So, we've all had plenty of time to read it by now. I'm halfway in and pretty dissapointed desu.
Houellebecq is washed regardless of where you stand on his politics
>>25007987My impression was that this novel was supposed to be his version of Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. A somber, serious tale of slow decline, with Schopenhauerian undertones, and elements of a family novel. I vaguely remember that he said something to this effect, about having read Thomas Mann.
finally getting pussy ruined him as an author.you really can't write well if you're happy.
>>25008001>I'm reading the Dutch translationplease read my book when it comes out. i would like to get your opinion
>>25008001>I mean
post and rate
>>25010718>books you find at an estate sale1/5>>250105414/5>>250084342/5
>>25000786Crime and Punishment is what you want. TBK gets good at page 600 or 700. Crime and Punishment gets good after 60 or so. Btw did you hear of "the dream of a ridiculous man" from this website?
>>25010733Why?
>>25009872just asking. apocalypticism and millenarian/heretical belief systems and general history of 17th century religious enthusiasm is a pet interest of mine. unrelated, but so is environmental history.
>>25010718how is Arms And Influence? I want to read it
at the edge of the world 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: >>24975576
>>25010386Bran kind of forgot about the incest
Is this dude serious?
>>25010386Bran has amnesia from that day. he knows there's something important that he saw but simply can't remember. Doesn't matter everyone in the entire seven kingdoms knows about Cersei and Jaime anyway.
>>25011175most people, including actors, are dumb, anon
grrm's date night with shae lolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNDugbZ6w5s
How true is this? And what would be the best (either highest quality or most illustrative) examples of each?
>>25010791women's romance>"Dear reader I married him*"*old, blind, ugly, house burned down, crazy ex wifemen's romance>Story of the Eye, Hogghmmm
>>25010791Not true at all. It’s a silly comic but if anyone took it as fact they would be dumber for it
>>25011647>oldNot really.>blindHe regains his sight.>uglyNot really.>house burned downHe's still wealthy.>crazy ex wifeShe's dead.
>>25010805>there's an absolute fuckton of harem romance novels for men out there, but these subreddits are pretty good at highlighting the best onesI feel like 0 men read this shlock and it's all dykish lesbians and FTMs.
>>25010791Low quality gay thread. Women's romance is just le man either "gives up thing for me" or "does thing for me" and taken to the extreme. It appeals to their self-centeredness and their envy of man being master of the universe. Men's romance is simply the projection of the desire to understand the mysteries of women.
/lit/ recs to get life experience?
All experiences in life are life experiences
>>25011347Ask a girl out on a date
>>25011347
>>25011347In the biz we call it the experience economy
>>25011353it's astonishing just how many terminal onliners don't consider this
Is this the most evil book ever written?
>>25011375How is it evil? Potter fanfiction is my guilty pleasure. I read some of this and thought it was shit, I guess I didn't get far enough for the "evil" parts.
>>25011638He turned harry from a brave boy into the world's most manipulative and sociopathic gifted child pendants. And then people died as a result.
Riiiiiiiight
>>25011453I know what the thread is about.
>>25011670Justify or apologise for that previously posted passage.
If written erotica is aimed at straight women, why the fuck do they keep writing the sex scenes in a way that only describes how the female feels? and not the male??I want to read about the male characters body reactions and emotions during sex!
Intelligent men don't have sex
>>25005030Because, surprise, WOMEN WANT TO SELF INSERT AS THE WOMAN!
>>25011726Yes they do. Twilight was popular because of it.
>>25011728Why is OP so clueless then?
>>25009617>muh transphobiadie faggot
if you're a misanthrope or pessimist, you're lowkey just oversensitivethat's the main thing I have picked up from reading them>oh no a heccin BAD THING happened, how could life be so heccin cruelget over it you gay emotional pussy
>>25011713I'm not pessimistic, I'm cynical. And I'm not a misanthrope: as a Christian I believe in forgiving those who hurt you and loving your fellow man. However that doesn't preclude the fact that most people are stupid or cruel or both; hence the cynicism.
