/lit/ - Literature

>>17073039
Death and the Dervish, but that's more existential ennui

>>17073108
Cause you lot
>>17073094
have made it too cringe to be anything like you.

>>17073049
>Just hug and embrace your lad and tell him you will accept him no matter what. Open up an honest dialogue and develop trust.
What if he turns out gay or even trans?

>>17073122
Then you accept him because he's your son and life is short and cruel. Many worse things he could be.

>>17073031
The Brothers Karamazov

Fujo rage

what do you care

>>17073010
What do you care not

>>17072995
i fucked her

>>17072998
Do tell more

>>17072995
There is nothing attractive about her

>>17072999
He fucked her.

>>17072998
That was you? PH removed it. I was looking yesterday

Oh i'll give you the redpill anon. Bend over, it's a suppository.

>>17072984
Hume. Atistotle. Descartes. These will destroy the redpill as they almost never hold up to scrutiny filtered through these three.

Hardmode. Kant

>>17073018
The Triumvirate of Cringe.

>>17073025
You too can grow anon. You must only try.

Do you trannies really not read science books? Smdh.

>>17079757
Duginism picks up where the Situationists left off

>>17078473
Good answer.

>>17079757
AK-47

Me, i will be releasing my book on this next year

Dugin is wrong about beards. /lit/ is a clean shaven board. We follow the Roman tradition

>>17072908
Actually, nothing’s possible.

>>17072908
Well it’s not intuitive, but by and large it either happens or it doesn’t, and with quantum mechanics we are always transported into the reality where it does. 50/50.

Bump

Time is only what a clock measures. There is only the now. Your question is nonsensical.

>>17072908
Possibillities are virtual. That means they are already real before they "manifest" themselves into something substantial, or "actualize" as Deleuze would put it. The possibillity of Moby Dick being a great novel that could alter your live is already pushing you to read it, it's already altering the course of your live, right now, before you commited yourself and bought it. Furthermore, virtualities not only affect the world, but also eachother. A knife gains the abbility to threaten, due to it's abbility to kill, which in turn is predicated on it's sharpness.
Now, we can't therefore think possibility as something that rests in some otherworldy realm, awaiting actualization, but rather as an active field all objects occupy, the part of them which is already leaving the present in favor of the future.
So in truth, objects which are in reality processes themselves, are always already changing, as one moment flows into another seamlessly, while virtualities tugg and pull eachother in the free game of chance.

>>17074873
There are three:
Have sex, chud, and incel

>>17074884
You forgot to add you will never be a woman

>>17074901
It was implied

>>17074901
It naturally follows from the original three aspects

>>17074905
True, have a nice day :)

>>17072901
you've grown out of it, it's time for you to start reading real literature.

>>17072912
such as?

>>17072891
I've been reading both volumes this past year. This shit is gold

>>17072891
Plutarch was Greek

>>17073020
>Tacitus' Germania, if you're interested in reading about the Germans through a Roman perspective
This, and the Agricola for Britain.

>>17072891
Virgil's Georgics and the Eneid
Ovid's Metamorphoses
Horace's Odes
Apuleius' Golden Ass
Longus' Daphnis and Chloe

>>17073021
>>17073072
is it gay?

bump

>whole of creation
>boring
What?

>>17072954
Some people dont just read for "da lulz" but also because they have a genuine intellectual intrest in a particular subject.

If thats not you, perhaps netflix is a better option.

You don’t HAVE to read anything before Homer if you don’t want to, but yes, I’d recommend getting Hamilton. Hesiod doesn’t cover it all either way.
However isn’t Theogony like 50 pages long? Just read it dude.

>>17072886
First of all it's not that long and most people read hesiod just for the exposition, so don't be a pussy and power through it. Also, inbetween the lists of names there are some really good parts, like the battle between the gods and titans or the anecdotes about prometheus. I know it is a bit tiresome when he lists all the 50 nerids but then again I found it very revelatory to see the relationship and family ties between the more well known gods and the symbolism behind those conjunctions. It was also interesting to see how proto-philosophical ideas are represented through myth, like with the Moirai, the creation of woman, or how the principles of order took over with the gods, after the reign of the titans, the latter representing untamed nature. Lastly, a lot of names and symbols that still pervade today's culture and society are disclosed in here, so there is a lot of pleasure in recognizing those (like Nike to name an obvious example).
So there is a lot of value you can get out of thus text imo.

