/lit/ - Literature

im finally going camping after having not gone in ages. feelin pretty good. I bought robinson crusoe like 2 years ago because i was planning on sitting on a nice beach and reading it, and now i will finally get to it.

my diary desu

Determinism is true! It's all in the hands of God almighty.

>be me
>be reading up on free will
>realise Determinism is true and there is no free will
its so liberatng bros

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>mfw the flashbacks hit

>>18207068
I've been depressed my whole life but for the first time I feel a genuine feeling of peace and happiness. My parents never taught me any life lessons and were always so emotionally distant from me and raised me on the 'children are meant to be seen and not heard' mentality. They also tended to never teach me about emotions and feelings and how to express them and all I taught myself was to cut myself off from it. I have never known a single thing about myself outside of the superficial my whole life and while I still don't know myself, I feel happy knowing that I can now. I basically had to raise myself and because of that I've never had friends, never had a relationship, never really experienced life. For so long I've been beating myself up, trying my hardest to bottle everything up inside, and force myself into situations I dreaded. Constantly had thoughts roaming my head that wouldn't shut up no matter what form of logic I tried. But now, now I feel more in control of who I am, even the voices are gone. And, hopefully one day, I can see what life is truly like when I'm fully connected with myself. I don't know what that looks like, but I want to know. I want to live.

>>18062694
Who needs benzos when you can read the Tao Te Ching?

>>17899146
>Be me
>25
>Never had a GF
>Never had sex
>Never held another's hand
>No genuine friends
>Been a doormat for most of my life
>Realized I've been living for the validation of others
>Realized I pretty much have no idea who or what I am and am unsure if the things I enjoy and believe are things I truly enjoy and believe in or are merely things I use to make others happy to be around me
>Never been happier
It's strange... really strange. You'd think I'd be so sad but I can't help but be happy to find out who I am and what I really enjoy. I genuinely feel like an individual for once.

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I'm moved by your love. Thank you, brothers. God bless you.

>>17567857
>have gone though the darkness you can now see the light more clearly. I am the same why. I spent four months with drawling from nicotine and now I have these satori moments of beauty and understanding.

> never had to cling to an absolute degenerate loser like JBP's every word because I have a caring father and my parents love each other
Feels exquisite bros

All the outrageous and retarded shit you read is just another person’s cringe phase. Be patient with others and stay self-assured

It's beautiful up here, dudes.

>>16728688
True, have you read "A Simple Soul"? Very comfy story

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>>16475831
this.
>Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Post some good short story anthologies.

Would you rather be a great artist or be happy?

Are there any books about resisting urges of degeneracy or doing good and not doing the bad? Like I've been having issues with going after females who are bad influences on me, friends who are bad influences, masturbation, etc. I want to know if there's a book about stopping this urge for degeneracy, or what's causing it.

>>15257906
Hey, good on you anon. I genuinely mean that.

>>15258082
I’m a white American and I came to Islam after getting burned out on being a nihilistic degenerate so I began studying religions and arguments for God and eventually started learning Arabic before taking shahada a few years later.

>Deleuze finally clicked

It's all a tangle, you know? You're born, strung up and then sent on your way down the street, past all the streetlights and power cables, all the urban flora and fauna- and slowly it all starts to melt into a depressed sort of blur, and it takes a while for you to realise you've been winded along the way. No more preadolescent wonder, you're all wrapped up now, and you're getting caught on things.

And hey, we're all crumbling, and we're all wrapped up in twine, lost souls in a meat cage. Soul isn't the right word, but you get the conceit, I hope, I think. It's tiring, all this. I shouldn't need to eek out some extravagant metaphors to tell you all that, despite it all, I understand- I get it. I'm right here with you, even if it doesn't feel like it. We're all travelling different highways, but our destination is the same. Whatever. The great unravelling will happen to us all, in time. When you spin a rouge strand of cotton or spandex around your finger and stop the blood flow, the blood flows right back when you cease the pressure. That's all this is.

Good luck to you all, and don't unravel too soon

I've seen truth, bros. I won't even try to explain, it trandescends language, I just hope all of you do as well one day. I pray you will.

Why do ath*ists assume they can refute Christianity without even living it? And why are all ath*ists on the verge of mental illness and breakdown?