Overrated or deserving of praise?
>>24949132Read the review of the star trek vidya posted in this thread, in which he confidently states that he is an experienced expert on measuring the sexual proficiency of pre-teens.
>>24948849His work is nothing but throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks and what did stick was his weird fetish piece that all of the autistic teenagers can watch videos about on YouTube. His work is nothing special if it was anything more than short stories they wouldn’t be worth anyone’s time at all. So yes he is overated
>>24949021>no 10 year old I've encountered...can fuck with any degree of expertiseWhat did he mean by this?
>>24949192based
https://youtu.be/Dr5NsTOXAyE?si=kiO1e7c_exXImusO
How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
>>24949000>politico>somewhat>Reagansad desu
>>24949057It's not a choice. We are living in Marx's reality
>>24948572"Post-modernism" is a massive spookIt doesn't even exist broIt's not real
>>24948572nazism just like heidegger
modernity is just le reddit science athiesm, that all of reality is trackable and reducible to a system.post modernity is just saying no and an emphasis on particularity.Within that context you either see people as embedded in a culture and end up a nazi or far right like traditional community stuff like heidegger, or you reject culture (because you are a gay jew paid off by the state) and just talk about cumming or somethingpretty sure this is basically a pretty comprehensive overview of the subject
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24949286Just two more millenia
Maximum alpha, complete with fighting for the princesses
Can someone explain the KJV-supremacy argument for me? I mean, I read parts of it and there are places where the style is pretty impressive (e.g. the "whited sepulchres" insult does not really work as well in any other translation), but otherwise I don't see the point in chewing though that much antiquated english. To be fair, I've been born and raised atheist and do not intend to convert, and reading the bible mostly to get cultural references in western culture. Do the KJV and non-KJV parts only matter for people who intend to worship because of differences in ritual prescription?
>>24949287>Just wo thousand more years bro he's coming back trust the plan!
>>24949334>antiquated englishIt reads quite smoothly when you get the hang of it. I'm not a native English speaker and I have next to no issues. Also, many words are coming into fashion again (for instance, "matrix" is a mother's womb, but today we think of it as a fake reality from which one must escape. The KJB uses the word five times, and I'd argue that one can understand the word both ways in each case.Furthermore, the use of "thee", "thou" etc. is extremely important to determine who is being spoken to (John 3:7 being one just example) and in order to establish correct doctrine. This is obscured in modern versions with everything being "you".Finally, some have found seemingly impossible (Matthew 19:26) mathematical patterns and structures in the King James Version using modern technology and software. You can check out Truth is Christ's work for more information and judge for yourself.
I like this book.I think you should read it.
>>24949375i think i will. thank you for recommending this book you like, i will be happy to read it someday soon
>>24949375There is something slightly farcical and overly stereotyped about its characters that prevents it from being a masterpiece but i am still very fond of it.
What's your reading plans for 2026?Suggest a book to read in 2026 collectively. I'll add dubs (Jan to Sep, 11 to 99) and trips (Oct to Dec, 111 to 333) to the chart.
>>24949085ironically enough, we had three double sevens so far. rollin' for Portnoy's Complaint.
>>24948587i plan on finishing erikson's malazan books by feb, hopefullyafter that, don't know yet
Frisch, Gantenbein
>>24949366Jawoll!
>>24948587Life: a user's manual
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24947390>He's afraid to mention the book hereAre you seriously not gonna tell us which book?
>>24948721That's why I don't go to tinder. Tall, rich, handsome, high charisma, high int btw.It all correlates, also correlates with general health and I go to the doctor less than once a decade.
>>24948091I mean, I just haven't had a context where I could develop a friendship with a woman. I'm a coder, back when I worked in an office it was just guys, and my hobbies just don't have women in them, although curiously, that's beginning to change with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
>>24948169You'd be surprised. A lot of zoomers are starting to ditch social media for various reasons.
>>24948701OP tried to avoid the question because he knew it wouldn't please the roast, yet she insisted, so he responded dryly, expecting the type of response he received. I would have done the same. If some woman asks me about literature I just assume she'll want to talk about some genre fiction or YA trash and I WILL purposefully talk about some modernist tome to fuck with herI don’t need to lie because I'm not desperate for pussy, because I'm not a loser.
prev: >>24935706Erich Heckel edition
>>24949346You think you're controlling them.
