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>>8071796
Shitty in what sense?

>>8071814
It's written boring, and predictable. There's not a lot of atmosphere, and I was looking for atmosphere of the wasteland. Also, it felt like all of these authors used some standard science fiction formulas and having it be in wasteland was just a feature, like writing a romance on a tropical island

>>8071832
you may be right, but you had pretty vapid reasons for going into it in the first place.

>haha hey guys Hitler is such a loser am I cool yet hahahaha please
That's who you put down to feel good?
The worlds most hated man?
Does your life really suck that much?
Try aiming a little higher dude.

Nietzsche

>>8071778
>Hitler was Hitler (for better or worse)
>after his death, he is reviled by all
>this makes him a safe target for all kinds of base people to take shots at him
>cowards attack him because they're too frightened to attack any sacred elephants
>mindless status quo worshipers attack him because the mass told them to
>brainless ideologues parrot their party slogans against him
>weaklings spit on him for imposing his will, in an age that glorifies the weakling and denigrates the will
>and so on and so on
>people with noble character are inherently repulsed by these types of people and their behaviors
>they naturally want to distinguish themselves from the mass and deeply suspect its platitudes, they naturally dislike those who "kick someone when he's down," they have a (submerged) disdain for weaklings and cowards that can never be overwritten
>tfw the more a systemically pussified culture shits on Hitler, the more the occultated substrate of truly noble men slowly, imperceptibly gravitates back toward him
>tfw society shifts with them, pulled by their centre of gravity
>tfw the collective instinct of the herd, unconscious by definition, can't sense this shift, and continues to graze on its stale platitudes
>tfw another will rise
>tfw it is inevitable

>tfw get sweaty and nervous everytime i look at poetry

I want to like poetry, i think i do like poetry, i have multiple poetry books, but god is it hard, I'm going to buy some more entry level poets like kipling so i can work my way up.

I'd love to write poetry one day but without a doubt if you aren't trying to mirror the greats you'll end up looking like shit.

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>>8071646
I came here to ask anons what order I should read the works of the Cthulhu Mythos.

It will be my very first supernatual kind of reading so I dont want to miss the good ones.

>>8071646
Train your self to be able to handle gradually more deep and complex ideas

prove God don't exist

protip yuo can't

protip
AHAHAHAHAH

>>8071639

The idea of God, obviously.

I think Nietzsche and all those other 18th/19th century German idealists would be surprised, and possibly alarmed, at just how durable religion has proved to be.

>>8071644

*durable/enduring

Also, can we stop having new threads for every single Nietzsche quotation?

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Art of the Deal

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>>8071631
>>8071653
absolutely based literature my fellow red-pilled gentlemen

read /pol/ desu

Read what she reads.

>>8071604
nah.
>>8071607
Fair enough.

>>8071590
I. Did you check the sticky?
II. Absalom, Absalom, IMO but I The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying a very close seconds. If you read him, read all three of those.
III.On a personal level, yeah he talked a lot of shit. From a literary standpoint it's like comparing a soccer player to a football player. They both write, but they do entirely different things with their work.
IV. Yeah, probably a continental, I haven't thought much about him as an existentialist though. There may have been a slight impulse, but I don't think he leans strongly towards it.
V. No, they're too dissimilar and play different roles within their own cultures.

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>>8071590
I. Pic related. For some reason it excludes Light in August, though – don't forget it.
II. As I Lay Dying.
III. Yes.
IV. This is nonsense. He's a modernist – would you ask this question of Joyce, Eliot or Pound?
V. See above.

I just finished As I Lay Dying and it was beautiful. The characterization in that book is something else.

If you can't understand that sentence then move on. Don't stop reading cause of one sentence.

it means even fate cant trump whatever plan trystero has for you

No one can protect you from Trystero.

>>8071465
Neither, Nigger of the Narcissus and The Secret Agent are his top tier works

>>8071470
The Secret Agent it is then. Thanks a bunch, familia.

