/lit/ - Literature

>Fascism aestheticizes politics. Communism politicises art.

>>19869859
>There is going to be a HUGE change to the study of ancient texts before too long.
I don’t believe you.

are creepypastas eventually be considered literature?
seems like they are prime fuel for flash fiction compilations and such
granted, most of them a terribly written but that's true for all genres
also because of how they originated on the internet, a lot of them don't suffer from being overly purple

>>19767552
>people use z-library for porn mags

>>19155192
>The self is the universe experiencing itself through conscious awareness
>

Can man still live in the afternoon creation of his dream? If he can make art out of it, then yes. If he cannot, no.

>A deaf musician! Can we imagine a blind painter? But we know a blind visionary. The deaf musician is now like Tiresias,30 for whom the world of appearances is closed and who is therefore aware of the basis of all appearance through his inner eye; undisturbed by the noises of life he31 listens only to the harmonies in his mind and from his depths still speaks only to a world – a world which has no more to say to him. Thus the genius is freed from everything external to himself and remains entirely with and in him. What a miracle it must have seemed to anyone then seeing Beethoven with the look of Tiresias: a world wandering among men, the ‘in itself ’ of the world as a wandering man!

>only Greece, England, Spain and Germany have a good dramatic tradition
Explain this.

>>18589984
>A manlet.

>read author
>have great desire to imitate the form of their works and style
>subconsciously start writing like them
This is a temporary effect but it always happens when I read someone new.

Can anyone else relate?

>reality is illusion
>what is true is accidental circumstances that lead me into being shilled reality is illusion

has brevity become even more important given potential readers' lack of attention span in the 21st century?

>>18358664
>be promiscous while you're young
>find a stable person to settle down with later in life
Don't the vast majority of guys who are able to have sex on the regular do exactly the same thing?

Now, I've never read much scripture but wouldn't you consider the act of the Jews judging and having the Roman government crucify Jesus to be "God's plan"?

If this is the case, why should the Jews be hated/shunned/ostracized etc.?

Couldn't you argue that the very act of Judas betraying Jesus/the village elders or whatever demanding his punishment all be part of God's plan?

Hypothetically speaking, isn't it a bit of an oxymoron to call Jesus' crucifixion some sort of "plan B" by God?

I mean, seeing as He is all knowing, omnipresent, omnipotent etc. that means that He obviously planned everything the way it eventually went down.

Why then would you demonize the part that the Jews played in it when they basically unknowingly did God's dirty work for Him?

Couldn't you argue that Judas did what he did as because that's what God wanted him to do all along?

Why would you curse Judas/Jews for doing exactly what God wanted/expected them to do?

And on another note, if Jesus was in fact God as man and knew the plan all along then why the whole "Father why have you forsaken me" bit?

Shouldn't he have already known that God would do that to him?

>The Lords of the ma'amad, having long known of the evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Espinoza, have endeavoured by various means and promises, to turn him from his evil ways. But having failed to make him mend his wicked ways, and, on the contrary, daily receiving more and more serious information about the abominable heresies which he practised and taught and about his monstrous deeds, and having for this numerous trustworthy witnesses who have deposed and borne witness to this effect in the presence of the said Espinoza, they became convinced of the truth of the matter; and after all of this has been investigated in the presence of the honourable sages, they have decided, with their consent, that the said Espinoza should be excommunicated and expelled from the people of Israel. By the decree of the angels, and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza, with the consent of God, Blessed be He, and with the consent of all the Holy Congregation, in front of these holy Scrolls with the six-hundred-and-thirteen precepts which are written therein, with the excommunication with which Joshua banned Jericho, with the curse with which Elisha cursed the boys and with all the curses which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed be he by night; cursed be he when he lies down, and cursed be he when he rises up; cursed be he when he goes out, and cursed be he when he comes in. The Lord will not spare him; the anger and wrath of the Lord will rage against this man, and bring upon him all the curses which are written in this book, and the Lord will blot out his name from under heaven, and the Lord will separate him to his injury from all the tribes of Israel with all the curses of the covenant, which are written in the Book of the Law. But you who cleave unto the Lord God are all alive this day. We order that no one should communicate with him orally or in writing, or show him any favour, or stay with him under the same roof, or within four ells of him, or read anything composed or written by him.
This Spinoza fellow sounds based as hell

How do you read?
Do you buy books? Rent them in the library? On a Kindle? On your computer? How?

Hey /lit/ what is the first book to read. If I were to become the greatest mathematician I would have to first start with basic arithmetic what book is the equivalent for literature and philosophy. in the sense that all subsequent books derive knowledge and ideas from it.

so was it a good or a bad thing that adam ate the apple? I kinda think good, because it made us rational.

Isn't it depressing to be an academic who's an specialist of another intellectual/writer/thinker? you're devoting your career and your own genius on the work of someone more talented than you, living in his shadow.

sincere question: how do you even define "human nature"? is it a real thing? how can anyone dictate parameters for how or what a person should be?

He‘s actually based.

>>15983266
Anyone here read this? Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian are based but I wonder whether this particular book will be worth my time.

>>15571325
funny how the first thing comes into right wingers minds is pedophilia. like once the police are abolished, pedophilia is the first type of you think people would do by mass? not robbing a bank or stealing the police's arms or taking over food and power factories, but pedophilia? highly sus