/lit/ - Literature

>>10186581
This is high quality bait but I'll leave it for the youngsters.

>he doesn't write deep, comprehensive literary and philosophical letters hoping that in 100 years from now historians will publish and study them
>he's not planning his fame and after-death fame through lots of events and documents that will surely end up in your biographies

It's like no one here is living the literary lifestyle

>>7272353
Say one dwells contemplating mental states; ardent, clearly conscious and mindful – having put aside the attraction and repulsion of the world. As he does this, either some bodily feeling arises, some bodily discomfort arises, or drowsiness scatters his thoughts to outward things. Then he should direct his attention to some pleasurable object or thought. Having done that, gladness arises, from gladness comes joy, because of joy the body is tranquil, with a tranquil body one is happy, and the mind of one who is happy becomes concentrated. Then he thinks: ‘The aim on which I set my mind is now attained. So let me withdraw my mind from that pleasant thought.’ Then he withdraws his mind from that, and neither starts nor carries on contemplating thought processes. Then he is mindful and knows, ‘Logical and wandering thoughts have stopped, I am inwardly mindful and happy.’

-- S.V,156

>>6608499

The Betas and the feminazies say that, long time ago, men were scared by the lack of refractory period in the female. The men then understood that the women have a kind of infinity of pleasure in her, unreachable by men. Frightened, the men then enslaves the female in refusing her pleasure. Hence the birth of the patriarchy.

I have in my hand some books i read in high school, i dont know which i should re-read first (20 yo, btw)

* Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

* The Picture of Dorian Gray

* Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

* Letter to His Father

* La Resistencia (Sabato), i think not have an english translation

And this one is from my brother, i dont read it yet

* The Tell Tale Heart and Other Stories (The Black Cat, William Wilson, Morella, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, The Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Fall of the House of Usher)

Pic not related, btw

>>6539474
The notion of reward is a bit unbecoming. Why do you focus on this one ? The yield = pleasure/suffering in hedonism is always increasing but it gets harder and harder to increase it as our science of biology has just been born, compared to our physics. Nowadays, the best hedonistic life still requires quite a lot of money for instance. If you are in the middle class, it will sucks great time as all you desire comes from a compromised between your time/money invested and the pleasure retrieved. But again, this is what drives the society and there is nothing wrong with this. And to create as always existed : we create scientific models, novels, cures, companies (very trendy today obviously), ads, jobs and so on. Creation going beyond its usefulness for our direct survival has always been here.

The problem with the trivial hedonism, that is to say, with the hedonism without the creation, is that you do no longer have constraints on your pleasures, beyond the constraints of diversity or rather repetitivity if you do not have enough money. In other words, we decrease our sufferings without even thinking about it : it would be reckless for us not to treat our cancer as soon as we discover it.
However, there is no upper bounds to our pleasures. Why would somebody limit his own desires and pleasures (especially nowadays) ?

The point of the creation, the point of its pleasure is that by definition, to create is the most difficult thing in the world since what you are doing has not be done, and worse, you do not know whether it is doable. This is the upper bound for our pleasures, this is why it is good hedonism.