Concepts i will be working with:>Social contractThe social contract is our ability to connect with other like minded beings for our own ends>Narrative overlayNarrative overlay is the romanticization of our societal situations and concepts (which is already socially constructed and pre built)>Body physics and frictionDoesn't need explanation, Physical touch as per se.i.e. A person sitting in the bar is lonely, A female comes also by looking for a hookup (The narrative overlay is cemented, The social contract needs to be done), The social contract happens when both parties get to know each other and seem to find in each other a fitting characteristics that comfort their inner psyche for the idea to submerge (But the environment itself encourages the idea to emerge through the narrative of (drunken and depressed need a sex partner))So both parties agrees and the social contract is formed and both go have sex, But in the act there is a multitude of acts rather than the act of sex, Every act leads to the paroxysm of emotions in which it's all collected in one word "sex", but in reality there is no real gratification, It's a myth, The only gratification is the struggle and the pride of being able to have sex with a female, That's literally all, Inserting and friction doesn't grant any gratification literally, They need narrative for the gratification to occur but even that is occasional.What you see in social media is plain promotion of this act which made its status mythical but in reality it's nothing, Literally nothing.
>give babies>meaninglessdisregarded for being a fucking moron.
>>24928562Ok, man, sure, whatever you say.Anyway, when I said an educated Christian, I meant someone educated about the doctrine of their own religion. In this case, anyone knowledgeable about Christian theology wouldn’t be under the impression that sex or nudity is inherently sinful. Adam and Eve were originally nude, and it was only after they committed the original sin that they felt shame for it and had to start clothing themselves. Nudity is in fact so pure that our sinful nature is what makes us feel the need to hide it. In a sense I guess you could say that sex technically separates us from God in that God has no need for sex, but things like hope are also said to be absent from God as he, being perfect, has nothing he lacks and therefore nothing to hope for, yet hope is not regarded as a sin but a virtue. Any Christian who would say these things are sinful doesn’t know the first thing about their own religion.
>>24928469I had sex you fucking retard, Holy fuck is this really your defense argument ??
>>24928716No, you didn't. You couldn't be more obviously a virgin if you had a tattoo on your forehead proclaiming it.
ya sex kinda sucks. that's why u hear ppl say the pursuit is better than the sex cuz it is. that's also why it's only worth it to fuck hot chicks, cuz them looking hot is the fun part, the sex is the same as with any chick. last time i fingered a chick i was like this kind of reminds me of a fucking armpit, i just maybe i'd rather jack off than fuck this hole, but at that point it would be kinda rude not to i guess.
This board is more clever than all the others, and therefore more likely to have leftists on it, so here I ask my question: what books are essential for someone learning about leftism? This could be anarchism, communism, socialism, etc. I'm trying to work on a reading list.
>>24928408Because it usually does....
>>24927916Being anti-fascist doesn't necessarily mean leftist. Monarchists are anti-fascist too if you look at it closely.
>>24927462I rather doubt that would work either. I really find leftism quite abhorrent.
>>24925912Nietzsche and Stirner and others can go a ways toward disabusing a man of leftwing soporifics. I always find it curious how left wing zealots cite them.'The left' is a stack of lies, centuries old, which has been used to try to make a square out of the circle that is man and done him great harm thereby. But! It has profited greatly the systems which rule men today. This is the fundamental etic truth of leftism: it is the elevation of dead systems over living men, it is the rule of the dead. And everywhere today lives under its reign. This is unavoidable in any system which is powered primarily by dead things (mineral fuels, machines) rather than living (muscle power). We always make gods of the things which feed and clothe us.As for 'the right'? it is nothing. There is no resistance to the trend stated above.
>>24928745>I always find it curious how left wing zealots cite themAcademics and leftists read middle Nietzsche when he was a rationalist sciencegoy Voltaire babby and don’t dare touch very early and very late Nietszche, which are his true works of genius where he overcomes this weak strain in his thought. They will look you in the eye and tell you Human, All too Human is a more important book than The Anti-Christ.
