I am a slave to my body and all of its whims and processes. Books that discuss this?
https://openairphilosophy.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/OAP_Zapffe_Last_Messiah.pdf
>>24967340become an ascetic
>>24967340>SOCRATES. ...if we had a great deal of food and did not eat, or a great deal of drink and did not drink, should we be profited?>CLEINIAS. Certainly not.
Is nominalism really that bad? A lot of galaxy brained people seem to say so. CSP says that individualism (his term for the combination of nominalism and the belief that particulars are ontologically fundamental) is "a tool of the Devil if Devil there be" in a letter.
>>24967410Right, he always insists on the sections that deny existence to universals but ignores crucial passages like the first half of Meta 7 where Aristotle demonstrates that essence is prior to matter. If you understand why universals don't exist, but you also think essence is prior to matter, you are something like a Thomist. So when people use perfectly legitimate 'realist' language in these threads, which is grounded in Aristotle himself, he spergs out and assumes we are speaking as Platonic realists and reifying universals. Meanwhile as you say he insists that he is a radical nominalist when his own position, which he gets from Aristotle, is realist.
Plato, at least in Aristotle's telling, explains the intelligibility of being by ascribing it to the thought of it which not only is a substance but is substance itself. Aristotle does make being the cause of our thoughts of being; the universal is secondary. But the being is intelligible in itself and this intelligibility is prior. Though this intelligibility is not a being or substance, it is the principle of particular substance. Hence it is prior both to particular substance and the universal. The drunk nominalistanon thinks this is the proposing of some sort of mysterious entity, but it follows directly from Aristotle's logic *and is affirmed by Aristotle*. Essence is the principle of particular substance and is itself pre-eminently substance, just not as a subsistent but as a principle. If you get rid of this principle and think the particular itself is, as he likes to say, 'immediately' related to the universal, then you've destroyed the distinction between form and matter, intelligibility and contingency, which ironically is what he thinks he's preserving.
Separate anon here, jumping in. >>24967333>when I know horse, the essence of horse is in my brain, illuminated by the divine intellect. Then why don't you know all about the horse? Why can you carve up this 'essence' at will in any number of ways? "Well then you're saying our understanding of the horse is arbitrary!" No, it is caused by the particular. As he says in DA the horse is 'potentially' the universal, is potentially UNDERSTOOD as what it is universally.ohhhh... and the potential (the intelligibility) is grounded in the actual... aka the particulars... at last I truly see. There was no need to be a realist when potential is already tied to being. >>24967410>>24967445>but ignores crucial passages like the first half of Meta 7 where Aristotle demonstrates that essence is prior to matter. If you understand why universals don't exist, but you also think essence is prior to matter, you are something like a ThomistOr... you could read essence as particular forms (and not universals) and sidestep the issue entirely. I haven't seen that interpretation defeated decisively yet. >>24967482Not a good explanation. You can't sidestep the issue by calling the black box an arche, especially if you don't know what being, type, kind, thing, whatever-the-fuck the arche is. The arche for being qua being in Aristotle's cosmology is the unmoved mover, a particular. The arche for intelligibility in Aristotle's treatise on soul is the active intellect, another particular (and many would argue is identical to the unmoved mover).>then you've destroyed the distinction between form and matter, intelligibility and contingency, which ironically is what he thinks he's preserving.There is no automatic entailment such as the one you are describing. You are being incredibly hasty. Let's slow down, figure out the fundamentals, and then return to that concern later.
>>24967399I have clearly explained my position like 4 times and you are literally unable to articulate any position at all
>>24967496>you could read essence as particular formsBut particular forms include matter. The essence in the first part of Meta 7 is not the form of the individual, like I said above he speaks of Callias and Socrates as being one in form, he talks about the definition of the essence, and so on. The question is how to understand this 'being one in form' or essence while preserving Aristotle's attacks on substantial universals. Aquinas does this and I think the nominalistanon also does this in a confused way but does not realize that in doing so he is not really a nominalist.
Was he right? What comes after the Faustian civilization?
>>24967189>>24967233One more thing to add then you can make fun of me all you want.No one loves and understands the West and Faust as much as its younger sister, Russia. But in order to understand and love it, it must be emancipated from it.
>>24967233>The Western factor is the foundation of the Russian crisisBack in the day maybe, but nowadays it is a propagandistic veil left over from the more refined and less civilized times, just like the West is not a substantial entity, but a collection of moral statements. What kind of conflict could there be when both sides have exhausted their substance? It's just factories fighting against factories. A factory of hamburgers, a factory of moral statements, a factory of political motivations, a factory of missiles.
>>24967247I appreciate you making me feel happy that my ancestor sold her title and left Russia for America.
>>24967376It seems that Russia has exhausted its essence during the 20th and 21st centuries. How much of its soul is left is known only in the monasteries and in the rural peasantry that still revere Rasputin and the holy Tsar Nicholas. Now it is just factory against factory as you say.Only after a great war or some other suffering will it be seen how much blood is left in Russia.As Celine said "Humanity is as good as a chicken flies, only when you kick it." or something like that.>>24967382America is full of sold souls.
