/lit/ - Literature

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Spanish writer Camilo José Cela claimed to be able to absorb liters of water via his annus and offered to demonstrate during an TV interview
https://youtu.be/t0d6K9x8CuA

Start with the Greeks
> The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black, while the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair. Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw, and could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their gods like horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shape bodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.
Xenophanes
> God, he says, either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both willing and able. If He is willing and is unable, He is feeble, which is not in accordance with the character of God; if He is able and unwilling, He is envious, which is equally at variance with God; if He is neither willing nor able, He is both envious and feeble, and therefore not God; if He is both willing and able, which alone is suitable to God, from what source then are evils? Or why does He not remove them?
Epicurus (his famous trilemma)

Reminder that Epicurus was the first anti-natalist.
>Goal of life is to minimize pain
>death is the cessation of sensation
How does his philosophy not advocate for voluntary extinction.

Daily Reminder Epicurus was the first Anti-natalist

>Epicurus never married and had no known children.
HOL' UP. DIS NIGGA WAS AN ANTINATLIST!

>But in the world, at one time people shun death as the greatest of all evils, and at another time choose it as a respite from the evils in life. The wise person does not deprecate life nor does he fear the cessation of life. The thought of life is no offense to him, nor is the cessation of life regarded as an evil.
>Much worse is he who says that it were good not to be born, but when once one is born to pass with all speed through the gates of Hades. For if he truly believes this, why does he not depart from life? It were easy for him to do so, if once he were firmly convinced. If he speaks only in mockery, his words are foolishness, for those who hear believe him not.

>What is terrible is easy to endure
Oh really?