Why is the Recognitions considered a difficult book?Did you guys have a hard time with it?
>>23395717I dont read bs dialogue """""novels"""""
>>23395717that had better be a dude
It’s boring
>>23395717book is the prime minister of yammertopia
>>23395721J R is a dialogue novelThis one not so much
> Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.wtf is this book?
>>23395642Why? Honest complain desu and the whole Roman Catholic reference at the start they probably don't even do anymore, cus I was raised polish catholic and went to church on holidays and they never did the altare dei thing
>>23395699You don't deserve to be literate. No book deserves to be read by you.
>>23395585He sounds like a real jerk
>>23395585It sounds pretty tasty except for the kidneys but I also just dislike eating kidneys. They smell too much like piss to me, even after being properly washed
>>23395706Why so mean?>>23395753See that's why I'm vegan hehe
Why were sports not as popular during the medieval period compared to the Roman and GreekAny literature or articles on the metaphysics of sport and a Traditionalist account of Sports. These games seem to be degenerations of rituals.
>>23392477This is exactly what you are looking for, OP.
>>23395418Thank you so much, have you read the book?
>>23395477Yes, but I only read the second half which talks about sports. It's pretty good.
>>23392477>90% of medieval artwork is tournaments that look almost exactly like war>They loved fighting so much they only stopped doing it for fun when a war started>guys in full plate armor fighting in the fucking desert>you don't have to pay them they want to go die there>man why did sports fall off so hard in the medieval periodThey realized that making life into a sport makes everyone an athlete, and then plunged the world into 1200 years of nonstop war. Game on heretics.
>>23392569The Dark Ages being a meme is not a claim that the 12th century was a great time to be alive, simply that the cartoonish suffering depicted therein is almost entirely exaggeration. The "Dark Ages" is also a huge (despite having shrunk as it became obvious how much of a meme it was) period of time, and encompasses hundreds of ethnic groups and tribes none of whom had a uniform experience throughout it.The whole thing was just invented to let the renaissance pretend to be more important than they actually were.
>Spend 58 years writing 38 Conan-knockoff novels about your slave girl rape fetish>92 years old with 3 adult children and still going at itHow does he do it?
>>23394260We even have the same ethical beliefs> Lange earned his PhD in 1963 from Princeton University. His dissertation was named: "In defence of ethical naturalism: an examination of certain aspects of naturalistic fallacy, with particular attention to the logic of an open question argument". Lange summed it up in an interview by saying "if one cannot make sense of morality within some sort of satisfying, natural context, then one is likely to end up with no morality, which is less than societally reassuring, or is likely to end up with a competitive plethora of moralities in which ninety-nine percent of the world's population is convinced that the other ninety-nine percent is unclean, stupid, uninformed, vicious, depraved, in need of coercive correction, and such. That too, seems less than reassuring."
>>23394059So I only read the first one, but there is no explicit sex. Not sure if this changes later. So I assume he was just trying to write a fantasy, and a bunch of pervs got hooked on the premise, so he leaned into it.
>>23394251I know Gor used to be pretty big back when he was first writing it. I'm honestly just surprised that he's still pumping these novels out.
>>23394059Sex keeps you young. Maybe he edges for months at a time between novels. Would you want to die when you've got a 100 day nut brewing?
Man is blessed, still able to do what he loves at 92. He was still teaching not that long ago too. https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/82090
I have a problem with postmodernism (it hurts my feelings) so I have ventured into Kant.I have also read Pierre Manent and I was intrigued by his idea of social constructivism being paradoxical.I'm a big naturalist.
>>23395135I effort post to procrastinate from work...
>>23395127>You pretty quickly realize every popular thing you've heard about an author is either just like the total opposite of what they think or so totally misrepresented that it has almost 0 bearing on the author themselves or their ideas. I'm not a philosophy student, but part of my studies is political philosophy and this is something I noticed quite a lot.Our professor told us to read authors and not second-hand accounts of them, or especially what we learned about them from the media or school.Reading authors like Marx was surprising in a way.My problem is that I am a bit of a nationalist. I do prefer analytical philosophy (especially Analytical Marxism), but continental philosophy is closer to me, because I live in continental Europe lol.
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>>23393479Best thing he had said but not sure it’s a fair take down desu. I don’t like the post modernists but I have to admit there is some intellectual merit there. Now it’s of course just a sort of political weapon and less of a serious philosophy
>>23392612That it's as pointless as the cultural constructions it decries as pointless.
This is the seal of Kuyuk KhanYou must respect and fear it or your mother will die in her sleep tonight
I respect and fear the seal, great oceanic khan
>You Anglos will never have a Don Quixote. No other language can ever have a Don Quixote. It's impossible, you do not have the language to write a Don Quixote. In the best of cases you can have an intelligent translator to make you see from afar what Don Quixote really is. Either you know Spanish, or you can't taste that. That is only tasted in Spanish, in native Spanish.
>>23395523You cope harder every day in front of the mirror to avoid suicide.
>>23395550https://x.com/YisusMasterOOC/status/1791064335269113951
>>23393432absolutely mindbending cope
>>23393432Mind- and assbroken response.
>>23395588>>23395593It's true. They aren't literature.
do you write notes, anon?"I write [ideas] down so I don't commit suicide later having forgotten the idea. I've forgotten probably two or three major ideas, and it'll make you sick, just horrible. Write the idea down. You'll say: I'll never forget this idea. Ah-uh: you can forget them." - David Lynch
>>23395569tits
>>23395569I only write down my dreams
yup i have multiple notepads filled with ideas and theories of poetry and painting. i recently came to the conclusion that art is about indirection of emotion through the use of various devices. like metaphor or personification in poetry or, line and shape and color in painting.