>>17072866
>Is /lit/ interested in theology?
no. but >>>/his/ is

Yes but my interest is a confused, personal, and existential one, not exactly academic.

I'd have to see her feminine penis before making a rating.

I'm pretty sure she enjoys rape fantasies.

>>17072858
>her

Just looks like she stacked a collection of books which she compiled from message boards. I highly doubt she read most if any of them and know she would have a superficial understand of anything she did read.
I also note a distinct lack of nonfiction.

>>17072858
does stacking your books like that hurt the spines? I feel like it does

>>17072938
I disagree.

>>17072946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-GUAxmxdk

>>17072960
Buckley did not btfo Chomsky.

>>17072960
I disagree.

>>17072960
I just finished and Chomps wrecked that posh sounding rectal cloud.

>>17072911
I think the "support our troops" cult is a natural defensive response that arises in rural areas following war, as they tend to be the regions most affected by casualties.

Blood red snow
Forgotten soldier

>>17073926
I think it's mostly guilt over the way vets were treated in Vietnam. Rural areas have very, very little cultural influence and it's unlikely the dynamic arose there. For whatever reason, its genesis was likely in a more culturally powerful region, and those regions tend to be urban. My sense has always been that it comes from a place of patronization; the way you'd give your dog some kind words in a goofy voice when he does a thing.

>>17074896
>>17073926
Just to add, I have been on the receiving end of the whole "thank you for your service" shtick many times. The only time it ever really hit me was when it came from another vet. I got off the plane in Bangor, Maine fresh from Afghanistan at 0300 and there was this group of crusty old Nam vets there in their class A's giving shaking our hands and giving us battalion coins. That fucking floored me. They gave us what they didn't get, and they gave it to us from a place of direct personal experience. In contrast, I always felt like the civilians were more obligated than appreciative. Definitely not culty. It was like a social obligation they didn't understand but did anyway.

>>17073913
Following Japan in general through WW2 will show you some of the most brutal combat in human history. The scope of the Pacific island hopping campaign might have been more compartmentalized on an island-by-island basis (due to, you know, the nature of islands) but the intensity of action throughout the Pacific was nearly unrivalled. Even before looking at the actual conditions of combat on the islands, the human density was nearly unmatched in the war, with nearly 60,000 men fighting on an island a little over 5 square miles. There are battles much larger in terms of manpower, but while the objectives were often cities (eg Battle of Stalingrad), the actual battlefield was composed of much of the area surrounding the city as well.

>>17072795
Let's not forget john banville, he's a contender for the nobel prize

>>17072800
The Celtic Note

>>17077081
Based

Speaking as an Irishman, it's emigration being used as a stopping valve and the crushing existence here

>>17072795
5 of these were Anglo-Irish Protestants LMAO

>>17077667
Some of the best Irish men were

Sectarianism is for virgin, anon

>>17072769
yes OP, do it.

>>17072860
Then yes this is a fine read

>>17072860
Yeah Meditations fits the bill perfectly. But when you start reading other works you'll find that they almost all reference older ideas and concepts from older works, so it helps to have a chronological understanding of what it is you're reading.

This board never changes.

>>17072769
Zeno is a good beginning. He has clear ties to Pythagoreanism before him and various philosophies after him, his fragments and doxographia are compact and most of all they are interesting. In a very similar case I would recommend Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism. It unfolds its philosophy in an extremely satisfying, almost geometric arrangement and provides equally interesting arguments. Zeno and Pyrrho are very similar thinkers though they have their disagreements. They really represent the peak of philosophy. Exploring the Pythagorean subject matter before them, using it and pushing it to its own limits, they brought an end to philosophy. Nothing more of substance came from the era after Pyrrhonic skepticism became complete. The major philosophers since Descartes has mainly been addressing them, but never directly and always in an ultimately unsatisfying manner. I have used the Pyrrhonic method to fully develop a criterion of absolute truth where nobody has before. The importance and the method of Pyrrhonism makes Empiricus's book a good start too.