>God invented and made the universe — like a man making a picture or composing a tune. A painter is not a picture, and he does not die if his picture is destroyed. You may say, "He's put a lot of himself into it," but you only mean that all its beauty and interest has come out of his head. His skill is not in the picture in the same way that it is in his head, or even in his hands.but what’s the paint and canvas supposed to be?
>>24717528>nothing existed
>>24717577Suppose that there once was no thing. No thing was. One can't really picture it, but one can think it. One can contemplate the fact, and indeed one can contemplate this very no-thingness. And in a sense wouldn't this nothing underlie all that is? Wouldn't nothing be the Absolute and all that exists be Contingent? Doesn't existence feel quite arbitrary?
>>24716890The answer is the necessary being whose essence is existence, subsistent being itself. The structure of reality is that being uttering its Eternal Word, the Logos, and breathing into creation its Holy Spirit.
>>24717645Incredible
>>24716773polytheism>>24716776pantheism >>24716829dualism>>24717002dualism>>24717645pantheismyou must answer OP without falling into heresy
If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24713070>Did you ever play Myth? It has beautiful animation sequences and a great story, Never even heard of it, the only Video Game backstories I ever got into were Castlevania and Mortal Kombat, from playing them as a kid. However I wonder if the future for many fantasy authors now is in creating lore and dialogue for Video games like, God of War Ragnorok, and Elden Ring, rather then trying a straight up novel.
>>24713934It's great. Written by a university professor, i.e. someone who can actually construct a sentence.It's not fantasy, however, but science fiction. It's a "planetary romance" inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
>>24712715>just read the two books with no Drizzt. The pretty good one thats all Wulfgar, and the one thats all Artemis and Jarlaxe which fucking ruled.Which two are those?
>>24717365I think it's called the Assassins trilogy
>>24713694Can you read these in any order?
"Catzilla" editionPrevious: >>24698741/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.
>>24717458>it took a near death experience for me to turn my life around and try go completely honest.Then why you just said " I spent the last week having an affair with my youngest niece"?I mean, sure you probably went from 0 to 70 or something, but that still sounds off.
>>24715097https://litterbox.catbox.moe/
>>24716980 >>24715154Okay, how’s this? https://litter.catbox.moe/ts9q6x75fy6umos6.pdf
>>24717653people don't like to click on pdf files, fren
>>24717716Goddamnit
Our time has come, schoppybros./lit/ is now a full Schopenhauer board. Only today I read a bunch of schoppy threads. Great!
>>24717648People who read his work do!
>>24717435Didn't he just rehash what the Indians said?
>>24717677No, he read Upanishads in his 30s after the publication of his magnum opus.
>>24717677no. However, there are overlaps between Schopenhauer and Buddhism including the idea that desire itself is a cause of suffering and the sentiment that it is better not to have been born in the first place.
>>24717106Schop bros need help disputing this. Mostly what this is in reply to, but the post itself contains the problems outlined that I need remedied.Does Schop still solve hume even tangentially, despite moving away from Kant?
Write your suicide note with your best prose.
>>24717421dis guys suicide note was ruined by autocorrect. talk about getting fucked up the ass by life. lol
>>24712349there once was a young man from detroitwho tossed and turned every nightwith remorse and regretsand sorrow for the pastand decided to give up the fight
I couldn't go anywhere without having to take something ridiculous like 6 urgent shits and I know you all think it's funny and not life destroying and that's why I did this
>>24707999509 words of worthless slop >>2470843126 words of unfiltered brilliance Amazing how much more you can do with less if you've got the talent
>>24713651Don't get me wrong, I have no delusions I'll ever be anything even in death. All the same though my work and giving form to my characters and their story is more important than my life.
This book is dogshit. Complaining about the mediocrity of the art establishment is something; but if you do, don't be even more mediocre than them. Just name drops imageboard and memes for nothing, the style is annoying. Could've been worse, it's just a bit more mediocre than the lib art culture it makes fun of throughout the whole book
>>24716875I really didn't think you'd read my comment, and that fast. I'm terribly ashamed and apologize profusely.The footnotes were cool. Trying to innovate on each chapter, adding chats, having to manage different characters through their online writing styles is cool. I particularly liked the CC threads, reminds me of myself anonymously posting about a relationship on a forum. I think I spoke a bit hastily about your novel anyway, because I thought my comment would be like a stone tossed in the ocean. Will delete it.I'll definitely check out your other novel.
