Is it possible to separate the art from the artist?
>>24980135>Nobody has even established what that meansIn practice doesn't it just mean engaging in more formalist criticism? Not stooping to biographical criticism of a work, "nothing outside the book" type of mindset. "Read this as if you know nothing about the author"
>>24981249>Erm... it's just in their nature! You can't blame them! They can't HELP IT, it's in their DNA!!!Swallow a pack of straight razors.
>>24978063Yes, unless you're a leftist.
>>24981580It's like you can't even mention Lovecraft at all without someone rushing to try and defend themselves by attacking him.
Why are people such pussies about racism these days?Even saying the word nigger regardless of context is something worse than being a rapist or child abused
Disprove Thomas Aquinas on the existence of God.
>>24983673>eventually you’ll run into reality and face the consequences of the mispredictioni can see no way in which not believing that elephants are dangerous could ever hurt someone who will never meet an elephant. it is not inevitable that having a false belief means you will eventually face a scenario in which that false belief can harm you.
>>24983683No it’s not inevitable, but many of your beliefs will be tested and the consequences will follow. You need to decide wether your faith or not in God will be tested in your life or will you never have to face Him.
>>24983689>many of your beliefs will be tested and the consequences will followit's not inevitable that any of my false beliefs will be tested or that any consequences will follow>You need to decide whether your faith or not in God will be tested in your life or will you never have to face Him.no i don't
>>24983691It is and you will.
>>24983694explain how my belief that elephants aren't dangerous will inevitably be tested
Dastardly New Age Edition>Old:>>24975110>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
>>24983674The Wagner estate needs to find a publisher that could reprint in paperback and sell a few thousand copies. hell even better ebooks that don't have porn covers
I heard they're stopping the distribution of mass market paperbacks in the US, do I have to start buying regular paperbacks now?
>>24983682they've basically been disappearing for at least 20 years now. idea is those who want the cheapest format will just go digital.
>>24983685Lame and gay
>library ladder de-listing videos because's of his algorithm autismwhat the fuck is wrong with these booktubers jfc.
Suggest books you want to read with other anons. Earliest dubs decide.>11 Jan>22 Feb>33 Oct>44 Nov>55 May>66 Dec>77 Jan>88 Aug>99 Feb
Sanderson's Stormlight series (all 5 books)
>>24983622The gets>11 Jan>22 Nov>33 Aug>44 Jan>55 Nov>66 Nov>77 Jan>88 Aug>99 Aug
>the greatest piece of literature ever made was never published and never shown to anyone until it was lost to time/destroyedwhat are the odds of this?
>>24983412Same with any art.
>>24983412Sorry man, I just really, really don't want anyone reading my diary.
>>24983421100%I will never publish and none of you are qualified to read my enlightening tome.
>>24983412Well there was that sensitive young man who wrote a beautiful magnum opus, uploaded it and then threw his laptop into a lake and killed himself. But within a few minutes the site that he uploaded it to automatically deleted it because it exceeded the file size limit. Anybody remember his name?
>>24983412We know with absolute certainty that several books are mentioned in old or ancient texts that have never been found and which would in all likelihood be on the same level of greatness as The Odyssey, The Gilgamesh Epic, King Oedipus. Moreover, most books in history are rotting away unread, uncelebrated, overlooked, forgotten. A lot of beauty stayed forever in whatever time it shined. The steam engine has been invented three times over, while many a song or tale of tremendous wit and beauty echoed away silently.
What the fuck is wrong with this Scottish faggot? Why did he glom onto Islam so hard all of a sudden?
>>24982614We all know the Scottish aren't as diverse because its way too cold and too poor so they all fuck off to England.
>>24982004are you fucking retarded? david hume
>>24983625more like David Fume considering how often he would huff his own thoughts.
>>24982004>>24982663He's from Weeeeyulz
>>24983677Same thing, Celtics that lost their language and seethe about it constantly. They are England's version of White Americans claiming they are Native Americans.
What works are similar to his? I’ve already read DOTW and Man and Technics. I’ve heard of Yockey and his Imperium, and of course Toynbee’s A Study of HistoryI’m not even concerned about whether any similar books are correct in their theories. I’m just autistically obsessed with the morphology of history.
>>24982314Ortega y Gasset has some essays that espouse some kind of morphology of history. I don't know if they have been translated into English, but "El Tema de Nuestro Tiempo" and "España Invertebrada" are great. He also says that Spengler's ideas had already been outlined by Leo Frobenius, but I haven't read him.
>>24982449Ah. The 11 year old again.
>>24982314His main idea is "whipipo bad"
>>24982759Try reading before making these stupid posts
>>24982314I've seen a lot of influence in Heidegger and Jünger. Heidegger - Frage nach der technik and Jünger - Totale mobilmachung. Don't know much about conservative revolution but these writers are supposedly concerned alot with Spenglers themes.
Reading Translations is not reading.
>>24983605I can't because I'm addicted to the internet.
>>24983664learn German online. Anki is like vidya. You can watch goyslop in German
You can not understand Western Civilization without the Germans, to which the Romans are a perquisite. Though to understand the Romans one must first master the Greeks. How to understand the Greeks? The Jews. In fact one must master the entirety period from Gobekli Tepe (12000BC) to Jerich (9000BC) to Tel Hazor (till 732BC) and Jersualem (till 70AD). Only then can one reasonably start with the Greeks. This will require reading about The Neolithic and primitive man. The Bronze Age Empires, and their lineages. Egyptians, Sumero-Akkadians, Hittites, Jews, and then, reading the Greeks becomes possible.
>>24983623Ancient Israelites are not modern Jews
>>24983623The thing about the Jews is that they really are the oldest people in existence. Hebrew really was the language spoken at the Tower of Babel. The Jews are descended from Abraham who was descended from Noah. They actually were a race chosen by God.They went wrong when they faced a choice: to follow God or remain earthly. Just like Adam's choice once was. And their answer was, "We have no king but Caesar."