Is she wrong about anything?
>>24928082All you need is inside of an oven.
>>24926941I want to see them lez out
>>24921231I've been browsing for over a year and i've read about three stories that were worth something. Honestly it is a crying shame that the objectively best website for posting and reading fiction on the internet with no scummy advertisers pushing for censorship or a recommendation algorithm is overflowing with some of the vilest most disgusting porn imaginable
>>24928707All people really care about deep down is fucking. The sooner you accept that the better off you will be.
>>24925098ok this is better
If Christianity was unable to sustain civilisation and through it's own avarice devoured itself and spewed out the modern world, why should we rush back into its arms like the larpers on this website proclaim we need to do?
>>24928722Fool that you are you have blasphemed the Almighty
>>24928640I see my Protestant Doctrinal Superiority has aroused envy and much consternation. Don't mind me, I'm just passing through on my way to God's own country beyond this mortal coil
>>24928692Just read about the decline and fall of Hellas, or even just the plays of Aristophanes.>>24928694>atheism could only be a product of Christianity (100% true)100% false, in truth. Read the plays of Euripides.
>>24928777What I meant by atheism being a product of Christianity is widespread societal atheism. The reality is that most people in history have been nominally religious cause the reality is that most people are too busy to bother with religion. The idea I was talking about was the iconoclastic nature of Christianity which was so fervent and powerful and so unique to it that it ultimately lead to it giving rise a strain of iconoclasm that overthrew Christianity itself. This would never have happened in a pagan or Buddhist framework because iconoclasm wasn't such a central aspect of those belief systems unlike Christianity.
>>24928704Holy BASED.
discuss the literary and psychosexual implications of a woman writing a book about a man who gets cucked but remains desperately in love for the rest of his life.
>>24928785It exhibits the proper contempt and disgust a female has for an incel simp.
>>24928790this is kind of incorrect though, as she does paint him as a hero in the end, sparking much debate in the female community.
Is this guy any good or it is just the most safe, boring ass "fantasy" writer ever
>>24927285he's probably a massive cheeseball. i imagine him as a slightly feminine black adolescent male with none of the swagger he ought to have
What species is this creature?
>>24927337Proboscis monkey?
>>24927285Mostly mid. He's like any other YouTube writer personality that tells you how to write "best sellers". It's all to get you to think he's amazing and knows his shit, but it's to get you to buy his books, and then buy his online courses.
>How would you rate the writing in Pikmin 2>Is Pikmin 2 /lit/This is what pseudointellectual zoomers believe is a worthwhile discussion on a board about literature. Let that sink in...
Stuck on some bitch caveWhen I go back to it I don't know how to play itc'est la vie dieu
Loiue will go down as one of literature's greatest evils, the like's of which the terrors depicted in dante's inferno fail to surpass the depravity of the hocotatian mind.
>>24924859The only other Nintendo game that can match the intellectual wit of Pikmin 2 is F-Zero GX.The Greeks could never regale a tragedy so nuanced as Black Shadow's.
>>24924904>all of this time I thought the “whos” were “woofs” like a dogHoly shit
>>24928076He's like if Long John Silver was retarded
What happened to all of the Evola/Guenon perennialist tradposters from a decade ago?I knew one that went from communist to traditionalist perennialist to Orthodox Christian to buckbroken tranny.
>>24927996Willing to bet 300$ on you not having read the section in his autobiography where he explains exactly what his reasons for contributing to the Dadaist movement were.
>>24927578/ThreadMaybe now we can have decent threads about Guenon and Evola.
>>24927555I recently went from Klages --> Evola --> Nimrod de RosarioOnly Parmenidean Being offers freedom from the prison and illusory Becoming of the Demiurge.
>>24928163Don't tell me - is this you icchantika anon? Are you the guy who's been doing "Parmenidean" shitposting on this board recently?
literally every single thing Guénon talked of was rightIt is truly haunting how right he was, every single thing occurring today was described by himEvola on the other hand can be summarized in one sentence>one step forward two steps backThe development of 'popular traditionalism' online was a great mistake.
