/lit/ - Literature

>>2768108
rreroolll before sleep

Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes.

Yeah, I'm serious.

Also drunk.

>>2767701
Hey, Standard Toaster. Did you ever read this?
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-426

>>2767680
"Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

>>2767662
I don't like your tripname.

>>2767651
I haven't read any Hesse. I plan on skipping Siddhartha. Should I start with Steppenwolf?

>>2767317
I just finished that. It's the only Palahniuk I've ever read. I thought it was pretty good. I guess some people mind the fixation on sex and violence? It was just a passing amusement, really. The second half saved it.

>>2767620
>mfw nihilism isn't even coherent because it refutes the possibility of meaningful utterance that it relies upon to be uttered.

Please tell me what your idea of a valid philosophy is, one-who-calls-people-wrong-everyday. I would like to know the criteria by which I'm being judged as wrong.

>>2766156
The question was:
>Why does beauty impress human beings?
My facetious response, rephrased, was:
>I could argue that beauty IS that which impresses human beings, which would make the question just as tautological as the one it would be replacing.

Please stop making me explain my shitty joke.

>>2766142
Have I confused you somehow? Does something need clarification?

>>2766130
I could make the same argument, but then I would just be a punk.
You know, that "beauty" is what impresses humans, so that's why it does.

>>2766111
You seem upset.

>I'm also sort of a misanthropist, but that usually depends on my mood.
I can tell.

>I just never have anything to talk about, & when I'm with people it always seems like I'm the one who has to start conversations, because they're always silent, no matter who it is. only one person in the past few years has actually approached me to talk, otherwise i've had to be the one to engage conversation, which I hate doing. I find it bizarre that people have so many things to say, because I can't ever think of anything interesting.
People are strange. The thing about typical social interaction is it is by nature pointless, essentially a game of pleasantries. You just have to learn to play the game well, and you'll be a good extrovert. Of course, that won't make you feel like the game is any more important. This is where I am at.

I ran into a group of friends who were barhopping an hour ago, and I told them I had to go home and read so I couldn't come.

>>2766004
I participated in that thread without my trips on.

>>2766003
>Greek/Roman Empire and Renaissance
>without technology
Что я читаю?

>>2765963
It feels like stylistic mutilation to me. All of those clauses, and that ponderous "I can't be sure." I have two copies of my favorite translation, which I think est le meilleur:
>Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know.

>>2765958

>>2765829
OH MY GOD A SPINOFF I'M FINALLY POPULAR

>>2765872
Fuck this translation.

>>2765781
>implying Nietzsche would even be intelligible to middle school plebs

>>2765765
I was already here.

Sometimes I argue with myself on 4chan by removing the name and putting it back on. Does this count?

We should make a /phi/ board so /lit/ can date /phi/. It would be a really fucked up relationship. Just how I like it.

>tfw someone on /mu/ starts arguing about philosophy with you.
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