/lit/ - Literature

>>14294560
>Especially the point he made about porn tastes becoming more extreme to be stimulating.
I found the opposite. Porn made it so I couldn't even be around women IRL without uncontrollable erections. Gary Wilson is a pseud. Random poster's on /lit/ have better arguments against it than he does.

A lot of good /lit/ posters have gone away. This place isn't that great anymore. It started getting bad again with the return of butterfly circa 2018 or early 2019.

>>14123367
Midwit born into well off circumstances in the first place. The pride and arrogance is on full display in this picture. I'm only interested in people who have led lives of abject misery and suffering. If you've lived a prosperous life, you deserve to suffer severely; Plato was entirely justified in inventing the concept of eternal hell. That is the only possible rectification of misdoings here on earth.

>Secondly, tribulation takes from our hearts all affections to earthly things. When a mother wishes to wean her infant she puts gall on the paps, to excite his disgust, and induce him to take better food. God treats us in a similar manner: to detach us from temporal goods, he mingles them with gall, that by tasting its bitterness, we may conceive a dislike for them, and place our affections on the things of Heaven. ”God,” says St. Augustine, ”mingles bitterness with earthly pleasures, that we may seek another felicity, whose sweetness does not deceive.”