Happy birthday!
>>25421802https://youtu.be/sSh_9TioLM4?si=0GPL5zbDqoFjSJyz
It infuriates me that this board only reads and makes threads about meme shit but this thread is on page 10
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>>25424261You can keep bumping anon. The 15 retards who live on this board and schizo post don’t know who OP is referring to
>>25421816Masterpiece. More likeThis?
>A=A>if A, then A>if,then>I(if, then)>if I, then I>I=I>I am I>I am
>>25425547hegel is honestly more readable than fichte and schelling
>During her first non-resident term at Bennington College, while living in Washington, Donna Tartt engaged in an extended erotic role-play with an older, wealthier student, named Paul. In the fantasy, Tartt was Paul's slender gay lover, a Sebastian Flyte type. She cropped her hair short, dressed in jazz age menswear, and Paul referred to her as "my lad." The pair would french kiss outrageously in public places in an attempt to attract opprobrium from bigots, then either flee or, if cornered, reveal that Tartt was in fact a woman. This really lowers my opinion of her, bros. Disgusting.
>>25424575I believe her, look at the anger in her eyes, dangerous girl, femme fatale.
>>25421443More like Donna Fartt
I want to have sex with twinks now
>>25421443HotI only have sex with ftm transexuals
>>25421443That’s based as fuck.
Thoughts on "Galahad and The Grail" by Malcolm Guite? I like it so far, it's clearly an attempt at a "modern" Arthurian story and is heavily influenced by Tolkien, Lewis and the other Inklings. I like that it doesn't ignore the religious dimension of the Grail stories.
>>25424440The most reddit comment on this site rn
>>25424446okey so he just made a version for the retards, understood. glad you enjoyed it, tells a story.
>>25424460you're not cool bud.
>>25424669I apologize. I was a bit hangry,
>>25424398Malcolm is goated. I ordered the book, can't wait to get my hands on it.
Which 100 books would you recommend to a Japanese game developer?
>>25425207Hong Chong
>>25425304skill issue, try being a history and sociology double major
>>25425355>try being a history and sociology double majorSorry, but I have self respect
>>25425364self respect is the ultimate skill issue
>>25425212kek
I'm writing an essay in the style of Montaigne about trannies. Specifically about how transgender actually means transsexual in our society, and thus the term is logically inconsistent rendering the whole transgender movement nonsensical. If you are actually changing your biology and sex, then why you are you trying to convince society at large that you're simply transitioning your gender? And in the process, ironically, conflating gender and sex! It will probably also touch on how this obfuscation is likely being used to hide nefarious intentions.
>>25424185Sure, it's a discrete spectrum of 2, where there's either XX or XY and in every variation thereof you know if the Y appears it's a male, if it doesn't it isn't. Now put that shit up your you tranimal
>>25424185trvke>>25425271fluke
>>25424185A man is an adult human male, and a woman is an adult human female. Holy fuck, dude, It's literally three words.>b-but what is a """male"""?the one that has the motile gamete you fucking cretin>b-but what if I lost my balls??then you're a cum-less, impotent male, congrats>but what if I never had either???then you're neither, CONGRATS you genetic freak. you can pretend to be whichever one you manage to trick people into thinking that you are, and people will treat you that way out of politeness NOT out of correctnessI can't believe this shit has taken you fucking retards 20+++ years of hysterical and very public screeching to NOT be able to work out yet.literally takes fucking 20 seconds to sort out
>>25425479You’re just autistic who struggles with understanding nuance. I even bet you’re ocd. What you fail to realize is that when people say someone is male and female they don’t necessarily refer to the strict definition of their sexual organs. Moreover people don’t walk around naked so we can’t really tell.When people want this type of specificity they often say/write biological male or biological female. The fact that you have difficulties with nuance of language suggests that you should probably read more.
>>25425271You’re autistic. That’s not what most people mean when they say man or woman. People are referring to both biological and basically qualities of gender. Am I supposed to ask everyone for a blood test before identifying them?And shouldn’t how the person wants to be identified or how they identify themselvesbe taken into consideration?
People say nobody in antiquity believed there was anything immoral about the Trojan horse (which was a literal war crime) and yet literally everyone who participated suffered some sort of horrible fate. Even if they didn't have the modern libtard vocabulary to describe it they clearly did something evil and were punished for it
>>25425261now HERE is a good fucking take>homer has always been libtard bullshit sobstory>explains the pedo gay shitdoesnt explain why rome, europe, and the brits ended up wanting to be greek though...
>>25423465>which was a literal war crimedo you want to win or be a sore loser?
>>25424191...he's listening to a song about his exploits, his VICTORY, from some years prior, while still not having made it home and having lost his men. Do you not get that? That's why he subsequently tells the story of how he and his men have wandered unsuccessfully to make it back to Ithaca while scores of his men never get to make it back at all.
>>25423880>>25423910Sing the poem, retards.
>>25424173Woke fan fiction.
