/lit/ - Literature

>>14049428
>I read a scientific study about the toddlers. It's clear to me from this that either God exists or we project higher metaphysical truths from ourSelves and I personally lean toward the latter. It's an innate part of humanity, not a bias we grow up to learn and fall prey to, unlike your Civilization aimed NPCism.
Again, you're not differentiating one stage of human development from the next, you're seeing the toddler with its bias and wonder and selfish breast-clinging and taking that as the standard for all humanity at every stage of development: be a toddler when you're a 40 yr old man, you'll not fare well.

We do in fact change into totally different people as we exist in the world, no matter what the world is to us individually it takes a very dim minded person to continue to enjoy .. say.. hitting a drum over and over for all their life. We change constantly; it's what drives fads and shopping for instance.

>Teleology is an innate subjective impulse of humans and will never escape language so that we can all become autonomous logic spewing bots
Re: Arete and Ataraxia. But this is understood as simply Education; you go to the school and learn your way out of toddler-like errors by learning the most effective way to think and be; which is always going to involve pure logic and not being bad to other people. You might just as well argue that since we crap ourselves as babies that we should stop potty training babies and begin to crap ourselves all the time as adults and young adults just because we happen to do this when we're very small; i.e. just because we happen to do this before we've been taught the proper way.

A novel written half in Spanish and half in English, following a man with split personalities thanks to the offline/online dichotomy. Chapters would be in Greek, and the MC would be called Baco and Phoebus.

>>7830642
>A collection of short stories from the perspectives of famous mythological dragons, focusing on themes of alienation, the dubious value of inner strength without community or companionship, violence, and free choice and conditioning.
That actually sounds interesting.

Don't know but I read Nietzsche and now I'm really happy

>>7526617
love in the age of cholera

underwhelming ending

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf8XVsiaQzo

>>7522021
art = reality

>>6667942
Hey, opie. I hope to teach English and Humanities when I graduate. Ever so often a lesson plan pops into my head. I thought of this a few days back, you can use it if'n you like it:

Tell your class a story, something you were a part of, something you witnessed. Doesn't really matter what it is. Could be anything, (you saw a lady stumble at the grocery store, but nobody helped her up / you saw a group of kids ripping on one of their own / you saw a homeless beggar petting his dog).
THEN tell the class that whatever it was that happened in the story, "meant a lot" to you and ask them "now why would that mean so much to me?"

Assign your students a two page paper in which they will explain why it meant something to you, or moved you or however you phrase.

Optional:
You COULD tell them to write it using a particular literary theory.

>write a bunch of literary theories on one sheet of paper
>cut the sheet of paper up, so to each piece of paper there is 1 literary theory
>put pieces of the cut paper in a bucket
>pass bucket around the class
>each student pulling one piece out as it goes by them
>whichever literary theory the student has written on their piece of paper, that's the one which they'll use.

For reference:
http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm

>>6433253
> may or may not have been an alcohol