Behold, the logical conclusion of secular philosophy.
>>24738180This but replace "people who believe in god" with "atheists" and "niggers".
>>24738176Is that the suicide chair? And is that quote literally on the suicide chair? wtf?
>>24738176Logical? Show me the derivation.
>>24739553Steppe nomads were post-agricultural The Mesolithic ‘massacre sites’ people bring up show small-scale raids or massacres, not warfare as an institution. They’re rare enough that archaeologists highlight them precisely because they’re exceptions in an otherwise thin record.
>>24740039>they're small scaleguess what when the population is tiny there isn't going to be ww2 style mass graves dude, you're just falling for the same "primitive ppl were all hippies" stuff that's been going on since rousseau
>"Directly after copulation, the devil's laughter is heard"What did he mean by this?
>>24739678copulation with someone you love feels better and fills you with meaningfulness.copulation with a whore forces you to reflect on your pathetic animalistic nature, diminishing your spirit and connection to divine purpose.
>>24739690if you're a man, both fill you with meaningless.masturbation makes you feel worse but there's still no wholesomeness in the afterparty either way.
>>24739700masturbation is the same. You are just masturbating with a living fleshlight.
>>24739707somehow it isn't the same (you can't trick your instinct, there's a real life woman there)
>>24739442Pretty sure humans envy/wanting to be something other that what they are is their defining trait
The more I read Kant, the more I realize he was on a wholenother level. Everything before was kid's play. It really separates the men from the bois.
And, right now even, more people are reading Kant right now, this instant, than ever in the history of mankind.
>>24739693nta but yeah. The booked sort of memed itself into me.
>>24739686Perform the synthesis!
>>24739686I got into Kant because of these shill threads, originally to figure out what must be wrong with the guy, then to figure out what must be right with him, which led me to the other idealists. The price of entry is high, you will think you understand and then have to completely rethink everything multiple times. Fun stuff, in a masochistic sort of way.
>>24740002me too
Nietzsche was so based
>>24739851maths is way harder than being a philosophy guy. it is what it is
Nietzsche only became popular because he provided a pseudointellectual justification for the morally impoverished direction in which the elites were dragging society.
>>24738067How do you parse the multiple beings you encounter? That's also your own construction.
>>24738173>have brain in a fixed region of time/space>have brain which creates orderings based on its time/space>create symbol-independent game of space-time orderings>woah like, i have access to direct reality man
>>24739962It's not, and my proof is that it's comparatively much more easy to be a meaningful contributor to some field in maths. You don't have to be mathematics' top guy to make a contribution. In philosophy, you get primarily non-meaningful contributions of cataloguers who analyze concepts, guys who wax eternal about what a previous thinker meant, various ists, le epic "what if we combined x and y philosophies" and droves of charlatan retards. Serious contributions are generally massive winner-takes-all scenarios in philosophy
Uncial edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24697657>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
nova pellicula calvi:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5o9XTF_t_Y
>>24739307the face of the smuggest pedophile
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>>24735700>Older Imperial Aramaic has inscriptions and stuff from the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid empires, probably not that interestingAn Assyrian told me he watched the Passion of the Christ without subtitles, so useful in an abstract way.
Why is there a sudden interest in Hegel on /lit/? It seems there's so many posts about him lately. Not that I'm complaining, he's pretty neat, I'm just curious. The same thing is happening with Schopenhauer.>Everyone please read John Owen also, kek.
>>24739845>Hegel didn't use...Let me stop you right there. Not only was he trained in it he expanded upon it.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic
>>24739968Hegel subsumes nothingness without truly confronting it ontologically altho perhaps ontically and meta-physical/psychological-ly he has many truths...
>>24739968Western philosophy after Hegel feels like an afterbirth desu.
>>24740014Read yr own link (pic related)
>>24740017He doesn't "subsume" it, it drives literally everything.
Perhaps we were too harsh on the Greeks…for years I sifted through the Symposium, offhand references to Ganymede, and even dialogue in Cicero, but then I saw this picture, and I understood the Greeks intuitively…
>>24731840>They were to the Greeks>>To a Boy: Your condition is rather delicate, and it’s because, I am sure, your sandal pinches; new leather, you know, is quite likely to cut into flesh that is tender. That is why Asclepius readily heals wounds received in war and hunting and all such accidents, but neglects these others because of the voluntariness of the action—as due to indiscretion rather than to a god’s capricious malevolence. Why then don’t you walk barefoot? What grudge have you against the earth? Slippers and sandals and top-boots and shoes are for the wearing of invalids or the aged. Philoctetes, at any rate, is pictured in such protective garb—because he was lame and ill. But the philosopher from Sinope and the Theban Crates and Ajax and Achilles are pictured as wearing no shoes, and Jason as wearing but one. For the story goes that, when Jason was crossing the Anaurus River, one boot was caught by the mud and held fast under the stream, and so he had one bare foot—not that he deliberately chose to have, but that chance taught him what was best; and he went his way the victim of a salutary robbery. Let nothing come between the earth and your bare foot. Fear not, the dust will welcome your tread as it would welcome grass, and we shall all kiss your footprints. Ο perfect lines of feet most dearly loved! Ο flowers new and strange! Ο plants sprung from earth! Ο kiss left lying on the ground!>Philostratus, Letter 18brehgreeks were the original footfagswhat an interesting civilization
>>24738002Look at that bogged nose. Disgusting.
