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>>24969815Its not really that at all, its more of a behavioral/mental thing, not a sexual thing. Men are just much easier to understand. Men are abhorrent to look at. Women are works of art and get me rock hard but are insane headcases and almost every one of them I was involved with was an adulterer. It sucks you can't just slap women around like you used to.
>>24969490>It's not like most hookers are doing it for the love of the gameWould be a lot cooler if they did
history has ended and all that remains is to take care of the muslims that remain
>>24968914Are you same anon from threads ago who was having an illicit relationship with his female boss?
>>24968887I'd rather forget it
Besides Kerouac, what are the best authors to read?
My diary desu
>>24969262later bukowski when he got over larping as blue collar
>>24969262Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Is nominalism really that bad? A lot of galaxy brained people seem to say so. CSP says that individualism (his term for the combination of nominalism and the belief that particulars are ontologically fundamental) is "a tool of the Devil if Devil there be" in a letter.
>>24964982>>24969192you guys actually have to read nietzsche this shit makes you look retarded people primarily focused on greek and medieval philosophy have the most to gain from it moderns trying to read it will basically not be able to actually understand it because they never put the effort in to deal with the greeks that is required anyone who uses the word "relativism" is a retard on either side. Actual greek/medieval morality is fundamentally relative it's not about a set of rules, it's about the perfection of specific objects and the intellect grasping them and willing to bring them to that, there is no "rules" apart from things derived from engagement with particular things. Goodness is just a being expressing it's nature, and for humans that includes using the intellect, seeing the natures of things and willing to bring them about and user their powers in accord with their own nature. It has literally nothing to do with rules or objective laws apart from to the extent things share a nature.
>>24969342What's your point? To deny relativism is not to subscribe to some sort of deontological, law-based morality. Teleological approaches are not relativist in the relevant sense, particularly not those embracing the Doctrine of Transcendentals. There is a real (objective) distinction between what appears good (what appears desirable/is desired) and what is truly good (truly most desirable).Every philosopher allows for some sort of relativism. It is good to scoop your child off the ground after they bang their knee. It isn't so good to scoop a stranger's kid up at the park. It is good for a tiger to eat a monkey. It is not good for a monkey to be eaten by a tiger. And yet this not the sort of relativism people talk about vis-á-vis ethics. It doesn't deny an anchoring point in the Good. Plenty of modern thought absolutely does deny this sort of anchoring though, and so are relativistic in a more thoroughgoing sense.So too with truth and perspectivism, e.g., "there is no truth, only interpretations."
>>24964982You are asking good questions
>>24964982>>24969359The questions are unanswerable though. The advocates of the "ontologies of violence" will show that their contradictory assertions simply make plain how discourse and philosophy is ultimately always a power struggle. Identity thinking is just a move in this power struggle, a way to assert one's own will or delusions over others.The partisans of the Good will claim that this is ridiculous sophistry, and that that the advocates of discourse as power battles make themselves vice-addled and miserable. Thinking themselves free, they embrace slavery to their vices.One must know them by their fruit then. Any routine checking of bookstore philosophy sections will reveal that Nietzsche is easily the most popular philosopher over the past 50+ years. The most copied philosopher in the West over the Middle Ages was Boethius. I feel like that's a good comparison point.
>>24969434>Stop mistaking emotional rebellion for intellectual depth, he says, as he writes a bunch of emotionally charged attempts at character assasinations - some of which don't even make any sense - with an emotionally charged final message meant to provoke anger and fear by turning the reader against a nebulous cabal of "people who hate you" who are somehow responsible for popularizing Marx, Nietzsche and Hume and I assume every other piece of the last 200-ish of western philosophical culture.Leaving the typical profound stupidity of internet tradlarping aside, some of these examples don't even make sense. Where the fuck is the emotionality in Schopenhauer, who preached in favour of asceticism, Hume, whose main contributions are in epistemology, and Marx, whose main work is a verbose analysis of capitalist society? Is this type of attitude meant to be as an antidote to modernity's ills? Because to me it seems to be yet another shallow anti-intellectual aesthetic posture masquerading as a rightful indignation. These, being the very product of the culture the post poorly attempts to criticize, are a dime a dozen today.
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>>24969543This is the true list
>>24951613>Wagner's Ring of the NibelungDefinitely deserves more votes.
>>24969543>>24969649It was made by a redditor, so of course it's the best.
>>24969543>>24969649>>24969809redditor samefagging
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My gift for you all. A voyage of survival through modern UK. Living through the hell of C-PTSD and Autismhttps://archive.org/details/final_20251224
>>24969837looks like a whiny tranny broke out of the containment sub again
>>24969837Suck it up buttercup because no one cares.
Is it better to read it on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day?
Read everything on Christmas Eve except the last chapter. Keep it for when you wake up
So 2025 will be just another year you wasted by not reading Yu Hua's masterpiece To Live, huh?Come on, buddy. You have 10 days, you can finish a short novel in that time. I believe in you. Come the fuck on!
>>24969011she's not my type but i would like to see what she looks like now
>>24969011>puppetry symbolismit's a motif, but how is it symbolism?
>>24969029Been ages since I saw the movie. But seemed to me that the puppets pretty much symbolically tell how much power over his life Fugui has and his life itself. Again, the puppets are not present in the book and are much more visual way to tell the theme. And overall the book is very different.>>24969028like your average 59 year old grandma! See pic related (2024).
