/lit/ - Literature

>>15037096
>Let us now transcribe the noble sentiments of [Diogenes and Zeno the Stoic] in such a way as to get through it as quickly as possible. These two godly men believe it is right to trade our humanity in for a dog’s life; to employ language that is frank and unrestrained; to masturbate in public; to wear a doubled cloak; to subject to scorn males who are in love with them and constrain by force those who do not welcome their advances …
>[They hold] that all children should be held in common … [One should] have sexual relations with one’s sisters, mothers and other close relations, as well as brothers and sons. [One should] never miss an opportunity to take part in sexual activities, even if a degree of force is involved. Women will draw men on and induce them by any means possible to couple with them, and if they do not find a partner, they will go to the marketplace in search of someone to service them; and as occasion allows, they will have sexual relations with all and sundry, male or female.
>Married men should have relations with their slaves, and married women should leave their husband’s bed and go off with whoever strikes their fancy. Women [should] wear the same clothes and share in the same activities as men without distinction; they [should] go to the stadium, and appear in the gymnasium naked … and exercise with the men, concealing nothing … [unclear passage] …
>People should have their fathers killed and cease to acknowledge as their own any city or law that at present we respect. [They hold] that men, as they now are, are practically children, or mad, and should be treated as if they were sick … They should consider all friends false and untrustworthy, as enemies of the gods and of themselves …

Tell me why i shouldn't be homeless? I mean you should be able to get sufficient money for food and water. With extra money for like shampoo and soap which you could use at the beach or some public shower. You should be able to get donated clothes quite easily, with the other aforementioned items from like cafeterias and other such houses. You should be able to get sufficient money to be at least able to buy a book once a day or a week. All of this without dumb work and social life stress. Tell me: Why is this bad?

Everything else is excessive

pic rel contributed living in a bathtub and public masturbation and his name will live forever

don't be so hard on yourself

Is being well-versed in philosophy a neccessary prerequisite to understand literature better? After all, you can reduce any work of literature to one or another philosophical idea.

>>5906988
>bench
Anyway, I kind of agree with you.