>>24983638>>24983634I truely do not give a fuck.
>>24983643>spiteful mutant in my thread
>>24983657>spiteful mutantyou jews always tell on yourselves
Anyone else get seemingly random words in their mind when writing? They are words that shine through and make not too much sense in a vacuum, but for this sentence, this placement alone, it works somehow. It's like some kind of unconscious writing choice of word thingy. The word just pops up in my mind and fits into the sentence perfectly even though it's a strange word or perhaps it'd not usually be chosen to be used in that way. What'd you call it? Gut feeling?
>>24983592Great post frognigger
Is contemporary philosophy worth getting into or are they (contemporary philosophers) too human to take seriously, in a way? Where do I start? I don't even mean popular philosophers, but the people in the literal trenches and maybe even younger than myself at this point.
>>24980433>I'm sorry but this is entirely the fault of the Analytic philosophers. Continental philosophy has demonstrated itself to be incredibly welcoming to other fields, drawing heavily on psychoanalysis, literature, art, music, etc,>psychoanalysis, literature, art, music, etc,You're so accomodating you don't even do real philosophy anymore.>The Analytics are some of the most incurious people in the world. When asked about reading Kant in a Q&A, Kane BLiterally who? You seem entirely out of touch with the history of analytic philosophy, as they've been talking about Kant for more than half a century now. Plenty of the EARLIEST proponents of Analytic Philosophy were neo-kantians of a sort, specifically Carnap and Frege. The biggest boom in "analytic philosophy" the past decade or two has been in readings of Hegel. See Brandom's A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology as an example, which he just published a few years back, but he's been lecturing on Hegel for well over a decade as he's been writing the book.
>>24980433>When asked about reading any theory at all, ChomskyChomsky certainly isn't an analytic philosopher. He's not a philospher at all in fact. It's telling you don't even talk about a single analytic thinker in your post. For all the complaints about "the analytics being incurious" you don't have the faintest clue of what you're talking about. How about you get your head out of your ass and read Wilfrid Sellars.
>>24978647"Contemporary philosophy" is just a black and white reel of some dumb roid monkey doing arm presses sitting down with some dogshit text about making money or being "alpha" over it in white letters while a sad, mysterious tuba toots in the background.Philosophy is dead.
>>24978647FTFY
>>24978647I think 'too human to take seriously' is a major flaw in your mindset that needs to be addressed before anything else. Every single philosopher is just as human as contemporary ones, even if they don't flaunt their subjectivity the way it's trendy to do in the modern day. The Western post-Enlightenment mind glorifies intellectual dignity and strength to be able to take ideas 'seriously' and feel vicariously dignified/strong as an individual, but that's a trap for your brain to take lazy shortcuts and be overly persuaded by any self-assured 'serious' argument. Sorry to lecture, but anyway Jacques Ellul is a must-read, if that counts as contemporary for you
First, the Big Bang; expansion of space-time.Before its heated course we cannot say.Our laws are broken at its conceptionAnd it's expanding is continuing.Though we know it expanded much fasterIn those primordial moments of timeWhen the first particles became and danced.Four forces bind matter and energy;Gravity - Newton's misunderstood child Electromagnetic - charge of atoms Strong nuclear force - Joycean etymon Weak nuclear force - radioactive Sculpted into reality by GodLike the stone faces hewn on Mount Rushmore
A man without love is like sleep without dreamUnrequited love is the nightmare See yond that setting sunThat is where I hang my dreams
>First, the [atheist creation fantasy]Stopped reading there.
>>24982711The Big Bang supports the idea of your god.The atheist believes in a big expanse of nothing before the bang, whereas the Christian believes in a dude existing prior to the bang that He made happen. Sure a Christian believes this all happened about 5000 years ago and only took a week to sort itself out, but it is the same concept.(Both wrong of course)
>>24983270>The Big Bang supports the idea of your god.I'm not a Cathokike, and Big Bang Theory is a retarded, crass naturalistic estimation that isn't able to be verified.
>place where the dwarves made a huge mistake>ERRebor>place where the elves made a huge mistake>ERRegionBravo Tolkien
>>24978663Frfr Mouthron would have been bussin
>>24979320Eregas
>>24983503your more like a fant ass ist ahahahaha fag
I know this is a meme, but you should see the shit christopher paolini came up with in eragon.
>>24978628>There are undead all over Mordor.>But in the vale of shadows, there is Minas MoreGhouls
ruins edition FAQ:>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: >>24868365
>>24981917It probably wouldn't be as much "allow" as "unable to stop because reasons". The colonial power might originally have stoked the religious conflict by giving preferential treatment to the minority side to cause division and make the country easier to rule, but then things just got out of hand.
>>24981917Maybe they want to get the people themselves to destroy any opponents to their rule. Divide and Conquer has been a critical imperialist doctrine for as long as there were empires.
>>24981917Why would they bother to intervene if they can just arm their allies?Look up the Cold War.
>>24970029What does your setting do for the Christmas equivalent? Assuming it has one?
I've decided that it's impossible for humans to overthrow a superior alien race. The usurpation will have to be accomplished by the middlemen once the alien conquerors are weakened.
I love the detail in Two Towers where we learn that even the Orcs are afraid of Minas Morgul and the Nazgul. One of the Morgul Orcs remarking about how disturbing he finds the Nazgul's presence, and what it's like to take orders from them.
The orcs without the central authority of Saruman or Sauron end up just scattering into the countryside. They need that whip behind them to get anything done on a larger scale. Otherwise the orcs are fairly content with just raiding with the lads on a smaller scale without stress without fear.
