannies made a mistake. I figure I'll just touch up a mistake I had made on the original image.
Are there any recommended resources for Hellenistic Greek? Is Attic my best bet? I specifically want to read the Argonautica.
>>24700818the Argonautica is written in Homeric, so the periodization here helps you little
>>24700793hope jannies aren't retarded enough to think it's some generic dubs getter, people aren't spamming it
>>24700793>>24698283ad Ioannem rursus volvo
What's one book you enjoy immensely but would be embarrassed to admit so?
>>24700887>Explain why ephebophila is le evil or whatever, without sounding mad. Hard mode: provide sources.
>>24699505qrd on this book? is it some romance for men incelkino or something?
>>24700887Simple. Would you have sex with a 6 year old kid? No, right? Of course not. So then why is it suddenly okay if you put a 1 to the left of it?
Why do McCarthy fags always swallow the bait?
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldI enjoyed it a lot and it practically got me into reading history
If every event has a sufficient reason, does that rule out free will?
>>24700280Can you explain the difference between having and not having free will?I don't understand how someone does not have free will.
>>24700911not having free will means you are not in control of your destiny, maybe your father wished for you to be a doctor but nah you want to be a dentist
Even they are waking up for the fact that women only read porn.
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>>24700472>but its effect on the mind.AKA violent videogames turn kids into mass murderers and school shooters idiocy.
>>24700755You don’t have to agree with it but that logic is popularly applied to pornography while erotica is given a pass.
>>24700755The same logic of "nothing fictional affects the mind" would argue that propaganda doesn't work. Going on a killing spree requires breaking so many in-built natural and societal barriers in the mind that most people simply aren't going to do it regardless of what they consume or think. Plenty of people would love to murder those they have disputes with but don't because of the complications surrounding it and the initial mental hurdle. Sexuality and relationships is much more nebulous and does not have the same mental barriers. Having unrealistic expectations of your partner can be egged on by having friends tell you how much better you deserve, and is incredibly common. Having your friends convince you to murder a bunch of children is very uncommon, and most people would reject it out of hand. Having people's repeated coom fantasies psy-op them around really isn't much of a stretch
>>24700755>AKA violent videogames turn kids into mass murderers and school shooters idiocy.Have you seen how kids treat each other nowadays?
Did he kill himself out of boredom?
>>24689065>manic fuckboy who becomes so obsessed with a woman he plots to kill her ex-husbandkek he really was a living romance novel. Never read any of his bricks but I do respect the hustle.
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>>24697347>God shaped holeHe was a Mennonite and not at all agnostic. His views on religion and his belief is all over his writing. Lane Dean Jr is everything he saw wrong with faith, it is not those who do not believe but those that mistake belief for an identity and Lane Dean Jr does and as most of the 4chan larpers do.
He has an oddly gay voice and mannerisms for a straight man.
>>24699502He's not gay he's just white
For me, it's chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, the most beautiful chapter in literature.
>>24698853There is a place like this in Lithuania, my homeland. It's pretty grim.
>>24694890Zizek hasn't even read it. His whole arguement is that "da Nazis liked it so it's bad!!" He forgets most Nazis were Christians and never extends the same criticism to the Bible
>>24698389Christianity in the third world isn't much better
looks like van buitenen has translated a collection of puranic myths, i'll bet that's as good as anything.
>>24694890Of all the reasons to criticize the Bhagavad Gita, this seems like one of the absolute dumbest
They are like French, you hear a lot about them but their literary production is basically non existing once you start digging.>inb4 reeeee you angloids lack of good literatureOur works may be McDonald's tier shit but at least we have a literary legacy.
>>24699340Thank you, anonYou shine brighter than the sun
>>24696736you can't expect people to go and copy over a single symbol or add a new keyboard in another language to their operating systems just to write one ö (I got that one from your post). If they're phone posting then sure, but honestly who gives a shit.
>>24699748If this were real life, I'd give you a high five :D
>>24699552austrians were german up until 1871then they magically stopped being germanthat makes a lot of sense
>Literary production is basically non-existentYou are retarded
How did dostoevsky become a mind virus?
>>24688110That just social media. The fact that people can post like he does, and people will watch. In years past, he would have had, at the very least, a friend group to spend time with. And friend groups meet other friend groups and eventually he would be married with children. But such is life in this technological horror we have created.
>>24688475Now this is the beautiful gallic soul that I love. I am currently moving in the same direction you are.
>>24699768>breeding is discouraged>breeding IS an achievementmake up your mind
>>24681519I was divorced by 3 years at 28. 2 kids, both daughters
>>24681512>swim>doesn't wear speedosWithout a single stroke he has shown that he has no idea about swimming
Would this be an easy or simple read for someone who has never touched a Kierkegaard book?
>>24700845it's very readable
>>24700845It's a fine starting place as any. The Present Age is probably a little better to start with, but Works of Love is also fine. I know we're not supposed to mention reddit, but check out u/ConclusivePostscript. Kierkegaard scholar who doesn't post anymore but made some really excellent primers to SK's bibliography on a few different Christian/philosophy subreddits, I found them very helpful
>>24700845Oh what do we have here? A useless book to be sure. Lil kierke never found any eternal truth so he had to die in becoming. This also means the best he could ever manage was Jesus. I guess he could've always kicked that around. Of course if no one can out-Jesus Jesus fucking Christ then there isn't anymore for him to say right? That damn dualism. Do or do not. Yeah he had one good line but it gets old. Maybe only at parties or something? Oh dear, without any way to test anything I guess this means he agreed with Hegel and was a good Christian, or perhaps he was never a Christian at all? Without reason he wasn't a Christian, just an enthusiast.
>>24700910Is this pasta or you being a retard on purpose?
>>24700920Now we're talking. How are you planning on testing? Does this mean you aren't a Christian either?
Was he one of us?
It's really hard to tell whether Bowie was a chud or a proto-redditor. In one way, he seemed to have pretty liberal views, was likely a fag, and went on to inspire drag culture and glam-pop. On the other hand, he loved Mishima, was interested in esoteric fascist mysticism, read Camille Paglia and claimed Hitler was the original rockstar.
>>24700022Sodomizing Mick Jagger doesn't make you a fag. Makes you a man.
>>24700035Tbf from the right angle I would be tempted.
I don't know the extent to which the list can be trusted, presumably not having been composed by Bowie himselfI am especially skeptical of 62 and 63
>>24700022Bowie was a schizo and his baseline personality was a British chud but he also had to make another flamboyant stage personality to not go insane and advance his artistic career.
