What are some books on the origins of homosexuality and homosexual inclinations? Pic related was pretty interesting to me, especially for its willingness to discuss biological differences between gay and straight men (lower competitiveness, higher conformity and agreeability, tendency to get on better with female peer group rather than male peer group in childhood)
The Homosexual Society - Richard Hauser
>>24990487If it's not sexual it's not a sexuality. Romanticism is not sexual except in the sense that everything is.
>>24990608It's the sexual drive subsumed. If you think sexuality can only be dick into vagina or perhaps dick into asshole you've been basically ruined by materialist modern culture.
>>24990840It's not, retard. Except in the sense that eating food is "sexuality subsumed".
>>24989068These are social differences
What the fuck is wrong with this Scottish faggot? Why did he glom onto Islam so hard all of a sudden?
>>24991086Look at the Satanist writhe in pain as the truth is delivered upon him.
>>24991086My God isn't a pedophile and a slaver, yours is. We aren't the same.
>>24991089Akhi, it's not that big of a deal. When Christianity had power it was a violent imperialist religion(which is good) but because the west is so secularized and empty when you see a religion like Islam which has not changed and still remains pure you have to critique it under liberal atheist polemics
>>24991091There can only be one God and you worship it. Ahl al-Kitāb worship the God of Abraham
>>24991038The rule of larger muscles (strictly in the literal sense) meaning a bigger slice of the pie has been outdated since humans became social animals.I find it humorous that muslims don't see see this and blame any societal shortcomings of their own on supposedly less masculine groups, completely undermining their own point. The only time islamic societies have been 'succesful' was right after their conquest of new territory.Saracens equivocating willpower and masculinity is double lol as I don’t exactly see much desire for upward mobility in the population of Muslim migrants in the egalitarian countries were they flock to. Literally every other migrant group has made it for themselves in my country except muslims.It seems that your creed is simply too stupid and unaware for the modern world, and has been irrelevant ever since the 'emasculated' Western countries invented bigger guns.
Evil Boss Bitch Falling in Love with Me Because I Wrote the Hottest Fanfic Edition>Old:>>24981975>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
>>24991018fap fap fap
Any SFF with this kind of FFX Tropical bright blue water and white beaches vibe?
>>24991092These are all fantasy novels though
>“A better compliment, there is none.” He begins rattling off his catalogue of weapons. “For close work, the R-34 Widowmaker with ion pellets. Of if you’re feeing like something discreet, a wrist-mounted Eradicator. Or…”>R-34 WidowmakerWhat did Pierce Brown mean by this?
This was a very bland book and a disappointing cap to this arc.Spent a good chunk of my year starting this series and this book did not make it seem worth.
What's your goto edition or publisher?For me, it's penguin and Oxford classics.
Crocodile Tears edition.OLD: >>24978375
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Watching House of Cards Season 6 and I can barely understand what's going on. Who the fuck wrote this shit?
got an email from the library that my renewal on Gaddis' The Recognitions failed and I haven't even started it yet O_O
>>24989820okayhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19510885.Justin_Barger
>>24990765Look at that, an NPC clone with the exact same insanely pointless rants about the dumbest NPC shit imaginable. You need to understand that you offer nobody anything. You're completely mindless.
There is much a man might learn from the minds of women, were he willing to lay aside pride and hear them with humility.
>>24990874""it's moral to let poors starve" isn't a philosophical position
>>24991202Yes it is.
>>24991203well, it's not one that's very coherently argued by rand
There is not a single woman worth listening to
>>24991208weil is an entertaining lunatic
If you look past the dense internet lingo, you will find a lot of soul and wit in her writing. Unfortunately most people here aren't smart enough to do that.
>>24990557Linguist terminology
>>24990093i kinda hate to go on debating this because based on what I know I really don't think I'd like this girl's book at all, but generally speaking I think if the art is alienating in that way where it's completely untranslatable from the outside, then I just gotta accept that it's simply not for me. This is backed by the amount of art that I am into where I am on the inside and I see this sort of reaction happening on the outside. It looks like a lot of people who don't understand the work making sweeping generalizations and not realizing just how ignorant they look to the inside. IMO enjoying art is about access, and there's plenty of art I simply don't have access to and that's fine.Also in some mediums, the most creative ideas come from way outside the academic world, that's a very limiting requirement.That all said, in a post-vaporwave/post-netart world, having "lol the internet" being a part of your work is almost always gonna feel pretty out of touch or played out, but surely there's a way somebody could tongue-in-cheek that the right way to make it interesting. Pretty much there's no rules, and anybody who has a rule for what "good art" is is just admitting that they haven't experienced much art, because there's always gonna be examples that break their rule
its exactly ready player one but for zoomers, but even more soulless
>>24989390I hope you're not being sarcastic because Tyrone and Chad ARE superior to 140 iq STEM incels because they are taller than 6'0. The only reason you disagree with this is because (You) are said incel yourself.
