"Sadly, Porn" by The Last Psychiatrist, what do you think of this, is it worth reading?
>>25189578I pirated it, maybe I'll read it someday since I'm hopelessly addicted to amateur porn.
only people who have started with the greeks should be allowed to read stuff like thisyou HAVE started with the greeks, yes?...
>>25190887Of course I have. To be honest, I started with The Birth of Tragedy and *then* went for the Greeks, I think it's not the worst path.
>>25189578He is a close reader of Nietzsche, writing from a professional shrink's perspective. If you're not reading it, it's not for you.
>>25189642The buttocks are very toned.
>have to re-read a paragraph because my mind drifted to boobs and pusy again
>>25189406After you insert your penis in vagine the incessant sex thoughts goes away for a day or two, so the solution is fucking every 2 days or so
>>25190916It's Empedocles jumping into Mount Etna. Can't you recognize Mount Etna?
>>25190936My incessant sex thoughts come back way sooner than that. I could fuck my girlfriend and want to have sex with a half dozen different women I see 30 minites later in the grocery store.
>>25189406rather just kms at that point famalam
>>25189406Very good! After the castration, we now perform vaginoplasty.
The universe will continue to spread and spread outward. Entropy will turn a chaotic infinity into a homogeneous controlled system. This will take billions of years and in that time humans will push technology to heights we can't imagine. We'll explore and inhabit space and occupy more and more of the universe, just as time allowed our ancestors to multiply in numbers and populate more and more of the Earth. And as the specific people come and go, their physical bodies will be born, and grow, and die. But their thoughts will remain. And Jim Davis' comics, his glorious Garfield comics, are recorded ideas of his that will still be here. Even when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, and humanity has long since moved away to bigger planets, they'll carry with them a record, a record we all keep ... a never-ending feed of ideas, immortal ideas, forever placed in the ether of dualism.
>>25186299me too
>>25187861i never got this meme
>>25190707Overboard exaggerated praise for a comic strip hack.
>>25190707Elaborate ARG, all just to blackmail not-murderer Jim Davis.
Universe is spreading it's legs more and more.
>At high school, Lenin fell in love with Latin. His headteacher had high hopes that he might become a philologist and Latin scholar. History willed otherwise, but Lenin’s passion for Latin, and taste for the classics, never left him. He read Virgil, Ovid, Horace and Juvenal in the original, as well as Roman senatorial orations. He devoured Goethe during his two decades in exile, reading and rereading Faust many times.>Lenin put his knowledge of the classics to good use in the time leading up to the October revolution of 1917. In April of that year, he broke with Russian social-democratic orthodoxy and, in a set of radical theses, called for a socialist revolution in Russia. A number of his own close comrades denounced him. In a sharp riposte, Lenin quoted Mephistopheles from Goethe’s masterwork: “Theory, my friend, is grey, but green is the eternal tree of life.”>Lenin knew better than most that classical Russian literature had always been infused with politics. Even the most “apolitical” of writers had found it difficult to conceal their contempt for the state of the country. Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov was a case in point. Lenin loved this work.
>>25189612Hahaha how much of a nigger can you be to reduce Vergil to the Aeneid and Latin poetry to Vergil
>>25188940Stalin was a voracious reader and even stopped Bulgakov from being executed because he like his early works. Iirc he wrote some article about linguistics that completely fucked up the Soviet academic field because his takes became officially accepted talking points and nobody could talk out against it
>>25190296>Hahaha how much of a nigger can you be to reduce Vergil to the Aeneid and Latin poetry to VergilShould I have brought up Horace's brown nosing or Catullus' perversions instead?
>>25189479I wish redditors like you would stop expecting this place to be a tranny echo-chamber.
>>25189132>sadistic paranoiac darwinian freakazoidWell, lenin believed in a sadistic paranoiac darwinian freakazoid ideology, so it kind of comes with the territory.
