/lit/ - Literature

>>14099900
FOR PROTECTION

But anon I don't listen to music while reading.

>>14027272
This is just an ad-hominem. Why, anon? You are better than that, friend. I know you are committed to the truth, so why do you attack someone who points out the obvious to you?

>>13999680
>"I don't believe change is real either"

This isn't even true: you don't believe this, even if you think you do.

Anyway, if change isn't real than there is no possible argument you can give to convince anyone of your opinion, because people cannot change their opinions. There is no possible chain of reasoning that can bring you to understand anything, because you cannot change from ignorance to understanding. There is no possible way of learning anything for the same reason.

If you are correct about change, then you have always believed this about change: otherwise you would have changed. If you are correct about change, but people seem to change because we are all stuck in some kind of illusion, then that is quite a shame: we are doomed to be stuck in this illusion forever because we cannot ever change from seeing illusion to seeing reality.

If you are correct about change, then you cannot learn, cannot understand, cannot change anyone's beliefs,cannot be free from illusion, and cannot do anything at all. Enjoy being stuck in that hell.

>>13934040
What are you trying to do with this thread, OP?
Are you just trying to make people feel bad about themselves? Why? What purpose does it serve to ask people to compare themselves to someone who is successful early on?

>>13877604
Heidegger made me care for ecology
Ted taught me to hate technology
Socrates led me to critique yet accede
(in the Crito and Apology)

>>13844398
This is now a Chesterton Thread.

Bros I was reading his essays this week and, in addition to his linguistic skill (he just keeps coming up with jokes and puns) I was struck by a sense that he was probably the happiest author that I ever read.
Why is he such a bloomer /lit/?

>>13803312
>>13803985
The supposition that Aristotle in Parmenides is completely unrelated to the Aristotle who was (probably, but hard to date) a current student of Plato at the Academy at the time the dialogue was written, in a dialogue which brings up the third-man objection which Aristotle himself takes credit for just seems to me to be a brainlet take.

Like, I know the events depicted are long before Aristotle was born, but don't you think that Plato, who is always so careful about the names of his characters, just MIIIGHT have been nodding to his student who is clearly a genius? Why are people so quickly to assume that "Aristotle" in Plato's dialogue, has absolutely no relation to "Aristotle" his current student? And why do people the possibility that Aristotle, who was Plato's student and friend for twenty years MIIGHT have had some influence back upon his teacher? I can understand if you want to fiddle with the dates in order to say that Parmenides is not that late of a dialogue, but it seems a brainlet opinion to me.

>>13747245
know that feel anon

So I ironically decide to lurk the /Lit/ board

Unironically became Lit

And met a cute Lit English major

This thread just made my day

>tfw you remember that writing is about joy, it is something you love, have always loved, will always; whether you are published now, next year, or never, it won't matter, because you will be writing until the day you die, and that's not a promise you have made or will have to keep, it's only a fact that has been true thus far and will not change
>you feel relief, you forgot that art was play, and now you remember, it is all okay: write, enjoy, read, sleep

>tfw Christianity was always the answer in my life
I can't believe I was a cringy atheist in my late teens. Books for born-again Christians?

What book(s) gave you hope /lit/?

>>13504603
>just a couple months before going home

A few days ago I was sitting on a park bench, waiting. All of a sound everything clicked. I began watching the leaves on a tree gently sway in the wind, felt a light breeze gently caressing my face, the afternoon sun pouring through the branches and the clear blue sky. I closed my eyes, opened them, and felt like all the sounds of the people around me were muted and the only sound left was the rustling of the leaves. I felt an extreme sense of satisfaction, like being at peace with the world. I felt that this moment, this single moment, was worth than all the gold and diamonds on the Earth. For once in my life, I truly felt glad to be alive.

Are there any books that deal with the kamikaze pilots acceptance of death, and their decision to volunteer? As I've understood it, they usually knew that they would have to answer the call to die waay in advance, and yet they seemingly managed to go about their daily lives, as if that wasn't the case.

What makes you a good person, /lit/?

>>13483333
Reading this thread made me thankful for being a fucking normal human being

>>13456614
Just finished 'Return From the Stars' by Lem.

Amazing! The warmth of friendship and realisation of the lost ones during the expedition. And the ocean. Damn, why does majority considers 'Solaris' to be his best work? Solaris was just kind of meh-another-somewhat-good-scifi novel...
But this... Oh, this was just great!

Isnt it amazing that God feels the same amount of love I have towards my little brother towards literally everyone everywhere?
Then he gets even more amazing when I realized his level of love cant even compare to the love I hold.

Being God must be tough

>be me
>study literature at school
>ended up resenting most of classical authors
>years past since graduation
>ended up revisiting this authors
>wtf Im loving all of them

>>13395728
This is the best thing ever to have been posted to /lit/. In awe right now lads.

>WE WILL LIVE IN VILLAGES JC

>>13193075
>tfw Christian so not ashamed of my virginity

plus i'm probably going to marry my current gf