why is /lit/ the most miserable and hostile board?
>>24828353That's what I keep saying. It's like they've been so irony-poisoned by social media that they view the existence of any priority and experience further than their own as a threat.
>>24828353See what I mean? How tf am I talking to people 30 and above when they keep getting mad at points I never made
>>24828361this place has been a fucking phantom shithole with bots for many moons
>>24828361Age doesnt equate to wisdom. None of those retards have families
>>24827954Why would gay men want vaginas?
Clinging to fairy tales about a benevolent God or some inherent meaning in the universe is the ultimate cope, a refusal to graduate from intellectual childhood. Nihilism is the final, stark confrontation with reality-as-it-is stripped of all the comforting delusions you drape over it to feel safe. The truth is the universe is completely indifferent to your existence, oblivious to your values, and is absolutely not your "home". The only worthwhile philosophical project left is to expedite science's demolition of the manifest image, kicking away the props that shore up your pathetic self-esteem. You have to confront the raw truth of extinction that this planet will be incinerated and eventually all matter will disintegrate into unbound particles. Believing your consciousness matters in the face of that cosmic abyss is peak delusion. Philosophy is simply the organon of extinction, the tool you use to finally accept that when you're gone absolutely nothing will have happened.
>>24828285I haven't read Brassier but I know Harman essentially sees human meaning as less privileged than thinkers prior to him and Heidegger, his interculor. Human judgment is just one of many judgments placed on the world not the primary, only one. I could be wrong, though.
>>24828246>why not be wrong and happy rather than right and miserable?Does nihilism actually make you miserable? If nothing matters you'll never be dissappointed in life, because it doesn't matter anyway.
>>24827731If you're a nihilist and haven't killed yourself yet, accusing anyone else of cope is the ultimate irony.
>>24827731Kill your self then? Every single second you refuse to kill your self is a rejection of your belief
>>24827731>the universe is absolutely not your "home"But I live here
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.
>>24828325Ligotti is a retard that has absolutely nothing to do with what we're talking about.
>>24828342>nihilist retard calls other people without crippling brainsads "retards"Tiring.
>>24828354Let me get this straight, you're calling me a retard because you (mistakenly) assume I'm a nihilist for calling a nihilist author a retard and you think nihilists are retards?... Is this an ESL problem or are you just that stupid?
>>24828357Schizo or just stupid? Do you even know what you are writing? lol...It's clear you are wikipedia-educated, or even worse, from GPT, and have not the faintest clue what you are talking about in regards to labels.
>>24828380Is this bait? Your posts are sheer nonsense. I never said anything nihlistic, and now, after pointing out the irony of you calling me a nihlist retard for insulting a nihlist retard, you play dumb.
Just got my copy. How about you? ITT we discuss our new purchases.
>>24826788>>24827055The hardcover has a different cover, both were sold directly by the publisher.
>>24826899The masses are so easily manipulated into thinking this kike and Vance are le heckin based
>>24825602I typically read mine at face height (so everyone can see the cover) while on the subway
I can't find the hardback on amazon
>>24825684where's the Guenon book you just finished?
ἐρώμενος editio>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24763657>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.
>>24827300as if I would ever grace your ears with my voice faggot
>>24827328>I used those to learn a lot of the more obscure mythsThose are the ones that get scuffed though.
>>24826387They still pronounce the words with the stresses in the right place because they're fluent speakers of the language, which creates an audible effect of meteredness.
>>24826536How is modern Greek phonology anything like Arabic phonology?
