/lit/ - Literature

>>21525625
We did

>tfw you start upgrading your library to new hardcovers

I want to read Schoppi.

Buddhist btw

Post 3 LITERARY books you would like to discuss. If you see a book you’ve read posted, comment on it

Name 3 writers or books that always put you in a good mood

>>20403493
>Hs student at the time at third world yet peaceful country at a certain province
>Poor so can't afford physical books or ereaders
>live 10 minutes from a nearby library near the beach so I can just jog there every morning and read until lunch
>Have read the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe, Homer, Shakespeare, virgil and many of the important authors in western civilization all throughout HS.

Feels good man.

>the author congratulates you, the reader

I believe that life is worth the candle. Why would it be here otherwise?
I believe that evolution developed because it was Good to do so.
I believe that whatever exists after death is positive because why else would the life/death dynamic exist? Even if this means recycling or re-incarnation, it is ultimately good and for a worthwhile reason.
I believe that the architecture of the universe was curated because it was worth doing so.
I think that the fact that I can even construct these sentences on an online imageboard, word after word, moment after moment, to be indicative of a higher power who wants me to have that ability. How the hell else could I have it?
Books for this feel?
What if the universe is our friend after all?

Give me some of the best positive philosophy literature out there - already read some stoic and nihilist stuff, but interested what other areas have to say too.

>>18809012
>>I'm so glad I could read Plato and Hegel while also going outside and smashing pussy like an upstanding member of society

Hey guys. I'm about to go back to college after dropping out and NEETing it up for two years. I'm going to study Classics (classical philology, to be exact) for my bachelors (there's going to be less than ten of us, from what I've seen) and English-German translation for my masters.

What are your experiences like with Classics? I imagine it's not going to be the exact same thing as in my central euro country but it's probably moving along the same general lines, so maybe you could chime in if you have any experience or advice, I'd appreciate it.

That which we consume shapes and develops our character, our worldview, our self-image. I believe that our environment is the biggest factor that contributes to who we are. Even if it wasn't, it certainly is the one which is the easiest to change. It always seemed to me that positive, optimistic people are the happiest. So, I am looking for any literature that is celebrating and affirming life and all its joys. Any recs?

>classes are over
>time to start leisure reading again
best feeling in the world, bros.

>>18100242
>>18102248
>>18103743
Lets not forget that he was an extremeist and high IQ literal autsist so he saw the world in an entirely dispassionate, materialistic and purely logical way. A sensible exegesis is obviously that some surrogate activities are cope and just harmful (e.g. masturbating, binge drinking, excessive smoking, watching an entire series on netflix in a day, working a day job that is unironically useless but gives the impression of importance, promoting X or Y international finance backed party as a solution to all problems) but other surrogate activities are useful because they inspire the fellow man, encourage him to push the limits of what is human, build a connection with God and nurture a positive outlook of the world (e.g. art, writing, music). Are we really going to claim that these latter things are harmful and bad because they might not have an immediate use to our material needs? It's just unbridled nihilism that won't ACTUALLY help us, because the only viable and logically consistent action to take is to kill yourself.

Basically: >>18101750

what do I read to become more like this guy?

>read some entry level philosophy or self help
>life instantly gets better
damn it feels good being a midwit sometimes

>>15884617
>tfw u can still build whatever u are willing to put the effort into manifesting

>>15308074
i cant even tell you how happy this post makes me
you make me smile anon. you're off the walls, but you make me smile.

i'm now just curious: how you discovered anything else of value on this board? cut through any other lies?

i'm talking about the truth behind deep and edgy, butterfly, rapture--you know anything about the actual liars?

>>15289992
>tfw you're Alyosha and not a Smerdyakov

I am the happiest person i know.

I know exactly the way i want my life to go and I know that i have the ability to make it all happen. Everyone around me seems at a loss for purpose or utterly beaten and defeated by life and I find it hard to share my positivity without coming off like i'm mocking them, as in "dood just be happy lmao".

t. a 27 year old bloomer

PEAK INCEL-BLOOMER POEM INCOMING!

Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May—
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

Shall my foolish heart be pined
'Cause I see a woman kind?
Or a well-disposed nature
Joinèd with a lovely feature?
Be she meeker, kinder, than
Turtle dove or pelican,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how kind she be?

Shall a woman's virtues move
Me to perish for her love?
Or her merits' value known
Make me quite forget mine own?
Be she with that goodness blest
Which may gain her name of Best;
If she seem not such to me,
What care I how good she be?

'Cause her fortune seems too high
Shall I play the fool and die?
Those that bear a noble mind
Where they want of riches find,
Think what with them they would do
That without them dare to woo;
And unless that mind I see,
What care I how great she be?

Great or good, or kind or fair,
I will ne'er the more despair:
If she love me, this believe,
I will die ere she shall grieve;
If she slight me when I woo,
I can scorn and let her go;
For if she be not for me,
What care I for whom she be?

Fuck it, I'm tired of being a Doomer. What can I read to start thinking positively and become a Bloomer?