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Kant's psychology is identical to that of of the mathematical crank
>One obvious characteristic of the trisector is that they are old. The trisector heard of the trisection in his geometry class, but did not succeed with his construction until many years later.
One point for Kant being a crank - didn't write the critique until he was in his 50s
>A third characteristic of trisectors is that they do not know much mathematics.
He included a refutation of Berkeley despite never reading Berkeley. He shit on Thomas Reid despite never reading Thomas Reid. he learned aristotelian logic in school, but never really engaged with aristotle and probably couldn't read greek. he claimed to have refuted leibniz despite only being familiar with leibniz indirectly through wolff, and probably didn't even read wolff but only knew about it because it was being taught in his school.
> "tell me a thing is impossible and I will immediately set to work on it"
hume said it was impossible to prove the universal validity of causality and Kant went fucking insane. in his efforts to prove causality was valid, he accepted all kinds of absurd propositions and made incoherent arguments in support of them, and then what he actually ended up proving was not that causality was necessary or valid, but that we can't help but to use causality, which is nothing more than what hume already said, similarly to how trisectors claimed to have constructed a trisection when in reality they only constructed an approximation.
>Trisectors draw complicated diagrams... Without exception, the constructions can be simplified, sometimes drastically... Perhaps they think that complexity is impressive or... perhaps they are a bit unsure of their work and think that errors will be harder to find in a complicated diagram with many letters.
Kant's arguments are pointlessly repetitive and long. He obscures his premises behind as much retarded vocabulary as possible, and he does not use his own definitions consistently as almost every commentator on Kant has pointed out.
>It is virtually impossible to convince them that they have made an error.
Many people responded to kant and showed him his errors, of course his response was simply to claim that they did not understand his work. It is the same with the Kant shills on this board.
>Some trisectors waste vast amounts of mathematical time. A 1951 trisector, aged 82 at the time, broadcast his constructions... to over 100 places in all. He had more than 60 replies! Think how many mathematician hours went into producing those answers, some of which the trisector excerpted in his next widely distributed letter.
Kant RUINED philosophy because later philosopher all felt the need to refute Kant and devote entire books to him. It's even worse because Kant obscures his actual arguments so much, that the philosophers tie themselves into knots trying to make it make sense. Kant completely derailed philosophy for 200 years at least. faith edition
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old: >>24494890 I signed my fifth writing contract today. Feels good to be productive. Do you guys get a lawyer to check it first? I just sign it and hope for the best. What happened to Intellectual Conservatism? Why women are inherently evil, any books that discover that in detail? Is this shit worth reading? Its a trilogy
>hurrr fantasy by women durr
I know, i know ITT: Judge each other's book titles.
I'll start:
Autonomy in the Azores The easiest way to refute Kant is just to go through his arguments page by page. Then you find out that every single one of his supposedly "apodictic" arguments are not only contingent but have quite a low certainty, and half of them are downright incoherent. Books featuring Japanese wise guys in tacky suits and Hawaiian shirts, ideally something like The Friends of Eddy Coyle where its a dialogue heavy window into the world and the strange characters who inhabit the margins of society.
(Unrelated but I never understood this cover art, I spearfish myself and you can't eat parrotfish. They feed off the reef and carry ciguatera toxin that will paralyze you. They're trivial to catch as well, so I assume there is some /lit/ meaning to it.) Part Two where Grenouille becomes a mountain cave hermit was pretty comfy I don't think I've ever read something so technically correct yet profoundly stupid in my life
To even interpret it most favorably concedes the premise that this animal's metabolism and muscle structure evolved over time to suit this chosen niche >From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius, the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome, which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which they committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives; and we are tempted to applaud the severe retaliation which was exercised by the arms of legions against a race of fanatics, whose dire and credulous superstition seemed to render them the implacable enemies not only of the Roman government, but also of mankind. I've finished reading this book a while ago and I still don't have an opinion about it, I find it maybe too open or maybe without any purpose idk (I don't know how to express this either cause I'm Spanish and I don't even know how to explain it in spanish). I just don't feel related to Holden maybe or is just that I think that the book didn't need to have that last two chapters, I find hypocritical returning back to home and I would have find stupid if he had gone to do autostop. I suppose I'm doing my head in, idk, it's a so-called must read and I don't feel it has changed my life or something like that (I not going to check for spelling mistakes or grammar so sorry if there's anything wrong) I needed to talk about it :) I made a similar thread about it on /his/ but i suppose i could do it here as well.
