Does the origin of consciousness point to a divine source or can it be purely material?
>>24738109Thanks for the false dichotomy, pajeet. Reddit beckons
>>24741584And what do they do now except shit in streets and engage in gang rape?
>>24738109Yes. No.
>>24738109
Dumbest thread on 4chan
I miss him so much bros..
>>24743281I still think it drops off massively. First two volumes are so astonishingly strong. He had all the pieces there, but book 3 could have a smoother arc/ending, and 4 feels unfinished. Peak talent, not peak delivery
After reading Sun and Steel, I can't help but pity Mishima. His ideals could never survive in this world.
>The rain stopped. Etsuko turned and looked at the way the sunlight was streaming through a rift in the clouds. It came to rest on the residential streets of suburban Osaka like an extended, powerless, white hand.How does he do it?
>>24743396He has the Japanese poetic tradition at the back of his mind. Most novelists are totally divorced from the poetic or religious, they're just transcribing the prosaic thought-world of modern life, but Mishima was concerned with the sacred.
>>24742021Nīgaman
Weekly World News ed. Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)Old: >>24702117
>>24743476There are definitely a lot of Lovecraft stories I like more than At the Mountains of Madness but that's the only one I've read you could call novel-length. I want to read The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Anyone read this? The story where the guy rapes, kills, and cannibalizes the little girl in the prison cell is the worst one. My favourite was probably either the Luftwaffe pilot's dream or the story about the downed B-25 pilot in the Sahara. Pretty grim reading. I found and bought a used copy of 120 Days of Sodom a few months ago, by the way – it couldn't possibly be worse than The Eyes, could it?
Considering reading this as my October full-length horror read. A few years ago I read maybe the first quarter of the book, and while I didn't get very far I liked what I read and I think I'll give it a go once I'm finished my current reads.
>>24743476That's funny, I have the complete opposite opinion on The Shining and the film adaptation. After reading the novel, you kind of realise that the film really isn't very good, that the characters are a lot more two-dimensional, and that the supernatural scenes in the novel are a lot more atmospheric and creepy than in the film adaptation (not to mention some really sick scenes with the topiary animals that were completely cut from the film, as well as a different ending that I thought was definitely worse than the novel's ending.)Of Evenson's Last Days, I thought that the first half was a lot stronger than the second half, that he wrote years later for some reason. The first half also has an amazing ending, it's a shame he wanted to add more crazy stuff to it that makes it feel a bit over the top in my opinion.(I also agree that 'Salem's Lot is a better novel than Pet Sematary. Saying that Mountains of Madness is Lovecraft's worst story is insane though.)>>24744165Hey, are you the person who I was talking to in the Dark/Disturbing threads years ago? If so, good to see you again. If not, cool to see someone else read that book. I know I haven't.
>>24744210>Hey, are you the person who I was talking to in the Dark/Disturbing threads years ago?Probably am. I actually managed to snag a physical copy, which was cool, cause it has a really kino cover, its contents notwithstanding.
Why is Piers Anthony writing pedophilia literature like FIREFLY? I thought he was just a normal fantasy/sci-fi author. What the literal fuck?
um, based?
It's hard to find similar books that portray a confused main character that have reached the highest of the high but still cannot fulfill that emptiness and is ached by a female
Axël?
So all his books are just complaints about women and how he can't fuck because he's old and how much better things were in the past?He seems to love self-loathing but offers no solutions for the future.
>>24742116>just complaints about women and how he can't fuck because he's old and how much better things were in the past?Don't forget cuckery, he is a frog. What were you expecting?
>>24742116If there were solutions for the future he wouldn't have started writing in the first place
>>24742142/thread
>>24744147There IS a solution, it just wouldn't be pretty. Most people are timid and seek comfort by nature and faint at the sight of blood, so doing what would have to be done at this point doesn't even enter their minds, and when they're told it, it horrifies them.
>>24744157>billions must die
I compared it to ancient Greek literature and I just see the Hebrew Bible as totally devoid of empathy except in Genesis. The Greeks acknowledged and depicted the brutality of war but there is always a sense of the suffering that the losers have to go through, even when they’re the enemies of the Greeks. In the Hebrew Bible it’s just so psychopathic toward people the Jews are fighting and unrelentingly vindictive like, “blessed is he who smashes thy little ones’ heads against the stones.”
>>24741412>>24743367>you spiritual shekel grabberAnd I don't mean you, I mean anyone who is a 'good person' solely for glory in heaven.
>>2474309490% of the cause for this is faked internet propaganda, anti-semitism is an IQ test
>>24743366Christianity was spread by the sword after it became the official state ideology. For the hundreds of years prior to that, it was quite pacifist
>>24741293People always adopt values contrary to their character, jews made compassion the highest vertu because they are soulless sociopaths.
>>24741293must be the jews
I need some great history and historical fiction series. Thanks in advance.
>>24744076Wallersteins The Modern World System
>>24744076The Alexander Romance
>>24744076The one and only, Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Cadfael series
>>24744135Those are cool, I just ordered Will Durant’s Story of Civilisation. Have you tried it?