BRUH
Liking feet is normal and not a fetishReturn to tradition
>>24736282That was one verbose meth addict.>>24738198Did you at least make them pay for your snacks?
I was quite surprised, after thoroughly reading through the masterworks of this King, by some falsely considered the godfather of nazism, to promote an almost full equality of the female gender and describe the Aryan Germain as an otherwise tolerant, non-nationalistic, unprejudiced towards foreign nations, individualist man who doesn't go to the temples and resents priests with a passion. He wants nothing other than to contribute to his community and who would, if necessary, even sacrifice his life and all his wealth for it. He is a man who does not love authority and who is good to his slaves. Spreading the message of justice and fair government, with violence if necessary, is the true Aryan's sole concern. They lived inside their rural farms, democratically organized under the head of an uninfluential federative King. Unfortunately there are not many of them left, as Gobineau explains in his book. To say of oneself that one is an Aryan, is almost the same as claiming to be a true genius. But who other than a true Aryan would dare to accept such worldview? Combining the idea of racism with a love for all humanity is a step few people dared to make.
>>24739802The English had it right the first time. You tell 'em.
>>24739184Thats because you seem to view people in terms of class which is a common European mistake. Marx might have had a point here or there but biological science points elsewhere.
>>24738446I couldn't care less what he thinks because paternity tests are illegal in his country all things considered
>>24739802>Also about the attitude of the superior to the inferior races, the Negroes, for instance. R. says the greatest triumph for the intellectually superior person is to win the love and devotion of those beneath him, whereupon the Count [Gobineau] says such love can be found among Negroes, but not mulattoes.>We come back to the subject of race, wondering which theory is right, Schopenhauer’s or Gobineau’s. R. feels they can be reconciled: a human being who is born black, urged toward the heights, becomes white and at the same time a different creature.>‘Negro slave owners etc. as extreme consequence of the conqueror’s becoming far more savage than the animals.’
>>24737357Ugly chinless blob thinks he's ''the master race'', many such occurrences
Without.... You know without p-a-y for them
>>24737351books are cheap, they look great on your shelf, and it's much more immersive to hold a book in your hand than some faggy kindle. I 100% undestand torrenting games, as in our times even if you buy the game on steam then you don't really actually own it. And also games are pretty expensive.
https://standardebooks.org/
>>24738982None of what you said makes any sense. Piracy isn't supposed to be a way to "make money" and if it ever was it was just people in markets selling burned DVDs or camrecorded movies from the Cinema. That hasn't been the case for a long while now, and piracy is for people who want things for free. How on earth were you making money from it? Do you live in the third world?
https://standardebooks.org/https://www.gutenberg.org/https://archive.org/
>>24738952>reading books in pdf and not epubThe state of this board
Been reading this slowly over the past month or so and now that I'm coming to the end I would like to ask for any good books about what happened after Alexander's death since I know practically nothing about it apart from the inevitable splitting up of the empire.
>>24739272>>24739323I also believe some of Plutarch’s lives cover the Diadochi although I haven’t read Plutarch.
>>24739323thank you I'll definitely have a look at getting this, are there any more modern books you'd recommend for me to read as well?
>>24739272The same author wrote Alexander to Actium, which covers everything from 323 to 30BC.
>>24739463To be honest with you, I haven’t read any modern books on this subject. Diodorus was my introduction to the wars of the Diadochi. The Oxford World Classics edition of Diodorus does contain 100+ pages in footnotes, so there’s that.
I read this several years ago. I remember it being pretty good. Very readable. Another modern one I have yet to read is “dividing the spoils” by Robin Waterfield
I have read almost all of the relevant texts of Vedantic metaphysics and ethics and many of the most relevant texts from the other schools of Hinduism.All of the books that I read fail to address the necessity of grace. The weakness of mankind refutes Hinduism.>This is what I told you in the beginning, that it is in our power either to sin or not to sin, and to stretch out our hand to either good or evil, in order that free will may be preserved; but this is because of the manner and time and condition of human weakness. I also said that the perpetuity of sinlessness is reserved for God alone and for Him, who, as the Word made flesh, was not subject to sin and the defects of the flesh. But just because I can avoid sin briefly does not mean that I can do it continually. I can fast, pray, walk, read, sing, sit, sleep; but can I do these things continually?
>>24736418Based OP
>>24736536>*discussion and debate of high level concepts*>uh... you're a schizo>*displaying a high level of technical knowledge*>uh... you're an autistTired of your anti-intellectual nonsense to be honest. Go scroll tiktok or something. If there was a minimum word count this nonsense would get filtered. If it was only text there would be no obscene imagery. If there was a profanity filter you'd have to write something meaningful and polite. It would be pure, intellectual discussion. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Would be nice to sit and read.As for Hinduism, you'd expect me to be hostile about it as a Muslim. Yet honestly I grieve over conflicts between Muslims and Hindus. There are some who interpret it as Monotheism, an all permeating force, I can see that.