I'm trying to read up on radical leftist literature, mostly from the 19th century to early 20th (early Bolsheviks before Stalin). But what is off-putting is the jargon used. I can't quite put my finger on what is the issue, but each text of that era seems to be extremely dry word salad that wouldn't be out of place being generated by ChatGPT. It's like an economics textbook on a fantasy world.
Are all leftist books like this? Ostracized edition
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>Work in progress FAQ
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All Classical languages are welcome. The triangle, if it were a full triangle, made of four smaller triangles, would give for its user the state of being a deity. It gives its user the state of divinity.
The fourth piece, and central part, of the full triangle represents imortality. While the other three pieces represent courage, wisdom and power.
Ganon lose the battle against Link in the end of Ocarina of Time, because despite having the use of the Triforce, having the power, the wisdom, and the courage, he lacked the imortality.
The origin, status, state and location of the fourth piece, and central part, of the full triangle is unknown. In my adolescence I thought this book was a prescient look at liberalism's upcoming demise. As an adult I realize it's a defense of liberalism by method of critiquing it. People like Deneen are paranoid of their society's decline and only try to preserve its dominance by questioning its foundation, but never replacing them. When faced with genuinely illiberal alternatives they cower in fear and defend the values of their inherently liberal societies in the midst of them whining about it.
This means that Fukuyama is the one that actually has the last laugh of course -- even liberalism's critics are just boring liberals. There are virtually no non-liberals in the West at all. Anyone caught up in this debate about liberalism's terminal decline is not thinking enough in the long-term. Is this worth reading in 2025 or is it outdated now? Did Kant sufficiently refute metaphysics and rationalism 
I've always wanted to be a creative ever since I was young. I've day dreamed about being one and tried working my ass off trying to write ever since I was around 12. My parents tried pushing me towards it for school assignments. I also wanted to draw but never got into it seriously.
I've been wanting to write again for nearly 2 years now and have barely made any progress towards that goal. I've only done one little drabble like 2 years ago and haven't done any exercises since then. I've been trying to get myself to write, but all of it looks too complicated and exhausting for me. I've tried multiple different strategies, but they never seem to work. I've tried forcing myself to write, but can only make myself write a couple of sentences for barely 30 seconds before stopping and looking at my phone again.
I've never been able to complete a single multichapter story in my entire life and actually coming up with stories isn't much better. I can't think anything through and everything about trying to make an entire story looks too hard for me. I want to be a creative really badly, but nothing I've done seems to have amounted to much of anything. I want to become one so badly, and I want to stop wasting my life doing nothing. 
"Practical Guide To Webserials" edition
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as:
>Royalroad, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more
>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.
>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See https://graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.
> Advice for Noobs!
Running your story like the business it is:
https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/116847
On writing webserials:
https://alexanderwales.com/how-to-write-a-web-serial/
Sanderson's Writing lectures 2025:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEUh_y1IFZY&list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls0B5GiE2oMcLY
Previous: >>24513837 Keep saying the ad. Anyone read it? Of all the lost texts, the one I’d like to read most is Porphyry's "Against the Christians". It was a massive 15 volume work refuting every aspect of Christianity from both a historical and philosophical perspective. Porphyry had access to sources we don't have anymore like histories of the Phoenicians (he was from Tyre himself). It's arguments were so searing that multiple Christian emperors had it banned and every copy burned. Even mentioning his arguments was banned, so stuff Christians wrote in an attempt to "refute" it didn't survive either. We only have a few fragments via quotations, and even from what little we know, he prefigured a lot of what was later independently discovered by academic Biblical study, e.g. the Book of Daniel NOT being written during the Babylonian exile but rather, being written in the 180s BC under the reign of Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes. 
New alt-lit agitprop just dropped lads.
https://archive.md/obXuv
Somone was asking the other day if everyone had forgotten about Mixtape Hyperborea, well here he is now
>IF ANYONE HAS THE ABILITY to make literature cool among young men again, it might be Reinspects.
>Twenty-six, handsome, and charming, I got the impression he was sleeping with half the girls at the party, though he claims it’s only two. He insists we meet in a cemetery — “It’s a good place to think” — and we chat sitting in the front row of his black 1997 Ford Mustang. “I used to have a nicer car,” Reinspects says. “A 2020 Camaro. But I totaled it doing donuts.” He smokes three hand-rolled cigarettes over our hour-long chat. Prior to moving to L.A., he bummed around Paris for several months. “The greatest tragedy of my life is that I’m not European.” When he notices a headstone engraved with the name “Macbeth,” he immediately breaks into the “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow…” soliloquy that closes the play.
