/lit/ - Literature

>reads /lit/ once

>>8892052
Where's the one with the life lesson about wasting your time reading books you don't like or derive any useful insight from in the hopes that they will somehow hand life improvements to you on a silver platter or give you bragging rights in social situations when you could far more pragmatically just skim through some cliffnotes and lie about having read the book for the same effect?
Huh? Where's that classique?
I'm gonna go get a chocolate orange goddamnit.

>>8750025
Precisely 3525 Z's.

>>8631526
At the end it turns out the tutor is actually just a slug like one of us, trying to make his way home.

>>8633233
>The conspiracy is made up on the spot but it's so good that the government actually enacts it

>>8426477
>fedora
Amazing argument.
>People think that pursuing material goals will make the happy
Pursuing metaphysical goals work in the same way.
Having goals are great for keeping busy and building a decent framework for your mind to rationalize it's own existence on but it's not a necessity nor a guarantee for happiness.
>Are you advocating destiny?
No, I'm saying we literally can't know for sure so it doesn't matter.
>You're not going to be happy if you see your actions as meaningless
That's just not true. You can ascribe meaning to whatever you please and meaning is in fact inherently subjective.
The happiness you derive from something isn't bound to whether or not it has meaning.
You can have someone thrive on chaos.
>>8426501
>They can become temporarily happy, but they won't be content.
Contentment isn't the same thing as happiness.
>Something to indicate that they're moving forward.
Time itself indicates that we're moving forward. The finality of life indicates that you're heading toward some ultimate goal.
Saying that you HAVE to work towards something to be happy is silly and runs contrary to the notion of appreciating what you have.
It's interesting that you're arguing against materialism and commercialism (even though I've never brought up either of those things) and yet you preach this world view of constantly struggling to achieve and accumulate.
Those things serve as a distraction and a chase towards a new "high" just like materialism.
People can under the appropriate conditions waste away like a pile of blubber and still be happy because happiness is transient and dependent on unhappiness for it be defined.
There's two neutral states based on whether you're a pessimist or an optimist and happiness is just a positive deviation from that norm.
This means that if you want to feel like you're primarily happy with your life what you have to do is choose to be happy with your life.
By constantly chasing some future goal that you're telling yourself is going to make your life better and happier, all you're really doing is postponing the achievement.
It will always be 'just around the corner'.
Appreciate what you have while it's there.

>>8426367
>Surronding yourself with neat toys like vidya is meaningless if it isn't something you carry with you after you turn off the console.
What about surrounding yourself with neat illusions like faith and "being well rounded"?
Do they still hold meaning after you turn off your existence?

Either way, I think we're arguing two different points at the same time here. I agree with the first half of your post because it is simply a fact.
However your means of dealing with it is immensely retarded, It seems more like a guise of rationality than an actual attempt at self realization.
Both your posts make it look like you're doing these things just because you think they're the only way. Or at least the only correct way.
And then only because you were told so.

People have different paths to walk I suppose but it doesn't really "matter" either way. Certainly not in any way we can appreciate.

Everyone should do some serious soul searching and find out what really fulfills them and makes them happy.
At the end of the day the reason why it makes you happy is probably irrelevant.

>>8426359
Fuck up your life to the point that your mind literally can't deal with reality.
Unless you're lucky enough to be born stupid, in which case you can have faith because your parents told you to.

>>8426288
>at least I'm moving forward in life.
>Falling for the "life has direction" meme
You can do literally what you want, my man. Be happy, be miserable, whatever.
Ultimately your concept of the present and your own ego is just one in a multitude of slides frozen forever in time on a higher dimensional plane.
Just a sculpture, that's what you are. Your death doesn't mean anything other than "this is the last brush stroke of the painting". It's your life that defines the substance.
AM I GETTING THROUGH TO YOU?

>>8081804
Except I regularly find /lit/ers to be too far up their own ass to be intentionally humorous and that comment was not intelligent the slightest.
Maybe that's why.
Because there appears to be a greater contrast to the juxtaposition when it's not drowned out by non-stop retardation.

>>8080053
>Not pedantic
That irony though.

>>8078154
>want to keep reading books
>no more space in time

>>8079359
Why are /lit/'s retarded non sequiturs so amusing compared to other boards?

>>7899964
But if he wants to write more like tolkien then writing more like tolkien is right.

>>7855951
Your choice of words would certainly indicate otherwise.

>>7855943
Then I don't understand why you would take that post so personally but it does make sense that you would find NYC alluring however.
What do you have against Europe though?

>>7855929
So 'yes' then?

>>7855902
Feel free to not take offense at the blatantly farcical post I made.
Neglected brown swamps? Are you from New York or what?

>>7855865
NYC is, figuratively speaking, a societal pipe organ on a pulpit of poop, being played by an obese child with dissociative personality disorder and tourettes.
Tokyo is the municipal equivalent of a conjoined twin suffering a heart attack and a stroke at the same time.

>>7841389
Then why did you ask?
And it depends on your definition.

>>7841378
Is that an answer?

>>7841354
How dare you lie to me?

>>7841328
And I'm not surprised at that response which is why I lied.
So now, while you may be worried, at least you can use the mild surprise as a microscopic source of stimulation.

>>7841310
What if I told you I was severely socially inept and never make a single utterance in public?