>God does not exist, He is being-itself.Is he right?
>>24785659That's a trippy way of putting it, but also true.
>>24785646Isn't the word aseity
>>24784726My guy read OP's again, this time slowly.
>>24784724The latest in a long line of copes
>>24788637Cope a feel of deez nuts
>went to buy classic 1980s fantasy paperbacks >stuff that often have a 50 cent stamp from book stores>"That will be $80 + fee + shipping + tip + tariffs"Hipsters have destroyed the vintage book market and have made it impossible for us actual collectors to buy them at the proper price. They are now charging obscene amounts of money for disposable fantasy trash market novels. Stuff that used to sell for 50 cents in used book stores, they are now demanding between $50-$100 per book because of all the youtube 'book haul' hipsters.
>>24786454>we should all be celebrating getting absolutely cucked
Hipsterdom is so thoroughly dead that I can't even find the old "hipster is a meaningless perjorative" copypasta on the archive any more
>OP raging because he can't consume pulp fantasy anymoreThose hipsters are doing you a favour, and youdon't even realise it.
>>24787065Yeah I'll exclusively have to read 4chan posts now
everyone else is performative and you are the only authentic one right? lmao LMAOthink a bit about it
Is the "Gen Alpha can't read" meme real? Like are 2025 9th graders actually showing up to high school not knowing how to write paragraphs?Or only the brown ones?
>>24786429Deport the 100m browns and we'll have a moonbase in 10y
>>24786091Nice lies. When controlled for race America has the best education in the world for all races.Every White, Asian, and Black that comes to the USA has a higher IQ than their home average, including European countries.
>>24785925I work at a school. It's pretty bad.You can blame the Reagan administration for cutting back on education, the Bush administration for gutting phonics and NCLB, and the introduction of phones killing casual reading. But outside of federal policy and how it impacts education in the states, what ultimately is preventing the general population from reaching higher reading levels are:>the cultural stigma towards learning and curiosity>American culture being competitively game-centric and focused on punching down, bucket of crabs, etc>community and society at large being atomized (blame cars and suburbs for this)>the demand that all students get a free public education (which means the low IQ kids drag down the average and high IQ kids, and the average kids drag down the high IQ Kids) >the rejection of social stratification and an attitude against private schooling>the refusal to admit that most of the population has NEVER been good at reading (even as far back as the Cold War, we've been pumping out propaganda and straight up lies)Read John W Gardner. His books Excellence and Self-Renewal cover this sort of thing in more detail
>>24786429>Just gather a chunk of all the smart white peopleIt's smart white people who are pushing for misgenation and diversity
>>24788319A certain ethnoreligious group of smart white people?
"Frustration" editionPrevious: >>24766768/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.
>>24788045>paragraph spacing and indentationHoly hideous indieslop batman
i actually heard you dorks and my poem is now better
>>24788581since i'm at it i'll show you how I fixed another line
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The finale to a never-to-be-finished tragedy titled "The Ham-Man Condition" by AnonymousJutting up from the chipbed of his forlorn dreams, Anon trawls up across his desk in a drunken whir, sending away the disordered remains of the night's dalliance. Mind ablazened in frenzies of litters never born and body in shivers not the greatest coat could calm, in infinite resignation he mounts his wheel the final time. Slotting his neck between the cold lonesome bars, he recalls again that terrible reality: never shall long-pork be hamster, for neither are swine but in name. With his last decisive breath, he squeaks out a final "Ebichu, Umaru, I failed you!" and like the circus man who dances the cyr wheel, he thrusts forward with shoulder and foot to spin his contraption toward the roof, round the top, and finally, with great momentum, to impact his crown with the ever-firm shag below, stopping lodged at the tangent point.The coroner, in unparalleled disbelief at this spun out tragedy before him, declined to comment whether it were the impact that did him in, the shift of his body weight on his pinned brain stem, or perhaps a protracted and miserable strangulation; it is out of respect that we shan't speculate either. We might only hope our friend, now free from the pipe maze of his cage, has found his furry yearnings in that realm which waits for us all.
Be real with me, I haven't read any of their literature, but the website for the local lodge in my area says they're all about personal development, charity, and friendship That sounds pretty nice, honestly, and I think all their symbolism is really interesting. If I join the Freemasons, will I go to hell? That's what I've been told. What's so bad about joining them? What literature should I read that exposed them for being devil worshippers?
>>24787102Very interesting, thanks for the explanation.
>>24778619Yes.
Will you fuck the baphomet bride? No, then you won't move up. Yes? Then they will blackmail you for having done so.You can learn about esoterics in Guenon etc for yourself. Nothing is secret anymore. As has been said, it seems mostly for networking.