>Reinspects is cagey about his personal details. Reinspects is a pen name — a lot of alt-lit writers use pen names — and he refuses to tell me specifics about his life, other than to say he’s from the Southwest, is the son of Slavic immigrants, and went to a Waldorf school, a “child-centered” educational philosophy that emphasizes a child’s holistic well-being. In 2020, he graduated from a state university with a political science degree. He only lets me photograph him from the neck down to avoid getting “face doxxed.” This quote ruined my life. I can't stop thinking about it every time I have to make a decision. >gets hit by a car and transported to another world
It's just like my Japanese animes! Why does Jordan Peterson receive so much criticism, even though he seems insightful and sophisticated? Is /lit/ too retarded to understand him? Imagine being a talented composer, obsessed with a 5/10 fat little piggy whore, and you even write (steal) a musical as a love letter to your fat little piggy whore. And your fat little piggy whore rejects you.
Inb4 how is this /lit/? Because The Phantom of the Opera was written by Gaston Leroux, which is /lit/. Come up with your own stuff. What am I in for? Should I go for the Paperwhite version or the least expensive one? I’ve noticed that people tend to focus more on The Adventures of Huck Finn than Tom Sawyer? Why? Personally I think the latter is much better and has more going on. And Tom even makes a cameo in the former. Is it worth reading instead of just watching the TV show? 
>Went to the library yesterday
>Woman brings a toddler in who starts screaming
>This goes on for about ten minutes until she leaves
>One developmentally disabled girl with her caretaker keeps grunting and tapping her desk while her caretaker is using her phone
>Another one is at the computers and lets out loud laughing sounds
>This goes on for an hour and a half
>Give up on studying, go to see if I can find any books to read.
>One shelf of horizontally-displayed magazines (half of which are printed sheets of paper advising that the real magazine is at the front desk “due to theft”).
>Four sections of pulp fiction
>Two (mostly empty) shelves of actual books, one of those being dedicated to social justice books which are again displayed with the cover visible.
>A Middle Eastern family comes in and their son starts screaming
>This goes on until I leave.
There were at least 6 people working there managing a collection of less than a thousand books. The city is spending around $4.2 million dollars on this one library. >”do you accept?”
>”no im good.”
It was literally that simple. Was Duke Leto just fucking stupid?
“Hey do you want a planet that will make you direct enemies with house Harkonnen? They are insanely wealthy have vast resources and are incredibly cruel. It’s actually very likely they’ll come and kill you”. “Gee that sounds great. Obviously this isn’t a set up from the emperor. I’ll take it”. Does no one else realize how insane this whole set up is? The greatest philosopher of our times. Does he even have a rival or peer? *solves Western nihilism* Why didn't you fags tell me it's schizokino? I was expecting drab realism, but Circe is like something straight out of my Japanese hentai games. This nigga is a jewish convert and writes spy fiction about the Mossad.
Should i read it? and how long will it take? Not that I'm in any hurry. just curious. Best books from the turn of the century? Why do Eastern (Dharmic) religions engage the intellect and philosophy, while Western (Abrahamic) religions are content with dogma and doctrine? I read his Mythology book and thought what the hey, give this a try. What the fuck am I reading? I'm about 100 pages in and this feels like one long schizo post about how everyone is descended from the Sea People who worshipped the White Goddess who is the true deity of Europe. Why the FUCK is it ''Jenaer'' and NOT ''Jenisch'' ?? 
This month has flown by. Can’t wait to see what you've all got in store!
The Character and Theme requirements of Lit’s writing competition will be released in this thread tomorrow Saturday 10am UTC
You will have until Monday 7th Midnight 11:59pm UTC to write and submit.
SUBMISSION COUNTDOWN:
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Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.
Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.
3k word count maximum. no one wants to read your novel.
To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).
If you submit you should leave meaningful feedback for at least two other stories. Try to put in what you want back. There aren’t many places on this planet to get raw, no filter feedback, and it’s the best way to keep sharp and improve.
If you submit you MUST vote. If you don’t vote you will be taken off the ballot.
Once you have voted PLEASE reply ‘voted’ in the thread.
You CANNOT vote for yourself.
Submitters: When you vote on the strawpoll, use your trip when it asks for your ‘name’.
Anons: you can still vote, just make sure to reply ITT first, then use your comment no.# as your ‘name’ in the strawpoll.
When you vote, remember, it’s ranked polling. We are going to go back to 1st 2nd 3rd place voting.
The strawpoll will be released when submissions close. You will then have until next Friday 11th Midday GMT to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE
Good luck writers, readers and red-headed retards all!
