/lit/ - Literature

Yeah, and next to the country you put the number of books you've actually read from them.

>age
Mid-late 20s
>IQ
130s
>height
6’0”
>university
Fairly well-known Christian university on the west coast, in their honors program that replaces all your gen ed with the Great Books.
>favorite book
Spring Snow
>major
not going to out myself
>job
Rather not say, but I’m living independently and not financially burdened
>content with life
Took the turbulent and painful route to finally get to college, but now that I’m here things are looking better every day.

>Get into an argument with someone online
>Feel like I'm obviously right
>He makes that one point I have no rebuttal for
>...
>Realize our entire dispute is pointless unless we delve into literal Socratic dialectics about aesthetics and morality and shit to find out who is actually correct
>This will never happen unless you have two massive autists who both study philosophy
>Realize >99.99% of discussions online are fated to go nowhere for this reason

>>19554421
Based and Thoreau-pilled. And it brings up a good point: most people who get a PhD (in English, from what I see) only see their work in terms of an abstraction. There's no practical value. Most of the people from my friend group that read philosophy, the classics, and so on are not English majors. Only one of them was, and he's now bombing sandniggers with drones in the Air Force.

My point is, the reason you read should be to apply. For example, I no longer own a smartphone. I attribute this decision to reading Thoreau and a few books on minimalism. That's just one example. Meanwhile one of the midwits I've mentored on campus read Thoreau and decided he wanted to use it to write about "post-colonial ecocriticism", because he believes ecocriticism is the hot new literary theory that'll get him published.

These people are like biologists who know how to dissect frogs but have never heard one croak or seen it eat a fly.

>>18862459
>https://www.salary.com/articles/stay-at-home-mom/
Too bad you'll never be a woman though. I don't know why you'd want this job opportunity.

>>17387876
>mfw discussing something with a guy in a thread and he tries to turn it into an argument

>>17165010
This OP is right: >>17164765
It's called Social SKILLS, not Social Instinct for a reason: it is something that must be practiced. However, just like any other skill or endeavor, you can watch others and learn a bit as an addition to your skill work of talking other people. But the accessory skill work will only help 10% of what actual work will do for you. Write down witty lines that you hear or read in your phone and review them every so often, maybe you can work one in to conversation now and again.

>William Strokes
>Jeremy Shovelshaft
>The Groper of Canterbury

>>16132659
Both, you can show the impact of fantasy elements without autistic rationalising

>>14633833
Just wanted to say I enjoyed your post anon, reminded me of why I love the Iliad so much

>>14253979
Any tips on starting this? What’s your method? Is there one? Any type of notebook work better than the rest? This looks neat.

>>14223211
Engrish, can’t wait to get a masters in Theology. They keep trying to cuck me with a program that shits you out with a masters in education and a teaching credential at the same time but I don’t want a damn masters in education. I’m not a sellout.

I’d do philosophy over theology but non-Christian university programs for that degree all look like sjw pandering.

>>14217088
> sind

Next

>>13796151
Congratulations, friend!

>>13639710
What’s funny about this, is that Robert E. Howard saw himself as progressive for his time, and also a feminist. This editor only dooming himself and the stories he accepts for the magazine to be examined under the same lense that he uses for these 80 year-old stories, in 80 years time. The dumbass thinks he can escape from the idea of “product of the times” by being a product of our times.

>>13308668
Just read what you like, and it will still be more than most people. Also, you will retain more info if you like it. Nobody really cares what books you read, except for pseuds who just want to feel better than you because they have nothing else going in their life.

The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. - Luke 6:45
I don't trust self-help books, especially ones that need to take on an agressive "I don't care" standpoint. I think these books are less about introspection and more about angrily searching for progress in your own life by triumphing over your percieved enemies; the slightly rude work colleague or the overbearing parent.
I haven't read the books, I hope they're more constructive than the covers suggest.

>>12769752
Most people actually do end up married or in a long term relationship, anon - despite their flaws. Usually their partner finds their physical flaws, such as "dumbo ears" cute and endearing

>>12753132
stupid, ass-backwards Kantian reading. your conception of art was pulled out of thin air over the course of the Enlightenment via the theory of aesthetic judgement and has no connection to actual lived human reality. art is ALWAYS for an audience

>>12705401
ya, bieng an literatuer gets me liad all teh timw

>>12696884
Come on, lad. How has the development of a cinematic language ceased? Are you claiming, with all sincerity, that films today don’t possess a more complex system of semiotics than was available during cinema’s first 60 (or so) years?

Further, how can you claim this stunted growth is due to the aping of other forms of art and yet praise Godard? (Not to say that Godard isn’t brilliant, but rather that his Nouvelle Vogue corpus has a wide range of influences outside of cinema.)

>>12681555
>The literary life is one of suffering
>yet to be human, is to suffer
>therefore we all live the literary life

>>12679289
Also, people in general are extremely impressed if you've read the Republic. You don't even have to talk about it much because they don't know anything about it. Just give a basic "Wow, Plato really anticipated so much of our own modern politics, 2500 years ago." And then throw in some bit about the allegory of the cave, (it will match up to the motivational quotes they pin on pinterest, so it's perfect)