Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
>>24986142based and truthpilled
>>24979722>non-being doesn’t exist
>>24985953>that person's consciousness is experientially present in the exact same wayFalse, the vigor and intensity of youth is lost in old age, especially with damage to the brain. How can you claim someone who can't follow a train of thought, who doesn't know where they are, who is slow to process information is experiencing consciousness in the identical way as a sharp, healthy 20 year old? Is someone catatonic still experiencing consciousness? To continue to insist that there is some magic "consciousness" that is like a switch that is either on or off is to just assume your conclusion. It also raises the question as to which member of our ancestors had this "consciousness" which must be of different quality between animals such as ourselves and animals with more primitive brains. Do you wholesale deny our evolutionary history? Or do you imagine single celled organisms have the exact type of consciousness we have? Your whole position is laughable and indefensible, I suggest you drop it.
>>24986399You literally have no argument against it though. We can make reliable predictions regarding the level of cognition and the physical condition of the brain. We can see the different organization of the brain in other mammals and see the differences in our brains that allow for more complex reasoning. You might as well say something like anger is mysterious, except that we know you can literally poke someone's brain in a certain spot and their entire personality can become violent and angry for the rest of their life. Certain hormones can be artificially introduced and cause a person to become more angry. Literally every aspect of human consciousness is subject to material causes and material interference. People such as yourself have an infantile desire for there to be something else, something "magic", but that is just an expression of your lack of understanding of reality. When you grow up, you should see reality for what it really is, material, and dispense with these lower level imaginings about divinity or magic. They belong to primitive tribes in the wild who haven't a clue how nature or reality actually work.
I've never personally found any argument against suicide that really convinces me. The more philosophy I read, the more many common objections seem based on instinct or emotion rather than careful reasoning. When people call suicide "murder" or "unnatural" they often ignore that a right to life should also include the right to give it up, and that nature itself isn't a moral authority. If it were, we wouldn't use medicine to prevent or delay natural deaths. The claim that suicide is selfish also feels very one-sided. It can just as easily be seen as selfish to expect someone to keep living with unbearable mental or physical suffering simply so others don't have to feel grief. None of us chose to be born, and being stuck in a life that has become intolerable is a tragedy, not a moral failure. I think society has a strong optimism bias that makes people assume life is better than it really is for everyone. When someone experiences life mainly as a heavy burden, ending their life can be a rational way to take back control over something they never chose.
>>24980541my life has been worse though. hell looks like an improvement
>>24980481>take control of your life and do the work to tear out the roots of your sufferingah yes the based >just become omnipotent bruh
>>24985907If you go on sanctioned-suicide.net and read the posts of suicidal people most of them say they haven't yet killed themselves because they can't manage to overcome their survival instinct or fear. Personally I've survived a well-planned suicide attempt more than a year ago and wound up with a 4 day ICU stay, which was the worst experience of my life, and the thought of re-experiencing something like that causes enough fear for me to stop me from doing it, because it made me see that I can't 100% ensure that I'll succeed in my attempt.
>>24986159That site is a glow magnet
>>24986164and yet it's full of real suicides>>24981749>there are plenty of quick and painless or even euphoric ways to kill yourselfYou'd be surprised. >get a gun pussyOkay you have a point there
Renaissance edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24914151>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.
>>24986077Fuck off back to /int/, coombrain.
>>24986321He's not being coombrained here that I can see, he's engaging in language-related discussion, you shouldn't harass him as long as he behaves himself.
>>24986333Kys faggot
To the anons who would say they've attained a great proficiency in reading Latin, who would you say is the greatest Medieval or Renaissance prose writer? Or for verse too. Someone who rivals or maybe even surpasses Classical authors. Any surprising discoveries?
>>24986538Augustine.
