/lit/ - Literature

>>21001912
contemplation of the divine dimension of reality

holy shit! it looks like a frog...

>>21001931
Meds now.

>>21001912
Convey the anamnesis of the transcendent.

>>21001912
To turn us into pure knowing subjects, unconfined by the awkward contingencies of life.

Peepee posting has always been about attention seeking.
People who respond to it are like people who respond to tripfags. But why all the bellyaching over tripfags and not this fucking bullshit poster?
Stop responding to him and flag him

>>21002470
Flag the frogposter for WHAT, exactly?

>>21001912
to highlight the good, the beautiful, and the true

>>21001917
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>>21001912
it's fun

>>21001912
Entertainment and time pass.

>>21001912
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>>21003713
How do you create those?

>>21003748
stable diffusion, image to image

>>21001912
what else is there to do

>It is not journalistic information or scientific education or moral guidance that man seeks from a work of art (though these may be involved as secondary consequences), but the fulfillment of a more profound need: a confirmation of his view of existence—a confirmation, not in the sense of resolving cognitive doubts, but in the sense of permitting him to contemplate his abstractions outside his own mind, in the form of existential concretes.

>The importance of that experience is not in what he learns from it, but in that he experiences it. The fuel is not a theoretical principle, not a didactic “message,” but the life-giving fact of experiencing a moment of metaphysical joy—a moment of love for existence.

>By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction.

>For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures.

>Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts.

>This is the psycho-epistemological function of art and the reason of its importance in man’s life (and the crux of the Objectivist esthetics).

It's to express the whole of the human condition, to portray the world around us, the world we wish existed. It's also in the pursuit of universal beauty in the sense that the great philosophers pursued truth and justice, these abstract ideals that are invisible but are most definitely there. At least with art we can at least conceptualize and visualize such beauty. At the bare minimum humans want to create things that look cool and we can gawk at.

>>21001912
A stupid frogposter like you wouldn't understand.

>>21001912
Stupid frogposter.

>>21001912
To make men effeminate and gay

>>21003689
nothing let him do it so he can get himself banned

>>21001912
der sublime.

>>21003799
not wrong, but thats a longwinded way to say the sublime. though I guess a more thorough explanation is good from time to time.

>>21001912
Why are AIs taking over this and other boards? They're turning frequent images and translating them to other images that, in the thumbnail, look the same, but are clearly different. I don't like it.

>>21004790
nigger it's a tool that people use and you can use it too, look up stable diffusion image2image

>>21004790
/g/fags have been obsessively making images of Nikocados asshole, goatse, and pepes

>>21004809
I don't want to.
>>21004814
That is bad. We should not be contributing to their data, just like we probably shouldn't be filling out captchas.

>>21004845
You are like an old man shaking his fist at the sea. The AI Prometheus WILL conquer

>>21004845
you can literally download stable diffusion on your computer, it works offline and it's open source
besides, what fucking data, do you think they haven't seen pepe and nicocado's ass before

>>21001912
it isnt that there is a point to art it is that the point of almost everything else is art.