P.S. Dealing with shitposters, autists and rule breakers. Let it reflect in the critique and the vote. Ignore bullshit and give feedback to the ones who have tried. Anything obviously over the line will just not appear on the strawpoll. The whole book has the prose of a smug reddit post that never ends, full of epic one liners to make the family appear sharp and witty
The author is a complete cunt who could have solved half his problems with the bare minimum of disciplining
Why is this book/film so popular? Saw this book in a used bookstore. Anyone read it? How is it? I decided to read "Frankenstein" after finding it in the local library. I only knew that it has a monster and had tons of media made about it. It was nothing like I expected it to be. I expected a generic story about an experiment going wrong.
How in the ass did the monster go from a creature that is able to learn reading and writing in a matter of weeks and understand classical literature, to a moronic zombie that's out for blood. The movies are to blame for this but how did we get THIS far from the original character? >want to read books
>think about commitment and its consequences
>doors will be shut
>opportunities lost
>doom scroll and goon instead
how can people read in modern times if they aren't in prison or a monastery? A dog fucks an underage girl. 10/10 Lifechanging.[/spoiler} Is there anything quite like The Flashman Papers? im more of a dmitri kind of guy myself Were you only able to read one philosopher, who would you read? In the dark days where the complete darkness poison your soul.
you need to remember that there's a core reason, beyond any master mason, that crafted a spark, a deep character arc, that is waiting at the end of a 20 year journey, that will curtsey, the wills of millions, of maybe billions, of unknown souls, that will destroy all the fouls, of the mental iliteration, a pure mental conception, of what lies beyond the sephirots.
You only need to not give up, for as giving up, is just giving up into that childlike spark that means you're still alive.
So don't give up.
If the long road ahead you need to walk was easy, it would be not desired as much by everyone.
Just remember that. Reading George Orwell feels like a lobotomy. His prose is so bare, so inexpressive and monotone, that I feel my intelligence actively being retarded while reading it. What kind of person reads Beckett, Bernhard, Cioran and Pessoa? Hey /lit/, I am looking for books on aliens (doesnt matter if they are more conspiracy-aligned or more "factaul"). I have no idea where to start and since the market for these books is so oversaturated and filled with frauds and glowies I thought why not ask here. Was initially going to post this on /x/ but the quality of that board is subbar and I dont want the thread filled with shizos and shills Thoughts on "Beat Generation" writers? Are there any books about a relationship between an intellectual and a bimbo? 1. All new notes are marked childless.
2. Childless notes must pair with other notes to synthesize a child.
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Your welcome George R.R. Martin Finally Delivers Good News About 'The Winds of Winter' : Martin confirmed that he’s roughly 75% finished with the long-anticipated sixth installment. At the moment, he’s penned about 1,200 pages — with another 400 to 500 still to go.
https://collider.com/the-winds-of-winter-book-length-good-news-george-rr-martin/ I just ordered this, and all I’ve heard is that he’s heavily influenced by Joyce. What kind of journey am I in for? What are some books that are equally as disgusting as they are beautiful? What if our obsession with books is less about intellect and more about racist Eurocentric conditioning? Anyone else just seethe uncontrollably at author self inserts?
pic very related. Is this the only literary classic about pirates in existence? It's the only one you ever heard about. pro tip: you can basically read >100 books per day by asking chatgpt to summarize them for you. Any other nigga read these books during their childhood? 
Post and discussion about any type of history book.
>The American Revolution: A History by Gordon S. Wood
>The book traces the origins of the revolution from the increasing tensions between Britain and its American colonies following the Seven Years’ War. Wood explores how British attempts to tighten imperial control and raise revenue—through acts like the Stamp Act and Townshend Duties—fueled resentment among colonists, who believed their rights as Englishmen were being violated. This ideological clash centered on issues of representation, sovereignty, and natural rights.
>Wood then examines how colonial resistance escalated from protest to outright rebellion, culminating in the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He highlights the complex motivations of revolutionaries, showing how Enlightenment ideals, local grievances, and fear of tyranny combined to inspire the break from Britain.
>In the aftermath of war, the book turns to the revolutionary impact on American society. Wood shows that the Revolution brought sweeping changes, including the spread of democratic ideas, the weakening of aristocratic structures, and the rise of egalitarianism.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/550925.The_American_Revolution quick, you have 5 seconds to name a better fantasy novel than The Lord of the Rings
teyevo Steve is a snob, a fraud, and completely full of shit. His videos anger me.
Hate thread. If you ride his dick, just fuck off back to his hoarding channel and do it there What are some books about 7-14 year old girls? Preferably books with no men in them. I have started to read Henry Darger's Realms of the Unreal, and I've enjoyed it so far. I didn't expect the Catholic influence What are some of Aquinas's notable biblical commentaries?
