Why can’t female authors write men? Why is every book written by a woman centered around a woman crying about woman problems?
femcels can
>>25206966It’s genuinely a top 20 English literature novel
Fichte speaks of this
>>25206888Men also can't write women.If either gender understood the other there would be a gender war immediately and women would be legless, tongueless armless torsos used to incubate new humans.
One of the most evil books ever written. We need to ban neuroscience.
>>25199024This is genuinely the dumbest mound of text I've ever fucking read. Why this guy is trying to compare consciousness to computer data when he doesn't know what either is astounds me. Then I look him up and he's Time's #1 Smartest whatever and actually invented Microsoft and is the leading expert on virtual niggers. There's a Nikolai Tesla quote about science going from observable reality to algorithms and equations bearing no relation to it and that's what this essay reads like.
>>25204596>f i dream and engange with all my senses inside the dream, how does it differs from the waking life if what's "real" is measured on present perceptual interaction?Because your knowledge is finite. Plenty of people have dream scenarios only to go to the real thing and it's entirely different. This is hard evidence an exterior reality exists beyond your head, as there is a clear distinction between your dreams, the ideas that inform them and what actually exists. The difference is tangible. Even if your presumptive brain got everything right, it would likely not do so twice, or three times in a row, and so on. You will always end up at "I dreamed about this but it's so different in reality" eventually.>I do have a brain, and a body, but there are things that happens outside the brain and the body and yet i can still experience those things.You don't. Your brain informs a presumption. It is extremely unlike to align 1:1 with the real thing. If you dream about skiing on a mountain and do so vividly, there will still be aspects of it during actual skiing you didn't know and therefore didn't include in your dream.
>>25196379Not necessarily, there is always a unique way to describe the current you. The simplest possibility is just time, the next you exists at a different time, time is physical, so you have a physical explanation of why you live only once.Not saying that's how consciousness works, but it's a possibility.
>>25199078What law of logic implies that? Non contradiction? Excluded middle?
>>25211349spoken like a true Marxist
>>25210932I got it (I haven't read it yet)
It blows my mind that Hegel managed to influence so many retards>almost illegible scribble>tries to justify that everything exists>the retarded belief that history is progressive>the exaltation (almost piety) of state and war>his zealous belief that freedom is best recognized in a monarchy>the forced retarded interpretations of history>his blatantly obvious pro-German bias>the fact that Hegelian thought spiraled into 200 different sub-philosophies of pseudo-babbleEvery single time I see Hegelian retards attempt to discuss their nonsense, I bring up Schopenhauer's BTFO of Hegel. You have objectively made this world a worse and more miserable place than it needs to be; and all Hegelians should be shot on sight because of it.
Neither did HegelUnironically.It's a mishmash of two different sequences of 'ze dialectic' + a Preface written post hoc to attempt a retroactively justification fot the excessively repetitive discovery of Spirit for Hegel. (I.e. it's more a personal autobiography of how Hegel derived his system rather than the objective way Spirit actually ascends.)Hegel's System begins with LogicDon't skip the Prefaces to various Editions of his Greater Logic
>>25211453Marx would have formulated communism even if Hegel never existed. The only difference is that Marx wouldn't have talked about sublation/abolition. You demonstrate that you don't understand marx or Hegel. Many such cases!>>25211469>Hegel's System begins with LogicYes, I tell people all the time that SOL is the interpretation of POS
Recommend some novels that center on card games, board games, games of chance, betting, gambling, or casinos.
The Gambler, by Dostoevsky. It's an anti-gambling novel though.
>>25210299The Glass Bead Game
>>25210299Last Call by Tim Powers
>>25210299The Queen's Gambit (Chess)
>>25210299The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis, light read about a young chess prodigy, quite enjoyable.Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, the first Bond novel, baccarat plays a pivotal role, way better than I expected it to be based on the movies.Moonraker, also by fleming, features bridge in the beginning. Not a super important part of the story, but there are actual diagrams showing what cards the players are holding at certain points, so it stuck in my mind.The Player of Games by Iain M Banks, a sci fi novel about a huge intricate board game a civilization uses to choose its various leaders, but there are of course several different layers of games and players going on at the same time.
It's over for bookchuds.
>>25210583Didn't read. Don't care.Women can't write women.
>>25211452foid yaoi >>>> barashit.
>this book is le triggering! >it says women are less than perfect! Mmmmmm that is misogyny!
>>25210628I've heard about a man that drank 1 liter of basedmilk everyday and started to lactate because of it. If you're able to reproduce these results is unknown until you test it for yourself.
Mid forties is too old to be writing women like this, unironically.
Ginger Snaps edition.OLD: >>25125217
>>25210736The version I read definitely maintained "all the SCP stuff" but simply renamed it; SCP organization = Unkown organization etc. That being said, the book had almost all of the negative traits of SCP such as comically ridiculous psuedo science, redactions, and generally amateurish writing.
>>25210834The Lesser Dead if you want more Buehlman but I think The Fisherman by John Langan would be a solid choice too
>>25183011For a site so goddamn obsessed with muh generashuns astrology not one of you morons seem to agree what the age ranges are.
