Al Ghazali refutes his contemporary followers of Greek philosophy, asserting that religion and faith in God is superior to philosophy in regards to metaphysics and knowledge of the divine. The 11th century text from a Muslim polymath basically describes my view on Greek philosophy as a Muslim myself, and this book is highly popular in the intellectual circles of Muslim countries like Pakistan. Especially in regards to students of Islamic mysticism.I reject the polytheist, pederast cult of the ancient Greek philosophers that pervades the ruling class and Western academia (and /lit/) in favor of faith in God and religious studies, which leads us to Al Ghazali's magnum opus: The Revival of Religious Sciences. A subject for another thread.>Start with the Greeks!They always say. With such commanding arrogance, as if looking down on you as an unenlighted peon.>Start with the Greeks!Thick tomes of indoctrination slammed on the psyche of young liberal arts students, not-to-secretly inlaid with ancient and revolting perversions and cult idol worship. Minerva? Athena? Zeus? I worship God! Not unliving statues! What backwards, primitive nonsense at its foundation, twisted into an image of sophisticated cultural heritage.>Start with the Greeks!No! Start with prayer, start with the prophets. Start with the Scripture and read it and re-read it for life. There you will actually find spiritual satisfaction, sufficient answers for sincere truth seekers.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24737915The take off was with rejecting Aristotle. Machiavelli, Galileo, Descartes, Bacon, Hobbes, all of them rejected Aristotle to get modernity off the ground, for better or worse.
>>24737577>intellectual circles of Muslim countries like PakistanHahahhahaha...
>>24737665While Europe was in a state of trance called the dark ages, and sitting in its own filth, not even bothering to wash, places like Baghdad teemed with intellectual nourishment.
>>24737668>Western nations>kill each other for centuries>acquire technology so powerful they collectively decide it's useless to continue>muslim nations>no brainpower therefore no such advancements>continue killing each other
>>24738444And then...
Is there really any difference between spending 2 hours reading a great book vs 2 hours reading a shit book vs 2 hours watching a movie vs 2 hours watching TV vs 2 hours scrolling? Any way you're just killing time, not really accomplishing anything.
>>24736341No, that's the definition of insanity.
>>24736099yes
>>24736509she'd pick Chad. People outside of limp-wristed pretentious literary circles don't care about being cultured, they care about a system of appearance attributes, the most important of which is the physique. A man with a good body, firm shoulders, who takes care of himself. A man with a good jawline, plenty of hair on his head, eyes that're just the right shape, good, strong genetics. Cultured or needy, athletic or whatever? That's just window dressing.So, the real answer to your little word game is simple, really. It's whoever's more jacked. And some 6'5" Naruto-inspired gymshark is gonna mog you and your pinterest-friendly sweater any day. Books are cool, I guess, as a hobby. Just don't expect to get any bitches on your dick. If you want that, just put on audiobooks at the gym or whatever.
>>24738130TRVKE
>>24736509Just create a naruto trend on tiktok
Behold, the logical conclusion of secular philosophy.
>>24738176>Beholdyou need to get in the capsule anon
>>24738426>beholdyou need to get in the brazen bull diogenes
>>24738203I too wanted to when my ex girlfriends made me go to the mall with them
>>24738341>Muslims are against homosexuality Yet, many engage it in it regardless. Curious. And fuck little boys. Very curious.
>>24738176Suicide booths? Based. Put me in.
Which do you find to be more interesting?
>>24737688>A desire to poop would only arise from resistance to pooping in the first placeA desire to poop happens when you feel like pooping in order to relieve that feeling. The same could be said about when you're feeling horny, so you get a desire to have sex, so you masturbate to remove that feeling. You could hold the poop in, you could not masturbate. I have a desire to poop in the toilet when I get the desire to poop to remove the feeling that I have to poop, so I poop in the toilet. So Buddhists who poop in the toilet are acting on a desire, to remove the feeling of the poop, and also the desire of cleanliness and the desire of social responsibility, etc. because you could poop on the floor or your pants.
>>24737688>I would guess that any emphasis on reincaration is maliciousHow would emphasizing the truth be malicious?
>>24737717Holding it in is also a desire. It takes work and effort to do so out of the desire to not poop your pants. The only solution to this is to let it flow naturally and thoughtlessly.
