>I don't have enough rice to eat therefore the physical world is both evil+unfixable and we should sit around in a circle pseudo-lobotomizing ourselves during every waking moment o algo.
>>24952656>>>/his/
>>24952656kek
>>24952656these new gigachad variants are getting out of hand
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24948329I like his arguments in favor of Arianism but hate that fucking desk of his.
>>24948379lol I showed my wife and she went, ‘ew.’People can see the autism in his eyes
>>24951743A little meme podcaster who is more famous as a bogeyman on the left than famous among the right is somehow relevant ? STFU
>>24951143This nigga gay as fuck. If you can’t see that, it must be because you are an even more gay nigga.
>>24951057The real answer is that he is specifically interested in the new testament and keeps getting more interested in it the more he deals with it.
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Pro-life is left wing, pro-choice is right wing. I don't care about consensus; it doesn't mean I'm wrong, it means the consensus is.Abortion is a violation of human rights wherein you take what is scientifically classified as a human life and arbitrarily classify them as lesser than human in order to kill them freely. Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist. Pro-choice advocates even argue along the lines that abortion has historically been legal, meaning that abortion is conservative and anti-abortion is progressive.
laugh hard it’s a long way to the bank
Liking a woman who's avoidant is an absolute headache. I almost got fed up at one point and stopped talking to her for a few days, when she didn't even respond to me only for her to hit me up like what the hell.
Gonna have to spend ~6 hours today riding the bus, fuck me. At least I'll get a lot of reading and thinking done. I packed my Proust!
Last night, I had a nightmare that I stuck my hands in the electric socket and got electrocuted, and I woke up thinking that I am going to die.I used to have these sort of death dreams frequently when I was young. I wonder what their reoccurrence portends.
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
>>24952477Esoterica is great. I will check out Religionforbreakfast. Cheers.
>>24952437Come to think of it, it's more like geopolitical symbiosis than "colonization".
>>24952400Maybe not exactly self-colonization, but this might just be a very intense way of becoming a vassall state, no?
>>24952660I literally don't have a word for it because I'm not sure it's ever happened. It can happen in my world, but my world is science fantasy and the laws of logic don't quite apply to it.
>>24952674Some nations like Tonga, Egypt, Liberia come to mind, and others to a lesser degree.
Apparently there’s a phenomenon in American high schools right now of not assigning full novels to students, but only having them read excerpts. I graduated a decade ago, and I distinctly remember us reading Gatsby and Slaughterhouse Five. What novels, if any, were you made to read in high school?
Favorite book from High School: Lords of Discipline. Gripped me like no other. Most difficult/tedious: Founding Brothers. Very dry and LONG. I am sure I’d enjoy it more today though.
>>24951097Yes.Took 5 APs senior year, including AP Lit.An at the end of the semester found out entire class had been coming to exams with all their notes in white text on a white word document for all the tests.Found out the very last two weeks after a year of 3am nights.Most pissed I've ever been in my entire life and I'm 35 now.
>>24952610>It's not even a disciplinary issue; forcing the kids to sit down and read does nothing because they *literally can't do it.*It's a skill issue. There are plenty of education techniques to help them get into the reading flow
>>24951097We were assigned To Kill a Mockingbird almost exclusively. It was quite bizarre. Everything else was an excerpt or an article. It is definitely dire.
>>24952721If it were a skill issue then there would be no problems with teaching kids. It's an attention issue.
This is horrifying. Is there a better way than Christianity to transcend this?
>>24948443This
>>24952187Oh I didn't know, thats so cool. You must be so well read and smart.
>>24950501>steals 200yr old ideasWhat are the sources of the ideas for me to read?
>>24950501>>24952730i.e. Gabriel Tarde's Les lois de l'imitation (The Laws of Imitation) as per pic? Just that and nothing else?
>>24948191man I got intrigued but the model is weaker than mine
Prop 1 - Substance is by nature prior to its modificationsSubstance is prior to modificications (modes), this makes both logical and ontological sense, in that substance is that which is in in itself and is conceived through itself, in that it is a self sufficient, self caused entity that cannot be contingent upon anything external. Spinoza presents his proof through definitions 3 and 5 as it logically follows, however here I will give more context. This establishes substance as the ontological foundation of reality in that God is not the divine creator of the world, but rather that god is the world, within all that exists. In such substance which is infinite, eternal and indivisible. This rejects the classic view of god (maybe why he got kicked out of the jewish church) that god sits apart from the world. In this modes, or determinations of substance, are not substances in themselves but exist within the substance, in such they are dependent on its existence. In link to Axiom 1, “Everything that is, is either in itself or in another.” (pls read the other writing on axioms for clarification) which reaffirms the ontological priority of substance over its modes, modes are in substance but substance is not in any mode. This reflects Spinoza's claim that all that exists as finite expressions of the infinite attributes of god, this undermines the notion of a transcendent deity, in that Spinoza's god is positioned as necessary to the constitution of all being.
>>24952143i say i love spinoza even tho im a materialist bc he is my fave philosopher even tho he is a rationalist :3 and even tho rationalism and
>>24952143Spinoza was very critical of Francis Bacon for his philosophy, you don't know what you're talking about. /pol/ has mindbroken you
'tard moment
>>24952519You’ll never be a woman
>>24951508It's a standard mystic ontology you'd find in buddhism, advaita, neo-plationism, etc. The substance is what your experience is made of right now, and it twists and moves to represent forms which you'd call the universe and yourself. If you want to stick with materialism you'd call it the quantum field and stop there, the religions would say the field is sequent to God.
