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huh, had my dates wrong. Still, as much as I love Lovecraft, I don't think he hit his stride until somewhere around 1918-25ish. I kind of can't imagine reading the stuff he wrote when he was 7 first.
Oh cool? What edition of it should I buy? Is his stuff in-print currently or should I go for a used copy? Also interms of “occult detective” type stuff, is “carnaki the ghost hunter” by Hodgeson or “John silence” by Algernon Blackwood worth checking out?
Multiple generations of students are being taught that they need to communicate in the ugliest, most turgid critical theory-speak to be taken seriously / be seen as intelligent. How do we defeat critical theory?
Someone give this woman a nobel
Science fiction confirmed as the most influential genre, fantasy BTFO
life imitating art
The Case Against Satan, by Ray Russell, heavily inspired Blatty to write The Exorcist. If you want to go for a classic, The Monk by Matthew Lewis is great, and while Melmoth the Wanderer (by Charles Maturin) has a long frame story set in a monastery that is claustrophobic, the entire novel is very long and slow, and I wouldn't really recommend it unless you specifically want to read something like that. The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf is half religious allegory, half horror story, and overall just great if you're into books like that. It feels very much like a mythological story, and the actual horror is surprisingly cool for a novel from 1842.
Thank you very much for the thoughtful recommendations, anon. I have added everything you gave me onto my list, however, I think I'll actually start with this book. I'm sure it's probably a meme around here, but The Terror by Simmons is in all honesty one of my favorite books, so something long and slow doesn't phase me at all. Again, thank you!
Yeah as state enforced mothers and sex slaves.
Weird book. Interesting, but not exactly praiseworthy.
The end-state of all existentialist philosophy is to argue semantics with others, for fun and/or profit. It devalues everything, up to and including philosophy itself. Like watching a movie and seeing nothing more than actors in rooms while a cameraman points in directions and people stand just off-camera, the epilogue to the journey started by asking yourself what it all means is simple: who cares? Fuck bitches, get money, and build a superficial version of yourself that's more respectable than who you really are. Or there's the pussy option of just picking a thing and sticking with it. This'll make you essentially a self-aware version of a christcuck, but at least you'll be able to take off that overpriced, pretentious peacoat and do something that makes you feel better than shit for once.
It's like you didn't even read the OP
lots of old obscure philosophy stuff in order from most to least known tragic wisdom and beyond - gabriel marcel john rickaby - schoalsticism the space of life between - bede jarrett science and the idea of god - william ernest hocking
I guess that's their happily ever after. Funny how she didn't realize what she was writing. They really do tell on themselves.
Yes.
Then saying Starship Troopers is fascist means nothing. The most libertarian, pro-individual liberty story ever written could be said to promote and romanticize fascism because the setting had public sidewalks.
I hate your affected style. Now I have to start my morning in a vengeful mood.
Trump is prophet among priests. It has always been like this
Any good horror books with awesome twists at the end that recontextualize the whole story?
If I told you then it you negate the twists.
read the great level by scheidel
Oh to be so acutely aware of the nature of women, yet too weak to ever tame them.
I must have been misinformed. But if he was familiar with Aquinas and Augustine, how could he possibly have assumed that God is a "highest being" (seiendes) or confused ipsum *esse* subsistens with *ens* supremum? It is, after all, God "in which we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28); you cannot plop God on a Porphyryean tree alongside the world of its beings (plural). It seems strange because this very thing is denied explicitly again and again. It's the same with Kant and the supposed claim of the older "dogmatists" to have grasped the "things-in-themselves." Not only did that category not exist for earlier thinkers (arguably because it isn't actually coherent) but they deny exhaustive knowledge of creatures quite regularly. The Periphyseon opens with this and cites Saint Gregory the Theologian and Dionysius as core authorities on this crucial claim. And yet, the "twaddle" dismissal seems to still carry great weight in all but a few corners of philosophy, just as Heidegger's "critique" does. They seem to me to both entirely misrepresent their sources though, and not even in the "well, there are different possible readings," way, but in the manner of "they explicitly say the opposite."