Hi. I will read a book every day of the year (seven a week).Would it be fine with (You) if I posted a daily essay on each book so you gave me some feedback? I am a 20yo girl and I have not read books or written essays in a while. I really need some help and guidance.Doing this would also hold me accountable to you anons. In addition, I would rather not use AI to correct my essays or give me opinions, and I have no one else I could ask this favour to.I don't want to spam the thread, so I wanted to ask for your permission first. If you know any other place where I could get feedback (not AI) I would also accept the suggestion.It is an attainable goal for me because I have lots of free time at public transport every day (about 4 hours) and nothing to do on weekends.I'd also accept book recommendations. Today I'll start with The Stranger by Albert Camus.Thank you and Happy New Year!
>>24986659That was my first thought as well. Good times, good times.
Oh and before I forget, post your tits.
>>24986659She's an onlyfans whore now
>>24986229You will never be a woman and fucking nobody wants to read a daily essay from some troon faggot
>>24986229Don't ask for permission to post essays on the /lit/ board about literature. This is what the board is for.
How do you feel about novels with sex scenes or that deal heavily with sex?
The same way (You) would deal with them in movies: either skip or read them as they rarely add anything meaningful to the story
>>24986598Murakami has an obsession with oral sex
It can be done right and tastefully as sex is a big part of the human experience, but it’s rarely done right or tastefully.
Novels that deal heavily with sex can be fun if old enough, but I don't want any sex scene in my regular novels.
>>24986628He's literally me
Which do you lean towards here with Being vs. Becoming:1. Mutual exclusion – Being and Becoming are incompatible; Becoming is illusion/error.2. Full symbiosis – Being and Becoming co-constitute each other; neither is prior.3. Hierarchical asymmetry – Being is primary; Becoming is derivative or degradative.4. Participatory asymmetry – Being is prior, but certain forms of Becoming can disclose or host it.5. Process primacy – Becoming is fundamental; “Being” is a stabilized abstraction.6. Nondual emptiness – Neither Being nor Becoming has independent reality; both arise dependently.7. Agnostic/pragmatic – The distinction is a conceptual tool with no final ontological answer.
Smile, /lit/! You’re doing the rounds on xitter againhttps://x.com/andrewchen/status/2005289538189738278?s=46
>Boreges takes up two slots when it could be one with his collected shitI leave for a while and you people are doing the most retarded shit
>>24985828I had forgotten the context, you're not wrong.
>>24986085Here >>24986682
>>24981674Finnegans Wake is beautiful to me, it is a triumph of the imagination, you're espousing the same exact opinion as Lex "Midwit" Fridman who believes a comedic work of art cannot be great. (You're American)
>>24981663Dosto fans think every book is meant to be a bloated first draft, they don't see a problem with that, that's the issue. He is conceptually novel but an absolutely mediocre writer.
You do have a basic understanding of how human language works, don't you?
>>24986575"themselves""themself" entered dictionaries like 2 years ago or something
>>24986578Doesn't it make sense that the reflexive of the singular "they" should be "themself", for the same reason that we distinguish "yourself" from "yourselves"? It's a perfectly logical extrapolation.
>>24986584He's an autist who thinks language is frozen at a perfect state wherein he just so happens to have been born right in time for. Just wait for the linguistic "authorities" to announce the change however and he shall be right there on board.
>>24985112Hmm picrel looks interesting. Shill me it OP
>>24985112>You do have a basic understanding of how human language works, don't 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.
>>24983960>I’ve never seen a hungry ghost raiding my kitchen at 3AMSad.
>>24984043>What's with atheists pretending they understand Jesus' message better than Christians?you can just google papers being put out by actual scholars. these studies are surprisingly rigorous.