Hi /lit/ what do You think of this here bit of slang? I want to post it on UrbanDictionary, but the site is having some issues.Todd:>A todd is Someone that often admires Another or notices Them in a positive fashion, but shows Thier emotions or feelings of that in a way that may rub that person the wrong way by making things slightly more complicated for Them in Thier day to day life, but as a some what twisted sign of respect, with a stupidly almost playful intent. Often a low IQ tactic used by shy or awkward personality types to hopefully garner some attention from that from which They notice while not having the nerve to engage in or play into Another in lieu of a lousy inferiority complex.Not as bad as a "wet blanket" though definitely on the very furthest edge of the umbrella. They have, in My opinion, a stronger (if any) intent to foster any decent rapport with that which whom They notice (assuming there isn't one already).EXAMPLE:Eric: Man Lansings girl Angela sure is something else.Manny: Heh. I'll say. Lucky guy. ^_^(Eric and Manny over hear Lansing and Angela speak)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Are you on the spectrum?
"He's such a LeFou"
>smartest conservative intellectual
To be called a Thinker implies you are adding to the conversation, not one single Conservative has done this in over 100 years.
>Conservative pundits today
>>23393395They hate each other, I don't know why the shock when he said that quote.
>>23393480>homosexual trostkyiteThis. He sowed the seeds of Neocon faggotry for the next century.
>>23393395kek
>ummm... Well, if you work you waste your life mkay?
>>23395528How is it irrelevant
>>23395441The more intelligent you are the less likely you are to work. It's literally an IQ test.
>>23395531You just get bigger preocupations the higher your position is, the retarded worries of the simpleton and the mighty concerns of the emperor himself are just the same kind of stone sinking your life, one more august than the other but the same.
>>23395543You did not answer the question.How are pay and hours irrelevant? How do they not make or break a job?
>>23395441>I fuck around, therefore I find out I existWow, who would have thought
Why doesn't the Book of Job answer why an omnipotent and benevolent God allows unjust suffering?
>>23390186as far as i could understand job keeps his mouth shut because he is terrified of the power of god but what If instead of the whirlwind jesus appeared before Job? What answe would job get for his suffering?
>>23390841they were already tested and were deemed too weak
>>23390923and an infant can't possibly understand why they need to eat at X time, not throw shit, or eventually learn to use a toilet. Don't act like, if God does exist, you could possibly understand the infinite/eternal in our finite and temporal minds. He's God, who the fuck are you to ask him what the rules are?
>>23390186Old Testament God is neither omnipotent, nor benevolent.
>>23395322I mean apparently some people asked him the rules and wrote them down. They're not made up... right?
*reminds you of your mortality*How do you respond without coping?
i raise my voice (quite a bit as he was very deaf) and he runs away ( as he was severely autistic) BTW turns out the queen loved him...
>>23395151i'm not mortal so this doesn't apply to me.
>>23395151Life is pain. Who cares about mortality. Another rape before nothingness.
i see you trying to make this a may may but his poetry was mostly about losing the empire and losing old england before shitskins ruined itgoing going gone!
I wish I had ADHD or something. I keep falling back into old routines, being passive, lurking online. Whats the secret sauce to gaining courage to undertake a difficult project but also the fortitude to persist in spite of pain and dangers?
>>23394197Why is there no god of Action? There are gods of Love, War, Storms, the Ocean. Because activity was taken for granted by men who were living. It doesn't matter who we are, our personality, our perversions, family upbringing, education, not our body fat percentage or our income or our tastes - not our past. What matters more than all of those things is: our energy levels.Where are you right now, today? What are you doing, what are you going to make happen? Imagine if you were sentenced to death and you had a year to do that thing you think about and put off every day, that you tell yourself is you know is important but this and that needs to happen first.A year? A season, a month, a week. Put a gun to your own head.Cause that thing, on days when you're feeling softer or maybe just more honest, you tell yourself - because you know - every day I'm not doing this, man, it's killing me inside. Do you recognize the importance of those words? Killing you. Not your body, your soul, day by day. Are you really you, if you don't listen to your heart? If you don't trust in your own intelligence? What your conscience tells you is important to your life, this one and only life that's been given to you?And when cast off the clouds and take a step towards that thing that makes you whole, cause I can guess you already have once or twice, you'll know, you already know. Fifteen minutes in that mental space and you feel like a different person. Like the timeline shifted and you're living an alternate life, like the last year or 5 or 10 were an insignificant blur leading up to this moment.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>23394319This felt enlightening. Got anything to read along the same lines?
>>23394197GRIT?
>>23394271>>23394319Thanks!
>>23394197Doing things for another person you care is important, getting active and gaining a bit of muscle will make you feel capable as a person. and EATING HEALTHIER https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4809873/ IS IMPORTANTIf you don't have anyone to care about then well... you gotta rediscover what a man should be doing. Not the kind of Jocko Willinks type of guy who wouldn't even put his livelyhood on the line to speak the truth. A good book would be maybe The Slight Edge, or watch a sport anime like Haikyuu and do your future self a favor. Like you gotta realize why do people even bother so much about let's be frank here a game? Doing the boring part is important coz when you reach the end of like a semester you gonna wish you would've studied more for examplePoint what you have to do is really simple, applying it is the hard part
What are thr best sounding languages and why are they German and Russian?
>>23391796>>23391987And what makes this more related to /lit/ than to /mu/, /a/, or /v/?
>>23394807>t.in ear
>>23391784this guy is just a medaboo, this is also all nonsense, especially the way he pretends this is all objective and follows from natural principles
>>23394016>norwegian>uptalk: the language
>>23393057>can be said in germanAlso, I hope for your sake that you're trolling or trying to rationalize your monoglottism. If not, well... I guess we're not all gonna make it, after all.