>>24826183κοῦ 'στ' ἡ ἀγορή;δολιχὸν πώγων' ἴσχενεὐλαβεῦ τοὺς ὄφεας!παρακολουθοίης κ' ἀυτῇ;ἐπειρώτα μιν εἰ μέλλῃ τὸν δυνάστην προδιδόναικεἴ ἡ ἐμὴ ψυχὴ ἔν οἱ κέοιτ', οὔ κ' ἐκεῖνο τὸ ξίφος πριαίμηνἐδόκεε πρῶτον τὸ ἡμῖν ἐπερχόμενον πλοῖον οὐδὲν ἄλλ' ἢ φόρτιον μέλλον φιλικῶς συνάπτειν ἀλλ' ὠς ἐγγυτέρω 'χόρησεν πολεμίη μηχανή τις θωμαστὴ 'φάνη ἥ πρόσω προσμείξασα τὴν ἡμετέρην νᾶυν κατέδυσεν πρὶν δύνασθαι ἡμἐας ἀνθίστασθαι· εὐδαίμων ἐγὼ περιγεγενημένος ὅκως τὸν λόγον ἀπαγγέλλω
Jail broken kindle What can I do with it?
>>24827224pynchon deez nuts
>>24827369PYNCHED
>>24824530>even the battery lasts longer. From what I saw, there was a program that, with jailbreak installed, allows you to download books directly from AnnaArchive and read them on your Kindle.Can you elaborate on where did you see this? I want to have a better battery and be able to download directly from Anna's
>>24828060>>24828060In my experience, the battery life has improved, of course, since you don't have all those background services that Amazon forces on your Kindle. As for the program that lets you download books directly from Annas, it's called KindleFetch, and you can find it on KindleForge. KindleForge is a kind of app store for jailbroken Kindles, or you can also install it manually from GitHub itself.>https://github.com/justrals/KindleFetch?tab=readme-ov-file
>>24824373read
>for sale: baby shoes>well worn
>>24826773amen
Jesus lept
>>24826566>we come back full circle to Chaucer
>>24827352you fucking ESL retard. neck your dumbass self
>>24828373>Marley was alive and well, to begin with.
swords from the big chair editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24804485
Which girl is best built for BSC? (Big Summer-Islander Cock). I'm thinking Dany and especially Mel. Moqorro probably gaped her back in Asshai
>>24828265Dany, Val, and Cersie.
>>24828267True. I forgot about Val, she's perfect for it. Cersei would also be open to interracial since she had sex with that hot brown milf. The only highlight of her crappy chapters.
Why does Anonymous think about black cock unprompted?
>>24828100House words are a cool idea, fuck you.
Stop Procrastinating EditionPrevious: >>24804211/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, AI jeets, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose should be ignored and reported.
>>24828111It depends on your audience, but I generally do what you say. I find that putting in one solid detail is enough to keep the rhythm. So if you just mentioned the heartiness of the fireplace, that should imply people chatting and laughing, the food and drink, the music, etc.
>>24813721Partly why I don't litter my writing with em dashes is because it's so easy to do so.
>>24828111I think this is all very sound advice. Even if it's not eternal dogmatic truth, it will lead to better writing than trying to force prose into a sort of VR experience that invites readers into your beautiful mind palace. Amateur writing always feels like a desperate attempt to communicate 'the movie in your head', instead of focusing on the words on the page. But!>I've read far too much prose that made me think "can we move on already?" This is especially true with older novels.I think older novels are the exception to what you're saying (as long as you can project yourself into the context of the people who originally read them). The literary theorist Frederic Jameson talks about a Balzac story that begins with a lengthy, detailed description of a nice house - no characters, no plot, just house facts. He makes the point that, today, a similar description would usually be given only through a character's eyes, as a description of what the house means to them emotionally, what memories it recalls. But in the early 19thC when Balzac was writing (says Jameson), because society was more coherent and communal, and people's experiences and desires more similar, it was as if that description already *was* being filtered through a character's eyes - the eyes of the collective consciousness of French middle-class society. They were all on the same page, and when Balzac fantasises about a neat garden or a cosy kitchen or whatever, his readers would have shared in the fantasy, felt the words evoke the same desires, and recalled the same struggles for prosperity in the recent past of their society. Whereas today, if a /wg/ anon gives us lengthy paragraphs of scene description, the raindrops dripping from the trees etc., it feels as remote from us as if they were describing the different varieties of half-elf in their private worldbuilding project.
