Confess your ressentiments in this thread.
philosophy/ers have been a net negative on civilization, and probably (as we know it) shouldn't be a part of academicsand i dont actually know what this french word appropriated for some faggot framework is supposed to mean
My looks are volatile. Posture issues, mostly. When I'm looking good the world treats me well and I'm gentle as a prince. When I'm looking like shit the world treats me as a leper (women) and a target (other men) and my heart is quick to fill up with hate and I start acting like a petty resentful grouch.
People have been yelling and screeching about Palestine in my neighborhood since 2023. I would like to kill them, but I can't. I guess that's the definition of resentment.
>>24692953No, you really couldn't.
>>24692953>I could write his stuff,kek, write us some Nietzsche right now. Give us a paragraph.
thoughts on this? wanted to start with philosophy chronologically got recommended this book by reddit
Idk. For things like the Greeks, especially presocratics it's better to have some basis Ancient Greek and choose an annotated version of the fragments you want to study. Chronological order don't mean shit, you are not an historian. Start with Plato right away because that's where occidental people more or less start with the greeks. And by books about Euclides and the Pythagoreans. Having a lot of fragment will not take you very far.Maybe read about their mythology too.
>>24695467>Idk. For things like the Greeks, especially presocratics it's better to have some basis Ancient Greek and choose an annotated version of the fragments you want to study.ok>Chronological order don't mean shit, you are not an historianmakes it easier to process everything and see the evolution>Start with Plato right away because that's where occidental people more or less start with the greeksfuck that shit then. i wanna understand everything>And by books about Euclides and the Pythagoreansim planning to read euclides elements
>>24695445Excellent set of volumes. Contains the testimonia and fragments in Greek and Latin (as applicable) with decent translations of them all. In some cases, you even get some access to fragments discovered subsequent to Diels and Kranz.On the other hand, it's not really a replacement for Diels and Kranz, since many of the smaller figures lack any presence, as well as a few significant Pythagoreans.
Start with the Torah. Learned Greeks like Origen admitted that all the wisdom of the Egyptians and Greeks, from Euclid to Plato, was a pale imitation of Moses and Solomon. After the Torah read the Wisdom and Proverbs of Solomon. Then the wisdom of Sirach is excellent, and Ecclesiastes.
>>24695546Ok, Im really liking the fragments and testimonies. >On the other hand, it's not really a replacement for Diels and Kranz, since many of the smaller figures lack any presence, as well as a few significant PythagoreansOh I dont wanna go too deep. These smaller figures can left out and I will read about the pythagoreans separately
Redpill me on Brandon Sanderson.Are his books worth reading? Is he woke?
>>24686778His stories are overrated, YA slop.
He writes at a ridiculous pace, is incredibly autistic about worldbuilding, and is able to play nice enough to allow his stories to be adapted to tabletop while also being strict enough to not let them get hollyjewed into a television show he wouldn’t like. He gets major points from me for streaming his reactions to the wheel of time show and it’s just nonstop disgust and revulsion at what they butchered.You may not like his writing, but the man fills his niche in the bibliosphere well and does so with joy
>>24691084A little i guessShit's going down in the last books so there's not much time to it.But he does randomly drop things like "btw this minor character is gay"Also this may or may not be related to wokeness but his way of doing relationships is painfully vanilla and equal, unlike Jordan who often writes relationships like a crazy assymetrical power struggle.
>>24695128>Also this may or may not be related to wokeness but his way of doing relationships is painfully vanilla and equalThat sound great.
>>24686778My classmate loves him and considers him the defining author of our generation. I weep.
>most of us are shaped by circumstances outside of our control>if you've been abused as a kid that's it, you're done, no sheer willpower can reverse how your brain is wired now>biologically impossible to not care what others think>no amount of buddhism, philosophical copes, meditation will ever reverse the way your mind operates>have to be surrounded by people who won't hurt you verbally everWe already have heaven on Earth, and it's those Chads who were born into social validation. They will never know pain or suffering.
