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16389572 No.16389572 [Reply] [Original]

Great stories(, art, music, etc.) are discovered, not created.

>> No.16389594
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>>16389572
How can one discover something that wasn't created?

>> No.16389601

And so the wheel turns and turns

>> No.16389603

>>16389594
They exist as resonant structures in the collective psyche.

>> No.16389608

>>16389603
Structures that must necessarily come from somewhere

>> No.16389609

>>16389594
>>16389608

Shut up brainlet. Lurk more post less.

>> No.16389612

>>16389608
We were not our own creators.

>> No.16389613

>>16389609
Cope for not being capable of bridging the paradox. Go read a book you dumb nigger

>> No.16389622

>>16389612
Am I not the father of my children?

>> No.16389644

>>16389622
Ask the mailman, not me

>> No.16389657

>>16389572
It is created, just not by the individual ego, and "discover" here stands in the place because of your post for what "create" usually means.

>> No.16389665

>>16389644
>the mailman discovered his semen in my wife's vagina, thereby discovering, not fathering, the children born from this union
Ok I chuckled but you're still dumb

>> No.16389710

>>16389665
>thereby discovering, not fathering, the children born from this union
Someday you may see the deep truth in this.

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>>16389572
The artist discovers them in their heads, then creates them.

>> No.16389737

>>16389603
nice have you seen this lecture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQTxv6jHLI

>> No.16389798

>>16389710
Some day you may see how enslaved it makes you to hold this as a maxim. If you were to break your chains you would tell me that you didn't break them, only that you discovered yourself in the act of breaking them.

>> No.16389868

>>16389798
Wrong, we have both action and creation within our power. This is just the first example in the thread which is not discovery.

>> No.16389898

>>16389868
If we have creation in our power, then the power to produce great art is an act of creation

>> No.16389903

True only because God creates them before and the artist discovers them and brings them into creation, but they have always been there.

>> No.16390366

>>16389572
Nonsense.

I do, however, agree with Raymond Chandler's comment, which is somewhat similar: "A good story cannot be manufactured. It must be distilled."

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>>16389572
Nothing is discovered. All is created.

>> No.16391518

>>16390419
Brainlet take

>> No.16391535

>>16389594
Read the Meno (recollection).

>> No.16392363

>>16389594
How can one create something that hasn't first been discovered?