/lit/ - Literature

Ted Chiang

Grendel and The Old Man and the Sea are great existentialist reads even better than The Stranger imho.

>>4441189
This.

Revolt against the absurd. Go make some art.

The Stand.

>>4420143
Merci !

Je crois que je ne peux pas continuer ma vie avec ces erreurs que j'ai fait.

À sa manière le suicide résout l'absurde il l'entraîne dans la même mort... N'est-ce pas ?

Stoner.

Genius or not, even Shakespeare can write something as bad as Titus Andronicus

I doubt there's a person with a wide enough range of interests to judge all boards.

That said I agree that /diy/ and /lit/ (when isn't circlejerking about theology) are pretty good. I visit /int/ just for the language threads, I know there is /lang/ but text boards are extremely slow, I wish moot tested an image board just for languages.

/ic/ does focus too much on concept art and illustration, also some people there have a severe case of crab complex but it's overall a good board, especially if you are getting started.

I would visit /mu/ if it were more focused on music theory and production or if I could post vocaloid threads without getting directed to /jp/

>>4404840

>Trying to prove religion wrong by theology

I guess I just don't follow your train of thought

Is being a Christian the new hip thing?

Almost anything by Murakami.

>The only meaning life has is the one you gave to it.

>Oblivion awaits at end and you will probably not be saved so don't embrace it too soon by killing yourself.

The quote at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus (Probably one of the most motivating things I've ever read, in this work he also destroys Kierkegaard and Co. arguments) also resumes his philosophy quite well:

'O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,but exhaust the limits of the possible.'
Pindar —

/ic/
/int/
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>>4398115
>improved

That's very subjective, of course you can say it has improved from humanist pov but it would be more fitting to say that it has weakened under the weight of human progress.

Church no longer has the power nor influence that it had 5 centuries ago and the scrapped dogma is an essential part of its doctrine.

After looking at this thread I think Sam Harris was right about calling theology: ignorance with wings.

>>4395392
Maybe I've spend too much time on /ic/ but those hands seem enormous.

Also "The Road"

I don't know if they gave me cancer but I've been feeling quite bad lately

>>4394254

Isn't like I read Camus and I decided to adopt his philosophy but more like I already had an idea of what made sense to me and what I thought was important and then I read Camus and realized that he had already come up with a name for my position

“The best books are those that tell you what you know already.” -George Orwell

>Tfw when you need to stop reading because you can't hold all the frissons...

>>4393820
I agree, albeit there are things that are only means to an end so I don't put all my best on them. Also absurdism: I want to exhaust the limits of what is possible without committing philosophical suicide.

>>4389569
Se escribe "El extranjero".

So... Zizek is a descriptivist?

House of Leaves

A hardcover of Camus' works

About to finish my CS degree (7 classes left)

Besides providing me with a field to work at, It no longer has any relation with my current goals because I'm now pursuing art as much as I can.

"These are my letters to the world that never wrote back to me"

*sigh*

I remember that this is the book that got me into "proper reading".