/lit/ - Literature

>>20477902
>your child self and your ancestors watched you outlift everyone around you

>>20403798
>watched, spied on, afraid of big crowds, social anxiety, self-isolation
I feel this way even when I'm alone. I'm not sure what to do anymore. Sometimes it prevents me from writing and becomes an overwhelming paranoia. Even though I know that nobody is watching me, I can't help it. It happens automatically, like there's someone waiting behind me judging me

>>20325333
>The horse raced past the barn fell.

>that which

>>19822511
>because for

>>19810098
>no can do

>>18920915
>Philosophy? What's that? Oh it's a book thing. Yeah I don't really read books.

God is far too great to be confined to any single human religion, any single name in the stunted tongues of Mankind, any single dogma or holy book.

>>18888398
>I am sick when I do look on thee.

As an outsider, I still think America can be salvaged without crashing and burning believe it or not.
But certain assumptions have to be dispelled.
It’s not 1991 anymore, America, you will have to accept that your time as a superpower, much less hegemon, is over.
After the failure in Afghanistan you’ll have to accept that the war on terror and the war on drugs were colossal mistakes.
The approach of mass surveillance, drone strikes and refusing to negotiate didn’t work, doesn’t work and will never work. For every terrorist you kill 2 more spring up.
Similarly the approach to the war on drugs doesn’t work either. Every time a kingpin is eliminated another will rise to take their place.
The best course of action for you is to step down from world affairs, focus on domestic issues and finally pay attention to the neglected groups in the heartland.
This is also the opportunity to do some deep soul searching. Materialism and consumerism has been deeply disappointing for everyone, it has not made your populace happy but rather miserable. You’ll have to accept that endless growth is a lie, and focus your energies on redistributive justice.
Money isn’t everything, and America needs a newfound appreciation for immaterial values like community, family, religion and solidarity if there is any hope of salvaging what remains of your torn social fabric.
This is a fulcrum point where things can go either way. You can either reflect deeply on how the country has been faring since the fall of Communism for these past 30 years and turn a new leaf, or you can precipitate in your current trajectory that will surely end in catastrophe.
The choice is yours America.

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>18855913
>18856164
>IT WAS ATLANTEANS
Yes.

Nabokov? Never cared for him. Ostentatious writer of mediocre, pulp books for simpletons. His literary musings are worth less to me than the languid offerings of Rupi Kaur or Sam Harris (combined). Only a fool could commend such an effete hack. Thank God he died when he did, for he would have made DFW look halfway talented by comparison. In a word: egregious.

Don't bait me, bro.

>>17421094
>when you finish a book you loved
>it wasn't real
>you are back in real life now
>you can never read it for the first time again
>it will never be real
>this is it
>however, you are blessed with countless books from all across the globe, the ability to read whatever you want, whenever you want, to start the journey all over again, but this time, with a different book.
we're all gonna make it bros..

The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology by Husserl and Carr, David

>Since the dawn of history has man pondered the question...

samsara>nirvana

>>16391950
>p-prove that y-you are a c-chad lol
what fucking "chad"? I told you what I am like and you desperately ascribed one of your incel meme terms to it again because youre an actual sub 70 IQ retard. I cant even believe you would show this level of pathetic autism to people that youre begging for someone to "prove" that theyre a "chad". How about you prove to me that youre going to kill yourself tonight you stupid fucking faggot. I literally dont give a shit whether or not you "believe" me because clearly this perfectly plausible scenario of a man that wasnt a useless, spineless, low test sack of shit like you and actually got into the game is a completely harrowing nightmare to a loser like you. Keep eating those cheetos and watching that anime fucking faggot

>i-intentional f-fa-fallacy
go kill yourself, you havent "refuted" anything, you just stopped making your garbage bait posts because now youre actually crying since your epically funny trolling and samefagging ended up with someone coming to pull your virtual pants down. Grow up and have sex fucking useless seething manchild

>b-but then i wont achieve anything lol h-haha incels are superior!!1
you havent achieved anything now, weakling pedo. Youre living proof of what a genetic dead end looks like. Theres a world of difference between a seething useless autist like you and a normal adult virgin male. My best friend literally looks like a model and hes still a virgin because he actually doesnt care or try to bend the knee to societal pressure like weak autists like you since he genuinely doesnt care about casual sex with some random woman even though he could probably get literally anyone he wanted if he made a tinder profile. Youre just a coping autistic troglodyte

>>15028433
>henceforward
>thenceforward
>whenceforward

>>14649256
I'm going to major in history because i like it.

>One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

>>14283421
The intersection of sex and violence in Ballard's work is intimately tied to his own traumatic experiences during the war of seeing people killed and blown apart after bomb blasts and in the Jap internment camps. From what I've read and heard of Ballard, he found writing about these topics to be a kind of exploratory catharsis of the troubling themes of death and sex, an intimacy that could be safely explored in the exhibitionism of literature and film. If his writing on erotica is seen as technical or clinical, then this is one potential explanation as to why this is so.

"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come
to turn
a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
a man’s enemies will be the members of his own
household."

How is Christianity a family religion?

>war bad, peace good