/lit/ - Literature

>>21840581
maybe start actually writing instead of posting about wanting to write

>>18532550
>doing daily reading at library
>fat boomer chick comes up and proselytizes to me her apostolic traditional church dogma
>tell her politely that I’m not interested in Godman religions and that I’m perfectly comfortable with Islam, which I explain to her is only true monotheistic religion
>she tells me Islam is like modalism in that it is a oneness cult
>I start screaming like a lunatic and acting like I’m demon possessed to scare the shit out of her
>get kicked out of library
>don’t care because it was a homeless/druggie hangout spot anyway

>Supposing that Truth is a woman— what then?

Of all the taboo statements I can possibly imagine, I sincerely belive the one we need to hear the most right now is: "Women literally weren't designed to be leaders and our societies are falling apart because we chose to forget this." This is such a hard thing to talk to anyone about. Nobody wants to hear it. It's so far behind us on the road to progress that nobody even takes the possibility seriously anymore. 500 years from now, if there are any records of it, this will be considered the thing that killed us.

>>13890035
>article from twenty years ago
What are you playing at, OP?

>>13045384
>muh liberty to stick things in my ass and nothing else
>muh economy, I mean usually fascism revitalized it but I have to fit things into my capitalism versus communism narrative
right- and left-liberals competing to generate the worst takes

>>13048267
We exceeded Weimar in terms of degeneracy a while ago but we're taking longer to build up to its level of economic dysfunction

Are there actually morons here bitching about how it 'glorifies' Igbo culture? The whole first three quarters of the book is about how it made Okonkwo into a monster. It was harsh to the Christians for colonizing and being insensitive and pompous but you're literally just looking for shit to get mad about if you think the point of the book was 'everything was perfect til white people'. It's just an interesting, sad story that takes place in an interesting setting. There's some lessons and messages in it but it's hardly about how indigenous African culture was so much better than European culture.

His entire philosophy was a narcissistic fap session to try to rationalize his own shitty personality and life choices. By all accounts, he was a rotten and selfish person, and rather than face that truth and sincerely try to become a better person, he tried to lie his way around it by building a grandiose lie.

In the end, he was only spooking himself.

>>9208261
>on /lit/

>people buy physical copies of books

what a crazy thought.

Don't be afraid to read things you associate with edgy high schoolers. You have the advantage of being old enough to tell what's bullshit without spilling spaghetti everywhere in the process.
I liked reading things that are oft spoken about here just to know what the fuck was going on. You can always re-read so don't be intimidated if you don't understand something.
I'll suggest reading something like cliffsnotes or sparknotes to help with interpretation to start with, but they are training wheels you have to drop eventually.
Get a book of short stories (I think there's a reading group doing random short stories you should join in on) they aren't intimidating and can be just as rewarding as some novels.
Read as much poetry as you can.

>Crtl + f
>best word has yet to be posted

Pernicious

>>6216187
>implying the insurgency wasn't heavily composed of foreign fighters
>implying native Iraqis didn't also fight for the coalition
>implying the Anbar Awakening didn't happen
>implying you know anything

>>6098472
What do you think about the comic? Do you think it is accurate or funny? Or are you just going to keep hiding behind epic memes?

>>5999268
It means something for many STEM degrees (not all of course)
Good luck becoming a licensed professional engineer without a bachelor of science degree in your field.
I think you need to go back to >>>/pol/.