All due respect, but where are you getting any of this from? Are you reading something by Heidegger, or about him, or are you inferring something that you think should follow from what he says about ontotheology?
thank you
That's what Satura Lanx does.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Dune. The Stranger.
The Stranger and Metamorphosis are both super short as well as well known and held in high regards.
nta but I also thought The Cipher was incredible. I also loved the horrific stuff that was happening in the background that the main character didn't want anything to do with and tried to ignore.
Huh, what happened in the background?
would u reccomend this book 2 others anon? the cover of the book intrigues me desu
looks like the samsara
ok, why did the artist whitewash the cast?
who is whitewashed
Jesus wept
hippos rank easily in the top 5 most psychotic mammals
Ngl classical but just doing a real “v” would be kino, especially since the “w” had turned into a “v” already during the later stages of the golden age Latin corpus.
That's what Satura Lanx does.
So, most all of literature? Great thread!
An obscure locally published book about a murder and some time travel stuff by a schizo coworker
Nobody in this thread could ever pull her or would be strong enough to force themselves on her kek
Thats what a gun is for. Dead pussy is best pussy.
Just read Ulrich He is like the hidden source of nouvelle theologie and theological turn in phenomenology
Sorry for snippiness. Am testy online. Altho yes I love Solovyov and Bulgakov. Have you thoughts on SL Frank? Apparently he is involved w certain Solovyov collections. And has his own phil of religion work called like unknowable. Idk. Also would you recommend um howzonesay berdyaev? Which work?
There are so many points in the books that you could be referring to here.
So because she is evil she can't be best girl? Nonsense.
It's a historical myth that it really had anything to do with the nazis, so I'll talk about it as a literary work like you asked here . I think it's a good book. It does explore some ideas that I haven't seen in other Utopian works and it does seem to explore them with a bit more of a realistic bent if I recall correctly. Though everyone is amazingly cohesive beyond what people really could be, as they usually are in Utopian fiction. It has a little bit of a anthropological tone that works of that period sometimes do that makes it a little dry with the excuse of it being a pseudo-scholarly work, but it doesn't harm things too much. I liked the romance. Pretty nicely done.
What about the fact that they'd kill him for race mixing or how children do all their labor, book definitely has some stuff like that
Every time I see that I've misspelled an important word in a post I spent a lot of time writing I want to slit my wrists.
Lately I forget entire words and it worries me a bit.
You’re genuinely retarded. He did it because he thought clarity was important in philosophy, and hated Hegel because he thought he hid nonsensical ideas in obscure language. But keep parrotting whatever shit you’re fed from youtube videos, /lit/ memes, or wherever you get your information from.
Maybe you do
Other Hebrew learner checking in. That's just not true. If not for the foreign vocabulary it would be easier than even Latin, and it's far easier than Arabic. Specifically about Ge'ez? Because otherwise, I'm looking for An Introduction to Classical Hebrew by Vance, if you happen to have that.
kek
It's good and far better than the updated version that keeps trying to shill
The old chart has: Just Carmilla, when In a Glass Darkly is a good collection that also includes Carmilla The Complete Stories of Saki, the vast majority of which aren't even horror A Machen collection that doesn't include The Great God Pan A single Blackwood story instead of a decent collection Three Lovecraft books that could've very easily been one (the old chart creator literally only did that to fill up the chart) No Lafcadio Hearn or Stefan Grabinski A Russell collection that's both very mediocre and hard to find Song of Kali as the Simmons book, when The Terror is way better Same for The Ceremonies for T.E.D. Klein, which is not even close to Dark Gods No Silence of the Lambs No Poppy Z. Brite at all (the original creator even said he forgot to put his work on the chart lmao) For Brian Evenson, Altmann's Tongue and Last Days really aren't as strong as A Collapse of Horses or Song for the Unraveling of the World The Ruins is a terrible book, as is Heart-Shaped Box (the original creator even said that HSB sucked ass but he only put it on the chart because it was popular) The White Hands by Samuels is unobtainable, The Age of Decayed Futurity is a way better collection that you can actually buy Cyclonopedia is more philosophy than horror and doesn't really belong on this list
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Who, or what, do you think I'm subscribed to? Pewdiepie?