>>24737688Buddhists believe that when stripped of the concept of reincarnation, the notion of eternal suffering in the material world begets suicide as a simple and logical solution to this problem. Reincarnation allows them to say that even if you did kill yourself, it would not help you. Western philosophy does not have this line of thought to fall back on when confronted with the issue of purpose.
So is Buddha a monist or no?
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.
>>24736537consult this while reading whatever https://imperium.ahlfeldt.se
the map of meanings for 'ratio' as used by Cicero is making me seethe
>>24736493I forget what the specific term is but you would miss out on when characters are just used for their sound because it's similar to another one (only used in old texts)Like using 见 for 现 because it's jian and xianAlso almost every character in cc can be used as a noun, adjective, and maybe verb so it might be quite difficult to do that
>>24736138[ɛː]
>>24738309I almost said this in my response, which of course would mean certain poetry might fall flat. But besides that the meaning component is just visual and the semantic component becomes irrelevant to reading anyways, since there’s no semantic challenge.What was proposed is basically the equivalent of just doing Remembering the Hanzi and never learning the pronunciations.
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.
>>24737855>the Irish are incapable of workingThis is true.
>>24737357Then why were actual aryans violent, brutal and war-mongering patriarchal conquerors and savages?>dey was brownCope.
>>24737996Like is the majority of the plebs, but this is a truth few people want to admit. They are lazy, fat and retarded and if it wasn't for the present guise of a more Aryan leadership, they would live in shitty mudhuts wallowing in their own laziness.
>>24737960I guess im a nigger then
>>24738432You most definetly are predominantly nigger or, as Gobineau put it, a bleached mestizo of Europe.
What's Poe's best story?
>>24738267Why do we have to live among these things
>>24738267Jeet or chicano?
Cask of Amontillado
How to Write a Blackwood Article
Why do books get more depressing as you travel east?
>>24736580Lmao true
>>24736633>I mean,
>>24736580What? They get more depressing the closer you get to World War 2.
>>24736633
>>24737157Lol you get sick from touching alcohol, Hiromoto
are they out of their minds?
>>24736073I think the difference in literary quality between Bible and Koran is reflected noticeably in the manner the societies they inspired behave. Islamic society is sterile and backwards.
>>24737476I think the sterility of the Islamic world really only became the norm since the 18th century when they were overtaken by rising European / Christian powers. This has been devastating for the intellectual life of the Islamic world, which has become increasingly exoteric, sterile and intellectually bankrupt. Not that the West is doing much better nowadays, but the world created by Christians is markedly superior to that inspired by the Qur'an.
>>24729498My favorite religious text is "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas Kempis.That was an aside.https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1653
The Koran confirms the Torah and the Gospel. It does not present itself as superior or even as a replacement if you actually read it. Religious scholars confirm the truth of books like the Gospel of John, the Johannine Injil, in congruence with Islamic thought.The Christology of the Gospel does not contradict the Koran at all.The Gospel of Luke (Luke 4:8) commands Monotheism. It is quite literally the way of Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, to worship only God and God alone. It is the First Commandment (Exodus 20:3) of Moses, salallahu alayhi wa salam, in the Torah. It is the religion established by Abraham, salallahu alayhi wa salam. Monotheism. God is One. Oneness of God, Tawhid, is the entire religion of Islam.It does not replace the Scripture, it confirms it, and is assembled directly from divine revelation rather than a later consensus of a theological committee or religious body. It is the Hadith where Islamic scholarly debate takes its form, and it is a secondary work to the Koran. The Hadith is massive.This is why Islam exists, why the Koran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa salam. To guide humanity back to worship of God and God alone, as every prophet has commanded.Muslims do not worship Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam. Muslims worship God, and this is truly following the way of Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, and all prophets.Theologically speaking: Jesus Christ, salallahu alayhi wa salam, was a Muslim and so were all prophets before him. Islam means submission to God. Monotheism. Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa salam. Worship God and God alone. This is the importance of the Koran.
>>24737583You are onto something, and I would like to add that the decline in significance started way earlier. One such moment I would pick is the banning of the printing press, which stunted the Islamic world tremendously. But if you want a reason deeply attached to the religious philosophy, I'd argue Ghazali's influence wasn't good either.
Did he help you with something?
>>24737669Helped me laugh, was reading him just now, hehehe
>>24737669I encountered one of his fanboys awhile ago and he was an irritating pissant. Made me not want to read him even though I have some of his books.
