What should I read if I'm a zoomer that has only really consumed anime and manga as fiction?
>>24689444visual novels. you're not ready for literature yeti recommend muramasa and subahibi
>>24689462I want to consume western works of fiction
>>24689444Plato
Stories featuring Kindaichi Kouske, because you can easily imagine him going >AAAAAH, GOMEN GOMENLike your favorite chinese cartoons
For me, it's chapter 11 of the Bhagavad Gita, the most beautiful chapter in literature.
This is the made-up 'book within a book' of the post-apocalyptic novel The Postman, we get a one page excerpt from it and a description of its contents and author. It's a biography of Aaron Burr that ties into the author's overarching idea (it's implied that he's written other works) that the ideal state of mankind is one where everyone gives up on peace and order and instead accepts that might makes right and allows every generation of men to go out and fight for their fortune. It essentially argues that Aaron Burr was trying to implement this in North America but got cucked by Benjamin Franklin and other founding fathers who conceived of the United States as a goodboy basedstate (as does the actual author of The Postman). I'd really like to know what the real-life inspiration for this was, it's hard to imagine the author coming up with this without one (it's a fairly boring and shallow novel in almost every other regard, I don't think he's that creative). I'm sure you could find a few examples of books that advocate a similar worldview, but where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?
LOST EMPIREby Nathan HolnToday, as we approach the end of the Twentieth century, The great struggles of our time are said to be between the so-called Left and the so-called Right-- Those great behemoths of a contrived, fictious political spectrum. Very few people seem to be aware that these so-called opposites are, in reality, two faces to the same sick beast. There is a widespread blindness, which keeps millions from seeing how they have been fooled by this fabrication.But it was not always so. Nor will it always be. In other tracts I have spoken of other types of systems -- of the honour of medieval japan, of the glorious, wild American Indians, and of shining Europe during the period Effete scholars today call it's "dark age".One thing history tells us, over and over again. Throughout all eras, some have commanded, while others have obeyed. It is a pattern of loyalty and power that is both honourable and natural . Feudalism has always been our way, as a species, ever since we foraged in wild bands and screamed defiance at each other from opposing hilltops.That is, it was always our way until men were perverted, the strong sapped by the whimpering propaganda of the weak.Think back to how things where when the 19th century was just dawning in America. Back then the opportunity stood stark and clear to reverse the sick trends of the so-called "enlightenment". The victorious Revolutionary war soldiers had expelled English decadence from the continent. The frontier lay open, and a rough spirit of of individualism reigned supreme throughout the new-born nation. Aaron Burr knew this when he set out to seize new territories beyond the original 13 colonies. His dream was that of all natural males - to dominate, to conquer, to win an empire!What would the world have been like if he had won? Could he have prevented the rise of those twin obscenities, socialism and capitalism? Who can tell? I will tell you though, what I believe. I believe the Era of Greatness was at hand, ready to be born!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24689477>where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_conspiracy
Look up the Burr Conspiracy
>>24689477>where did the idea about Aaron Burr come from?Gore Vidal wrote a series of historical novels, starting with Burr, about an alternative view of American history.
>>24689477Not really a book but more of a concept in American history called the Frontier Thesis by Frederick Jackson Turner.
What should I read to learn more about blessed Lord Ganesha? I'm only familiar with The Bhagavad Gita which doesn't feature Ganesha kino.
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>OMG Romans were so based they even had a sewer goddess! >Indians have a god with an elephant's head. YUCK!
>>24689327>>24689329i have never seen that brought up like this before. that you'd seethe about it is actually hilarious to me. very cool and authentic inferiority complex saar, i'm glad to have been made aware of it
>>24689245THis is our forum now
>>24689356lol the dude who rolled into this thread seething about Indians couldn't handle the bantz
I'm sick of determinism. What books can convince me free will exists?
Do “you” exist outside of reality, are (you) simply a part of realiry and therefore subject to the same thing that makes the rest of it tick?
>>24686533What if I were to tell you that despite the existence of free will, you still have to make predetermined choices?
