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)
Why isn't this guy more famous? A lot of his stuff is seriously mind blowing, the type of ideas you'd expect PKD to have if he were born again.
>>24983250If it's endorsed by The Guardian, I'm not interested.
How many books did you read this year?
>>24975923like 19, it was fun
>>24975985Please start differentiating between literary fiction and genre slop.
>>24975959Get a load of this cope kek.
I read like 4 short story collections this year. Can I only count that as 4 books?
I read two or three books this year. And I'm still smarter than all you dumbfucks who think reading 100+ books is an achievement.
why do you read books?
>>24982709>NOOOOOOOO WE NEEEEEED TO TALK ABOUT WOMEN ON THE LITERATURE BOARD!!!!!!!!kill yourself loser, thread hidden
>>24982409I do what that guy does except I use this book.
>>24982708why is it weird? are you telling me that whenever i'm enjoying reading on the train or at a cafe, there are a bunch of people like you judging me? this is alarming news. what do they know about reading that i don't?
>>24982420>Educated women>Song of Achilles.I'd call it a troll, but for that she'd have to be smart enough to understand irony.
>>24982409If he just read ebooks on the Nook and Kindle app on his phone, this embarrassing moment could have been completely avoided.
Based or Cringe?
When I was homeless I would go to the gurudwara and eat healthy tasty food and sit in the warm prayer room listening to them play their strange instruments. Its a based for me
>>24983093My only idea was that they were a very heroic religion, but I'm ignorant so I'm not gonna talk desu. Ik Onkar.Waheguru Waheguru Waheguru
>>24983093Have you seen what they put their boys through? They grow their hair and make em put it up in a little topknot with a doily. The teen years headgear isn't much better.
>>24983188>>24983199>my problem is I think their gods are small and their metaphysics is weakYou're wrong here. Sikhism is not polytheistic in the way you’re implying. For all the problems, Sikhism has the best definition of God. It feels alien, something truly well beyond what we can perceive rather than skydaddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Sikhism>a tool to pragmatically bridge the cultural & political divide between indian hindus and indian muslimsReducing Sikhism to “a pragmatic bridge between Hindus and Muslims” is like reducing Christianity to “a Roman social technology”>their religion is aesthetic and metapoliticalSo does basically every major faith.It is pretty explicit about being political. The Guru's them wore two swords, one for spiritual power and the other for temporal.After the domination of south asia by nomadic and then islamic warlords for a thousand years, it was needed for them to assert their political will. Virtuous people need to achieve political power to create a kingdom of heaven on earth
>>24983242I'm not moved by your apologetics.You've defined a Sam Harris arbitrary, temporal, and convenient religion rather than a Means-to-the-Truth.This might work for you here & now, but it won't work in all times & all places & in all realities & all conditions.It's not Universal.It's slop.
>Sings Songs>Is a completely unknown race >Has a fairy wife>Can hold a demonic ring and shrink it>He doesn't give af>Doesn't fit in the story>Defies logicIs he Eru Illuvatar or Tolkien taking the piss? whatever he is reminds me of a Leprechaun that's based
>>24960000quads of truth
>>24975152>>>/tv/I think you'll enjoy the company there.
>>24978348Is this Gollum?
>>24961463It doesn’t come from nowhere, but it’s heavily exaggerated.Look at ‘catch a cold’. Nugget of truth but not correct
>>24958855>Tolkien taking the pissMostly this but more so after the fact by refusing to explain him any further.In the story itself I don’t see him as any different than say the numenoreans or even the balrog. A character/concept that adds depth and history and intrigue to the world and reminds you how small the main cast is and how the conflict, despite eventually threatening everything, isnt directly on the minds of all beings as powerful as bombadil and as small as hobbits. He went on to describe much of the history of middle earth in letters and the silmarillion but much of the details remain outside the pages of LOTR/The Hobbit
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
>>24983127Is there a single male author not on book 15 of their 30 year long fantasy series that hasn't been good since book 5?
>>24983127>reading npr
>>24983149>Is there a single author who isn't Brandon Sanderson?
>>24982522checked AND based. I don't wear hats but if I did, you bet your ass I'd wear that hat. have you read Clark Ashton Smith and if so, anything good? I see Zothique posted here a decent amount
>>24982816Chalion is comfy.
>Far from being a man of his time, Lovecraft's views were abhorrent even to his bigoted peers. A 1922 attempt to join an elite honor society within the KKK (The Glorious Lancers of the Sepulcher of the Church of the Ku Klux Klan), typically reserved for college men, was rebuffed on the basis of racial views evinced in a monograph he submitted for their consideration. In the document, he called for what we would now recognize as the genocide of Black Americans, most mixed raced people, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, and Catholics. This shocked even the 'elite' Klansmen, who held to a repressive and segregationist line, but were not comfortable with the mass slaughter or even forced repatriation of minority groups.Why haven't you read Lovecraft?If you won't read, I will read it to you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKPo6Vw5ew
he's the gift that keeps on giving
Days without new thread about Lovecraft's discomforts with reality [ 0 ]
>>24983119pretty much. HPL was a sperglord, yeah, but he recanted of at least half his racism at the end of his life. Probably would have been a chinaboo like that Chung Kuo fag if he'd lasted another five years
>>24983097Did Cardposting get redpilled?
>>24983097Why is it that so many autists seem borderline sociopathic?