>>24989051>If you look past the dense internet lingo, you will find a lot of soul and wit in her writingNo.You just find the incoherent and mangled and disjointed out of control thought process of a stim addict. A deluge of amped up, tweaked out thoughts. A flood of aural noise.
God I wish I was Icelandic.
>>24970659What would prevent me from buying a contemporary diaspora book by an Asian-American woman and forcing the other person to read it all night?
>>24989297>>24989372Have we not covered the fact that the twitter retard made this up?The Jólabókaflóð refers to the publishing flood on Christmas. The "tradition" is just reading fucking books, in silence, usually in your room like a normal fucking person.
>>24970659Is this something they actually do or is it like every other tradition where people in movies do it and then people in real life don't because no one gives a shit. Like Christmas caroling is a "tradition" but how many carolers do you actually know? Sure they're out there. It happens, and if you asked people to list Christmas traditions they'd include Christmas caroling, but 95% of people don't do that shit.
>>24970669>>24972609Kek
>>24990401Neither. It's like when some retard on twitter tells you "Iceland locked up their bankers after the 2008 collapse".They just made it up because they think it sounds nice, no relationship to reality at all.
Is he right about religion?
>>24988366>"Are we content? I am the God who created this farce!" - Nietzsche 1889 TurinI actually read it in an actual book ahahahsee also:http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/correspondence/eng/nlett-1889.htm
>>24986133Which criticisms specifically? Your questions are vague and if one philosopher would make you reconsider religion, that'd be incredibly retarded.
>>24986133This book will an answer your questions. By a Buddhist master who died in recent years as the most respected Buddhist mind of his generation. You could argue Dalia Lama but the Dalia Lama is a not on the same level as a thinker & writerHe addresses God and it's most definitely a non-traditional and fresh explanation that, I'll have to look through the book later so I can explain it like he did
He was right that Christcuckery and organized religion in general were a cancer on society and also right that a total lack of belief in a higher power would lead to the unwinding of society.>Two thousand years have come and gone—and not a single new god! Instead, there still exists, and as if by some intrinsic right,—as if he were the ultimatum and maximum of the power to create gods, of the creator spiritus in mankind—this pitiful god of Christian monotono-theism!From The Antichrist
>>24985543No, Guenon (pbuh) is, who also refuted Neechee
On December 4th, George R R Martin handed in a finished manuscript of Winds of Winter. I took notes as I reviewed the book. I did not read it in full and in depth, but skimmed for my job. I expect the news to break next week, so here's the rough story by chapter for all my buddies here.There are 96 chapters. I will summarize each one briefly. Sadly the storyline does somewhat follow the show.>Epilogue - Forley PresterPOV is a knight of Lannister escorting Rob's wife and Uncle to Casterly Rock. Snows have slowed them down so they are weeks late. One night a wolfpack led by Arya's wolf attacks the host killing everyone>Chapter 1 - Daenerys IDany is being 'escorted' by the Dothraki back to Vaes Dothrak for judgement. She sent away Drogon and was caught, but the dragon is circling. She is considering her fate all the while the dragon circles overhead. Her thoughts about Mereen and her Brother continue to develop and shape the rest of the book.>2 - Cersei IIn the aftermath of Kevan's death, Cersei is completely shut down with rage feeling powerless. Mace arrived the morning of and put the castle under protective lockdown and Cersei is 100% convinced that Margery is fucking Tyrion, and planning on killing Tommen. Cersei is banned from seeing Tommen given her trial and she is also convinced the Tyrells killed Jamie. Qyburn does his best to manage her as the trial approaches
>tfw the fanfic writers are circling, even before you're dead
Dubs and op is telling the truth
You spent way too much time on this op.
>>24987341>Arya awakens in the House of the UndyingLmao, the House of the Undying? The one in Qarth? Anyway, it's all fake and gay, stopped reading.
