/lit/ - Literature

>>19871137
> t. picrel

The Modern French tend to be pretty ridiculous (with the odd exception like Camus), but the more ancient ones like Pascal tend to be quite good.

>>19596558
No, son. All history is the byproduct of boredom.

refute pascal's wager

> and my triangle!
> any one interested in a wager?

>The only thing that consoles us in our miseries is diversion and is in itself the greatest of all our miseries. For it is the main hindrance preventing us from thinking about ourselves and leads insensibly to our destruction, without it we should feel weary, and this feeling of weariness would compel us to seek a more solid means to escape from it. But diversion amuses us and brings us to the grave by imperceptible advances.

>Men, not being able to find a remedy for death, misery, ignorance, have taken counsel to banish thought about these in order to secure their own happiness.

>Nature, making us unhappy in all conditions of life, our desires picture to ourselves a happy state by adding to our state the happiness of the state in which we are not; and even if we could attain to these pleasures we should not be happy, for in that case we should have other desires conformable to this new state.

>Imagine a number of men in chains, all condemned to death, some of whom are executed daily in sight of the rest; then those who are left see their own fate in that of their fellows, and, regarding each other with sorrow and without hope, wait till their turn comes: this is a picture of man’s condition.

Well fuck me. Life is indeed terminal suffering.

>>14496491
read the sticky

>>14485891
pascal's wager

The Game:
>Bet with your life that God either exists or does not
What would you choose?