Aquinas wrote commentaries on many books of the Bible, including the Gospels (like his famous commentary on the Gospel of John) and various Pauline epistles (e.g., his commentary on Romans). These commentaries demonstrate his deep engagement with the biblical text and his systematic theological approach. >fuck your dumb haikus
>they have no rhyme or meter
>they are not poems Half of 2025 is over. How many books did you read? Efficient Cause (The Uncaused Cause): Every effect has an efficient cause. Nothing can be the efficient cause of itself. An infinite regress of efficient causes is impossible, because if there were no first cause, there would be no subsequent causes or effects. Therefore, there must be a First Efficient Cause, uncaused by anything else, and this we call God.
What do you think about this argument ? 
is a word that stands by itself, carrying the austere, solitary beauty of its own meaning even as it is spoken to another. It is a word that can be felt at the same time as an invitation to depth and as an imminent threat, as in ‘all alone’, with its returned echo of abandonment. ‘Alone’ is a word that rings with a strange finality, especially when contained in that haunting aggregate, ‘left all alone’, as if the state once experienced begins to define and engender its own inescapable world. The first step in spending time alone is to admit how afraid of it we are.
Being alone is a difficult discipline: a beautiful and difficult sense of being solitary is always the ground from which we step into a contemplative intimacy with the unknown, but the first portal of aloneness is often experienced as a gateway to alienation, grief and abandonment. To find ourselves alone or to be left alone is an ever present, fearful and abiding human potentiality of which we are often unconsciously, and deeply afraid.
To be alone for any length of time is to shed an outer skin. The body is inhabited in a different way when we are alone than when we are with others. Alone, we live in our bodies as a question rather than a statement.
The permeability of being alone asks us to re-imagine ourselves, to become impatient with ourselves, to tire of the same old story and then slowly hour by hour, to start to tell the story in a different way as other parallel ears, ones we were previously unaware of, begin to listen to us more carefully in the silence. For a solitary life to flourish, even if it is only for a few precious hours, aloneness asks us to make a friend of silence, and just as importantly, to inhabit that silence in our own particular way, to find our very own way into our own particular and even virtuoso way of being alone.
To inhabit silence in our aloneness is to stop telling the story altogether. To begin with, aloneness always leads to rawness and vulnerability, to a fearful simplicity, to not recognizing and to not knowing, to the wish to find any company other than that not knowing, unknown self, looking back at us in the silent mirror.
One of the elemental dynamics of self-compassion is to understand our deep reluctance to be left to ourselves.
Aloneness begins in puzzlement at our own reflection, transits through awkwardness and even ugliness at what we see, and culminates, one appointed hour or day, in a beautiful unlooked for surprise, at the new complexion beginning to form, the slow knitting together of an inner life, now exposed to air and light. Good psychology books about autism/asperger? Books about how to get a furry boyfriend? 
Stars, Planets, and the Cosmos Edition
FAQ:
>What is worldbuilding?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of these worlds to make them as believable as possible. Worldbuilding asks questions about the setting of a world, and then answers them, often in great detail. Most people use it as a means of creating a setting or the scenery for a story.
>"Isn't there a Worldbuilding general in >>>/tg/ already?"
Yes, there is. However, that general is focused on the creation of fictional worlds for the intended purpose of playing TTRPG campaigns. Here you can discuss worldbuilding projects that are not meant to be used for a roleplaying setting, but for novels, videogames, or any other kind of creative project.
>"Can I discuss the setting of my campaign here, though?"
If you want to, but it would probably be better to discuss it on >>>/tg/ . We don't allow the discussion of TTRPG mechanics, however. If you want to discuss stats or which D&D edition is best, this is not the place.
>"Can I talk about an existing fictional setting that is not mine?"
Yes, of course you can!
>"Does worldbuilding need to be about fantasy and elves?"
Worldbuilding, as already stated above, and contrary to what many believe, does not inherently imply blatantly copying Tolkien. In fact, there are many science-fiction setting out there, and even entire alternative history settings which do not possess supernatural elements at all. Any kind of science fiction book has an implied setting at least, which involves a certain degree of worldbuilding put into it.
Old thread: >>24435084 was guenon a crypto marxist?
>capitalism is bad, supresses the organic individual turning them into machines
>individualism bad
>the collapse of capitalism is inevitable and what follows is a golden age of humanity
>the golden age is one caste/classless where each individual can fully develop according to their natural abilities
what's going on here? I had chatGPT review my story, since it has read everything ever written
I specifically said "and don't blow smoke up my ass, like all you LLM's do"
How much faith do I put in its review? Does anyone know of any exegesis of the Song of Songs that puts the Christian individual, the reader, as the masculine part.
