>is the greatest fantasy work in your pathReverend Insanity is brilliant. Intermingling excellently grounded worldbuilding with an excellent very real feeling magical system that makes sense throughout with various battling philosophical beliefs all told through the points of views of interesting, believable, realistic, intelligent and stupid, mature and childing very human characters with real human motivations such as family, honor, greed, beliefs, etc.The story is excellent with nice intrigue and excellent twists and turns rising to a higher level of comprehension with each passing chapter.
yeah dude I love it when he cast the spell and it was all like boom pew and all the bad guys exploded
>>23981012also im trans
>>23980680You are never going to shill this to anybody if you keep using the anime cover
Did Kant believe in god?
>>23978543not only the buttons, but also his fucking head
>>23978873>>23978868>>23978864>>23978862>>23978860>>23978856>>23978586die
>>23978981yes
>>23978397This is where that kantbot got his name from isn't it.
>>23978873I've been using this site for at least 8+ years, and have probably only contributed to a thread a few times, it is quite nice to simply observe.>inb4 lurk moar
hey guys, just checking it its been a few years... so have you read anything other than those three greek philosiphers you kept talking about back then? no? oh...
Huh? I never read those either. I'm not a thinker nor a doer. I"m a be'er.
>>23981782We have moved away from Parmenides (I imagine you are referring to him along with Plato and Aristotle). We are all about Heraclitus now and we are covering ourselves in dog turds to be like our leader.
"This world is the Will to Power—and nothing else! And even ye yourselves are this will to power—and nothing besides!"
>>23980103Negation of the will to live, which is the basis of Schopenhauer's moral theory. He considers Jesus Christ to be the exemplification of this theory.
it's hilarious how ahteists literally cannot stop using the word power and everything according to them is about empowerment kekthis is why they have no insights into life, not even their plastic society.
If the will to power dictates the world order, then why was he so against Christianity instead of accepting it as the natural order? i.e. if Christianity managed to reach such stranglehold on Europe, then it therefore must inherently have the right to rule.
>>23978881many people do not have a significant will to power. most are just conditioned into it through avoidance of the pain of death. they desire to exist and subjugate themselves because their ambition does not exist in a form that brings them further than that. if there were no food and drink needed to exist many people would not drink or eat or do more than meditate, wishing to attain their own form of "power" you could say and in that sense yes neitzche is right. I think the idea of humanity existing on a spectrum of strength of wills and the category of all humans having a will are incompatible. I do not think that because a human without desire necessarily stops breathing and eating etc. that we should discard them as outside the realm of humanity in the general sense. they existed, learned somewhat, made a decision, and we are here to observe the consequences. does this mean that I will not choose the same path as them? does someone without any will to do anything constitute a will to die? there is some form of attribution of agency of will here that might need further analysis
>>23980367>Negation of the will to liveDoesn't accurately portray martyrdom, so it can't be that.
normal author:>I threw on my jacket, slipped into my sneakers and went out to grab some food.American author>I threw on my adidas™ Tiro 24® jacket, slipped into my Nike™ Court Vision Mid Men's Trainers™ and went out to grab an Impossible Whopper™® with extra bacon from my local McDonald's™®.Why?
>>23981894no european author would be>I was too poor to buy mcbacon from mcburger so I walked to the grocery and bought potatotkjhjnes.
>>23977485Tell us about your irrelevant third world shit hole>>23978696No, no you didn't. Otherwise you'd still be living here.
normal author:>I threw on my jacket, slipped into my sneakers and went out to grab some food.European author>آحكام الختان حسب الشریعة الآسلامیة
>>23981384I'm not the OP, but I had Vineland when I was a kid and the author was always talking about brands, TV shows and products.Also, I have nothing against America. If you think America is bad, just remember it's still better than 84% of the world.
>>23977485>bloomin eck stella these yanks be talkin' bout mcdonalds instead'uvva propa pint n' jellied eels>bit strange innit
How did the author got away with writing an anarcho-communist novel in the middle of the Cold War?
>>23976936Ever heard of red scare and how leftist writers were deplatformed back then?
>>23976920>How did the author got away with writing an anarcho-capitalist novel in the middle of the Cold War?ftfy
It's not communist at all, not sure what you mean. It's also constantly making little affectionate references to the American revolution, and the story very much appeals to the American frontier spirit - self reliance, distrust of government, a desire to "move out west".If Heinlein was going to have caught flak for anything, it would surely have been for all the polygamy and race-mixing he packed in there.
>>23980112Check out the "future history" stories. I think they're what he was best known for for a long time, maybe until "stranger" became a big deal. The gist is basically that, for a long time, most of his fiction fit into one timeline, and although it wasn't especially organized or written according to a preexisting plan, or advertised as such, people caught on, and he was admired for maintaining such a big picture with his SF over the years. Most of the "early" stuff is just workmanlike magazine stories exhibiting a cool imaginary technology or historical event; what makes it cool is the way the later stories subvert the earlier ones, making well-written but pretty normal SF stories look like minor historical miscellany by the time you're done. Also IMO, the varied scales, day-to-day grittiness and even the random focuses make the whole thing a much more interesting imaginary "history" than Foundation, for example.You can get really autistic about it (picrel) but keep in mind, it's not necessarily meant to form an arc, and there was a little tweaking after the fact in some cases to make it make more sense. The main short stories have been published as one volume a few different times, I think. When I got really into the magazine stories by the big guys, Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke, Aldiss etc., it started making more sense to me why they were such a big deal. They cut their teeth on that stuff and their plotting and characterizations just seem to work better in that form, I dunno. Whereas with the new agers, PKD, LeGuin, Herbert, etc., the novels seem superior to the stories.