>>24967140It is stupid to divide a country between a 'real half' and a false half. Most of Russia is urban anyway. And a city in the normal sense isn't always a Spenglerian city. And a peasant isn't always a literal dirt farmer. I don't know anyting about Russian urbanism, so I won't comment on it. But I have experience with thirdie Urbanism, and I can tell you that the larger part of the 'cities' in the world are basically just massive webs of villages and markets connecting a limited amount of commercial, industrial, and administrative Nodes. But I have to say that from a superficial outside perspective, Russian cities do seem somewhat uncanny looking. Like the other guy pointed out. One doesn't really choose wars, and for whatever its worth: a war to fulfill local security objectives seems like it would sit better than foreign adventurism in Syria. And as for religion, it's still developing. Just a bunch of very pious but formless nonsense. We can probably gleam somethings from it in the future though. Like that in that culture Religion and the state will be very closely tied, a Russian I know even thinks the state will become a church. Sort of inverting how in the Magian culture the Church became a state. We are a long way from that, though.
>14 years in prison for innocence>your fiancee gets married to the guy who screwed you over>every day, hour, minute, second, all spend in tiny stone cold wall, barely any light coming through>keep fantasizing 24/7 about your revenge, how you're gonna do it, think over and over each step>a miracle happens, you're free out of your prison>spend 10 next years preparing to exact your revenge>halfway through, dipshit son of your ex-fiancee challenges you to a duel he stand exactly zero chance winning against you>your ex fiancee comes up to you and recognizing you she begs to not kill her son>you unironically agree to be killed by some retard>because of a woman>who betrayed youYears of suffering, deep hatred, injustice. Edmund had every of those niggers dancing in the palm of his hand, and just like that he was ready to die because of a fucking foid? This is worse than average anime isekai
>>24967246>>24967257Gynoslaves ruined the West
>>24967481gotta be honest with you, chief. I have no idea what a gynoslave is
>>24967246it's not about her but her son, you imbecilethere is nothing gynocentric about this
>>24967246Wait, but he didn't die. He sailed off into the sunset with his Turkish sex slave
>>24967526it's a being (not a human) that places women far too high on the social hierarchy
Does anyone have any recommendations for true crime or crime fiction books?
>>24967405is this picture england?germany?
>>24967405James Elroy's LA Quartet. Good crime-noir fiction.
>>24967405The Sluts by Dennis Cooper. It's told through various posts on a site dedicated to reviewing prostitutes, where various people claim to meet and interact with the same person, and larger claims of violence start to appear.Also quit being a namefag.
Have you read every page of the meme trilogy? If so, which was best?
>>24962623Or how about you just read/watch/play what interests you and form your own taste and identity independently from what your reddit hivemind/board culture tells you?
I read IJ and loved it and still love it
>>24967457Same, then I read GR and I felt it was way mlre difficult so I couldn't enjoy it in the same way, but I'll definitely be rereading both of them. Ulysses scares me (I'm an ESL and haven't read any Homer).
>>24967457>>24967467Get the fuck off this board. Reddit is where you belong.
>>24962573I've read all of them. Their quality descends in order of publication.
i thought it was just autistic rules about preparing food and bathing
I’m perfectly fine with kikes killing muslim babies so long as my taxes don’t fund it.
seemingly any thread about BAP, the Talmud or Israel attracts a half dozen Israelis/Zionists who argue in bad faith until it hits the bump limit
>>24967444The only thing in bad faith is the fake outrage against another race’s will-to-power. Literally pilpul. Once again, are you a leftist?
Why am I supposed to care that the talmud says jesus is boiling in excrement? I'm not a jew, nor a christian, nor a muslim, and all those groups are retarded subhumans. Tell me why I should care?
>>24967345Leftoid slop. War is bad because it is impossible for it not to involve the killing of innocents. Every side does it. >>24967474Israel's being an ethnostate is good ("ethnostate" is a word that literally came into existence in around 2010, because before that every state was an "ethnostate"). The issue is they don't want any other country to enjoy the benefits.
You need to start spelling words with “w” instead of “ v” wherewer “v” appears. This is because “w” is an inherently heroic and wholesome shape, whereas “v” embodies ewerything harmful, deceitful, and willainous (note, I’m only talking about written language, I make the “v” sound as normal when speaking) Trust me, this will improwe your entire way of life.
Io nied to replakke ail "y"s with "i"s and ail "c"s with doble "k"s, as weil as renonkking "u"s entireli, and replakking the first leiter with "i" when a leiter aipears twikke in a row, exkkept for those "k"s that replakke "c"s. And when a sbstotion wold prodkke doble "i"s io mst replakke them with one "o," as in: "kol ail nogers."
>>24961669You have posted stupid nonsense and I am now pissed off. Refrain from repeating this mistake.
