Why is it that all great minds of antiquity thought that love was more than a crude neurochemical reaction? Would they have been redpilled if they were alive after the 20th century when advancement in chemistry demonstrated that love/eros is basically just a powerful drug? Honestly explains many things about the current perception of love in relation to modernity.
>>24947762But the question is 'is love chemicals smacking around, or is it a thing in itself.'Religion vs. Quintessence of Dust -- doing the smacking around determinism thing-y.'Tis a religious matter.
>>24945804I mean they didn't even know what a "neurochemical reaction" was.I have to think that if the knowledge necessary for materialism to exist in antiquity existed then yes some of them would have been materialists
>>24946386I'd have a wife and a cat and we'd (wife and me) translate books together and go for walks in the woods in the evenings but otherwise leave each other alone. We'd sleep in separate rooms but with beds large enough to cuddle together some nights.Whenever we met someone like you we'd share a laugh. As if to say "thank goodness we never gave up hope" and squeeze each others hand, and we'd be happy, because we aren't just value calculations, but human beings who found someone to see them and appreciate them for who they are.
Look up metaphysical Love
>>24945804Men are waking up to the true nature of reality
What books help learning how to be more greedy and get good at being greedy? I want something of sociopathic nature that convinces money is the most important thing in life and why and how to exploit others for greed https://youtube.com/shorts/xs_sRkJi0HI?si
>>24943656It is not, money is nothing, but means to an end. It is pointless to go after it without considering everything else that you actually want.
Money is everything so read these:>magic of money by schacht >4 hour work week by timothy ferriss >a history of central banking by Stephen m Goodson >Understanding central banks springer This explains how money works in the modern world with crypto and venture options. It explains how rothschilds and rockefellers orchestrated modern banking apart from the gold standard. It explains how hitler emerged his own banking system out of weimar before ww2. A good businessman needs no morals so also read: >might is right by ragnar redbeard
>>24943950literally me
>>24943656Hipparchus of Plato is a defense of greed. It’s a lesser known aporetic work
>>24945292Thanks for the recommendation - I am reading Schacht’s book and it is incredible. His description of his career and interactions with the industrialists of his time are so interesting. I’m at the section where he describes the plan to stabilize the Reichsmark by ending emergency money, and this book has me hooked.I also read Might is Right years back during university and loved every chapter of it. Gorgeous, poetic, and his words are sharp as knives.I think I’ll go through your list, or maybe look for something on quantitative easing and modern money systems next.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
here's what i thought to be a cogent take on the story. personally, i find it telling that in pierce's ideal world, two whole continents are rendered uninhabitable. i was told this was the work that radicalized timothy mcveigh. i doubt it. it's just not good.
>>24941203William Pierce is shit. read Klassen instead.
>>24941203no>>24942542rockwell's problem was that he was a clown, and so when he attracted followers what they built was a circuspost-WW2 american "white nationalist" thought is a totally worthless desert full of dysgenic retards. there's nothing of value there you didn't already read on /pol/ if you were there prior to 2016. it took people who weren't part of that scene reinventing the few good ideas from scratch in order to make anything useful out of it (and even that is now in the process of rotting, because even though racism is in major ways correct, it attracts dysgenic retards like flies to shit).
>>24948089?
>>24948133no, Ben Klassen the real estate salesman.
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24947516We're about due for a good cleansing, wouldn't you say?
>>24946147A book you end up skipping like 2/3rds of. Most of the Old Testament is just pointless measurements and names.
>>24946969>but from an entertainment/quality perspective the Quran is better How? I thought most of it was proverbs tier
>>24947302based
>>24946190I like the NRSV
Sapient Species, Races, and Miscellaneous Sapients EditionFAQ:>What is worldbuilding?Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"Yes, of course you can!>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.Old Thread: >>24748733
I can't even imagine a future where the United States could have a peer opponent that could give them a real fight. Rome had Persia, Britain had France and then Germany, Athens had Persia, but who could be the weaker but close enough enemy that could let America show off?