The two great masterpieces of Latin literature, the Aeneid and the Metamorphoses, lack a great two of excellent translations. Most translations either take ferocious liberties, or are underwhelming; even if they manage to be "good", they are seldom the sort of thing you wouldn't mind reading every year, which is really what they ought to vetThe two exceptions:Mandelbaum's translation of the Aeneid. It's done in iambic pentameter. Really the only issue is it has many more lines than the poem in Latin, but that is because of Mandelbaum's fidelity, something he normally is less concerned with (his translation of Ovid is frankly a chore even though he dresses it up as best he can). His introduction is quite good, about how he put off reading the Aeneid for a long time because it was overshadowed by its father, Homer, and its son, Dante. But when he finally confronted the text he was mesmerized, and sought to make a translation that could at least echo its literary power. His translation manages to convey the very stately voice of the Aeneid and accentuates what makes it a unique work of art, whereas other translators leave one feeling as if it is just an inferior knockoff of HomerFor the Metamorphoses you have McCarter. She likewise translates into iambic pentameter, and her introduction is also quite good in that it covers some of why English translations tended, when Ovid is actually a very vivid writer who has the skill to instantly instill images and emotions. She strives for fidelity which is also often absent, but just as importantly she strives to create an English equivalent to Ovid's style: quick and energetic but literary, employing alliteration at many points. She makes other translations feel like a short in comparison Each translator really goes a very good job at trying to emulate their respective poet's voice
>>24926921Look at it this way: a baroque painting of a classical scene, doesn't make classical depictions unnecessary. They're very different forms of art
>>24926886Dryden for AeneidGarth for Ovid
>>24926921>>24927038Fell for the meme
>>24926886I enjoyed A.D Melville's translation of Metamorphoses, though granted its the only one I've read so I can't say it's the best. It's in blank iambic pentameter, but it has these rhyming couplets at the end of each passage which gives it a nice momentum that keeps the poem dancing along quite elegantly. To be honest I like it so much it's a technique I've started employing myself, putting them at the end of each stanza of a poem I wrote recently. I bought the Fagles Aeniad last week. His Homers were good, but I wish he adhered a more stringent meter (something that, funnily enough, his Sophocles translations do more than the other one I read)
>>24926918thanks for the macnamara recommendation, i'd read the hall translation after hearing sections of it but realized it varies wildly in quality after going through the full thing. its a shame alliterative verse isnt more common in modern english.
Read anything good lately? I've been working through The Crucifixion by Rutledge Fleming and enjoyed its discussion of Anselm.
>>24928776Cats are proper Catholics prottie scum
>>24928776Calvin's Commentary on Ephesians. >“Unhappy they who weary themselves, as the world generally does, in wandering through many winding paths, neglecting the gospel, and pleasing themselves with wild romances, —“ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,” or to find life! But happy they who have embraced the gospel, and whose attachment to it is steadfast; for this, beyond all doubt, is truth and life.”
LWC has been running, as of this month, for the entirety of 2025. Next month will be the year anniversary. We run the first Friday of every month. A warning post is released on Thursday, requirements released on the Friday, and submission closes on the Monday. Voting ends on the following Friday. WHEN>tomorrow morning at 10:00 GMT the character and theme requirements will be releasedRULES>1. incorporate the theme and character requirements (creative interpretations allowed)>2. submissions must be made by Monday 8th December at 22:00 GMT>3. you must submit by use renty.co and posting a rentry.co link of your piece under a unique tripcode (Namefield: Name + "#" + Password)>4 you are allowed to edit your work on rentry.co page until the submission deadline>5 entrants must vote or will be disqualifiedVOTING>anyone can vote>a Strawpoll will be made where you can rank your top three: 1st gets 3 points, 2nd gets 2, 3rd gets 1 Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24927964>The rules are interpreted looselyOh, so, there are no rules. Got it
>>24927843Dreadfully boring I’m afraid. Feels like I’m reading a textbook. Don’t start with a wall of technical description next time. >>24927873If you’re going to write a shit story it should at least be funny, and if this counts then the rules truly do mean nothing.
