>desire is the root of sufferingOkay, I'm listening>detaching from desires and ego will cease sufferingOkay, sounds good>by the way, there is also no self, you are just a collection of five aggregate senses. so like this is you but not really "you">also when you die they will just get recollected into something else if you didnt reach nirvana>also if you were really bad you might get sent to a hell realm where some spirit will torture the fuck out of you for a million years until you pay off your karmaWait what? Can you explain any of this?>dude you just asked one of the imponderable questions. don't worry about itHow am I supposed to believe this as the actual explanation for our existence?
>>24957389>neuroscientist studies brain scan>finds no evidence of an ego complex>concludes ego complex doesn't exist
>>24957375Ignore that navel-gazing faggot. Desire is literally the root of all pleasure.
To go back to that Polybus quote where he dunks on Ionians and monists- Buddhism in essence may as well be monist. It posits a monist Being metaphysical structure - (In Dalai Lana’s words “we are all same soul and if I hurt others I also hurt myself”) However, it also posits this one Being as being illusory so it is sort of Monist and atheist at once with its main takeaway being everything as one unity in nothingness. >>>How am I supposed to believe this as the actual explanation for our existence?I dislike the backwards aspects of Buddhism like rituals and the deities but the overall monist-atheist metaphysics seems reasonable enough to me or as reasonable as anything.
>>24957687Monism is the only coherent metaphysics/ontology as far as I can tell.
>>24957375>by the way, there is also no self, you are just a collection of five aggregate senses. so like this is you but not really "you">also when you die they will just get recollected into something else if you didnt reach nirvana>also if you were really bad you might get sent to a hell realm where some spirit will torture the fuck out of you for a million years until you pay off your karma>How am I supposed to believe this as the actual explanation for our existence?Desire is better translated as attachment.Also, get over yourself.
More and more i find myself dedicating into literature.Finished Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this month.Went to the bookstore today, no Eco books other than The Name of... were left.Went to thriftstore, what's that ? Baudolino Hardcover for 1€Came home checking online market place, Foucault's Pendulum and Pape Satan both HC, 3-5€ also in my town.A thread died for this, i don't care. Tomorrow i will sit somewhere comfy and read my new books. Post some surreal/artistic medival/renaissance/ super gnostic boys on mushrooms book covers.Love you all, have a nice christmas !
Read>French for Reading by Karl Sandberg>German for Reading by Karl Sandberg>Lingua Latina per se illustrata series>L'italiano Secondo Il Metodo Natura
Eco was a reddit tier atheist, quite sad.
>>24957192>More and more i find myself dedicating into literature.good and same, just finished Don Quixote, I will start Moby Dick tomorrow>i will sit somewhere comfy and read my new books. based, lately I picked up this thing where I just go the park in my town and sit to read there for some time zero fucks giventhe answer to depression or whatever people used to call this gay shit truly is to just go outside at any opportunity even if you don't feel like doing itfrom Eco I read Numero Zero, The Prague Cemetery and The Name of the Rose obviously and honestly all of them were just ok for me>have a nice christmas !You too anon
>>24957192Get this
>>24957279You came here to post this, even sadder.
Does Aristotle ever talk about how the four causes interact with each other within a framework of an explanation, i.e., a chain of causes from a major to a minor through a middle? Is there a meaning of cause in a primary sense the way that being is substance in a primary sense, or perhaps a genus of cause where the "four" causes fall under as species? I was thinking about what a cause was after thinking about why the first cause had to be a final cause and not an efficient cause. And then I thought, why couldn't it be multiple causes at once, the same way that going for a walk for it's own sake (e.g. a leisurely stroll in the park) is both an efficient and a final cause in itself. And then I realized that I didn't understand causes as well as I thought I did.
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>>24956732Did I say easy? I said that not even that hard - the Greeks all tend to bring you up to their level.
>>24956715Aristotle is the ultimate filter between people who like philosophy to know things and people who like philosophy because they think its edgy. >prime mover? accidents and substance? teleology?>dude this is boring and normie!>dude where are the ARCHONS bro!? the demiurge!? where's the based schizo realms?
>>24957296Aristotle is the ultimate trap that captures people right before they grasp philosophy. Normies read him and think they've tapped into some great source of wisdom, never escaping his maze of banal pseudo-philosophical nonsense.
Aristotle is essential to understanding Plato and (Neo)Platonism (and Christianity)The faith of a child is nothing to scoff at but as we age so must our faith or so it should...
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sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
>>24950717I was so obsessed with book Euron in my teenage years, thinking he was the coolest, most diabolically awesome villain ever written. He had this air about him, like he sold his soul yet it meant nothing since he never had any humanity to begin with. A charming eldritch apocalyptic nightmare that knew all the secrets in a cryptic world. I've grown out of that obsession and I recognize that this series really isn't that deep. But I still remember that feeling, and I wish I could get it back. Yeah, I'm a huge faggot.
>>24957027euron is cool man, nothing faggoty about liking him. faggoty shit is cutting your dick off and watching drag races and painting your nails black
>In ancient days, the god-emperors of Yi Ti were as powerful as any ruler on earth, with wealth that exceeded even that of Valyria at its height and armies of almost unimaginable size. - The World of Ice and Fire - The Bones and Beyond: Yi TiAll that and still no gunpowder...
