/lit/ - Literature

In this damned world you cannot trust even your own father.

>Cioran
>Nietzsche
>Stirner
>Schopenhauer
>Weininger
Why being depressed about some fictions that those talentless hacks imagined? Why would you take in serious the fantasies of a lunatic NEET that ended his life with his sister wiping out his poop? Why would you read braindead morons whose ideas are incompatible with living in society? You'll never know if their ideas are wrong or right, but you certainly know that their lives were disastrous. So why compromising yourself? Go read Seneca, Plato, or Gracián, people you can trust to improve your life, to be better. Not those losers.

>>17507527
Yeah, apparently DH Lawrence really cut him to the quick with his letter, the gist was that Russell was in fact a selfish egoist, with no real love for mankind, but only a self-aggrandizing social-justice kind of hellfire preacher. Sounds like DH Lawrence saw right through him.

>>17506242
That being said, also I find a false-dichotomy in the Buddha/Nietzsche argument in the courts of heaven, which is probably why God found both equally unconvincing, and hence left the world unchanged.

Buddha, though he won't admit it, only possesses moral greatness because suffering exists. Without lions there are no lion-tamers.

In truth, neither Nietzsche or Buddha are right, they have merely the same moral intuitions as two blind men out to discover what an elephant is; one has grasped the tusk and said that the elephant is fierce, the other, having gotten the trunk, says that the elephant is polite and sociable.

>>17242894
Stoicism has enjoyed extreme popularity with Christians for a long long time. I personally think he would also have enjoyed Lao Tse's passages about youth.

>>17242900
>>17242904
People don't tend to think so, and indeed Christ wouldn't have liked everything Marx had to say, but Jesus could end up siding with Marx on a few things that would surprise them. For instance, a deeper understanding of Christ shows a very anti-metaphysical man, willing to challenge common tropes about God. Although Marxists have done horrible things to Christians, Christians often say that being saved isn't about filling big shoes, but fitting your life into something that feels too small at first. In this sense, Marx's insistence upon dialectical materialism might seem to hold out promise for Christians willing to bend a bit of orthodoxy in the name of humility. But on the other hand, dialectical materialism tries to fit everything into one paradigm (materialism). Jesus would hate that, because the central part of his philosophy is that there are two paradigms the spirit, and the world, so nobody has to just blindly accept the world's paradigm because it's not the only one.

Overall, I think Jesus would approve of few philosophers; the very idea of making definite statements about human life, makes life cheap and less sacred.

>>17232446
So what you mean to say, is that theism is the only original thesis in all of human history. (I'm referring to the fact that the diagram contains two bubbles instead of one for all you smoothbrains)

>>17133542
>Most pretentious opinion
My most pretentious opinion has to be that everyone is a nihilist, because any reasonable person comes to the conclusion that life is meaningless. The reason people (Nietzsche included) are always mad at nihilism is because they have been over-socialized into caring too much. So being anti-nihilism is actually the ultimate in what Nietzsche called slave-morality.

>What aggravates you?
The constant /lit/ circle-jerk of irrelevant philosophers that they've never read.

>>17071234
>And my political intrigues

Imagine what the world would be if instead of Machiavelli people had read Gracián. Instead of reading Nietzsche, they had read Mariana. Instead of reading Hegel, they had read Suárez. We would be colonizing Mars right now.

>>5199324
snitch to the cops, sounds like one of the neighbours did it. keep snitching until he stops/is kicked out.