/lit/ - Literature

>>15476098
as long as you want happiness you won’t be happy. stop wanting happiness. this isn’t done by thinking btw

>>15470476
No book will “teach” you how to get girls. The fact you have to find a book for this means that the way you are living isn’t right. This doesn’t mean you’re hopeless. It just means you will have to change yourself.

But you can’t change yourself for another person or you will be like a fake person or a robot. You have to become the person you want to be. So determine what your issues are, are you anxious, depressed, negative self-image, unable to hold a conversation? And fix it. When I was depressed I blamed loneliness for how I felt but my depression was the issue and women didn’t like my energy since it was so dull usually.

If you have to read a book, check out models. But you have to see that you aren’t missing knowledge. You just need to change the way you are living. There’s no secret recipe for getting girls. It happens naturally for most people. Just as natural as anything else, like a conversation

>>15466923
cringe at right side, nietzsche and jung were anything but materialists who used evolution as an explanation for anything about the real world

>>15467023
lol... ty anon

>>15463935
your body... lol. no book captures this, they can only allude to it at best.

>>15466301
pseud, filtered by religion. stop acting superior

>>15465826
wdy listen to

>>15464762
yes

>>15464917
it is here

Here ye, here ye
the harlot turns her wicked head
far all to see what cannot be said
and when she is seen
she is forgotten

>>15464648

we are amonymouse
never forgive
never forget

>>14995339
how many of those are you actually planning on finishing during quarantine, nigger?

>>15001585
>literally just posting a reddit screenshot
why? just talk about it there

If it seems an exceptional phenomenon, it is mainly because we are moving on from a period of fetishizing trade labor. Young people of academic means identify more as city people these days. You are allowed to have your childhood extended a while longer, instead of seeing it crushed beneath the tedium of physical labor. You don't have to put on a front to make people think you're a hard man.

This bit doesn't apply for everyone, but you are more likely to build character providing for a family, or pursuing economic mobility, than you would being paid an immodest salary to lounge in comfortable office space daydreaming all day.

>Take up two fucking pages writing out the lyrics to the song playing in the bar that the characters are in.
>Three fucking times.
LOL Very po-mo and cute.

>>14512321
OP here. I meant reactive, not reactionary. My bad.

One can converse entirely with aphorisms, and convey very little content, because of how obvious and self-evident most aphorisms are; thanks I realise that the mountain cannot bow to the wind, stupid. It is one thing to dabble in the Stoics once in a while, but why go so far as make it your whole life? Expressions like that's so, or it can't be helped, should not exist. They shouldn't even be legal. I am sure it is considered ill mannered to speak using abstractions, at least in casual settings.

Japanese "wisdom" and anything resembling stoicism is fundamentally passive and reactionary. I am sure most parents prefer that their kids not speak vaguely. To presume to answer a question with literally nothing is the ultimate cop-out.

The Great Books

Sputnik Sweetheart fucked me up. Why would someone just up and disappear like that?

I enjoyed the Teaching Company course called "Jewish Mysticism." Your library out to have it, it's informative and I would recommend it greatly. Quite sure the professor is himself Gentile. What you are specifically asking about is the absurdly long commentary called the Zohar from the Middle Ages.

Careful what you wish for; more has probably been written on the search of God than any one person can perhaps consume in the span of a lifetime.

>>14446642
So because you missed out on teenage love now you wonder what you were missing? I expect at the time you knew that you would regret it forever. It was your choice not to care for your looks, chase girls, or even attend social functions like prom, parties, et c.

Mostly everyone in this website is in the same boat as you, and will make you feel validated by degrading those experiences. Just focus on the embittered (YOU)s and the feeling will pass for a short while.

>>14450165
I will, when I want to read a boring fucking textbook. Historians use the fact that we're reading it for college, and therefore will buy it whether we want to or not, as an excuse not to develop prose and style in their writing.

Well Most of your facts don't add up