/lit/ - Literature

How do you think true happiness is achieved

>>22640940
>tfw this whining gay has got me fantasizing about fascist libraries
Imagine instead of giant jagged glass penises attached to depressing concrete boxes, beautiful classical or gothic architecture. Imagine instead of tranny storytime hour and Harry Potter condom kiosks for kids, the library being a place for local scholars, antiquarians, monks, and cultural enthusiasts to promote learning and wisdom. Imagine instead of hobos pissing their pants while looking at scat porn and Chinese people eating carrots with their mouths open loud enough to rattle the cheap windowpanes, polite and well-dressed citizens.

Imagine the world we almost had and could have again.

Life is wonderful. Life is comfy. The sky is pretty, the air smells pleasant. Today I so loved watching the morning light through the curtains while I sat in my chair with a book at my elbow. I broke up with my gf two weeks ago and my joyfulness returned instantly.. perhaps I’m just happiest alone.

>tfw remembering those blissful mornings as a teenage NEET reading fitzgerald's homer and jowett's plato in my parents' kitchen while they were at work
>tfw thinking this is so strange, this is nothing like the stories i've read so far, it has no traditional beginning or ending, the characters don't act like any "tropes" or "archetypes" i've seen before, "good guys" end up being bad guys, who am i supposed to sympathize with here?
>tfw my brain wanting to force it to fit into preordained boxes i already have handy but it just didn't
>tfw realizing that it's not these great writings that are flawed, it's me, it's not homer's fault for not fitting in my boxes, it's that i have an impoverished set of boxes
>tfw realizing the wild world out there is so much bigger than what my dumbass teenager brain reflexively wants it to be
>tfw realizing i'm beginning a beautiful journey
>tfw realizing i'm retreading a path taken by generations of homer enjoyers before me
>tfw somehow dimly realizing i have undergone a small but significant rite of passage in my parents' kitchen on a thursday afternoon

>you will live to see early 20th century levels of open fascism and white nationalism in western politics

>tfw remembering how far we've come since 2010
>tfw nobody in their wildest dreams would imagine white identity politics going mainstream by 2020, even the most optimistic white nationalists
>tfw half of zoomers are antifeminist antisemites
>tfw shrill liberal millennials and status quo institutions are only going to make it 10x worse by 2030 by trying to clamp down on it
Do you ever just take a step back to appreciate how far we've come and how good things really are? I encourage you, take a moment to think of how hard it was to even criticize degenerate social behaviors, let alone point out bad actors or trends underlying them, 10 years ago. Things are going great.

>>20992371
>God, in His infinite wisdom, planted the themes of his coming as the Son, death, and resurrection in all the pagan mythologies so that Europeans would naturally and readily understand on an innate level that Jesus is the Christ
WAGMI Christbros

I AM once again trying to quit this website for at least the next few years until I can turn my life around. Farewell, Anons. I'm sure you won't miss my shitposting.

O glaube, mein Herz, o glaube:
Es geht dir nichts verloren!

Dein ist, was du gesehnt!
Dein, was du geliebt, Was du gestritten!

O glaube:
Du wardst nicht umsonst geboren!
Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten!

Was entstanden ist, das muß vergehen!
Was vergangen, auferstehen!
Hör' auf zu beben!
Bereite dich zu leben!

O Schmerz! Du Alldurchdringer!
Dir bin ich entrungen!
O Tod! Du Allbezwinger!
Nun bist du bezwungen!
Mit Flügeln, die ich mir errungen,
In heißem Liebesstreben,
Werd' ich entschweben
Zum Licht, zu dem kein Aug' gedrungen!
Sterben werd' ich, um zu leben!

Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n wirst du,
Mein Herz, in einem Nu!
Was du geschlagen,
Zu Gott wird es dich tragen!