/lit/ - Literature

>>19633988
>Reading that shit in the current year

>>19019125
I considered several issues with the concept of Good & Evil:

1.) The most apparent is that our moral value judgement system is relative according to our own beliefs and values. You might think cannibalism is evil, for example, but what if we lived in a society that just ate people as a form of extreme social Darwinism? You might think its evil to harm someone or inflict pain, but what if the ultimate goal is to make that person stronger? There's no "evil" that can be left untouched by realising society, people, and individual observation and reflection assigns arbitrary values in relativity, usually according to whats most functional for the situation and related goals.

2.) Just because society or a majority of people collectively agree on something doesn't mean its "evil" or "good". After all, people can make mistakes and humanity develops. There's obvious examples in the past, and considering the prior argument in (1), and this argument, we can never know for sure if we're evil or good. For example, its obvious to state something like "slavery is evil", yet, when we consider the developmental history of civilisation itself, we've gotten it wrong plenty of times, so who's not to say we got it wrong by labelling slavery as evil? Humanity is constantly drunk on its own progress saying "ahah! I've got it!" when that's only one step.

Not that I actually think slavery is good or healthy, but you can begin to realise alternative arguments to developing civilisation and humanity in consideration of slavery obviously. I just wanted to elucidate a typical example of something most people accept as evil, when the developmental history of the human race and morality suggests we can never know if something was truly evil or good, if you really think about it.

All you can do is accept the ever shifting tapestry of existence and being

>>18145586

No
Once you have sex you forfeit all freedom and become a slave to women
Women only want two things to control and frustrate men and how do you think they get that
Sex is the only instrument of power women have and this is why they hate incels because they are unpredictable and beyond their control as opposed to a man who has had sex and thus has been "initiated" he is "trustworthy" i.e. beholden to women for life
The thing that women fear above all else is the volcel the true ubermensch who will never bow to them

>>17376073
>can you increase your IQ?
there's better ways to measure 8btelligence than IQ, but to answer your question, yes.
>How?
Add to your routine brain exercises like Dual n back, chess, rubik's cube, mental multiplication.
If you want to hack your body, do lentation exercises and practice soft martial arts, the style depending on your goals.
Also do hakalau, mantra, and transcendent meditation.
One of the best routes to really hack your body and mind is doing the gateway hemisync program by Robert monroe. He invented OBEs.
Don't listen to retards like >>17376086. The occult serves the occult. Unless you want to remain a slave, avoid anything that is associated with "magick".
If you're interested in science, check out alchemy.
If you're interested in superstition, check out hellenistic astrology.
Those two are the oldest sciences in human existence.
Just keep in mind that they're just tools at the end of the day.

I refuse to read a book that isn't actually in print

>>15995402
>politicization is stifling to creativity
A work can have a political stance, but it must be able to stand on its artistic and aesthetic merit alone. The more clear-cut the author's intent is, the closer you are to just writing an embellished manifesto.

>>15967904
noooo... but if u read for 8 hours for example, does it strain?
i can look at it but cant hold it at store for 8 hours right

>there are people out there that didnt start with the greeks

Systems Analyst is the most /lit/ career.

All tripfag niggers need to fucking hang
All attention whores should be shot
All contrarian pseud discord trannies should be beheaded

>>13252593
The strumpets in their habitat.

>morals
There is no objective morals. Most morals are put into people by the environment they live in and therefore can be easily lost. Are they my morals? If others do not care for me, why should I care for them? Who will take care of me then? If I am so busy caring for others. Take the egoist pill anon. Is it immoral for a tiger to eat it's prey? Why should I worry about my nature then?

This is what happens when you try to incorporate too many good habits at once. I tried getting in shape, fixing my diet, meditating, nofap, waking up early and all that shit all in the same day and hit a wall after about a week. I did this multiple times and it never worked so a I picked only one and stuck with it. Went to the gym but still fapped like mad and ate disgusting food. Once gym habit stuck(this might take a couple of months) I started cleaning up my diet. Now I got those two down (it took me 2 years for two habits, I'm a piece of shit, I know) but now I can't stop. I will literally miss lose sleep to work out.
Realize you're human, not some super spartan warrior with discipline of steel. Everyone's a lazy piece of shit since there's so much easy instant gratification on the internet. It feels almost counterproductive doing something that is less rewarding in the short run but that is just your dopamine overdosed brain. Take one step at a time, realize it's ok not to be 'all dat' as long as you're trying.

>>12866565
i was being serious. learn something about religion and philosophy before rejecting it out of hand, silly. and the bible and other sacred texts are most definitely literature.<span class="fortune" style="color:#6023f8">

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> nuance
> Kafkaesque
> multifaceted
> Neoliberal
> Orwellian

>>12785394
The point is to have a place to borrow books and sit and read. Why would the internet nullify this?
>inb4 e-books

>>12778880
>actual hedonist
Sorry to hear. I hope you enjoy your life and stop caring so much about others.

>woman author