Growing up, I was most interested in reading, understanding, and emulating the great works of the western canon. Today I am almost exclusively interested in essays, blogs, old journals, and various work from random historical nobodies.What the fuck is wrong with me?
>>24838240Not really. I no longer feel guilty when giving up on a book now; also, I tend to reread the books that I like: neither applied when I was a kid.
>>24838133I can still enjoy the books but I have shifted heavily from a film guy in my childhood to philosophy, science, maths and history guy. The literature you enjoy I enjoy too. Matter of fact, give me some recommendations.
>>24838133You have grown up, the revelation you got from fiction is gone, now only reality satiates it.
>>24839439What does reality satiate?
>>24840339Need to know. Revelations. You read a novel to know what would happen to some guy, and the answer shocked you. It was thrilling. Now you've seen what happens to almost all guys. It's not as fun, but reality is never ending strings of surprises. It's also more productive.To enjoy art again, I recommend you focus more on its intellectual and formal construction.
>Over 9000 physical evidence for muhammad>Still not accepted as cannonWhen will /lit/ grow a brain?
>>24838044how the fuck is mohammed western
>>24838044ZUTTZUTTINTHEBUTTZUT ALORS !!this is the besthttp://www.google.com/search?q=prophet+of+doom+craig+winn
Read the truth about muhammed
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Harold bloom is cool in that interview of Charlie rose.
How do I interact with beaudrillard without going into a psychotic episode?I think it's all really interesting but the more I learn about his perspectives and how they are objectively correct, I feel like locking my self in my room and screaming for 15 hours a day.
>>24840762>everywhere they go they will be survivors.>the ease of dismissal and the terror that the external world induces ensures no one will leave their postmodern shitbox.>to reach the apex of any given school it is necessary to nuke your own shitbox.>for the survivors there is no noticeable difference in radiation levels for completing multiple schools of thought.>to adequately defend a concept at any given stage of development might be the last metric available. >new concepts can't be ruled out but it's likely the time in which these will be born of original venues has long since passed.>establishing a new critique doesn't really mean anything. Only when others use it does it gain this dimension.What is the easiest way to talk someone out of a simulation? Talk to them. Is it possible to do this? Take youtube challenges for instance, consider the following, a YouTube challenge emerges with patently erroneous content. Viewed by multiple people in isolation ensures the challenge will be instantly recognized as trash by some, immediately accepted by others, and gradually embraced by the remaining viewers. Who amongst this group has reality, hyperreality, and a solipsistic rejection? Can the lines on these also blur? >it's alright, scream it out champ.The more crises that are claimed, the less meaning each crisis has. At some point these are mistaken for normal and seen as good, I'm usually the first one to do this and ruin it for everyone. It's alright, the next one usually tries to outdo the rest.
Have you ever realized why people throught centuries and centuries, shared the esopo tales, without even knowing about greeks or knowing who esopo was, because esopo wrote something humans feel is valuable.Meanwhile pretty much all other intelectuals and writers in history, will be forgoten, most of all?
>>24837434Do you mean Aesop? Why the fuck are you calling him Esopo? Also the reason? Because he wrote moral tales that apply to all humanity regardless of the times in which they live. Partly because he used animals as a proxy for humans and thus his stories are timeless, as animals remain unchanged. This means that his works require no background reading or knowledge of the time in which he lived and wrote.
Is this about the fox and the grapes guy?
The way Umberto Eco's family treated his library after he died was a travesty.
>>24834927Who?
>>24837693A writer of note and serious readerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco
>>24836355Books usually get dumped because most people don't care about books. If you want your collection to live on you have to take care of it as long as you can. However, this anon >>24837587 is correct
I mean it's rather simple. Just bury your books. Hopefully an archeologist 100 years from now puts them in a museum.
>>24839608What about moisture?