/ourguys/ managed to find an AI-written "fan written" story and read it on the latest episode. Of course, when people pointed that out (it's extremely obvious), they started banning and deleting posts like crazy, because the "writer" is some kind of a Discord guy they are all friends with, meanwhile all their zoomer fans are defending him because he's supposedly a new writer.I know I can't really expect an idiot who only read two books (Blood Meridian and the Bible) in his life, and the living incarnation of Krumm, to pay any actual attention to what they read, so I started wondering how the hell could this have gotten past all the crew they are presumably paying to sift through the stories for them. I went to their shitty story forum, and it turns out that at least 50% of the "stories" posted are AI slop.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHFncMxVX-8The situation is dire, /lit/. I wish I didn't know about any of this. But I do, and now I'm sharing it with you so you can be annoyed too.
This story is very clearly and blatantly written (or at least assisted) by AI. There's just too many signs. On top of that, this author wrote another story on r/Creepcast that was just like this, contant emdashes, repetitive AI style phrasing. Someone in the comments pointed this out, and so when the "author" reposted it to the new subreddit, they removed the emdashes and slightly altered the phrasing. Come on man.
https://www.reddit.com/r/creepcast/comments/1pzl1h7/i_trust_creepcast/Holy shit what a bunch of idiots. Is the average fanbase twelve?
>>24979906Why do so many people whine about AI in the first place?
>>24982879misoneism
>>24982879same reason they put ukraine flag emojis in their bios
Whats your resolution ed.Prev: >>24973915
>>24983092If those are your examples then this was a good thing.
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Gonna do the A&S exam tomorrow bros, pray for me and wish me luck. I've consistently gotten 80%+ on the mock exams and I only need 60% to pass so I should be safe. Then I do the Segregated Funds & Annuities module and then I'm done.
Last night I read HPL's The Hound. Pretty damn good, it's been awhile since I got spooked by a Lovecraft story (somewhat). I absolutely loved the cheesy graveyard scenes. This album cover evinces what I mean.
>>24978375Get another job and continue to love and date my girlfriend despite her current medical problem(s?) If I have money and stability by the end of the year or perhaps prior, I will ask her to marry me. I would also like to get back to reading a few books a week like I did in school.
What books did you receive from Santa this year /lit/?Not gonna post a pic but I got: >The Encyclopedia of Demonology & Witchcraft>The Imago Sequence by Laird Barronand>a first edition printing of Dangerous Visions edited by Harlan Ellison Fairly modest haul but you know what, I'm satisfied. Merry Crimbus everybody!!!
>>24981105>You must be fun at parties LOLIf only you knew how much pussy gets thrown at me the moment I start talking about fractional reserve banking or the Beaver Wars.
>>24981645I believe you.
>>24981445This reads like a Japanese manga in the 80s trying to imitate American pulp fiction comics.
>>24981105>So...?>You must be fun at parties LOLWe don't talk like that here. You have to go back.
>>24982227You are fucking Indian, go back to India saar.
Hello.I'm the guy who had a few Guénon related servers sometime around 2021 and 2022, period in which I was also making a lot of Guénon threads on /lit/.Does anyone from that period still remember me from /lit/ or from my server? It would be nice if we could get in touch again. My current discord username is luke041654.Anyways, this can be another Guénon thread I guess so post something about his work. :)
PBUH
>>24982766Aside from him, who do you think augments or positively expands on his work on metaphysics?
>>24982766Guenon was a racist twat with nothing of substance to say. Everything he believed can be wrapped up in "non-westerners are smarter and more ancient and Europeans need the wisdom of Arabs but mostly Indians to teach them about everything". He didn't actually discuss any topic in depth, he just brought up topics to say he covered them. In between he lets racist, white hating drivel stain his texts. He's only famous for being a contrarian and hating white people before it was cool- but all of this was on account of his physiognomy. He never fit in with Europeans and so he let that damage his opinions and worldview, preventing him from ever achieving philosophical greatness.
Guenon poster is a Catholic
How has Buddhism helped you?
Both got very moral and positive detachment teachings and inner/outer peace>Problem: people are toxic and form a tradition around these figures>Both approach the same clinging issues of love from radically different angles>One demands you need to be a forgiving follower or you will suffer more>One doesn't demand you need to follow anything and you wont sufferBuddha seems more leaning for me since you don't force control on your inner self and sin while Christianity teaches similiar stuff but inner control which probably lead to Conservative-American Christianity we see today or with Buddhism people who like negativity used it to have a spiritual oneupmanship or new age incorpation and toxic positivityBut the true meanings these people teach is a lot deeper and profound than spirituality and organized religion, it's freedom.
>>24980742>BUDA>Died.>JESUS CHRIST.>Died, but his followers made a fanfic to rationalize keeping the cult going on
>>24982882>>24982896what is blud waffling about
>>24982882friend, what do you think "eternalism" is in the pali suttas?
>>24981223Anatta are*
>>24981207>Modern Christianity is a far cry from the beliefs of the apostlesThat should give you an indication that these sects are false.
>"Lacking faith, a house-breaker, one who acknowledges nothing, purged of hope, they’ve wasted their chance: that is indeed the supreme person." Dhammapada 97The fool will embolden. The mindful will elate.
>>24983124>Books for this feel?About all that I know(theinly veiled bump)
>>24983068Bud-dism?Dude weed lmao.
Yes be like a rock and let the sorrrows of the world pass over you and leave your fellow man unaided. Buddhism is the theological refuge of the selfish.
>>24983196Problem?
>>24983196You've been emboldened.