There are some misconceptions about what materialism is in Marxism, especially in that it is frequently conflated with bourgeois, or liberal, materialism.Before explaining bourgeois materialism, it might be helpful to begin with bourgeois idealism. A clear example of this liberal ideology can be found in Evola, who is a proponent of "magical idealism". What makes idealism bourgeois? Idealism is innately bourgeois and liberal when it begins with the individual, it reduces all the world down to the individual and makes the world itself synonymous with the individual. At one stroke it atomizes him and estranges him from society and social labor and ultimately his own past and future, which are also social creations. The very fabric of reality is individualist, and the individual is reality. So much for bourgeois idealism.Then we have bourgeois, liberal materialism. Two simple examples of this ideology can be found in Ayn Rand, and in the book Guns, Germs, and Steel.Ayn Rand reduces reality down to "entities", i.e. individuals. Again, despite ostensibly rejecting idealism, her premise and postulate and her fabric of all things is the individual. Immediately cutting him off from his past, even before he was born, and his future, even after he dies, and his present, are all woven of social labor.In Guns, Germs and Steel we have a thesis which Mao explicitly talks about in On Contradiction, which is worth reading, as the materialist bourgeois conception of history:>They ascribe the causes of social development to factors external to society, such as geography and climate. In this, again, society is reduced to entities (individuals), just fungible entities. They are all basically wind-up toys, so to speak, or lines of code, if/then, and all response according to the rat maze or whatever you will, that they are placed in. Society as the fundamental *emergent property* of groups of humans, does not really exist. Cont
>>25190435>when it begins with the individualall appreciation begins with the individual. you don't see or read this comment through a third person perspective, it is filtered and is first and foremost through an I. Is the I itself an aproximation? unknowable, since all things are filtered first through the I of the observer, any supposition after it is an approximate and abstracted process taken from third and forth degree assumptive sources more remote than the I. Society and labor are less real than me.
>>25190518I disagree, society and labor are more real than my sense of “I am”, for my sense of ego and associated mental phenomena have been repeatedly proven by psychology and sociology to be a product of unconscious processing, psychological schemas that I have constructed unknowingly, and the very society I was born into. “I” itself must be an approximation then, a convenient guide so that mental health is sustained. But just as how homeostasis of the body doesn’t entail that material reality is in balance, my sense of ego does not entail that it is more real.
>>25190999If there are no Is, then what is society? Why care about other people at all? Without I, there certainly can't be a You.
>>25191007The meaning of is, of the philosophical quality of existence, is itself shaped by our idea of existence itself. This changes with human society and existence in a dialectical manner: the contradictions of a particular definition of “is” with our current notions of existence, informed of course by our current existence in a society, are resolved by making another definition of “is” that is more in line with our current existence in society. And vice versa. Our idea of existence is intimately tied with the world we inhabit in this manner, and this idea has evolved historically instead of staying as a self-evident truth for that reason.
>>25190999>have been repeatedly proven by psychology and sociologypost facto products of the I as I said. to comprehend these things in the first place assumes an I to analyze them. Pragmatically however these things probably exist, but in terms of pure philosophical logic, the order of operation here starts with the subject before there is any idea of the object, the thesis before the antithesis.Pretty sure this is a fundament of empiricism and its rings true in Kantianism, Hegelianism and even stricter scientisms.
/ourgirl/ just posted her favorite bookshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd678xPqVd0
>>25191048Well if you won't let me engage, I guess that's our conversation about literature for the day. Not very extensive. Have fun, stay safe!
>>25191056she has schizophreniaand she's homelesswell she was homeless, she recently got a room
>>25191059well good for her. lot stronger than I am
>>25191059Did she have sex with old men for money?
>>25191059I want to have sex with her now, maybe she’ll take 5 dollars… imagine the smell also.That’s mean I don’t really mean that. I hope she does well for herself with her channel and all.
Which philosophers have totally 180d on their previous held views and repudiated themselves?
>>25171311How did elections get less free in Poland? What metric are they using?
>>25190946Donald Tusk was generally derided as a right wing demogague or do you not remember that? Before Poland was rehabilitated within Europe as last defense against Russia.
>>25190946Without even knowing much about the topic of Eastern euro elections, I imagine that for one they view nationalist/ anti-LGBT protests as “voter intimidation” for one. Same accusations they use against Trump, Putin, Orban, Fico.