Thoughts on Sanskrit?
>>24743538DId it have an influence on Latin?
>>24743574Not to my knowledge, though I know the ancient Greeks and Romans did have contact with India.
>>24743518See picrel >>24742519More infos on the triangle?
>>24743849What on Earth does this even mean?
>>24743503unironically yesyoutube.com/watch?v=4qp_6q9Bds4
Whoever is seething saying the God Delusion is cringe just gets filtered by Dawkings apalling personality & has never read it. He goes into extravagent depth with citations on everything and visciously debunks Christianity & Islam with archeological, geological, historical & other scientific evidence from every applicable field possible to the point where it becomes as blatently fake as Mormonism. He also dives into the church organizations themselves & their history of horrendous corruption. You will come out a changed person when you see religions. They are nothing but cults. It's a must read.
>>24743124The lack of responses to this post is telling that atheist is just an anti-Abrahamic knee jerk ideology
>>24743111I am not impressed with secular morality and secular ethics.
Why don’t you also point out the fact that Dawkins admitted in an interview Fine Tuning is a solid argument for God.
>>24743124Least disingenuous 4chan comment, why lie like this?
>>24743111The question of wether God exists or not is completely irrelevant. America is the most ungodly place on earth and every American is an atheist in practice.
Hi again,few days ago i posted that i started getting into reading as a hobby and a form of self development despite how cringe that sounds.I read 5 books this year:Nietzsche's ZarathustraBlood MeridianNotes from the UndergroundHungerStrangerNow im trying to read pic related,Any thoughts or counter-recommendations?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24743819The other two I am planning to read next:Nausea by SartreThe Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
>>24743819>I want to develop some love toward being alone, living in solitude and being happy with myself, as im going through a painful period in my life.This is an error and you will regret it. Read Tolstoy, Chesterton and the Confessions of St Augustine. The Consolation of Philosophy perhaps also. Then volunteer at a homeless shelter or doing something for disabled kids, etc, where you can have direct and positive engage with other people. I assume that you're quite young, but you will sorely regret cultivating yourself into the kind of gloomy, aloof loner that you're aiming to be.
>>24744043Not OP but we end up regretting whatever we do.
>>24743819Nice choices. Read Sorrows of Young Werther (for keks), Stoner (for feels), and Tartar Steppe (for reevaluation).
>tell mom about Nick Land because she keeps saying ridiculous Elizabeth Warren-type shit like "we just need more regulators to fix capitalism">she tells everyone in the extended family that I'm a groyper, and she's devastatedDoes this happen in your neck of the woods?
>>24744027Go to bed, Nick.
>>24743456Tell her that groypers are based.When she asks "based on what?" you should laugh at her maniacally.
>>24743875God that would be fucking awful. I think he went to Austin which leans toward Rogan which is much much more kino.
>>24744117even worse its patrick bet david
>>24743456>Does this happen in your neck of the woods?No.All my mums are autonomist.
Welcome to /pg/, where we read, write, and discuss pulp fiction.No, not the Tarantino film, but the classic genre stories from early 20th-century magazines printed on cheap wood *pulp* paper. These tales offered thrills for the common man and let imaginations soar. Though the magazines are gone, the spirit lives on, and here at /pg/, we explore the worlds, characters, and stories they inspired. So come on in and join the discussion!READ PULP!- The Eldritch Dark: http://www.eldritchdark.com/- Luminist Archives - Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction: http://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/- Luminist Archives - Fiction Magazines: http://www.luminist.org/archives/PU/- The Pulp Magazines Project: https://www.pulpmags.org- Project Gutenberg Sci-fi: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/68LISTEN TO PULP!- The Cybrarian’s Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmd1kGz5gLg - HorrorBabble's Clark Ashton Smith: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeNNKRLWxwoMd3hyVZOXrZKy3TJfeTxRd&si=pHdZhOqvZyZ4Zv2vComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24743969Indeed.
Nice to see the general is back. Are you one of the original anons from this thread?
>>24744091I posted replies in previous threads, but never contributed any work. I just copied the last thread because I want to discuss pulp.One of the works of a previous anon, "The Skull" popped into my mind in the shower a few nights ago, and I've been reading much Conan recently, so..
>>24744100When was the last thread made? A few months by now?
>>24744148Many months ago.Sadly it doesn't seem that there are that many people on /lit/ who are very keen on the pulps. The Sword & Sorcery / fantasy generals seem to do very well though.
Any books like this that are NOT the Audition book or Ryu Murakami?
>>24743246I attempted to earlier this year as a quick, easy read but fucking hell, the writing was infuriatng. I can see how it inspired Stephen King. And I could already tell the vampires were going to be used as an analogy for blacks and hispanics making LA a considerably worse place to live but "they've got feelings too!" I lost interest when he mentioned how he wanted to fuck a female vampire for the umpteenth time.
I read it years ago. I remember liking it. I could appreciate how it inspired the zombie genre.
