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Your eyes are a deep hazel brightlike underground emerald minesbut I can't shake off your hairsmelling like suicideso I bid you farewellI've been alive a long time I wish for death, can't you tell?Thank you for giving me the courageI needed to remove myselfI'm gonna show this to her. I don't give a flying fuck, she fucked my mind beyond belief. I accept criticisms (about the poem)
>>24716407Aesthetic garbage. At least if you're going to kill yourself write something a little better than your trainwreck of a life.
>>24716407This is dogshit. Fucking embarrassing drivel.
Rum tum tum and a bottle of cum!Rindle dindle dee and a thimble of wee!Dum thum doo and a bucket of poo!Siddle diddle dot and a goblet of snot!Lum whum dom and a bowl of vom!Niddle biddle fool and a spoon of grool!
Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
Books to teach leftists to use their words?
>>24716378>live and die according to your principlesyes very funny, haha hehe hoho, a family man killed for speaking, what a knee-slapper
>>24716587the ammo apparently had pro-tranny engravings but whatever helps you cope
>>24716424It sends a message>say what we want or we kill youThat's what all the gloating is about, controlling thoughts and wordsIronically a fascist tactic
>>24716614The FBI is grasping at straws and going on a fishing expedition at the moment, rapidly apprehending and releasing random people, struggling to control the narrative. They can't find the shooter, look remarkably incompetant, and may well have planted evidence to get things back on track
>>24716424The difference between dock worker commies starving for bread and upper-middle-class larping faggots (you, and the rest of those like you ITT) who are bored and want to paint a vision of a cathartic revolution with the blood of workers - is that genuine communists wait for the state to commit the violence first in a public manner, like shooting up a protest.Of course, dopamine deprived perpetual students don't actually have any stakes, or families to take care of (like the genuine communists of old). All they want is stimulation, now RIGHT NOW! To feel something. Obviously this plays out very poorly as far as optics are concerned, as we are seeing currently.
An objectively wrong opinion is a belief about the real world that someone frames as a personal viewpoint but which directly contradicts verifiable facts. This is different from a purely subjective opinion.The principle of falsifiability explains why some claims can be objectively wrong. A claim is falsifiable if it is possible, at least in principle, to disprove it with observation or experiment. “The Earth orbits the Sun” is falsifiable, astronomers can check its accuracy with measurements. Likewise, “humans can live indefinitely without water” is falsifiable and demonstrably false.Some people’s opinions make factual claims about the world and are therefore falsifiable, Falsifiability matters because it protects us from holding onto unfounded ideas. Claims like “the Earth is flat,” “humans don’t need sleep,” or “plants don’t require sunlight” are falsifiable, and have been disproven through observation and testing.
>>24715750What superstition? I think I am pretty logical, and I believe in the utility of the scientific method. I just distinguish between total truth and statistical likelyhood.IDK if total truth even exists, Im not arguing for gods or ghosts, just that as limited beings, our knowledge is limited. We estimate something to a 99 percentile, then leave a possible x factor for any possible unaccounted for variable.
>>24716415Apologies. Most of the time people use that as a rationale for their jewish paracosm
>>24716438Well, I would be lying if I said I didnt have some affinity for Jewish paracosm, but thats largely because the development of philosophy is kind of intertwined with it from Platonic ideals to the nature of infinity and finite.Pretty sure people coming from a religious angle would assert there is an obective reality though in thier God, but I am not sure about that. I am more aproaching it from a Hume empiricism and Kantian perspective were metaphysical truths are hard to validate so we just have to go "we dont know" and leave it at that.Hume as a big contributor to empericism even doubted the capital t Truth of causation, you cant KNOW that one action CAUSES another strictly ment, but its a fine enough aproximation for practical use since our experiences tend to align with this notion.
>>24716466If that kind of skepticism applies to the idea of knowing anything, then couldn't it be infinitely recursive? Why doesn't it also apply to the statement 'we don't know'? Of course it all boils down to the semantic details of what one means by "know", though.
