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>>18695122
Stfu, spiritual Semite trash. You act like the West is defined by Abrahamism.

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>>18613882
Stephen King sucks. I have better tastes than that.
>>18614271
Well, in terms of reading, I plan to read Blood Meridian and Winnie the Pooh next. I have been busy with a lot of stuff, so I didn't have time for that.
I plan to make a GoodReads soon where I post some book reviews and analyses. I have a couple of Amazon reviews for Maldoror and Wind in the Willows for example.
In terms of watching or playing:
spenta: Pingu
angra: Resident Evil 7

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>>18534202
My 10 favorite books.

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>>18257149
Here's a list of my favorite fiction. I will read Blood Meridian and Winnie the Pooh next.

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touches the true nature of reality. Everything else in-between is born from the confused mind. The wise man moves back and forth between literature of light such as Moomins and literature of darkness such as Ligotti. The idea that the light and darkness can coexist or be integrated in any meaningful way is nonsense born from Aka Manah. In the near future, my library will have nothing but literature of light on one half and darkness on the other because that is the fundamental nature of reality.
Everyone who argues the bottom row is more "pleasurable" than the top row should be executed. I've read everything on this list and have written many reviews/analyses, which I can share to prove I am no poseur and am most likely one of the greatest intellectuals on /lit/.
Also, as Bundashihn makes clear, negroes are born from Ahriman. I would argue modern adherents of Abrahamism are reaching the level of the negroes, a creature of Ahriman.
Bbl, have to code something.

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>>17933685
>Extremely homosexual post.
There's nothing more heterosexual than dualism.

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Make your own dualism lists for literature or other art mediums.
Only artwork of the extremes can touch the true nature of reality after all.

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>>17707718
It's the reverse for me. The older I become, the more annoyed I become towards morally ambiguous or "complex" stories. I prefer elegant stories of either relatively pure light or darkness.
I actually read Dostoevsky when I was 16 or 17, but his kind of works are no longer suited to my tastes. I only read children's lit and horror now because only absolute duality can touch the true nature of reality.
Also, I can give my anime/manga dualism list too if interested.

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>>16820744
5 x 2
Dualism is absolute.

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>>16781032
Here's a short analysis I wrote on Ligotti's fiction:

Ligotti's fiction largely revolves around the psychology of existential dread combined with symptoms of derealization or dissociation, and this exposes the world as one big looming, contaminated threat that is always collapsing.

Much of his fiction include phrases such as "grotesque metamorphoses behind the dream of earthly forms", “the oozing ichor that flows within all things”, “a melancholy half-existence consecrated to all the many shapes of death and dissolution”, and much more. His fiction focuses equally on the individual’s psychological state and the universe in a manner that is akin to a darker version of Poe's "The House of Usher", one in which the entire universe is a decrepit House of Usher that has always been collapsing as it mirrors the protagonist’s deteriorating psychological state. Many of his stories include corrugated, dilapidated towns, which are treated as shadows hinting of a deeper blackness, one in which the individual's personal identity or aspirations are treated as futile and ungrounded. Reality is only a "transformation of appearance, an incessant melting and molding of surfaces without underlying essence", which means the self and its aspirations are all founded upon illusion that when exposed point to an icy bleakness, a life devoid of intrinsic meaning where all are merely "puppets" manipulated by the strings of a malignant universe. Many of his stories from the "Clown Puppet" to "Nethescurial" focus on these ideas of man and Universe alike being akin to vapor or mist that haunts us with its false promises and illusions of comfort. Common tropes: human beings being akin to puppets (i.e., deterministic, hollow, controlled by forces beyond recognition, etc.), dancing colors against a sea of blackness (i.e., even the “spark” of life cannot escape the blackness), dilapidated towns as a reflection of one's true inner being, masquerades and pandemonium reflective of the blind chaos of the Universe and man, and so forth. Even if one does not agree with Thomas Ligotti’s metaphysical views, such as me, his stories are still evocative and well-written.

Top three favorite stories off the top of my mind: “Nethescurial”, “The Tsalal”, and “The Last Feast of the Harlequin”

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>>16761515
I respect Manichaeism, but it is a lot more pessimistic than Zoroastrianism. I've read the Cologne Mani Codex and other texts, and Manichaeists tend to view the material world as encased in darkness with a divine spark in the soul. It is liberated through a process of meditation, celibacy, and ascetism, which is based on a two-tiered hierarchy of the Elect and Hearers. The Elect live a life without toil and avoid meat, sexual relations, and so forth, since it harms the living spirit, while the Hearers do toils for the Elect but are offered better transmigration. The Universe is seen largely as a distillation factory where light particles are liberated back to the source of the Father while darkness contaminates and corrupts the soul. The Doubt-Remover Exposition of Mardanfarrox criticizes such views since material creation is viewed more positively in the sense it is an instrument to aid in Ahura Mazda's eventual triumph. However, while Mazdyasna did have dualistic metaphysics, it was of a less pessimistic variety (e.g., ascetism was not encouraged). There was darkness that encased material forms in Zoroastrianism as an example, and the struggle between Spenta and Angra Mainyu manifests more in terms of embodied states of mind, but some disagreements did exist among mobed.

Also, I plan to read A.A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh and McCarthy's Blood Meridian soon. I haven't been reading as much as I should due to Computer Science school load, but I have read everything on this list thus far and have written several reviews and literary analyses.

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>>16754831
The holy Gathas.
I am a prophet, and I come forth with the antidote to nihilism. Dualism is absolute. I have plunged into the deaths of absolute horror and nihilism and still do so, but I have found the light above it too. You must be purified. I will take you in as a disciple if you wish.

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