/lit/ - Literature

>>23297914
>>23298148
Buddhists push the kooky scale with their practices but they know more about what happens after death than any other mortals

Any fantasy or science-fiction books which instill suffering upon the reader due to the sheer horridness it is engulfed in?

>cruelly ripped from the void just to have enough self-realization to discover I must soon return to it

>>19502507
God damn it! She was my favorite. Fuck her shitty cuck ex husband pushing her to be a swinger and doing porn. And fuck her for retiring, cutting her tits then, coming back.
You couldn't have saved her and jerking off to her new stuff is depressing.

>>18004950
As you can see from the cover art, it's gonna get pretty spooky

books that help me decide how my remains should be treated? will being burned help me not be reincarnated?

>>16168766
We're reading The Hunger Games for my uni class bros, kill me

>>16053260
>mfw my family watched the series, and won't shut the fuck up about it
>mfw they spout shit like "It could so easily happen!" ignoring the fundamental absurdity of impoverished fundie retards taking over the United States government
>mfw they don't realize that neoliberalism is the real, omnipresent enemy of humanity, and shit like this is just an unrealistic horror story meant to goad them into accepting woke capitalism by contrast
It's so infuriating bros, especially when these corporate-backed, multimillionaire liberals somehow think that "the Alt-Right" will violently overthrow the fucking US government. What's infuriating is that they can't comprehend dialectical materialism, and therefore can't understand that WE ARE LIVING IN THE DYSTOPIA. God, fuck that red-Tory Atwood, and fuck the millions of wine-aunts that take her drivel as gospel.

>>15959892
>how does one go about attending several different universities

Went to university in a different city my first year of college (when I was 18). Did very poorly there, so I decided to come back home and attend the local community college until I could apply elsewhere (which I did when I was 20). Went to a new, local university then and once again did rather poorly, so I started taking classes at both the local university and the community college (and still did poorly) so I said fuck all this shit and went to the community college to wrap up my pre-pharmacy classes. Fast forward ~4 years later and I finally managed to fix my grades and get accepted into a pharmacy college at a different local university. Experienced an existential crisis there, dropped out, decided to start fresh with programming, and now I’m attending that same community college and a different, even closer local university.

It’s been a wild ride.

>When I was given a prompt about the future of society
>When I wrote about a horrific future of ethnic homogeneity
>When I then read it out loud to the rest of the class
I don't believe that stuff anymore, but most of my former class still thinks I'm a Neo-Nazi lol

>that passage comparing the bloody sea and the sharks with cheese and maggots
Jesus Christ how horrifying

Having just created a GR account recently, I remember how shocked I was with how terrible the reviews are. One that particularly made my blood boil was a 1-star review for American Psycho because of misogyny. The absolute imbecility of these people, being entirely unable to realize that you weren't supposed to approve of Bateman's actions. That's kind of the fucking point.

>>15250029
>tfw no subby Ishmael gf
Why even live bros

>>15187553
This 100%. Hell, when I was younger, I read and enjoyed Harry Potter, and still think they're perfectly fine children's books. However, I think it's absolutely revolting to see people who read YA . . . and never read anything else. Of course, when these people try to enter literary circles and are rightly laughed out of the room, they feel so entitled to being "book-readers" that they demand everyone treat their children's books as actual, discussion-worthy literature. A perfect encapsulation of this is the current wave of politically-illiterate neoliberals that can't discuss politics without using Harry Potter and Star Wars as a sort of training wheels.

I saw a screencap a while back, although I never saved it, about a YA author who successfully protested her works being labelled un-academic. Basically, when she heard that her works weren't allowed to be used in class for literary analysis (because they were stupid fucking kids books) she launched a campaign against the class, demanding that they lower their standards to accommodate her garbage. I have a lot of tolerance for shit, but this just made my blood boil.

tldr; YA is fine, but demanding that everybody lower their literary standards to accommodate you is not.

>>14921567
This. I would always try to take honors or AP classes in high school, because the difference really was night and day.

In 11th grade, I had a schedule conflict that forced me to take CP English, and it was absolutely abysmal. I was stuck in a room with 29 other kids, most of them not wanting to be there, while our poor middle-aged teacher desperately tried to teach. Eventually, after no one did their work (I know kids who legitimately had around 13% for their final grade, and only passed by merciful extra credit), she gave up and just had us watch movie adaptations of the works. I wish I was making this up, but we watched the movie adaptations of Hamlet and The Great Gatsby instead of actually reading them. It's not like I can blame her, either; most of the other kids simply refused to do work. Her only fault was having too much pity, and not just flunking out most of those kids like they deserved. Of course, then again, if she did that, then she'd be barraged by angry parents who can't understand that they raised shitty people.

Luckily, for my senior year, I took AP Lit, and it made all the difference in the world. I was part of a classroom of 8 kids, where most of class was spent just discussing literature, in a free and open environment. Rather than sit through Mel Gibson's Hamlet as the rest of the room talked through the whole thing, I was instead able to thoroughly discuss and interpret works like Macbeth, Beowulf, and the poetry of Sylvia Plath. It was also infinitely more enjoyable: even the easiest classes are painful when you know you're not learning anything.

tldr; Homogenized school sucks, we need to bring back elitism.

rolling

>>13096054
>tfw there was a time when 4 was true, but I was too autistic to realize it, now have none of those

>>12840489
>philosophy section
>filled with "*insert trendy show here* and philosophy" trash
Even Barnes and Noble is full of them

>>11382823
i'm in the book of numbers

i am really finding it frustrating how much of it so far is just a narration of events that defy interpretation. i wish more things were spelled out. it feels obfuscationary, like i am missing things i am supposed to understand.

> What was God's relationship to the common man up to the time of Moses? Why live? I see no answer to any existential questions, no hope of afterlife. Only that you have to pay expensive lifelong penance to an almighty God to whom you are retroactively cosmically indebted for the price of existing. God's character at this point seems cryptic, detached, sporadic, disengaged, disgusted.
> Is there any well-understood interpretation of all the design decisions in the holy sacraments of the tabernacle? What about all the offering procedures? The Passover? Like the lamp with almond blossoms, cherubs, the wave offering, rubbing blood on the great toe of the priests, Scapegoats, etc.
> People seem to have grown some understanding of marriage, currency and civilization some time during Genesis. Where did it come from? What is the sanctity of these ideas? Are they just human ideas? God seems to acknowledge these principles as preeminent by the time God gives Moses the law.

I hope this isn't too blasphemous.

>>10834252
afaik he does summarize his "position" in a pivotal footnote of rule 7 of his 12 rules book:

> And this is all true, note, whether there is--or is not--*actually* such a powerful figure, "in the sky" :)

He seems to go out of his way to make sure everything he says is consisten with God being like, an emergent property of consciousness or morality, not a personal entity. which is odd considering how much a lot of his videos come off like sermons

>>10834252
I just read his book and this was the best thing I could come up with. His solution as far as i understand is basically
> examine what makes you hate the world and learn from it instead of becoming spiteful
> make sure your own life is in order before going after the life of others
both of which sound like results rather than paths to solution

>>10064300
>>10064715
moar