/lit/ - Literature

>submitting a story to a rag that advertises on /lit/

You might as well just print the story out and light it on fire.

When it comes down to it, I don't want to have sex before marriage because I don't want to fucking have kids before I'm married. The idea of accidentally fathering a child bothers me immensely. I'm anti-abortion so I'd never make the girl abort it, and then I'd have to pay child support for 18 years. Fuck that. Staying a virgin is worth it to avoid that drain on my bank account, and the terrible awkwardness of being some loose slut's baby daddy.

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It never occurs to any fucking Millennial or Zoomer that their ideas aren't original. They were taught all their lives that they are "gifted," that they are "special," that they are "unique." It never dawns on any of them that, maybe, the questions they have about Christianity are questions people had decades, centuries, even millennia ago, and that those questions have been debated and answered before their father's father's father's father's father's father's father was born.

I think he has offered pretty good advice to young men who grew up without father figures. That said, it seems clear that he has not done enough reading about postmodernism, poststructuralism, and many of the other things he rails against. His "debate" with Zizek was very telling, on this point. Basically I like him but he needs to stop talking about things he does not know enough about, at least until he's done the proper reading.

>albums

I'm a pretty big poetryfag but this is the wrong approach. Everybody likes to say "Poetry was ancient music!" but this is not really correct. If there was ever any musical accompaniment to ancient poetry, it was just the strumming of a lyre, or perhaps a lute made of bone. Not full-blown musical instrumentation.

In the poetry of Homer, or Hesiod, or Theocritus, the words themselves carried pride of place. The recitation of poetry involved the actual poems being recited in a way that meant nothing overshadowed them. There was SOME musical accompaniment, but it was very spartan.

Modern-day musical albums place a much heavier emphasis on the music, the instrumentation, than they do upon the lyrics. In fact, there's a large extent to which you can listen to a modern album without caring about the lyrics of the songs at all. This means it is not the same.

>tfw weight has been stuck stubbornly high for weeks

I am really annoyed, I need to lean out but I'm also trying to hold on to muscle gains. Getting old sucks, it was easier to lose weight when I was still in my 20s.