>>25190973Yes, I have no idea why anyone still takes these liberal NGOs seriously. Part of liberalism's power projection is to have these NGOs make shit up about how society works. They call Trump an example of "democratic backsliding (made up term)" in America even thought he was voted in twice through perfectly legitimate means
>>25171582Chine is in conflict with NK and has sanctioned it to hell.
Does anyone want to do a read-along of picrel? (https://germanidealism.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/schelling-fs-english.pdf) I think it could work well for a few reasons.1) It’s fairly short (about 90 pages).2) Schelling’s work here intersects deeply with some of the most-discussed philosophers on /lit/ (Plato, Kant, Schopenhauer, Heidegger).3) It’s about something with a lot of relevance and interest for most, the problem of evil4) It’s relatively accessible at least for something from this school5) It has strong schizo elements because Schelling is drawing on gnostics and Christian mystics6) No one here is all that partisan for or against Schelling. I’ve seen people shit on his early work but this is middle period.7) It is generally highly regarded within continental philosophyI feel such a read-along could bring some of the disparate strains on /lit/ together and serve as a neutral focal point for discussion. I was thinking we do 10 pages a day; anyone participating should do a post about what they think and then we can converse or at least enjoy one another’s musings.
>>25190390The first thing I said was >>25189649literally that there are two dyads, its called the Indefinite Dyad because it's not merely a dyad but an indefinite one The Dyad itself is the Limit reigning in the Infinite, and this is the first relationship and first Being.Some Platonists whom Aristotle is talking about there conceived of the Limit as the First Principle, and thereby there's the One acting on the Infinite Dyad/Matter. And my point was that this evidently can't be Plato's idea since he literally says in the Philebus that there's something beyond Limit and Unlimited.
>>25191031And it's called Indefinite Dyad because it's a borrowing from earlier Pythagoreanism that didn't conceive of the One Beyond Being.(This is also the problem with Proclus, he often conflates the Limit-Unlimited with the One in his early works.)
>>25190390>Meanwhile the third is not something outside that brings the two principles together, it is their unionPlato, Timaeus:"But it isn’t possible to combine two things well all by themselves, without a third; there has to be some bond between the two that unites them. Now the best bond is one that really and truly makes a unity of itself together with the things bonded by it, and this in the nature of things is best accomplished by proportion..."Directly affirming Philebus that Proportion is the Mixture that is the Unified of Limit and Unlimited. That every Being is a unique balance of the two. Some lean towards Limit (men) some lean towards the Unlimited (women). And everything between.>>25190390>And the dialogue isn’t ultimately about the Good from the RepublicMixture/Proportion is the Immanence of the Good. Aka the unity of the three monads manifests God.
>>25190390And all the "Unwritten Doctrines" are stated in the dialogues (all of them in the Timaeus alone) by means of synonyms (receptacle, Unlimited, sea of unlikeness, Difference)Read Gerson, educate yourself.
>>25191053See:It is a receptacle (υποδοχή), place (τόπο?), seat (έδρα), nurse (τιθήνη), mother (μ ητέρα), invisible (άνόρατον), shapeless (άμ ορφον), all receptive (πανδεχε?), and ‘not permitting itself to be destroyed.’Doesn't sound unwritten to me.
What do we think of Franzen?
>>25190751The Corrections and Freedom were great, all I read so far. Crossroads is on the shelf and I will probably read it in the next month or two. He is amazing at developing families and all the ways a family influences each other's personalities, never read anyone who even comes close to Franzen at this. >>25190755Did you actually finish it? Feel like you didn't and maybe got halfway. Also, you conflate author with character, Franzen doesn't take pot shots at his characters.
>>25190751I've just read his essay on DFW's suicide. I own a copy of The Corrections but haven't read it yet. Both love and loathe his pretentiousness
>>25190751What a tryhard. Completely misses the heart of the matter on most things.
>>25190751FAS baby proselet. Asset flipped DF Wallace. Marginally less vulgar Updike reincarnation. Insipidly 'bourgeois'.
I'm endlessly amused by everyone's cutting remarks; we're all just waiting to gush over your blog posts junior.From the slush pile to tennis with DFW to Oprah's couch, he's making shit happen out there anon, try not to choke on your impotent rage.Hey, if he's as shit as you say, then that means it must be easy to eclipse his sad output.I'm just being harsh cause I'm trying to work his lit agent, every bit helps.If Mailer called me 'an intellectual threshing machine's I'd take it and run.
