/lit/ - Literature

>>20943910
do we really need another thread for seething over trans women? why can't you just keep your opinion to yourself?

>>16382214
po-tay-to, po-tah-to. if you can predict whether the dog will chase the stick, and be 100% accurate with the prediction, then the dog doesn't truly has a choice, and therefore it would be immoral to judge, punish, or reward the behavior of chasing the stick.

>>15135658
>essence is one with nature
Nature is created. The Divine Essence is uncreated. See Genesis 1:1, see John 1:1.

>>15135778
There is no true historical 'knowledge' apart from God and which would contradict the Holy Bible, as any such 'knowledge' would by definition be absurd for going against truth.

>>15076130
>Was my response insensitive?
A little. She probably worked really hard on that, because 300 pages is several weeks to several months of work, and being told that somebody you care about won't even read 1/6 of that can really hurt.

But as someone who's hobby is making board games, she's got awfully thin skin, for a creator. Half the time playtesting a game is nails on a chalkboard, rip off your skin painful, and the polite thing to do when you're trying to get a board game playtested, especially because you're usually asking for somewhere between 4-24 hours of human time, depending on how many people and how long you plan to sit at the table, is to accept that no one, not even your best friend, is obligated to give you feedback, let alone nice feedback, let alone useful feedback.

I don't personally understand feeling mad in her position, because that feeling has been beaten out of me, and I think it's ideal if she gets to the point where its beaten out of her faster, but I sympathize with her feeling bad about it as a newbie because it sucks when people you care about don't care about your work.

>>14517521
Unironically the Bible. Also learn to pray. Good luck, anon. May God guide your soul.

>>14461104
>russian bot

Ain't that the commie version of "discord tranny"?

People who ignore the oxford comma are weak willed scum and their work will be forgotten by history.

>>13966201
Right in broad strokes

>>13966201
A
>Secret society of literati, heavily implied to have originally been a literal
>Volunteer fire department

Which developed into having an anarchic side
>(we've read enough to want to burn shit down).

and an optimistic side
>(we've read enough to want to build shit up and stop the people burning shit down).

Which basically immediately started murdering one another.

Neither side is good though, they're just dogmatic in different ways. Both sides are implied to be insane and far off-kilter, and recruitment of non-member initiate kids is canonically by literal kidnapping and brainwashing from birth, or a very young age, followed by intensive paramilitary training in codes, combat, animal husbandry, theater, and the detection and use of poison prior to being moved into a safe house for the remainder of one's childhood-training.

>>13966226

The money is nice, and Olaf would've been very happy to have it on a day-to-day level, but his goals are strongly hinted at being revenge and societal collapse. It's heavily implied by the expanded universe that either Lemony Snicket + Beatrice or the parents of the Baudelaires killed Olaf's parents, and he's nursing a serious grudge and revenge boner (which, in the case of Violet, was also just a regular boner).

In addition, the primary goal of the anarchic side was to use the Mycelium for biological warfare as an extraordinarily fast way to burn everything down, because of it being EXTREMELY contagious, curable, but mostly only if you're in the know (And with a long time for symptoms to set in, most people wouldn't be), long-lasting (It doesn't go away after the victim's death), hardy (It can last underwater, in a sea cave, for years) and trivially mass-producible.

The sugar bowl's content, which both sides desperately wanted, contained (this part's more hazy) a dogpile of useful Macguffins: exculpatory and incriminating evidence for various members of VFD, modified sugar capable of rendering a person immune to Mycelium, a stash of Horseradish for emergency mycelium curing, and a more dangerous weapon then Mycelium.

Given the imminent plans to use the deadly mushroom, and increasing legal tension, it was a big prize, if you could have it, and letting it go uncontrolled could be absolute disaster for all further plans.