/lit/ - Literature

>>19021372
>another brainlet who thinks he's being insightful by armchair psychologizing metaphysics

>>18904645
A pseud post-modernist makes an attempt at taking down a classic by interpreting all the positives through the lens of race and anti-western ideals?

What a surprise.

Getting a job is the worst thing to happen to me. what book will convince me to quit or make me enjoy it?

>>18720351
>>18720451
This thread makes me realize how fucking indecisive and clueless I am
>arguments from christians are convincing
>arguments from other religions are convincing
>don't know who to believe
>read sacred texts and scripture
>still don't know
>ponder it on my own for two years, meditate, pray, try to change my life in various ways
>still don't know
I just want an answer. I just want the truth. I want to stop feeling anxious over the possibility I might make a mistake.

What the fuck happened to my brain?
24/7 I am only thinking
>damn I am so weak
>I am so powerless
>I can't do anything
>I could be killed right now
>My life is very difficult
How do I fix this? I literally can't take my mind away from these painful thoughts that make me weak as fuck

>>18679923
Remember, minorities can’t get ahead in America.

>except for Jews
Bu-but they are white!
>except for the Asians
Bu-but they are white adjacent! (Whatever that means
>except for Indians
Bu-bu-bu…..

>>18587485
Only if you have never shotgunned a beer and fucked a hot girl.

If you have, as I have, you’d know that it provides you no feeling of fulfillment, no meaning, not even real happiness.

That being said, its hard to believe me, if you have never done it.

>>18544953
>Wrote about how edgy he thought he was.

You have 10 seconds to explain to me why Schopenhauer and Mainlander claim rocks have a will just like humans.

Are all philosophers really this fucking dumb?

>>18489633
Most overrated book, probably of all time.

>>18458129
And then they're going to try again after watching the movie with le cute and handsome Chalomet, hit the same wall again, and then complain that the movie was better.

This is why the "start with the Greeks" meme exists. This is ALSO why Bloom and his Canon exists and why it is so beloved. We have literally always told you to read only GOOD books and ignore BAD books, and we have always tried to point out the books that are universally acknowledged as good.

If you managed to miss all of this, you are either a newfag or a retard.

>>18296551
>tfw not even drinking helps

>>18212490
Ah, just looked at America magazine (the old Jesuit magazine) this was on the front page.

https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/05/07/mothers-day-st-monica-st-augustine-son-catholic-240611

"When I came out as a gay Catholic, Saints Augustine and Monica helped me grow closer to my mom — and God"

and here is an excerpt:
Augustine wrote of Monica after her death; I am thankful to write of my mom while she is still here, reading book after book and baking cheesecakes that the Golden Girls would gladly gossip over. Our journey together has changed us, I believe for the better, and we are still on it. >We pray for each other; we talk about our anti-racist education; we swap ideas and products to be more environmentally ethical; we watch British procedurals together. (It’s not all serious.)

>>18175354
Wow, you really showed me.

>>18165424
Same, never really was full poltard t b h, but I just can't be arsed to care about politics anymore.

>>18025151
>N.K. Jemisin
Why even pretend and go through this charade? They may as well give her the award and move on.

>>18011657
this

>as an author who has over 5 published works

>>17953938
Because /lit/ is 99% first year philosophy and english students who've never read a book in their life before.

They'll beat you over the head with their love of Nitzsche, who they only read for the first time 6 months ago. They'll accuse you of "not getting it" if you say Hegel was a pretentious pseud. They parrot the same 5 books as GOAT despite never having read them themselves. They're children. Barely in their 20's, drooling children.

>>17927951
>I was searching for a dark souls themed book

>Kaczynski
>Nietzsche
>Anglo "literature"
>Anons wanting to be based

>>17852473
>it's another person who believes logic and morals exist outside of God