Books on how to stop being a narcissist?
you are not a narcissist, you've been convinced by a world that wishes to see you brought low that pride, superiority, confidence and open virility are evil traits
>>24784511>Lasch>Zizek>Sadly, Porn.
>>24785188if you are legitimately "superior" in terms of demonstrable achievement then you are not a narcissist. narcissism is about delusion. secret king complex etc
>>24785186Who's decide who's intelligent or not?
>>24784511If you were a narc you'd be claiming you aren't one.
In a recent study published by John Hopkins University students were asked to write a translation of the first few paragraphs of Bleak House in clear, modern English. They were given dictionaries, access to the Internet, and as much time as they needed. Despite this, 49 of the 85 students failed to do so. Sentence after sentence, they could not grasp what Dickens was saying; i.e., they were incapable of figuring out who or what a sentence was talking about, did not understand the imagery or metaphors, could not translate long or complex sentences into shorter, simpler ones, and could not identify the main ideas being described. As such, the researchers deemed this group to be "problematic readers"
>>24781434That is a deliberate style choice. Like the banging of a gavel or the formulation of a legal document. It's almost like a telegram message, very mechanical and cold, reflected both in the weather/atmosphere of the scene and the contents of it (pertaining to a court of law). It's meant to sketch an unpleasant scene, a scene that makes you uneasy and on edge against the injustices about to unfold.
>>24783888He does have a particular style, but once you get into it, there is no one better. I like the whole first few pages of A Tale of Two Cities, but just consider this little excerpt:France, less favoured on the whole as to matters spiritual than her sister of the shield and trident, rolled with exceeding smoothness down hill, making paper money and spending it. Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards. It is likely enough that, rooted in the woods of France and Norway, there were growing trees, when that sufferer was put to death, already marked by the Woodman, Fate, to come down and be sawn into boards, to make a certain movable framework with a sack and a knife in it, terrible in history. It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, though they work unceasingly, work silently, and no one heard them as they went about with muffled tread: the rather, forasmuch as to entertain any suspicion that they were awake, was to be atheistical and traitorous.
>>24784045>very mechanical and coldmy kind of literature
>>24784049this is just the style of the time, which we generously do not formally refer to as 'deliberately embarrassing'
I use a dictionary when I encounter words I dont know, which the participants didnt do. So that alone makes me a better reader than these chucklefuck pinko commies.
>"Would you still love me if I was a bug?">"No."
>>24782254Who the fuck cares about The Metamorphosis, when brilliant novels like The Trial and The Castle were never finished!Oh, how I wish Kafka lived to be an old man...he absolutely would've been discovered in the literary world in his lifetime due to Max Brod's efforts.Although...if Kafka were elderly, he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...
>>24784164>he'd have to have dealt with the grief and struggle of losing all of his sisters in the holocaust...also he could have turned into a bug
>>24784145No I mean the 2000s as a century
>>24784355just say the 21st century, youll avoid all confusion
>>24783555>Gregor the beetle never found out that he had wings under the hard covering of his back.I wish I had wings too
>God does not exist, He is being-itself.Is he right?
>>24784925clive was a P.I.M.P.
>>24784724If he’s right then there’s simply no need to trouble yourself with God.It would be impossible to know God, God would have no reason to prefer some things over others (morality), there would be no existence outside of the bounds of being. There is a way in which this is the only sense in which an all powerful God could possibly be. It’s just a shame for religions that this God warrants no worship or even consideration.I don’t think it solves anything though, “being” and “existence” are different but not that different, both are categories of the human mind
>ontotheologyno thanks
>>24784724>prots take 700 years to end up reinventing thomist ontologygrim
>>24784724Sounds like massive cope.
Plato vs three Marxes. Who would win in a fistfight?I think Plato takes it.
>>24784331>wrestling champion vs three dysgenic early industrial age bumsHow is this even a question?
Plato takes him down the cave and shows him who's boss. Then Marx writes a long whiny book about being bullied and communism is born
>George R. U. Fartin
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?
>>24784703Have you read this anon? Tell us more if so
>>24784739Horrendous bait, but unironically this is what masons believe which shows how fucking retarded they all are. Guess it's the jew gene
>>24784712Cut back on masturbation while you're smoking glass anon. For a while you'll feel like you're immortal. It's like being on glass but also being aware of the time.
>>24784736The absolute latest is 1583 based on the grand lodge No. 1 manuscript, but I find the Regius Poem compelling enough evidence to say the Free Masons were around at least since the middle of the 1400s. It doesn't have all of the later features of Free Masonry, but it does have the Egyptian LARP and the occultism, the esotericism, and brushes with Luciferianism.
>>24784854Literally the Bibble says that Jesus is the Lightbringer though?
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>>24785353I don't know, but that was the only option that seemed remotely interesting to me.