>>24981223Anatta is used for neti neti, and hinduism doesn't exist. There is zero difference between vedic/upanishadic metaphysics and buddhist metaphysics. The confusion arises from people who don't understand metaphysics or neti neti. Neti neti is the methodology for liberation, intellectually we can understand that anything that is objective is not the subject by definition. If I see a tree, that's obviously not me, it's anatta, because a tree is an object of observation, an object is that which receives an action, that action being observation. Simple enough, but you must take this to it's logical conclusion, the body is not me, it's anatta, the body is an object of observation, an object is that which receives an action, that action being observation. And so on, point is you can never find the one who's looking, direct insight comes from realizing this, and that's where jhana/concentration comes in. Jhana means to burn, burn what though exactly? To burn objectivity, rather than looking for the needle in the haystack, you burn the entire haystack and leave the needle. Concentration, what does that mean? Concentration of what? Concentration of the subject, you concentrate the subject by removing objects, in the same way you concentrate gold by removing the rock from which the gold is embedded. What does this mean in effect? It means you take a posture, sitting, lying, or standing, then you still yourself through relaxation, through the cessation of perturbation, of physical and mental activity, until perception ceases (temporarily). The confusion arises when people think anatta means no-self, and also when they don't realize that the statements>"there is no self">"there is a self but it's Absolute, unseen, and unconditioned"Are not fundamentally different. They are not different because the Absolute, the unseen, the unconditioned, cannot be said to "be", implying it's objective. Whatever "is", is objective, whatever "is not", is not objective, and the subject is obviously not objective. The point of this is to serve as a dialectic for people to tread the path to the Absolute. For that reason, even though both statements are technically not ultimately different, the latter is more accurate and useful because there is an ultimate nature to "you", having objects without a subject is just non-sensical, it's like having waves without a medium, an effect without a cause, or an illusion without reality.
>>24984065BASED UPANICHAD
>>24986210Not that anon, but how is there zero difference in the metaphysics when they disagree fundamentally on the existence of the Self?
I don't get the appeal
>>24984652you need to start TRT immediately
>>24984652Sheltered much?Sure the circumstances are depressing but nothing special really. Most people on earth live in similar squalor. The gossip, the retarded incessant conflicts, characters full of themselves. To most people it paints a very familiar picture.
>>24984719>sheltered muchNo.
>>24982521Why do you think every book has to appeal to you?You don't understand the concept of individual tastes and that some books are up your alley and some aren't?
>>24984287wash your tongue when speaking to your betters, vermin.
This book is anti white horseshit. It would be right at home with the modern leftist college student, too bad the system has convinced them to hate anything remotely old and assume it's racist, ironically. I'm convinced melman or whatever his name is was an atheist, because he's preaching his own religion in this book and it's the religion of white genocide that's so en vogue
>>24986080He still regards civilization through the lens of christian meekness as an ideal, and one which in practice is prescribed specifically for White people.
>>24986080Well libtard, your response to these gentlemen? >>24986260>>24986291
>>24982866Is that the prose? Yikes. Never picking up this doorstopper.
>>24984871Thanks, Grok
>>24986054>>24986060>>24986042>>24986074You leftists jerk off your boyfriends with those fingers, after typing such retarded shit?
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
>>24982133This book is vastly better on a full series reread
>>24986591This is the case with all of Malazan. It’s got so many hints and other shit that make rereads fun
>>24986542Kaladin was great in book 1 though.
>>24986585How would you salvage this?
"He had a peculiar defeated quality hanging over him, and yet, underneath, he did not seem to have given up. A vague and ragged hint of vitality lurked behind the resignation; it seemed to Runciter that Joe most nearly could be accused of feigning spiritual downfall... the real article, however, was not there."Joe Chip is Literally Me.
>he still reads .pdfs>not comfy .epubs
>>24986071i actually have read on one, your mom showed me your paternity test results on it. the screen wasn't very impressive but on the other hand, phew
I like seeing a picture of a page of an actual book
>>24985961>casually converts pdf to epupper file format in the year of linxu desktopper
>>24985961>>24986043>Amazog shill
>>24986048>tiny dark screenMy paperwhite glows in the dark.
A good 95% of independent bookstores aren't actually for people who read, they're for tourists and rich "shop local" liberals who like the "cozy aesthetic", and they mostly sell trash that you could get on Amazon for 50% cheaper. I hope Bezos puts them all out of business. Fuck you and fuck your locally owned chunguscore Instagram bookstore. Let only the true, used bookstores owned by some 90 year old who clearly doesn't want you there survive.
>>24986590I once went to a bookstore/cafe in Utah that stocked the typical new slop but had a section of old books for decoration only, some of which were interesting. I asked if I could buy one of them and was told that only the new books were for sale.
>>24986590Who hurt you?
>>24986638A bookstore.