Vy?
>>24961669reminds me of the vitches by Roald Dalh
>>24961669you have it wrong, pronounce ‘v’ as ‘w’ because that’s how the Romans did it >WENI >WIDI >WIKI
give me your best books that discuss the origins of western deindustrialisation
Even hardcore bible thumpers don’t defend “their” book as fervently as Tolkien fans do.
>>24962574>Most people, even fans, realize that Harry Potter is YA slop, not some great work of literature.I know people don't even pretend this shit is even an above average children's book anymore, however, it still has that reputation of one of the "biggest selling book series in history!" to live up to. Nobody is saying it's good writing, but I'd say it's overrated in that the is a huge casm of dissonance of how much it sold compared to what the actual content is.
>>24960229Don't care about his fans but the few pages of lord of the rings I've read were horrendous and I'm not even a prosefag
>>24963811case in point
>>24965928he's right, you know. First time I read it, I noped out at Bombadil and Dingleberry Diarrhea-daughter.Second time I read it, I skipped ahead to Bree and Weathertop. It starts getting good then.
Does anyone else these days feel like Tolkien's actual writing has become obscured?Every time there's popular "discourse" about Tolkien it always feels like people are engaging with the mere pastiches and cliches around his work, rather than considering the things he actually wrote.
>I had never embraced a woman, and above all I had never been embraced by a woman (at age thirty!). Desire mounted in me, we made love on the bed, it was new, exciting, exalting, and violent. When she (Hélène) had left, an abysm of anguish opened up in me, never again to close.Holy Based
>>24965689Retarded thread
>>24967283She was about to leave him. About the only thing trad and aryan he ever did
>>24967283He purportedly developed severe depression while in prison and was found unfit for criminal trial. He wrote a book on it but I haven't read it. Supposedly he claimed she asked him to do it. He was also known for having multiple affairs.
>>24965689>>24965779Pomo GODS just can’t stop winning
>>24967469>for having multiple affairsThey are frogs. It's their way of saying hello
Reminder that the exodus of white men from literature began when women vilified men on a massive level for liking DFW... so much so, that admitting to liking Infinite Jest was seen as a massive social blunder. Eventually, the message became clear that literature wasn't for people like them, and more for people that appreciated African diaspora literature.
>>24967267Fuck them, IJ is a masterpiece and TPK would have been one (arguably is even unfinished).
>>24967267Foids were right on this specific example doebeit
Literally just learn them. For the effort expended (a few years at most, and you'll still be able to maintain a social life and read in English), the rewards are immense. You'll get to enjoy a lifetime of reading in them. A hundred years ago every educated man could read them. Not to mention that learning to read other romance languages will be a joke after this.With the advent of AI it's never been easier to learn languages on your own, at this point your're just lazy and a midwit.>hurr durr i dont have timeThen stop cooming and watching tiktok and browsing 4chan>but i will miss out on reading by studying themNo, most of the learning of these languages is reading in them to build up to fluency>i can just read translationsok, your loss, lazybones
That was before high quality translations were widely available.You'd be better off learning classical Chinese.
>>24966845Okay that one's pretty funny
>>24966924>He can't perform They have pills for that now.
>>24966701is this legit
>>24966847I've seen them get recommended and being used. I've used them a little and they seem good. There are many methods, people have different preferences so you should try a few methods.https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=142241445https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138807138For German I also recommend this:https://libgen.li/edition.php?id=137935102or thishttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b312900They're almost identical. The latter is the original from the 30s, the former is the edited reprinting from the 90s which has a shitty modern short story added at the end. The former is more legible though.I like James H Worman's books for German, French and Spanish and Peter Hagboldt's books for German, for example these two books by Worman:https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044086595022https://archive.org/details/erstesdeutsches00wormgoogComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I read purely because it makes me better than everyone else
>>24962608because physiognomy/phrenology is pseud drivel that only twttier crackheads take seriously.
>>24960113>honestly believing thiswe love a self-negating argument. nobody of any real value or status has to explain to themselves why they have value or status.you're probably a burnt-out wagie in his mid-20s whose highest aspiration is middle management.
>>24967253Don’t think how better you are than others but how better you are than yourself yesterday, crevice.
>>24967253Women don't go on lit, only trannies pretending to be women
>>24960803Guessed right without even reading the thread lmao Like I said
Do you prefer Sophocles or Euripides?
What about Aiskhulos?
>>24967431Even Women of Trachis? What if only the best seven of Euripides’ plays had survived?Let's say: Iphigenia in Aulis, Orestes, Baccae, Medea, Hippolytus, Hecuba, and Heracles?
>>24967390You rip-a Deez Nuts, bitch
>>24967390It's time that we admit Sophocles is just a bland, extended version of the myths. There's no point in reading them when I can just read the sparknotes versions of the myths and save some time.
>>24967498The divine spark is what makes Sophocles superior. Aside from The Bacchae, Euripides is such a collection of whiny, banal, mortals.
