/lit/ - Literature

>>12273389
>decide to lift weights
>muscles start hurting after 15 minutes or so
that's respectable for a lot of reasons anon
most people wouldn't be able to make it so far
pace yourself, take notes, and re-read
proud of u

t. kantian

>>11736639
that sounds like an issue you gotta work through
make some art, make some friends, let time work its magic
you'll find the one sooner than you realize
i wish you all the best anon, stay safe and practice self-care

>>11617756
>>11618029
If you enjoy writing, write.

If you enjoy reading, read.

If you want to take your writing and reading to the next level, enroll in a course or two at your local community college.

If you want to be an average looking girl, lose weight and take hormones.

You can do it, anon. All it takes is work.

I believe in you.

>>11147196
Adding to >>11147272

>women
Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Plath, Munro, O'Connor

>POC
Borges, Cervantes, the Greeks, Adichie

>LGBTQ+
Cather, Wilde, the Greeks again (esp. Sappho & Plato)

I support you in your attempt to broaden your horizons, & encourage other anons to do the same.

>>11119486
>>11128580
Little Brain
>Pynchon is lurking.
Regular Brain
>Pynchon posted, pretending to be an anon wishing him a happy birthday.
Big Brain
>Pynchon posted an ironic response to the birthday wishes.
Bigger Brain
>Pynchon posted a sincere response to the birthday wishes.
Even Bigger Brain
>Pynchon was OP.
Biggest Brain
>Pynchon has been Jeff Magnum Died for Your Sins the whole time.

Happy belated birthday, you namefagging fuck.

>>10236453
>So we can agree that it's preferable that none of us want to die.
Nope. Suppose I, in a sober and unemotional moment, do some thinking, and decide I'd really like to kill myself. This has happened before, and will happen again.

>From there we can extrapolate to say that any action that causes conflict ending in physical pain to another party or yourself is detrimental to society and deemed a universally preferable behaviour.
This has nothing to do with a preference not to die. Consider chemotherapy, which is extremely painful to the patient, and takes an emotional toll on the doctor. Even if we assume your ridiculous "death-is always-bad" premise, your conclusion doesn't follow, because it rules out chemotherapy.

Molymeme is a mess.

>>9597736
The image wasn't meant to illustrate my point, I just thought it was funny. If you want the full luck counterexample, it goes something like this:
>imagine a hypothetical mine where diamonds are buried, always in clusters of two
>there's no way to prospect for the diamonds, so finding them is just chance; the odds of finding a pair of diamonds are 50/50
>the expected value of a day's work is 1 diamond; according to the LTV, this should align with the fruits of any individual worker's day
>two workers enter the mine, both equally capable, well-fed, etc. (fulfilling the "ordinary circumstances" portion of the LTV)
>one finds 2 diamonds, one finds 0 diamonds
>according to the LTV, 0 diamonds = 1 diamond = 2 diamonds

Unless you believe that statistics are false, then the LTV falls apart when chance plays a role in production. Real-life cases of this exist, like crop yields — two farmers can do exactly the same thing to two fields of wheat, but unknowns can make one field yield more than the other. By the LTV, the two unequal yields would be equal.

The easy counter-argument here is that you should go out on more days and measure the average yield over a worker's career, but even then, discrepancies will exist, and you'll get something like
>9998 diamonds = 10000 diamonds = 10005 diamonds
which is still wrong, and, when dealing with something as valuable as a diamond, wrong enough to matter.

>t. center-rightman