Mention here literature according to /lit/ suitable to matriculate as a real /x/-ian. Or if /x/ was /lit/ cohorts first.
>>24946516If you're interested in spooky weirdness that's also quite emotionally profound check out The Shadow Book of Ji Yun. It was written in Qing Dynasty China, but many of the stories themselves are timeless and highly resembles commonly reported paranormal phenomena of current times.The Highest Strangeness by Richard Freeman is also a fascinating read.
>>24946528The relevant information in the OT to occultists seeking power is the story of the development of the western mind. You're not even close to literate.
>>24948385Great recs anon, I'll be checking both of these out. Thank you.
>>24948417Glad to hear it, enjoy!
Otherside Picnic is literally about netlore as a medium for otherwordy beings to intrude upon earth.
>blocks your path
>>24945709You'd be surprised how many muslim women have lost their 'anal virginity'. Its just a larp.
>>24945913Maybe 100 years ago, now unless they marry each other at 16 there is none. Even "trad" women won't veil>>24945916And that in an Islamic society would be lashings or death for Zina
Bump
>>24946801Bump
>>24945802>In this respect Christianity is far belowBut he doesn't even explain why the aforementioned is wrong. Plato also thought the denial of a fact was a moral wrong. Most non-religious ethics systems also would say that purposely and knowingly denying a fact (aka, lying) is morally wrong. Punishing what is deemed to be morally wrong in a society doesn't seem like an issue to me, Feuerfag
Man, you're right, Aristotleanon. Christian apologists are the worst when it comes to anally raping the Aristotelian corpus beyond recognition. They don't fucking understand anything. They don't understand dunamis, they don't understand energeia, they don't understand Metaphysics Zeta, they don't understand syllogisms, and they definitely do not understand the four causes. I just had apologist tell me, definitively, that Palamas was a top scholar of Aristotle (lmfao), and that De Anima isn't about life at all, since according to Palamas, only human beings have life because you somehow need "intelligence" to be "self-subsistent" (fucking LOL). Even when you read Aquinas's commentary on passages like the controversial active intellect, you can see him at pains to make the active intellect cohere with the passive intellect into one united soul. And then he fails to do so. But then magically says "but it has to be the case, and so it is." I ask another apologist, is an intellect which becomes everything, something which changes or otherwise remains as it is? And obviously, they short-circuit. Because obviously, that's the kind of intellect that we have, and it can't be active in any pure sense. So Aquinas is wrong and our intellects are perishable in the sense that it is soul. Oh the horror!!! These fucks have absolutely destroyed Peripatetic commentary throughout history, and they polluted literally everything, especially the translations, with the most hamfisted articulations possible to the point where intelligent conversations with them are not possible. Their brains are wrapped in verbal poison. If you ever get caught up in it, you basically have to spend years unlearning Scholastic hackery as it pertains to the deepest parts of the Aristotelian thought to even have a CHANCE at beginning to understand its depths.
>>24948617So it's schizophrenia then.Your question doesn't help interrogate anything. It's manipulative nonsense that now turns out is based on your inability to read, not any coherent thought process we can actually explore.Like all things the mind needs potency and action. The mind becomes all things through senses but it also creates through imagination.For imagination the role of potency is played by the possibility space of all reality, not a passive part of the mind like when the mind acts to recognize a cup. The book up to then is mostly about the human mind except in this sense:>the soul is in a way all existing things; for existing things are either sensible or thinkable, and knowledge is in a way what is knowable, and sensation is in a way what is sensible: in what way we must inquire.>Knowledge and sensation are divided to correspond with the realities, potential knowledge and sensation answering to potentialities, actual knowledge and sensation to actualities.He then turns to the souls of animals which can't access "actual knowledge" through the active intellect.
>>24947161Christians are quite literally subhuman morons, there is no such thing as a christian with a 130+ IQ. They're too stupid to study actual philosophy and math so they study christian theology.
>>24948617>That's what soul is. It's the form of living beings, and some souls have powers of thinking. This is the whole point.What I don't understand, and maybe you can clear this up, is how those powers are attributes of the form (eidos, yeah?) itself. Because it seems to me that then the form (of the man) is changing whenever you cognise a new thing. If that's what is meant then fine I just need to think about it more but it seems at odds with a man having a persistent form, which is what he is to keep on being / essence, for that form to change passively while he's thinking.>>24948685>So it's schizophrenia then.I am a Christian and when the guy you're replying to is being a lot more lucid than you are (like now) I don't think this sort of remark helps at all.