>>24736418Neither sin nor free will are real. I'm not hindu
>>24738590cope
>>24736418This supposes that sin exists at all. Even if it does, it is a different issue to say that sin is so pervasive as to be unavoidable. I think he has convinced himself that many benign thoughts and actions are sin.
It's time for the weekly stack accountability thread! Post last week's stack, this week's stack, and share your progress.The regular stack thread is mostly just people showing off how much stuff they bought. This thread is about being accountable and actually reading.I finished up the last 300 pages of Burton's Wanderings in West Africa. Andrew Robinson's Lost Languages, a book about deciphering lost writing systems, finally came in at the library so it moved to the top of my stack. 70 pages in it's fascinating stuff. I also read 60 pages of Antiques Magpie. It's pretty much just an assortment of factoids and anecdotes about antiques, kind of like what a Reader's Digest overview of antiques would be like. It's not particularly good, but it's decent to pick up when you only have a couple minutes.
I just finished the third book in the Sea of Fertility tetralogy, Temple of Dawn, and the fourth book Decay of the Angel is the smallest yet so I can't wait to get to the ending since I heard many things about it. After that I'll probably read something lighter like Gogo Monster which interests me because it was released all at once when manga is usually released as volumes over several months/years.
>>24734455This shit is unfuckingfair now, I am trying to start with the greeks and I have to read 1 page of plato and then think about it for awhile. I am not crushing the greeks like a pulp novel
>>24737988It's not about reading as much as humanly possible, it's about making progress and being accountable to your stack
>stack threads left and right>stack thread where you actually have to read the books>/lit/ becomes a ghost townWow
>>24738973classic
DUSTROY TROLY
>>24739812>You're a zoomer who does not read literary fiction so of course you'd think thatI have read litfic but I discover that I don't give a shit about human relations and all of the pleb shit that normalfaggots care about. I am interested in more aristocratic emotions and contemplations. >Because you're a left wing faggot false flagging as "based"I am apolitical. I don't care about the personal views of a writer because I am not a direction brained retard. I only care about art. >He's horror fiction for left wing retards filtered by based trad fiction written by right wing chadsMore directioned brained retardedness. I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.
>>24739813>>24739827> I am a true decadent unlike you, I don't care if a writer is a fucking serial killer. I would write his book if it is good.>Prince of Darkness, Thomas Ligotti sitting on the throne of Horror Fiction.>The greatest living author. Ligotti-sama I fucking kneel.
>>24739870I look like this and say this
>>24739870i've been picturing the opposite and yet, in some ways, the same
>>24739870>>24739931Wow it's like Ligotti fans on 4chan look like...typical 4chan posters. They are either underweight or over weight and in all cases they are shut in nerds. Wow very surprising for the normie central 4chan.
Why don't more authors use incest as a plot device?
>>24739681you should marry your cousins there's good evidence it is genetically beneficial and selected for, but the extended ones not your close cousins.Marrying your 1st cousin generation after generation gets you to a bad place.
According to roman era census records of occupied egypt sibling marriage was notably common perhaps 20% of marriages with some 40% of men with a marriable sister actually marrying her.Many challenges have attempted to discredit it the idea but a number of pieces of evidence arose that reaffirmed the sibling marriage pattern such as wedding invitiations, naming pattern quirks and successive census returns of the same household.For a long while I've wondered just how different their society must have been.Do any of you know any books that attempted to tackle a world such as this where the incestuous marriage tabboo was seemingly absent, a woman marrying her brother was just considered a normal part of everyday life without the outcry of fetishism it attracts now?.
>>24739014I heard sibling incest is actually kind of common according to dna tests or something and now imagine the ones who know to use birth control
>>24739741Egypt was all kinds of ass backwards according to the Greeks. Supposedly the men urinated sitting down and women did it standing up. They also thought it strange that Egyptian doctors would specialize in only a single part of the body, such as doctors who only work on teeth.
>>24739005because it's nasty?
Sorcery, Wizardry, Witchcraft, Psionics, and General Magic and Powers 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: >>24567943
>>24739018strange ammo type?
>>24739018Some quick ones:Makes it completely silent Bullets leave a trail only the user can seeGave it the ability to hit non-corporeal beings Seeking shoots The user can make it appear and disappear at will Explosive, elemental, toxic shots The firearms doesn't causes damage, instead, when a bullet hits, the user is teleported where the bullet hits
Litrpg with skill trees, but picking a specific skill tree aligns you with a god and religion. You don't just become a fire mage, but also a worshipper of Marahon.
>>24739157>Gave it the ability to hit non-corporeal beingsHoly shit that's cool. A gun that shoots someone's soul instead of their body.
>>24739234So it's just a skill tree that are locked behind a specific god