Rereading combined feast and dance right now after impulsively rereading the second half of Storm. Man so many of these early chapters are straight up pointless and could be condensed to make 1 snappy chapter out of 2-3 aimless ones. Bran first chapter ADWD literally nothing happens. They talk about whether to trust Coldhands then decide to trust him. Davos I is absolutely meaningless. Jon and Dany repeat the same beats ad nauseum. I was so glad to see my boy Theon show up. Actually really liking Tyrion hanging out with griff’s lot, shame the rest of his story sucks
>>24956914Da NorfHouse StarkOld Gods magicSansa
The only book on psychoanalysis/yourself/everyone that /lit/ needs to read
>>24956626he greek?
>>24955554>its hard to talk about with other peoplethis guys a fucking LOSER dude
did you ever stop to ask yourself if anyone actually wanted to read 200 pages of "waah i'm sick i'm brain damaged help me"
>>24956871Damn I'm glad I'm not blind like you
>>24955554>nothing willYou said it.
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
Any good horror featuring rabies? It's actually really scary shit. Pic related.A few searches turned up some "rabies-like rage virus spreading across the globe" type novels, but I'm more interested in something like pic related. Either a first-person narrative by a person who may or may now know what's happening to them, or even as a subplot within a broader narrative. I can imagine something set during pioneer times, where maybe a character succumbs to rabies without anyone knowing what's happening to him. It would fit perfectly in some Donner Party-inspired story.Not really looking for supernatural shit, because in my opinion the realities of situations like this are scary enough. Cold, hunger, isolation, paranoia... and maybe a case of rabies to boot.Any recs? Someone has got to have seen the potential rabies has for this kind of story.
>>24920184I just read The Turn of the Screw.I was expecting a spooky ghost story, but it turned out to be about the danger of inquisition/not accepting uncertainty. Or at least that is what I thought about it. I am not the greatest reader comprehension-wise, and the prose was pretty inscrutable at times for me, so I likely only really understood 80% of the sentences.Would recommend, especially since the chapters are incredibly short.
>>24957391The Plague by Camus.
>>24957391rabies is not real, no need to be scared
>>24957268the 8 stops away part. I just thought it meant it had to go through 8 stop/wait places before it arrived to your destination, which sounded like a lot. I'm an idiot, nevermind that part.Sorry if I sounded creepy anon, it wasn't my intention
Burning TBR Edition>Old:>>24948206>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
How is Lies Weeping?
>>24957211Marry GrannyFuck NannyKill Magrat
>>24957395>marrying the virgin>fucking the hoe>killing the wackjob Based asf.
>>24957543>tfw never ever alt reality ridcully getting primo alt reality granny pussmultiple kids btw
I read The Fifth Head of Cerberus recently and Number 5's metaphorical hell life as someone trapped in a loop surrounded by dysgenic clones and a cargo cult of alien immigrants that imitate his culture reminded me a lot of... browsing 4chan.
>Pick a writer you like and sum up how you perceive their style in one sentenceLonely people drowning in their own language.
>>24957137Learned and well-read uncle rambling
>enter large, two-storey book store, many thousands of books>check out a few authors >King2 copies of Life of Chuck>Nabokov1 copy of Lolita>Pynchon1 copy of Vineland>Wallace, Mieville, Wolfe0 copiesWhat exactly are they stocking nowadays?
>>24957625yeah bro, they should just shut it down and not use it at all, that way israel can get more ebin tax dollarino's !!!!!
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>>24957564Eva is relentlessly pretty, a fact often disguised by an excess of makeup.
>Pre 1700 is honestly the bulk of my collection.
>>24957662>>>/schizophrenia/
Kill The Slopper EditionStubbed >>24949498>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24957567proper grammar is very important to my libido
>>24957567the first work of web fiction to make me laugh
>>24955787japanese hands wrote this post
>>24957563I want to unironically read this, seems kino
I am reading a pocket version of the sword of destiny and the plastic film cover got all lose while reading it until it got so annoying i ripped it off and now the book is sticky, so i just cut of the cover. I looked online and the hardcover version is sold out everywhere. Watch out boys, don't buy pocket versions, i have never had this happen to me with a hardcover book.
>>24957542You at least mark them as “read” on goodreads right?
>read first chapter>read last chapterGood enough.
>>24957550>>24957646kek
>Harry Potter's mom fell in love with the school bullyWhat did Rowling mean by this?
>>24956200>hate fuck Rowlingit means you're a tranny
>>24956662Probably the actual bullies who peaked in high school romanticizing it.
>>24956662How else do you create leftist radicals?
>>24954517Alpha fuxx beta buxx. Snape scarified his life to save his bullies and oneitis spawn. On an evolutionary level he failed.
>>24955963>one (1)Putting the number in parentheses after you type it out is not funny
Read this to learn structure and restraint, which I did, but now my voice is muted. Need to refind my voice for the book I wanna write.
Did Le Guin go off the deep end as the years progressed (like Rowling) or do I just not remember Earthsea being as gay as it is? https://slate.com/culture/2004/12/ursula-k-le-guin-on-the-tv-earthsea.html
>>24955978You would be upset too if the Syfy channel fucked your shit up.
>>24955978Nothing gay there.>>24955996I give Ghibli a pass, the film was pleasant. This looks like such tolkein trash
>>24955996>Syfy fuck I forgot that's its name nowthey did a good job on that Children of Dunc ost, but that's literally the only thing I remember about that mess of a show
>>24955961>in search of own voice after losing it>asks othersIgnoring the paradox of your pursuits, you will find yourself... within. Look inwardly.I lost my self once and finding it again was an incremental process of altering what I believe in order trick the devil. Or however you would semantically phrase it.Compartmentalize that you want to live, then proceed right to the edge of death. Everything clinging to you, which isn't you, will abandon you. And the only thing you are left with is you.