>>24716636I mean in a way, but practically, enough of experience aligns with a picture that we can have a "going sense" of things. the world COULD have been made 5 minutes ago, memories, fossils underground, and all, but enough things align to support that our universe as we know it has probably been here for billions of billions of years. Its just important to realise that we keep adding 9's to our 99.999% likelyhood of something, and there is theoetically a non 0 sum that we are wrong. Doesnt mean you shouldn't hedge your bets on those 99%ers though. For the most part, we dont need infinite truths, just satisfactory likelyhoods.>Why doesn't it also apply to the statement 'we don't know'it does, we dont know that we dont know either. I think we always function in terms of partial knowledge. never fully aware, but also never fully ignorant.
it's......................pretty mid.thought it would be much worse but it's just clunky overall
>>24715240I’m 55 pages in and yeah, I enjoy it but I can’t read more than a few pages at a time. There’s not a lot going on which can be fine if the prose is compelling, but it’s just a very dry meandering so far. I want to see where it goes but not blown away yet
>>24715240It's just a book clotted with an assortment of any random esoteric bullshit the author read about and hamfisted in there with no actual grasp on either style or actually compelling substance. It's like a really lame pastiche of a parody of The Recognitions or The Tunnel.
>>24715240>What does the father's death mean for life? Who was this father? Who am I? The son sits in a cell and writes for his life. His life is the novel "Schattenfroh." Nothing can save him, not even his own narrative. And yet, precisely this must be told: that the father is dead, the self is irredeemable, and the history of salvation is a colossal lie.>Whoever reads "Schattenfroh" reads God and the devil, reads love and death, the loneliness and pain and the dead of the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, reads ink and white space, reads the writing. "Schattenfroh" is a novel, the world, and life. A thousand desperate pages that don't answer the question of whether life is repairable and whether storytelling can heal us. A thousand manic pages of the impossible farewell to the father: as hermetic as it is powerful, monumental and overwhelming.Lol, imagine reading the above description and not instantly knowing the book will just be 1000 pages of pretentious nonsense.
ITT: the authors thinly disguised fetish
Any dreams you guys had that was /litty/ themed? Here’s my that I had last night > Had a dream about cormac McCarthy. I was watching a movie adaptation of his nonexistent novel, it was filmed like an old black and white 50’s film. Something about a fedora wearing vagabond in a city. the movie ends with a closing narration from the actor Fredric march. The camera panned down, he was on a sound stage of a alleyway caked with foamite snow. The video quality was a fuzzing vhs tape. I was then in front of Cormac McCarthy and some person next to him. Cormac was sitting behind this wooden table while the person was standing next to him. We were in this cabin, behind them I could see shelves with glass doors and felt chairs circling around a tv; the latter was in the corner of my eye, and outside looked to be noon. Cormac spoked to me about his novel and the movie adaptation I just watched. He might have gave me some life advice as well. In his hands was a leather notebook. He placed it down on the table and cracked it open while telling me about his editor’s thoughts on both works. He then looked down at the notebook and read aloud his editor’s exact words about the matter. Then I woke up
>>24712910I dreamed about a ladyboy in a japanese teahouse that had a stutter and was fascinated with the sea. I woke up, eyes bulging, thinking "MISHIMA"
>>24713814Things are not synesthetic, everything is just a very strong impression but not impressionistic, I just get the impression, the effect. The best way I have been able to come up with describing it is i you were to zoom in on a painting to the point you can see nothing but brush strokes and color, the painting would be my life and the brush strokes and color would the dreams but it is not just the visual information I am zooming in on, it is the auditory and emotion of it as well, they are all magnified for me in my dreams, intensified to the point that is all there is. But it is very difficult to explain, how do you zoom in on an emotion like contentment so you only feel one aspect of it? What is an aspect of contentment in that sense? Maybe the literal present, the feeling at a single moment too small to perceive extended for hours so it consumes you? That over simplifies since the emotion of the dream is far more dynamic and varied than that. I have never figured out a way to explain any of this.Life like dreams have become fairly regular for me but also have a tendency to be almost hilariously banal, things like going grocery shopping and running into someone I know, the contrast from my normal dreams tends to make even the most banal dreams quite memorable. Perhaps the abstract dreams would be best described in terms of a normal dream, they are like the exact moment a dream becomes so intense that it wakes you up, the abstract dreams are like that exact moment stretched out for hours but I still experience the entire dream, often over and over and over each time doing things slightly different.
