/lit/ - Literature

Is this the Wolfe thread?

Just checking in to say that I'm a third through Exodus From the New Sun and I'm very glad I didn't drop it after the travesty that was Calde. Marble has become one of my favorite characters just based on how weird her story is, Mint and Remora feel like actual characters now that they get the hostage scene, and even the Auk bullshit is tolerable now that things are actually happening.
I shouldn't have doubted you, Pringles Man.

If dubs we all die in sleep tonight

>>17105888
how long did it take you to read?
also checked

There is, objectively speaking, nothing but pleasure and pain in the world, we live in a godless void with no meaning or purpose, "God" is about as likely as a space unicorn because all the deists and theists' arguments are fucking garbage, videos like Kurzgesagt and all the mainstream sources like Reddit have lead hundreds of millions of people beginning to embrace atheistic, optimistic nihilism as the only rational way to live.

We know practically everything about the Universe, we know it is Cosmic Inflation and either an infinite cycle or it will end at Heat Death, eitherway, it will end life, no meaning, and it has no origin, leaving no origin for deists and theists' shitty arguments like "Uncaused Cause", "Contingency" or such absurdity.

There is no empirical evidence that these made up arbitrary human values like knowledge and "meaning of life" have any value beyond increasing pleasure, and if you deny the reality that pain is incomprehensibly awful all across the world, the greatest atrocity ever that must end at all cost, the observable reality too, that pleasure is all there is to it, you are deluded.

To top it all off, all the greatest geniuses in history and modernity, like Nietzsche, Elon Musk, Krauss, Hitchens, Kurzgesagt and Benatar have all been atheistic nihilists since it is the default position for rational beings that are not terrified of eternal oblivion, they know consciousness is just a bunch of information vibrating and being self-aware, there is no Hard Problem of Consciousness or "souls", you are fucking delusional to think the empirical method could be wrong when it has never failed.

The idea of philosophy and metaphysics too is also lunatic in this age of irreligious scientific enlightenment, it is objective matter now what morality is (Pleasure), what the meaning is (None), what originated the Universe (nothing).

The afterlife is self contradictory, all forms of God are self-contradictory, purpose and meaning does not exist, we are headed nowhere but maximizing pleasure with the action of ethical rational AI that will reject God too, there is nothing but pleasure. Swallow it up you weak bitch, it's just reality. All of you are unbelievably fucking retarded and can't debate. And your religions have ruined countless lives and caused more suffering than good because you unironically think humans can accomplish meaning, FUCK YOU. RELIGION IS THE SOURCE OF ALL HATE AND INTOLERANCE IN THIS DOOMED PLANET O FUCKING ARBITRARY IDIOTS.

>>15452474
Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghostwoman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler’s will. From before the ages He willed me and now may not will me away or ever. A lex eterna stays about Him. Is that then the divine substance wherein Father and Son are consubstantial? Where is poor dear Arius to try conclusions? Warring his life long upon the contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality. Illstarred heresiarch. In a Greek watercloset he breathed his last: euthanasia. With beaded mitre and with crozier, stalled upon his throne, widower of a widowed see, with upstiffed omophorion, with clotted hinderparts.
Airs romped round him, nipping and eager airs. They are coming, waves. The whitemaned seahorses, champing, brightwindbridled, the steeds of Mananaan.
probably my favorite passage of all time

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>>15417102
If you ever want to make an astrothot seethe, tell them wrong information then come clean when they do the "this totally describes you" bit.
Bonus points if they try to save face with "I knew it, that's totally something a ___ would do!" when you give your real info. If you're really a dick you can lie the second time too.