Opening up to you about what happened was one of the stupidest fucking things I’ve ever done in my life.
I wish human men were allowedto do this to the offspring of single mothers. No man should ever have to raise a competitors offspring.
Based. You might also enjoy A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues by C.D.C. Reeve.
Even if I'm already familiar with all the dialogues?
some tiktok or youtuber likely mentioned it recently
sff lesbians
No. No. Stop.
Fpbp I don‘t know how you‘re getting filtered by MaHS as it was literally written to introduce mouth breathers to his concepts on their level. Half the disciple authors included are criticized by Jungian scholars for oversimplification.
you can try DictUnifier but in my experience it's a tossup whether it works. i'm not tech savvy and probably needed to mess with configuration more
how the fuck do you pronounce η in attic greek
Holy Kino
Back to plebbit
I'm only on book 5, but it took me an embarsssingly long time to figure out the "au" in the Golds' names was from the periodic table. Likewise with ag for Silver and ti for Gray.
I was the exact same and only realised it in Lightbringer. I thought it was a fancy way of saying ‘of’ eg Cassius of Bellona.
Latin vs Ancient Greek, what's better?
false dilemma, latin is a development of the trojan dialect of ancient greek
After reading the thing I have no idea how it came to be related to national socialism.
Partly because the underground race dislike democracy and the book makes points against it. It wasn't really a book the Nazis cared about much though. The association with Thul society and pretending they thought it was real came later after they'd lost the war and the Allies needed to smear them. Happens during and after all wars.
instead of reading latin/greek I watch yt slop
c'mon just 30 minutes a day
When will you upload a better version of The Shadow of the Torturer Audiobook on youtube? This one is lo-fi garbage.
its all dogshit i left a comment on one of the other part 1 part 2 etc videos explaining where to get the ENTIRE library of that guys audiobooks years ago it has the ivers readings without any of the retarded cutting out 10 minutes every episode like on youtube
No woman wants you, you autistic fuck.
Why do you say that? I'm tall, handsome and blonde. I have the Cowboy adventurer phenotype, befitting of my Western origin and from the Northern European settlers who colonized the Balkans on their oxen-pulled carriages I'm descended from.
Yeah, one of the reasons I quit smoking, especially vaping. I'd be interested in getting back into vaping if I could find a disposable vape brand that has a very low setting, but meh, probably not worth it.
I don't know what to do with my life at all. I don't even have a degree I work minimum wage I want a wife and kids I'm 30 and a virgin
I have a job trial tomorrow, wish me luck, fellas. It's at the same place my brother and his girlfriend work at, and apparently it's easy work. And since I'll be a casual, I'll be getting $34/hr (AUD) and if I do overtime, my brother told me that I'll be earning more than anyone else in there, even the team leaders. So yeah, I think if given the opportunity, I'll do overtime.
Good luck aussiebro
Muslims got away with a lot of things outside of Mongols invasions, they had it easy and now for once century of humiliation everyone is crying
My parents were supposed to take me to the store to get some food but they still aren't home and now I'm beginning to get really hungry.
Science kills faith because it slowly robs the world of the conditions where belief could even make sense. Once you start seeing the universe not as a stage for divine providence but as a system of impersonal forces and mathematical regularities the old framework collapses. The Christian promise of a purposeful cosmos overseen by a personal God gets hollowed out until it's just poetry without substance. What's left is this mechanistic machine-world indifferent to our existence where "meaning" is no longer baked into the structure of reality. That's why atheism and nihilism inevitably grow in the soil of scientific rationalism, it strips away the illusions that kept people anchored in hope. Nietzsche saw it clearly, the same devotion to truth that Christianity demanded ends up killing Christianity because science takes that demand to its logical conclusion. And when you stand in that stripped-down landscape you don't find God, you find a void. The more science advances the wider that void becomes until faith looks less like a foundation and more like a coping mechanism that can't survive its own children.
science being overrun by leftists
A lot of academia is simply reformulating dumb opinions in onion layers of verbiage that signal some higher learned origin of the same. What I haven’t figured out is why there’s a connection between education level and believing this horseshit. It should be inversely proportional; having done your share of it and participated in the “study says” part of the sausage making shouldn’t the default be you assume it’s all horseshit? Even at master level fudging some bullshit study to look good so you can get your degree is the norm. Maybe it changes at PhD level though I doubt it since most of the people doing the master level bullshitting were doing it as part of some larger research project.