Personal development, charity and friendship is part of it, but a plethora of activities and rituals occur for the initiated. You can ''self educate'' using sources on the internet but it's quite meaningless and futile without distinctly experiencing the rituals first hand. The new-agey ''self-development'' image, as well as Christian symbolism is mostly for exoteric purposes, although self-development in the form of gnostic self-illumination does play a central role. Freemasonry has much more to do with the Temple myths, early gnostic Christianity and illumination than anything else. Through ritual action and symbolism and accumulation of knowledge the initiated work on, as I understand it, gnosis.The networking aspect is distinctive too. Two elder brothers helped me win a court case by helping me strategise against my opponent.
>>24778700Anti-Nordicist propaganda
>The eccentric psychology of décadence outlines the negative anthropology of mass society: Proust gives an allergic accounting of what was later done to all love. The exchange relationship, which this last partially contradicted during the bourgeois epoch, has entirely absorbed it; the last immediacy falls victim to the distance of all adversaries to all others. Love freezes from the value, which the ego ascribes to itself. Its love appears to it as a loving more, and whoever loves more, does wrong. They incur the suspicions of the beloved, and are thrown back on themselves, falling ill due to their inclination to possessive cruelty and self-destructive imagination. “The relation to the beloved,” goes a passage in Temps retrouvé, “may remain platonic out of entirely different reasons than the chastity of the woman and also not for the sake of the sensual character of love, which she inspires. Perhaps the lover is incapable, in the boundlessness of his love, of waiting for the moment of fulfillment with adequate dissimulation or indifference. He meets her incessantly, does not cease to write to her, attempts to visit her; she refuses, and he despairs. From this moment on she understands that if she only grants him her company or friendship, such a favor will appear, to someone who had already given up all hope, so great that she can spare herself the trouble of giving him any more concessions, so that she can securely wait, until he finds himself prepared, because he is incapable of going without seeing her any longer, to end the war at any price: then she can dictate the terms of the peace, whose first condition is the platonic nature of the relationship... All this the woman guesses instinctively and knows that she can afford the luxury of never giving herself to the man whose unquenchable desire she feels, if he is too well-bred to hide it from her from the very beginning.” The young male prostitute Morel is stronger than his high-flying lover. “He always retained the upper hand, by only refusing himself, and in order to refuse himself, it probably sufficed for him to know he was loved.”
17th century french seduction novel>make yourself le rare>stay ambiguous until the last moment, bitches love this>get a rich aristocratic Lady, you won't have to work again'dorno>this is soo capitalistic and manipulating>ppl used to Love each other without such capitalistic calculation. My fellow j... i mean literary intellectual Proust knew this, btw we need communism and destruction of patriarchal families (source of fascism) asap.
>>24788452You realize that to a significant extend the human race has stopped reproducing?> destruction of patriarchal families (source of fascism) asapWhatever. The above quote is actually critical of women. I'm not sure why I bother to come here anymore. You all just have stupid axes to grind. Probably, now I will stop
>>24788519goodwe hang adornolets like youkeep moving, lil ahasverus
>>24788063I have been studying Adorno for the past 2 years. He is the greatest philosopher of the 20th.Ironic how he was condemned and swiftly disregarded on the basis of a supposed resigned and purely theoretical stance, given that he never shied away from polemic and deeply engaged with the main philosophical currents like existentialism and positivism. I'm french and he was almost unknown here up until 15 years ago, with only a fraction of his work translated. His works are undergoing translation ever since.>>24788519I visit this place once a month, if not less. I used to be a regular. Don't bother with this cesspit.
>>24788565sell him to me bro, i have internalized the commodification of ideas. you have to offer the premise and leave the conclusion to me. Hit me with your best 'dorno shot.
Superhero editionStubbed >>24781020>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>/wng/ authors.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24788485Saw this book being shilled constantly.Read the first three chapters.Character A says one word.1000 words of internal monologue.Character B says one word. 500 words of internal monologue from B’s perspective.Then 500 more words of A’s inner monologue.No wonder it has 2000+ chapters.
>>24788609>read the first three chapters
>>24788615>it gets good after 1800 chapters bro
>>24788620It gets good at chapter 1, however do read at least a dozen chapters before forming an opinion.
>>24788631It's complete shit from line one
>this is a book meant to be read slowly and savored
>>24786637I know what you mean, anon. I had some chud get mad at me for reading The Savage Detectives in under a month (???) and then ask if I could reconstruct the timeline of the nonlinear middle section from memory and act like this when I said probably not and that I didn't care if I couldn't.All the anons mocking you are this guy
Yes, some books are written to be read slowly and savored, and some books are written to be read quick and smooth and enjoying the rollercoaster.This is usually self-evident from the writing itself.I do not need to be told how to read a fucking book.Who is this person talking to meGod I hate people
>>24787592Those people didn't read it, they watched and listened to a performance of a written text and so did the crowds that gathered in ancient Greece to see Homer's works performed, they literally didn't read it.