>>24941253And further awayFrom my homeBaying behind meI hear the houndsFlock chasing to findMe aloneA trail of sicknessLeading to meIf I am hauntedThen you will seeSearch in the darknessAnd emptinessI'm hiding awayComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949319Everything short of perfection is sin and I can't be perfect.I'm from the tribe of dogheaded men, sought power in the court of the devil who told me about Christ so now I barely rob or pillage anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6WACiAQkj4>>24949358Think about how it actually works. You do control them so when your goal is sin like sloth they give you exactly what you asked for. As you grow weaker from sloth you grow lazier, feeding the established sloth based system more power, more of your will.
Demons are cringe and are destined to be thrust into Hell to make soijak faces while screaming forever. All they can offer are things you can already give yourself.
>>24949394Well, they can offer you human flight, but it's unwise to take them up on it
>viz.>to wit>in a word>withal>as it were>inasmuch >in light of
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Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24946653interesting. i hope you realize you are very very luckyonly similarity of your story to mine is that i also fell in love in college but only thing i got from that is extreme, prolonged and intense suffering for 5 or so years. i tried to make a move, she would leave me in orbit always, late replying to texts etc. then she started running through boyfriends and that's something that if not breaks you irrepairably( hopefully not), just makes you suffer immensly. im happy for you bra, i always wanted true love.let's hope i will have better luck with love in future
>>24948203Are you really using terms like "word cells" unironically while posting on /lit/
>>24945823ABSOLUTE TRVKE
I wonder what gay people think. What are their philosophies about love? Do they believe true love is possible between gays? Are they purely lust driven? I think you can glean a lot about reality just from how gay people perceive things. If monogamy is near-impossible among gay people then love is probably doomed purely from a behavioral standpoint for how the average man behaves.
>>24945804I wish I had a menhera wife against my better judgement.
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
>>24946217I have a dream of rampaging through a parking lot full of buzzword spouting freaks like you and caving your skulls in with a tire iron
>>24946267Truth social might be more your speed, Cletus. Now calm down, the suboxone clinic will be open first thing in the morning.
>>24948538Nta but I believe the credit at the end of the movie was "Inspired by" rather than "Based on". It arguably shouldn't be called an adaptation; its similarities with Vineland are much looser than Apocalypse Now's use of Heart of Darkness.
>>24946229Yarvin is a typical nerd that prefers nonfiction and in case of fiction he is a plotfag.>>24946217If it didn't raise any flags for you that it was that much over the top and full of nostalgia for libtards and seethe for chuds, you're obviously retarded (libtard or chud, it's just different flavor of retardation).
>>24948538Wikipedia is not a source, see me after class
I'm a published writer, but I only have a dozen or so publishing credits in magazines, and I am not getting anywhere in terms of recognition, so my plan is to play up how much of a minority I am. I want to shill myself as an underrepresented voice to get a brand or to at least make it look like I'm sidelined or suppressed by the establishment, in the hopes it garners sympathy. I think this will be a good business plan and, if I pull it off correctly, it may project me as the next big name in my genre (horror). After all, people are already saying Stephen King is an old white male, and his spot will need to be taken when he dies soon. I can use my mixed heritage (I am only half white but have middle eastern and indigenous ancestry), lived experience with mental illness (GAD, paranoid schizophrenia), and experimentation with homosexuality as an expression for LGBTQIA+ inclusion. Do any anons have experience in the game of publishing, or know which agents are looking for a horror writer with minority clout and has overlapping disabilities or stigma?
>>24949324>I write TEXT BOOKS which means I get ... $500 a year!Kek. You're bottom of the barrel. That's not even writing. Also, textbooks go out of date as soon as you put them out. So get to work, you'll need to revise and update every fucking semester.
>>24949275>>24949316I wish that people talked more about this. Do you guys know anyone that writes about it?
>>24949333What did I say I wrote? One thing very specifically. And it isn't textbooks. And writing is not how I pay my bills, so I can write what I want.
>>24949352>I write academic slop and make good profit margins (false)>I work another job because writing alone can't support me (true).>I’m a REAL creative writer operating outside identity politics (false).>I don’t do much creative writing, my work is institutional slop (true).In the span of one thread, you have claimed all these contradictory statements. Well done.
>>24949356No. I suggest working on your reading comprehension.