>>24689483You don't though
>>24689510I swing my arm, and my forearm must follow. "I" have a thought, and the line of reasoning leading to action follows. Nothing to it, and it doesn't matter because you can't see the future.
why does it matter? you dont see all the factors that influence you, you have desires and you act on those desires uninhibitedly in lots of scenarios. you are free by any definition of the word except the metaphysical, which is almost impossible to define because an action can either have a determinate cause or it can happen indeterminately in which case it is random.>>24687079i don't see a true self beyond my experiences, and my experiences change when my brain changes.
eternal reminder
>>24688459TL;DR: Kant: "I have therefore found it necessary to deny reason in order to make room for faith."
>>24688437Significantly deeper level of reasoning and self awareness.
>>24688459ngl it's crazy that this is the part that filtered you
>>24688993Esoteric Kant: I have therefore found it necessary to overaffirm reason and underdeny faith to make room for pure fucking magic
>>24689427uh...explain?
"Anomaly" editionPrevious: >>24668754/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.
>>24689322How many more years of youth do I have left to wait my turn?
>>24689403>>24689432You may have to settle for becoming famous after you're dead. A lot of great writers had to settle for that. Herman Melville, Franz Kafka, Mervyn Peake, and Philip K. Dick, to name a few.
>>24689508I'd rather not be famous, I want my work to be famous.
>>24689508The darkness of the afterlife is all that awaits you now. May you find more peace in that world than you found in this one.
>>24689512That's pretty much how it is when your work becomes more appreciated after you die.>>24689514Nah, I got lots more to write before I vacate this mortal coil. Gotta leave a potential legacy for my younger relations, after all! Maybe they'll figure out how to sell it, or maybe it'll be easier once my work is not so stupidly ahead of its time.
I already read picrel and it was very disappointing. It got banned in Germany somehow, but is actually not that incredible.Are there other books that will get TikTok femoids seething?
>>24689076>It got banned in Germany somehowit didn't?>>24689153yeah almost as bad as people who simply believe everything they read on the internet
>>24689419Back in 2020 it was :- https://www.buchreport.de/news/dtv-und-hanser-ziehen-titel-von-robert-greene-aus-dem-verkehr/- https://actualitte.com/article/98026/international/violences-psychologiques-un-livre-sur-la-seduction-retire-de-la-vente-en-allemagne- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOnTF-bTu0Y
>>24689499anon... i... i'm too tired to deal with people like you. please insult yourself and then leave
Read the culture of critique (atleast the last book)
>>24689523What makes it cancelled?
Hello, I've come up with a system, but I'm not in the academia of philosophy, what should I do to "post" my writing and let it be known that some things are this way? I want to specifically be remembered for my works, even if as a small little guy.
Strip naked in the public square and loudly recite your thesis while masturbating furiously
>>24688119send in your philosophical work together with a pipe bomb to academia in minecraft
first step you need a good name, it needs to be able to withstand -ism'ing. second step you need to become a master provocateur, you need to make controversy your oxygen. third step you release your book and make sure it ends on some kind of cliffhanger.
Shooter manifesto...tried and true method
>>24688119Self publish it as a book then go get into a bunch of internet debates over it.
The wealth of a rich man is his fortress;The poverty of the poor is his ruin.How to become rich anons?
>>24687557>For what great matter is it for the Gentiles to share their material wealth with the Jews; if the Jews have shared so generously their spiritual wealth with the Gentiles?
>>24689336The Macedonians gave willingly, that statement isn't to be taken the way you've intended
>>24687557>>24688244>>24689281>>24689294>>24689298Holy fucking slave morality. What happened to this board? You edgelords decided to LARP as trad Cathlodox and unironic Stoics and Platonists so hard that you actually became full on memes denying 500 years of philosophical progress. Morality has been deboonked. You can either become an empiricist eliminativist bugman or a Nietzchean hyperchad or an ascended post-structuralist, but becoming an unironic Platotroon is embarrassing. You do realize that the people who actually developed this philosophy were almost universally homeless, penniless, virgins, right? That's why they all look like bearded wizards. Some of them legit lived in caves.
