Now that the dust has settled, what's the consensus? What does /lit/ want me to think?
>>24828715Nice sacrilege, the vicar of Christ has spoken, enjoy burning in hell
>>24827237They are the sacred writings of a religious community, why would scriptures be a bad term here?
>>24828764*the Patriarch of Rome
>>24828779Enjoy burning in hell
>>24828781nuh uh
CAUSE EVERYBODY'S CHANGING AND I DON'T FEEL THE SAME
After finishing the book I had several nightmares about the dismembered bodies in Santa Teresa. Beautiful book nonetheless.
>Killing women is badBravo Bolaño
the dark arts of the santa muerte cult
/ourgirl/ finds out about Dark Academia :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUnNXq5xZ4
>>24823409>Can't define racism(You are no different from the people you accuse).>Talks about a "theory of progress" without an understanding of progressivism.>Still talks about Red vs Blue while oblivious to the fact that it's all one party.Imagine trying to sound smart while being this oblivious to your dunning kruger syndrome.Americans are surely the most stupid whites.
>>24826329i don't disagree with any of that, and i'm not american, not sure what subtext you took from my comment but it's not there
>>24826335Why aren't you American? Too stupid/lazy?
>>24820759Any other booktubers with hairy forearms, armpits, or anything else that they show on Youtube?
>>24825774I don't get it
Why is it so underrated on /lit/? Is it the simple and profoundly sad answer that most /lit/ dwellers have never experienced love?
>>24827572Tenant is ok. Feminist novel and it paints the protag as a prefect human. It comes across as a manual on how women should behave and how to treat women. Nowadays it's a given but in the Victorian age it was shocking, apparently. The fact that it doesn't consider material and financial wellbeing as a reason to love/marry someone is something that would stay true regardless of when it's read.
>>24828639Nice psychoanalysis I guess but I'm not a strict partisan or ideologue which automatically puts me above most in that regard
>>24825332> "gives you a boner"That is called arousing.Romantic means you long for it, you need it, you want to be with it, you want to know it on the intimate level.>intimate means boner!No, means an exclusive deep knowledge and understanding.
>>24828477>a monster baitSay it fast enough and it sounds like "masturbate". A monster bait novel. A masturbate novel.Very subtle... not.
>>24828748Most annoying and autistic person I've come across in a while. Indian?
I denounce, in the strongest terms, the project of the French Revolution—its theoretical basis, its intent, its methods.What are some good comfy books for fellas or lasses (unlikely) like myself?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24824738This. No theory is smarter than the forces of history.
>>24825350Carlyle's history is uniquely gripping and immediate.
>>24825911Napoleon wasn't a product of the revolution, just an opportunist who exploited the chaos.
>>24823487>I denounce social changeWow, buddy, so revolutionary. I suppose there were never people like you during that time. I wonder what happened to them?
>tried to write a romance story set in current day>impossibly hard to not mention iphone, youtube/twitter/instagram, doordash or anything internet related >story sounds cringe when stumbled upon those terms while reading
>>24825601That still doesn't mean you have to call it by its name. You could easily write about an encounter, and start it off in a self-aware, ironic way. >I could tell you about a chance encounter; two individuals destined to be bonded for eternity bla bla bla describe some far-fetched romantic entry, but no reader would believe it, and rightly so.Then you say they met on Tinder without having to actually write it, because yeah it sounds dumb.
>>24826411Well you couldn't bring radio and television with you, of course they weren't a big part of your lives. On the contrary smartphones and screen are on everybody and everywhere, seems fake not to take them into account. Also nobody said that a story set in the present needs to take place inside the bedroom/house.
>>24826547Post face with timestamp.Also, text messaging is the medium of choice for romantic communications nowadays. The love letter is just a relic.
>>24824942If you're going to use those elements at all, just use more generic and less cringe terms.'order takeout' or 'order delivery', instead of 'order doordash'.'phone' or 'mobile', instead of 'android' or 'ipod' or whatever.I'll admit specific sites are harder to do but you could probably either find some alternative or just use alternative ways to mention them that people will recognize like "she turned her phone around and showed me her feed" instead of showing you her facebook or anythingThis is why fantasy settings are superior lol
>>24824962You need to stop this, I know you think you're being very smart dunking on frogposters characterising them as stupid and childish, but Apu and Pepe are important symbols, characters through which we are projected like light through a prism, and simulaneously they are reflected in us. In Apu and Pepe we can express ourselves, we can give form to our thoughts, experiences, and emotions. Through the portrayal in them, the factors of life,from the complex to the simple, the important to the mundane, all in the form of a pleasing character in which we can relate, find humour, and empathise. For in each of us is a frog, a lowly, slimey, creature. But yet we are capable of being in many forms; both lofty and beautiful, lowly and grovelling. The frogs are a part of our identity, they are the face of this site, and they are not going anywhere. He who spurns the frog at once reveals his nature as an empty and hollow person, humourless and without humility.
What type of physiognomy is this?
>>24825166If you actually care about the science of physiognomy, follow jack of faces and prosopa insights. I watch prosopa insights and i can do basic face reading now.
>>24827162maybe ask the literal troon that immediately perked up at you associating the ubermensch with feminization
>>24826324nietzsche didn't posit himself as the overman, retard. that he's even theorizing about the concept already means he wasn't it because the concept of the overman would be irrelevant to the overman.