Any 90s kids on here who grew up in an Evangelical home with this guy’s books?Apparently, people accuse him of being one of the predecessors to modern right-wing conspiracy theories. PicRel, in particular, revolves around demons that infest a small college town after an ACLU-type organization manages to get a Christian professor fired and a New Age org moves in and starts recruiting college kids. Sounds funny, right? He also has novels in the same vein that deal with abortion: his novel Prophet is about the way the media covered the early 90s abortion wars and his novelette Tilly is about a woman visited by the ghost of her aborted fetus.Anyone have opinions on this guy and the impact his books had on right-wing American culture?
>>24837275Liberals have accused this book of being the father of Q conspiracy.
>>24837275>>24837748Evangelical Christian fiction is by far the corniest genre.
>>24839791How so?
>>24840596This Present Darkness is about demonic warfare or something.
>>24837275>>24840588If you want an author that's basically Peretti but worse, look up Randy Alcorn. He's an ordained minister so his novels are incredibly preachy. Deadline is just Peretti's Prophet but worse, same story about an agnostic journalist trying to solve a murder mystery with abortion as a major plot point. Alcorn was also part of Operation Rescue in the 90s so it makes sense.
Post non-reddit/fedora Atheism recs
Seriously, it's going to take this long for someone to recommend Spinoza? He uses the word God but he makes it clear that by this he means nothing but nature. Another classic would be Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. He, too, uses the word 'God' but it's arguably atheistic, only mankind/reason itself is first instead of nature.
>>24839909Thats a lot of arguments anon , you understimate the schitzo.You could also use a lot of books about paganism for arguments against the cultural idea of A God. But is it aetist?I am not saying you are wrong since I lack the context and this could still be fine.But I am warning you. Never understinate the szchitzo.
>>24836632This is largely true but every once in a blue moon I'll see a 2000s style atheist in the wild and it's so bizarre now. Like I'll stumble onto someone's facebook profile who has nothing but posts about atheism and how God isn't real and nothing political unless it's related to religion/state in a vaguely socially liberal or libertarian way.
>>24840716I was born too late to really take part in the religion holywars of the 2000s but my parents were that type of atheist, so there's that in me too.But I have a lot more of a "live and let live" attitude - I live in a predominantly christian country so issues of relationships with muslims or hindus are moot, and as for christians - I don't mind them and they don't mind me, and I am not active in the areas of social life where atheist and christian ideas tend to collide (like romantic relationships, sex or child-rearing).
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Is it possible to read too much?
>>24839250>The result is that, whoever reads very much and almost the entire day but at intervals amuses himself with thoughtless pastime, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who always rides ultimately forgets how to walkWhat a pseud lol
>>24839250Reddit is down the hall and to the left.
>>24839279>>24839656he's absolutely right and anyone who has spoken to scholars (or even read their articles) will know he is. anyway isn't this schop? reddit my ass, how about -you- go back
>>24839049You'll know you've read too much when start looking for a squire to aid you in your quest to restore the lost age of chivalry. Anything short of that is still a healthy amount.
>>24839091>>24839097Don’t worry anon, even before I saw your correction I assumed you had made a typo and read your post accordingly.:)
Is it safe to say that Lord of the Rings is the most abused work of art ever created? Does that not mean it's an artistic failure overall?
>>24840206No the same thing happened with Wagner's Ring with nazis referencing it when it really didn't have anything to do with nazism aside from the dwarfs being stand ins for jews.
>>24840593In the end the United States will either convert to real Christianity (which is Catholicism) or it will be annihilated. Conversion or destruction, those are America's only two choices. And you'd all better hurry up and choose, because the clock is ticking.
>>24840610Make your case
>>24840206nick doesnt like lotr because its about the power of friendship and thats gay
>>24840726Lol get lost papist. Didn't the fate of the Spanish Armada give you a hint? No catholics or brown people allowed in the Anglosphere.
>be 34yo oldtroon>start reading esoteric texts on linguistic hard mode >can literally feel the neuroplasticity activating in my brain and sharpening mehave any of you tried reading literature intentionally beyond your scope in order to forcibly open your mind's eye?
Literally just take classical psychedelics. Thry are proven to effect a strong effect on neuroplasticity.