>>24987208>I expect the news to break next weekLmao, sure
>>24989354I am a White Australian male (Anglo) and I VASTLY prefer reading on my phone with moonreader than my kindle. The kindle is laggy and cumbersome in comparison. For example, citations are handled far better on moonreader than my kindle, I press the number, it pops up on my screen and then I close it seamlessly without my reading being heavily interrupted. On the kindle it takes about three times longer and sends me to the entire bibliography instead of just overlaying over the page. tl;dr Phones rules, kindle drools, and /lit/ doesn't read so it picks kindle since it makes them seem like real heckin' smart boys!
ausfags don't got no hoes on they phones sad
>>24990485eReader. Just the cheapest 2nd hand one you can find. The technology barely changed in 20 years time and you have to have autism to notice any difference between them. It replaced paper books for me because I love reading in sunlight and it's indistinguishable from real paper. It looks like I'm viewing a real paper page framed in glass instead of a device.It's also lighter than a novel and quality of life things like remembering where you left off, changing fonts and scale etc make it unbeatable.I can't even read on a screen like a smartphone anymore after the switch. I read way more since I got introduced to an eReader last year. Highly recommended
Apple Books > Kindle
the boomers are getting creative with jewternatives
Can you grind to get good at writing? Did niggas like Hemmingway and McCarthy actually practice?
>>24982791Hemingway wrote for a newspaper before WWI. That's where he developed and practiced his concise style.
>>24982791I presume you're referring exclusively to writing creative fiction?You grind to build discipline, and to make writing a habit. Having a schedule and a dedicated space to writing helps. If you have the room, you can dedicate two separate spaces if you wish - one for physical stuff, pencils, paper, pens, the like - and the other for your computer.Don't fear your work being shit. It's mental pressure and stress that fucks with the process. If you're writing on paper, and find the blankness too intimidating, try scrunching the paper up a little before you start.
>>24984088>My problem is that I feel like I can never think of something that needs to be said or put out there.Then don’t. There’s plenty of creatives who don’t have that problem at all.
>>24982797Gebe Wolfe also swore that this was the only way to practice writing
>>24991156Don’t listen to this guy unless you’re aiming to be a complete hack.
PBUH?
>>24990039>what are the spiritual implications of not being able to participate in any of this?According to René Guénon, the absence of connection to a living initiatic tradition constitutes a profound limitation upon the human capacity to participate in the metaphysical order in its full integrity. Initiation is not merely a symbolic or intellectual affiliation but a genuine transmission of principles whose efficacy operates on levels inaccessible to unaided reason or personal effort alone. One who is cut off from such a lineage is thereby deprived of the formal means by which the human consciousness can be aligned with the supra-individual and supra-temporal realities that underlie the manifested cosmos. In Guénon’s view, this absence restricts the individual not only in the actualization of higher states of being during life but also in the assured progression through the hierarchically ordered post-mortem stages of subtle existence, for these stages presuppose the operative presence of initiatic guidance and the sacramental efficacies it conveys. The spiritual ascent of such a person remains contingent, erratic, and liable to deviations that render the full realization of metaphysical truths uncertain or altogether inaccessible.Nonetheless, Guénon acknowledges that the innate principles of traditional wisdom are not entirely annihilated for those outside a living initiation. Certain rudimentary or “preparatory” realizations, corresponding to the more general harmonization of the human faculties with universal order, may be attained through authentic intellectual comprehension, rigorous contemplative discipline, or natural predisposition. These attainments, however, do not reach the apex of metaphysical hierarchy, which is strictly reserved for those integrated into the continuity of initiatic transmission. Sublime heights may thus exist outside formal initiation, but they are exceptional, sporadic, and precarious, lacking the definitive guarantee of verifiable transformation. For Guénon, only through the confluence of proper initiation and adherence to the unbroken metaphysical principles can one traverse the full spectrum of spiritual states, culminating in the realization of the immutable and supra-cosmic realities that constitute the ultimate purpose of human existence.