I decided to take /lit/'s advice and started reading the Greeks this year. I'm so happy I decided to. Not only did I thoroughly enjoy these works, I felt like I learned a lot about history, culture, myth, and the human condition in the process. I was challenged and felt like I grew.This year, I readThe Iliad (Lattimore) 564 (with notes)The Odyssey (Fagles) 514 (with notes)Herodotus (Landmark edition) 878! (with notes and appendices)Thucydides (Hammond) 685 (with notes)Sophocles (Fagles) 407 (with essays and notes)Hesiod (Lombardo) 103 (with notes)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I read quite a few /x/-related ones this year too like the other guy.^^^ Programmed to Kill gave me a lot of think about, and The Ultimate Evil kinda tied it up into a neat little bow.I also reread quite a lot of science fiction. I was reminded why 2001: A Space Odyssey & Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, and UBIK by Philip K. Dick are perhaps among the greatest science fiction books of all time, both in terms of emotion, unique ideas, prose, and aesthetics. UBIK especially was good on audio. I also read a good number of non-fiction, including the conspiracy shit; but I also read a lot of Lovecraft and for the first time dipped my toes into other weird fiction. September through October was fun. My place slowed down in November, and ever since I started an absolute tome called Ghost Wars at the beginning of December I haven't finished anything except some short stories. I put a lot of time in November into Wuthering Heights but dnf'd it. My tally is 16 books finished. That's not including short stories however. Overall very good year. Still doesn't beat 2015 though, the year in which I read about 21 books I think. Here's to 2026!
>>24985629the virginia woolf one was good, the rest had a few things I liked but nothing amazing. It's kinda just up to whatever the used book store near me has, plus a cross reference to what one of my friends likes. I have realized we have very different taste though.rec me what you think is a good book anon, i'll read it when it turns up. Currently hyperfixating on books to escape some unknown void in my life so I'll get through anything
>>24985746With Thucydides, my biggest hurdle was the prose in between dialogues and speeches. Like Herodotus (though not nearly to the same degree) Thucydides throws a lot of names, events, and places your way at the beginning of his work, but thankfully it kind of evens out by the 2nd Book/Chapter.Starting with Herodotus was huge, because that essentially became my base layer of knowledge for pre-5th century BCE Greek History, it and definitely enhanced my knowledge of geography around the Aegean.Thucydides' prose was considered dense even in his time, and while the Oxford/Hammond translation was good, it still just felt like mental broccoli at times. Especially due to the fact that Hammond (imo) doesn't really use commas as much as I feel like he could, so sentences initially were kind of hard to comprehend (in terms of their intended meaning) until I got used to how he translated. It is a marvelous work when all is said and done though. If there is one thing I've found is consistent with the larger Greek works (like Homer, Herodotus, and Thucydides) is that the payoff is usually worth the slower parts of the book. When Athens absolutely gets their ass handed to them in Syracuse/Sicily, I felt that section in my chest. I was mentally thinking "you guys had every opportunity not to go down this road", but like most Greek works, hubris did them in in the end. I'll probably return to it way down the road as I loved the speech sections.
>>24986070I want to eventually read 2001 and Childhood's End. I haven't heard of that PKD book, but I'll check it out too.Lovecraft is always a nice palate cleanser in between longer books imo. Colour out of Space or Dunwich Horror are probs my 2 favorites from him (with The Case of Charles Dexter Ward being an honorable mention).I read Wuthering Heights in High School and found it exceptionally boring, but maybe I just didn't have taste back then. It must get ranked highly on lists for some reason.
>>24984094Leviathan Wakes (#1 Expanse) - very good but I put the series on pause because I want to read all 9 back to backWool (#1 Silo) - this is the series I will read next, already bought Shift (#2) and Dust (#3)I have not watched either of these seriesProject Hail Mary - this was my favourite book of the yearAnd then these:Atomic Habits - it was okayPsychology of Money - 10/10 The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (Jack Bogle) - it's good but a little technical. I owed him a read since I put most of my net worth into his products.A Simple Path to Wealth - I would recommend this over the above to any normie but it got too US-focused towards the end.