Xianxia Medicine EditionStubbed >>24725258>What is /wng/ — Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24737645>Writing a fight>Constantly getting new ideas on how to make it more dynamic>The way I'm going through it allows the protagonist to get the same ideas in a natural way and look smart while also being realistic
>>24738336Claude is much better with prose.
>>24738376would claude be better at writing pokemon fanfics than he is at beating pokemon red?
>>24737645I usually have good writing feels and today I finally had a bad one.>up last night pacing and orating about the end of my story>in the morning I'm going to write a chapter I'm super excited for>get there>I'm overwhelmed with setting shit up for the climax>need a bunch of exposition and jamming it in is ruining the flow>overall the fight doesn't read nearly as well as I feel it should>still wrote 5k words so I take a break>come back four hours later and decide it needs to be rewritten>start doing a more in depth outline / brainstorming in kwrite>realize what the issues were>one chapter is going to balloon into like five>feel bad until I remember it's a webnovel lmao>third book is going to be like double the size of book oneComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24737759I got you bro I literally have this problem at least twice a year.Pic rel is the succinct answer I can't seem to just memorize.
Is transcendentalism based and kino or gay and cringe?
>>24733607Emerson is great to read about.
The new fears the self-sufficient* wild bean farmer
Reading Thoreau is pretty comfy.
Emerson's poetry is great, as soon as he starts to wax philosophical in an essay or letter that's when you can feel the pretension approaching.
>>24734591>trannyism is when Burgers
I’ve been getting told to „embrace tradition” for like 10 years now, after all this time I’ve decided totake religion more seriously. So seriously in fact that I started looking into biblical scholarship. What Ifound out was surprising, I have no idea what I was expecting, but one of the interesting facts Ilearned is that the gospel of Mark was written first, both Matthew and Luke used it as a source.This has been proven, in my understanding, basically beyond a shadow of a doubt. It also hasprofound implications as to how to interpret the bible on the whole, since with the knowledge thatboth the authors of Matthew and Luke had Mark in front of them, we must now make sense of thechanges and differences between those and Mark, since this would make them editorial changes.This makes a lot of the bible make more sense and was very eye-opening as far as understanding thetext goes.I could talk about the implications of this single discovery further, but this isn’t the point of thethread. The point is: only after re-reading the bible in this light did I realise, the catholic church insiststhat Matthew was in fact first, going against pretty much all scholarship on the matter, I assume inorder to place the founding of the church by Saint Peter arbitrarily early.
I embrace tradition by studying different traditions but unfortunately the only tradition I have been initiated into is the French restaurant traditionTradition is mostly dead in the modern world
>>24738137Tradition is degenerate. You should go live on a farm and drink a gallon of raw milk every morning.
Buddy. If you have to ask, you ain’t traditional
>>24736107can you show me where you found this? im curious and would like to know more
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I had a dream that I was a serial killer, only I wasn't a serial killer. It was actually a living lifelike doll that looked like me who went out and killed people. I discovered it in an abandoned basement inside of a broken closet, it saw me and started to chase after me.
>>24738363It knows how to find you in your sleep now
I miss you.
Can I put some moldy bread from my fridge on the gash on my leg? I think that's penicillin or something.
>>24738378Well, I did manage to fight it off, but not kill it. If it comes back again I hope to be better prepared for it.
The hotel staff, I think, considers us useless freeloaders who have come to America – land of honest laborers with crewcuts – to eat them out of house and home. I know all about this. Everyone bitched about parasites in the USSR too, bullshitted about how you had to be useful to society. In Russia the people who bitched were the ones who worked least. I've been a writer for ten years now. It's not my fault that neither state needs my labor. I do my work – where's my money? Both states bullshit about the justice of their systems, but where's my money?
I am an actual nazbol tankie Russian and I hate Liminov because he had gay sex with blacks
>>24738395What part of FICTIONAL memoir don't you understand?
>>24738390Limonov actually embodies the very issue of the current Ukraine-Russia conflict, being born in Ukraine to a Russian AND Ukrainian. He could easily have gone to the Ukrainian side, but he didn't want to be on the side of losers, so he chose the winning side. Just like Gogol.
>>24738398the part where it veers into embarrassing non-fiction disguised as fiction.
>>24738385The Russian Nazbol party is basically a troll party. Underneath the edgy imagery it’s basically just a Russian nationalist, SocDem party. You could make an argument it’s socialist in some way, but EL was going on record bitching about the USSR constantly.