Because people's careers depend on their believing it
studio captus es latine loquendi aliis cum Romanitatis cultoribus? en tibi forum ne metueris tiro cum sis conatus facere verbis commutandis, haud omnes adeo periti sumus ut semper lepide et concinne more maiorum scribamus
dead forum go ahead, reply here, you wont post there
Sequel series is ongoing (better than the main series), word of mouth recommendation/shilling and the final book should be out next year.
Horse!
That is not hard for me to chose him over Zizek. Zizek is a “nominal” communist who equates Putin with Hitler and views the SMO as a war of aggression, completely undialectical. He is a liberal douchebag who wears communist dressing. Moldbug doesn’t interest me much but I agreed with his take on Covid that all shutdown of travel and borders like in DPRK is what is necessary to stop it. You wouldn’t even really need masks if all travel were shut down.
Gold star for you agreeing with one of his most retarded takes that he walked back. America is the global hegemon, people must travel to and fro. He should know this as a Thiel towelboy.
seems kinda edgelordy
Midnight Tides has Brys Beddict tho
She's kinda like a Pam Grier character
Yeah I thought she was a riff on blaxploitation movies.
The samefagging is unreal
Making up stories like this is another sign of mental illness.
Also, reconstructed pronunciation is a LARP and a ruse. Latin should be pronounced in your own native phonology. Caesar, not fucking KYESARRRR. But again OBSERVE the vowel length or you're doomed. The reconstructed pronunciation sounds GAY and inauthentic, read it NORMAL you fucking faggots.
Tell that to a good chunk of Latinists. Trvke
Yeah sure buddy nothing to be seem I guess
Dont forget: This guy is an absolute creep, the novel is high-key rapey and overly sexualized and you'd need to be fully desensitized by demonic shit to not notice.
That is my case, right?
He's the opposite of an elitist, to be honest.
Uncial edition dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg dot co/n8nrko All Classical languages are welcome.
primus
No we don't. Fuck you.
This is a good point. Schopenhauer has a tendency to come across as elitist but throughout his works you'll find multiple sources that produce an anti-elitist result. If you value money as the highest good. Material possessions are the highest good. You need a nation state to provide morals. You need the validation of others. You need a cause. If you remove all of these considerations you can still say Schopenhauer was elitist due to things like some people are profoundly good at music and art but the process of removing all the other considerations makes this ascetic and more of a paradox extraction than a glorification.
Who said that? He is famed for his oratory, his erudition, his rhetoric, his Latin. Seems like you're battling strawmen you created.
mecum consides potes? iam nox iucunda estne?
salvete, homines amici mei eritis et nunc et semper Discordo exii
Ave niger meus
salvete, homines amici mei eritis et nunc et semper Discordo exii
macte exitu, non fero Discordem ipse, quam molestum usu
Is this chart based or cringe? I saw it on pinterest lmao
The premise of The Girl Next Door just seems too singularly sadistic and depraved to read. I know the true story it's based on, and I know how it ends...so the foster mom and the neighbourhood kids torture her to death over the course of many months. Is there even an element of suspense, knowing she has no agency in the book and that she surely dies at the end? It doesn't sound like a very substantial read.
Now I'm curious, what words are those?
Hermaphroditus if you want to be fancy. Transexualis is an acceptable neologism, as it consists of two Latin constituents. If you have to have it in the diminuitive, use a Latin one.
would u reccomend this book 2 others anon? the cover of the book intrigues me desu
Well, It was jung's last book, um, it was intentionally written so it would serve as an introduction to jungian psychology for the layman, personally I'm reading it to gain a deeper insight into the foundations of modern psychology, but yes I think it's pretty good, it centers around the unconcious mind and how symbols can serve as a representative of the unconcious
What is your definition of fascism?
refusing gay sex
Oh boy, an entire thread of seething pagans pointing out that Christians were influenced by Plotinus, not the other way around, I can't wait!
