Who are the hottest 21st century female authors?
Thomas Pynchon.
>>9161880
Homer
>>9161895
How deep? Like to where the poop is?
Is there a book about 4chan?
The hypersphere
Lolita. Also, "My diary" by Desu
>Tundra intensifies
Okay /lit/ - let me explain myself and give you some back story real quick.
I was with a degenerate hippy chick for about a year and some change.
She was one of those "Rainbow Family" cult fuckos, I did lots of DMT and shit with her.
Had somewhat good times but she was impossible to get along with - bossy, etc.
I accidentally knocked her up and she ended up having the kid.
Now, I have a son whose a year old.
She didn't claim any father on the birth certificate but I know he's mine. She's told me he is.
We're civil now because of the kid who just turned a year old this month.
Now, Since I don't have to be an actual father in this case, and since I technically don't really want to be... I've decided to do the next decent thing for the kiddo; write him a book.
You know, the kind of book filled with all sorts of fatherly advice on all the subjects that one needs know about.
Guide him through life with 'free' wisdom so to speak.
Advance his knowledge of the infamous and always avoidable 'nigger' - teach him that the 'jew' is a mongrel and so forth.
The 'basics' of life and then some.
So, I'm going to dump the table of contents I have so far for the book and the subjects that I'll cover in like an essay format.
I figure that I'll give him the book (740pg) when he turns 13.
Since I feel that this is my 'Chance to be a Father' I've also named the book this.
My question to you glorious e/lit/ists is basically - what do you think I should put in the book?
What would you have wanted your father to teach you so you didn't have to learn it the hard way?
(Also, the book will be privately published and will not be public unless he publishes it in the future.)
TOC PART 1/2
740PG MAXIMUM AT 6X9 SIZE
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
QUOTE
TOC
INTRODUCTION
YOUR FATHER
YOUR MOTHER
FAMILY TREE
LIFE
ADL'S
STABILITY
SELF-DESTRUCTION
WISDOM
ADVICE
MISTAKES
FREEDOM
THE WORLD
SOCIAL MEDIA
TECHNOLOGY
CAMPING
ALCOHOL
THE FUTURE
ADAM'S TIMELINE
ENEMIES
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
KINDNESS
SURVIVAL
SALESMANSHIP
HUNTING
SAILING
SOCIAL MEDIA
SJWS
NEVER DO THESE THINGS
MUSIC
RANDOM ADVICE
GAMES
BOOKS
JAIL
COURTS
POLICITAL CORRECTNESS
POLITICS
THE X-FILES
TERRORISM
PETS
SEXUALITY
WARS
"GENDERS"
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD
THE RACES
EVOLUTION
INTELLIGENT DESIGN
AGING & CHANGE
DRIVING
DRUGS
WOMEN
DMT
HEALTH
SAFETY
NATURE
LOVE
DECEPTION DETECTION
RELIGIONS
THE HOLY BIBLE
THE QURAN
PSYCHOLOGY
CULT PSYCHOLOGY
PARA-PSYCHOLOGY
TOC PART 2/2
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
NLP
AMERICA
SELF DEFENSE
ELECTRONICS
REPAIR MANUALS
GOD
FRIENDS
MOVIES
MSM
MUSIC
PUBLIC SPEAKING
WRITING
THE ARTS - HIERONYMUS BOSCH’S ‘GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS’
CRYPTOGRAPHY
THE SHINING
SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES
WINNING A DEBATE
SECRET HISTORY
POSESSIONS
PARANORMAL
VILE VORTICES
KEY FIGURES
SCIENTIFIC FUTURE
CREATION SCIENCE
RADIOMETRIC POLONIUM HALOS
WHAT TO DO WHEN I'M DEAD
WORDS TO LIVE BY
I LOVE YOU SON
NOW THAT I'M DEAD
BIBLIOGRAPHY
This better be a joke. This is horrible.
This looks good.
https://www.urbanomic.com/book/question-concerning-technology-china/
>urbanomic
art-right pls go and stay go
>Chinese academics
I wonder how many Western professors were plagiarized to write this
Some of the table of contents does it make it look interesting. I just wish I could find it anywhere without buying it. Yale and Harvard libraries have it, and of course someone has it out for a year at either.
A lot of Chinese stuff seems to rest on the fact that "Chinese stuff" is inherently novel, so they just sort of skim over Heidegger proficiently enough and then say "now check out Taoism, man......." and it ends inconclusively. But this looks kind of neat. He does OOO stuff elsewhere and I'm not sure if that worries me or interests me. Again, lots of potential, but most people actually talking about OOO that I've seen are trendy assholes.
