/lit/ - Literature

>>2711188
Never completely read an assigned book in my life. This includes university.

Feels good man.

>>2619044
>implying you can
>implying any of us can

We're all mad here.

>>2607254
Sincerity implies taking yourself seriously to a point, which means you haven't followed your sceptical and nihilistic tendencies to their logical end.

If it's not all merely a game to you yet you still have some sacred cows to murder.

Sincerity leads to truthful inquiry which leads to nihilism/scepticism which leads to a lack of sincierity about anything but that scepsis itself. Which you then mourn, but after a while you stop being sad and just play the game.

>>2551362
1) You're right, that was rather sloppy use of phrasing on my behalf. It does develop a myriad of skills though.

2) An honest person wouldn't make it through his first birthday unscathed. The only place for an honest person is either the streets, the madhouse or prison. Unless of course you are someone who's inner workings seamlessly connect to the demands of society, which is practically impossible.

3) Your level of development at the moment is the result of thousands of years of deception and manipulation. Without this you would be less than a tribesman. Sanity and morality would be nowhere to be found. Even a monkey society isn't possible without deception, for example the feigning of sincere subordinance when all you do is bide your time until you gain a more advantaged position. Humanity wouldn't even have developed without the skill of stealth in hunting, the very basis of which is deception, namely feigning that you aren't where you are. Deception is such a basic attribute of life that the proposed absence of it would be merely absurd. Butterflies would go extinct. Tigers would starve. Wolf packs would dismantle. The only advantages aside from deception are pure strength and speed. Would you rather have a world based on that? It would be infinitely less complex and sophisticated. It would be a bunch of huge fuckers chasing eachother, like dinosaurs on an vast plain.

4)

>There ABSOLUTELY is an underlying objective truth to all of reality. Lies are an illusion which confuse people and cause them to disconnect from themselves and one another; the truth unites people effortlessly

Seriously? The truth will set us free into a world of rainbows and ponies, vulcano's erupting with love and sweets and forgiveness flowing down the riverbeds?

>>2535839
I'm motivated by what I want and how much I want it. If I think something is worth the effort to achieve, I do so. It's just that I have less rules to play by than most people. It's like a videogame in sandbox mode.