/lit/ - Literature

>>13734872
>Parmenides
>Saying NOT X is ilegitimate, because Being just IS
>Therefore you canNOT say NOT X

Father of metaphysics, ladies and gentleman!

>Guenon
>Religious taxonomy
>There's totally an unity behind all this, guys HEHEHE

Perennialism is bullshit

>>13627974
In the trash.

Perennialism is simply a glorified taxonomy, no fundamental reality behind it.

>>13511340
Good luck reducing the richness of intersubjectivity to brain functions

>CREATING SOMETHING INTO EXISTENCE AND PERPETUATING SUCH THING IN EXISTENCE TAKES EQUAL POWER

From such axiomatic assertion, and realizing that no created object has in it the principle that allows them to perpetuate their existence, Descartes cloncluded that God is constantly causing things to perpetuate themselves.

Continuous creation is the most retarded philosophical thesis in existence...

Ray Brassier suggests modern philosophers are always skipping around an inevitable nihilism and that nihilism isn't altogether useless in the slightest on an interpersonal level and on the level of the state

this is a terrible misreading of Brassier this is just what i think

>>8862329
>>8862338
oops sorry didnt read the post properly.

>>7320285
I used to buy 2-4 books a month. New, but mostly paperback, so it was relatively cheap.
A few years ago I got a Kindle, and I stopped buying physical books entirely. Ever since I got a Kindle I read a lot more books annually since it's much easier, faster, and more convenient to acquire them, and I get to read books I downloaded on a whim which I probably wouldn't have bought if I needed to spend 5-10 bucks on it.

Since I'm not an idiot, I don't buy e-books, I just download them for free, so I saved quite a lot of money over these past few years, even taking into account the initial cost of buying a Kindle.
I doubt I'll ever buy a physical book in my life ever again. I honestly can't imagine going back to physical books anymore. Only physical books I read these days are those I get as gifts.

>Are you ever less inclined to finish books?
I haven't noticed any difference in this regard, but I very, very rarely ever drop a book. Usually if I start reading it, I finish it. That hasn't changed.

>>7230670
>implying modern lawyers know anything about the history of jurisprudence
In literally the first semester of the first year of law school, we had two different historical courses, one for Roman Law, and one for general history of law. Both were required courses.

>>7168016
4chan peaked between 2004-2008 when it came to internet relevance. Back then, everyone knew about 4chan, and everyone went to 4chan. Schoolkids around the world used 4chan as their first major community/comedy site. It was literally the front page of the internet.

Now, in 2015? 4chan is about as culturally relevant as SA is. It's glory days have long since passed. Kids start with Reddit and Tumblr now, not with /b/ and /v/.

Which is honestly a good thing. I hope this trend continues and 4chan goes back to being a weeb site.

>>7157155
Within a year seems right if I remember my timeline correctly, but the thing is, the change in "mentality" happened very abruptly and it was literally, 100% moot's fault for making constant retarded stickies and announcements and bringing up the fact /r9k/ exists and talking about roneriness - which until that point was just a very small, irrelevant part of the board. Most people on /r9k/ back then were closer to butterfly (just remembered the name of a tripfag, I think her name was "Soviet Lesbian", I wonder if that was butterfly herself since she's an old hag) than to dumb frogposters of today.

/r9k/ used to have this one writefag, our own version of John Titor. I think he was just referred to as "future bro". A guy who claimed to be a time traveler from the future. He'd come by every couple of weeks, talk about how the world works in the future, answer some questions, generally it was just fun, nerdy suspension of disbelief and we all played along with it. He was away for a month when the whole "migration" happened and when he came back again to make a new thread, to do the same thing he's always done, like 75% of the posts in that thread were crossboarding newfags who just came to /r9k/ in the past month and started shitting on him and calling him a loony. I stopped posting on /r9k/ after that thread.

This was all years ago and I'm terrible with dates so I might have got some details wrong but I'm pretty sure that's how it happened. I'm pretty sure all this happened before /lit/ was even made.

>>7105028
They only derail threads if you let them derail threads. Just ignore them when they start crying about it, and if you want to be a passive-aggressive faggot, keep replying on-topic with other anime reaction images to annoy them. Just don't do it with every single post or the mods might misunderstand it as avatarfagging.

Just using anime reaction images isn't breaking any rules, as long as the posts they're attached to are on-topic. And if the idiots waste their time reporting your posts, they'll probably just get warned/banned for frivolous reporting.

>>7006897
Nah, not that tryhard faggot.

Just grabbed a bunch of anime I enjoyed from my completed list at random.
No idea why you people make such a fuss about rating them. They're cartoons. Mass entertainment. You watch it for the same reason you watch Hollywood movies, HBO series or read SF/fantasy novels - for fun.

Not everything has to be about expanding your horizons or learning new ideas and concepts. Sometimes it's about enjoying fun things. Fun things are fun.

I did legitimately enjoy watching every single one of the show on that list, if that's what you're wondering, and I pity anyone unable to do so.