/lit/ - Literature

>>20872514
It can be called whatever, no need to microfocus on meanings of words. I want to live inline with my desires and values, without bending to outer pressure and temptations. Can it be called authentic? Maybe not, but it doesn't change the way I'm trying to live.

>>20836581
cont.
These three concepts, not only improved my poker career, but also my life in general. I'm less concerned about what people think and I'm more productive. This is why I got interested in philosophy. I used to think that philosophy is useless intelectual masturbation of turbo-autist incels, but now that I got real proof that philosophy can be helpful in real world, more so than any self-help or psychology book, I started taking it more seriously. But the problem was that I didn't agree with most of what I was reading. I don't buy metaphysics(Plato's theory of forms) and in my opinion many philosophies argue against human nature. Stoics say that having strong desires is bad, which can't be true, because it is human nature to have strong desires and strive for power, status and pleasure. Epicurus says that happiness is absence of pain and negative emotions, which is also can't be true. We can use painkillers to never feel pain, but if we dislocate our shoulder, we won't have signal from our body that smth wrong with our shoulder. In a similar fashion, negative emotions can be useful signals of something being wrong(weakness, bad decision etc.) and can help us to make strong resolutions, focus on what's needed to be fixed and make better decisions. Long story short, I started developing my own system based on my observations and testing my ideas with different thought experiments. I won't go into too much details regarding how I arrived with everything, but I'm ready to expand if needed.

I've realized that people universally respect self-control and fortitude. Want to be respected by neighbors, your friends, your boss, millionaires and billionaires? Have self-control and fortitude. Rec me some books that will help me to max self-control and fortitude.

Books for people who want to escape society?

I don't know where else I can ask. I found that Memorial University Grenfell campus has a Great Books Humanities program. It's quite cheap relative to other Great Books programs in US and Canada for international students. Also St.Thomas University in Fredericton, Concordia University, Brock University, Vancouver Island University and Carleton University have similar Great Books programs. Is anyone here familiar with these programs and can tell me if they are good or not?

Most writers, if they're lucky, will be remembered for one book that they wrote. Two if they're extremely lucky. More than two is an anomaly. But as a general idea we could say that one writer is one book. What every writer attempts is to crystallize himself into a book, "forever".

>>16820509
>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-YrbU_ih6uWstF-RfM8xp6T8PFrmIixm?usp=sharing

to say that it's pleb tier would be a compliment. I can tell that you've just started writing poetry, but it's boring angsty teenager stuff. You say are verbose (I know sometimes you are doing it ironically) and your attempts at wit are laughable and pathetic.
I am not going to tell you to give up writing poetry, but I think you should try writing essays or prose for now, until you actually read more canonical works.

>>16564770
How about a bookmark recommendation?

>My favorite philosopher is Nietzsche
>My favorite novel is American Psycho
>My favorite period in history is Classical Greece
>I dance to cope with the miseries of life, read to psychoanalyze myself and dream of creating a life far away from civilization were I can be free from vain judgment, pressure to enter the rat race, artificial stress inflicted on us and the general ills of our modern consoomerist societies (as described by Rousseau)
What kind of person do you imagine?

Are there any good books that refute evolutionary theory?
I am looking for something that approaches the issue from a secular and scientific perspective.

>>inbb4 Francis Crick

>>16251720
>His poetry about the Persian Wars is though, not only can you translate it rather easily but you can pass over the intensity of the emotion
Yes, reading the greek will always be better but the "muh you can't read muh lyrics without learning to read the doric, ionic and aelian varieties used and often mixed" is nonsense
Why should OP start with Sosos and Soso where there is a shit ton of good poetry in all languages?

>>15699537
I read Fear and trembling and Either/Or when I was 18 and I didn't understand much. I'm 23 now and now I understand what he meant. I think the point of his work is to experience it oneself.

>>15634249
This

>>15636400
The digital will actually save my ideas as only AI will be interested in reading my experimental poetry and other scribbles and notes.

I strted writing in a diary/norebook after having read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. My texts were very didactic at first, directed either a a future self or some other person. Now I mostly only write bullshit when I'm on drugs or in love with some girl or some place. If you want to start writing in a notebook or if you want to keep a diary I would strongly suggest using an app on your phone. I use Everynote because I can acces it basically everywhere and it keeps all the things I've written down on their servers, so that one day my data will be sold and AI's will learn or at least enjoy the bullshit I've written down so long ago.

>>15629076
based

>>13545770
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai.

>>13546130
>>13546191
These two a lot too.