/lit/ - Literature

I wish to write a story.
I have a bunch of scenes floating in my head, but I don't have a coherent story or characters and I don't know where to begin. What do?

Spinoza's God is a useless concept. If humans are incapable of observing or being made aware of God, then there is no compelling reason to "believe", whatever the fuck that entails. God is this imaginary thing humans personify, so that they have a thing unto which they can project their insecurities. If we are not 100% in control of our fate, someone/thing must be, of course. Intellectual Christians (Existentialists in Dostoevsky's case) latch onto Christ more than they do the Abrahamic God the same way Buddhists follow Buddha but do not worship him universally. Christ was an influential teacher and a moral/philosophical leader for early cultures.

This whole rationalization of God is just a symptom of our intellectual debt. Religion is so deeply ingrained into our collective consciousness that we feel compelled to retrofit our logic rather than follow it to its conclusion.

>>4121465
thanks, then aristotle then who

>>4031179

I loved him in The Wind that Shakes the Barley

>>3773563
You were wrong

120... I think it is fair

Hi c/lit/s, we're having a homolit thread if you want to contribute:

>>>/lgbt/363284

>>3595212
i just don't want to feel these feels anymore
but i don't want to be an r9k faggot

looking for a different perspective that i can latch on to until i realize something profound for myself

>>3354144
Go back and read it again.

existentialism from dostoevsky to sartre and thus spoke zarathustra (on top of each other)

saved

pic related

>>3118749

Do I need to be an alcoholic to be a good writer? I'm getting drunk every night but I don't know if I'm improving. Should I also be depressed?

Thanks.

Hey guys, I was checking out the /lit/ archive and I found a thread where a guy uploaded over 100 GB of books, articles, audio and video, "a nearly complete education in the liberal arts (sociology, history, philosophy, grammar, logic, rhetoric, etc.)"

Here's the link:
http://chanarchive.org/4chan/lit/8025/hoard-or-share

Unfortunately it was in 2010 and was put on demonoid which (as far as I know) is gone now. I haven't bemoaned lost knowledge this much since I first heard about the Library of Alexandria.

Anyone still have it and willing to share it? It looks pretty awesome.

>>2915128
Meaning in all forms is every bit as constructed as "Heart"/"Brain"-dichotomy. So your argument essentially invalidates itself.

Its time for ACTION CAMUS

Obligatory image dump

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>>2606233
I thought you'd have posted these by now.

>>2514030
I meant absolute freedom in a potential sense. I may do cocaine, for instance. Although this is a crime (which I would regard as malum prohibitum) in the eyes of the law, I have no mental dictum stating that I must not do coke.

The absurdist lives to exist. The terrible wisdom that comes with supreme indifference shows that, in a world devoid of meaning, the only thing to do is live.

How the freedom is spent is inconsequential, as what one does with freedom should be left to their discretion. Such is the nature of freedom.

can we have a stream of consciousness thread flowing?

an elevator was sanctified mid stanza underminding semantic relations and their borders. soma was the only relief for tension and surface refraction opened new doorways to pupil revelation. a digital flower discerning stigma and dogma the wheel was not invented when the egyptians built their pyramids i dont know therefore aliens

gogogo

This week's Stranger thread seems a little late.

>>2229378
List them.

>>2229382
I'm sorry, no. It was more my judgment call on y part. Their main example of contemporary lit was David Foster Wallace, and they were rather respectful actually. Its a good philosophy/sociology book for those into literature.

>>2229384
Nop.

>>2225182
Challenge accepted.