This is because he was taught by Ammonius Saccas, a Christian.
Icebreaker: what are your favourite commentaries/secondary sources for understanding Plato? Robin Waterfield's The First Philosophers is something I find myself going back to every time a really get into a dialogue. Even though Plato is never really the focus of the book at any point, its really good for contextualising his philosophy alongside what had gone before. Not only does it help one distinguish what might be original ideas from mere developments or rearticulations of already existing ones, but its also useful for clarifying some of the more esoteric references. Take Phaedo for instance, the dialogue ends with the hemlock working its way through Socrates: According to Philolaus: Therefore, there implication by Plato here is that Socrates' soul left his body at the point the cold reached his heart Previous Thread: Recent Plato-related threads:
Sell me on Plato.. I read The Republic and The last days of Socrates.. I really despised both. The last days of Socrates was a long time ago now but from what I remember it was my first exposure to the Socratic method and it made me want to gouge my eyes out with how difficult Socrates made even the simplest conversation. The Republic was that but for 200 pages. He just waxes poetic about shit and does logical leaps that his audience doesn't seem to catch because he's hypnotized them with the boredom of endless questions. They're proposing a utopian state which never came to be and never could have been. They make conclusions based on speculation on ideal behaivour from all participants based on their postulations. It's absolute trash for any modern man. Sure if I was born 3000 years ago my mind would probably explode from all of the wisdom.. But it has no value today... Oh you might say it influenced this and that... But as work on its own and not a historical document, what is the value of it for the modern man? The only greek philosophers of any worth are Aristotle and Epicurus.
If you don't learn it then you don't learn it, no stress, just take it little by little if you want. Everything you need to know is free on YouTube.
What do you hope to achieve by lying on your back and doom scrolling?
he blew his load in the first book and doesnt know what to do
Writing here is like throwing stones to the void so I can get all the cringe stuff out. Finished Tehanu this morning. I wasn't very affected throughout the story by the horrors that little girl suffered. It seemed sensationalistic and dramatized and I feel like Le Guin is so didactic that it was just expected. Plus, it's not very realistic, who would do such things to a little girl (I mean, I guess people do but my mind can't even comprehend it so it's not scary). But then, at the very end, there's the stuff he does to Tenar. It's very short and dry. I don't know what it is that's so horrible. Of course, dehumanization is bad but I've read about so much worse. Jesus, I finished Blood Meridian this week. My mind keeps coming back to those scenes like touching a scar to ensure it's there, even though it hurts. Maybe it's my punishment, for enjoying being a powerless girl. It's a reminder that such a thing is not sexy or hot or comforting but so painful and ugly and does not end when you wish it. That I can never give up the control, must always stay strong and on my guard. I'm half afraid to sleep because I don't want it in my nightmares. I feel sick every time I think of it. Just want to understand why
You did.
OP didn't ask a question. He made a statement.
Do you still want to find your hat?
This is a good recent edition.
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
I just mean his stories. Ive read a few collections and theyre basically all great. He was a master of mood.
What is the qualifiers of “better sex”?
A minimum of 2 dicks at a time.
Journey to the West is something like Big Trouble in Little China plus Grim Fandango plus Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
He insulted one of the jannies sacred cows or try to derailed a paid shill thread
bow down before the one you serve you're going to get what you deserve
I wonder if crime scene cleaner would be a good job for me.
Additionally, has anyone done dowling-style memorizing for Greek and found much value for that? It helped me get started with Latin to do the 6 regular tables in Wheelock like he suggested (as opposed to additionally doing every irregular like bald man suggests). By my totally novice reading am I correct that such a list of regular tables would basically be similar (one big one for nouns + article, one big one for adjectives) but then where Dowling says to do a total of 4 verb tables, 2 voices each for 2 moods, Greek would have 3 voices each for 3 moods? It doesn’t seem like an absurd amount of increased work especially since I’m told middle and passive voice are mostly similar in spelling. It should take the total table count from 6 for Latin to 11 for Greek if I understand correctly, but then 3 of that increase is just middle voice. Thanks. I know the dialect is way different but I am just enamored by the idea of extensive homeric memorization.
