/lit/ - Literature

>For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

>>20210824
>ywn feel the smooth skin of some Italian girl's legs

Kinda spooky iddnt it.

After all you've read, and concluding upon the vast sea of knowledge you've acquired,

Where do you think you go when you die, /lit/?

post a passage that hits you in the feels

>>18169984

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>tried to read philosophy for the first time
>I can't understand anything
I'm not talking about the references, but the language, structure, and ideas themselves. How do I make myself less of a brainlet so I can understand these texts?

>>17500012
>ultimately you're letting feels get in the way of reals
Your feelings are real. No matter how much you rationalize things, your emotions are going to dictate how excited you are to get out of bed in the morning and how driven you are to be somebody.

At the end of your life you'll be looking back and asking yourself whether it was worth it, whether you made the right decisions, whether you can die without regret. Plenty of men did everything "right" and still ended up feeling like they missed out, because they didn't listen to their heart telling them what they really wanted.

It's easy to say "happiness" doesn't matter and isn't important., or that it's something else than people think. But every waking moment is spent in the present, feeling whatever you do, all the way down until the moment of your demise. You better figure out how you want to spend them and what state you want to inhabit while doing so, because that's what really constitutes a life---for the average person at least, ignoring "accomplishments" and such that will persist after you're dead but won't be much good to you then.

>When asked in 1999 if he was afraid of losing his mind in prison, Kaczynski replied: No, what worries me is that I might in a sense adapt to this environment and come to be comfortable here and not resent it anymore. And I am afraid that as the years go by that I may forget, I may begin to lose my memories of the mountains and the woods and that's what really worries me, that I might lose those memories, and lose that sense of contact with wild nature in general. But I am not afraid they are going to break my spirit.

>I am with you always, even unto the end of the world

>>16526347
The mind of God is perfect knowing,
His lips its flawless expression,
all that exists is His spirit,
by His tongue named into being;
He strides, and hollows under His feet become Nile-heads—
Hapy wells from the hidden grotto into His footprints.
His soul is all space,
His heart the life-giving moisture,
He is Falcon of Twin Horizons,
sky god skimming heaven,
His right eye the day,
while His left is the night,
and He guides human seeing down every way.
His body is Nun, the swirling original waters;
within it the Nile
shaping, bringing to birth,
fostering all creation;
His burning breath is the breeze,
gift offered every nostril,
from Him too the destiny fallen to each;
His consort the fertile field,
He shoots His seed into her,
and new vegetation, and grain,
grow strong as His children.
Fruitful One, Eldest,
He fathered gods in those first days,
whose faces turn to Him
daily and everywhere.
That countenance still shines on mankind and deities,
and it mirrors the sum of the world.

>>16413073
173–74 We arrived home in month two,
like all that he had said.
174–75 Then I entered to the sire
and presented him with the cargo
that I had gotten inside that island.
176 Then he thanked me
in front of the council and the whole land.
177–79 Then I was appointed follower
and endowed with two hundred servants.
179–81 See me, after my touching land,
after my seeing what I have tasted.
181–82 So, listen, high official:
look, it is good for people to listen.
>183–84 Then he said to me,
> “Don’t act so accomplished, friend.
>184–86 What is the point of giving water to a bird
> at the dawn of its slaughter in the morning?”

It's done, I've successfully blocked all other social websites on the internet and most other distractions (including porn) apart from one bookmark right here at /lit/ It's what I reward myself with for one hour a day. It may seem kinda stupid but I've learned quite a bit from this board and I actually enjoy my time here. While this has only been going on for 2 weeks I can already see a significant change in my mood and feel much more relaxed. Long may it last.

>>15698603
this thread might be dead, but fuck it. i’m right there with you. sometimes i feel like my friends are slipping more and more out of my grasp. my family treats me like shit. i wouldn’t be surprised if everyone forgot about me in a few years.

>The wash is out
>it's hanging up
>And all I have is nothing

>>14956540

>the art of being right
>tolkien
>camus
>stockings

If you did something positive in a sea of mediocrity that’s a net positive.
Keep going bro.

The most ironic thing is that the heliocentric model was first revived by Nicoloas Copernicus, a Roman Catholic priest. Even hitherto the Specola Vaticana that would come about a couple decades after his death, the Church formalized Astronomy as a formal field of study, mandating strict proofs precisely because it was so previously tainted by astrologists and retards. This whole "muh anti-science church" is pure cope by pop-sci brainlets.

>Sigmund Freud Psychologist, founder of Psychoanalysis: “Freud held the opinion (based on personal experience and observation) that sexual activity was incompatible with the accomplishing of any great work. Since he felt that the great work of creating and establishing psychotherapy was his destiny, he told his wife that they could no longer engage in sexual relations. Indeed from about the age of forty until his death Freud was absolutely celibate “in order to sublimate the libido for creative purposes.” – according to his biographer Ernest Jones.

Books about dumbasses who embarrass themselves constantly but are smart enough to realize they're retarded?

>>14177456
They don't. The Christian idea of God comes from the Platonic tradition and it is a metaphysical essence that transcends space-time, and holds omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. Any semblance exists only canonically; the interpretation of that God differs vastly. The Allah/Yaway is substitutable with any pantheon God and is quite limited in power and is only concerned with 'his people'. In all actuality, Islam and Judaism are closer to polytheistic traditions in that sense than they are to Christianity (Catholicism).

Hey /lit/ can you recommend books with a melancholic or depressing theme? I'm somewhat dead inside right now and thought that a nice book might help.

>tfw extremely fast reader and can easily read 700-800 pages per day but also lazy and constantly backlogged with books to read