What's /lit/'s opinion on banning or regulating all forms of fiction and music? Plato wanted poets banned from the Republic, Robert E. Lee distrusted fiction and novels in particular. Not an advocate for it. Rather, I'm just interested in knowing how people would even consider such a thing. As well as whether or not it would do people good in a time where we seem to be inundated with fiction.
this entire topic nowadays is basically academics coping they are the evil in society and blaming music/fiction instead of the obvious usurious tyrants dominating everything, because academia/college is one of their primary tools.I assume this was just the case in earlier periods as well, there was some obvious malevolent power structure the person was benefiting from, and they don't want to point that out so they just blame music.It's really common with tradlarpers.For music though it had a ton to do with centralization. You basically had a thing in the 17th-20th centuries when national banks were taking off where you wanted to "nationalize" as much as possible to have a stable tax base so you could take on more debt. To do this they implemented public schools (this is the open explicit motivation for public schools this is not disputable), at these schools they'd intentionally undermine folkways, traditional music, traditional dance, etc. This was basically done to destroy local identity and make everyone subservient with the state so they could get that more stable tax base by having a more fungible citizenry. Destruction of local languages which would have been the primary relay for folktales and culture was also a means of that. Fiction itself is somewhat different than music in the modern sense, but if you include just say general poets and tales people tell it applies. Any art does sort of have that binding quality, if it's a product of your culture it can bind you to it, if it's the product of another it can alienate you from your culture.
>>24952598TRVKE, but don't forget music is a powerful (but not as powerful as social media) propaganda medium. Music that promotes hedonism does effect hedonism on the listening masses, whereas classical music promotes a higher state of consciousness.
>>24952556Against it
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
>>24951813thx>>24951978thx>>24952272thx
>>24952309>activate the eclipse in the DLC, turn everything into giga nightmare world, and fight Godwyn at the end, but after two goddamn years Faggotzaki decided to end the DLC with a slight upgrade of a boss I already foughtI know this isn't /v/ but this described my feelings 100%
children of time was okay
>>24952651it was awesome
>>24952651I enjoyed it but the ending felt stupid and rushed to me. There should've been more of a story to it instead of le mind wipe to make everyone friendsMade me not want to read the rest of the books.
>Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. The time that he reigned over Israel was forty years. He reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. Now the acts of King David, from first to last, are written in the Chronicles of Samuel the seer, and in the Chronicles of Nathan the prophet, and in the Chronicles of Gad the seer, with accounts of all his rule and his might and of the circumstances that came upon him and upon Israel and upon all the kingdoms of the countries.QUOTE A BIGGER COCKTEASE THAN THIS I FUCKING DARE YOU
David was a terrible man though.
Is it at all possible to have a character in literature whose name starts with "Dark" without them coming across as painfully tryhard?Like, pic related. Darkstar in ASOIAF is universally acknowledged as a doofus and one of GRRM's worst decisions in the latter half of the extant books. I've never encountered a character whose named started with the word "Dark" that it was possible to take seriously. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong books.
>write character as a goober>people call him a gooberWhat's the issue exactly?
>>24952166>ASOIAFrenaissance themed rape porno
>>24952166it might help if your work does not produce gaudy looking deviantart fanart like this as well if you want anyone to take you seriously.
>>24952166What is Dark Knight? Only one of the most riveting historical literary figures in history, of course, whose name is still summoned multiply even within the past century,
>>24952198Baby food is always good for you though
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952602This, but also read the KJV bible (especially Genesis, Exodus, and the Gospels), Flaubert, Tolstoy & Dostoevsky (all admired by Joyce), and some Ibsen plays (revered by Joyce)
>>24952593>I'm not Irish it's joever
>>24952602Do i need to read the Iliad?
>>24952658Yea
>>24952593Isn't the other bitch better?
Could you beat Nabokov at chess?
>>24952366>Could you beat NabokovYeah>at chessYeah, I'll just use chess.com for hints
>>24952366why do academics do this to themselves? just shave it off man.
>>24952366I could beat him over the head with the chess set
>>24952444I bet I could trap your rook
>>24952366i could kick his ribcage in and steal his fancy chess set
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.
>>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.
>>24951455So everything I mention comes into existence, and thus it is correct to say it exists? So, what if I ask if non-existence exists? According to you, since I mentioned it, it must exist.
>>24950487>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?Nonexistent, you say?
>>24950959Lying is a virtue if it's for philosophy, so...
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
>>24950334Don't focus too much on the scary stuff. Just make it interesting and be a good storyteller.
>>24919376Sell The Monk to me bros. It's only $11 for a copy on Amazon and I'm very tempted to buy it.
What's the best Stephen King book out of these to read: >Gerald's Game>The Long Walk>11/23/63>Cell >Eyes of the Dragon>Rage>ThinnerThese are the only ones I'm interested at all in reading. I'm also wondering if anyone could recommend books or stories similar to King's novelette Jerusalem's Lot? I couldn't care less to read the book, the prequel was fucking awesome though.
>>24919376>The Accusations>Lewis was accused of unoriginality because he essentially created a "pastiche" by borrowing plot motifs, characters, and entire scenes from various European sources. >This practice was not as strictly policed as modern copyright law dictates, but critics used it to malign Lewis's literary standing, especially once his identity as an MP was revealed.
>just read George A. Romeros' "Clay"Holy shit.
