/lit/ - Literature

your all fuckin gay

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Don't listen to the mawkish advice of these effeminate Redditors, OP. Your friend needs his solitude in this time of grieving. Give him Walden, the Bugles, and the Queso Blanco dip.

Every thread shouldn't have to be about a specific book. Broad, abstract threads are the best because not everyone has the same taste in literature and many do not read the same books. As long as the thread is not about anime, analytic philosophy, politics, and other philistine interests, it should be allowed.

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read walden dude

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https://youtu.be/AO1BNFoCd-o


Stand beside it, we can't hide the way it makes us glow
It's no good unless it grows, feel this burning, love of mine
Deep inside the ever-spinning, tell me does it feel
It's no good unless it's real, hill sides burning
Wild-eyed turning til we're running from it

I'd take care of you if you'd ask me to
In a year or two

You say swimming in the lake we'll come across a snake
It is real and then it's fake, feel its heartbeat
Feel what you heat, far so fast it feels too late

I'd take care of you
Take care of you
That's true

“A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.”

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It requires struggle to fracture the stagnant frame of mind that neverendingly accumulates. This is a spook, that is a spook, is just one disposition among many, one bead on the string you hoped to throw away but still find coloring your world. Basically the opposite of the simple "just relax and take it easy" attitude the blundering fool above me discerned from my post.

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life is thundering blissful towards death

>>6866721
Schopenhauer and Heidegger's philosophies are both symptoms of a DEGENERATING INSTINCT. Rather than courageously affirm life in all of its strangeness and "ugliness," say yes to suffering, to be oneself the eternal joy of becoming beyond terror and pity, and rejoice in destruction, both Schopenhauer and Heidegger retreat into deadening ideals and condemn the darker half of life. They contemplate only the singing of birds like all romantics do.
A philosophy emphasizing Being is a cowardly attempt to find something permanent to hold onto in a world where the only thing that endures is change. Schopenhauer's permanent subject. Trod out the Platonic ideals. The species are fixed. Please, please, give me something to hold onto, anything. Heidegger's precious German soil.
Their philosophies are based on FEAR. They want to get away from themselves. They want desperately to escape from...
Life is as much life as it is death. You are life. You are death. Revere death and destruction with a strange satisfaction. Comprehend the silence of the snake as well as the singing of birds. Look the dark angel firmly in the eye because there is no escape and there is nowhere to hide. If the house is left in darkness out of fear, the spirit of creation will pass it by. But unlike the spirit of creation, the angel of death can see in the dark.

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The Question Concerning Technology
Building, Dwelling, Thinking

Thoreau, especially when he is describing plants and animals in detail.

Pure perception of things without trying to fit them into some theory is the most patrician way to go about philosophy.

Beware, OP. The key to being a first-rate philosopher is the ability to determine who and what is not worth reading.

I read Walden when I was in 8th grade or so. People focus too much on his living-in-a-cabin experiment. The main thing I got from Thoreau was the importance of changing your perception, mentally and emotionally, and finding beauty in everyday things and not engrossing yourself too much in books and other forms of escapism (buying lots of shit you don't need, going on fancy vacations, etc.) The application of that aspect of his philosophy is an antidote to boredom. It helps you live in the present.

"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day--that is the highest of arts."

https://youtu.be/kO1oB9fgpFc
https://youtu.be/DWdNiGS1Qtw
https://youtu.be/9DCaxN6TfH4?t=2m45s
https://youtu.be/2Dvbeo_UUPE

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did you post this picture?

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve
and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts." -H.D.T.

the actual events contorted in the iliad and odyssey took place in western europe among the germanic tribes "homer" was nothing more than the germanics immigrating into greece and spreading their mythology among the greek savage meteorite worshipers

>>5999943
Just read The Gospel in Brief by Tolstoy for now.

>>5844158
Most of the people who score INTJ on the stupid online tests are actually INTPs because with introverts the J or P is determined by the second function. INTJ is actually a dominant perceiver (P).