>>25210834I second The Lesser Dead. Phenomenal ending.
>>25182915>>25183001I hadn't checked this board in a while, but yes I am still around. I made that chart, and it is not 'officially' done yet. I'm still reading a lot, especially older works and non-English works, to try to make the 'best' chart possible. It will still take years, but I'm working on it and have already found some books that definitely deserve to be on the chart that aren't yet (and some that can be removed, like The Rats, which just isn't a 'good' book, Between Two Fires, which is written so poorly it really disappointed me, despite all the cool ideas the book has, and Ring, which just straight up isn't a horror novel.)I also want to have a section with just short stories, for the authors who have written only a few influential short stories. I want to give them a section without pictures, so a lot can be added in a relatively small space. A few stories by Hoffmann, Gogol, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aleksey Tolstoy, Edogawa Ranpo, to name a few.Some that I think should be added to the chart:>Jeremias Gotthelf - The Black Spider>Hanns Heinz Ewers - Alraune>Gustav Meyrink - The Golem (maybe; not sure of it yet)>Horacio Quiroga - The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories (very likely, still need to read it but have heard so many good things about it)>Jean Ray - Malpertuis>Roland Topor - The Tenant>Giorgio de Maria - The Twenty Days of Turin>Anne Rivers Siddons - The House Next DoorComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
A timescape burrows into the pastAnd out pops projections of painsly portersPut up with me if you will!But know that the sands of time wash with waters unsublime
My name is anonamousI got tranny sausagesIn my esophogus andOn my brain, a chud metropolisWe are not the same but oppositesI blame the world While leaving white depositsIn my sockessesIn mom's basementShe thinks im in the closetGoing outside makes me cautious and nauseous, what is the cause of thisA coward's synopsis
>>25210069I like it. You improved it IMO
>>25202640You putting the pussy on a pedestal, man
Cuddles invoke the three second rule.You see an absence better than my head into yours.The bed disarms competing countdowns,the night forgives and forgets if you offer it a bit of red.Wildfire is a pickle better dealt with in the morning.
any books that will help me get out of a 3 year long existential crisis?
>>25209263On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
>>25209263Could not be your particular case, but for me, Plato helped me come to terms with death and my place in the order of things. I feel happiness with the morning sun, feel more grateful, compassionate with other's and my own ignorance and my own physical bodyI heard much criticism about Plato and I think they are in their right, since it's not much of a guide on life but to question and to understand your own relationship with the sensible world, so to critique Plato is very much something he would have wanted
>>25209263Lmao, an existential crisis.What a privileged white boy problem.You think too much, and it's exhausting your ability to think constructively.>Wahhh life is endlessly perplexing and I don't know want to do with myself.Get laid, loser.Roflmao.
How many people have read some book and got out of an existential crisis?
the hills of norvos 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: >>25156285
>>25208485Can't wait for her to burn Shireen and see Stannisfags cope
>>25208485Extremely based.
oh, it's over alrightI'm sure their tune will change when he dies and the publisher drops them a blank check
>>25211439He'll write more when he can't walk and needs to sit on a bedpan. Demented GRRM will shit out Dreams of Spring in like a year.
>>25211439We are getting winds don't you worry, as for dream? Yeah that'll remain a dream
All there’s to be found is literature ABOUT incels, but never from incels. When it’s an acute and relevant topic.
>>25201065I wouldn't call it an assumption, it's emergent from the axiom dynamic of environmental determinism and my own model of learned modes of urge satisfaction, a genesis of the two concepts as the consequences of their coexistence contrive a harrowing dynamic taken to logical extreme by programmable environments such as social media. A free will argument is overly moralistic in my opinion, and I would say it doesn't insist upon a corrective intervention where a systems analysis does. A symptom can be traced to a root, which can be cured.
>>25200971The incel phenomenon as such is too recent. Prior to the advent of internet porn, weird effeminate loners were womanizers who had meaningless sex on a regular basis.
>>25211246>Prior to the advent of [affirmative action girlboss careers and hyperhoeflation due to 50 year old women being unmarried and 50 year old men looking for young pussy], weird effeminate loners were [johns] who had meaningless sex on a regular basis.any any of them who wanted to be married instead, could be
>>25200979I remember reading something from a friend/acquaintance of Heisman's that said that he dated. I don't remember where from though
>>25211401dating is just prostitution with extra steps. if you want a family you talk to her father and brother and court her properly. if you just want her to live at your house for a few months while she spends all your money and yells at you until you throw her out, you date
Some people that crossposts between this board and /x/ may be already familiar with the works of John Paolucci, but for those who aren't here's a quick summary of what Universal Line is about by the author himself:>UL is philosophical and metaphysical information which falls in the category of personal transformation. It not only gives you the biggest picture of the universe and your place in it but recommends the most practical thing to do about it – what I call commanding your universe. Though there may be references to traditions of knowledge or similarities to New Age teachings now and then, it’s not based on any of them. Its basis is your personal private confirmation of self-validating fact – more specifically, ONE thing. >Everything is your own private dream. I've been investigating everything being my private dream as one all-person, keeping my feet on solid ground by staying only with common-sense mechanical facts. You may find it refreshingly direct. >Another important point is that my materials are not meant to be brushed by with a quick read. With all the text that is thrown our way every day on the internet, it’s understandable that we brush through text. With the UL information, however, you’ll find out soon enough that careful consideration is a must. You have to slow down and put on your thinking cap. You’ll come back, again and again, to find things you didn't know were there before. Doing such is the core of your progress with UL. A secondary action for progress is your daily ten-minute command session where you go beyond study and act on what it means to be ONE All-person, which turns out to be the simplest most comfortable thing you could do.A compilled PDF with the Universal Line texts and materials can be found here: https://mega.nz/folder/ynhGVQKD#Xb0goLFuVD7HVaVfj0KrqQAny thoughts /lit/? Users enthusiastic about subjects like Subjective Idealism and Nonduality may be find the ideas attractive.