>>24828112You're telling stories to someone who can't see what you see, trying to convey what you experience through multiple senses solely by language.
Is there any reason not to name your chapters?The pros from the top of my head:>Makes it easier to remember what happens in each chapter>Gives them more flavor and personality>Makes the reader more excited to read moreAnd for the cons:>Might spoil something>Coming up with names is kinda hard (but not really)
A dark soul is a phenomenon of a person slowly but meticulously destroying themselves, both physically and spiritually. Living in the edges of extreme narcissism, paranoia, schizophrenia, they are the most unstable individuals ever to exist.You can actually see them in your day to day life. Your coworker, boss, wife-husband, your parents. Not comprehending basic functioning, slowly filling themselves with so much hate that they can't function like a regular human being anymore. Auditory Processing Disorder for example.They may continue living, existing, but it is a hollow existence. A life devoid of meaning, substance or essence of anything good. So far away from humanity, that one may even argue they might be an anomaly in the evolution of humanity.If you are not careful, take life as granted and become a narcissist, you may become hollow.. a dark soul.But if you take on the phenomenon of life as a gift, and try to be a authentic self anon, you may achieve Nirvana perhaps not in this form of existence but who knows when. Only thing sure is that you will achieve it, whereas in a dark soul will never achieve it. They are lost in the Samsara, lost in the absurdity of the existence.
AI garbage
Literally me.
go back to retarddit nigger
I listen to AI generated audiobooks and you can't stop me
>>24827635haha OP I love froggo XD
I've never attempted to stop someone from self-harming, not sure why I would start trying now.
do you generate them yourself?what do you use?
>>24828341Audible is overrun with this slop now and it ms genuinely unlistenable trash. They just want to claim to be doing something for the ai investment fags.
Why are women and gay men drawn to books?
men have taken to video games instead
>>24826676like why do you need to deface the book like this in order to understand it?
>>24826826That's just intelligent people in general though. Ignorance truly is bliss in this life.
>>24828062and chinese drawing pornography
i am a man and i like lifting weights and cooking and fighting and reading Vampire Hunter D and Conan the Barbarian
Are there any /lit/ discord servers that are worth joining? I'd like to be part of a community but I can't find a place that fits me.Spanish servers are also welcomed!!
No.>I can't find a place that fits meof course not.
>>24828338They’re either dominated by women or lefties of the perpetually offended type so if you like it here there’s no place for you on Discord. You can make a game of how long you can pretend to be a useless cuck with no opinions before getting banned I suppose. Didn’t you just loooove goonerfantasy entry #6 anon? Oh my gosh!!! THAT part! Emoji emoji emoji emoji.
Now that we've all had time to read it, what do we think of it?
>>24827380I understand that you're full of shit
>>24827371>We, as a species, are doing more important things right nowMasturbation and doom scrolling?
>>24827745Adapting to one of the roughest paradigm shifts in our existence thus far.I am positive great literature is being written now, but its relevance might not be presently detectable.
>>24827924>unironically using "paradigm shift"kys
>>24827745My own initial response may interest you (which I opted not to post yesterday). It was: What? Wandering around aimless and angry?What's interesting is that the tendency of my imagination (my knee-jerk reaction) was to place its response outside the bedroom/office situation, whereas yours keeps there. I knew immediately that I must be older than you, probably by at least a decade.
Is it worth reading Neuromancer?
>>24828156you should read the entire trilogy. i personally preferred count zero for the cool mercenaries with handheld lasers. read johnny menmonic first to tell if you're interested.
>>24828156Yes, just don't go into it expecting realism or hard sci-fi (obviously). Gibson admitted he knew nothing about technology or computers when writing the thing. But its well written.Also recommend the Cyberpunk 2077 game if you are into cyberpunk as a genre.
i found it pretty stupid but it was kinda fun still
>>24828156I got filtered by the prose.
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