>>24785353as in, a panther with a panther's body who thinks it is a human
>>24785358Wild panther?Its a black panther
I just wanted to mention big cats
>>24785364I fell for the "took someone on /wg/ seriously again" award
>a tortured Jewish genius who suffers from being so much hotter and smarter than everyone around him drives a white gentile beta male to suicide by fucking his wifeGive me one good reason to believe that these people aren't spiritually Indian.
>OH BOOHOOO!>I'M RICH AND HANDSOME AND GET LAID A LOT>I'M GOING TO GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS GOING TO TRY TO KILL MYSELF SEVERAL TIMESWhat the fuck was this faggots problem?
>>24778957>you can’t understand there being anymore to life but hedonismThis is what people voted for. This is the culmination of liberal and leftist ideology. Everything now is all about improving quality of life and any attempt of the state trying to correct its people is labeled as fascist.
>>24779063It would of course be better if they could somehow inflict more pain.
>>24784141>This is the culmination of liberal and leftist ideologyWhat do you think the purpose of consumerism is
>>24783422Thanks, didn't know there was a recording of Mishima's recollections of the encounter.
>>24784122I've never watched Mad Men, but I might check it out later.
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I voted o7.
>>24785357Whos o7
>>24785362
>>24785376I knew that
>>24785329Do you happen to like Shrek, Giga?
Icebreaker: what are your favourite commentaries/secondary sources for understanding Plato?Robin Waterfield's The First Philosophers is something I find myself going back to every time a really get into a dialogue. Even though Plato is never really the focus of the book at any point, its really good for contextualising his philosophy alongside what had gone before. Not only does it help one distinguish what might be original ideas from mere developments or rearticulations of already existing ones, but its also useful for clarifying some of the more esoteric references. Take Phaedo for instance, the dialogue ends with the hemlock working its way through Socrates: >[the man administering Socrates the poison] felt it himself and said that when the cold reached his heart he would be goneAccording to Philolaus:>there are four sources of a rational creature - brain, heart, navel and genitals […] Head for thought, heart for soul…Therefore, there implication by Plato here is that Socrates' soul left his body at the point the cold reached his heartPrevious Thread: >>24705276 Recent Plato-related threads: >>24746113 (Will studying Plato give me wisdom on the nature of the soul?)>>24745236 (Academic consensus on Plato's metaphysics/epistemology?)>>24732342 (how does the physical world relate to the world of Forms?)>>24728045 (why did Medieval Christians prefer Aristotle over Plato?)
Any good modern translations of Plato's work? I've been trying to read The Allegory of the Cave but I can't even get past the first 10 pages. The writing is too archaic and convulted. I have to read every sentence multiple times to figure out what it means.
>>24784383which translation are you reading? Also, have you read any other parts of The Republic?
>>24772592QRD on the mysteries? Is this where they were partaking in a psychedelic mystery religion?
guys, I made a Plato reading server!https://discord.gg/PXtbdq5j
>>24784383Either download a few and compare them or just go with Loeb.>understand the allegory of the cave Start reading from the chapter right before the allegory. I think the allegory was at the start of chapter 6 so start with 5.
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:>>24753638 (Cross-thread)>Thread Question:You are thrown into the world of the last book you read. Where are you, what are you doing and what are your plans?
>>24784484How is it an insult? Cameron writes all of his movies, and he's written some other people's movies too
>>24781556what's wrong with wish fulfillment?
>>24779834>Fans favorite character>Carry 5 books on his own>Die as turbo VirginWhat sandersoy mean by this?
>>24785245He's Jesus.Imagine, ten years later Shallan is a single mom, completely broken after the news of Adolin cheating with Maya. She's working in a brothel, weaving physical illusions for clients.Kaladin returns and saves her from the pits of depravity. Very Jesus-like.
>>24785245>dieslmaoAlso careful with spoilers anon. There are a few stormlight readers in here
Which epic poems have you read, anons? And what do you think of the epic? Can epic poetry be written in the modern period? Think ‘A’, Cantos, Paterson, and Omeros.
>>24783956what meter/rhyme?
>>24785187Why? What are some good Arabic epics?
>>24785302Nibelungenstrophe with strong dadaistic admixtures, to ideally span the three great European ages
>>24785343nibelungenstrophe in latin? you're mad!
My tier list of those I've read:1. Iliad2. Paradise Lost3. Argonautica4. Odyssey5. Beowulf6. Death of Arthur7. Faerie Queene8. Aeneid
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?
>>24784124She’s sexy
>>24784714Yes
>>24784714literally my first thought when i saw this thread
>>24784124picrel. It's all hyperprogressive goyslop.Maybe when I was 20 I could still take some value from the self-help slop, but now I can lowkey write those books better myself if I needed to.All I want is for a section of the library to be reserved for 100+ year old books with actual meaning and weight to them, over the head of booktok girlies that read contemporary fiction.>>24784173>>24784527these anons get it
>>24784714>Expanding the childrens section
