/lit/ - Literature

I almost cried last night because I came to terms with how much my parents must love and care for me. my dad in particular, a flawed man at best, but almost christ-like in his willingness to silently suffer and sacrifice constantly for our family while asking nothing in return. both a man of action who is ready and capable to get shit dont, and with a will to help others. as a kid i never would of thought much about it, but he really is a man worth admiring in his own way. I hope I can get the courage to tell him one day

How does one go about making any /lit/ friends after graduating college (undergrad) while living in American suburbs in your mom's house and still not being able to drive? I feel like I am suffocating here having no connection to other people.

>have crisis
>buy books
>feel better
works every time

>>17478315
>The yugioh card
>American psycho first book
>the weird peluche hand behind the tub
>Whatever the fuck is at the left
There is so much going on here. Godspeed anon, a 10/10 tub stack.

Does anyone know a good place to discuss literature? /lit/ is just undergrad stemtards larping as philosophers and /pol/tards with 20 books read and 2000 books on their want to read on goodreads.

What are some pro-consumerist books? Most people here seem to be anti-consumerist and I think that may be due to the fact that most people here come from bourgeois families and are underage and never worked and bought things on their own. I want to hear the arguments for pro-consumerism which you don't usually hear about since it seems like minimalism.is the fad now. I honestly like buying things like books, gunpla, anime figurines, anime bds, albums, and collecting other things and feel good doing so.

Who are the best Marxists and who are the worst Marxists?

>>16881922
That sounds nice!

>>16881980
>This Purana has arisen now, in Kali yuga, when all learning has been destroyed, after Krishna returned to his own abode. It is like the sun and is full of knowledge about dharma.
>This illustrious Bhagavata was composed by the great sage. It is about supreme dharma iand is completely free from deceit. It is for the virtuous who are devoid of envy. Knowledge exists here about true reality and bliss and about uprooting the three kinds of misery. What else is needed to obtain the lord? If a person has cleansed his soul and is faithful, through this, he instantly establishes him in his heart. The sacred texts are like trees that yield all the objects of desire and this represents their ripened fruit. It emerged from Shuka's mouth, with the pulp and juice of amrita. Drink the Bhagavata, the store of juices. O those who possess taste! Savour it repeatedly and become happy on earth.
From the first part. It's a lot longer than the Gita, but roughly speaking it also tells stories of Krishna, with philosophical parts and an emphasis on devotion to Krishna as a means to liberation.

>>16849252
Bretty good actually. We hang out a lot so I've been using 4chan less so she doesn't get scared off. She's like a fucking ninja, I was shitposting on /sci/ and she fucking came out of nowhere and was like "oh It's just some, uhh, research forum" thank god she didn't see /fit/.

>play vidya for 20 minutes
>reward myself with 100 pages of reading

>>16518235
Thanks! I think I understand it a bit better now.

>For example in the US corporations have free speech, and thus can support political parties.
This is the perfect example of what I mean though, if there was some different category with fewer rights than a person, but still enough to function economically (owning things, getting into debt, etc.) shouldn't that be good enough? I suppose that's already getting into the political debate about it though, but it almost feels like it's creating an imaginary friend and then attributing thoughts to it.

/lit/ has been a great benefit to me too, not just in exposing me to more authors and books, but also in encouraging me to read more often and read more actively. I especially appreciate encouragement and guidance in reading philosophical works, despite the philosophy shitposters who don’t read there are many philosophy anons who do. In particular guidance on reading through the Greeks and being introduced to Spinoza, who I only heard about through /lit/ and has deeply informed my worldview now, I’m much more happy, well-planned, and motivated. On a fictional note, when I first started coming here years ago some anons convinced me to read Moby-Dick because they said it was comfy, but it ended up being the most wonderful and beautiful book I had ever read, it touched me in a way that I seldom have been and restored my appreciation of art, thank you bros.

What is Apu's political ideology?

>>16006908
Take the vegan permaculture pill

Hope you all are feeling loved frens. Recently I talked again to an old friend I met online and was happily surprised he had found memories of me. I think the same applies to you. I don't see through the anon, but many of you have contributed to this board and many times made me feel less lonely in this universe. God bless you my frens.

>see anons having trouble with daunting philosophical buzzwords like phenomenology, dialectic, or a priori
>remember when they were daunting to me too
>now use them reflexively
>tfw channeling my energy so a new generation of anons can learn these difficult but useful ideas

You're all going to make it friends

You aren't alone, you have us.

>>15826584
>>15826653
What do you guys like to read

>>15759419
Awesome, we frens now!

How do you want to stay in contact fren?

>>15573056
>mfw this anon has the cutest engrish

Does anybody want to be my fren?

I love my cat. He always cheers me up when I feel down.

What famous authors really liked cats aswell? Do you like cats too frens?

My poetry tends to be very nature orientated and I love the harmony rhymes can create so I write most poems with rhymes. For nature I feel this works really well. But if I try to tackle some other topics, I feel like the rhyming takes a way from the tone of the subject. Yet I feel a tad lost writing free verse since I have mostly seen bad examples of it. Any tipps on how to tackle "more serious" matters and how to write good free verse poetry? It's much appreciate frens.

I had a good day today frens. I hope you have a nice day aswell. Love you all.

The central flaw behind Western civilization is the creator/creation dichotomy which is associated with substance metaphysics and the idea of thing-in-itselfness, that something only needs itself to exist, removed from anything else. This is the philosophical justification for private property, which requires dismissing parallelism and focusing only on linear causality. Substance metaphysics is the metaphysics of alienation, and one possible route to transcend this is process metaphysics, in which thing-ness is the total web of relationships between an event and everything else. In this view there is no distinction between a creator and a creation, and the concept of a singular creator creating a singular creation is replaced by an immanent creativity in which all events co-author the tapestry of existence.

The perception of reality that comes with this is all of existence as continually co-creating art, of not a singular purpose and meaning but an infinite number of them, a universe alive with unfathomable richness and depth of meaning that while we can only glimpse a small fraction of, such glimpses give a hint of the hidden vastness that while unreachable to us, can be experienced. Try to imagine your life as a relationship with the universe, not in a paternalistic sense or a dominative sense (as with the idea that the universe is a passive, meaningless void upon which one creates meaning out of,) but in a mutualistic sense of complete equality. Remember that this isn't a relationship between yourself and a singular unity, but a web of relationships of which the totality comprises your life, including your relationship with yourself. Seek mutualistic co-creative relationships in all affairs, not just between humans but all things, including elements of yourself, and you will find well-being and happiness.

Your afterlife is literally what happens after your life: there is no distinction between you and the rest of the universe, and so your becoming is truly immortal; you live on as the universe. Those who place all meaning in their own existence have their meaning die with them, but those who place their meaning in all that is outside them have immortal meaning