>>24928190Come on mate. You internally chuckled. Admit it.
>>24928166>>24928190You can consider them more like voting criteria; if you think a story didn't follow the character and theme requirements closely enough, then you don't vote for it. The voters also know the requirements, so it gets filtered out by consensus, same as a piece that's bad for any other reason. Theme and character are at least somewhat ambiguous, so I think this is the better approach compared to having the OP put hard filters on what makes it into voting (besides things that break more explicit rules, like lateness or improper format).
>>24925515Good luck aons, I'll read every submission so actually give up your gooning and girlfriend and write this time.
What is the worst book you were forced to read as a child?
Not a child, but still a teenager in college. Mom works for scholastic and asked me to read Ready Player One for feedback. Couldn't make it past 20 pages
>>24923151The nigger in the gay favelas
>>24928228This may be the only case where i think the book is far worse than the movie. Maybe starship troopers too.
>>24927702Yes. What even is Westerners at this point, I do wonder, since there's actually more diversity in their thoughts than those in the second-third countries (or this is just based on my worldview). Post-modernism and Americanism, like how Evola wrote, is more accurate.Even pure-blood Thais or Laos act like American Asian nowadays.
>>24923579Reminder that the real Oscar Schindler charged people to help them escape
Ἁλικαρνασσόθεν edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24877858>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.
hac nocte quid edistis cenae? fabas et oryzam in olla ferri coxi.
>>24928603haha ipse heri quoque fabas et oryzam coxi more Mexicanorum plus minusve, hodie cum hesternae cenae aliquantulum relictum erat sartagine frixi compositas pilulas oryzae ovo oblinitas et panis micis opertas cum caseo intus, quae Italice arancini nuncupant; praeter eas poma terrestria quoque frictaeundust mihi iam cubitum, vale
>>24928493Why would you put illa? The nominative already suggest either article. I think this was argued previously with the Latin version of Winnie the Pooh where a demonstrative is used to emphasize what a Pooh is. And wouldn't Sara be a first declension taking the -ae ending?
... Are you guys just using Google translate?
>>24928730no, my grammar may be fucking shit but these god awful messages are all done by hand
Millennials:>6-7 is nothing but pointless brainrot, Gen Alpha don't know how to meme blah blahAlso Millenials:>42...... is the answer.... to EVERYTHING lmao.... iykyk hehe...I know this will be a hot take on a website that worships Millennial shit but it's difficult to deny: Authors like Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett relied on nonsensical takes like 42 all the time; the only difference is that they used a *whole damn lot* more words then Gen Alpha do to carry the message across. And I think that makes a whole lotta sense considering cultural advancement has accelerated exponentially since the time those authors rose to fame; what you're seeing now is the same humor, only distilled for a modern era where life can pass you by quickly if you don't match its pace.
>>24927436>irony in one post
>>24927767>please share my delusionShan't.
>>24927387>nonsensical takes like 4242 is the opposite of nonsensical. Read the Bible.
>>24927387>cultural advancement
>>24927409I can guarantee you most milllenials don't even know who those authors are. You live in a bubble.
Serious post Try to convince me that anything after Schopenhauer or Nietzsche isn't dick riding Hegel and beating the dead horse, which is life's meaningless.Also Cioran is the only thing worth reading, rest is just screeching around terminologies
>>24928102Jung is one of the greats, no question.
>>24928216Who wrote this?
>>24928216>he elevates an infra-intellectual impulse, essentially blind and indeterminate, to the dignity of first principle. Such a reversal is typical of the modern deviationIsn't that the point of philosophy ? Atleast he dissects it and rids us of life's conceptsAlso that's already covered in Nietzsche's Twilight of Idols
>>24928596Filtered.>>24928650I copied it from some reddit post
>>24927983i'm tired of bait. i couldn't fall for it if i tried anymore. we're saturated with bait. we live in a bait culture.
