/lit/ - Literature

Hello, lit. My friend is an atheist man with mental disability and he frequently complains about the Bible and Jesus Christ randomly to people who don’t really care and never asked. He has roughly a sixth grade education and has never read any book more complicated than Thomas the Tank Engine. What are some nice books I can gift him?

what, ho, cunts! The previous debate subject was a disaster, so I have even less expectations for this one:

Writers writing their dreams, and the error of this.

I recognize that with lack of practice comes extreme lack of skill and originality; I wrote my first book at age 10 and it was shit, it was a gathering up of local media images which had sponged into my preformed brain, and an iteration of these things, copying what I had gleaned. Nothing more. I do not think I comprehended this until perhaps 16 and realized the error, but I do not think I became able to write "on my own" - that is: with no influence at all or audience in mind to tailor to - until I was at least 28.

My point here is that that brain takes a long time to break away from the influences around it to be able to truly perceive with clarity and speak and think with ones own senses; having sandblasted away all external influences, and I do not believe anybody readily comes to this; for variety of obvious reasons why (culture-conform, marketing), but herein is the reasoning why 'we' assay 100% of given media and within the first sentence of scene we can predict the ending and the story, as for those self-same reasons which have gone into the influence of he writer, consciously (they have tailored themselves with psychological trickery to snare the brain like a fish in a hook) or unconsciously (they are deeply enthralled to the influences and their brain remains like a sponge).


I have noticed that most of the most informative authors that I found some sense in, throughout my entire adult life, happened to be men who were not jobbing writers, but who were other things, and who wrote merely for their own amusement. I think this is a key in the development in rhetoric as to detect and cauterize that "debased orator" within the self, as it does show that real cognizance in the sense of the society of polymaths of the future that one can only think at all when the sterilizing influences have been peeled away in slabs of bloody flesh - when one truly does not care.

I am reminded, somewhat more deeply of the Roman concept of Virtue which was a knife.

it is thus, i have come to conclude, with satire and virtue; the greatest saints are the satirists, the greatest homily is mockery of the absurd ever-present idiocies that go-on in the land of idiots.

My personal favorite book :)

>>21977375
fucking easy just cheat and write a shit essay utilising my method: Long Introduction, Point - Evidence - Conclusion x3, Long Conclusion which is just the evaluating the introduction in respect of the three PEC lazy sections.
Works up to like 3000 words and just use wikipedia and the bibliographies of some relevant books from the library.
Being an intellectual fraud is easy, university is for fucking morons, I wish I never went because paying for so called education is a sign of stupidity that I have to live with forever.

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>>21379432
I really do think it's interesting to see the span of different types of thought held by other users of a discussion board I interact with daily.
I'm legitimately looking at every post and imagining what the person behind it might be like. Keep them coming, boys.

>I want to learn everything that would be essential for me.

Sorry you want to be left with literally 5 books in the entirety of existence and shun the rest of literature because you were born an pre-enlightened rick and morty reddit atheist that knows everything already.

Kys and reincarnate loser, you're doing reality a disservice by staying here.

Why does God forgive our sins?
Why didn't he forgive other people's sins before Jesus came?

>>12326166

Why do people still discuss this hack when he was btfo'd by his own contemporaries within like 10 years of releasing the Critique of Pure Reason?

Pic related.

Seriously though this sort of thing doesn't even really phase me anymore. You stop caring once you accept that certain people are always, always going to inject politics into every detail of their lives and what they present of themselves. We love to throw around the phrase "virtue signalling" a lot but sometimes it's the exact label necessary. Ask yourself: if this thing was not linked to politics, would people care? Would it be at the front of an app that a lot of people use? No. It's all noise meant to keep your head ringing. Chatter, static.

>>9797390
>>9796412

Is your life bettered by dismissing all ideas by leftists and women?

Certainly there is a draw to blame the evils of the world on a tribal conspiracy, that your group are those with free will and and the rest can safely be dehumanized (or if not subhuman, at least inhuman and the enemy) but where does that get you?
Fascism has had it's day in the sun and carries such a stigma now that, regardless of what you see in it, it will not be tolerated by the public

I hope that you find a better path than some reactionary americanized Christianity - for your own sake and for /lit/

We have this thread every fucking day. I refuse to believe you motherfuckers don't do this to deliberately stirr up shit.

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>>9236857
>I don't believe in "Progress" full-stop.

That must be nice.

>>9211417

>>9207967
get help

>>9186137
e-readers are the worst culprits. I find far more typos and misprints in ebooks than in print.

Hell, I was reading a novel recently (ebook) that was missing entire paragraphs.

Contacted Amazon, who told me to contact the publisher. The publisher's response was basically, "sucks to be you".

>>9154384
I usually have a short story collection going at the same time as a novel. The collection gives me a break from the novel if I need it.

>>8909858
>advertising your fallacious logic
we knew but we didn't know you don't know and now we know you don't know.
good job.

>>8886605
This guy is obviously either an idiot or an extremely poor troll. Pic related.

Anyway, OP, I haven't read the book yet, but I've seen good write-ups about it on /lit/ and on other boards. It's on my to-do list. I'm a recoving catholic, so I'll post in a few weeks once I've finished the book.