Behold! The brilliancy of Danielle Chelosky's genius! Terror is one of my favorites from Danielle's little book called Female Loneliness Epidemic, and it is little. It's only 4in by 7in and 0.25in thick
>>24951965How many pages is it? Very redundant opening but decent prose
>>24952020Well I never reposted it, but I just want you to personally tell you thanks - you made one homo in the world happy. Your dimensions are practically perfect. You should have no problem making some girl happy.
>>24952077Women enjoy my penis but not my personality/person. I assume part of the problem is I struggle to cum from vaginal sex. Blowjobs do nothing for, a handjob even less. The only way I've cum from vaginal sex was by withholding from masturbating for 3-5 days.>>24952073The prose is like that throughout but almost every "story" is something like "I'm going to have anonymous sex with this random hot guy or artsy guy...wait why doesn't he want to be my husband??? Why is he treating me like a whore??? Ugh I'm so fucking lonely and my life sux :( big cry" In total it is 87 pages. Most stories are about 3-4 pages long. Most stories feel the same.
>>24952102I forget to attach a Danielle again
>>24952102You truly have an alpha male dick. People who read a lot tend to have better imaginations and perhaps schizoid and so fantasy > real life. Sometimes makes sex more difficult. One should be grateful for getting that regardless of whether you finish.
Best writers for increasing your vocabulary?
>>24949924David Bentley Hart
words encountered in a 30-page segment from Waverley by Walter Scott: hebdomadal, usquebaugh, latitudinarian, compotation, bibliopolist, manège, varlet, capriole, bartizan, architrave, congé, croupier, nonjuring, spavined, shilpit, sublunary, forisfamiliate
>>24949924Read Frankenstein
>>24949924>>24949931The Economist magazine had a time when it was paraded as an SAT score booster. maybe literature in another language
>>24952135This. Percy Shelley and William Godwin are great.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24943388argentina has sociopathic dna heritage from romans . im argentine but from little town . half of population lives on modern babylon aka Buenos Aires
>>24951736what kind of people live in the villas of BA?
>>24951891Unironically, niggers
>>24951891fresh princes
>>24947942No wonder this place is such a shithole then >T. Boliviano
Prop 1 - Substance is by nature prior to its modificationsSubstance is prior to modificications (modes), this makes both logical and ontological sense, in that substance is that which is in in itself and is conceived through itself, in that it is a self sufficient, self caused entity that cannot be contingent upon anything external. Spinoza presents his proof through definitions 3 and 5 as it logically follows, however here I will give more context. This establishes substance as the ontological foundation of reality in that God is not the divine creator of the world, but rather that god is the world, within all that exists. In such substance which is infinite, eternal and indivisible. This rejects the classic view of god (maybe why he got kicked out of the jewish church) that god sits apart from the world. In this modes, or determinations of substance, are not substances in themselves but exist within the substance, in such they are dependent on its existence. In link to Axiom 1, “Everything that is, is either in itself or in another.” (pls read the other writing on axioms for clarification) which reaffirms the ontological priority of substance over its modes, modes are in substance but substance is not in any mode. This reflects Spinoza's claim that all that exists as finite expressions of the infinite attributes of god, this undermines the notion of a transcendent deity, in that Spinoza's god is positioned as necessary to the constitution of all being.
>>24951508How does it feel to be a human skinwalker?
>>24951508Very wrong. Read Spinoza
>>24951517There is literally nothing wrong in what OP presented.>>24951508Yes, I think this is very straightforwardly reasonable from what Spinoza posits regarding substance, God and his modes. I just think there are gaps in what it means from finite modes being derived from infinite modes and the chain of causation of both and between both being indeterminate/infinite. Now, regarding Spinoza's God, I beileve there is no conception of God deserving more hatred than his and I don't mean in any logical, scientific sense (perhaps this is debatable as it reminds me of Advaita Vendata's conception, although it is more naturalized and would be less inconsistent). If Spinoza's God is true, Marquis de Sade is our only true Christ.
>>24951508>i love spinoza even tho im a materialist!!Where lies the contradiction, exactly? Spinoza was a crypto-nihilist atheist jew.
So they adapted a Pynchon novel for filmI've never read Pynchon before but like"One Battle After Another" - what the FUCK is this turbo jogger leftist power fanstasy bullshit?I always realized Hollywood is a bunch left-leaning cucks but holy fuck they outdid themselves with this one.The level of blatant propaganda is on par with fucking commie films of Stalin's era or something.This guy made "There will be blood" and now this what the fuck. This movie doesn't even feel real, it's a caricature of a movie.Tell me bros is Pynchon cringe plebbitor shit like that and not based? Le speaking truth to power
can direction brains explain what makes this so "left wing"? its usually nonsensical and coming from an uneducated american goycattle perspective, but i really cant understand what makes this leftist in the slightest. just a quick rundown, please.
