/lit/ - Literature

>>13366227
Friends tell me I’m smart and that I should be a teacher

>>13272507
There’s your nonexistence stretching back in in infinite time before you were born, and there’s more of the same stretching out into the future after you die.
Why are you in such a hurry? The stubbed toe hurts? The heart feels bludgeoned? These are only aspects of life. Go feel and experience the nicer aspects while you still can.
Death is meaningless. Life is everything.
Enjoy.

>>13159332
Ideally you will want to skip the whole thing, as it is a big waste of time and energy.

You'll get more out of Gilgamesh in a fraction of the time.

>>12871327
You will be a memelord for two to four years

there was a thread about with topic of why violence is viewed as inherently bad. Which was taken down for whatever reason (probably a good one)
anyways i was in an argument with some no-nothings who thought competition and selection are vital to life and evolution.
i gave the example of ocean biodiversity being an example, of how competition is mostly a phenomenon of spatial partitioning and how life would diversify perfectly fine, actually at a much higher rate in absence of competition for scare resources.
this dummy gave me a snide "stopped reading" brainlet wojak response. So here i am compelled to share some (scientific) literature to explain what i was talking about. Unfortunately /lit/ is the place for that because /sci/ is too ignorant to actually discuss scientific literature. Ideally /sci/ would also be the place to discuss academic philosophy, but it isn't that way due to uniformed board organization.
anyways my example included a few things, how space in marine ecosystems was more full of life due to the spatial extension of water compared to air. Also how competitive exclusion is more of a quantification, and the philosophical consideration of competition shows its is expansion and not competition itself that produces the phenomenon of competition.

This brings out old debates between Darwin and Lamarck, Hobbes and Kropotkin. all kinds of things applicable for inputs from literary fiction, social theory, ect. so please lets discuss literature pertaining to these questions, such as Kropotkin's Mutual Aid contra Hobbes's Leviathan. speculative discussion of how the Hobbesian "might makes right" right worldview is factually wrong, from both poetic and analytical approaches. I've already shown how (predominately) right wing co-ops of evolutionary theories to justify their political world view are pseudo-scientific. I can continue to do so. Also interested in showing how hypocritical it is for someone to adopt a Hobbesian vantage and maintain they also subscribe to Christian/traditional systems of belief. So any input on how Christian/Eastern traditions(besides Confucianism) are all about the love would be appreciated. As an epic science guy that is out of my expertise but im certain that Hobbesian and Evolaesque worldviews are antithetical to actual tradition. This is explicit in Hobbes who begins with the supposition that humans are mere mechanistic automatons, though is much more hypocritical in people like Evola. Also interested in how Nietzsche's views on Will to Power are necessarily aligned with viewing competition as a product of action and not the driver of action. Somewhat counter-intuitive until you consider it more deeply.

>>10009322
This isn't very nice feedback anon. Try to be more constructive.

>>6313302
>Not collecting Berry nice girl

>>6181978
s4s.