>>24693318Not OPBut there are some damages to the brain that simply can't be rewired.
>>24691345>have to be surrounded by people who won't hurt you verbally everWell aren’t you the most delicate flower.
Use psychadelics and and kill your old self if you're unsatisfied
>>24691345I got better. It sounds like you just don’t want to get better and are stuck on a narrative that you refuse to let go of for whatever reason.
>>24691345yes anon, one of the reasons why I don't want kids, I could never forgive myself if something happens to themI mean I don't have a gf or anything but if I had the opportunity I wouldn't take it
Carolingian edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24643783>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.
>>24689192New ones are pod glue bound garbage lol what are you talking about
Is there really no publishing house that puts out texts in just plain Latin, without translations or commentary?
>>24694833Ew no
>>24694833At least Sanskrit has a few profoundly autistic White enthusiasts because of Aryanlarp, Classical Arabic is pure desert merchant writing.
When someone says they begin reading in a new language by opening a text and having at hand a dictionary and a grammar, what does that process actually look like?
What's the best translation of the Book of Proverbs?
KJV
>>24694273>not posting the gif version where he spazzes out
>writes a scene in his book about childrens having a gangbang
>>24695308It’s just on BAP’s fantasies that he thinks will come true when America is just like Brazil which he has repeatedly says it needs to become
>>24695531well then so is orthodox jewry xD
>>24695531how convenient for you genocidal faggots
>>24695531Should he have not posted Stephen King either?
>>24694865Literally how is he not in federal prison yet?
eternal reminder
>>24692549i dont read freemason/jewish literature.enlightenment was the 2nd biggest cancer after protestantism in europe.
>>24695587Kant wasn't a freemason or jew.
>>24692549You're doing God's work, anon. Thank you.
>>24693801>What else am I missing?Literally the system, and you can't understand Kant unless you understand the entire system. Therefore, you don't understand Kant.
>>24695587Peak retard
>if you had something important to say, you wouldn't be hiding it behind big words when small words work finepseudo bros, how do I refute this? I've been trying for years.
>>24691389Use bigger words next time, retard
the only real response to someone using big words is to ask “why didn’t you just say…..”any other response is just conceding that you got filtered
>>24691596Pretty much this. If you can't communicate a complex idea in simple words/sentences, you can't really communicate.
>>24693369The point isn't that "big words bad" - it's that big words should be used only when necessary, when there is no way of saying a thing with simpler/smaller words.Think of the word "schadenfreude" - sure, you can say "taking joy in other's suffering", and it works, but "schadenfreude" is a shortcut to that idea; once you explain the idea in simple terms, you can use the big word again.Small words are preferable most of the time. If a bigger word gets an idea across better, use the bigger word. But at least try to see if you can use smaller words first without it sounding clumsy or stupid.
>>24690261this goth e-girl template ran its run rest in mediocre piss
>"Read Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, and his sister’s note about how he wrote it, and am absolutely convinced that he was completely mad when he wrote it, and mad not in a metaphorical sense, but in the straightforward and most exact sense: incoherence, jumping from one idea to another, comparisons with no indication of what is being compared, beginnings of ideas with no endings, leaping from one idea to another for contrast or consonance, and all against the background of the pointe of his madness, his idée fixe, that by denying all the higher principles of human life and thought, he is proving his own superhuman genius. What will society be like if such a madman, and an evil madman, is acknowledged as a teacher?”He's right you know...
>>24695475>Yeah, he was a regular demoniac.
>>24695382>truths he revealedhis own mobile army of metaphors, you mean? there's only perspectives, and as many truths as there are perspectives.
>>24695482Cool meme there. You have narrowed me down to the guy in the meme. Pinned me, nailed me, unmasked me. Trad, reddit, perennially basedfacing. That's me to a t. You win.