>Plan on a low fantasy setting with the big theme being a war breaking out between humans that are roughly on a late 1800s industrializing tech level and a species of intelligent flight capable humanoids with some similar attributes to birds of prey>The big theme is the difference between a species which had its culture formed through a dexterous hand and horizontal expansion vs. capable wings and vertical movement>There's no other sapient race and all the diversity will be done through several human powers and birdfolk factionsSo far there are a few roadblocks in this I'm not yet sure how to overcome:>Don't make this Pandora people vs. technological humanity>How do I make neither humans nor birdfolk too strong?>What do birdfolk feast on? They lend themselves to nomadism, do they have some sort of pastoral society?>What do they do with the sick, injured or disabled that cannot fly anymore? They're dead weight>How do I properly make birdfolk territorial without accidently steering into "Proud, arrogant elves" territory?>Why didn't humans and birdfolk clash before, and why didn't the birdfolk lose in constant civil wars given their nomadic structure?>How close to real life humanity can we pattern this before it becomes a turn of the century war with birds?>What would cause the war to break out in the first place?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24945851>If I have one principle for my own world, it's that I'll never make a DnD style magic system.Why precisely is that? And what would you recommend instead to someone looking to make their own system?
>>24947305Because I hate videogame based fantasy. It doesn't feel magical to me.The right way to use magic is simply to make it something completely incomprehensible by rational logic, but eminently logical if you understand its deeper philosophical or narrative themes.A good example of the latter would be how Victorian fantasy writers wrote magic as more or less a means to run thought experiments.
>muh soft magic retardI wish people actually fucking knew what the hard vs soft magic distinction was actually about
TOTAL NRX VICTORY
if i were an american, i would use my legal right to form an armed militia to stamp out the tyranny that currently exists
>>24948031it exists in your country and you're not doing anything about it
>>24948029If there was any doubts remaining to be entertained, Chomsky is more and more looking like a full blown controlled opposition kid diddler or pedo ally. This article goes a long way to rip him a second asshole while exposing the fact that the western elite is a conspiratorial cabal start to finish, a truth which actual radical commie Parenti tried to scream from the roof tops only to fall on deaf ears.https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/06/03/the-mainstream-and-the-margins-noam-chomsky-vs-michael-parenti/
>>24948029Bonding over their mutual love of BBC.
Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this! And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best! Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
>>24947478Yeah it really is a blessing. I like asking it to search up information for me. Who financed ocean voyage X by sea captain Y in 1818? Where did the money come from? Who gave the orders? Did Yukio Mishima ever write any critical reviews of D'Annunzio's work? What did Bataille think about de Sade? Make me a list of statements in Don Quixjote. etc.It's like having a college undergrad do all your dirty research work for you. But instantaneous. And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spot, but the stuff it gets right is sometimes fascinating and has led me down some interesting rabbit holes.
>>24947969>all the books of one authoryou probably hit the limit of the context window with just one book
>>24948028>half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spotjust like a good undergrad research assistant
>>24947478>psychological abuse you can inflict upon itAre you a genuine retard?
>>24947788t. fat "person"
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
never met a Stirnerite that's been able to actually put his beliefs into his practice to not be a broke gay loser
>>24948045no just connect the dots from solipsistic denial of reality
>>24948046>you must prioritize acquiring moneyspooked
>>24948046then you obviously haven't heard of Ben Klassen.
>>24948046All billionaires are egoist
What is there even left to read after him?? Why is his prose so good?
>>24946964>>24947005Samefagging and namecalling is pitiable. Keep being wooed and wowed by an obvious hack's hack works. I bet I'm better read, with a higher IQ and a more sophisticated humanist understanding of literature and the arts than you.