^ slave morality
>>25011713>oversensitivethe opposite, people are cruel therefore I don't care about their misery and death
>speaks of himself as a loser with depression who just sits around getting drunk or lying in bed doing opium and masturbating and wasting his life and who only doesn't kill himself because he isn't motivated enough for suicide let alone getting a job >actually had the motivation to learn English fluently just so he can read Poe in the original and also writes extensive rhyming poetry about weird and depressing shit that even the French government banned because they were so weirded out and depressed by it Was Baudelaire a poser feigning depression just to be le quirky? I and many of my friends are diagnosed with depression and you absolute would not be doing all that, you have just enough energy to watch a cheesy movie or have breakfast. You can barely even read or take a shower
>>25011574>>25011582I really am just stupid guys. Sorry. My best effort isn't good enough to learn a language. I don't think I can brute force learn a language like that. Sorry again did wasting your time
>>25011609His poetry was not "championing" their "struggles" in a social justice sense. His poetry is the literary equivalent to Gummo but with choice words and rhyme and in 19th Century Paris>>25011618You are stupid out of choice. There are Mexicans with an IQ of sixty who are fluent in both Spanish and English
>>25011184MELANCHOLIA DOES NOT DETER ONE FROM PERSEVERING IN A ROTE LONG TERM ACT LIKE LEARNING A LANGUAGE; WRITING POESY IS AN ANTIDOTE FOR MELANCHOLIA, SINCE IT CAUSES EUPHORIA; REGARDLESS, BODELER, MOST PROBABLY, WAS, ALSO, MELODRAMATIC, LIKE ALL THE ROMANTICISTS EVERYWHERE.
>>25011731>MELANCHOLIA DOES NOT DETER ONE FROM PERSEVERING IN A ROTE LONG TERM ACT LIKE LEARNING A LANGUAGE; WRITING POESY IS AN ANTIDOTE FOR MELANCHOLIA, SINCE IT CAUSES EUPHORIA; REGARDLESS, BODELER, MOST PROBABLY, WAS, ALSO, MELODRAMATIC, LIKE ALL THE ROMANTICISTS EVERYWHERE.
>>25011734?
How come the rate of readership keeps declining but Barnes and Noble just keeps getting more popular over time
>>24982356the whole 'performative reading' thing is a meme on social media right now, or maybe it's dead now cuz these kids move on fast desu. What I mean to say is, this vid is obviously a joke. She's not trying to convince you that she's recounting a real scenario she encountered, she's just trying to contribute to the meme. Good on you for not using instagram enough to figure that out though I guess
>>24982353>"Performative men could be here" she thought
>>25009643lmfao
>>25006864How to shoplift books without getting caught??
>>25008689I honestly forget. We just had one I think in November/early December, maybe. For some reason I want to say they have it twice a year, but I could be making that up. I don't pay a lot of attention to that shit. I just check the calendar a day or two ahead of time, and that's when we'll get things set up. Even though that's one of our biggest sales that we have and people look forward to, there's always some nonsense going on, so it's kind of a day to day thing for me.>>25011372No shoplifting, please. Don't be a fucking nigger.Day off today, lads. Hungover. Watching football and probably will read a bit later. Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!
Best rebuttal to picrel?
>>25010876I don't think Cromwell or the Netherlands admired Jews, they just felt persecuting them couldn't be reconciled with the Bible. Cromwell had zero problem persecuting other Christians though, whereas Milton and the Netherlands didn't do thatCrusoe is just going by what he was taught. When Friday asks him about why God doesn't simply kill the devil because of all the problems causing Crusoe says he will on the day of judgement and Friday said why not today and Crusoe literally says he pretends he didn't hear him because he has no idea. This in spite of the fact Crusoe has been stranded for decades with no reading material except the Bible Crusoe has no issues in his conscience going to a Catholic Church, after he gets off the island and travels through Spain on route home he explicitly says he goes to Papist services during his stay there. Crusoe is concerned that in Brazil if he tries to form a protestant congregation then he would be imprisoned which is true
>>25010491well I was unaware of that, probably need to read Peter K. Massie's biography on him. anyways, this thread is getting off-topic.
>>25011250lol, no they don't
>>25011182based and rushdoony pilled
>>25011689where does Rushdoony state these claims?
Seems way better at squaring reality than gay materialism
>>25010487Shut the fuck up and go read Hume, child.
>>25010618>Got so butt-blasted he became Fatrick.No child, it is you that needs to stop sucking off Kant and find a real philosopher (like Aristotle), enjoy prison, stalker.