I'd read it and proselytize it if I liked it, but I'm not going to order it for $25 and cross my fingers unfortunately.
Has anyone got one of these sorts of things about stoic philosophy (or related subjects)?
>>9161616
If you read Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus (both the Enchiridion and the Discourses), then all of Seneca, you'll be fine.
Also read "Philosophy of Chrysippus" by Josiah Gould since there's only fragments left of Chrysippus.
>>9161620
Stick to your Mein Kampf if you want, I asked about Stoicism
>>9161634
I don't think I explained myself very well. What I'm really after is a list of things that are similar to stoicism e.g. Viktor Frankl, Ernest Becker
What is the best secondary resource to help me really understand the Tractatus? I'm starting it today & flipped through the book. I noticed it gets pretty heavy into formal logic. I should mention I have a bachelors degree in philosophy and took some classes on formal logic & philosophy of language so I am familiar with formal logic notation, existential & universal quantifiers, etc. I'm a little rusty though as it's been a few years.
I have heard it's worthwhile to really put in the effort to understand Wittgenstein's ideas and I want to go about this the right way. Sorry in advance, I know there's like five threads a day about Wittgenstein here and I hate to be that guy, but any help is appreciated.
>>9161547
Hello OP, I have a math degree, and I minored in philosophy. With regard to reading the tractatus closely (as in: actually grinding out the math-bits), I strongly recommend this wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_function
Which should partially be a review of things you say you've already learned, but what makes this particular wiki so good is that it contains pretty much all of the historical symbols for the various operators, and which you will encounter very differently in the literature, depending on what you training is/was, what text you used, and particular instances of which Wittgenstein himself uses. Mathematical logic/modern logic in general is young enough that notation still hasn't been standardized. Wittgenstein spends about half the little book developing uncontroversial ideas about two-valued (mathematical) logic, which he variously formulates with math-y bits (and which several of his contemporaries were getting up to at around the same time, as I understand it). This part is absolutely clear to me, and is undeniable. It is either the "meat" of the text, or its window-dressing, depending on your point of view. But you WILL be in a better position to understand the "concrete math stuff" if you do exercises to brush up, ask your own questions, and do a good bit of sketching/writing/doodling (write down truth tables, ask yourself why they work the way that they do, and importantly, ask yourself /how many different various situations/ might crop up with n atomic proposition "p, q, r,..." etc. The above wiki goes directly to this, which in turn goes directly to reading the "math" side of the Tractatus.
Other math bits that you should brush up on (if need be) include sigma notation, powers of two, and combinations (the "choose" function, n choose k, etc). These make appearances in the book as well: hint: Pascal's triangle is extremely relevant here. Exercise: what did the anon mean by this: where do powers of 2 and "combinations" show up in Pascal's triangle?
The part which is more amenable to disagreement/discussion/interpretation are the other more opaque/mystical bits, where Wittgenstein verbalizes his primitive thoughts which eventually build up into the math-stuff. This includes certain of the early bits, and certainly the last few pages, where he seems (being careful, now) to change gears from what the bulk of the text had been about, a more technical inquiry, to get mystical: "whoops all I've done is to explain a bit about how things are, time to throw the ladder away", or something like that.
I understand that he hated Russell's intro; I invite someone to expand on exactly why, without any memeing; exactly what it was that Russell got wrong, etc.
>>9161547
>What is the best secondary resource to help me really understand the Tractatus?
Philosophical Investigations
>>9161547
If you have a degree in philosophy and find it that difficult then philosophy clearly isn't for you. Have a go at media studies instead.
Are all spooks necessarily bad?
I mean, some (democracy, human/civil rights) sound pretty good to me.
>>9161191
>falling for the democracy meme
>falling for the human rights meme
Spooky, my liberal friend
>>9161202
I'm not liberal, my dude.
I believe in direct democracy and the right to life and all the rights that come with it (see: healthcare, housing, clothes, food, water).
Spooks are spooks. Being spooked is a negative to the self but you can put them to your service.
ie human rights are spooks but I benefit from the state being spooked by them and not torturing me with impunity.
what do you guys like, 1st person, second, third omniscient?
think im starting to not like first person.
>>9161150
Really? because I think I'm starting to not like third person
I don't think in third person I don't talk in third person its unnatural so why should I ever write in third person?
third person
i hate first person
i know im not the main character
>>9161150
Love second, as it is default in every RPG scenario.
