/lit/ - Literature

>>20765204
Antinatalism is not the same as being suicidal.
Death is unpleasant, not being born in the first place is not. They wish for something they can never achieve. Also, they are cowards.

Well boys, I'm back. Got a nice new gf but I've got absolutely no libido. Not turned gay, not quite depressed these days, little bit of anxiety. What could be causing it? I'm not an old man, it can't be physical. Any advice for a hopeless young anon?

Lads, it's requited love. I didn't believe in it. All my bellyaching on these threads must have finally paid off. Holy fucking shit!

>>19718975
No mysterious Gay Jewboys in Siddharta if that's what you mean. Seriously, it's nothing like Demian.

Repost for the new thread: Don't know whether to accept antidepressants. I can get through life, I'm not suicidal, but I feel almost nothing. Nothing seems to have any importance. I can occasionally enjoy something but it's like it's behind a screen / doesn't really count. Maybe it's "anhedonia". Will medication even do anything for this? Am I just aging?

>>19602413
No, everything else is 99virgins fanfiction.
In fact, nobody was interested in 1001 nights until Antoine Galland found it by chance. Also, it's pre-Islamic, mostly Indian in origin and put together in the Sassanid Empire.

>>19553828
Liberalism didn't fail, SJWs failed. It's the idea that everybody, independently on personal merit, should get the same quality of life. In post-modern liberal democracies, the one who screams the loudest will be heard.

>>19079397
Sorry my fault, you're right

>>18390799
Have a historic Novel list: Harris, Duggan and Lindsey are a bit pulpy at times. The other novels are generally considered patrician. This is all republican to mid-imperial era.

Cicero Trilogy and Pompeii (Robert Harris)
The Sword of Pleasure (Peter Green)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
I Claudius and Claudius the God (Robert Graves)
Julian (Gore Vidal)
Augustus (John Williams)
Tiberius, Caesar, Nero's Heirs (Allan Massie)
Winter Quarters, The Little Emperors, Family Favourites (Alfred Duggan)
The Conspiracy (John Hersey)
The Course of Honor (David Lindsey)

>>18174445
They talk about different things actually, Nietzsche does not even try to understand the world, just people. Platonism is much more analytic, it tries to understand reality.

>>14843119

Old Roman chant (pre-schism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ych_dTX8G0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhP654dN3Ww
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5xoJfXT1LU

Ikue Asazaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gHNbdS76k0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM8UnA4-fK8

Vocatief - Heyr himna smiður
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWA_XnGru6s

Byzantine chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feu2owd0MsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOD2tGiK6Q

Secular Medieval
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUtXo1sTPDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lw8nH6dQIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9mEpG_6fso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvesKl8_W8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlipG4F3WeE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ti59NdbG1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPHCikPJqs

Gustav Holst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRRtmrjWsPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmk5frp6-3Q

David Hykes: Hearing Solar Winds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4pVASwvvMk
David Hykes: Kyrie Fragments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8HDHZA27PY
David Hykes: Hallelujah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZ5YwZw0SQ

>>13100782
Schnittke: Requiem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icNHpzt2JzA
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiuC_CaObbI
Einaudi: The Earth Prelude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT27qHYXcjc
Bulgarian chant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcfJWWDuU_0
Jocelyn Pook: Masked Ball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnpLutpwaW4
Old Roman chant (pre-schism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ych_dTX8G0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhP654dN3Ww

>>11156970
He considered the death of Skydaddy a dangerous thing in itself, but also necessary in the coming-of-age process.

>>5948018
There has to be a VALID, RATIONAL reason. God is dead, don't feed him. You could argue that rituals strengthen community ties, but communities feeding a dead god are subhuman.

>>5918087
Everything connects with YKK. But the Quran is most likely best in Arabic. Just go to some Jihadi site, they should have a decent version, after all these guys depend on new meat.

People should seriously think twice about using reddit, edgy kids or fedora meme, this is not /b. Being abrasive is ok, but it should not be done in such a cheap way, maybe with some prose. Also, some atheists here are pretty old, there is more of a reason to it than being an edgy college kid.
As far as a "beyond-the-universe-deity" goes, all bets are on. Everything goes because when physics breaks down, our empirical framework breaks down. Reality itself is gone. However, in that context, "belief" makes as much sense as rational thought, none at all. Putting a god there is putting him in the last open gap, and most likely this is where we never can go, so he's pretty safe there. Science can't touch him, most likely not even logic. But the real question is: why do you guys spend so much time thinking about the reality of this singularity of reason ?
Personally, I always thought this to be a psychological flaw of the human mind. You trust your brains too much, they evolved for fucking, hunting and picking fruit from trees. They are kept in check by reality and the necessities of life, which is the empirical framework. Remove that, and you get a sort of "free-mode-operation". Intelligent people actually have a better capacity for faith because their brains turn out more "free-mode" material. Retards have no real "faith" they just copy the rules of their society.

>>5269268
What's "Atheist movements" are you talking about ? Physics ? Biology ? Chemistry ?

>Especially Athena, as she is clearly the goddess for the overman.
The Overman does not have a god.

I've never liked his music, heard it 15 years ago and didn't like it, don't like it now. No substance.