>>24689381>philosophical progressspook
>>24689369oh, so I should give up my spiritual treasures because the moths or whatever, but the jews should get to have all my treasures? of course they did it willingly, because they were duped by a jew grift. the context surrounding it doesnt make it any better
Anyone who has any personal experience with predator animals knows that they experience far more pleasure from eating than we can understand. And their pleasure would be compounded if they were famished. And anyone who has experience with animals of prey knows they don’t have much individualist pain, their main source of pain is fear. And that pain ends when they did.More critically, Schopenhauer seems to totally misunderstand what pain *is*. Some women enjoy pain because it makes them feel submissive (anyone who has had sex with a few knows a lot love being slapped and choked). And many men take a spiritual or cultural interest in pain. The Mawé subject to themselves to more pain than most of us ever experience in a lifetime, as part if a boy’s coming of age The fact is that Schopenhauer’s idea of suffering is extremely modern. The anguish of life that the Greek pessimists focused on wasn’t physical pain, and with the sorts of plagues, torture, battle disabilities and infirmity they had then, you would think they would have. Oedipus rips his own eyeballs out as an expressing of anguish, which must have been a lot more physically painful than fucking his mother no matter how tight she wastl;dr the qualitative experience of physical pain today is much worse to us than it was to humanity in the past, let alone to how animals experience it
Quit reading this rubbish and come home.
>>24689506I only read Instagram posts by amateur models who have monetized their account
>be me>older bro>work my ass off>younger bro blows cash>dad throws him a parade>me? nothinghow do you respond without sounding mad?
>>24689482The bible contains a number of narratives that have absolutely no moral value whatever, or plainly convey the opposite of real moral truth. It's remarkable how many have been duped by it, and this proves a certain disgusting servility in the human condition.
Can I still take something out of literature or should I stick to video gamesAlso, what's yours?https://mensa.dk/iqtest/
I got 113. It’s over for me
Got 133 but I had to take a shit in the middle of it. I think got 136 in a proper test in person, 122 on the verbal IQ and 147 spatial.
I will hijack this thread. My IQ is 117, a midwit by all standards. I know with this, I will never accomplish anything meaningful, but at the same time I live in a country where the mean IQ is 83. I'm incapable of connect with the average person here. I'm too stupid to rise above and find success, but too smart to simply live normally among others. What can I do? I thought of immigrating to a rich country but at the end of the day I would only pollute it with my brownness and feel inadequate about myself.
>>24689022>What can I do?Whatever you want. I prefer escaping into literature and vidya. Probably gonna kms before 50
I don't think this test is very good.>>24685676>145 iq>phonepostingHmmmmmmmm
Even they are waking up for the fact that women only read porn.
The spergy 20-minute rant on how getting wet from non-consensual fairy fingering does not mean you enjoy it was clearly personal.
>>24689416After 30 years of being attracted to women, I am starting to reconsider my decision.
>>24689395I mean in the novels. It's all about hijacking your reproductive drive. For men it's super cutie youthfull sex nymphs. For women it's rich handsome loner Chad's who love them above all else. There is no better mate to reproduce with from a woman's standpoint.Just like an average guys isn't going to have a uber attractive cutie fall on his lap. The average woman isn't going to have Elon Musk fly them to his space mansion and make love to them. Not for lack of trying on his part.
>>24689442How about poor mid loner chuds? Anyone?
>How could this have happened?
>Some people back then used to think... who was it, Socrates? Yeah, Socrates... He believed that writing stuff down made your memory worse... Like what a stupid idea. He didn't write anything down and then we started writing shit down and technology fucking SKYROCKETED. Like imagine if we took this guys advice and didn't write anything down, where the fuck do you think we would be right now? Plus it's not even true. I write shit down ALL the time. All the time... And my memory is awesome. Writing things down actually helps your memory; Socrates was retarded.
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>>24687576you say it in a way thats retarded but i agree