>>24951857The white army man didn't genocide all the coloreds so to them it's shit
Shit thought I stumbled my way to /tv/ for a second there. Guise it was a movie, with action and meant as entertainment. Was a bit long, even for a lad who gladly will sit through movies. Essentially both sides of your views of the political spectrum were skewed. The xmas nazis, silly, patient, and boring in their muscle cars. The political terrorists, who pulled off an amazing feat at the beginning, (and their story should have ended there), eventually imploded as revolutionary groups tend to do. The system is too much for these groups to grow, like pressure at the edge of a bubble. And when we see Leo become a father and care 0 about the world/their mission, you see he's ready to grow. Nobody else grows. Beverly Hills hangs with younger revolutionaries, ends in her downfall. Lockjaw keeps desiring his past/but cannot reconcile with what his future goals demand he give up. The daughter is parentified, if I may, and is the only 'grown up.' Until the end when Leo and her embrace. The Sensei also was immature, drinking and driving, even though, monthly he was doing what the French 75 did one night. So yes, a FOIL between the left and right, with the intention of realizing both sides are all 'failures' in the eyes of society and so must battle each other in their own battleground in the background. Thus immaturely electing to be on the outside and forever battling society to hold their own identity, hence the title. Fools rush in but they're the only ones with guts do anything at all.
>>24951810Thanks for reminding me the ST SUCKED!
>>24946260>it's another "l-liberals aren't leftists!!" copesode
How do you learn to philosophize? I read philosophy books but i never learn to philosophize. I never learn to use those fancy words like epistomoleogoogy; i only learn what they kinda mean but i never have a sure feeling of it and have to look it up all the time. Is philosophy only for high iq people? I feel utterly lost so much so i don't even bother to talk about it with other people.
>>24948706>subconsciously pre-selecting his new concepts.Elaborate
>>24946026>doesn't know what a solenoid is >a spun piece of copper wireyou are retarded
>>24946724>human calculatorWhat do you "calculate" when proving that the union of any set of open sets is open? Or that every bounded sequence of reals has a convergent subsequence? Math is the interrogation of the properties of mathematical structures using reason, which is something you (hopefully) also use when studying philosophy >Mechanical descriptions are not philosophyIt is for most employed philosophers, but you are partially right. If you aren't really interested in logic or rigor you can safely ignore it, much like how the rest of the world can safely ignore you
>>24946724Socrates made a distinction between pure mathematics and applied mathematics, it is the oldest distinction of them I've come across, Socrates has a bit of disdain for the human calculator while the pure mathematics elevates the soul to truth and philosophy
>>24946020It depends upon what sort of "philosophy" as a practice you are seeking to emulate. For example, Analytic philosophy has the study of Logic precede everything else, and possibly even contain everything else.
It's that time of year again! Vote for which books you wish to see on this year's top 100 chart. You can vote for as many books as you want. If there are any books not on the list that you wish to vote for, request the author and title ITT and they will be added. Responses can be changed after submitting.Voting closes on the New Year, after which will be the tiebreaker poll. To prevent spamming, a Google account is required to vote, but will not be collected or stored.Vote here:https://forms.gle/LqHa5xS1q5CVikem6
Please add Consider the Lobster (Walley's best work)Vonnegut's doing well this year so far. I'd imagine he is helped quite a bit by the voting format. Not necessarily a common top 5 / top 10 favorite, but most people like him enough to check a box.
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>>24951595OP does it this way because he's a lazy faggot who can't process raw data.
>>24951986>Nooooooo you have to do things more complicated
>>24951578 Seems like Moby Dick is popular.Its over.
is this actually a decent microcosm of growing up in American society? he and his family did most of the stuff my family did growing up.
Completely out of order. The first few DOAWK books were fine, but even 12 year old me noticed a pretty drastic drop in quality after the fifth one
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>>24949304love these books as a kid but teachers are faggots that didn't let us read them because they want reading to be miserable
>>24949304I recall maybe up until Cabin Fever, then grew out of them. Maybe Dog Days, but that may be me confusing with the movie. It was fine. Suprised its still going desu.
>>24949304The Perks Of Being A Wallflower spoke to me.
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949883>Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world/thread
>24949807>24949873>If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence?>The Monad allows the Demiurge's reality to exist>By allowing Sophia to create the DemiurgeThe Absoute (the One, Monad) does not allow or disallow. The Absolute is not the creator of reality or responsible for it. An abstracted, knowable aspect of the Absolute is. The how varies by tradition. >24949828There aren't multiple gods in Gnosticism, there is the collective Godhead of the Pleroma. >24949873>the Monad could experience imperfection and the cycle of life. >experiencing OnenessThe Monad does not and cannot experience. There is no experience of oneness. Ego death is a necessity.>To dwell within the Pleroma is to thrive within Heaven-NirvanaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949807>retvrn to the one brother> but (∞ + 1 = ∞), isn't this just another doomer eastern pseudo-suici...>JUST PUT THE GUN IN YOUR MOUTH BRO. LIFE IS SUFFERING!
