/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

>>12847791
Dumb insecure incel autistic bitch poltard whore

>>12847804
>Marcus Aurelius is not related to literature

>>12847791
I fapped today. Not even because I wanted to. I just was bored...

>>12847984
Don't do that.

>>12847791
Chaste and breadpilled

>>12847804

>>12847984
The idle mind is the devil's workshop.

>>12847791

I already know peace despite not renouncing flesh.

>>12847791
I love le Roman statues!!

Drink, smoke, fuck, create, study, compete, exercise, party, and cleanse.

Live hedonistically with an eye out for your future.

>>12847964
>>12848032
The OP isn't referencing any particular passage or invoking discussion of any particular passage. Fuck off.

>>12848697
You don't speak Latin, do you?

>>12848697
It could be argued that in his shitpost he was asking us to engage in a conversation about temperance. Probably went over your head though.

>>12848609
Whats with your obsession with men opening their mouths

>>12848609
Imagine being such a brainlet you don't automatically recognize it's Marcus Aurelius and that he wrote on the virtue of such control and instead thinking it's just some le Roman statue placed there just because.

Tempestatibus maturesco.

>>12848906
Who doesn’t recognise that bore? But people enjoy a washed out statue of his stern bearded face more than his shitty gay diaries

>>12848964
>I was only pretending to be retarded

at least post the whole meme faggot

renounce winds, throw away your sail

row

>>12847984
I don't get spontaneous boners anymore is that good or bad?

>>12847791
I agree, let's inquire into the ontological difference between masturbation and sex.

Who lived a more ascetic life, the Epicureans, the Stoics or the Academics?

>>12848689
Brainlet post

I'm >>12850062
By ascetic, I mean in the popular sense of the word

>>12850035
You'll get them in the morning only, it make take a month for it to start happening though. Don't forget to keep sexual thoughts away from your mind, do not indulge in degeneracy either physically or mentally.

>>12848697
stop having sex

>>12847791
>virgin humanities fag gives advice on women

>>12850069
that is not necessarily true. If I get on the nofap wagon for 4-5 days I get spontaneous boners just by looking at some random chick on the bus which normally wouldn't happen. Also I'm 30 so I'm not that young.

>>12847804
I think you ought to be called a faggot some more for that shit
>faggot

>>12847791
I don't want to look at her pleb, I want to look at her tits and pussy.

Renounce the non-flesh. Fortify your desire. Do this and you will know comfort.

Is there actually a single sound argument against sexual promiscuity that doesn't boil down to biblethumping or soccer mom-tier arguments about corrupting the mind or some shit of that nature?

>>12848609
Are you as ignorant and obtuse in real life as you present yourself here?

>>12848609
It's actually greek statues romans stole and pretended like they made it. Romans never produced a single piece of good art.

>>12850608
Romans killed Jesus

>>12848851
>a conversation about temperance
Belongs on /his/ then. Read the fucking rules.

>>12850164
You didn't heed his advice. It's completely true. You just lack the mental discipline.

>>12850605
Alters neurochemistry in such a way that it leaves you fatigued and tired. Makes the mind hypersexual. Subjugates the will and places it into a state of heteronomy where you are constantly distracted by whatever the next sexual distraction may be. You only have one shot at life and you are throwing away your agency over it the more you reinforce the sexual urge.

>>12850713
And other nonsense, too.

>>12847791
Reason is, and ought only to be, slave to the passions.

>>12850056
Single-player game vs multiplayer game.

>>12850628
>>12847804
The rules are dumb. All the smart well-read people are on /lit/. Nobody wants to talk to the idiots on /his/. One might as well just post on /pol/.

>>12851175
>Reason is *swallows hamburger*, and ought only to be *contracts syphilis from aged prostitute*, slave to the passions

>>12851254
Blown the fuck out.

>>12851135
What about it is nonsense? This just sounds like a brainlet dismissal.

>>12851175
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.

>>12847791
I wish I hadf the strenght.
This world gives you no option.
Fools that we are

>>12851175
Hume, David. Dislike him. A large sensualist, topsy-curvy and obese. A laggard, a claptrap empiricist and a slapdash ascidian. Some of his books are extraordinarily dense. Nobody takes his constitutional journalism seriously.
A Treatise of Human Nature. His best work, though an brainlet and shameless interpretation of Plato's "Collected Writings".
The History of England . Dislike it intensely.
Four Dissertations. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly gastronomic (should have been called Four Digestions).

>>12850628
&Humanities was a fucking mistake. Philosophy should have stayed on the literature board, where people at least half-ass read, rather than /int2.0/ where people no-ass everything.

>>12851877
This. /his/ is painfully low IQ.

>>12850608

>>12850608
Ah yes. That statue was of renowned Greek Emperor, Markus Aurekeous of Samos.