/lit/ - Literature

>mommy jew gf found the Koran

>>18754942
If he teaches dance to adults it's fine
If he teaches dance to kids you should have killed him on the spot

I see anthologies of "the best American short stories" or "the best American poems" but where are all the anthologies of "worst American writing"?
I want to read stuff that's really bad. Worse than YA. Chris Chan-level bad

>>12361077
>that fucked up thumb
no thank you

>>11275156
>manhands

>>11257622
>you lack understanding
fake gnostics pls go

>this whole thread

>>11215528
>pre 9/11

>>11049191
i am not a moron.

>>11049191
>Any logical function is just a different representation of a lookup table
and as I explained, the chinese room is a bad fucking analogy for machine intelligence. it puts the reader up close with a magnifying glass looking at just one part of the hardware layer when he should be standing back asking larger design questions. searle is critiquing an addition circuit for not being a graphing microprocessor. now, please, grow a brain stem.

forgot pic

>>10881170
good posts, and you're somewhat correct about stoicism. human apes learn by parental example first, then peers and relatives, then the spectacle, then teachers, then finally books. the ability to navigate a traumatic event rationally, or to endure a daily-weekly-monthly-yearly grind of attending public school... it is something you pick up as a child if you're not given some version of it by a living example.

which is why >>10881455 is correct. if you aren't a stoic by the time you're a teenager, it's almost too late for you. you've grown up in the wrong environment, a soft-walled place that values manners of being and solutions which inhibit personal resilience. you can try to change, to force yourself, but you will have varying degrees of success and the identity you established in the soft world will always be present in your subconscious judging and doubting.

>>10881048
there is no cause to misuse a rude agatha, anon. try reading the stoics instead of being an overly sensitive reactionary.

>>10764742
memes are neither good nor bad in themselves. memes are power.

>>10764740
she is too good for you. keep it moving, goyim.

>>10668041
lesbians are best girls because they dont like penis- gross! men are mean

>He doesn't know philosophy and religion are the same
>He doesn't treat philosophy as art
>He doesn't study lectures and essays on aesthetics
>He doesn't consider historical attempts at explaining metaphysics or the supersensible to be the highest form of human endeavor

>>10512095
>>10512057
>>10512032
Don't be mean to girls!

>>10500652
You just can't into aesthetics

>>10485129
>9gag meme
It's an Agatha