>What is /phil/ Philosophy General?A general for readers, students, and armchair thinkers interested in philosophy, whether it be Western, Eastern, analytic, continental, ancient, contemporary. We discuss primary texts, secondary literature, online lectures, podcasts.>Why read philosophy?Politics, science, psychology, etc. all began with or were inspired by someone who thought philosophically. Basically, if you are interested in just about anything, philosophy will help you better understand that subject. Because it is at the foundation of every conceptual institution made or discovered by humans, it is in the underbelly of human experience, and so it is worth taking seriously.>Why study philosophy formally?Surprisingly versatile and undervalued. Phil majors consistently score among the highest on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Strong pipeline into law, policy, ethics consulting, AI alignment, and academia.The server: https://discord.gg/EMq43xYNxqPrevious thread: >>25374034
>>25422373Schopenhauer is superior imo
>>25418709I'm legitimately trying to learn here. I would just like it if one of you guys nudged me in the right direction first. I'm read a substantial amount of classical philosophy but I want to dive deeper into the analytics.
If I want to read Plotinus, where should I start? Besides Plato, do I need more context to him? And why should one read Plotinus?
>>25423500enneads
>>25423500suphere you go anon read through our notes. it is definitely not unprofessional slop. >>21787854
Two thousand years later, who won this debate?
>>25424294Lorem
>who won this debate?Augustus. DEBATE THIS, NERD.
>Transgender dogma is naive and incompatible with FreudHe was so real for this
you guys are so stupid
>>25423220But not incompatible with Jung.Jung would take one look at the tranny fad, and diagnose a simple case of Anima possession.
>>25423922I think the issue is that The One-Dimensional Man was the best work and only worthwhile work on it and Marcuse even agreed with the criticism that it suggests capitalism is sustainable when it isn’t and confronts it that way
>>25423220so? Fuck Freud.
>>25424366>Mental disorderWe can actually just call it a mental order of a particular kind and then all mind our own fucking business
Does anybody?Hows the volume when you type, will it go through your door and annoy other people in the house? I have been watching youtube videos of people using them but its still hard to tell as you have no idea how loud the microphone/my headphone volume is compared to reality.I am 99.9999999999999999% convinced any story told will come out better if you type it up with a typewriter vs write it on a computer but I live in an apartment and I remember neighbours complaining about the noise from Stephen Kings typewriter back in the day. Picture related, the typewriter Cormac Mccarthy used for all his novels.
>>25423546What fucking performative retard would actually use a typewriter when a fucking computer is superior in every way? If you weant to change something you don't need to retype it. If you want distraction free there is software for that, hell, you could pirate WordPerfect 5.1 or Word for DOS and go Fullscreen mode with it.Without hard drives or off-site cloud syncs, the risk of losing a manuscript has to be utterly terrifying. A house fire, a stolen bag, or a lost parcel meant the work was simply gone forever. I mean fuck, In 1922, Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley, packed almost all of his early fictional manuscripts (and their copies) into a single suitcase to bring to him in Switzerland. The suitcase was stolen at a train station in Paris. Hemingway lost years of work in an instant and never recovered those stories. You actually want to live like that, carrying papers around that can't be encrypted or stolen? I'll take my computer with word processor with auto save and WEBDAV based backup.
>>25423546Post something you've written.
I used one in the past. I did it find it more efficient (no distractions, no constant editing). But yeah, they're loud and can't be used during the night, so I threw it away.
What is wrong with a pen?
It seems too slow.
>My desert island book? >How to Survive on a Desert Island 101.
>>25423408Based on how you write they already are.
>>25423794TRVKE
>>25423794 >>25423899 what did i do to deserve this abuse?and anyway, don't you feel the same? your imagination needs a sense of real possibility in order to function at all imo. books are vivid and stirring because they suggest an expanded sense of what's possible in the world. this is partly why our art is so weak and hollow compared with 100 years ago - in the world of the 1920s everything was so much more up for grabs, developments in painting or literature seemed like they really could leap over into revolutions in politics and society. whereas now history seems preprogrammed, stuck on rails of economic growth and competition, and imagination senses that it's redundant, a vestigial organ from a happier time. to me this is the same problem as finding yourself on a desert island. agree or disagree?
>>25423911I think you pose a big problem. Does imagination really need a sense of possibility in order to function ? I think I disagree, or at least I disagree partially. If someone were to grow up, assuming that is even possible, all alone on a desert island, then yes, that would be all they would ever be capable of imagining, or nearly so. Perhaps they'd imagine the rest of the world as another, boundless, desert island like their own. How could they even conceive of anything else ?But someone that's developed their imagination before, someone that comes with the tools to imagine primed and ready will not suffer the loss of imagination on a desert island, if anything it will become more intense and powerful given the fact that there is nothing to distract him. What I think is that it will invite despair, because you will begin to imagine what you miss and what you miss you cannot recreate with your imagination if not in a stunted, temporary way
>my dessert island book?>How to Serve on a Dessert Island 101
Hey /lit/ i just came back from watching the Odyssey movie and i was in awe so now I'm gonna read the book any tips before i start? btw I'm skipping the Iliad since I'm only interested in reading the Odyssey
>>25425129Reading is for women, uncs, and faggots anyway
>>25425124Letting the pleebz have access to our sekrit club is a crime.
