/lit/ - Literature

>>5561895

Yeah. I mean in Islam, the Quran is seen as the actual words of a singular god that has been passed to Mohammed by an angel. So unlike Christianity (esp. Catholicism) there is zero room for reforms. You never argue against the book. It's by definition blasphemy.

This singular focus on the Quran (with the exception of haddiths) is also sort of problematic because the text is not very very clear at some places, and since there is no authority to interpret the text, might makes right in that area.

A final point is that the propagation of the religion and its teachings is central to the doctrine, which explains the conflict with secularism.

>>5561807

You can't really filter those out from Islam because the Quran itself is pretty much a rule book to social life. It's full of strict guidelines for things like inheritance, divorce, etc.

It's no coincidence that secularism didn't take root in the middle east, because it's not compatible with Islam.

>>5561421

>This is racism.

That's irrelevant.

>>5560280
Wow tastes differ, I really hated what he did.


Currently reading Martin Crimp's Cruel and Tender, and it's fucking amazing. Also I post about Lars Noren every now and then but I don't think /lit/ knows about him, which is a shame. Possibly the best playwright living.

>>5561318

gotta admit this is hilarious

>relevantxkcdcomic.jpg

>>5557163

there's always next year, philip

>>5552057
pleb
good philosophy is what I like and agree with

>>5546936

wittgenstein

>>5541413

that really is an amazing name, though

>>5541568

It wasn't really induction, the same situation can have different effects in different geopolitical contexts.

>>5541485

Hey, I think this won't exactly address your question but it's a good tangent:

One of the interesting things with Islam is that it has no legitimate cannon apart from the Qu'ran itself and some hadiths (most of which are disputed by one sect or another, it's messy). ++ there is no singular authority on religious matters as, per example, the papacy with catholicism.

Which makes it so that the text itself is very much open to interpretation, and no interpretation gets universal acceptance. (Which accounts for the extreme amount of infighting aswell)

Therefore you have a religion that's widely interpreted, sometimes with extreme contradiction, and there is no way of deciding barring actual brute force.

>>5537565

Hey, I hear you man.

John Saward is pretty based.
I liked the Tao Lin articles on McKenna, DMT, etc.
I had once read a story called 'pee on water' there and it was nice.
There was this girl who wrote about video games recently, and I liked those.

Guess I wouldn't visit at all if I lived in the US, but right now it's a good way of staying informed about what's going on in your weirdo country.

Why is everyone ignoring the fact that 'having sex with someone that doesn't really wanna have sex' is categorically different than rape?

It's obviously something else. And we can discuss the something else.

A lot of people here like chess, plus it's passable in terms of relevancy. Please don't put things I like in other boards, I don't like the other boards.

>>5532937

Oh god. Ok.

Yeah those are harsh bans. But I'd rather stay here where the harsh bans allegedly happen, and not with you assholes.

>>5532927

I can speak my mind just fine here?

>>5530516

>name drops
>married an 18 year old

you'd rather have her not do those things?

>>5530456

"Elizabeth Ellen was offered $200 to write something for Jezebel but after looking at the site for the first time today thought, nah."

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>>5530332

http://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/an-open-letter-to-the-internet

based ellen

>>5526396

No offense to you in particular but what school system gives you a high school diploma without having read this?

>>5524870

so what ontological basis would you ascribe to your current set of beliefs

>>5524476

try merimee, some works of maupassant etc