>>24717153>This book is dogshit.>I'm terribly ashamed and apologize profusely.You're a faggot, anon.
>>24716875>McBussyI love this nigga like you wouldn't believe
>>24716946>Post PDFsI'd post PDFs, 'cause I don't particularly care about money/royalties, but I'd have to run that by a few people first. >You really fucked yourself by mixing serious work into thatIt had to go the way it had to go. I could have very easily held onto the Marcie pen name and ridden that one for a while, but I mostly just wanted to move past that phase of my life. Didn't want to carry forward the personal connections that came with that pen name, in particular. Pen names can be used for all sorts of different things, and in this case, I pushed it in both directions at once. Some would say it was a bad move to confess like I did, but I did so knowing what the ramifications would generally be. Lots more went on behind the scenes leading up to it all that hasn't been covered in interviews yet. I largely haven't be clearing up rumours either, which has made things even wilder at times. >If you got into a big mag with nonsense poems it'd be an entirely different storyWait for Phase 2, brother. I've told this to some of the outlets that have interviewed me since my story broke, but the main reason why I didn't bother with Granta, Poetry, etc., was because of the wait times (as well as the agent influence, with solicitation and so forth sometimes taking spots from regular writers). I had over 50 pieces that needed homes, and waiting 6-9 months at a time wasn't exactly an enticing prospect. Even shotgunning 5-10 of the pieces to the top mags and waiting would've been a complete nuisance. The project would've taken five years instead of two if I'd done it that way. Plus, Poetry, to their credit, at least has editors who would check things like background filler text (I would hope, anyway), so it's not as if I think all mags are so shitty they can't catch junky material when it comes their way. In the next phase, I'll be subbing to the big mags, under slightly different parameters. It's gonna take a while, though. Hold tight. Keen to write some "serious" poetry, too.>>24717153You are forgiven.>>24717605Max is great.
>>24716875wait, are you the one that was asking honor for a blurb and you briefly shilled and your thread got nuked like right away? i was trying to rememer the name of that book. and the author name which was weird.
To what extent do you think modern humans are beholden to natural evolution?By that I mean: natural selection is the process where genetic differences lead to certain individuals being more likely to reproduce, and thus pass on the specific genetic traits that made them more likely to do so, leading to organisms changing over many generations. But for modern humans, there are many factors beyond the purely genetic that determine whether someone reproduces or not, and these factors aren't (necessarily) inherited as genetics are, which would suggest "natural" evolution isn't at play anymore.Wealth, status, education, occupation, political or spiritual membership and community in general, personality; some of these you could potentially argue can be traced back to purely genetic differences, but many have nothing to do with the material makeup of the person being born, and even larger abstract factors like "the state of the nation's economy" or "the geopolitics of the continent" have an effect on if or when humans reproduce. At that point we are lightyears away from genetics mattering.Not to mention, if we assume that free will exists, someone who is in the position to could simply choose not to reproduce simply because they can. Is "natural selection" still at play there?And no, I'm not really interested in how you think your god(s) factor into this.
>>24714661Lack of coitus. Freud had a point.
>>24717234Unfortunately I'm referring to the retarded personality cult around people like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Scott Alexander rather than the genuine philosophical movement.
>>24717240Oh I should have known. Carry on.But on the topic of mimesis and mimetics what literature is relevant?
>>24717236People are more promiscuous nowadays than ever before.
>>24716532I meant Lucifarians are the ones who engineered and promulgated this false doctrine under the guise of scientific discovery and enlightenment. Succeeding generations of scientists are oblivious to its true origins and propagate it like useful idiots.
Τῆς ὀπώρης edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24669573>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24717105seemed excessive at first but I guess it can be quite useful, is it automatic?
>>24717105Wouldn't it be autismus? It's ecce homo, not ecce hominem.
