/lit/ - Literature

>>20470006
>tfw you choose nosferatu for your first playthrough of Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

>>19829109
>i-it wasn't real faith
Even more pathetic than the not-communism crowd.
Conveniently ensures that nothing can be ascertained too, which loops back to making knowing your own salvation impossible through hidden pride since no one can know he has "real true authentic" faith, and so no one can have any participation in salvation (if by faith alone). It is a passive operation and there is no free will anyway, and God is just rolling dices and laughing at some being saved and some others not, for no reason at all (because any reason would be taking into account their works which is verboten), with no way for men to even tell. Except in fact there is a way to tell: you just have to be rich and hate the pope, two very probable ways of knowing you have true faith (even when you are a self proclaimed Arian or anti-trinitarian).
That was a short summary of the history of the protestant variations on the theme in the first century of their heresies. And still repeated it in 2022. Even the not-real-faith bit. It's all so tiresome.

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>>18815662
My dreams always have an overwhelming feeling of anxiety and panicky unsolvable situations in them. It’s so very draining. I wake up exhausted.

Books about being unable to look forward to anything in life?

>>17222113
>Why didn't you just stay in the car George?

>i ask what they read
>they say book
>i say cool
>they ask what book im read
>i say bible
>they call me fag and disconnect
>repeat x10

>>15993274
>when you find out that oral culture doesn't actually means deep throating

>>13870976
>read ISAIF
>think Kaczynski foresees a spooky dystopia where man is reduced to pure cog in a machine, loaded with antidepressants and hormones, probably bioengineered for his slavery
>read Anti-Tech Revolution
>find out he just thinks we're all going to die to global warming

>>13733706
I recently went thru Vol 1 and it was pretty underwhelming desu. how could anyone stomach 50+ posts of sheer incontinence and monotony? The guy is maddeningly predictable.
>wake up
>read 30 pages of dull history book
>browse internet while drinking coffee
>gym
>complain about wasting free time/lack of motivation
no goals, no actualization, nothing.

non-existente
it was an umbrella term created by the media to brand all non-neocons rightwingers as evil
no one else used the term until Mylo shouted it as a "badge of honor"
slowly the term lost any semblance of definition and nowadays the only "alt-right" are incels and kekistanis

>go to philosophy section in bookstore
>"D"
>descartes, arguably founding father of modern philosophy: 6-7 main works, most short and easily readable, plus 2-3 collections of his letters, and a biography or two
>derrida, a french heideggerian whose readership plummeted as soon as he ceased to be the guru du jour among english grad students in america: 8935892342 books of varying size, at least three books for every time he ever had a stray thought about contemporary cinema or a fast food commercial he saw on TV, plus 3882983 horrid monographs by sad epigones with names like "Derrida, Japanese Cinema, and the Collapse of Representation" that nobody has read since 1996

>it's another OrthoLARP thread

Unless almost everyone in this thread is from Russia, Greece, or the Balkans, almost nobody here is actually Orthodox. At least in the Catholic threads there's a decent chance of running into actual Catholics.

>>13544656
>https://pastebin.com/b1GM4etd
It all fantasy and "sci fi" classics

>>13544923
>arguing, trying to prove a point and convince people on the internet and in real life

>>13516394
>She’d become famous by projecting the highly sexualised image craved by male readers; she’d fought for the right to speak to the culture by any means necessary.

>In the 70s Acker became the chamber novelist of downtown New York, reporting on sexual misadventures with real-life art world protagonists who were, when not named outright, recognisable to anyone who knew the cast of characters.

>the content of her writings – extreme pornography, diatribe, parody, politics, gossip and trash – reflected the aesthetic of her East Village peers. Acker enjoyed the support of writers and artists such as Burroughs, Sol LeWitt, Paul Buck and Rudy Wurlitzer.

Born into an upper middle class New York Jewish family,

>have unlimited access to pussy
>can't enjoy it
>don't care about pussy
>access to pussy ceases
>become pussy-crazed fiend
>assume all problems will be solved by having access to pussy
>get access to pussy
>stop caring immediately
>repeat

>Conversing with pseud's on /lit/
Worst posters by far, I'll even take the tripfags over them

Am I seriously sharing a board with this many people who listen to podcasts? No wonder /lit/'s quality has nosedived. Podcasts are for midwits.

>>13061291
Why the fuck would you read translated books, if you can already speak/read English?

I still listen to BEE's podcast (without paying for it of course) because I like to hear his take on films and the culture of Hollywood. In general I don't disagree with most of his points on Trump and the media but he definitely sounds like a broken record at this point and all I have read about "White" sounds cringy af. Unironically writing a book about Twitter controversies that is filled with cliches about millenials is just absolutely pathetic.
I think neither BEE nor the journalist look good in that piece which is probably partly because the interview was conducted by phone. Chotiner is way too pushy and just wants BEE to give in who in turn seems pretty unknowlegdeable on a topic he just wrote a book about and just overly defensive. Obviously Twitter now loves this article because it's in line with their political agenda and gives them a reason to hate on a "old white guy". Pic related is the only natural reaction to this current state of discourse

>>12888545
>YOU'RE THE REAL ONE COPING
Holy fuck you all argue like children. What happened to capital being sentient and markets manufacturing intelligence?

>>12468646
I'm currently studying at an extremely prestigious university in Paris in fairly /lit/ graduate program. Some of the students are intellectually closed-off when it comes to literally anything out of their specialized interests. They come off as blabbering retards when they speak of anything else. My father is a professor and he's remarkably anti-intellectual if it's not something that's "applied and has direct effect in the real world and can be measured using the scientific method". So, a strict positivist (autism).

True and all-encompassing intellectual curiosity is exceptionally rare, even among the intellectual elites.