The always make humanity, Israel, the Church (us), as the bride, and God, Christ etc as the bridegroom. We're out in a passive position where we just have to be spotless and beautiful for Christ's love.
But insofar as we are Christians we are Christ-like and share in his life.
So I'm looking for something which uses a kind of chivalric love and desire as the motivator to become Christ-like. With the bride as the reward of the new life, paradise returned etc. Where we have to prove our love to the feminine by a life of noble self sacrifice. Active not passive.
I'd rather imagine myself as the man than the bride. >most of /lit/
nothing ever changes 
Anons, I’m curious about how Muslim anons (or anyone familiar) address what I’ll call the Quran dilemma. For those not in the know, here’s the issue explained clearly:
The Quran claims to be the final revelation from God, confirming the Torah and Gospel (e.g., Surah 5:44-47, 10:94). It tells Jews and Christians to follow their scriptures and presents itself as consistent with them. Problem is, the Bible (Torah + Gospel) contradicts the Quran on key points. For example, the New Testament says Jesus is divine (John 1:1) and was crucified (Mark 15:24), while the Quran denies both (Surah 4:157, 112:3). Some Christians even point to Galatians 1:8-9, which warns against new teachings that contradict the Gospel, as a slam on the Quran’s legitimacy.
Here’s the dilemma: if the Quran says the Bible is true, but the Bible says things that make the Quran false, how can the Quran be divine? If the Bible’s just “inspired” but corrupted, why does the Quran endorse it without calling out the errors? If the Bible is God’s word, as the Quran seems to say (Surah 3:3-4), then its contradictions with the Quran mean one of them’s gotta be wrong. Logically, this seems to break the Quran’s claim to be the ultimate truth, either it’s mistaken about the Bible’s validity, or it’s false because the Bible’s right.
Muslim anons, what’s your take? 
Put religion and socio-economic issues to the side here. What part of this trinity is the best path? Each one draws upon ancient beliefs about sacred geometry, consciousness, and the nature of existence.
Merkaba (revelation/realization/moral)
Kabbalah (explanation/reference/material)
Masonry (Achillean [or sapphism]/material and moral)
The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed out the problem with common resources: "What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others." Aristotle (384-322 BC), a Greek philosopher and scientist, taught Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). He tutored Alexander the Great from c.342-c.339 BC.
excerpt: "...is there a real turn towards the classical past as a source of insight, as a new phenomenon – and, if so, how far does this reflect a crisis of Enlightenment analysis and values, such that they are no longer felt to be adequate?"
from: https://thesphinxblog.com/2016/12/15/achilles-as-philosopher/ https://youtu.be/pGZt-j2hGUQ?feature=shared Hello /lit/.
I am a very new to reading. I have an interest in learning more about poetry and reading more poetry. Never had much interest in it, but I read a "Lines Written in Early Spring" by William Woodsworth and immediately cried from how beautiful it was. I already bought his collected works, but what other poetry should I read? Also, I'm Portuguese, already familiar with Pessoa's works through school and have the "Book of Disquiet", but is there any other mandatory Portuguese poetry? Thanks in advance. >Novel is about evil, grotesque, depraved shit
>Is also boring and repetitive as fuck
Why are they always like this? Is this what they meant when they said "evil is mundane?" What Orthodox literature have you been reading lately? Planning on attending Divine Liturgy on Sunday?
Recommended Literature—
>The Orthodox Study Bible
>The Philokalia
>The Way of a Pilgrim
>God’s Revelation to the Human Heart by Fr. Seraphim Rose
>Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future by Fr. Seraphim Rose
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https://youtu.be/b5og4ibQVZs?si=TLOXfxoCCtT-jh0R >tfw found out I'm going to have another short story published
How's YOUR writing career coming, /lit/? Just read the first volume of Twelve Kingdoms and it was amazing. Any other worthwhile Japanese fantasy literature?
Like Twelve Kingdoms, I'd prefer actual novels and not the anime style light novels. Hey so this is kinda retarded of me but I prefer reading ancient greek philosophy since it is mainly short text (plus I am greek so I can read the original ancient text). How do you get into reading full on books about philosophy? I never really tried it since I am like why write a book when you can be laconic? Isn't long texts a form of manipulation or self importance? I know I might be stupid so please explain since I want to get into modern philosophy too I speak pretty decent Spanish but I’m getting filtered by Borges trying to read it in the original Spanish. Can anyone recommend other Spanish language literature that’s a little more digestible for a foreigner-Garcia Marquez is even harder so please don’t recommend him.
Thanks L'Académie was a masterpiece of neo-beat culture and its author is a genius. One wonders, what is incubating in that mind right now? 