>>24948603Bud, no offense, but you're not even getting the little snippet you're basing your entire assessment off right. But I don't even think you're trying to understand. You think displaying your own ignorance is some sort of gotcha. You're engaged in the equivalent of some modern assuming that when they see "soul" in an English translation of Aristotle it means some sort of sui generis Cartesian thinking substance, and then accusing Aristotle of believing in magic homunculi that pilot the body because he used the term soul and then calls it "immaterial."
>>24948603Also, fully subsistent relations only exist in the Trinity. This is not a problem for the Christians, but an obvious consequence of creation ex nihilo. Creatures are not wholly intelligible in themselves. It is "in God that we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).But this is a problem even in the Pagan tradition because nothing seems wholly intelligible or active in itself. Things are revealed through their interactions and their external context makes them what they are. There is a thick relationality and dynamism apparent in the world (later we would say all things exist in a semiotic web). This is also why Aquinas says all the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. Eriugena says something quite similar at the opening of the Periphyseon.>And I think it's lost on Palamas that if you take away life as part of the essence of an animal because life supposedly needs rationality for "true" self-subsistence (which is a ridiculous definition of self-subsistence in the first place), then you also have to take away life from the essence of human beings because human beings are in potency to God and therefore not truly self-subsistent either.Rose tinted glasses or not, you are horribly misreading this passage. The point isn't that animals aren't living organisms, it's that their souls aren't immortal. When you totally butcher your reading of a passage it's hard to take you seriously.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24948085no you can't
>>24948033>Harper's is actively against compromising with the internet age.
>>24946453pic unrelated I guess?
>>24948737you didn't even read the article you dumb nig
>>24946722Double digit IQ and likely a pederast>>24946453There are no currently publishing magazines of quality. No one who can write or think writes for "magazines" in the 2020s.
Good night frens.Tell me your:>favorite poet>favorite playwright>favorite composerSo I have some new comfy suggestions.
TolkienShakespeareBeethovenObvious basic choices, but I refuse to apologize for my taste.
>>24940941ChaucerAristophanesWagner
>>24947638Has to be bait.>>24947670Please be bait.
>>24940941>Marina Tsvetayeva>William Shakespeare>Claudio Monteverdi
Fernando PessoaEugene O'NeillErik Satie or Federico Mompou
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>2494833699% of women think he looks good.
>>24948379Nah man. Not long ago clips of this dude wormed their way into my algorithm. I had to block it all because this dude is insufferable.
>>24948329>(vague r/atheism post)>here's my husbando btw (IM GAY)
This guy is a great soldier in the war to continue to destroy the disgusting christian religion.Reminder that atheism is growing faster than any religion, and christianity is the fastest dying religion in Europe and the united states.
>>24948717Ah dang man, I’m super upset rn, gosh
Just got caught up with this series, it's about feudal power armor knights doing battle with terminators and robot demi-gods where the main character kills a female robot so hard that she basically comes back as a female yandere robot that desperately needs to be impregnated by the main character.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
Dios mío por qué siempre tiene que entrar un autista a postear puras citas? Si máquina, yo también puedo leer la fuente primaria
>>24948076yo creo que te estas haciendo el lindo.que sos sino argentino?
>>24943418>>24945433>>24947827>>24946621 Do you any recs on italo-argentine writers instead? Any kind of literature, not just about Argentina
>>24948593Cumgenius es Mexicano
>>24948122>Chileans don't drink yerba mate
Recommend some Soviet literature to me.
>>24948657Every old sci-fy fan recommends the Strugatsky brothers.
Better than Life & Fate because it made the same Westoid critics who praised L&F for its criticisms of Stalin seethe on account of Stalingrad's praise of the Red Army
>>24948657The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years - Chinghiz Aitmatov
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
So if you guys don't like this book what is it exactly that you DO read that is post modern? Do you read anything modern?
>>24948690what was postmodern about vineland?
>>24948696I came here to understand what people today read. You can't just answer the question can you?
>>24948699it's a poorly formed question.