>>25206356Both the left and right hands are part of the same body. Demons are aspects of the self.
Bump
Bamp
Stop shilling your cult shit.
>>25206060Honestly seems like a weird jumble of non-dualism with self-help slop and new age law of attraction bullshit. Seeing these weird 90’s clipart tier graphics talking about spiritual stuff seems incredibly distasteful and makes me want to vomit when I see them.I dont really see how this stuff offers any advantage over studying the primary sources expounding eastern ideas about non-duality etc. Seems like a weird counterfeit that lures people in by including just enough true ideas that make people think the whole thing is serious
>long as fuck names for characters, places, concepts etc (had to write them down to memorize them)>weird non-flowing sentences>lots of poetry-ish sounding sentencesIt seems like the author literally translated ancient chinese slang into modern day english, its just difficult for me to read. Anybody else experience this?
>>25206075>chinese storiesIm so chinese I just call them stories.
I read chinese raws by running them through chrome's browser mtl function. The trick isn't to raise your literacy rate enough to understand the chinese, but to lower it enough to understand the chinese. MTL chinese prose and english prose now read as mostly similar to me - no, actually, chinese prose is more comfortable. English prose is usually bloated with too many unnecessary descriptions, it's hard to stomach now. Brevity is the soul of wit, kings could only exist when the masses were illiterate! Illiteracy is king!!! Illiteracy is king!!!
>>25206947>kings could only exist when the masses were illiterate! Illiteracy is king!Based and peasant-pilled
>>25206947>English prose is usually bloatedThis anon knows...
>>25205476Sounds based, I wish more novels were like that.
>obliterates theologians with one of the most popular books in existence
>>25208890Thought about reading it, but my evolution class professor told me that it's boring asfIs this true?
>>25210787>Thought about reading it, but my evolution class professor told me that it's boring asf>Is this true?yes, how life works by ball is more interesting. but darwin is a classic book that everyone reads, sort of like apher-bethe-gamow is in physics
>>25208914I mean, it's really really REALLY deeply ingrained in Abrahamic faiths that Man (or more specifically, an in-group of men) are God's Special Little Boys. Man is consisntely placed above nature, as masters of it. Nature is to be tamed and brought to Godliness by man's development. It's no wonder that evolution is such a deathblow to Abrahamic faiths.
>>25208890>an eye can come from not an eye>something can come from nothingnah
>>25211002>it's really really REALLY deeply ingrained in Abrahamic faiths that Man (or more specifically, an in-group of men) are God's Special Little Boysits hard for hylics to understand the difference between a hylic and any other animal. is it the ability to exert force? trump is a dumb animal and the iranians are men
Islington edition unironicallyPrevious >>25200011Here we discuss any kind of science fiction and fantasy. The recommendations are deprecated, but we don't have anything newer.>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb>Archive:https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg>Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
>>25211428>Not science fictionhttps://www.jrrtolkien.it/english/an-interview-with-r-s-bakker/"The crazy thing is that I always looked at The Second Apocalypse as hard science fiction, both in a literal and a figurative sense.""And this is the curious sense in which I’ve always seen The Second Apocalypse as literal hard SF. From the very beginning I’ve viewed Kellhus as a harbinger of superintelligence, and have tried to show how its mere presence destroys the possibility of mutual effort, reduces everything to manipulation. We too have our own rendezvous with crashing meaning, I’m afraid."
>>25211437Just like Shannara?
>>25211437
>>25211407kek
>>25211445Source: an interview given by the author of the book, where he provides a claim about the genre of the very book he wrote.
What am I in for?
>>25211430I remember when /lit/ wasn’t plagued by Neoplatonic christian shit.
>>25211440>Christian Neoplatonism is a plagueyou might as well walk about in public with a shirt that says “I’m a Hylic”
>>25211440just know the entirety of their belief system hinges upon whether they think numbers are real or not
>>25211450You need this ideology because if you don’t you are only left with the reality of life on this planet. Which you hate. I would proudly wear a shirt that says that in public because most normal people wouldn’t even grasp the meaning. Defeating the point of your gay little proposal.
>>25211450You need this ideology because if you don’t you are only left with the reality of life on this planet. Which you hate. I would proudly wear a shirt that says that in public because most normal people wouldn’t even grasp the meaning. Defeating the point of your gay little proposal