>>24712910The only /lit/ centred dream of late barely qualifies, but I had a dream that was loosely "about" Madame Bovary, as in it featured that name/title although don't recall ever having heard of the book before said dream. Although it is obviously a famous piece of literature. The dream was as follows: I was attending school in an old manor house in the countryside, my peers were various friends from throughout my life; some I have known since childhood, some from college, some from university. We were moving from a computer room to a lesson in another part of the building, when I found myself lost and alone. I had the sensation of at once being frozen to the spot, unable to move. An ethereal white cloud or smoke-like substance began to fill the room and I was filled with terror. Out of the ether a woman made of the cloud itself took the form of an early 19th century woman, dressed in a large dress with corsett and hoop skirt/crinoline. My fear was compounded upon seeing her and for some reason I was only able to shout the words "Madame Bovary!" In some kind of subconscious realisation of the identity of the spirit and seemingly the knowledge that this spirit and her name signalled something truly awful and terrifying. When I awoke I found myself taken by the vividity and odd features of the dream, so rushed to my PC (my phone was dead) and googled Madame Bovary to see if there was a woman with such a name that died in my area at some point in history. Instead I found only the book by Gustave Flaubert.
>>24712910What causes the huge enjoyment gap between telling about your dreams and listening to others talking about theirs? Is it the inherent unrelatability or what is it? No other subject seems to make people so covertly annoyed, and yet at the same time think that their example is exempt from the annoyance. I can vividly remember some youthful nights, the taste of beer in my mouth and an overwhelming smell of "fine I'll listen to your shitty dreams but only because i can't wait to tell you mine" in the air. It's really weird and uncomfortable and i try to derail it asap or at least after I've told my own wacky dream.You could tell the greatest story ending with "anyhow that's the dream i had last night" and suddenly people wouldn't give two shits about it.Am I onto something or just projecting?
>>24716412Oh you're 100% on to something. I have always thought this, and often encountered it; I think I have a slightly higher tolerance for others dreams and am often genuinely interested but part of me is still secretly waiting for my turn because mine is infinitely more crazy and unique and maybe even could only be the result of a deeply profound and profoundly deep mind at work. Me and my Mum would joke about this when I was young, not caring about the others dream but then launching into a passionate telling of their own dream when the other had finished.
Can anyone recommend some book or online resources to basically relearn English grammar?I have to pass the PELLETB police exam, and it's basically a college level English test with a little math. Is there like a cheap textbook or something I can look at? I have about a week to study, I'm doing alright on some random practice tests, but they really get technical or trip you up at times.
>>24716635>police exam featuring grammar>has to study for itI can't believe you people get upset when people say you're not very bright.
>>24716635Start with the Greeks
just finished reading UlyssesI did expect Molly's infidelity but... What preceding series?Assuming Mulvey to be the first term of his series, Penrose, Bartell d'Arcy, professor Goodwin, Julius Mastiansky, John Henry Menton, Father Bernard Corrigan, a farmer at the Royal Dublin Society's Horse Show, Maggot O'Reilly, Matthew Dillon, Valentine Blake Dillon (Lord Mayor of Dublin), Christopher Callinan, Lenehan, an Italian organgrinder, an unknown gentleman in the Gaiety Theatre, Benjamin Dollard, Simon Dedalus, Andrew (Pisser) Burke, Joseph Cuffe, Wisdom Hely, Alderman John Hooper, Dr Francis Brady, Father Sebastian of Mount Argus, a bootblack at the General Post Office, Hugh E. (Blazes) Boylan and so each and so on to no last term. ... holy fuckhow can Leopold be such an __immense__ cuckthis alone kinda ruins the mood of the whole book lmao
That's Bloom being completely wrong because he's feeling jealous and insecure in the moment.Go reread "Penelope." Try to track Molly's own account of her lovers. It's probably the case that apart from Bloom and Blazes Boylan, there's only been one other man."Ithaca" wildly exaggerates Molly's list of lovers. This is because this is how Bloom is thinking and Bloom is "Ithaca"'s narrator.
>Go reread "Penelope."okay, will do! thanks>That's Bloom being completely wrong because he's feeling jealous and insecure in the momenthmm you may be rightit was a nice and fun read overall
Which book of his should I read in order to delve deeper into this idea? Sounds like he just destroyed materialism.
