/lit/ - Literature

/lit/bros how do we deal the fact that we're so much smarter than everyone else that it makes it hard to have to real connections? I'm reading the great works of the western canon. I'm listening to Monteverdi and reading Pascal and Hegel. I can't have a connection with someone who's favorite book is Harry Potter and really like totally loves Beyonce, watching Euphoria, and can't point France out on a map. 99% of people in the world are the equivalent to that and it makes for a lonely existence. Some of us are lucky to find similar minds but it's a rare thing.

Why did no tell me about Pascal? It’s like Schopenhauer but with soul. Schopenhauer ripped this guy off

>But there is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite.
How can this ever be refuted

ITT authors who just needed to have sex

just read this
What was I in for?

Reason’s last step is to realize that there are infinite things beyond it

What makes this so popular?

I even see it namedropped all the time by authors who aren't religious

>>14502933
Amen

>>14499982

>>14496783
There is only one way

>>14473447
Meaninglessness? Can’t relate

>>14473197
The only solution is to become Christian

>>14471771

>>14468228

>>14464417
Deuteronomy 4:29
>But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Proverbs 8:17
>I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Jeremiah 29:13
>You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Matthew 7:7-8
>Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Isaiah 55:6-7
>Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Lamentations 3:25
>The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
James 4:8
>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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>>14466019

>>14464018
Became a Christian

>The Stoics say, " Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

>>14360636

What's the final verdict /lit/?

>>14302946
He’s smart, but not smart enough