/lit/ - Literature

>>9269527
>good, my syntax still sucks and yet still i am way fuckin better person that some shithole whose life is shitty jokes and attacks on a girl from yt who doesnt deserve it at all

>i remember when 4chan harassed people who kinda deserved that, not "just because"

>you fuckin cancerous newfag

>implying I've harassed her in any way
>implying I'm not just shitting on you (BTW you deserve it)

>>8507600
That probably goes well with your muted horn tattoo, ya drip.

>>8340192
>(you) still uses this autistically strict definition, rather than accounting for the spirit of the term and its obvious inclusion of capitalism as well nowadays

>>8114623
>implying the Bible itself does not allude to an Oral law
>implying the people who wrote/received the book aren't the most qualified to understand it
>implying Christianity has any real theological relationship to Judaism so that it can use its holy book legitimately

>>8110262
>religious truths

>>8091677
>Radical Marxists like Hillary Clinton
O I am laffin

>>8063809
>progress

>>8055432
>not backlinking

>>8052284
>democracy

>>8051399
>There is only one rational moral position - Utilitarianism

>>7978673
>r/books
>learn something

>>7977202
>sexualizing the characters unneessary
It's about a mentally ill 14 year old boy. Do you remember what it was like to be 14?

>creating the "perfect waifu" stereotype
Perhaps you've forgotten what happens to everybody by the end of the show and EoE. The waifu stuff is a trap to mindfuck Otaku. Evangelion certainly didn't invent the anime dreamgirl.

>>7938568
>>7935877
>>7935824
>All this city hate
Fuck you. I grew up in a landed gentry situation in rural Alabama and the only good thing about it is the opportunities to go hunting and fishing more often. Rural and small town people think they know fucking everything because they aren't even aware things outside of their county actually exist and take in Fox News (or MSNBC if they think they're really sophisticated) religiously. And don't even get me started on the religion aspects.

6 years later, and moving to the Northeast is still the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

>>7819159
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>>7819143
>New Yorker reading plebs getting salty
That magazine is literally nothing but propaganda, self-congratulatory back-patting and extremely conventional, boring stories and poems that wallow in their own refusal to have any kind of structure or impact. If you feel anything stir in your heart while reading the New Yorker, you should go ventilate your braincase immediately.

>DFW
DFW published like one thing in there, and it was one of the least interesting parts of the very interesting "The Pale King." The selection of that piece over the rest speaks volumes about the magazine.

>>7762889
>the opinions of women matter

>>7407863
>don't be edgy
Enjoy your dried out old pussy and defective children.

>>7407840
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>>7300793
You dumbass, that post is explaining exactly why those differences arose. Learn to read and stop yelling at people who agree with you.

Just because it used the term, "racist," doesn't mean it's calling that a bad thing or incorrect.

>>7292296
>it's real.
>I've felt it
Wew Lad
>>7292640
Christianity is lame in reality, but it can be interpreted in some interesting ways. I just have my doubts that sexual purity can be interpreted so artistically.

>>7290608
>anyone can use affirmative action
There's also a solid case to be made that one community disproportionately leaning on the dole paid for by groups that disproportionately pay income taxes is receiving a lot from them, whether the symbolism is present or not.

I'm in favor of universal basic income, and don't see how that conflicts with my interpretation of the past 50 years of welfare payouts.

>>7290601
This. Meeting a well defined set of criteria is much more useful than responding to everyone who makes an impassioned plea for a gesture.

>>7252790
> Aslan described Islam as "a man-made institution. It’s a set of symbols and metaphors that provides a language for which to express what is inexpressible, and that is faith. It’s symbols and metaphors that I prefer, but it’s not more right or more wrong than any other symbols and metaphors. It’s a language, that’s all it is."

Sounds pretty weak, tbh. You just have to get into the fact that he advocates handwavey primitive ways of viewing the world, apparently just because he likes them on a personal level.

Also
>advertising your IQ
Sounds like every Serious Christian Scholar (TM) I had to read when I was a kid because my parents were terrified I'd associate smart people with secularism. I suspect he's the Muslim version of that.

>>7246947
>AI
Reminder that anyone who works with strong AI studies the philosophy of mind and language. You can't just go making things perilously close to minds without investigating the way our minds work and conceive of themselves.

You can either be an uncritical mind or a critical one and still perform scientific investigation on most things just fine, but being uncritical of yourself isn't something to be proud of (though neither is a lot of self-examination by people who aren't equipped for it).

>>7246338
Sometimes I kinda feel this way and then I feel guilty for being such a prick.

>>7242733
Is that the same reason you used to discover that all cats have nine tails? Or is it ten?

You can use reason from faulty assumptions and do a lot of thinking to reach a conclusion that could have been avoided with better thought-through assumptions.

What's the wew lad of literature/philosophy?