/lit/ - Literature

>_____ Companion to Descartes
>Part 1: Descartes' Metaphysics
>[4 essays]
>Part 2: Descartes' Epistemology
>[7 essays]
>Part 3: So You Want to Write an Essay on Something Completely Retarded and Tenuously Connect it to Descartes?
>[27 essays]

>>23082997
>>23097543
>simping for politicians

I’m a very redpilled, yet black person who is trying to make a fictional story with the world building and depth of GRRM’s ASOIAF but most of the characters are black, since it’s based in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The one thing I really don’t wanna deal with are sensitive individuals. I’ve been thinking about challenging my people’s perception of themselves, where they stand in history, hating white people, my general message is that no matter the race people are just generally shit.

Thinking about writing something like this makes me cringe a little, because I’ve never known a red pilled black writer who didn’t hate themselves. So now I’m thinking to myself how do I go about this?

>>21686373
>How to—

>>21602066

>>21021421
why are you gay?

>>19472287
>joerogan We are in Kali Yuga.
this man is painfully stupid and it is painful to think I ever took him seriously.
drugs. not even once

>>19400566
Why are you gay?

>>18650781
>of a retarded

>>18545568
>90GB for an audio book

>>18540271
Come on now

God sent Jesus to israel for a very good reason: jews are the most corrupt, materialistic, degenerated living beings on Earth. He wanted to save them from this living hell and he had some success. But he is no longer relevant, all there is left from Jesus is some legends, even the church barely follows Jesus' teachings. Besides, we have too much shit goin on in this life to even worry about the supposed "afterlife". Finally, even if we became followers of Jesus - things would stay the same, regardless of religion: i dont steal/kill/rape, know god loves me, have to go to work etc. Religion nowadays is literally useless apart from sense if identity/community. I dont understand why so manny christshills on this board.

>>18377190
>educate them orally

>>18321781
How do I stop

>>18310510
Explain yourself.

>>18267061

> When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher. Accordingly, in reading, the work of thinking is, for the greater part, done for us. This is why we are consciously relieved when we turn to reading after being occupied with our own thoughts. But, in reading, our head is, however, really only the arena of some one else’s thoughts. And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal — that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk.

Such, however, is the case with many men of learning: they have read themselves stupid. For to read in every spare moment, and to read constantly, is more paralyzing to the mind than constant manual work, which, at any rate, allows one to follow one’s own thoughts.

Just as a spring, through the continual pressure of a foreign body, at last loses its elasticity, so does the mind if it has another person’s thoughts continually forced upon it. And just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read if one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost. Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like.

From all this it may be concluded that thoughts put down on paper are nothing more than footprints in the sand: one sees the road the man has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way, one requires his eyes.

You’re not JUST reading are you /lit? You DO have some experience in the world right?

>>18222228

>>18218641
>That pic

>>18181985
I’ll replace God in the argument with the spaghetti monster

>>18104208
If you don't think that's the hotest shit put to paper then gtfo!

>>18108465
I have a question for you, mr Rothfuss

why are you so gay

>>17281602
I'm so confused right now