/lit/ - Literature

>>21249029
From an Evolutionary perspective, it makes no sense to live by yourself because you will die some day. We are optimized to either procreate our own genetic set or help with the procreation of similar genetic sets. That's why people like to be part of "something bigger", it's just selection pressure tickling us the right way when we do the "right" thing.

>>20580782
>Nietzsche literally forms the ideological bedrock of the present age
Really ? We are literally the last men :)

>>19723347
Don't read it if you're depressed though. Hamsun is dark, bug Lagerkvist is worse.

>>19525376
>why can't there be a discussion between two sides who have different ideas
Time is running out, the economic damage is too high. Furthermore, huge breeding grounds for the virus speeds up Covid evolution. And obligatory vaccinations were a thing in the past, including in democratic societies. They weren't enforcing vaccinations, people could pay a fine for not vaccinating. That alone would make a huge difference, because only a small hard core would pay hundreds of dollars or euros for not vaccinating.

>>19019789
1) Store all the digital books you have on MicroSD
2) Make 10 copies
3) Buy 10 ebook readers
4) Buy 10 Solar USB re-chargers
5) …..wait for the Apocalypse
6) Be the most educated Raider ever

>>18762075
>>Nationalism dying despite efforts to stay alive
Nationalism never really existed, it was always populism, and that's doing good.
From 2010 on everything actually feels like 19th century all over again. Populism is alive and kicking and given the over-population will probably cause the nuclear holocaust in the next 30 years.

>>18504336
Ever heard of "Right of first Night" ?
That aristocrat is so "connected" to you he will fuck your waifu at the night of your marriage, so you get the sloppy seconds and probably bastard kids. But hey, at least they may have a functioning brain. Happy famine and pestilence.

how does hermeticist metaphysics and hylomorphism differ if they do at all?

>>18174450
Even that Muslim LARPer is a bit better than you right now. Not sure whether I should be happy about that.

>>18150064
> occasionalism
Ash'arites killed Islamic Civilization, but let's import it into the West, what can happen ?

>>17939762
It's the "Last Men", literally. Everything points to it. Ever listened to people bitching how they can't party and go to holidays due to Covid ? What kind of worth do these people have to the species ?

>>17155008
This. Book burners should be burned at the stake. Not even being ironical.

>>16228551
> Muh errybody brothas
> Muh errybody same merit
> Muh let's pay the street cleaners the same as scientists
> Muh let's indoctrinate children to spy on their parents
It's secular Christianity. It also managed to kill tens of millions of people, destroy the arts, social and family cohesion as well as the economies of innumerable countries, and bring the species to the edge of nuclear annihilation. You could argue the Nazis were a bit worse, but that's like arguing whether aids or cancer is preferable, it has the same end result. Case closed.

>>15596125
He's just alienated. A typical effect atomized societies have on people, anybody with even half a brain turns out like this.

>>15251665
Book burners aren't human.

>>15129376
He ruined Islam by BTFOing the Mutazilites. In the framework of Islam his absolute God makes more sense though, another reason the avoid Islam like the plague.

>>13732510
Neither have you. Souls don't exist, consciousness is a stop-gap solution by which evolution keeps you aware of your surroundings.

>>12176613
I'm STEM, so I rarely meet people who read classics. If I do, I'll try to hide my interest because they would think I'm feigning. I don't talk about music either for the same reasons.

Borges: John 1:14


This page will be no less a riddle

than those of my holy books

or those others repeated

by ignorant mouths

believing them the handiwork of a man,

not the Spirit’s dark mirrors.

I who am the Was, the Is, and the Is to Come

again condescend to the written word

which is time in succession and no more than an emblem.

Who plays with a child plays with something

near and mysterious;

wanting once to play with My children,

I stood among them with awe and tenderness.

I was born of a womb by an act of magic.

I lived under a spell, imprisoned in a body,

in the humbleness of a soul.

I knew memory,

that coin that’s never twice the same.

I knew hope and fear,

those twin faces of the uncertain future.

I knew wakefulness, sleep, and dreams,

ignorance, the flesh,

reason’s roundabout labyrinths,

the friendship of men,

the blind devotion of dogs.

I was loved, understood, praised, and hung from a cross.

I drank my cup to the dregs.

My eyes saw what they had never seen –

night and its many stars.

I knew things smooth and gritty, uneven and rough,

the taste of honey and apple,

water in the throat of thirst,

the weight of metal in the hand,

the human voice, the sound of footsteps on the grass,

the smell of rain in Galilee,

the cry of birds on high.

I knew bitterness as well.

I have entrusted the writing of these words to a common man;

they will never be what I want to say

but only their shadow.

These signs are dropped from My eternity.

Let someone else write the poem, not he who is now its scribe.

Tomorrow I shall be a great tree in Asia,

or a tiger among tigers

preaching my law to the tigers’ woods.
Sometimes homesick, I think back

on the smell of that carpenter’s shop.

>>11114160
This. Needed a quarter of the book to get out of the fucking bed. After ten pages I just wished the red army would arrive and send him to the gulag.

>>8108800
>inb4 scientists are prevented from saying the truth by the liberal media.
I'm not the guy you just talked to, but I remember a bunch of cases. They even were on BBC news. One is James Watson, the guy who decoded the structure of the DNA. Don't remember the other names, but they were usually competent scientists losing their jobs because they talked about politically incorrect scientific results.

>>7216890
Dat cover :)

>>6146549
Are you on dope, OP ?
Islam is a semitic death-cult, with humans surrendering their fate and will to an ancient god-head. Nietzschean doctrine is an anthropocentric atheist life-cult. These two are 100% incompatible on every level. Nietzsche only speaks positively about Islam when he compares it to other Abrahamic religions. He even says Buddhism is the best of all faiths, and then calls it degenerate in the next sentence.

>>6077875
Multi-billion IT businesses depend on GNU to put their firmware into your shitty coffee machine or to control lasers to weld your crappy car. I know because I work for one. Be more thankful to Stallman-Sensei.