/lit/ - Literature

>>16544314
>make bait thread
>boo hoo why did my thread bait retards?
Talk about literature or fuck off

>>16049241
Based beans poster

>>15997260
>>15997370
Based

>15966292
Stop fucking posting this same fucking thread please. You’re not dead yet so stop shitposting/fishing for (You)s and fix your life before you start bitching about it. It was sad the first time now it’s just annoying and pathetic

the absolute state of this board

>>15867704
Because at technology can only influence how genes are expressed, not whether they are there or not. Plus, add that to the fact that people are generally not keen on getting rid of their natural instincts and tendencies and your sci-fi technobabble future is very very unlikely to happen. Trannies and othe distorted gender associations are a symptom of mental illness and of modernity. They aren't what people want to become in any sense.

>>15867654
>Biology doesn't cancel out a million genders
It really does since the most efficient mating strategy for eukaryotic organisms only involves two genders. Just because there are intersex people (who aren't even a separate gender so much as expressing both gender phenotypes simultaneously and being infertile) doesn't negate that fact. Nor does the ramblings of a mentally deranged tranny thinking that they can magically change their biology because of how they feel.

Is it me or is this board just getting worse over time? Are we being raided? There's been so many bad threads in the past day or two I actually don't know

>>15866709
"Welcome to NHK" is pretty anti-doomer and anti-r9k since it's basically saying that there's always a chance to grow in life, especially if you are on the younger side of things like the main cast of the book.

>>15863713
St. Augustine
Epictetus
Edith Stein
Martin Heidegger
G.E.M. Anscombe
Peter Geach

Like it or not, 8gag is better in the sense that any person can create a board for any topic. At least that way, you can get rid of the most egregious cases of off-topic threads and prevent a wave of shitposts that never end (barring schizos that still post off-topic threads regardless). Plus, the people that find the board in the first place (unless it is an immensely popular topic) are guaranteed to shit up the board since they would be making their experience worse.

>>15862740
They're alright sometimes but most of the time, it's just LARPers or fedora tippers soft bragging instead of actual discussion.

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>>15862818
>>>/r9k/

>>15731143
You're not fooling anyone, prottie.

>>15731233
I agree. The Church has went through before and since the Protestant Reformation like the Saeculum Obscurum in the 900s - 1000s AD. The Church is and was a political organization to some extent and naturally due to human nature, became corrupt over time. However, there always were people that reformed it from the inside without becoming heretics and getting rid of Tradition, Sacred Scriptures and Apostolic Succession (like in the SO mentioned before, Pope Gregory VII did a lot to end the SO in the first place). It's also not a coincidence that most of these movements took place in heavily Germanic areas. Protestantism has more to do with cultural independence from Rome than it really does with anything theological tbqh. If it was mostly theological than Protestant Churches would be more like Orthodox ones and just deny papal supremacy or something like that rather than separating themselves from Sacred Tradition, Apostolic Succession and Sacred Scripture (by removing 7 books from the Bible because they give credence to Catholic theology), all of which no one can deny that all Orthodox Churches have because they haven't really modified any of the above at all. Plus they wouldn't misinterpret St. Augustine and all the Church Fathers so severely, wouldn't deny Early Church History and Tradition (which even the Churches in the East agree with the Church in the West on) and they wouldn't have such wildly different views from the Church on the Sacraments. In my opinion, the corruption of the Church was more of an excuse rather than an actual reason why a lot of these "reformers" bastardized 1500 years of Church History.

>>15731387
The Science of the Cross, Finite and Eternal Being, On Woman and the Philosophy of Humanities and Psychology are all phenomenal (pun intended).

>>15729832
>Dennett is a decent philosopher.
He's literally brainleddit philosopher. He's absolute shit and his takes are borderline retarded. If Searl is shit, then Dennet is dogshit.

>>15729001
>Is there a bigger scam artist “modern philosopher” than this man?
Daniel Dennett. At least everyone knows to call Sam Harris a retard. For some reason, Dennett is still taken seriously.

>>15729140
>One out of place looking retard is automatically a cop
>One questionable at best example proves the rule nationwide
You are one dumb tranny

>>15729061
>Y-you're contradicting yourself, b-brainlet.
Pathetic. Go do your own research instead of listening to fucking modern journalists about anything before you can call anyone else a brainlet.

>>15728944
You clearly haven't been paying attention to him and what he actually believes based on 20 year old interviews like I have. If you can't even form an educated opinion based on actual research, why even have one?

>Inb4 you say something stupid like saying you get your facts from the news
The mainstream media is tabloid tier trash and journalists are low-key propagandists. They are literally the least likely people to tell you the truth, especially nowadays.

>>15728844
This is a shitpost, but I'll give you a serious answer

>>15728909
He's been a New York Democrat for most of his life. He's only "right wing" because the Democratic Party has moved farther to the left than even him. Even they are to dumb to stop a moron like him, which says something about the state of the left tbqh.

>>15728498
>Philosophy of the Mind in an interest
Your best bet at getting a career is in the field of cognitive science or neuroscience desu. Otherwise, you should learn to program in C++ or Java and learn CS all the way up to data structures and algorithms so you can get a job at a start up or small business or something since philosophy really isn't the type of field that has a lot of people getting careers left and right. Hell, you could do that while trying to go into cognitive science.

>>15728446
>Excuse the twitter posting
No
>but was he right about this?
No. It's fucking twitter. It's always wrong.