/lit/ - Literature

handsome youthful Joyce

>1. Do you play an instrument? If so, what do you play and can you read music?

No

>2. Do you drive? If so, what do you drive?

No

3. What's your level of education? What do you study?

Highschool and JC dropout. I casually study everything I'm interested in

4. What are you reading? Why? Good?

Arms and The Dudes. I'm interested in real world crime. Good

5. Your view on God.

God is a byproduct of existence, ultimately unconscious it's the purpose of humanity to give conscious to Him

6. Your view on the human self, its existence/ non-existence and importance to life without reducing your answer to a discussion of its evolutionary importance.

I don't believe in a self and think this is a good thing

7. Your favorite landscape that you've actually laid your own eyes on.

Somewhere in Hawaii, Cancun? My ex's ruined room while she was supporting me?

8. Saddest moment of your life in one sentence.

I realized people no longer love me

9. Drink/ smoke?

Yeah

10. Hunt/ fish?

..

Taking for granted objective reality, yours is a definite position within that, and it should go that there is a definite purpose for a person
I think it's evident and something we unconsciously strive for, but consciously ignore, or even shun
To quote the hebrew book of creation - there is nothing in goodness above pleasure and there is nothing in evil below pain
Pleasure is the purpose, and it's something most efficiently gained through power
It's a quality unique to life, and I believe life's purpose to strive for power - the end goal, and personification of which, being omnipotence. Godhood

If everything is God's will, then God could best be defined by nature. This is unconscious and decidedly lacking
I think our purpose is to bring consciousness to God, effectively becoming it

The book of Samuel is really telling; when Saul became anointed, he spoke to the crowd with God's words, and the crowd moves as one. Being annointed is, simply put, like being God, and it comes with the ability to unite people under you, effectively becoming an extension of you; becoming you

The purpose of man is to unite other people (which are, coincidentally the biggest source of power. Remember power being a purpose of life), changing oneself in the procees, becoming more like God and effectively making others do the same

>I almost punched a fucker in the face today
It's a good thing you didn't, you came close to being a little interesting

>Our time together was...weird
Shut up, shut up, shut up

Tfw you're head and shoulders above most on this board in terms of genius

>The car came to a stop along the curve of the winding road. We were completely alone, and not just alone in the sense of being trapped on a snowy road miles away from people, but alone in our hearts, our souls, and our utmost deepest feelings.

You're making it too clear that you're presenting this, instead of letting it present itself. You're almost being too invasive

>The car came to a stop, leaving only the faint sound of the howling wind and, louder, the clicks of the engine preparing for slumber.
Or some shit
Let the details speak for themselves. Let it foreshadow the mood,
>The snow outside was almost blinding. Miles away from people, a dull pang lodged in the back of my throat and there came an increasing realizatio that our isolation was something far greater than it would've appeared to an outside observer
>Though this was a feeling I suspect we both shared, it did nothing to unite us; trapped in that car, we couldn't have been farther apart


Learn to leave things unspoken, describing too much is underwhelming and redundant

Quit describing so much and start experiencing

Bullshit
The presence of women isn't shown to bring anything beneficial to anything other than social settings or a bedroom. Considering the misplaced sense of pride and purpose a lot of younger women have today, it would probably be counterproductive

Why does no one talk about the decided like of cultural identity young men today are faced with

Why were the masculinity and God vs Satan threads just deleted?

The whole concept of new sincerity is just a play on pop culture; meta for the sake of meta; form over substance

>no one reads the writing I post on lit

Here:
>>6637413
Curious to your thoughts on these 3

>tfw no one can beat you in a philosophical argument

The level of social maturity on this board is a joke

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/05/finnegans-wake-china-james-joyce-hit?CMP=share_btn_twc

I think the literary Anglosphere just got btfo. How does that make you feel, /lit/?