/lit/ - Literature

>tfw reading hasn't made you smarter or wiser
>tfw reading hasn't improved your life in anyway

If God has the ability to save everyone, why doesn't he do it?

>>5704732
why whore-hay why

What is the deal with Borges? I've read some of Ficciones, and so far it's just shit that really dosen't have that much meaning.

Am I a just a pleb who dosen't "get" him?

>tfw postmodernism wasn't liberation
>tfw postmodernism just made things worse
>tfw postmodernism is now the standard
>tfw postmodernism eats postmodernism
>tfw postmodernism is the end all be all and it's just a black hole

A-at least the s-sarcastic c-cynical wit is f-funny right guys? h-ha

>>5598533

Then why haven't you killed yourself yet? If there's no point in living you really don't need to be here.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2731443/

>see picture of frank miller on /tv/
>they say he has cancer
>google "frank miller cancer"
>see above page
>look at pictures (look at the pictures)
>ill old guy with healthy happy young people
>this makes me feel "deep" thoughts that /lit/ would rightfully claim are shallow
>seeing this kind of makes me want to put more effort in to life

oh lawd, fuck mortality.

i'm about to fall apart and I don't know what will happen to me. If it's something drastic here's my final gift to you /lit/.

http://pastebin.com/uA1iPGZe

whatever the case I will be here a while longer, so read it and review it if you want. or if none of you think it's worth your time, which it probably isn't, don't. you've been my only friend these last few months so I will give this to you. I don't know if it is worth anything and it probably isn't and if it is it doesn't matter.

thank you

>You will never accidentally kill a good friend in a drunk driving accident and spend the rest of your life in a jail cell reading and getting fit

>>5381758
Why does life require use or value?

After you sense the boundaries of what can be known, running your hands along the length of the walls of knowledge, feeling each groove and nub with your fingers. All that's left to motivate us to 'continue onward in life' is the futility of acquiring and manufacturing fleeting sensory experiences that furnish inevitably nostalgic memories. All experience eventually circling back to This. This vastness you feel inside of yourself, drawing you in. An intoxicating silence and wellspring of knowing. A sort of quiet Seeing. A space in which everything has already happened.

Anyways, Zen Buddhism helped me translate my Western philosophical nihilism into a more functional working worldview that embraces both meaninglessness and our fundamental inability to perceive truth.