/lit/ - Literature

>tfw you realize the beginning of the book would be better now that you have the experience of reading the entire thing and that you must now do it all again

Do I really have to read all 1200 pages of the bible?
I understand going through the cannon in order but at least the Greeks were interesting, I don’t even like Christianity

>grew up being taught rationalism
>grew up being taught atheism
>grew up being taught the slave morality
>grew up being taught liberalism
>grew up being taught anti-elitism
>grew up being over-socialised
How do you deal with being raised in a modern Anglo culture? Almost everything my culture gave me was a lie, a culture is supposed to prime you with the profound truths of life but I was given sewage instead. My solution is to become a recluse and immerse myself in the Greeks and lifting while browsing 4chan to desocialise myself, what’s yours?

>tfw not intelligent enough to get into the quarterly
>ideas aren’t quite profound enough
>poetry just isn’t inspired enough
>fiction isn’t interesting enough

>my son won’t browse 4chan and prefers to browse Reddit despite my encouragement
>he’s becoming a progressive neoliberal instead of an esoteric reactionary
>he’s reading Harry Potter and John green instead of Mishima and evola
What can I do to prevent this? Where did I go wrong?

>>14059021
That image speaks volume. This is what pornography does to a man. It makes all the time he is separated from it, a time of malcontent and disquietude. The enjoyment of activities outside of the sensual delights, becomes greatly deminished if not non-existent. Tranquil walks through nature, the turning of a page of a book, are sources of frustration rather than frolic. He attempts to hew himself out a cistern laboring to get that one video, but alas, it is in vain. It is a broken cistern, capable of holding nothing lasting sans the toxic effects compelling him to do it time and again, because any pleasure that pornography provides is strictly transitory. Looking back on the immense waste of time, it has created nothing. The pleasure was passing; it was gone the moment it ended and nothing remains. It has done nothing. It has merely subjugated him to a life of pain, and rendered him a slave. Whenever you see an for that wretched website, just think, the moment it ends, the rest of your life exists in "Painhub", the level of a brute devoid of understanding, and thinking he will be content in returning to the vomit. If you are going to waste time, at least invest it in something that lasts. Knowledge. Reading. Learning. Experiences. Pornography is an absolute waste.

Be grateful you have perfect health and dexterity of motion. You don't know what you have till its gone.

> you will never have passionate, romantic sex with Ontologicool
> you will never stare deep into eachothers eyes as you bring eachother to climax
> you will never cuddle under the blanket on a cold winters night and discuss literature

>>12431242
>chapter 11