/lit/ - Literature

>"AcTuAlLy AnOn iTs gRapHitE iN yoUr peNcil nOt LeAd"

>>17763110
You’re absolutely correct. It’s all fake, made up shit with little to no effect on real history unlike mainstream religions (which make them worth studying)

I got deep into “researching” conspiracy theories and occultism until one day I realized I sounded like a complete retard, most of the things I wasted time on were based on hoaxes, and deep down inside I knew it was all fake and was just trying to impress people.

>>17763134
This 100%. It’s a fake put on

>>17669627
>Nomadic steppe pastoralist who lived primarily on raw beef and milk were rich and ate soft diets like we do

>>17589746
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>>17592088

The problem
>overthrows democratically elected socialist leader
with socialism
>funds right-wing military coup
is that it works
>installs fascist puppet government
in theory
>places economy destroying trade sanctions along with allies on newly formed socialist government, i.e. Venezuela
but it doesn’t work
>literally just fucking invades, i.e. Vietnam
in practice.
>still gets their ass handed to them

>>17439571
>The unmoved mover (Ancient Greek: ὃ οὐ κινούμενον κινεῖ, romanized: ho ou kinoúmenon kineî, lit. 'that which moves without being moved')[1] or prime mover (Latin: primum movens) is a concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause (or first uncaused cause)[2] or "mover" of all the motion in the universe.[3] As is implicit in the name, the unmoved mover moves other things, but is not itself moved by any prior action. In Book 12 (Greek: Λ) of his Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the unmoved mover as being perfectly beautiful, indivisible, and contemplating only the perfect contemplation: self-contemplation. He equates this concept also with the active intellect. This Aristotelian concept had its roots in cosmological speculations of the earliest Greek pre-Socratic philosophers and became highly influential and widely drawn upon in medieval philosophy and theology. St. Thomas Aquinas, for example, elaborated on the unmoved mover in the Quinque viae.

recommend a recent /lit/ enthusiast some good introduction poetry. Had a look on the geocities but had no idea where to start

i wanna feel shit
>tfw depressed as fuck

hope youre having a good day bros

>>16539173
>muh generational horoscope

>books

>>16508982
>NoFap

>freud's theories have been disproven

>>16443306
>eidos = imagination

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>>16386060
>heh I called him a pussy on 4chan I really put that righting uncle in his place

>literature is just philosophy lel

Some guys spent their entire fucking lives studying latin and the classics. they analysed several different translations of a text, identifying problems, thinking of solutions. they knew the text and its possible meanings intimately. they toiled for years and years perfecting their craft and preparing their books.
then some 4chud retard, who couldn't know what the latin classics were meant to say even if he was hit in the head with them says:
>hurr translations bad
go fuck yourself. the only way you can gather some self-esteem is by creating meaningless barriers for the access of some piece of language which is not nearly as cryptic as you make it sound.

Yes, read the fucking translations. The only reason you should bother learning latin is for academic production, if you're in this area - but if that was the case, you'd already know it.

>muh generational horoscope

>>16291621
>The only solution is a world government

>>16258491
>it’s acshually da white supremacists
How’re you people real?

>>16213670
>my meme e-intellectual daddy who hasn't had an original thought in his life and who no one has cared about for years (besides fellow terminally online e-grifters and some rich techno-faggot on a LARP) is totes the future and anyone who thinks otherwise is just a meanie troll

>>16163345
>he takes fiction seriously

>>16118476
>Silly hylics, I am a Gnostic, and this means I am an enlightened spiritual warrior who has transcended frivolous material desires by possessing knowledge(as you can tell by my identification as a gnostic) which I have purchased a gaming PC and internet in my studio apartment I pay rent for with my job at Wendy's so I can spread my wisdom and knowledge.

books to help me stop being a brainlet?

>Universally that person's acumen is esteemed very little perceptive concerning whatsoever matters are being held as most profitable by mortals with sapience endowed to be studied who is ignorant of that which the most in doctrine erudite and certainly by reason of that in them high mind's ornament deserving of veneration constantly maintain when by general consent they affirm that other circumstances being equal by no exterior splendour is the prosperity of a nation more efficaciously asserted than by the measure of how far forward may have progressed the tribute of its solicitude for that proliferent continuance which of evils the original if it be absent when fortunately present constitutes the certain sign of omnipollent nature's incorrupted benefaction.

>Adam Curtis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1bX3F7uTrg