/lit/ - Literature

>>16239520
Hello, based department?

Which translation of the "Táin Bó Cúailnge" should I read?

Can someone explain to me what the actual difference between determinism and free will to me? What actual difference does it make? If someone chooses to make a decision, or they were predetermined to make the decision and the choice was an illusion, what actually changes? You're not free from consequence either way, responsibility is still deferred the same way. Murdering with free will puts you in prison because you're choosing to be a murderer, murdering because you're fated to puts you in prison because you're determined a murderer.

Shut the fuck up faggot, you'd consider suicide if your internet went down for a week. You're depressed and listless and have taken to romanticizing a shitty person doing shitty things in shitty places to other shitty people. What's next, you're gonna wish you were a pirate because they just sang songs and drank beer on the ocean all day? You're like one of those 75 IQ inner city youths who try to join da bluds or something because rap music told them it'd be all money, bitches, and respect when in reality they get to be human shields and errand boys for triple felons and make less than minimum wage. Except, of course, you're even worse because you have an extra layer of self-unawaredness because you see the former and think you're different than they are, but you're not.

>>15801411
>You just responded to that one sentence, then ignored the rest of the argument that was inherent to it.
Yes, I saved the effort of arguing on behalf of a point I'm not actually making. You said "This is the only Iliad and Odyssey. There might be better stories, there aren't "the same stories but written by someone else"." and I countered that by saying, I thought very clearly, that asking someone what happens in the Iliad is itself the same story told by someone else. You seem to be under the impression that I'm looking to read a different story altogether and get what you or others got out of reading the Iliad, implied by your "dude why read Steinbeck when you can just read Fitzgerald?" comment. That's not what I'm saying, as I've previously clarified, and that is why I didn't bother to counter your argument on that point. This is me clarifying it a SECOND time, I'm not asking you "What's the point in knowing what happens in the Iliad and Odyssey?" I'm asking you "What's the point in reading the Iliad and Odyssey if you already know what happens in them?".
>You know how I'm defining it, don't get lost in semantics. Literature in this specific argument.
Then just say "literature". Is it so difficult to be precise in your communication?
>No, you're intentionally failing to understand my arguments
I understand them perfectly, you're failing to understand that your arguments are perfect counters to a point I've already said I'm not making. I've asked "What's two minus two?" and you've rolled up and said "Two plus two is four", and when I respond "No, I'm not talking about addition, I'm talking about subtraction" you keep repeating "Two plus two is obviously four, why are you being obtuse?"
>you didn't make this thread to figure out whether or not it's worth it to read the books, but just as bait to make a thread.
Yes, clearly, anyone who manages to still disagree with you after you've shat your divine diarrhea of wisdom all over the place must be faking ignorance just to rile you up.

>>13592145
Did you steal a package off someone’s porch and end up with a book? Serious question.

Every single book in the western canon

>>13476434
what’s on his bookshelf?