>>24990128thank you so much for responding, your response is very helpful to me, as it is something i have wondered for a while and guenon threads are rare here. you seem to be very knowledgeable on this topic. i just finished his introduction to the study of hindu doctrines and plan to read more of him. its unfortunate that there is no living initiatic tradition in the west. i was wondering if i could ask two more things, what does guenon mean by sentimentality? especially in the way it seems prevalent in western thought? and where is that picrel from?? it looks like a screenshot from an old video game but i dont think any video games have guenon as a character in them
>>24990680>what does guenon mean by sentimentality?For Guénon, sentimentality does not mean the simple presence of emotion in human life, but the displacement of intellectual intuition by affective states. It names a civilizational disorder in which subjective feeling is made to perform a function that properly belongs to the intellect, understood as supra-individual knowledge of universal principles. In this confusion of planes, the psychic is mistaken for the intellectual, inner states are taken as criteria of truth, and metaphysical knowledge gives way to opinions, impressions, and personal convictions. Sentimentality thus reflects a profound subjectivism and psychologism, whereby what is contingent, unstable, and individual is elevated above what is immutable and universal.Guénon regards this phenomenon as especially characteristic of the modern West, not because earlier civilizations lacked emotion, but because they subordinated it to doctrine and disciplined it through ritual and symbolism. Modern Western civilization, having lost effective access to metaphysical intellect, nevertheless continues to seek meaning, value, and transcendence. Deprived of principial knowledge, it replaces truth with sincerity, religion with religious feeling, ethics with moral sentiment, and spirituality with inner experience. This tendency appears in Protestantism, Romanticism, and humanitarian ideologies, all of which appeal to emotion as a supposed path to the Absolute once intellectual participation in truth has been abandoned.Sentimentality is therefore harmful not because emotion is illegitimate in itself, but because it obstructs knowledge of principles, fosters illusion and moral vanity, and renders both individuals and societies vulnerable to manipulation through rhetoric and emotional contagion. When feeling becomes sovereign, metaphysics becomes impossible, discernment is replaced by indignation, and ethics degenerates into moralism grounded in fluctuating emotional reactions rather than objective order. What results is not genuine moral life, but the institutionalization of sentiment, where intention and compassion are absolutized without hierarchy or intellectual measure.Finally, Guénon insists that sentimentality is inseparable from materialism and moralism, despite their apparent opposition. Materialism denies supra-sensory reality in principle, while sentimentality attempts to recover meaning by purely emotional means after intellect has been rejected. Together they testify to a single anti-intellectual tendency that governs both the outer and inner life of modern civilization. Materialism dominates the domain of facts, sentimentality fills the interior void, and moralism regulates conduct without reference to truth. In this inversion of the proper hierarchy of human faculties, modernity reveals its deepest metaphysical deficiency.>and where is that picrel from?? I think I originally found it on google images but cant remember
>>24988364I do believe. If I cared about fitting in I'd try to get into a specific tradition that appeals to my sensibilities but since I believe so much (quantity) and so strongly (quality) I remain open minded.
>>24988586>Well I read man and his becoming a few days ago and I still stand by what I said.Symbolism of the Cross and Multiple States of the being go much deeper than Man and His Becoming do.Man and His Becoming basically introduces you to the eastern doctrines and concepts that he uses as tools in his explanation of metaphysics, if you've already studied multiple eastern traditions it's not unusual that you'd already know a lot of information in there.Symbolism of the Cross then takes these symbols and relates them to the metaphysical symbolism of geometry, the cross, space, the cardinal directions etc as well as the various states of realization and spiritual attainment, universal man etc.And finally Multiple States of the Being wraps it all up together and addresses various meta-level questions about the whole thing.Also, Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times is extremely insightful and is definitely worth reading.
It's self-evident that women are retarded whores, many read porn, what porn books should I be concerned if I find on my wife's Kindle or bookshelf and what porn books can I encourage because they'll convince her to let me fuck her butt or blow me more or cool shit like that?
>>24989041Heterosexual men that know 2D is superior, yes.
>>24988911if most men watch porn, is it really that big of a deal if a likely minority of women read erotica?
>>24990577If they're up front about what it is, which they aren't. This shit shouldn't be something they feel ok buying in person just as I'm not going to sex shops off the highway and buying dvds
>>24991106That's because you're a pussy.
>>24991106>im a spineless faggot and I’m upset that not everyone is as spineless as meI have more respect for women who openly read smut than you, OP.
So? What did we think of it?
>>24986593Why are they always materialists
>>24988765>>24989083you're both total losers who don't deserve to read philosophy
>>24990981>why the tv clown mememan of quips creates such strong opinions ?
>>24990999tf is unc yappin bout lmao
>>24990981He definitely had to just accept full Hegelian and Lacanian on this one. He can't ignore the unfolding of the original quantum movement which did cop Hegel and led to an ethos of shut up and calculate that wound up turning the field into a highly solitary affair. He also can't ignore the quantum devouring that occurred on the Marx side which turned that into a free for all in which there is just 1 machine vs the world. It was a decent read but you won't find a comprehensive guide to quantum mechanics. His holographic universal smashing idea is legitimately useful though.
