/lit/ - Literature

Yeah, I just read The Chrysanthemums last night. He's really great.

No 'thank you', OP?

>>1572006
In Leviticus itself
>it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

In Matthew
>Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

So tell me again how my society's laws are based on the Bible?

Sure! I've put it into pastebin, I'll make sure to delete it. I wrote this story last year, you can have it.

http://pastebin.com/D1z5Z4pU

>inb4 everyone lols at tofu's story

>>1571992
> I read somewhere that some public schools in America don't "fail" students out of political correctness, just make them retake the test until they pass.
I don't think that's the problem. I really don't know what it is. You'd think something easy, like spending, but google it what do you find?
>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_spe_per_pri_sch_stu-spending-per-primary-school-student
We're #4 in education spending per capita at just over $6k (annually?), which is a thousand dollars more than Japan. The whole thing is pretty fucked, and I'm from California, which ranks (last I heard) like 48th or something.

>>1571993
Yeah, I tried looking for them, too, tbh. Transcribe them.

>>1571991
>Pick something from John that you find objectionable if you really want to argue.
How about Leviticus? Wouldn't a book made largely of rules be a better thing to argue to be the basis of a system of laws. I'm going to lay out some quotes and you tell me how they are followed in today's society.

>Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
die fags

>25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 25:46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.
ie Rules for buying slaves

We can go on, but it's dumb.

>>1571978
That's how the word 'all' works, buddy. It has to be all, or else its just 'most.'

>>1571982
>can't communicate
I'm gonna bet that the most difficult accents of my country are as undecipherable as the most difficult of yours. That's universal, and doesn't reflect education.

>fix your education system
Yeah, it's in shambles. I can't say what's wrong. I've heard a lot of theories, and maybe it's everything. If you've got guesses, I wouldn't mind hearing them

>>1571976
I'm guessing that this is a good/subtle troll?

Thirty seconds of googling I founds Jesus endorsing the killing children of adulterers. See below, google the rest yo self. Now, tell me how this fits into your morality?
"So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds."

google the lyrics
copy paste first line of section into google
answer

>>1571964
>So basically instead of learning to talk properly you just call it a dialect and leave it at that?
Proper is subjective, etc, etc, who gives a shit because people can communicate within dialect and you can communicate with them, etc, etc, you can communicate any thought you can in BBC English in Ebonics, etc, etc

>>1571929
>vast majority of our laws/societal values
Yeah, that's why if she cheats on me, Imma stone the bitch. Also, rest of Leviticus.

>And before you say 10 commandments
Yeah, thank the lord for telling me not to kill people, couldn't have figured how that could cause trouble on my own. Shame he missed rape in the first ten.

>>1571926
>first book published was bible
I was thinking about this the other day. I don't know much about the time, but it must have changed how people interacted with religion. Before printed bibles (and the literacy that followed), you had no way of studying religion. Imagine having a job with a very long list of company policies, but you had no way of knowing them or reading them or checking if they don't add up; it must have been infuriating! Once you had a printed bible in your house, and someone says that God says this, you can bring them back to your house, and say, no, fuck you, you're full of shit, I've got a copy of the damn bible right here and it don't say that. I mean, it added some transparency, which is always a positive thing.

>>1571881
Really?

>>1571880
Hey, fuck that, I can into accents and dialects all day. I'm canning into right now.

>>1570370
Do you know what a dialect is?

>>1571870
Am I being trolled?

Writers of non-fiction remember what people say either because they write down good lines, or they record them.

Good non-fiction:
Malcolm X

I mean, you can't really rate non-fiction on the same scale as fiction. They are good for being true and presenting the information in a way that is easy as possible to understanding without dumbing anything down.

>pills
Can help in a huge way. It's like night and day.

What I do is I just read the same part over and over again until I know I've got it. I'll reread the same paragraph three or four times. Once you do that for a while you sort of get a rhythm and can push through the rest of the chapter/story.

>>1571835
>large durable hands
Yeah, I'd say so.

>>1571853
Anon does make good posts!

>>1571804
I dropped out of school, buddy. I have half an art degree.

>>1571798
Believe me, I've been looking. If got any hot ideas, I'd love to hear them.

>>1571789
Because I'm in poverty.

Bamp bamp, my favorite brand of bread is Vandekamp.

nyuckah.

Spent an hour on mechanical turk (look it up) earning change. Finally got together four dollars to buy a used copy of one of two books, plus the cost of shipping.

Should I get
>The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha
or
>The Long Valley, Johnny Steinbeck's short story collection