>>24713891You don't remember correctly
>>24714413A million tipped fedoras to you good m'gentlesir!!!
>>24713834dr. jordan peterson? If you haven't heard of him give yourself a treat and listen to his video lectures and debates. a true intellectual powerhouse and a great ally of the jewish people
>>24713830>epistemic and ontological uncertainty can only be solved by first considering universal unityWhy are we still giving this drug addicted hack a platform?
what books do I have to read to understand what he's talking about and why he's wrong?
>"Schopenhauer killed Fichte. I am just pissing on his grave."- Nick Land
this one's a classic.
>>24716402It's been a few years and eventually you will realize Descartes meditations is basically a cheat sheet. Iirc Schope basically agrees with Descartes on perception assembly and breakdown. He also agrees with Descartes that you ideate any concept you want whenever. He doesn't care if Descartes denies the external world but Schope doesn't have to first. He partially agrees with Kant on denial but he still reserves the right to do so. He doesn't make value judgements at the abstract level so he doesn't get into the complications Nietzsche found himself in going against Descartes. He goes further than Descartes on separation of spacetime and why this pulls the plug on matter. The result when it comes to his epistemic grounding is that you have 2 options and one results in contradiction which means you haven't made sense of it and the other is a feedback loop except Schope actively encouraged you to experiment. If you want to keep matter for Schope you can't remove spacetime at experiential level but you can always think of it abstracted. This basically creates a framework where Schope can use scientific and mathematical modeling on intuition alone and if he gets out of this then he loses matter and he can still keep going if he wants but he likely refuted himself. If he stays experiential then he can basically use whatever modeling he likes theoretically and it enjoy it abstracted or experiential after the fact.
>>24716551>>24716545>some nobody philosophaster whose name I only ever see on /lit/ doesn't like the idealistsWow that really makes me rethink how I've been spending my time.
>>24716545>>24716551Isnt that weird for a marxist to admit he is too dumb for Hegel?
>>24716608do you really think you understand hegel better than him?
This is Schopenhauer's influence just on the surface:>Those who have cited his influence include philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche[26] and Ludwig Wittgenstein,[27] scientists such as Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein,[28] psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud[29] and Carl Jung, writers such as Leo Tolstoy,[30] Herman Melville,[31] Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse,[32] Machado de Assis,[33] Jorge Luis Borges, Marcel Proust,[34] and Samuel Beckett[35] as well as composers such as Richard Wagner,[34] Johannes Brahms,[34] Arnold Schoenberg[34][36] and Gustav Mahler.[34]>InfluencedAnjos, Assis, Bahnsen, Beckett, Bergson, Borges, Brahms, Brouwer, Campbell, Einstein[9], Fet, Cioran, Dilthey[10], Freud, Gray[11], Hardy, Hartmann, Hesse, Horkheimer, Huysmans, Jung, Reve, Kraus[12], Ludovici[13], Ligotti, Mahler, Mainländer, Majorana[14], Mann, Maupassant, Michelstaedter, Nietzsche, Proust, Rank, Reve, Rilke, Ryle[15], Santayana, Schlick[16], Shaw, Schoenberg, Schrödinger, Solovyov, Spengler, Tolstoy[17], Vaihinge,r Volkelt, Wagner, Weininger, Wittgenstein, Zapffe, Zola.
>>24716354>He does seem to think it is in the brain though,Isn't Will-to-Live independent of brain?