>>25010221>about>isn't contradictedThis is just to say the belief corresponds, in other terms. Which is fine, if I'm having trouble understanding what the word means.Guess what I'm more pointedly asking about is the nature of the correspondence relationship, HOW exactly does thins correspond, what is going in, is there a mechanism?, how do we tell the difference between something that corresponds and something that does not, etc But here I just get the same answer - that it 'corresponds'I get the gist, I get how people usually use these words. But I'm very skeptical of there being an actual thing, 'correspondence'
>>25010633Hume refutes your extremely primitive version of empiricism.
>>25005652HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA, The single experience of seeing such a distorted face and the allusion that he might have something to say about how to live my life is beyond hilarious
>makes redditjaks seethe because he tortured animalsKek
>>25011072you just know this nigga had that extra chromosome tantrums my guy built retarded
>>25011153Unc got that ForsenE build
>>25011072I like kicking my cat
>>25011428>makes shit up>it's proven wrongmakes ya think what else he was wrong about
>>25011645maybe read his fucking BOOKS to know, dumbass
they hated him because he spoke the truth
>>25011660He was pale gouty fat man who wrote obsessively of acts he dared not commit and literally rotted to death.
Kantianism is midwit philosophy. Nietzscheanism beats it as the high IQ philosophy
>>25011283nobody differentiated it like kant did... he came up with the whole problem of synthetic judgements a priori
>>25011283>>25011304This. Nobody before Kant asked how synthetic a priori judgements were possible.
>>25009229>categorical imperatives, but he's just echoing Epictetus who introduced the ideaThis is so wrong it's amazing you even blathered it out.
>>25011523i genuinely think it's a chatbotit follows the pattern of confidently stringing semi-related words together in an ordering which makes no sense if you know anything about the subject
>>25007447>>25009204Pretty sure Anon is talking about later Chinese metaphysics (in a roughly Confucian tradition that had mixed with Taoism and insights from Indian thought), not the Analects per se.It's the principles of qi and li that come to look a lot like form and matter, actuality and potency, etc. Add in some insights from luminous mind Buddhism and Hinduism and you start to see a convergence towards the "Neoplatonic" consensus that dominated late-antique Western Pagan and Christian thought as well as medieval Christian, Islamic, and Jewish thought.>Zhu Xi maintained that all things are brought into being by the union of two universal aspects of reality: qi (氣, sometimes translated as vital – or physical, material – force); and li (理, sometimes translated as rational principle or law). The source and sum of li is the taiji, meaning the Supreme Ultimate. The source of qi is not so clearly stated by Zhu Xi, leading some authorities to maintain that he was a metaphysical monist and others to maintain that he was a metaphysical dualist.>According to Zhu Xi's theory, every physical object and every person has its li and therefore has contact in its metaphysical core with the taiji. What is referred to as the human soul, mind, or spirit is understood as the taiji, or the supreme creative principle, as it works its way out in a person.>Qi and li operate together in mutual dependence. They are mutually aspective in all creatures in the universe. These two aspects are manifested in the creation of substantial entities. When their activity is waxing (rapid or expansive), that is the yang energy mode. When their activity is waning (slow or contractive), that is the yin energy mode. The yang and yin phases constantly interact, each gaining and losing dominance over the other. In the process of the waxing and waning, the alternation of these fundamental vibrations, the so-called five elements evolve (fire, water, wood, metal, and earth). Zhu Xi argues that li existed even before Heaven and Earth.[18]We can speak of substantial form here but also of the paradigmatic causes, the eidos that resides in the absolute unity and actuality of the Dao (Logos) but which is many in the material order (logoi versus Logos). Unfortunately, later medieval thought in the West tended to calcify these distinctions and a lot of knowledge was lost during the wars of the Reformation. Nowadays, many trained philosophers even only understand the old via antiqua as a sort of shallow strawman and so are stuck in endless debates (idealism versus physicalism) using shitty early modern categories. Alasdair MacIntyre's thesis about our losing ethical language could easily be extended to metaphysics, and technological progress (which began before nominalism) has simply papered this over. This is why today we have so much new techne but no idea how to use it to actually make us happy; instead it makes us ever more miserable despite all its uses.