Tausend Maschinen aus Stahl
Heben ab von England, alle aufs mal
Die Nacht vibriert mit den Rotoren
Stählerne Vögel mit Motoren
Alles ist dunkel, kalt
Über Frankreich sind sie bald
Der Kanal ist überschritten
Von der Heimat abgeschnitten
Die Stadt von Nürnberg ist das Ziel
Bomber Harris Blick auf sie fiel
Der Bomberschwarm fliegt in der Nacht
Am Boden ist niemand erwacht
Doch der Himmel betrog sie Heute
Wind den Schwarm zerstreute
Und der Mond verlies die Wolken
Aus der Nacht wird grauer Morgen
Über Deutschland sind sie nun
Gegen nachtjäger nicht immun
Wölfe der Luft wittern sie
Die Ritter der Deutschen Autokratie
Und die Bomber brennen lichterloh
Stürzen tief ins nirgendwo
Doch Nürnberg ist jezt unter ihnen
Mit ihren vertvollen Industrien
Die Deutschen schlafen noch
Aber die Sirenen beginnen ihren Schrei, doch
Plötlzlich sind alle wach
Kinder weinen Tausendfach
Die Bomben fallen, Hämmer der Götter
Vernichten ihre Spötter
Aber auch Götter können sterben
Die fallenden Bomber die Nacht färben
Und was hat das am Ende gebracht
Tausende Leben, zu schnell verbracht
Keine Fabrik brennt
Nur Ehepaare und Kinder für immer getrennt.
It's Dreck.
r8 my haiku:
Sauerkraut Kartoffelbrei
Bomber Harris
Feuer frei
>>9160924
14/88
>>9160924
I've begun the /lit/ guide on philosophy and am at the part where I have to check every subject of philosophy but am still stuck at the first subject which is metaphysics. Is it supposed to take so long to just read a introduction page on it or I'm just retarded. What bothers me the most is that there are some words that I can't find anything about on google.
Here is what I'm reading:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaphysics
>>9160813
Thats what I'm doing
you're just too dumb for philosophy
>>9160824
I'm aware of that but I still have hard time believing someone would be able to understand absolutely everything from that page without previous philosophy experience.
NO. Start with the trial of Socrates.
Nnnnnnyyyeeeuuooooooo.
Start wherever the fuck you want, retard, philosophy is not a precise science with a necessary body of fundamental knowledge.
Most of Plato is supremely boring.
Explain something to me.
Does reaching the level of cervantes and shakespeare is really hard or is actually humans who are pretty mediocre on average?
what a pointless question, how can you judge a human activity by anything other than human standards
>>9160589
It's been bothering me latelly.
whenever I see a genius writing, I see it as a mere mortal, who is a skilled writer, but still don't see the fuzz about geniuses.
sure, they may be skilled, but they're mere mortals.
>>9160592
In writing, what matters is your experience. Read and write a lot and you'll get better. Even writers whose first book was a slam dunk success didn't publish literally the first thing they ever wrote.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/books/essay-books-make-you-a-boring-person.html
Wow, this really sums up my view. Pseuds BTFO!
>''You might as well ask the paralytic to leap from his chair and throw away his crutch,'' Hazlitt said, ''as expect the learned reader to throw down his book and think for himself. He clings to it for his intellectual support; and his dread of being left to himself is like the horror of a vacuum.'' Such a one is comparable to a person addicted to talk shows or sitcoms or CNN; no worse and no better, no dumber but no smarter either. It is not because something comes between two covers that it is inherently superior to what passes on a screen or arrives on the airwaves.
it really is true
if most of what you came to believe is the result of just latching onto whatever you read, giving problems no independent thought of your own, you're not particularly smart
>>9160383
>think for himself
>thinking that your thoughts aren't 100% from outside sources
>>9160383
maybe this makes sense, when you're not a writer, in which instance reading always represents an attention to your profession/vocation
if the reading isn't elsewhere directed, yeah, doing nothing else than it will degrade your mind
can you make a living off writing fiction today?
Yes but it's tough
>>9160315
Only if you're in the top 0.5% of sales, honestly.
Or you could write horrible niche erotica for freaks.
>>9160481
does this mean you need to be of extreme high quality or that 99.95% of books are simple trash?
What's the deal with the covers of Baen Books?
Somebody requested this
Somebody painted this
Somebody approved this
Somebody signed of on publishing this
They do fantasy too
Their sf covers have such a consistent style you would think its all one big series
But no, its not. Although they are generic enough to make you think otherwise.
>srs literture, pls nominate for Hugo or I'll have a tantrum