/lit/ - Literature

>>12235102
Oh awesome, I've actually been reading a bit of Weber lately in prep for my Masters, so I have two questions.

Firstly, Weber talks about how social action is mediated by the subjective meaning that people attach to certain things. My question would be, where does Weber consider this meaning to originate from? Is it apprehended individually through perception, or is it inculcated by the collective, or a bit of both? Whenever I read Weber, it just seems that his analysis just starts in the middle of a social process and then offers no hint at how it begins.

Secondly, related to the first, what texts of Weber's should I read to understand his philosophy of subjective reality?

>>12211535
>tfw i made that original shitpost

>>12193679
lol

>>12165930
>>12166312
>>12165755
shit anon, this is damn good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ifMZotkh4

kind of reminds me of like, a less atonal Prokofiev

>>12132867
Ya just show up, they love newcomers in my experience.

I'm pretty spoiled with my church though: high energy band, thoughtful and intelligent pastor, high rate of offerings donated to charitable outreach, mission trips.
They've done more to deepen my faith than any book would have.

My point is, if you give church an honest shot and still don't feel like you'd want to go back again, you're going to the wrong church. Id recconmend you keep looking, and don't give up.
Good luck anon! Jesus loves you.

I have a friend from high school who has a seemingly idyllic life, he's not only a talented artist but is actually pretty successful at it, his gf is his high school sweetheart who he still absolutely adores, he has a great relationship with his parents, loads of friends, is manages to be fairly /lit/ and /out/ on top of it. Maybe if I knew more I'd realize it's not all so great, but from my perspective he seems to be doing really well and I'm happy to know someone with such a beautiful life. Maybe I'll make it someday too.

>>12042566
The Apocalypse of St John

>>12016496

rate pls

http://paste.debian.net/plainh/fa416101

>>11985273
https://youtu.be/68Waq21QB9A

Salve, brothers. There is nothing quite like waking in the very early hours before dawn to study Latin.

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>>11910313
Great writer.
I disagree on some personal views she has, but does that matter? Not at all. I still appreciate her for influencing my childhood with her works.

Books where the MC manages to overcome self-destructive tendencies?

>>11811273
>>11811273
I am proud of you.
My counsel for you is to eat a meal of fatty fish to start out most days in order to provide energy and to help sustain your body's demand for protein. It further aids with neuroplasticity and further repair due to the DHA/EPA content. Salmon, sardines or tuna. They can serve as nourishment for a large day ahead. The largest problem lies in eating fats and protein late day and before bed. There was an old text I once read, that I'm at a loss for, theological/ascetic, that said something along the lines of "do not feed them meat until they are ready".

I avoid psychoactive substances means to pleasure or as a crutch but they are not evils of themselves, provided they are not used to hedonistic ends, and are used with a goal in mind.
Coffee can be used tactically, provided you have a full day lined up and resolve only to drink it at the start of the morning. Phenibut can be used to prevent nocturnal erections and wet dreams which is very useful in the early weeks of abstinence. They also act as catalysts, further disrupting the old default mode network to effectuate your positive changes.
In cooler weather, I sometimes find smoking a smoking a bowl of tobacco following my morning walk to be a great conduit for meditation and contemplation. This was Kant's routine and the time where he did his writing.
It is very good to eliminate sugar from your daily routine and I commend you for doing so. However, I still find buying some candy after a month of abstinence helps reinforce abstinence and reveals a newfound appreciation of how attuned you otherwise would be to such basic things. I will on very rare occasion, buy some Haribo candy after a large task as a reward.

While loosely organized, what I am getting at is that these can all serve as means and tools to prevent the far worse slip up of regressing back into the sexual state. Admittedly my motives for asceticism are more selfish than most in that they help aid productivity and further my own ends. This does not blind me from understanding a total renunciation of all pleasures for an even higher goal of a total denial of the will, should you wish to ignore my own routine and carry on with your existing one (it clearly is working).
Ascetics, sages and philosophers have long attempted to distinguish between the more base pleasures and their indulgences, which serve no end but disruptive pleasure, and the higher and more refined ones which lead to lasting contentment. Even the most extreme Western ascetic of the in the past 1000 years, Henry Suso, said:
>Question: Paul says that no law is made for the just.
>Answer: Just persons, by becoming so, conduct themselves more submissively than other people because they understand from within, in the source, what is proper outwardly for everyone, and they view all things accordingly. The reason that they are unfettered is that they do (freely) out of an attitude of detachment what ordinary people do under compulsion.

>>11678603
Yes

>>11550105
Made my fuckin day, anonymous friend.

>when you realise that true freedom is to follow Christ

>>11463801
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian."
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Exactly one year ago I was cucked. The following months were the darkest of my life, every day I felt lost in despair and hopelessness. I came pretty close to killing myself at times. I thought it was over, that I'd never be happy again.

Today is sunny and warm, I have my window open and a light breeze is carrying in the smell of flowers. The memories of the past that once hounded me every minute of the day don't bother me anymore. My depression had receded into mild pessimism. I'm enjoying working on my hobbies again. I have a budding relationship with a cute girl I met a few weeks ago. Right now I'm listening to Pet Sounds before getting ready to head for the gym. Life is good.

It can get better lads, no matter how bad it may seem. Don't give up.

>>11326009
>It's time.

We have voted to read David Foster Wallace's Infinte Jest for this Summer's group.

>What about the Don Quixote group?
DQ was a close second to IJ. People wanted to make a separate reading group for the book. Nobody's stopping you from choosing either this, but a patrician would take part in both.

Wow OP is based. Thanks for not shitting all over the other one. Very mature of you tbhf

Thank god fuck ignite jest that shit is autism incarnate. No fucking way I'm sifting through 2000 pages of pseudo-mind-fuckery for the congregation of faggots that is /lit/

Question: what happens if people post spoilers? I know that no one on the board actually reads books anyways but I'm just curious if this has been a problem in the past?

>tfw actually enjoying your work
Academia may have a ton of problems, but at the end of the day its really nice desu.

>>11247769
wholesome post