>>24950590Sophia is the one who did itYet gnostics glorify herMost curious
>>24952123Jews hate this one simple trick
Talk about poems/poets you like, post your own work, and critique others.
What's the one by Kipling about a settler/pioneer making his way into an undiscovered land? Thanks in advance, pic unrel
This is a post asking for general reading recommendations.If you read past that first line then lay any collections you like on me, please, because I'm new to poetry. I'm open to anything but if that's too nebulous then "The Graveyard By The Sea", "Ulalume", and "Song of the Bell" have all stuck with me recently.
>>24952018Get a compendium
たましひのたとへば秋のほたる哉
Recently bought Chamber Music, Joyce's early book of poems. Am intrigued to read them; it's my next book on the docket.
It is not exactly well known in modern circles but much of Hemingways writing had fetishistic undertones for the sexual fetishes be possessed. It is well known that in most of his novels the main women has some sort of ratchet short haircut. Lady Brett Ashley,Maria and Catherine Barkley all had very intense details on the short hair they had. Further most of his wives had short hair and it was a subject of contention for His first wife Hadley Richardson and a mainstay with his second Pauline. Further the topic of women on male anal stimulation comes up in some of his works but more overt. The garden of Eden book truly is the embodiment of the Hemingway sexuality. Hemingwaybros how do you cope with the great man’s man writer liking women with boy haircuts and getting his buddy tickled. Personally I enjoy it.
>>24948644I hate women with short hair, but I like reading.What is something short but sweet from the old Earnest? Then which is his best novel?I have read Old man and the Sea.
>>24948659Farewell to Arms is his best novel. That said, Hemingway really shines most in his short stories. If you only read one thing by Hemingway, the Finca Vigia collection is the one to go with.
>>24944831If you can't disconnect author from his work and distinguish fiction from reality then you are genuinly low IQ. Or are you just brown? Do you also think Hemingway got shot in his dick during WW1 since Sun Also Rises is about that? Do you think Agatha Christie was serial killer since she wrote about murders?Do you have inner monologue? Can you imagine hypothetical situations?
i love hemmingway, short haired girls, and getting my ass eaten, but i do not believe hemmingway ever alludes to assplay in any of his works. he keeps it very vague and what is hinted at seems very vanilla.
>>24944831So a closeted, repressed twink.
What's a good book to start with Jung? I'm already familiar with psychoanalysis.I am mainly interested in dream analysis and archetypes, but I have researched and found that Man and His Symbols was not written by him personally, but by his assistants, and is actually a simple introduction.
>>24951656Jordan peterson lectures as warmup
Mark Winborn - Jungian Psychoanalysis, A Contemporary IntroductionMan And His Symbols was started by him in collaboration with some of his pupils, then finished by them after he died.
>>24951656>dream analysis>i, as an external, want to not only comprehend a fundamentally self-referential+intrinsically-individual & illogical part of the mind, but also to systematize an understanding/interpretation of the part of the individuals mind that is totally unmodulated and black boxed from the group/society.kekaroo. literally the dumbest most gigahonked big top clown venture in all of psychology. i would be serious $$$ that astrology has more predictive power.
>>24951995>external>systematise>unmodulated>black boxedYour assumptions are ignorant
>>24951656How did you know about Jung? I'm asking because I'm noticing a gigantic influx of Jung in /lit/ and /x/ through the last months and I want to know the source.
Thoughts on Pyrrhonism?
>>24950720Anything is better than reading the usual platostotle slop.
>>24951215Not a great plan
>>24951215Why are Catholics so dumb?
>>24950720Is it similar to iconoclasm?
>>24951215I know christcucks are intellectually cowardly violent children but it's still shocking to hear it admitted so openly.
If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
>>24951528>Sterne over CervantesMe.And Tolstoy is by far the most overrated author I've ever read.
>>24951500No WASP has ever, will ever, or could ever produce The Ego And Its Own.
>>24951540He'd have to read them without translation first.
>>24951500>AmericanI don't read any of that rubbish m8, I can read authors of the Isles until the day I die.
>>24951500the first complete accurate Bible in any one language is the kjv. there also lovecraft and milton
Everything else just seems so spooked and retarded. Like these "philosophers" can't even see past their own circumstances or analyze their own thoughts and motivations, only (poorly) justify their own particular neuroses. Has there ever been a half decent attempt at addressing, let alone refuting him?
>>24949235spooked
>>24950831fair, but you will not make satisfying progress in your own mathematics without a sound philosophy
>>24947731Spooks being bad is a spook in itself
>>24947731
Is the concept of a spook a parody of the Hegelian Geist?