>>24828635but I was told that neetche saw horses as noble animals, and saw the flogging of a noble creature by its clear inferior in man a clear display of man's ressentiment against nature and life? well which one is it? is the story fake and gay because it shows neetche sympathizing with the weak, or is it real and based because nature and life is superior to man's resentfulness?
>>24825166He looks like a South American soccer player
Where do I start with his Œuvre? After both Land and Zizek have failed us, I really want to deep dive in this philosopher of our times.
>>24828207You can learn everything about him by just reading the headlines of the culture sections of lefty newspapers, there are so many headlines that I reckon that reading all of them must be equivalent to reading all his books. He's so giganormie that he's compatible with the current state of both boomer and millennial/genz journalism. For the boomers it's "screens too much, bad health for the youth"; for the youth it's "work too much, contemplative life (that is, living at the expense of your parents) good, be water my friend".Yesterday I went to my local mall. Whenever I peek in the book section, especially a "philosophy" corner that gets worse each time that I go. Guess what, it was all stoicism, self help, history aaaaand Byung Chul Han. There you have, the left's most valuable and inquiring philosopher.
>>24828437Whenever I go I peek*
>>24828437Agree with you. He's got the depth of a toilet bowl, you can't see the bottom of it cause it's full of shit. He just spews out phrases hoping one of them will catch on but doesn't really dive deep into anything. He's not a philosopher, he's a commentator of contemporary pop culture and consumer trends. What new concept or idea has he coined?
>>24828437Lefties don't even like him
>>24828741I would argue he clarified a lot of Heidggerian positions in relation to digital society. Something Heidegger clearly couldn't do. Yes he's nothing spectacular but you need supplementary stuff like this.
Any books that will help me to adhere to the Three Teachings (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism)? I'm aware of texts for each individual philosophy, but I'm looking for something as a guide to living with a blend of the three like the Chinese.
>>24826800yes, that’s right, rise of neo-confucianism
>>24826644The Legend of the Condor Heroes.The Return of the Condor Heroes.The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber.Unironically.
The Routledge History of Chinese Philosophy
stephen eskilden's The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters
>>24826644仙工开物
so I finished The Mesopotamian Riddle and really enjoyed it and I want more tales of that setting. anything from archeological discoveries, bronze age history, sword and sorcery like conan I would really like. suggestions, please?
Worst slop since James Joyce started vomiting words on a page.No, adding more violence doesn't make anything deep, meaningful or insightful. It just makes it Hallmark-tier slop aimed at manchildren.
>>24828710Never read him but for some excerpts posted here. Don't want to.
>>24828710At least Corncob attempts to tell a story thoever
Should I learn French?
>>24828564I haven't touched it for 20+ years since I had to do it in scholl but even I could still read that.
>>24825592Do French women love big Yanks? Men who can cook a steak over an open fire and drive a big truck through the desert? Who hang out on /WG and think the french resistance is bad ass?
>>24828614>Do French women love big Yanks?French women (and women in general) are not into fatties.>Men who can cook a steak over an open fireWomen don't care about that.>and drive a big truck through the desertThere's no desert in France.>and think the french resistance is bad ass?Most of them can’t even name more than one or two members of the Résistance (if any). La Résistance is a male interest.you might have better luck with french men desu
>>24828650It's too late anon, I've taken the French pill. I've never left America, and think French women must be the height of sophistication and beauty. They would be grateful that we stormed the beaches of normandy for them and we can watch Amelie together. Please tell me your just trolling and don't know anything about France.
>>24828720French woman notoriously an hero if they don’t experience Big American Cock by the age of 20. That poster is a seething Nigerian.
Why did he snitch on Trotsky?
>>24828702He didn't tip
If the authors of the Bible were divinely inspired why didn't God tell them that the earth is a planet orbiting the sun or that the stars are really far away?
>>24825836So what's the current predicament concerning humans in relation to the elohim? Did they conclude humanity was a failed experiment and buzz off somewhere else? What's guiding human history now?
>>24820708So, God lives on Epstein's island?
>>24826812Mauro biglino initially, but you can find interlinear translations like biblehub has and dig for yourself.The elohim are basically the same as the greek theoi, sumerian annunaki, norse aesir, they were a global phenomenon and show up in the records of very different people. You are basically looking for any group with flying powers who like to inhale the the vapors of burning animal fat
>>24823279The Bible doesn't mention steam engines howbeit
>>24820708Because you’re making up an arbitrary standard
Can someone help me with my indecisiveness over writing?>Have a bunch of ideas, OCs, and several scenes playing out in my head for what I want the story to beEvery time I try writing something down, I always start thinking:>Hey, this would actually be cooler to do, so you'll have to rewrite everything>Hey you should have done this in this story rather than this, so you'll have to redo it>Instead of this, you should have done this, because this actually would be cooler and fit betterAnd so on and so forth. It's prevented me from writing a full length story for the longest time, because I think I always think that I'll regret not doing something, and having to rewrite the entire story just to work it back in.
>>24827507Then write out that synopsis and see if it’s actually cooler. Spoiler: it’s not. Your brain is just finding an excuse to procrastinate.You can always give yourself a deadline, like one week to write a synopsis + outline + detailed character sheet, and whatever you end up with, that’s what you have to commit to.
>>24827470Don't edit. Don't even read what you wrote yesterday when you sit down to write today. I'm serious.
>>24827478Join them. The combination of alcohol and prescription medication has historically been the primary engine of the best busy scribblers.
FUCK OFF HOWIE KYS
>>24827519Okay, I'll try it.