>>24693572>What N. really wanted to be was an artist, I think especially a musicianWhat he wanted to be was Wagner, or more specifically, the husband of Cosima Wagner.
>>24693572Tolstoy was the chad Nietzsche wished he could be
Skip one of these and you turn out a complete retard.
I think I've mastered grammer more then logik and rethoric.
>>24695038What goes in the medium item slots? Dicks in two holes and a wound?
>>24695038
>>24695042>>24695074>>24695175Thanks for proving my point.
>>24695042fpbp
who loved this book and who hated it? i want to hear someone argue that it's his best novel to date.
First read: didn't like it because of spicy JewessSecond read: liked it because of spicy Jewess
>>24695370I don't recall anything but it has been years since I read it. It is certainly possible but highly improbable there is some hidden Christian meaning if that is what that person was suggesting. Pynchon is very consistent with how he uses belief systems, does not matter if it is religion, science, conspiracy or what ever, they are all the same in that they will offer some truths but can not provide all the answers and will likely get you in trouble if you blindly follow them accepting any answer they provide even for situations they are completely incapable of dealing with.
forgettable
Skimmed it. Intend to read it. Appreciate the video game and anime references. Pynchon is like Harmony Korine. He knows where it's at. The sweet spot of the unfolding zeitgeist. Knows not to sneer at the lowbrow, at the large vistas of plastic consumer fare. Updike could not have written it, perhaps not even DeLillo.
It's excellent. You read it as the second half of a duo with Inherent Vice, and it stands with any of his other books.
Pointless bloat.
Ok. But the question is, what are YOU going to do about it?
>>24695572I'm scissoring it apart and reassembling it on Ulysses' body. Then I'll edit it down to the most interesting results. I bet you'd skim through that.
>>24695572Seethe and meme and make threads for my seethe and memes.
Is it possible for a book to be as funny as visual comedy?
>>24695552based dan poster
>>24695552Yes. So I've picked up things from books that sort of installed themselves in my mind that are perpetually and deeply funny. This has happened with visual comedy too, if you mean TV and movies. Personally the things from books have burrowed deeper into me. But I'm on /lit/ and read a lot. Anyway, is it possible? Yes.
Someone redpill me on this bitch. Is she just bad, or do her books have any literary merit whatsoever?
>>24692261>worse if you are an american writing about oxford, for what do americans know about anything?expertly said, ms Kuang.
>>24690496Her second attempt at literary fiction's coming out this time next year. Over/under on her including a scene where a mousy Asian academic is tormented by her hatred of white people but her love for BWC?
>le nipsI thought she was a chink!>rf kuangHad a gf who liked her. Cannot imagine anyone but the fakest of fakes reading her Yellowfafe. Seems almost confessional in meta ironic way. Poppy War seemed like YA. But did not delve deep. Vaguely proggy but safe bipoc feminista fantasy. Read Babel. Was unimpressed. But maybe if I was a teeniebopper I would have enjoyed it more. Typical YA fantasy. Supposedly dark academia or smthn. But if you wish for that then read Tartt's Secret History which at least tries to say something more interesting.
>>24691167This substack article is pointless and petty, but I realize my complaints about RF Kuang are the same. I tried bolstering my complaints against Babel (the only book of hers that I've read) and I can't, she's too debate-team-captainy for me. Maybe I was wrong. Am I being pointless and petty?
>>24692546It's striver literature. The striver doesn't think, create, innovate, push boundaries, or make new. The striver strives. The striver wants you to know they've done the reading and got the awards and got the applause. The striver cannot communicate without bragging. The striver does not exist when nobody is looking at them. The striver understands nothing about the world except for achievement. The striver cannot distinguish between being impressive and being meaningful. Kuang does not want you to think with her, or to think through the ideas she presents, she wants you to know she knows about the ideas she presents. It's the logic of the professional test-taker. Understanding doesn't matter. Neither does genuine creation. The only thing that matters is ticking the right box and getting the high score. Striver literature.