>>24716366Ion know what the "Will-to-Live" is or how that is related to causality
>>24716375Alright
>>24715938No mention of Joyce? Small time unknown author I guess
>>24716622Joyce inspired by SchopenGod? Impossible...he cant get more based
>muh common sense"Common sense is stubborn; it stubbornly believes itself secure in the force of its inertia, believes the non-conscious secure in its primordial gravity and opposition to consciousness; believes matter secure against the difference that light brings into it just in order to reconstruct the difference into a new synthesis at a higher level. In northern climates this stubbornness perhaps requires a longer period of time to be so far conquered that the atomic matter itself has become more diversified, and inertia has first been set in motion on its own ground by a greater variety of their combination and dissolution and next by the multitude of fixed atoms thus generated. Thus the human intellect becomes more and more confused in its own proper doings and knowings, to the point where it makes itself capable of enduring the suspension of this confusion and the opposition itself.""As regards philosophy in its proper and genuine sense, we find put forward without any hesitation, as an entirely sufficient equivalent for the long course of mental discipline – for that profound and fruitful process through which the human spirit attains to knowledge – the direct revelation of the divine and the healthy common sense of mankind, unconcerned with and undisciplined by any other knowledge or by proper philosophical reflection. These are held to be a good substitute for real philosophy, much in the way that chicory is lauded as a substitute for coffee. It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and toleration, and even the inspiration of genius."
>>24716539I feel like formatting would greatly increase the intelligibility of Hegel.
>>24716605Imagine having internet disease so severe that you can't handle paragraphs.
SchopenGod already debunked this guy doe
>>24716613>SchopenGod>God
Does anyone else find the works of the Gawain/Pearl poet to be deeply moving? I'm not a Christian but his characters feel very realistic and heartfelt.
I've read Tolkien's translations of those poems plus Sir Orfeo. Pearl is a legitimately beautiful poem, especially once you think about its conceit: a daughter who died as an infant returning to comfort her father by showing him a vision of Heaven, where she is.Not to mention the poetic description of the heavenly Jerusalem is incredible.
>>24714975>>24714998I personally found the prose to be excessive for my taste. I also think I read the Tolkien translation.IMO I much prefer the older french romances of the likes if Chretian de Troyes from the 1100's. Stuff like Yvain and Lancelot. They are more terse but still lively, it struck a more enjoyable balance between plain speak and high words i believe. But to be fair they are not directly comparable, Gawain is much more of a poem while Chretien's work is more of a narrative.
What are your thoughts on this short story published in the recent issue of Harper’s Magazine? It’s a short read, less than five minutes. https://harpers.org/archive/2025/09/girl-talk-weike-wang-story-sauna/“Girl Talk” by Weike Wang
>>24716411its ideas and themes are lucid, which is the story's entire problem -- everything it says is very on the nose, very on the surface, very "HERE IS THE POINT HERE IS THE THEME HERE IS WHAT I AM SAYING LOOK AT ME PROBLEMATIZING CONTEMPORARY WHITE FEMINISM." just boring and predictable art that's only transgressive to /pol/tards because it's about sexism/racism
>>24715021Why does she seem to resent her husband because she's self-sufficient? It's a weird aside from what seems to be the broader point of being put upon and feeling like she has to agree with what some old broad in a sauna has to say
>>24715021I took a look, turned 360 and walked directly to the next article. Nini's story was pretty good
>>24715021Embarrassing. Again, ethnicellas are nothing compared to today's vanguard of girl-writers of Ivdæo-Catholick or Evropean stock; e.g. Honor Levy, Sophie Kemp, or picrel.
>>24715104I mean, yeah. That's the point of the story. It's about what it feels like to experience racial resentment, know you're experiencing racial resentment, know you shouldn't feel it, and still feel resentment anyway
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>Previous:>>24703379>Thread Question:Post quotes or highlighted passages from books you've read (so we can admire or make fun of it)
>>24715840Conan books have a lot of action (certainly enough to not have a 15:1 dialogue to action ratio), have fast-paced and straightforward plots, and easy to understand prose compared to mainstream fiction of its time. Also, in a few stories Conan is very young. (Though in most of them he is in his 20s/30s yes) Also, there's almost always some random pretty chick for Conan to pick up, though it's not often very romantic. Sounds like YA, according to some posts in this thread.
>>24715762Loved the Corwin series. It's vague enough for you to think about as many worlds as you like but it also feels complete at the end. There are some very beautiful passages that evoke a sense of wonder, my favourite being the unicorn. You come to like the characters before you even know it and it's nice to see them change before your eyes. Also a lot of nice references if you know your mythology.
>>24715831Because they suck ass and are for room temp iq?
>>24715913Sadly he's good enough to have wasted his talent on Commie bullshit instead.
>>24715831Everything you think about YA others assume about genre literature in general. Not reading the classics or philosophers? Get out.