>>23976920Because Hein has a rep and public perception of being borderline Fascist.
Any good, politically neutral books about his escapades? Only historically accurate ones that don’t peddle sensationalist theories such as that he worked for mossad or murdered Heinz Krug.
>>23981502I share a birthday with him
>>23981502this seems like the sort of post designed to make someone very mad but unfortunately not me
Explain to me how this isn't just repackaged religious perennialism.
It is, you're completely correct. Eliade is trying to carve out a space for a set of obviously false religions to exist inside a discipline that is about studying real religions.
Explain to me why this warranted reposting.
>>23981597>>23981611Filtered. Its sociology done the right way unlike Max Weber
How do you suppose he'd react?
>>23981503female autism is frightening
yeah you have it bad
>>23981662I have what bad?
>>23981503Jesus Horatio Christ . . .
>>23981501He got sick of oz and wanted people to read his other books, but that never happened. So he was forced to continue writing sequels until his death, and now he is only remembered as the wizard of oz author.
I love to hear retarded braggarts, here, on this temple of neo asyrians vs Hitites, of lord Vlad the impaller autistic minions vs Constantino of Ostrovica brown hordes, or Richard the lionheart vs Al-Nāsir Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn Yūsuf.Here, the intelectual forces of the most profound thinkers of the last era of western decay.Here, they come in hordes and ambushes, to try to argue in the favour, a favour of the Gods, that maybe athena or Diana will provide in their cause.Maybe that way they can defeat the bad luck that those pixies sent by Locke will clear the path towards the mental anhiquilation of my malktunian neo city, guarded by Saturn.Ironic as may seem their arguments, as ironic to me thoughever and whatever so ever.I can't do but look at them from my sacred mental temple, and cause a laughter at the irony.Me, a neo citizen of the great moche, inca, olmec culture, by the blood of their great warriors and damnsels, of the muisca empires.Can't do but look at retarded retards stupid braggarts that I am mentally inferior to them, what them is nothing but a cruel joke to my senses, which I do nothing but use my lenses to see their mockery as nothing more than a jockery that entails nothing to.What a mockery such imbeciles seems to clearly laugh at their third eye superiors.
get help, I mean it because I care about your safety
>>23980493learn to speak english first retard
>>23980493go back to /int/, 0n
My copy of The Riverside Shakespeare has a love note from the previous owner's Grandma.Now I feel bad. What kind of fucking monster would sell something like this? For less than $10 too. It makes me sick.
>>23981601Grandmas are always sweet.
>>23981581>less than $10Are you operating out of a physical store or online? I could never make the online business work. After fees you get $4.I ended up forgoing the business and just converting the books I liked from my inventory into part of my library.
>>23981646Nah I just bought this from eBay. By previous owner I mean the guy that sold it to the eBay store initially.
>>23981622So sweet they leave all their money to charity and leave you with the dog to care of.
>>23981581Is it well-read or has it never been touched?
>age>current book>your thoughts on it
>>23981556Wonderful short stories, full of Life, feelings and flowers. She's become one of my favourites, so good, give it a chance if you can
22 Okla Hannali Beautiful funny book. Pretends to bore you with detailed historical factoids then hits you with heartfelt pure gleeful moments or sad ones. I enjoyed Lafferty short stories a whole lot, they're blazingly fast and entertaining, and this feels a lot like them but in epic form. Recommed.
>>2397008931Lady Chatterley's LoverI had high hopes for it, because I knew Lawrence was a based proto fascist, and I'm really liking it, but I was expecting it to be really obscene, and it's actually very classy. More than porn, it reads like a Nietzsche influenced parabole on losing our vitality to technology. Pretty great.
>>23981147Best girl is Varenka. Your warned.
> 29> Three Body Problem> I hate the VR segments 90% of the time. Da Shi is carrying the story.
What are some nonfiction books that read like poetry?
Kira loves you
>>23981665Huh, I never thought I'd see another anon post about this record. I adore it, cherish it. Anyways, how about I and Thou by Martin Buber?
>audiobook>dramatized with full cast>unique soundtrack >good sound effectsLiterally the best way to experience most books
I actually hate the idea of listening to music while I'm listening to an audiobook
>>23978846>You consumed the book, but not by reading itNo one is arguing with you on this
>>23976169I adore that turbo-burger accent whatever it is. I wish they all spoke that way.
>>23974780It's a very good medium for plays. Shakespeare audio dramas are kino. I don't think it works as well for novels though.
>>23980685You mean no one is arguing that listening to a book is the same as reading it?
Why is her writing so difficult to read? I have no idea what's going on on her novels.
>>23981047Wasn't she just manic or somewhat delusional when she wrote her shit? Some sources say she had bipolar disorder.
read a real book ffs
>>23981052yes she was also mentally ill (clinically, not self-ided)
>>23981038Emerging style of modernity. Same with Joyce, Faulkner (and in different ways and for different reasons Kafka or Musil). Realism tried to hold the reader's hand, modernity often inentionally seeks to confuse.
Try starting with Jacob's Room. It's where she found the real break-out point for her "methods".