>>24717105Anything to avoid reading smoothly.>>24717425Aint dat da vocative or sum shiet? Agreed.
>>24715647there's more ON poetry than skaldic such>>24711564>>24712136worst fucking approach imagineable
>>24717628ESL detected.
does /lit/ have an opinion on Johnathan Haidt? I remember him floating around the Sam Harris/Rogan circles a decade ago then vaguely recall falling off for being a junk science charlatan but I still see him pop up in mainstream interviews about cog-sci culture matters.
Happiness Hypothesis is also very good. It covers the various components (genetics, environment, actions) for achieving the state.
>>24716985he is threatening to pseuds who overvalue their metaphysics masturbation
>>24716985He just applies Hume to political psychology honestly
>>24717396>Would YOU have taken the empty seat in Yes, city buses are astonishingly safe compared to cars. Much, much, much more likely I'm killed in a car crash while driving alone than killed in a bus crash, and a bus crash is much, much, much more likely than someone stabbing me on the bus>factor in all that and the probability of being stabbed to death skyrocketsIf you vividly imagine someone stabbing you on the bus, it's more likely you'll be scared of it happening, yes
>>24717411Guessing you thought Haidt's book was really good
Books on the future of society and remedies ?
>>24710088>ProfHe's an ex-high school teacher who probably got fired for being crazy.
>>24710231>namely that Israel would start a war with Iran and drag the US in it.dude. everyone predicted that.
>>24710023He has some incredibly interesting takes on the modern political/social/economic plight of the West, and makes some really thought provoking explanations, theories, and analogies about them that at first might seem very kooky but eventually click in your mind, get stuck in there for a while, and influence your way of looking at things. He’s /ourschizo/, God bless Professor Jiang.
>>24710860>Also that there's too many retirees, but also that old people aren't relinquishing their jobs? He just blames too many things on the aging populationSounds paradoxical but they both could simultaneously be real issues. Just think of it as a large number of Boomers who can fall into either category, hence making things harder for the younger generations in either way.Since the Boomer generation is so big (that’s why they’re called Boomers, there was a “baby boom” after WW2, or a huge increase in births), you could have a lot of them retiring and hence being difficult/making demands on the economy and Social Security system propping them up, and, if disabled or becoming disabled, on their younger children, or on the nursing homes they’re put into. And, conversely, on the other hand, since it’s such a big generation, there could also be a bunch of them not retiring, whether in fields like middle and upper management at corporations, or as tenured professors at universities not giving up their posts and contributing to the brutal job market for new professors, etc. Hence also harming the younger generations by making the job market more difficult for them, not freeing up as much space for new talent. If you assume they also tend towards filling the positions of authority in various of these jobs, we can also talk about their hiring practices, perhaps how they make things harder for younger gen’s in that way too. (For instance, seemingly petty small stuff like requiring a bachelor’s degree even for their basic shit office job, when they didn’t necessarily need it, or when in their day college wasn’t as prohibitively expensive and the loans/debt incurred wasn’t so much of a possible fatal albatross around one’s neck.) You don’t have to view this strictly as a moral criticism of Boomers. According to conventional logic, they can basically either retire, or they can choose to keep working, they have to do one or the other, so it’s hard to blame them for choosing one. But it could still be true that both of these can cause issues, and it’s part of a larger demographic crisis the West is facing. Look at it apart from moral judgment, and just as a description of the state of affairs.
>>24711505He's just rehashing Spenglers history of religion then. Dawson and Voegelin are better in that regard
The most tragic figure of the 21st century
>>24714573>>24714648>>24714738>>24714895>>24714977Please check out https://byzantinus.net/ some time, it's a textboard centered around the humanities and you two have an spirit that would very fitting for the site's purpose. It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.
>>24716741>It's invite-only but you can get an access code through a faucet right now.who do you do this and who owns/runs it?
>>24716705That’s not it. His thesis, even if it is just restating Hegel, is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.
>>24717174>is the main doctrine guiding the post-Cold War West.no its not. thats the low IQ think tank take. history ended in the first half of the 19th century. accept it.
