/lit/ - Literature

>>22202975

For what reason do books get banned or restricted?

>>21279759
I'm reading World War Z right now. Are all the interviews about how it started or does this shit eventually progress?

>>20694511
Nihilism is scary because it is true freedom. If everything is a construct, if there is no end point to which the universe is leading, we are not bound to a specific fate.

Most people try to throw away this freedom as soon as they get it. The leap of faith is a great example. It is faith for the faithless. Believers in the middle ages or in the golden age of Islam believed in God because of course there was a God. Now that we are aware that it is conceivable for there to be no God, belief becomes conscious. An act.

This is not good or bad. That is still framing things in a language where God is a reality instead of a temptation. You want to destroy your nihilism. In your last paragraph you even ask for a solution. You call it a trap. This is the language of someone who takes a leap of faith. A desperate man at best and a coward at worst.

Instead, nihilism could be the closest thing to truth that the universe has. We are cursed to be free. You can run from freedom, or you can live in freedom. I can't help anymore than saying that.

Without God, this radical freedom means little more than you get to choose which vice you will succumb to.

>>19449332
It's a good way to destabilise a healthy society. Also Feud and all similar people are pervs.

I gave up drinking after a brutal bout of it. It was the last in a long string of attempts to try to remove that sick feeling of boredom intermingled with horror. Not many people feel it, or maybe everyone feels it, and they have learned how to quiet it. Yes, that seems more right. They can quiet it and I can't.

I have tried God. I miss the monastery I used to visit. I miss the smell of churches, the little moment of world-silence after a mass. That's gone now. I believed then. I really did. Now, I might still believe but even to state it so weakly makes me feel like a liar, yet I would be just as much a liar to say I don't believe. That horror remains.

I tried love too, if that can even be a thing tried. One girl, probably not unlike any other girl. In fact I know there are ones prettier, smarter, more interesting, but this didn't matter. I loved her more than any other and that love made me honest. There was no deception on either end. I spoke honestly and she spoke honestly. I told her I loved her. She told me she did not.

And then of course there was the drinking. Almost an inevitability when life persists while the will doesn't. I drank a lot, and thought about drinking even more. It didn't change much. I went back to the churches a younger me went to. The glass was the same. This terrified me. The images didn't change. Still as beautiful. I had changed. Where was my beauty? No amount of alcohol would cover this startling contrast. On my last binge, I passed out not far from that little church. I would have stumbled there, vomit-soaked and half conscious, had not someone not found me.

So it's done. God, the girl, and the drink. There are no more illusions. Perhaps that is to say there is no more hope. Maybe there is no difference between them. This might be what the end of the line looks like

I love you

books that explain why /pol/tards will read pages of schizo threads but won't bother reading a single page of non-fiction? books that explain why /pol/tards feel the need to dismantle every other board? Books that explain why I'm still lurking on this cunt board when it's clearly ruined by r*dditors and incels?

Is he only mentioned on here so much because of cuck philosophy's video? He isn't translated into English and seemed to be obscure even among the idealists before then. Are we that shallow. Commenting on books we haven't read. I guess that's /lit/ but its everywhere else too. Traditionalists pretend to be religious to have a political identity. Conservatives defend corporations: the destroyers of organic communities. Socialists swap class for homosexuality. Poetry is reduced to instagram posts. Philosophy reduced to an aesthetic. Nothing new is produced. Maybe nothing new can be produced. Are we at the end? Nothing seems real. It's all one now. A flickering half damaged screen. God is dead. Marx is dead. States are dead. The corpse becomes one. You, me, everyone. Dead with the rest. Maybe love is possible. Beauty possible. But it is only a love in death, a beauty in death.

I love you.

So me and my new pals strolled onto the green grasses of the Quad and laid out a big tile-patterned picnic blanket. Ken’s eyes widened with rage when Joon pulled the green Heineken beercans out of the shopping bag. “Heineken?” he growled as he opened one and began to pour out the soapy brew: “PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!” Joon’s arm shot out like a thunderbolt and began to crush Ken’s dainty little wrist. “Cease this juvenile libation right this instant”, Joon whispered, “or I slaughter your entire family.” This miscreant having been put in his place, the rest of us cracked open our beers—pop! —and our festivities began. “Cheers!”

>>17990378

Nobody reacts that way to Right Wing policies or philosophies, people don't like to hear you whine about strawman Liberals or "cultural Marxists".

Does anyone have that image with all those philosophers + Elliot Rodgers and Adam Lanza? It said SADBOYZ at the top and had a bunch of depressing quotes

>mfw made a girl cum then realized that sex is fucking stupid and useless and required social interaction that took large chunks out of my studies
It's a fucking meme, op don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

>>8451003
>There are people who genuinely enjoy liberal guilt porn
>>8451088
>There are people who make, save and laugh at these pictures

>mfw a Trump supporter thinks I'm voting for Clinton because I don't know how fucked she and the dems are and not in spite of it

>>6211242
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
totally caught me by surprise
His a Prayer for Owen Meaning got me too - the ending is one of the best ever in fiction

Also, way back in the day both To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye made me tear up.