/lit/ - Literature

>>21796335
>Which soliloquies have you committed to memory?

Only 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow', etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LDdyafsR7g&ab_channel=petrogulak

I used to know 'to be or not to be' but that was way back in highschool.

>>21778619
An atheist pseudo intellectual from reddit or 4chan gets brain damage from SSRI antidepressants in a way which very, very significantly reduces the amount of joy he can get from the pleasures that serotonin is correlated with in neuroscience, as well as permanently numbing his dick. He comes to the conclusion that he will strongly pursue oxytocin pleasures (love) as that is his only real brain-pleasure alternative left in his life. Eventually, through hard work, this leads to him becoming extremely loving, forgiving, and self sacrificing to the point that the novel sort of reveals an irreligious path towards Christlike love that is completely without Christ or any need to sacrifice one's pursuit of their own happiness.

>>21675052
You're really making a lot of assumptions about the people who will turn out to be 'on the right side of history'.

>>21636872
Speaking from a background of having read and enjoyed both, people like it because classic literature is simply of better quality than genre fiction--not that there's anything especially wrong with it.

One of the objective reasons to understand that the classical is better isn't because it is a superior genre of writing (it isn't,) but that those who are still read today were such great writers that they're still actually relevant even centuries after they have died. The bad stuff has simply been filtered out, leaving only the geniuses.

>>21512357
Listen, if you want to argue about literature, I'm more than happy to participate. Something tells me you're not particularly well read, as you're steering conversation away from actual writing at every chance you get. Now, if you want to resort to baseless ad hominems, I'm more than happy to engage with that, too.

You're a fucking dumb shit navel gazer who's never had an ounce of pussy in his life. Youre unread, unlikeable, and lacking in any iota of charisma that would pan out in anyone wanting to spend time with you. I'd ask your whore of a mother what she thought of your disappointing existence, but I wouldn't understand her anways because her lips would be tickling my pubes. So shove off to your degenracy somewhere and send me a postcard from your mother, yeah faggot?

>>21285397
>Slit your fucking throat.
>>21285451
>Slit your fucking throat
>>21285473
Slit your fucking throat
>>21285500
>Now slit your fucking throat.

Islam means peace.

>Tolkien largely based his world on a Finnish epic, even including a constructed language heavily influenced by Finnish
>he was absolutely open about this

I don't see any problem. He didn't say anything to the contrary, as if he were saying he made everything up on its own. Also, what he made with these inspirations was entirely unique, and Tolkien will be remembered as being extremely original, literarily speaking.

Why don't you accuse him of stealing LotR's Christian concepts from the Bible and infantilizing them as well?

>>20927233
>I don’t understand how Tolkien deals with the problem of evil in his fictional theology

iirc his thing was that evil did not actually exist, rather it was just the lack of good. For example, instead of using the word evil in cases where it may be justified, he will instead use 'shadow' or 'darkness', in that these two things are the lack of light, not their own thing, and such is his understanding of evil.

>>20686103
Terror Management Theory

Evolutionary Psychology

The Selfish Gene

Behaviorism (B.F. Skinner)

Piaget's Cognitive Constructivism

Perennial Philosophy

Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche

Sartre

Husserl's phenomenology
Existential Psychology/Humanistic therapy

Psychology of the Unconscious, Carl Jung
Math and physics

Every human behavior is centered around escaping death. Sex, politics, religion. Everything. Every belief you have consists of a fear reaction to repress the horrifying existential terror of death. Every belief, behavior, action - even your daily thoughts are based on repressing the idea of death

The literal oneness of all things, which renders time and space as illusory, as well as many other things, is the solution to all paradoxes and I challenge the rest of /lit/ to name a single one that isn't solved by it.

To value gives pleasure. To see what one values is pleasure. To hear what one values is pleasure. To feel what one values is pleasure.

To serve another without the expectation of recompense causes one to value or to further value that Other, and to value is pleasure.

To consistently serve that Other is to begin to value oneself or to value oneself more, and to value is pleasure.

To broaden the range of those you value in life, through service without the expectation of recompense, is to value more of that which is in your life. To value what is in your life more is to value one's life more, and to value is pleasure.

To broaden the range of those you are willing to serve to the point of universal valuing is to value life itself more, and to value is pleasure.

To value all that is in life is to value all that you experience, and this pleasure is to be described as love and beauty.

BASED.

it's comfy, but comfy is a buzzword

Hamlet, Macbeth, and Horatio

>>19772695
nice

>>19583649
Thanks, anon.

>>18432044
The Kalevala

Is Orlando Innamorato worth a read if you've already read Orlando Furioso?

>>17984947

>>17860108
The ending to Ramesh Menon's novelization of the Mahabharata made me feel proud to be a human being.