I'll also add that there are a bunch of songs in Ancient/Koine Greek if you want the benefits to memorization that a melody provides.
Her reward for her ridiculous "XYZ Studies" degree (i.e. three years of being imbued with crypto-communist theory) is an equally ridiculous and well paid job within a relevant governmental or corporate consultancy firm/quango/NGO/civil service department/public sector body or service provider/politician's office/human resources, PR department etc, implementing the shit she was indoctrinated with. The system is designed like this. To radicalise and accredit those already inclined to communist ideas and give them a pathway to the levers to power.
She was probably fired by DOGE kek
Has any janny in the history of this board ever seen this?
I don't think you're thinking this through, Spinoza was just as annoying when he dropped it
I have committment issues
Congrats on reading the worst culture book
Are there any Books on men going there own way?
yes faggotry is rampant in "literature"
Doesnt gnosticism detract from the absolute power of the one by the fact that there is an intermediary demuirge
Yes, that's the kry difference, the way that Platonic cosmology is valued. For Plotinus, it's ultimately good, while the Gnostics obviously reject it as a mistake, but the cosmology itself is more or less in common.
the sufferings of young werter
Not a book but Troilus & Cressida. One of my favourites tragedies. 'Fly not, for shouldst thou take the river Styx I would swim after.'
I send it to magazines and try to get some validation from the rejections but I really wanted someone to read a piece and tell me it resonated with them. I feel that only I get my poems, which is the hallmark of a complete amateur. Hard to navigate.
What’s a good book for someone who doesn’t really like to read but they like to pretend they like to read. I was thinking Dune or Joseph Conrad or Blood Meridian.
In general, has reading helped you with depression or has it made it worse? I usually feel pretty good after a long session but only for like twenty minutes and then the horror comes back. Dostoevsky probably isn't helping but I can't stop reading him... I feel he vindicates my depression and it makes me strangely happy
Best girl
Sell me on Plato.. I read The Republic and The last days of Socrates.. I really despised both. The last days of Socrates was a long time ago now but from what I remember it was my first exposure to the Socratic method and it made me want to gouge my eyes out with how difficult Socrates made even the simplest conversation. The Republic was that but for 200 pages. He just waxes poetic about shit and does logical leaps that his audience doesn't seem to catch because he's hypnotized them with the boredom of endless questions. They're proposing a utopian state which never came to be and never could have been. They make conclusions based on speculation on ideal behaivour from all participants based on their postulations. It's absolute trash for any modern man. Sure if I was born 3000 years ago my mind would probably explode from all of the wisdom.. But it has no value today... Oh you might say it influenced this and that... But as work on its own and not a historical document, what is the value of it for the modern man? The only greek philosophers of any worth are Aristotle and Epicurus.
2 digits IQ
That's funny, I have the complete opposite opinion on The Shining and the film adaptation. After reading the novel, you kind of realise that the film really isn't very good, that the characters are a lot more two-dimensional, and that the supernatural scenes in the novel are a lot more atmospheric and creepy than in the film adaptation (not to mention some really sick scenes with the topiary animals that were completely cut from the film, as well as a different ending that I thought was definitely worse than the novel's ending.) Of Evenson's Last Days, I thought that the first half was a lot stronger than the second half, that he wrote years later for some reason. The first half also has an amazing ending, it's a shame he wanted to add more crazy stuff to it that makes it feel a bit over the top in my opinion. (I also agree that 'Salem's Lot is a better novel than Pet Sematary. Saying that Mountains of Madness is Lovecraft's worst story is insane though.) Hey, are you the person who I was talking to in the Dark/Disturbing threads years ago? If so, good to see you again. If not, cool to see someone else read that book. I know I haven't.
