/lit/ - Literature

>>19809170
Gore Vidal wrote a Book about Lincoln

>>19530367
Not too bad. But I hate luxuries and rarely play games. Have not eaten out for 20y either. All the other stuff is true. And I'm old, obviously.

>>18943039
Depends on the age of the reader. The other works are philosophical in nature and less accessible. Zarathustra will be opaque, and, depending on the influence of Judeo-Christianity on the reader's upbringing, even off-putting. But they will come back.

>>18175303
You're coming to conclusions too quickly. I'm not even very tolerant, I just don't have the arrogance to know for sure. That's Taliban territory.

>>13219669
What he probably meant is the absence of real selflessness in nature. In the long term morality profits the individual and that's the reason it exists.

>>7555637
It's too early to say that we can't prove consciousness physically.We could be state machines in the full sense of the meaning. And I'm selecting the scientific framework only because a lot points in that direction. Like everything for 200 years.

>>6311042
Only something going against the Entropy gradient can be beautiful.