I am reading deleuze’s what is philosophy at the moment and the part about the creation of concepts, the analysis of their components and the resulting impossibility of discourse in philosophy is blowing my mind. The discourse becomes impossible or at least fruitless because the terms and concepts discussed, although homophones, aren’t comparable because they’re on different planes of thought and have different components. So we think we are speaking about the same things, while only confusing ourselves and wasting our time. I mean the idea is almost trivial, while the execution and explanation is outstanding.
how the frick do your formulate any concepts in ur mind.then
>>24947693It says that philosophy is basically just creating concepts, but once they’re established the discussion between philosophical school becomes impossible. Take e.g. a platonist and a Kantian: these two won’t be able to meaningfully discuss the concept of time, because the ancient understanding of time and the transcendental understanding of time are so different, that they can’t possibly talk about the same concept with the same components (which would make a discussion possible).
>>24946039I am familiar with it. I think it's wrong because all concepts are born from contact with the same world, which includes real forms and essences. Of course, Deleuze is extremely committed to the nominalism/individualism of his era, and above all the voluntarist conception of freedom as power (the ghost of the Reformation on almost all modern thought), so we won't agree here. But suffice to say, if there are really such things as cats, dogs, trees, etc. as organic wholes (being, plural) and "whatever is in the intellect is first in the senses" then it seems obvious to me concepts can find common ground.Actually, what undermines communication is a lack of faith in the transcendent and ecstatic powers of reason and the misology that comes from saying "reason doesn't apply here, or there, etc., and thus I will use reason only instrumentally, as a path to power." That is how reason is ruined. Everything is reduced to power relations. But the ontologies of violence whereby truth, form, and telos are themselves always violence because freedom is just potency (freedom from reality you might say) make this slide into instrumental misology inevitable because they render reason sterile. This isn't some awful discovery of modernity thought. The ancients say the same thing about what instrumental rationality driven by the passions (or when the will becomes its own object, the voluntaristic notion of freedom as power) is all over the ancients. It's a major theme right up to Dante, or even in Milton's Satan (although there God has already begun to drift in this direction).My ultimate conclusion then is not that there is no common ground but that Deleuze is just part of a much older pathology stretching back to the Sophists. But his particular brand is really a Reformation pathology that "post" modernism has never left behind because it very much never transcended modernity, but keeps its core assumptions. One can disrupt one's understanding of the Great Chain of Being, the great Ladder of Ascent by becoming infatuated with a mere rung on the Ladder and absolutizing it. But this is simply a misordering of the soul.
>>24948192Thanks for the effortpost. It’s very insightful. I will keep it in mind while engaging with deleuze (I am not very familiar with his thought yet).
>>24946039Not real philosophy, not a real philsosopher.
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
>>24947751Whoever reads Marx is a huge faggot
>>24948046>StirneriteEek
>>24947731> Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses.Please understand that attempting to be "free of your own circumstances", or a "true egoist" or, even worse, a "stirnerite" is as "spooked" as anything else. It's very similar to the buddhist joke about "but you desire to be free of desire!".Read everyone and anyone. Steal useful ideas from them (yes, other philosophers also have useful ideas), and discard useless ones. Do not take any of them very seriously, and do not fully buy into any one of them. That will allow you to come up with your own framework, and you will swap out parts of it as your life and opinions change. It will be a syncretic patchwork and not "original", yes, but the point is that it will be tailormade to your life, not anyone else's.
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>>24947751Marx knew that Germany couldn't afford another Stirner.
So has everybody on this board just read Fagles' Iliad translation? I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translation, and I never see Lattimore mentioned, so I assume for everybody on here the go-to is just Fagles.
>>24938203Lattimore is the best, but Fagles is alright. These are the only translations I've read though, besides Butler's prose Iliad.
>>24940972Dactylic hexameter doesn't work in English, it's based on vowel lengths which are quite regular in Greek (and Latin and its descendents) but not in English. Poetry in English is based on stress, which is not equivalent to vowel length, so trying to substitute stressed/unstressed for long/short vowels doesn't produce pleasing prosody.
>>24938203I finished reading Pope recently (it was my first time) and I loved it.
>>24938203>I know we're all actively avoiding Wilson's translationwilson's translation is pretty good, actually. don't believe the shills
I have read the Emilio Crespo translation, which is btw far better than any english translation.
The deepest thinker on the left (Hegel scholar) Vs the deepest thinker on the right (Nietzsche scholar)... A debate between these two would be priceless
>>24943914>quoting a genreslop author as an authoritykek
bump
>>24942307Kek
>>24938370>Displacing native workers is actually le based you goysFucking disgusting, kill yourself posthaste
>>24932740this but unironically