>>24948690>reading modernistsDegueu. I read 19th century historical novels and old classics, not narratively and aesthetically fried "form experiments".
it is tradition for the nobel prize winner in literature to meet the swedish children. yesterday this years nobel prize winner in literature László Krasznahorkai met the swedish children and discussed books.
>>24946168Name some
>>24946113Lol, is this real?
>>24946168
>>24948117that ahmed wasn't allowed to bring his gun to school that day
literature?
Can developing the habit of reading heal my brain from years of doomscrolling, porn addiction and isolation that deleted my attention span, memory and gave me a costant brainfog?
>>24942492i know what you mean. I chalk a lot of it up to people navigating to the same platforms. A lot of info is hidden behind discord servers, everybody just uses reddit instead of forums etc. Back in the day chatting on AIM/IRC, downloading flacs off oink, and clicking stumbleupon for hours was genuinely so fun that I've pretty much set up my life to be downtime = computer. The past few years though, it seems to have gotten pretty monotonous and I'm not even really enjoying it anymore. Google has been completely destroyed as a useful search engine and just shows you the same 5 websites, most people making any kind of content posts their stuff to social media which is brain numbing to navigate, and now AI is further thinning out the useful shit I'm able to find. I took years off of 4chan, I was addicted from like 07-19 and stopped coming entirely until a few months ago, but I'm back now because this place actually feels like a real fucking website.stop using the youtube home page, instead make a bookmark for your subscribed page and scroll that instead. Instead of googling shit, use yandex, kagi, or something fun like marginalia. Don't ever go to social media unless it's for messaging friends or watching something somebody sent you directly. Install an IRC client and find some rooms to hang out in. Head on over to >>>/g/ and look through the desktop threads and get into linux and rice your shit. Use soulseek and the built-in chats for listening to music instead of spotify/apple, get a last.fm and RYM profile. Absolutely never scroll any feed anywhere. There's shit you can do to make using a computer fun again, but it's gonna take some self-restraint.Above all else, get some books and set aside some amount of time for reading everyday.
>>24938782>Mouse Utopia is an inherent property of intelligent systems. The problem is information fidelity loss when later generations are trained on regurgitated data.Most interesting point I read in years.But if you can force yourself to do a real task your brain will still be trained around the goals of the task, so touch grass.
>>24937627part of it is just having less screen time>>24941324*hear
>>24947566>is pasta an invention?Obviously yes
>>24947617>I was addicted from like 07-19 and stopped coming entirely until a few months ago, but I'm back now because this place actually feels like a real fucking website.Uhhhhhhh you sure?
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>>24948652Waiting for you to post any of your prose that has "soul".
>>24948652Their society is soulless. It pretends to care about them through their talk about Communism while being one of the most corporatist societies in existence.
>>24948652>THEY TERK ER JERBS
>>24948655Nah, China is actually existing socialism and you're a liberal pigdog.
>>24948419>>24948368The formatting is consistent. There are line breaks between scenes.
>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24947429>asking for permission
>>24948586dating apps are just for fat chicks who need to hide their belly with bizarre camera angles so they are inherently dishonest
>>24948586>men metagamingto say nothing of the women. Hose that makeup off your face, then we'll talk LIAR
>>24947357You all come across as so conceited and douchebag-like when you get angry that some woman on Tinder doesn’t want to listen to your lecture on In search of lost time vol. 5
>>24948563>>24948586see this is why you niggas get no pussy.you don't go to tinder to find the love of your life.you go to tinder to get your dick wet.
Literally just stop reflectingDo NOT live an examined lifeTherapists hate himExtinguish all existential angst with this one simple trick
>>24948318It's not a matter of choice, you're either born intelligent or not.
fuck i look like that guy who the fuck is that i hope it's not some gay ass mf
>>24948318>be an NPCThis is what turns me off Buddhism as well. Living in the exact moment and making no real resistance through strong goals and values (they advocate being shot over shooting a terrorist for instance) makes living as a nonperson the ideal. Just meditate away all feelings that might spur you to take action. In fact don’t act.
Pantyhose encasement on drugs it is then. Woo hoo.
>>24948672buddhism is basically ideological cover for learned helpless or lay down and rot. "never try, u won't be happy anyways". imagine if some guy who wasn't in robes and projecting eastern woo said that to u? u'd be like wow what a toxic chud.