If you want any further proof of the end of literacy in America, right now there are five different posts on the front page of /lit/ from people who saw or heard about the movie and now want to 'try' to read Homer. -- It's sad really.
>/lit/ is americaYou need to wake up unc, you share an online space us third worlders now. This is India.
>>25425169>This is India.Get back to me when a thread about the vedas hits bump limit.
This AI shit is so much worse than you think already.>send full manuscript to a medium-big literary agency (less than 80k words, not even huge).>bought their "FULL READ AND EVALUATION" package: an experienced editor will read all your book and give you a detailed review, and if we're interested we'll represent you with publishing houses.>$220.>wait 3 weeks.>finally the evaluation report comes.>full of compliments for the style, ideas, etc.>initial excitement starts to give way to suspicion.>start noticing a lot of "it's not X; it's Y" sentences.>and I mean a lot.>notice a couple of continuity mistakes a human editor wouldn't make because it would be immediately obvious they don't make sense.>by the end I'm 100% sure it was written with AI.>not even an expensive one, the free ChatGPT model on my phone could and did give me a report just as good, quality wise.>angry email to the editor.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25424385>if you self-publish your stuff drowns into an ocean of millions of garbage books that at first glance are indistinguishable from yours. Sure, yours is a masterpiece and they're just slop, but guess who's gonna find that out? Fucking nobody, because you have no physical presence in book stores and no advertising.What value is any trad publisher bringing in these avenues? Plenty of trad releases flop, about half of them sell less than a few dozen copies lifetime. You will still be expected to market your book. Meanwhile they now own the rights to your work and you make 12% residual, when you could've retained ownership and made 70% with self-pub. It's an appeal to authority that no longer passes the smell test.
>>25424385And that's why no one will remember your name.
>>25424385I don't care. Caring is for gay people
>>25423979> >bought their "FULL READ AND EVALUATION" package: an experienced editor will readI thought it was well known all “pay for feedback, consideration, publishing” type offers are SCAMS. Fucks sake this goes back to the 50s man.
All these replies really show that we need a board for adults and one for retarded kids (18-23).Literary agencies already receive hundreds of manuscripts a week, and this is while making people pay for sending them. Imagine what would happen if they accepted everything for free, in the age of AIs that can shit out a whole book in 10 minutes.You heard that vanity presses are a scam (which they are, you'll be in the hole for thousands of dollars while receiving none of the advantages of trad publishing) and your little pigeon brain simplified that to "dude spending even a cent on getting published is retarded".And then you come here and regurgitate this "opinion" thinking you'll look cool. Over and over again, you and your little clones clutter the board with these "opinions".This shit is at the same level as r/books but with less Count of Montecristo.
Communist/socialist society can exist so long as you exclude sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths and BPDs and low IQ morons.The reason why it imploded and why it was met with so much resistance externally is because of evil people and partly because of ignorant and stupid people, but really more so evil people.evil people don't like communism or socialism.mainstream communists and socialists for some reason don't bother with the idea that maybe some people are inherently incompatible with communism. I would love to live in a commune with good people, but the moment you include evil people in the commune it will implode. This is why it fails. and no, you mostly can't educate them into being good.There are also some things that mainstream communist literature gets really wrong, like the concept of ownership. you shouldn't own other good people, but owning objects or property that can be used for good is not a problem in and of it self. this might sound close to something like National Socialism but it's really not. Nazis are evil because they don't have a concept of good. they just care about society in a strictly exploitative manner or exhaustive manner. communists are generative, national socialists are degenerative, even if they put a front that says otherwise.And finally good and evil transcend race. race can maybe be correlated to some extent but it's not a very strong correlation. most white people for example are actually evil, not good. because most humans in general are evil.
>>25422490Empathy is genetic, so you might as well advocate for ethnic cleansing. That makes you evil and betrays the whole point.
>>25423321are you intentionally describing Fallout or was that an accident
>>25425119>They mostly fell apart due tomeddling and persistent undermining by 3 letter agencies>The most famous commune from the era was the Manson Family ...and speaking of 3 letter agencies, Manson was probably the most famous and most "successful" MKUltra subject the CIA ever produced
>>25425119part of the issue is that people need to feel invested and not like they can just leavepeople have no problem imploding a commune if they feel like the stakes aren't that high and they can just go back to whatever family or career they had beforeon the flip side, if you do hazing to ensure that people who join the commune are invested and are of appropriate character, you're very easily risking creating a cult
>>25425175>I trump your historical facts with my conspiracy theoryLOL no.
