/lit/ - Literature

I had the following thought recently:
You do not and can not choose who you are born as or who you are born to or where you are born - you have no control over it. You are born, and that's who you are, that's it. This is fate, isn't it? Doesn't it prove that there is such a thing as fate? Likewise, if your birth, the very beginning of your life, is predetermined, what speaks against other things in your life having been predetermined - being your fate? Not everything must be fate, sure, you have a lot of control, but what speaks against certain aspects, or things that happen to you, situations, circumstances, or even some of your actions, not being set in stone the minute you are born, just like birth itself?

>>18132771
>anons still falling for the rock climbing meet up
He can't keep getting away with it

What is it? What does it mean?
I've heard this term peculiarly often recently.

>>16163882
Can you teach us the way you're taking notes? I need to start doing that.

>>13543550
Why is your post so inadequate?

Where should I start with Russian literature? Please no jokes.

>>12144609
why indeed anon
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http://www.mu.edu/phil/documents/PhDCompsInfoandReadingList.pdf

What is the best e-reader to get if I want to download the entire western canon and then pretend i'm gonna read it all?

What are my fellow /lit/izens reading currently to preserve the knowledge, art and culture of our forebears?

Currently reading Iliad and Lolita myself.

A well-read whitey is a dangerous whitey.

>>8908375
Mfw = My face when [Very old acronym]
Tfw = That feel when [Came along with "Feels guy"]
DFW = Dat feel when [The feeling one gets after reading IJ]

OP pastebin the first chapter so we can see if it's good. 90% it's not but maybe you'll surprise me, I'll be constructive.
t. college zine slush-pile editor

>>6911890

Hi /lit/
Is it possible to reach Holmes' level of deductive reasoning?
Is observation important?

>>6385826

I'm not Finnish, why do you ask - is it because of the autism?

>>5966241
Start with the Eddas.

>>5228327
They were just uninformed muh feelings crowd. Internet helped in instilling doubt in all of us and making us doubtful of everything including our judgement even of the most basic things.

>>5149469
And we aren't allowed to question the towering authority of these pseudosciences.

Go ahead and explain to me how misunderstood humans were about their experience before the fields of "psychology", "psychiatry", and "neuroscience" came along.

In terms of an individual's identity, your fields are a web of linguistic constructions, devoid of explanatory merit.

You can diagnose people as being sick, but sick compared to what standard? The general population of a society? What if the society is not flourishing? Then the happy person is the weird one. What if you blindly construct one standard of "human mental health", and start prescribing psychoactive drugs to "cure" those who don't fit the model? For a society that isn't flourishing, you'll turn them into a bunch of drug addicts.

What then? Nobody questions the authority of your jargon, because, as you say, "You sound like a typical person with a mental-illness. You don't know anything about those fields, so you ought not to pretend to." So now, everybody is perishing but the scientists of the human psyche, who have won. And when somebody like me comes along to say, "you know, people, maybe you can change", they'll mock me for ever suggesting such a now-dated ideal.

So, there you have it. Your science creates a perishing society.

Was it all worth it for your fake fucking science?

>>5140449

>buddhist friend:"all natures are empty"
>me:"Is this bottle empty"
>friend:"yes, it is the emptiness which gives it form, it is the form which gives it emptiness"
>throw the bottle to his head
>the bottle loses his form so does my friend's skull
>and then he was enlightened

What are taboo themes/subjects to write about these days? Who writes about them?

All I can think of are political topics...

>differences between races exist
>homosexuality might be unhealthy
>multiculturalism might be failing

>>5021211

you should be aware of the confusion and let it be. Every one has some confusion and anxiety about life, life is hard and what makes it even harder is our attempt to always be comfortable and certain. Your just a human, so confusion will come and go.


The more you fight it and dwell on it the worse it can be -- you might add confusion to confusion, anxiety on top of anxiety and then you get a double problem.