I'm watching the movie nowGoddamn I hate gamblers and gambling so fucking muchIt should be banned, gamblers ought to be whipped in public and those who collaborate with the evil that is gambling ought to have everything taken from them and marched around public like they did to collaborators in France after WW2 including those who sweep the floors and sanitise the poker machinesI fucking hate gambling so fucking much the degenerate scum
>>24969841the irony is that it saves his life
WHY IS EVERY FUCKING MODERN AUTHOR NOW A WOMAN? WHERE DID THE MEN GO?
>>24969407>Men don't read.I like to believe it's because men don't write. You simply can't cater to the opposite gender because you don't know what hooks them (with rare exceptions on both sides). I think this may be a "if you build it, they will come" situation.>>24969391Yeah, I suppose the biggest hurdle would be money. And I can't think of any way to attract authors and readers that doesn't involve exorbitant amounts of preexisting capital. Maybe this will have to be relegated to a pipedream. Think I'll still look into the logistics of it all though.
>>24969391I think the solution here is copy the hippies' and other art weirdos' homework. Create a community somewhere cheap and irrelevant where burgeoning artists can scrape by in a menial job while devoting most of their efforts to their craft. I doubt it'll happen, because it requires a lot of work and a lot of people on board. A hundred artists could probably takeover some forgotten place, like say, Clarksburg, WV, parts of St. Louis, a New Hampshire mill town, anywhere in Virginia South of the James, or one of the lesser Sea Islands communities. Getting those people together, finding jobs for them, starting group houses for them to live and exchange ideas, and businesses to show their work to the local community and wider world is very difficult.
>>24969381Name the ideology, dipshit.
>>24968349It's HER TURN.
>>24969783> nigger thinks he's beyond ideologyMany such cases. The ideology you're enslaved by is progressivism, but some form of marxism would also be correct, since the two movements were deeply intertwined in the twenties in the US. You believe what you believe because of Antonio Gramsci's 'cultural hegemony' via Franz Boas (in the academia) and later on Rudi Dutschke's 'long march through the institutions'. Of course, you could go further back to Locke, but the above are sufficient.
autism is analytic philosophy disease, schizophrenia is continental philosophy disease
>>24969784Its true i kissed op and im his dad
>>24969775Well there were 2 alpha memories in the delta quadrant which is already problematic and 7 of 9 makes implications homosexuality was a form of recognition.
>>24969775Both autism and schizophrenia share symptoms with left hemisphere hypertropy. The same hemisphere that is concerned with logical consistency and precision instead of caring about the wider picture. Like analytic philosophy and analytics in general.
>>24969775Patristic thought is godly gnosis.
Many of you would not like to admit this but Normalfags killed this site.
i wrote a batch of 3 short stories.>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u1OOsJyFem2utoOW7EuRCdHWZE4Tba2AHl_uKSm3rd4/edit?usp=sharingHere are titles of each story ;>The Ruler Of Everything , 4000 words>Ghost Lobby 2700 words>The Gorilla In The Tomb Of The Novistadors , 2100 wordsI would call them all horror comedy, I'm a novice so go easy on me
Didn't like it as much as blindsight, but it was cool. Actually idk how to feel about it. One of those books that just makes me feel empty inside. Maybe I should read it again.
>>24968882>it was coolNah.
>>24968882just as an exercise, can you summarise them? I am struggling to remember what happened in both books.
>>24968908https://www.rifters.com/real/gallery/gallery-blindopraxia.htm
I don't remember the protagonist's name but he's a massive, raging fag for turning down Valerie.
>>24969661She was only using him as a host for portia, anyways
What is the greatest "high school reading" book? Excluding ancient poems and plays
>>24969656>Moby Dickdoesn't get assigned in american high schools
>>24969637To Kill A Mockingbird sucks, dummy.
>>24969773It does in White ones, Jamal.
>that book you liked as a kid? it sucked!>nuh-uh, that book YOU liked as a kid sucked!I must be peak midwit because I think everything discussed so far seems pretty interesting and worthwhile.
>>24968551>Golems can't readMoby Dick was written by an American anon.....
>The villain is the narrator>The protagonist rapes the villain
>>24966785What race was the rapist?
>>24969761Andean-Baltic
>>24967493How old were you both when this ‘happened’?
>>24968364A man can certainly rape another man. Also a woman could use a spiked rod up your ass or something.
>>24968430>A woman can't physically overpower you or make your dick hard against your will.False.>>24969769She was born in the 1980s.
PBUH?
>>24968950What are your essential Guénon and adjacent readings beyond the obvious ones?
>>24968998also how to into siddhis?
>>24968950Why the long face?
PBUH!!!
>>24969002If you care about siddhis, you really don't get Guénon.
>If you meet the Buddha, kill him.What does he mean?
>>24968763Lobotomy is literally the highest goal of all gnostics.
>>24967870how do zen temples make money? just by charging tourists?
>>24969770The same way that Christian monasteries did: donations from pious suckers, trying to buy their way into heaven.
>>24966582>Literalists need to be figuratively killedIts a metaphor against traditionalism and orthodoxy.Truth exists beyond these man-made constructs.Traditionalism, in order to preserve a past 'Truth', crystallizes and becomes resistant to present and future 'Truth'.It literally becomes Untruth and obstructs and fights against the real living Truth.
>>24966630lfmao