Neither is founded in reality. Teleportation is just as fantastic as dragons. Is Sci-Fi just for manchildren who want to LARP as grown ups?
>>25187498before you ask an asinine question, you should first be aware that sci-fi and science-fantasy are two different genres.
>>25187498one has spells
Science is le hecking epic and grown up
>>25187498Good scifi leans more toward literary fiction while good fantasy leans more toward mythology and fairy tales. Slop scifi and slop fantasy are the same thing in different hats though.
>>25187498There's hard sci-fi and science-fantasy. Hard sci-fi is stuff like Stanislaw Lem. Science-fantasy is fantasy in space.
prev: >>25180916
>>25190756I care about books but /wwoym/ isn't about books and never has been.
>>25190674idk after the first time i didn't careyou're probably right but my brain is kinda fried from years of being lonely and this is more positive attention than i've ever had
>>25190756>dictate canonical lists like fascist professorsyour argument for this can be applied to literally any popular thing
>>25188528>one thing let to anotherYou got fucked in the ass? If so you're hyper gay.
>>25191005bro i guess
I love how James Joyce created the ultimate pseud detector.
>Finnegan's>'sSurely I'm being baited here. There's no way he can be this fucking stupid.
>>25190841I dont pretend to be an intellectual, I think about anonymously post my record or read books to be judged. Haven't done it though.
>>25190885He hasn(apostrophe)t read it, that we know.
>>25190951Nothing wrong with posting books anonymously. /lit/ is good because it discourages clout chasing
>>25190831>Dark Academia>Doesn't actually read esoteric books or anythingWhat so that larp was literally just all about fashion?
Karl Ove Knausgård's father is the most terrifying villain in all literature. Judge Holden is a bitch compared to him.
>>25187162>I empathise with both sides, to be honest...You have a moral obligation to tend to your body. I don't have full context but that's the guiding principle.
It's both comforting and infuriating to know that someone who's more of a social retard than me had so much sex. It really does all come down to him being 2m tall, doesn't it?
>>25182106Damn I'm lucky I have the parents I have. Only got slapped once by them when i was 4 for fucking with a hose or some shit. Then my uncle beat me after I threatened him with one of those massaging sticks (should've beat me harder desu). That was the only physical abuse I really ever experienced.
>>25182132>Next thing I know I'm straddled over top of him, raining down blows on him. He was shouting "stop! stop, damnit!" in between punches. I stopped and he caught me with a mean one and blacked my eye. We never came to blows again.My disappointment at realizing that there are no Hollywood tough guy badass villains IRL, and any of my former bullies or abusers I'd ambush with a knife or a gun in Crusader Kings III Royal Edition would just cry, piss and shit themselves and gladly lick it off the ground if it meant survival instead of giving me a "bring it on" speech about how they enjoyed making me suffer was immeasurable.
I love this autistic Norwegian like you wouldn't believe.
Post books you loved as a kid. Comfy thread.
My first "chapter book". I remember loving it, but I only remember a scene with a genie, and that the golden dragon turns into a toad.
>>25187668
It was a mix of liking the art and wanting to eat the peach with this one. I'm starting to want some peach rings now just looking at it.>>25188614I still have my copy of this one!
How did he pull it out of his pocket?
>>25190927Cool library, they saved you from becoming even more of a faggot manchild (you already are one since you’re here after all)
>>25190957>you already are one since you’re here after allIt's okay, we all are in some way. It's the price we pay to survive in this civilization and to go into the internet for the slight possibility of meeting our friendsHave you read Corto? I just remembered Concerto in O Minor for Harp and Nitroglycerin. It's been ~15 years and the story is still stuck in my head, beautiful
>>25190977Indeed, I’m glad you didn’t take it the wrong way, especially since it was also in self derision. And I haven’t actually, I’m aware of it, and I think I do consider checking it out as a child, but never did unfortunately. Alas, that’s about the extent of my knowledge on Corto.
>>25190989I did* consider
>>25190217>What do you seeI got her number. how do you like dem apples?