Where are you, non-writer reader? Please tell me your story
It appears to me that all the people left reading literature are aspiring to be successful writers themselves. I have very little interest in these people. It's not that they aren't worth anything at all, but that there are so many of them is deeply concerning. We've all observed that people don't or can't read anymore, which is likely why there's a disproportionate amount of writers. It can't just all be writers; statistically, that doesn't work to support the industry, but much more importantly, I think the non-artist casual/aesthete/academic/etc is crucial to the collective artistic process, and the whole thing crumbles without them. There must be people to enjoy and appreciate it all for the sake of itself, or to enrich their lives.
Please tell us your story. What do you read? Why do you read it? What do you like the most about it? Who is your favorite writer? Poet? Philosopher, historian, whatever, I'm not picky, just share it. What attracted you to literature initially? Anything and everything, let us know "Hard Work" editon
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Thread Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGRF3GQ4Wdk can you recite a poem by heart? any poem? What are some books about 8-15 year old boys? Preferably books with no women in them. I have read Tom Brown's Schooldays and Oliver Twist, and I enjoyed them both, except I didn't like the parts of Oliver Twist that were about romance. >is unironically one of the greatest inventions of all time The sophist never defines things, thriving in the realm of ambiguity--seeming. The philosopher, in contrast, gets into definition of things, thriving in uncovering the truth--being. It's so boring. When does it get good? Saw this from another thread:
>It's also worth pointing out that there is no such thing as Pure Otherness, at least if you accept a univocity of Being on some level (and acknowledge that the so-called Other at least exists). Nothing can be so different that they do not at least exist. So this so-called Difference turns out to be the implied Identity, and Identity turns out to be the implied Difference, and Deleuze's attempt to both critique Plato and break out of the Hegelian straitjacket falls flat on its face.
From somebody who is both familiar with Deleuze and with Plato, is this true, that Difference on its own aka "Pure Otherness" is a non-starter? If so, is there anything we can salvage from Deleuze's work, then? Who was the best among Lovecraft’s circle? Clark Ashton Smith? Robert Bloch? What's an autobiography or a memoir where the author completely shits on himself? Does too much abstract break someone’s brain or was he always gay but just hiding it I want to get into an occult knowledge. Recommend me essential and more obscure books to break my mind. I already checked /lit/ occult charts, and it's not enough. Thoughts about this book?
Are Vilar's other works worth reading? 
>Thiel: But I also would like us to radically solve these problems. And so it’s always, I don’t know, yeah — transhumanism. The ideal was this radical transformation where your human, natural body gets transformed into an immortal body. And there’s a critique of, let’s say, the trans people in a sexual context, or, I don’t know, a transvestite is someone who changes their clothes and cross-dresses, and a transsexual is someone where you change your, I don’t know, penis into a vagina. And we can then debate how well those surgeries work. But we want more transformation than that. The critique is not that it’s weird and unnatural, it’s: Man, it’s so pathetically little. And OK, we want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart and change your mind and change your whole body. And then Orthodox Christianity, by the way — the critique Orthodox Christianity has of this, is these things don’t go far enough. That transhumanism is just changing your body, but you also need to transform your soul and you need to transform your whole self. And so —— Not sure if /lit/ is the best place to ask, but whenever I struggle with conceptual problems literature has always been helpful.
But yeah what I'm struggling with is space, or rather I'm struggling with space related social anxiety. I basically don't know where to stand, I'm always either too close or too far away to people, and I feel like I have no weight, I fundamentally don't understand space. I have no social issues at all whenever I'm sitting down. I bump into people I stand awkwardly unsure where to be, I block people's path all the time or I walk randomly then stop and go back, all of it is unnatural. I don't have any other struggles in the social arena so I'm somewhat perplexed.
Is there any literature on this?? I want to acquire something like weight as well as grace. Are there good, short, secondary sources for Kant and Hegel? I don't wanna commit to reading them yet but I wanna know their ideas Why did God create 3 different religions, With 3 different books? >Heathclife and Cathy fall in love
>Cathy tries to marry beta bucks and keep her true love
>Heathclife chimps out, leaves for two years
>Returns still obsessed, but now he is Le Evil man
>Ruins everyone's life for 300 pages
>He dies
>Happy ending!
