>Pessimist that actually killed himselfOther examples?
>>24950762Michelstaedter
>>24951298Is this a song?
>>24950762>Other examples?anyone who's killed themselves throughout all of human history
>>24951453this dude has a way more defined chin than me..
>>24950762Wasn't there a philosopher who was also a convicted rapist?
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>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
I am interested in reading more Heinlein after enjoying Starship Troopers earlier this year. Any opinions on his other novels? Thinking about The Puppet Masters but worried that it might be a bit too 1950's Cold War cheesy to fully enjoy.
>>24951486Stranger in a Strange Land
>>24951480I always thought that it is an Isekai with vikings, but OK, I will try, thanks.
>>24951480This book is nothing special and I don't unstandard why it's recommended so often.
>>24951503>>24951498don't know, tried to help him and found this. I know nothing about this book
I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24951290>is just you casting a net over two different detailsThat's how words work. Reality is never contained in them.
>>24950487Does a magical unicorn inside the sun exist?
>>24951442It does. You just mentioned it, goofy.
>>24950487Nonexistence exists as a metaphysical form. All the things that don't exist are that way because they conform to the form of nonexistence.
>>24950487>How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist?There are pretty much no things that by their own definition don't exist. If we want to be nitpicky, let's go all the way.
>is arguably the single most racist author in American history>marries a Jewish womanWhat did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
>>24949793>It is a mistake to allow Jews to mingle with Aryans as social equals.Poor Howie still couldn't resist the temptation of that Yiddish pussy.
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>>24946601Jews aren't a race, that's Jewish propaganda.>>24947042Just Ashkenazi.
bump
>>24949996When you think about it, white supremacists are actually the least racist people.
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
>>24950477>Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?these ones, though i feel like most active communists would argue a crisis that could've causes revolution a hundred years ago would just cause further consolidation now. ironically there's not enough competition.
>>24950906How does Lenin get away with writing such banger books? I guess future communism will simply be the third world struggling for power until the struggle finally goes global
>>24951342You all took this as an excuse to debate communism as a theory.I'm asking about the practical marketing strategy as a movement, which no longer seems designed no to pick up the teaming masses of have-nots and win via numbers.Instead, it is catered to picking up the members of the various protected classes (truly protected , not just "we're with you!") in society and stringing them into a loose situational financially/numerically inferior alliance with no prospect of victory democratically/militarily.
Marxism has become too intertwined with third worldism and African terrorists to be appealing to the average white man.
>>24950477In places where communism is tied to some kind of ethnic or national identity, (Russia, postcolonial nations) chuds love it and libtards hate it. Honestly that just disproves communism even more, showing that tribe is far more important to people than class.
Is this the life all incels are so envious of? Truth is, most marriages were and still are much of hate towards the partner, if there is no passion to be found. And that happens for almost all couples if the other one is mentally unstable or otherwise literal child in a grown up body. Stoner was too good for Edith, but also a total loser for simping for her in the first place. They ruined each others lives and just kept going on with it. Also ruined the life of their child and made them an alcoholic. Can't tell if that life would be better than being without pussy desu (which Stoner did for most of his life anyway). So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women? Just fuck a college pussy for a semester and be reminiscent of it for a lifetime like Stoner did?
>>24951009>Men still in the current age are facing trouble getting custody for their child.>Men stillYour phrasing makes it seem like you mistakenly believe that it was "harder" for men to get custody in the past. Pre-1900 that would have been entirely unheard of. Women have more rights and legal privileges now than they ever have.
>>24951189trvth nvke
>>24951006I'm madly in love with my Japanese girl gamer wife. We cuddle every single day and the sex is great. Sometimes she just walks around the house saying my name to herself like it's a spell that makes her happy. It could all come crashing down one day, but if that ever happens I'll just pick up a high school girl at a train station and marry her.
>>24951006>So the question now is, how – if anyhow – should a man of intelligence pursue women?You ask women you’re attracted to on a date, if they say no then that’s fine you move on to the next. You get used to the idea that not everything is meant to last. You look for a woman who genuinely interests you and you don’t settle for lesss than you want. Most men problem is they settle or put up with nonsense. You can control your own fate but you can’t be a pussy about it. There’s no simping here because you aren’t afraid to lose anything and just move on if it ain’t right. Marriages always end too late, those motherfuckers knew earlier it wasn’t right but stuck around anyways because of societal expectations or whatever. Just dump your retarded gf it’s not rocket science.
>>24951131Personally I think i should be able to empty my balls into any woman I want.
>>24951429Isn't that a bit presumptions on your part since in context the translator obviously did mean breasts?