>we need tempo markings like in music>each author has different tempo, rubato etct. Henry Miller or something to that effect
>>24786672tl;dr
Why do we never mention the library and always talk about pirating? It's like a legal form of pirating and you can watch cool movies too with Kanopy.It it a psyop to destroy trust in communities and make posters scared to leave the house?
I go to the library about every 4 weeks, I take 3-5 books out each time. Most of the time I just browse but sometimes I'll request a book from a different library in my city and pick it up at my local.
i went to a sold-out Michael Ondaatje reading at the Vancouver Public Library system's Central Library and the quality of the attendees bolstered my faith in society
i worked doing research for some time for a well-known professor at McGill University.Had the run of their 13 libraries (12 million items), and though the pay was not brilliant, but I loved it.Later spent time in the Canadian Centre for Architecture library, which was great in a different way.
>>24784142There are billions available for free on the internet, you don't have to go into an ugly building with stupid rules where someone recently pissed in the corner anyway just to read for free.
>>24784151>>24786935the libraries are shelters because there's no shelters for the homeless. your taxes fund police and war but could fund the library and shelters instead but you vote for police and war over and over. it's really just your fault
Books on why 1993 stuck out as a particularly odd year in culture?
>>24788568I have watched most of it, and am interested but can't help but feel some of it reads like bad fictional writing. Also the dreadful Indian mispronouncing Kerouac and calling him Hunter S. Tthhhhh-ompson, how has he been presumably speaking and reading English his whole life but has never encountered the name Thompson. Would he call him Thhhh-om Yorke? Anyway, nice to find a fellow millenium-baby. I am from Reading but been living up north since I moved here for Uni.
>>24788216I'm partial to Scentless Apprentice and Territorial Pissings. I like School, too. But I'm a bigger Melvins fan overall.
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>>24788578Wrong video and song zoom-zoom
>>24788576Was in Reading recently, as it goes. Nags Head is a great boozer.
Especially if they are not banal choices like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, etc; so we could all discover some interesting books we might never have heard of.I'll start: 1) Civilization and Capitalism: The Structure of Everyday Life: 15-th18th century - Fernarnd Braudel. 2) Epitaph of a Small Winner - Machado de Assis3) The Luneburg Variation - Paolo Maurensig4) Earth: An Intimate History - Richard Fortey5) River of Darkness - Buddy Levy
>>24783839Yale monarch's has some biographies on Anglo-Saxon kings I enjoyed. The only sort of boring one is the Athelstan one funnily enough. Athelred and Edward are both top tier.
> Justine by de Sade> Shakespeare's Language by Kermode> Jew of Malta by Marlowe> Sartor Resartus by Carlyle > Lanark by Alasdair Gray
Defoe - roxana D’Annunzio - the flame Ferri - the positive school of criminology Lissagaray - the paris commune Reich - the mass psychology of fascism
>>24788416Thank you for the rec kind stranger, looks good
>>24782050Thomas Nagel - The View From NowhereMark Lilla - The Stillborn GodDesmond Seward - The Hundred Years WarThomas Kuhn - The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions Huston Smith - The World's Religions
What's the appeal?
>>24788513PseudMaxxingRedditory, I see.
People like it, or at least, get some comfort from it because simply waiting can be applied to anything big or small when it comes to life.>>24788513Beckett would call you a fag btw
>>24788566I would tell him no u
>>24788271Why is waiting for Gal Gadot? She's not even leng.
>>24788295fpbp
What am I in store for?>translationI know you guys hate them. No need to say it every thread.
I heard they are preparing a newer volume set to contain the NRSV Updated Edition "ue".
>>24788179There are so many divergent viewpoints on Mormonism and the book itself that it would be hard to get them all together to produce something satisfying. Look at the geography theories for example.
>>24788179lol this is your brain on catholicism, literally cannot even function
>>24788144Thoughts on?
>>24788183It's worth a try.>>24788184I am protestant. If I was Catholic I would be seething.
>NRSVUEIsn't that the one that changed Arsenoikotai in order to be more politically correct?Why would anyone trust a translation that changed something so clear? Paul went out of the way to create a term to make things more explicit.
There's a stunning lack of enthusiasm for the dying words of a /lit/ legend.
>>24787833When niggas read they begin to write nigga slop like picrel.
>>24786874>they made the only person of color stand in the backwowwww, this is just so cruel
>>24788522He's the tallest and widest presence. Obviously he's not gonna cover up a scrawny tranny or a manlet in the photo
>>24788528>encountering actual bigot logic wowwww
>>24787841