>>24947033I just know you pride yourself on the dullest pseudslop imaginable
>>24947080Like what? Stephen King? Is that the phantom that makes you feel good? The modernist I like is Yeats, and subsequently the post modernist I can enjoy (sometimes) is Cormac.
>>24947292>I'm too good for Nabokov>McCarthy on the other handIt's all so tiresome
>>24946325пyшкин и лepмoнтoв
>is arguably the single most racist author in American history>marries a Jewish womanWhat did HP Lovecraft mean by this?
>>24946601>Dropped out of high school following a mental breakdown>Supposedly did very little between the ages of 18 and 24; went out out little and only at night; he was practically a NEET>Found his way into writing by an eccentric, doubtlessly caused by his isolation, and scathing critique of some guy's romance storiesHe gives me hope, honestly. Not that I'm going to be a writer or anything but that even the most talented and creative are susceptible to NEETdom.
>>24946601*was.Not because he, you know, died in his 40s but because Shadow Out Of Time is pretty blatantly nonracist, at least for Asians.On the other hand you could argue that our highest quality racists in the West love northeast Asians, like Jared Taylor who would absolutely be a weeb if he hadn't got into American race politics.
>>24947553hes totally wrong, one of the cruxes of lovecrafts themes is miscegenation degenerating people. shoggoths were slaves that rose up, fish people in trade stole women etc
>>24946601He needed a wife that funded him because he could barely take care of himself. Had he remained single he probably would have starved and died even earlier.
Because political extremism is often the byproduct of mental escapism caused by lack of social interactions and prolonged sexual deprivation. The moment niggerman got a whiff of poon, he did a 180 and started to write to Howard about how childish he was.
stop using the word luddite
I only buy physical textbooks or books with color illustrations in them. For everything else, I would rather just download the text and start reading on my ereader within 5 minutes of deciding I want to do so.
>>24947268There are some books that I want to have physical copies of, things that I would wish to have if the power was out for days or if the sun or a nuke fried all of my electronics. There are also books, most books honestly, that are not worth having physical copies of, that I would rather "borrow" and download and probably delete after reading instead of paying anything for a physical reminder of the garbage I read and having to offload it to some other unfortunate soul.>>24948094Start giving it a positive connotation.
what the best ebook reader for my pirated epubs and pdfs.. should i go kobo or kindle
>>24948108Kobo for less hassle and botnet.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24948003>IIRC Buenos Aires is the city with the most used book stores per m2https://youtu.be/2G2FL7iUIWIThe only thing left for me to say, and perhaps what reflects the soul of every Argentinian, is thatyou don't play around with food. Therefore, no gaucho will understand that horse meat is eaten in Spain.In Argentina, horse meat is not sold. It's like saying your most loyal dog could be roasted in some Asian restaurant.
>>24948042>eaten in Spain.you don't have to go that far. right across the border in chile they eat charqui.
>>24947280NO CREES QUE, SI YO FUERA ARGENTINO, HUBIERA ESCRITO «SOMOS», EN VEZ DE «SON»?
>>24947984>Al que es amigo, jamás>Lo dejen en la estacada>Pero no le pidan nada>6950 Ni lo aguarden todo de él:>Siempre el amigo más fiel>Es una conduta honrada.Never abandon a true friend.But don't ask anything of him.6950 Nor expect everything from him:The most faithful friend is always an honorable conduct.El Día del Amigo (20 de julio en Argentina y otros países) fue creado por el argentino Enrique Febbraro, un odontólogo y profesor, inspirado por la llegada del hombre a la Luna en 1969, viéndolo como un símbolo de unidad humana. Propuso la fecha enviando miles de cartas a cien países, obteniendo gran respuesta, y la celebración se oficializó en la provincia de Buenos Aires en 1979. Friendship Day (July 20th in Argentina and other countries) was created by Enrique Febbraro, an Argentinian dentist and professor, inspired by the 1969 moon landing, which he saw as a symbol of human unity. He proposed the date by sending thousands of letters to one hundred countries, receiving a great response, and the celebration was officially established in the province of Buenos Aires in 1979.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
https://youtu.be/a6c9tj9dFMg>>24948076>NO CREES QUE, SI YO FUERA ARGENTINO, HUBIERA ESCRITO «SOMOS», EN VEZ DE «SON»?https://youtu.be/x1jjDyOaKMk>son ellos nosotros ustedes, vos sos>>24948075>you don't have to go that far. right across the border in chile they eat charqui.https://youtu.be/C4ELzf0u7Q8?t=163Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
starfall knights 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: >>24898855
>>24947108Didn't Dickon already marry some Fossoway girl or whatever?