>>24951432Since OP won't post it, here's the whole thing in McCarter's translation (from book 1)(1/2)Daphne, the daughter of Peneus, wasthe first love of Apollo. Mindless chancedid not grant this, but Cupid’s savage wrath.Arrogant from the serpent’s fresh defeat,Phoebus had seen him drawing back his bowand said, “Those manly weapons aren’t for you,you naughty boy! Such gear befits my shoulders.The wounds they aim at beast or foe hit home.Just now I laid the Python low! He pressedacres beneath his pestilential paunch.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24951474(2/3)Lambs flee from wolves like this, or deer from lions!Like this, wings fluttering, doves flee the eagle—all things their foes. But I chase out of love!Poor me! Do not fall down or let the thornsscratch up your blameless legs—I mean no harm!You’re headed for rough ground. Please slow your runand curb your flight. I too will slow my chase.But ask, at least, who finds you pleasing! I’mno mountain boor or hairy shepherd guardinghis flocks and herds. You do not know, rash girl,you don’t know whom you flee—that’s why you flee!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24951475(3/3)Apollo loves this too. Touching the trunk,he feels her chest still trembling beneaththe brand-new bark and hugs the boughs like arms,kissing the wood, which still resists his kiss.“But since,” he said, “you cannot be my wife,you’ll be my tree! You will adorn my hair,laurel, and you my lyre, and you my quiver.You’ll grace the Latin leaders when glad voicesproclaim a triumph and the Capitolviews long parades. You’ll guard most faithfullyAugustus’ doorposts and the oak between them.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24951481This isn't bad. Where it takes liberties it's to do things like bring the hair obsession closer, or simple shit like leaving out emphasis for the line to not run over. It's literary, but if you can't read Latin, it's not really wrong either. Good paraphrasal translation, kind of light on imitation but i suspect they're a translator more than a poet.
Should I reread this series as an adult?
>>24951452>Is it typical sequel slop?Pretty much. It adds a bunch of new POV's and protagonists. Percy isn't even in the first book. It also starts to break the "lore" if you care about that sort of thing. It's also when Rick Riordan started to become libtarded.
>>24951452>>24951459(me)I should add that it's no coincidence that the book that focuses the most on Percy and Annabeth, House of Hades, is the best one in the sequel series.
>>24951382I'm not going to tell you not to and it might be that that's the itch you need to scratch, but as far as YA goes it's pretty much "passable". Not something to truly cringe at at, but also aimed squarely at boys aged 13 +/- 2 years and with the dubious literary worth that that implies.For my money, the YA series that have held up the best to me are>His Dark Materials>Mortal Engines quartet>Bartimaeus trilogy>A Series of Unfortunate EventsSo yeah, if you want to indulge in YA I'd recommend one of those instead.
>>24951382I think the prose is more the slog than anything. It's pretty fun reading the core case level up over time. Even passing knowledge makes the greek monster reveals a chore to get through. I would not reread it without double fisting with an actual Greek mythos book.>>24951461Ain't that the one that turned Nico gay for Percy?
>>24951487>Ain't that the one that turned Nico gay for Percy?I don't remember. It's possible. I just remember Percy and Annabeth being in hell for most of the novel being awesome.
Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
>>24947922>much lower castes that constitute the activity on that boardIt's funny when newfags roleplay, looking at /x/ the same way some redditfag looks at 4chan (an unholy bastion of no civility), when /x/ is one of the few genuine places of discussion left over on the entire website. No shitposting on any other board is somehow MAGICALLY (get it, retard? an /x/ joke!) worse or different than whatever goes on /x/.
>>24948892You're right anon, I may have been 'newfagging' with regards that board.
>>24946516*Repudiates your atheist claims to process divine knowledge*>>For, if they profess to know how to bring down the moon, darken the sun, induce storms and fine weather, and rains and droughts, and make the sea and land unproductive, and so forth, whether they arrogate this power as being derived from mysteries or any other knowledge or consideration, they appear to me to practice impiety, and either to fancy that there are no gods, or, if there are, that they have no ability to ward off any of the greatest evils. How, then, are they not enemies to the gods? For if a man by magical arts and sacrifices will bring down the moon, and darken the sun, and induce storms, or fine weather, I should not believe that there was anything divine, but human, in these things, provided the power of the divine were overpowered by human knowledge and subjected to it. But perhaps it will be said, these things are not so, but, not withstanding, men being in want of the means of life, invent many and various things, and devise many contrivances for all other things, and for this disease, in every phase of the disease, assigning the cause to a god. Nor do they remember the same things once, but frequently.
My diary, desu.
>>24946516There's a youtube channel called Interesting Books Reviewed that will have better recs than this thread
Apologize.