What am I in for?
>>24716302girls of all races love it
>>24715836A snoozefest, tbqh. Xi is a vastly less interesting thinker than the big-name commies of the past and his system is basically just "im gonna be numba 1 in china and everyone will suck my dikk" but phrased as "the four pillars of society and the three great statements and the seven great political columns of the chinese people will uphold the system of xi jinping thought with chinese characteristics" or some shit.
>>24715836Read Wang Huning if you want a real insight into the CCP leadership.
Xi is a great guy, but I desperately hope he will not be corrupted by Putin's garbage that will be pouring in his ears considering they will be closer now>" Xi, my friend, if you want to create communism, you must help me bomb random eastern European countries and not accomplish anything. Also don't be mean to Israel :)"
>>24715836This bitch gets mogged by Mao. Hardest thing he had to do was do some farm work for a little bit because his dad got dabbed on and then just bureaucrat-maxxed his way to the top. If he loses all his power and somehow gains it back then I will start being impressed by him
Have you ever read a book that was simply too hard for you? I remember reading The Killer Angels when I was in elementary school and it being just a bit over my head. I think having trouble with that book is part of the reason I never developed an interest in the Civil War.
>>24717568don't forget that the people who made this site and are submitting posts to it laughed at trans people committing suicide and harassed other trans people INTO committing suicide
>>24717643Every last one of them? Are you sure?I’d never do that and don’t support that, but I’d probably be a moralfag and submit some tip to that site if someone was glorifying his death openly.>b-but you guys are supposed to be for free speech and against cancel culture!I’m not a right winger, I’m not “supposed to be” anything. I just see it’s immoral and nasty to mock his death, and the people mocking it (when they’re not edgy /pol/ chuds) seem like the exact same type of people who’d glorify someone losing their job over the last many years over things like, say, questioning or skepticism of modern transgender ideology, for instance.The Internet and social media today seems like a cesspool of increasing radicalization, hatred, binary poltical thinking, increasing caricaturization and stereotyping of “the other side”, and hardcore psychological warfare tearing apart Western civilization at the seams. I don’t like edgy /pol/ chuds either, or the type who’d laugh at trans people killing themselves or would want to bully them to death. I think it’s all repulsive.
>>24717545Mein KampfThe thing is that to really understand where Hitler and Germans are coming from, you need an understanding of the history of Germany and Austria in the 19th century. I quit reading it about halfway thru and side quested the history of the region and just never made it back to the book. Pity, I suppose I should get back to it. Spoiler...it's not really that good
>>24717568>>24717575>>24717637>>24717643>>24717659Have any of you lads ever read a book that was simply too hard for you?
>>24717675it was a bad idea to start a thread with charlie kirk if you didn't want people discussing charlie kirkblood meridian
I read the first 60 pages of A Brave New World. It's creepy and disjointed.
>>24716703I haven't read many classics. I assumed the disjointed dialogue was meant to make the reader feel confused since these characters live in a fucked up world. I'm enjoying it. Feels like a fever dream.
>>24716698>t. Beta-minus
>>24716967Based on the descriptions of Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilon-minuses, Betas do not have that difficult of a life. They are still able to have frivolous activities and be with Alphas.
>>24716703>meme rand
>>24716698It’s supposed to be creepy and unsettling you blithering fool.
If Plato's and Hegel's philosophies have been used (and argably funded and written) by elites to build and structure their world, what are some of the plebeian philosophies (in the good meaning)?
>>24717116that's a naked child
You've got it backwards; philosophy itself is by its very nature plebeian, doubly so when it concerns itself with ethics. It has always been the weapon of the oppressed against the elite much more than the other way around, even if it doesn't seem like it. Read Homer side-by-side with Plato and tell me with a straight face that Plato isn't plebeian. There's a reason that Christianity borrowed so heavily from him.
>>24717116>If Plato's and Hegel's philosophies have been used (and argably funded and written) by elites to build and structure their world,Big claim. Could you elaborate?
>>24717177plebs LOVE mass mobilization though.
>>24717483What is with this boards obsessive hatred of Christianity?