>>24946956>Greyjoys are overshadowed by Harlaws, Goodbrothers and Drumms (by prestige)But if this is true, why do irontards follow the Greyjoys into another war when they already led them into an embarrassing defeat well within memory?
>>24947379Emphasis on the "tard", because Nagga chose a Grayjoy 300 years ago, and because most Ironborn lords are retards who want to rape and raid, and no Harlaw would take that initiative because they know better apparently.
>>24947108>ESLSpeak in high valyrian.
>>24947558midwit language
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.
>>24946990yeah exactly, i could only imagine her reaction. and yeah the concept of a guy going "holy shit the universe is bound decay forever due to entropy and we may be annihilated, i better write to my local representative about this" is hilarious, pure kafka. i think most of K.'s books have this sort of humor if one steps back a bit (war and war for instance is hilarious, but also pure sadness)one thing that he's always said (and i can't believe it, although i don't think he's lying) is that he thinks about sentences until he has like 20-30 pages ready, and _only then_ does he write them down. personally i have a hard time organizing my thoughts, so i'm curious about how it feels like to think that way and sad that i'll never know _exactly_ what goes on in his head, if he _truly_ thinks like that.i hope i get to meet the guy one day, maybe when i'm in europe i'll travel to a book fair where he's attending (if he still does such things)
>>24946805>>24946913>chuds mad when their delusion is challenged
>>24946786The Hungarian article says that he said that he's paternally jewish, but those genealogists haven't found an actual jew among his paternal ancestors, they are all lutheran slovak peasants as far back as they could go.>>24946803No, it means "beautiful mountain".
how do hungarians feel knowing that virtually every single intellectual in the country left in the 20th century?
>The conversations were lively and fearlessThe fuck is that supposed to mean?
>>24947383It's a literary translation
>>24947047I prefer A.D. Melville's, but both are good. Her word choices are a bit pedestrian and the lack of indication of the original lines is annoying for cross-referencing.
>>24947047I know Latin. I don't need a translation.
>>24947547he lines are numberedIt doesn't seem like pedestrian word choice to me>She breaths dark, toxic venom through her bones>and scatters poison deep inside her lungs.>To give her jealousy a focal point,>she makes her see her sister, and her sister’s>auspicious marriage, and the god, depicted>gorgeously. She makes everything look grand.>Goaded by this, Aglauros is consumed>by hidden grief. She groans with anguish day>and night, and melts away most wretchedly>in slow decay, like ice in broken sunlight.
>>24947724Those are the lines of the translation, not the original, it's not line-for-line. And I said a bit pedestrian, some parts of hers are very good, just overall I prefer Melville because I find he has a better sense of rhythm for the iambic pentameter and has more elevated language, which suits the epic style Ovid was using and parodying. In the part you quoted I think they're both equally good. Melville's:>... breathed a baleful blight> Deep down into her bones and spread a stream> Of poison, black as pitch, inside her lungs.> And lest the choice of woe should stray too wide,> She set before her eyes her sister's face,> Her fortune-favoured marriage and the god> So glorious; and painted everything> Larger than life. Such thoughts were agony:> Aglauros pined in private grief, distraught> All night, all day, in utter misery,> Wasting away in slow decline, like ice> Marred by a fitful sunComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