Probably am. I actually managed to snag a physical copy, which was cool, cause it has a really kino cover, its contents notwithstanding.
he blew his load in the first book and doesnt know what to do
Writing here is like throwing stones to the void so I can get all the cringe stuff out. Finished Tehanu this morning. I wasn't very affected throughout the story by the horrors that little girl suffered. It seemed sensationalistic and dramatized and I feel like Le Guin is so didactic that it was just expected. Plus, it's not very realistic, who would do such things to a little girl (I mean, I guess people do but my mind can't even comprehend it so it's not scary). But then, at the very end, there's the stuff he does to Tenar. It's very short and dry. I don't know what it is that's so horrible. Of course, dehumanization is bad but I've read about so much worse. Jesus, I finished Blood Meridian this week. My mind keeps coming back to those scenes like touching a scar to ensure it's there, even though it hurts. Maybe it's my punishment, for enjoying being a powerless girl. It's a reminder that such a thing is not sexy or hot or comforting but so painful and ugly and does not end when you wish it. That I can never give up the control, must always stay strong and on my guard. I'm half afraid to sleep because I don't want it in my nightmares. I feel sick every time I think of it. Just want to understand why
Yes, transgenders are a totally different thing. Hence why transgender and hermaphrodite are 2 different words in English.
The English word "hermaphrodite" in its technical biological sense is not actually applicable to any human known to medical history to begin with.
I just replied to a reddit girl's advertisement for a relationship. The moment she logged on, she deleted her post. It was understandable though, since I dropped a 1000+ word mix of fiction, schizoid rambling, and my own real mental illness just for entertainment. I would guess from her perspective it feels extremely scary, even if I never said anything rude or against the rules. I even deleted my account so she would not feel like she has to reply or acknowledge it, but I guess the average redditor really isn't prepared for the kinds of things that exist outside of reddit.
Philosophy, music theory, architecture and math those are my only interest. Outside of it I'm a complete retard, just feel uncomfortable, out of place.
When will you upload a better version of The Shadow of the Torturer Audiobook on youtube? This one is lo-fi garbage.
Does anyone else get bored of SFF? I have read it since I was a kid. Now, I'm getting more into photography.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
I don't know. But I never say anything rude, and I never send a message unless they specify that they want a crazy, weird, schizo, or insane man. They just don't know how crazy crazy can be.
Authors behind these novels always seem to have watched too much slice-of-life anime.
this screams gay poofter garbage
Science kills faith because it slowly robs the world of the conditions where belief could even make sense. Once you start seeing the universe not as a stage for divine providence but as a system of impersonal forces and mathematical regularities the old framework collapses. The Christian promise of a purposeful cosmos overseen by a personal God gets hollowed out until it's just poetry without substance. What's left is this mechanistic machine-world indifferent to our existence where "meaning" is no longer baked into the structure of reality. That's why atheism and nihilism inevitably grow in the soil of scientific rationalism, it strips away the illusions that kept people anchored in hope. Nietzsche saw it clearly, the same devotion to truth that Christianity demanded ends up killing Christianity because science takes that demand to its logical conclusion. And when you stand in that stripped-down landscape you don't find God, you find a void. The more science advances the wider that void becomes until faith looks less like a foundation and more like a coping mechanism that can't survive its own children.
Cringe
Anyone often struck by how Christian Plotinus often seems?
This is because he was taught by Ammonius Saccas, a Christian.