>>24840259>posting like this in your 30sAbsolute fucking embarrassment. Kill yourself.
>>24840259>be 34yo oldtroonNo, don't do that.
>>24840259>yo oldtroonThat's redundant. Just say 34yo troon.
>>24840259just learn a new language. whatever esoteric slop youre reading is just making you dumber
Redpill me on him. I’m very suspicious of this man. His numerous utopian novels, his relentless support for one-world government, his connections to the Fabian Society, League of Nations and the UN, the fact that he coined terms like “new world order,” his extraordinarily accurate predictions of modern technologies.
>>24835513erm, BASED?
>>24839885>He didn't accurately predict a damn thing[LIE]
Ignore his political nonsense and enjoy him for his storytelling talents
>>24835600>upper-class Anglos who are behind everything.Who interbred with jews
>>24840829*apparently it all goes back to a bunch of underhanded venetian merchants
This guy is the first philosopher whose worldview matched up with mine completely. I read this and thought "finally, someone figured it out"
know about it just because it was written in serbian
>just
>Over 9000 physical evidence>Still not accepted as cannonWhen will /lit/ grow a brain?
>>24833664WNY mentioned
>>24823061>there's no evidenceWhat about this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=46PXaJxzuDE
>>24838122>Copy and pasting a search engine result instead of actually discussing the source material de facto depreciates discussionAgain: not if there's a disagreement about objective facts/common knowledge. AI is basically just a search engine. You sound like someone who's mad he was outed as a pseud by AI, lol.
>>24822430>accepted as cannon
>>24822430Interesting local history, this is southwestern Pennsylvania. This is a colonial area. We have churches and graveyards going back to the 1700s. Ayways, 45 minutes away, the local legend has *always* been. The mormon founder, once lived *here*.(an historical fact)>anyways, the local legend was that he was out digging in indian mounds. Long serpentine of raised dirt, man-made before the settlers got here. They said he found "gold or gold colored thick square plates" that resembled "Gutenberg press plates". No one knew what they were, could read them, nor identify the strange writing. SOMEONE other than indians was in america long before the europeans. Naturally, the mormons won't let scientists study their holy plates. The founder of the mormon religion, had two magic rocks, think they were named Umma and Therma? One talked, the other he talked back to it. (like a 2 rock telephone?)This was his sideshow act to garner followers.
This is a general thread for the editors of /lit. Please use it to discuss editing, tips, advice, breaking into the business, working with authors, resources, personal history, etc.Copy, Line, Development: all kinds of editors welcome. Even proofreaders.
>>24837164Figure I'd ask this here since it's /lit/ adjacent, but is law school a worthwhile pursuit? I'm a STEMfag and lately I've been growing really tired of being a human computer. Seeing products like smart locks essentially get bricked over licensing has also made me a bit cynical about the state of technology, besides the outsourcing and lack of job security. The way I see things, if I can get a high enough LSAT score to get something close to a full-ride, doing something like patent-law seems appealing to me, if only it means that I can alone uninterrupted for large amounts of time. I'm a really shy person but I like to read.
>>24840537work alone*
Anyone interested in editing a webnovel? is not litRPG or anything like that, is a normal fantasy
How the fuck do you monetize this shit in 2025? For years, for DECADES, I've been the go-to editor and proofreader for all of my friends. They find out I'm good at writing and inevitably they'll say "Hey, can you look at this?" and send me all their shit. I've worked on documents related to non-profit organizations, law firms, even big corporate stuff, purely because all my buddies thought they could bum free editing work off me. And of course, my work has always been good. They've never given me any complaints, at least.I'm tired of working for free. I'd love to make a living on this shit, or at least make it a side gig. But how do you do that in the present age? Especially when you have to compete with AI? I'm better than AI but how do you convince the average retard with a business degree that? How do you find the average retard with a business degree, period, find them in a way that they'll pay for your services?
>>24840537The job market will look ludicrously different by the time you graduate, but I'd bet on law, too, being downsized by AI. Find a stable niche within your current field, rather than transition into law.