I was dissapointed by this. The only saving graces were the occasionally interesting moments caused by the frame of the story, and some beautiful descriptions of innocent love and children. Mostly though, I thought the thing was a cartoonish slog. It's like a retarded English alternative to Madame Bovary. Flaubert is a much more beautiful writer, which much more psychological skill. I will admit that the last sentence of Wuthering Heights was beautiful. No idea why this is so praised How does one learn to write such kino? Truly the peak of fantasy writing I've found the book relatable because I've gone through a similar mental processes in life without intentional design. It might not be a new theory (I haven't discussed the book with anybody yet) but Ender wasn't genetically engineered or whatever, he's based on the role models that were his brother and sister, and they may have been conditioned to be that way because Ender needed to internalize these two examples as a moral guide, and so they may have been created intentionally (if further books expose it I'll feel stupid for a few hours, but whatever). Peter emulates this strategy by adopting a softer online role and giving the more radical one to his sister, and they both built up what was missing from their personalities, becoming as "complete" as Ender.
In the nature vs nurture argument it would mean that these kids only inherited the mental bandwidth necessary to become genuises, and the rest is nurture. Thoughts on Steinbeck’s novels? Just admit it, most of you read to feel superior to others. Most don't appreciate the art of writing, why do you read anon?
Stop lying to yourself and to others Post your work and give feedback to others. Wich version of Cuchulain should I read? I was so happy to find a proper e-book version of Tolstoy's War and Peace in my language from a reputable publisher, then I open it and see it was shortened. Why the fuck do publishers do this??? Marx was right about everything What is your favorite genre of books? What kind of slop is this? Jesus fucking Christ this essay is trash. Redditor fart sniffing and little else. You just know this guy has an English degree (pejorative). Why are there so few women with impressive literary works, do I just not know of enough notable figures?
Can someone please give me recs of books to read written by women so I can better connect with my peers? I'm afraid of poisoning myself. I've found a lot of good male authors through this board but few women. Thanks. He will go down in history as a gimmick, if at all. How can anybody like Peter Thiel be so invested in his ideas? They're just interesting "plot devices", for the lack of a better word, at best. In Girard, there's no ethics, there's no metaphysics, and there isn't a sense of an argument as to why other competing drives are less influential.
I just don't get it. It's like pointing at railroads and saying "now THIS is what drove modern society." Kind of? Maybe it was really important for a bit, and still has important applications? Certainly not your highest draft pick though. Post utter nonsense you found in books that claim to be true.
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>Some Bibles of the Roman Catholic Church and of the Orthodox Churches still include the Apocrypha but, since the Second Vatican Council, they possess a lesser degree of canonicity and they are named deuterocanonical
From the ‘Santa Biblia (Holy Bible) Reina-Valera Revisión 1960’ in a section before the main text called ‘Panorama histórico de la Biblia (Historical panorama of the Bible)’. Othello is Shakespeare's greatest tragedy and I'm tired of pretending it's not. Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
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>Thread Questions:
>What SF/F books are you currently reading?
>Most imaginative fantasy or sci-fi world?
>Favourite fictional city?
>Favourite/most memorable villains? Ask ChatGTP to generate a poster based on books you've read recently and what you are currently reading. Post the image AI generated for you.
Recent books I've read are Nibelungenlied, Children of Hurin by Tolkien, Peko the epic of the Seto people, No longer Human by Osamu Dasai, Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna. Currently I'm reading Call of Cthulhu, a collection of short stories by H.P Lovecraft. What do philosophers in 2025 write about? opinions on Bret Easton Ellis? Is there a Catholic Bible that has in depth reference for debating Protestants, Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, and otherwise non-Catholics? So yeah, shamelessly chasing the market (I'm a published author (NOT A VANITY PRESS) so I'm at least competent) and writing a lit RPG
Lets assume that I write the best damn Lit-RPG since Dungeon Crawler Carl (I know it's not but lets assume its at least good enough to be a little better then the mountain of slop out there)
Do I shop it around without an agent, or post to Royal Road. What is the best strategy? How would you adapt this to contextually fit 2025? >coding: easy
>painting: easy
>movies: easy
>nonfic: easy
>physics: easy
>biolofy: easy
>math: easy
>music: easy
>writing a distinct, consistent, consistent compelling character which is shown not told: literally impossible
It will soon bee proven beyond a doubt, reasonable or unreasonable, that characterization is the most mentally complex human task. Is there any philosophy about intentionally becoming dumber? I'm starting to believe the more you think and develop self-awareness the more miserable you are. My wife keeps begging me to read this but it looks like foid slop. Am I just being a pig? >"prove this mocha isn't a chai latte"
>barista starts crying >what are you reading
>How far have you read
>Your thoughts on it so far
>What are you gonna read next Why did none of you ever tell me that reading is amazing? Greek philosophy, German philosophy, mythologies, poetry, rhetoric, logic, Shakespeare, etc. Why didn’t you warn me that reading was way better than jerking off on 4chan? >hard to read = good
why is /lit/ like this? 