Why is it hard to get feedback to poems? Is it an inherent flaw of the medium? A measure of my insecurity? Questions
Because a vast majority of people don't really know how to read poems anymore and can't really say anything beyond, "Oh the words rhyme really nice" or some variation thereof (provided that they actually give feedback at all)
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
I thought he became a man at the end or something it’s been 25 years
ChatGPT: 1. Defining Justice by Analogy (the City–Soul analogy) Leap: Socrates argues that since justice is hard to see in an individual, we should look at it in a larger thing — the city — and then "read it off" back into the soul. Problem: Just because the structure of a city and the structure of an individual both involve "parts," it doesn’t follow that the same principle (justice = harmony) applies identically in both. Why it works in the dialogue: His companions agree to the analogy and don’t demand proof that city/soul correspondence is valid. 2. Tripartite Division of the Soul Leap: He infers three parts of the soul (reason, spirit, appetite) because people sometimes experience internal conflict, like being thirsty but refusing to drink. Problem: From psychological conflict, it doesn’t strictly follow that there are literally three distinct "parts" of the soul. One could explain the conflict differently (e.g., competing desires of the same faculty). Why it works: The reasoning feels intuitive, and the group accepts it quickly. 3. The Noble Lie (myth of metals) Leap: Socrates proposes that society will function justly if people believe a myth about their natural roles (gold, silver, bronze souls). Problem: There’s no real justification for why such a falsehood guarantees stability or fairness — he just asserts it as "necessary for harmony." Why it works: Adeimantus and Glaucon don’t press him on the ethics of lying, so the assumption slides by. 4. Philosopher-Kings as the Only Rulers Leap: He claims that since philosophers love truth and knowledge, only they can truly rule well. Problem: Loving truth doesn’t obviously imply political competence. Also, Socrates assumes philosophers wouldn’t be corrupted by power — a big leap. Why it works: The interlocutors admire the idea and let him idealize philosophers without addressing counterexamples. 5. Theory of Forms and the Form of the Good Leap: He introduces the Forms (especially the Form of the Good) as the foundation of all knowledge and morality. Problem: The dialogue never demonstrates the existence of Forms; Socrates uses metaphors (the Sun, the Divided Line, the Cave) instead of arguments. It’s persuasive imagery, not strict proof. Why it works: The metaphors are powerful, and his audience accepts them rather than demanding a rigorous account. 6. Justice as “Each Part Doing Its Own Work” Leap: After a long city-building exercise, Socrates concludes that justice = each part of the city (or soul) doing its proper work and not interfering with the others. Problem: This is more a definitional stipulation than a deductive conclusion. Why should we accept that this is the definition of justice rather than a definition? Why it works: By this point, the companions are drawn into his framework and don’t revisit alternative definitions from Book I (like Polemarchus’s or Thrasymachus’s)
What Socrates actually says in the dialogue: Socrates posits that until philosopher kings who possess both politcal greatness (this negates the ChatGPT 'politcal competence' rebuttal by definition) and wisdom (this negates the ChatGPT 'corrupted by power' rebuttal by definition since being moral is wisdom according to Socrates' conception of wisdom), the world shall not know rest from their evils. I honestly don't know how this is waxing poetic or making logical leaps. It's basically a tautology since Socrates speaks about the philosopher king qua philosopher king and not merely a philospher king (i.e. the ideal ruler). ChatGPT lacks reading comprehension; and I would say you do as well, but you haven't actually responded to me. Also, what is the point then in participating in a discussion of Plato if you don't even want to read the works?
Mobilism
I’ll take another look, that’s usually where I get my downloads from. The ones I got had lots of errors though.
Haven’t read this one. Is it kinda a Amblin Productions, “kids on bikes” kinda thing? Or is it more scooby doo ish?
it is explicitly Scooby Doo in all but name.
Ehh, I wouldn't be so harsh on him, he's already said it's been a year or so since a one-off reading, but he seems earnest and a bit willing to hear out why someone might think otherwise about Plato.
The First Philosophers is an amazing secondary source for Plato and should probably be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to get in to the wider world of Greco-Roman philosophy. I do like how it dedicates a section to the sophists to contextualize their arguments as I feel like Plato does kind of misrepresent them unfavorably for dramatic effect in his dialogues. Apart from that I'd say the best secondary source on Plato would probably just be Plotinus. I think the issue can be attributed to Plato's method of delivery rather than the actual substance behind Plato's writing. Plato tends to over complicate his writing for the sake of artistic and dramatic merit which leads to people losing track of the actual arguments being presented and how they are deduced. A lot of his thoughts could be told in fewer words but if he were to do that he would actually be making the logical leaps that people accuse him of making.
I wasn’t going to watch this slop but when I read it was based off a Pynchon novel my interest was, dare I say it, piqued.
It's kino. Excellently paced, funny, very entertaining and well made. If you can't get over the politics being one side or the other you have no brain. Get over yourself fucking faggot retard Nope, lmao.