>>24951106no, i will continue posting anonymus so you will be forced to come across my commentson the other hand, you still havend said anything of substance, could it be that you are a beatnik and are offended at every critiscm hurled at them
On the Road really reveals two different types of people: Those who finish the book, take the ending as especially important, and are disillusioned. The others take the bulk of the book and are electrified by its energy, wit and exuberance. Me, I'm the latter.
>>24951127tldr
>>24950600To his credit Kerouac was a Republican chud who hated his fans and most of the other Beat writers too
>>24950358he gets boiled down to the adventure roadtrip guy but he was in a mission in search of God. i get it. modernity is gay and stifling. agree with the other comment saying he was teeming with soul. love the starry-eyed christianism. it's romantic and intoxicating.>burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop>>24950634>After reading a bit mor of burroughs i realized hes a bit of a one-trick ponyhappened to me too, anon. he's still great tho.
How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
just ignore it
>>24948572i mean that zizek quote is accurate
by creating an echo chamber where you dont have to engage with it in the dialectic and pretend it dosent exist
>>24948572Just don't think about it.
>>24948572Postmodernism literally gives conservatives an excuse to act like African niggers and retvrn, (moral relativism) but they rejected it for aesthetic purposes, just because the people who invented it were faggots in France with a BBC fetish.
"Chanukah" editionPrevious: >>24940898/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.
last night I got existential and lowkey scared as fuck, so I busted open a google doc and banged out a nice short story draft I'm now very excited about. it mixes Russian folklore with the aftermath of the recent Balkan wars. >tfw you repurpose history books into fiction
>>24951408Most comprehensible poster on /wg/
>>24951381Just write and you'll (hopefully) get better. If you wrote something one month ago and you still think it's perfectly fine, then it probably means you haven't grown as a writer.I started writing when I was 29. I'm 30 now and I wish I got started way earlier. Fucking jealous of people who've been at it for years or decades. At least having been a pretty big reader helped me close some skill gaps.
bros... i had an actual reader of my stories, a cute chick that actually read through entire pages and responded in detail. i thought i won the jackpot, but then she drops a nuke on my head, telling me she's getting married soon and that she's feeling worse because of winter. haven't heard from her since. a lil before she went all depressed on me, she fuckin told me that if i see the world the way i write, that since it matches her so perfectly, "then verbal communication is pointless, i’m serious. we’ll communicate via cryptic messages in dreams" - direct quote from her message to meAHHHHHHHHHH fuck you what are you scared you're gonna cheat with me before your wedding so you go cold turkey?
>>24950842:D
Picrel is very interesting. I started it today and considering the level of technology- and bureaucracy and the accelerated development of AI, this seems to be super relevant. Note that I don’t have a stem background and wasn’t interested in it for most of my life. But now I’m hooked.What books develop these or similar themes further?
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>another mid whore catapulted into fame and fortune for existing That's it. This has gone too far, the woman problem HAS to be addressed now. Simping is an epidemic that is destroying society and it's only going to get worse.
>>24948297These tiktok/reels of women doing innocuous bullshit in front of a camera are peak brain drain. I dont have paitence for this garbage anymore. She is a qt thoughever
>>24947980Let me guess, she opened an of after this went viral?
>>24947980She's not even attractive. She looks like the emo pick me girl from high school that would suck your dick for a dimebag and let you fuck her ass after an "I love you."
Why dont you just stop talking, thinking, and acting about women?
>>24951259I know at least two from my work. One is mandarin chinese and looks exactly like the one in blue. MSc CS. The other one is Uzbek Jewish, PhD in Statistics. I cannot imagine pursuing a relationship with either one of them. Primarily because I'm very opposed to dipping your pen in company ink, but also none of them are beautiful. We've gone hiking with the chinese one, though.
In a world where 90% of the internet traffic is online video streaming, to detriment of the environment and our minds, why aren't you rejecting modernity and going to the library? The library is literally free and fun for all ages. It is the most environmentally and civic minded thing you can do. Instead of being in a haze of pleasure, living in a digital cocoon of reels and streams, why aren't you forging the future of humanity? The weight of the world is on your shoulders and only you can make a better world.
>>24943966>All your actions will be judged one day by a super intelligence and they will pinpoint the exact moment your marginal notes in a book had convinced the world's next global Napoleon to create a political system that will solve all the existential crises of the world: climate change, war, poverty, disease, political collapse, and the nuclear holocaust!>The library is the mind of society and shall dictate where our future world consciousness may tread. You begin as a humble bookworm, but your actions will echo throughout the centuries, and your ideas will forge the next explorers of the universe!
>>24943918I love the library, the service keeps getting better here.
>>24943994>However it's filled to the brim with eastern Europeans somehow.Do you by any chance live in eastern europe.
>>24943918If your library sucks, you're most likely poor
filled with indian's taking loudly on they phones in gibberish language would not recommend