>>8071465
nostromo is his best imo (read jim/hod/short stories), definitely get that.

>>8071453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBnyyfvDwX8&ab_channel=AtmosphericBlackMetalAlbums

https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Dungeon+Synth/

The best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIoILN_KrhU

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>>8071427
____ :^) _____

>>8071427
If he was trying to say that apartments breed crime degeneracy then yeah, he had a point.

Seeing as he wrote it in 1975 I'd say it was more observational than prophetic.

>>8071513
>crime degeneracy
crime and degeneracy*

Why don't you ask your professor?

>>8071341
Hermeneutics is a big and old category.
Schleiermacher was important as he was the first to expand hermeneutics from a Theological field to wider Philosophy of Interpretation but I don't think he is essential to read today.

Reading Dilthey and Gadamer will tell you everything you need to know on him, I also suggest you look into Edmund Husserl particularly The Crisis

Read the Stanford Encyclopedia article on it for starters. Schleiermacher is interesting in certain respects, and I have a bias here (he influenced Ranke's historical hermeneutics, which influenced 19th century Geisteswissenschaften) but not really necessary and not a good place to start. You want to have basic background on two things: the actual tradition of textual (especially scriptural) criticism called hermeneutics, and then the vague idealist milieu that hermeneutics in the modern sense grew out of.

Dilthey is where you want to start, but you're better off getting an understanding of Dilthey's basic outlines and (in my strong opinion) the intellectual context in which he was writing, i.e. as a response to Comtean and related positivist epistemologies of science which were felt to be seriously challenging the epistemological primacy of idealism, including other similar attempts at such like Droysen, Rickert, and Windelband. Collingwood's Principles of History (easily pirated) actually has a nice little skim of this so-called crisis of historicism and of its major figures, stating that Dilthey is the one that really gelled the hermeneutic thesis. Of course, he also founded the distinction between Geistes- and Naturwissenschaften (but again, similar to idiographic and nomothetic distinction of Windelband). Just some basic understanding of this helps. In all honesty, unless you're doing real research on the topic, there's not much reason to jump into Dilthey himself.

Subsequent hermeneutics is more difficult because it branches in so many directions. The neo-positivists of the Vienna circle were directly responding to the crisis of historicism and Dilthey's division, Husserl significantly was, and Heidegger departs from Dilthey and Husserl, especially in his earlier work, etc. But Heideggerian hermeneutics are their own thing, and so is Gadamer (e.g.), who is departing from Being and Time. The Diltheyan division/crisis also branches off into a lot of other fields and touches on a lot of things - Habermas, e.g., who debated Dilthey, Ricoeur, but just so many. It's a huge question. I wish I had a single survey book to recommend.

I didn't get this movie. Why was it scary? I mean I'm generally pretty open to horror that is very subtle and goes more for a 'creepy vibe' than anything else, or to horror that is plain experimental, but I found this movie to be neither of those things. I'm considering a re-watch, but would like to know what made it scary.

>>8071349
its a meme you dipshit.

>>8071349
It's a shit movie viraled by a couple of people on 4chins and reddit. It has no redeeming qualities.
Horror is a shit genre that mostly (if not always) has no literary merit.

bait

>>8071327
it sounds like a pretty legitimate opinion desu

Reading fiction has no worth, doesn't make you smarter or more empathetic and is simply entertainment on the level of film or video games.

>>8071241
1) Mesopotamians were still attached to a "mythos" kind of philosophy. The western philosophy as we know it now was born 2500 years ago in the greek colonies.

2) Yes, continue with roman Epicureism and Stoicism, directly through the Medieval Era.

>>8071250
Who said I was talking about philosophy?

>>8071241
It's a general suggestion. How much of the Mesopotamians, and the surrounding cultures of that age, still exist is disappointing.
You go to where you want.

>Start with the Greek
>Be yourself/Read what you want