/lit/ - Literature

>>22829452
I was born in a working class/blue collar family, but as the other kids in the neighborhood appeared to only enjoy sports and related stuff (I am not against sports btw) I was that kid who wanted to know where things came from, what happened in the past and so on. Books were what lifted me from the limits of my social circumstance and gave me reason to enjoy living, wich is learning. I vividly remember of a period in my early childhood where I did not had much access to books and aside from going to open nature with my dad and visiting old historical places in my region, I really disliked not having stimulating stuff to do on most days. Looking back, I was very lucky that my parents recognized this need for learning early on and supported me wholeheartedly.

>>21367082
You have to remember that the idea that you're "just a stroke of paint" is also just that: an idea. If you're truly powerless then that idea is just as insubstantial as anything else you might possess. There's great egotism in masochism, it's a form of exerting yourself that people unconsciously take when no other path is available. A more humble outlook than despair would be to acknowledge that your ideas are just as much a response to your helplessness in the world. Unironically the only way to find authenticity (and liberation) in your life is to do what you can and then stop thinking about it.

>>19838956

I read in the same park Joyce read in and stare at foreigners all day

How to write to be read, how to speak to the world?

How can people get published and read by other people? How can you post things for others to read? How come people post on social medias and are able to live? I'm only able to post on anonymous forums, I can't get out of my house, I write things, fiction, opinions, poems, but I don't show them, I don't engage in discussions even when I feel I have something to say. I don't scorn the extroverted like some introverts, I would like to be able to promote myself like twitter celebrity and whore myself out in instagram stories, or irl be the one to speak louder on the table about . If only to get what I write to be pulbished, read and talk about. I don't mind money or prize as much as to see a change in the world around me based on what I have to say, to whatever degree that is.

For a long time I thought it was just my prudence on not speaking shit and I've probably really escaped from saying shit, but that's beside the point. I see now that there is some value in what I think, and that whatever that value is (even if it is little or negative), can only be actualized if it is put out there so that the world can be the judge.

It's just ego I guess, fear of criticism on some level, but it's been so fucking hard for me to let go of this and post things. Life is a full on competition, I feel I'm about to be mocked and mobbed at all times by everyone. Many times I've written tweets and posts only to delete them before posting them. I either think they are too pretentious or too trivial.

I know, I'm retarded, but I'm asking for help.

How do people do it? Even if you don't get published or read, how do you find the strenght to attempt to do it? Don't you get tired of it? I don't know what to do. I'm 30 years old and it's like my whole life I've been having stuff to say and can't for the love of anything put it out there.

I'm looking for books that consist of mostly nice pretty descriptions without being shit please help

Do people exist who don't listen to a wide variety of stuff?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OALDX4kcjuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDtTHC8BoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADV396XrMlU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNIyDf1328

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RyS0e4Ppg4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckVYO9oI8vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOs82l8K1rk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rYQ3S5wvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsVzm-rgS-w

A small sample of my superb taste, I'd post some more but I've forgotten the non-English names of many after google terminated my yt account for uploading anasheed

What are your thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita or the Vedas? Are they worth a read?

>>9919219
So what compatibilists are saying is that a person has free will to react to an event, but because events are deterministic, the person was always going to choose to react that way and never would have chosen a different reaction?

Am I understanding correctly

If that's the case then isn't free will kind of a moot point since they were always going to make that "choice"? What relevance does free will really have if the choice was inevitable anyway?

>favourite book
crime and punishment
>exercise
I do a powerlifting routine. Stats are currently around 405/365/565. Numbers are totally out of whack due to persistent hip injury preventing squatting/deadlifting that much.

Is /lit/ the most pretentious board on 4chan?