/lit/ - Literature

>>8092259
>then
By all means, do so. I'm not here to stop you. But I should like to suggest reading the manga as a post-completion supplementary; the art is always beautiful and it gives you a different visual perspective.

>>8092229
>No, but is that the conclusion you're trying to reach? That all science is bullshit?
Who said I'm trying to reach a conclusion?

>How far down does the criticism go, then? Are you saying that mankind cannot know for sure if 1+2=3?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_regress

>Claiming that it's impossible to know anything about the world because every single human's senses might be lying is just willingly putting on blinders and retreating into fantasy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance#Argument_from_incredulity.2FLack_of_imagination

I'm dead serious, I learned this shit in 9th grade. Where the hell did you go to school?

>>8092217
Right on the ball. Basically end of conversation.

>>8092199
So you admit that there is no sound basis upon which even logic, the father of science, can stand.

>>8092178
That is what he's doing - he fought against many other weapons than swords - but there's no reason to use that word when he's referring to his own fucking school. His school is literally called the school of two swords. There were no other weapons involved. There is strategy involved in the discipline of swordsmanship, but that doesn't make them more of a strategist than it does make them a swordsman.

>>8092181
maybe if you read the novel or manga, you'd know

>>8092134
A ha ha ha ha ha.
If only you had been here for more than six or seven months.
Perhaps you will understand one day, if you read the archives from years past.

>>8092149
>Seemed like a safe thing to assume
Wrong. I'm fairly sure they teach this shit in high school now, don't they? I mean, really.

>>8092137
It's not practitioner, I remembered what it was. Was fucking "strategists/strategy". There are lines where Musashi could very easily have chosen another word - one that made more sense - but instead he uses "strategist".

>I went from province to province dueling with strategists of various schools
>Students of the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in eitherhand.

Why use that word, when you use 'warrior', 'enemy', 'soldier', 'man', 'swordsman', etc in other contexts?

>>8092123
>prove it lol
Burden of proof is on ___ ________?

Let's play hangman; figure out what I wrote. Or, you know, use your head to figure out what I meant.

>>8092057
>>8092069
just gonna make this fight a little shorter
empiricism is what we like to call a "circular argument"
scientists generally refuse to accept any such as proof or evidence of a given state, except for when it supports their own preconceived notion(s)

e.g.
invalid:
>everything I say is true
>it's true because everything I say is true

"valid" (to scientists):
>everything I say is true
>it's true because everything I say is exactly what Person 2 says
>everything person 2 says is true
>therefore everything I say is true

Then it becomes recursive as they cite earlier and earlier "Person 2"s in a desperate attempt to justify empiricism.

>>8091901
>fails to contribute to a thread *and* attacks a contributor
this is why /lit/ died a long time ago, dear friend
you are but the ash, slowly blown away from an old flame

>>8091422
Victory in defeat. Spirituality as a convention driving swordsmen. Philosophy of death. The hollowness of victory when devoid or robbed of goal. Juxtaposition of human spirit and animal spirit.

>>8091604
No, I pretended that the guy knew where I was (he didn't) so that I could fucking leave this board. I do still post here from time to time here though, I guess you just miss them. But I miss brownbear and D&E and zed more than anyone could miss anything ;_;

>>8091342
it's this guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Johnstone

>>8090775
Art can say so much more than just words.

>>8091257
g2btao

One of my all-time favorites.

>>8091176
The advent of /pol/ invading /lit/, and subsequently tumblr doing the same. All that nonsense distracted everyone from non-standard literature and forced the board into "defend Ulysses and burn Ayn Rand"-mode for a while; hence welcoming in people that thought such content was the core of /lit/. Not trying to 'boogeyman' anything or anyone here, that's legitimately what happened.

only newfags will remember this