/lit/ - Literature

Can all athiests on this board start including a tag "atheist" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 100x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

>>13439158
>Yfw atheists haven't made 1 contribution to this board

>>13439158
Say something smart atheist

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Can all agnostics on this board start including a tag "agnostic" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 1000x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

>>13439164
>>13439169
this
i legitimately think the level of discourse on this board would increase dramatically if all these fedora tipping redditors fucked off for good

>>13439176
>sperging out about the size of a .png
Can all non-utilitarians on this board start including a tag "non-utilitarian" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 10000x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

You got it mister

>>13439186
>sperging out about sperging out about the size of a .png
Can all non-autistics on this board start including a tag "non-autistic" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 100000x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

>>13439158
Okay

>>13439198
thanks

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>>13439198
>>13439198

>Pagans do something first
>Christians literally can't help themselves from being copycats

every single time

>>13439158
Can all Advaitins on this board start including a tag "Advaitin" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 10x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

I'm making a jest, but OP might actually be a genius here - perhaps the best way forward for this board is for every poster belonging to a specific belief-background should use a corresponding nametag such that every group can simply converse amongst each other. Catholics with Catholics, Protestants to themselves, Hindus with Hindus, Buddhists with Buddhistbros, and so on. Might be the best policy from here on.

Imagine being this butthurt about losing an argument.

>>13439214
I am not butthurt at all, just a bit frustrated. If you consider waiting for a response to a long post containing my arguments when all you get back is fedoraposting and soifaceposting to be losing an argument then sure, count me in.

>>13439158
The christcuck epidemic is entirely fabricated. The people who make threads complaining about them are the same ones that larp as them.

Can all book readers on this board a tag "Smarty-pants" in their name? That way i could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 100000000x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

>>13439164
atheists aren't doing the equivalent of going into rec threads posting "The Bible" as the first post, going on and on about how the bible is the highest literature (makes you wonder if they've read anything else), being obnoxious puritans who throw "cumbrain" towards anyone who admits to being remotely sexual, giving people useless advice like to embrace jesus. seriously, christians contribute nothing to this board, they just do the same tired algorithmic shit over and over. if they were all permabanned this place would become tolerable. it's not like you guys are even the good agape-driven christians trying to improve others (when you pretend like you are it's only to be condescending and holier-than-thou), 90% of what you do is try to annoy atheists

>>13439206
Im sorry

>>13439238
based schizoposter

>>13439158
>>13439164
I'd like it if both got the scarlet letter treatment

Reporting in ebin thread

>>13439260
this makes me better

can everyone who wants to talk about religion at all start including "religion" in their name so I can filter all of you? it's not just the Christians, and it's not just the atheists, it's both. stop shitting up the board

Why can't we please god just have a /phil/ board

>>13439284
>stop talking about the central question of human existence because it bothers me
Yeah nah

>>13439207
That's an echochamber where perhaps more would be learned but less would be challenged.

>>13439158
here you go, I am proud to be a slave of Christ, and I urge you all to drop your vain egos and submit to the Saviour who paid your debt!

>>13439264
Ya but you haven’t met Furthest north purest pagan yet

Let's keep all this talk about the nature of God to a minimum, please.

>>13439291
>>13439284
Because then this place would be as bad as /tv/ is. I wish there were a board for actual film lovers and not retards who talk capeshit and know absolutely nothing about the medium. This place would devolve into a /tv/ of people talking about Lee Child and Clive Cussler.

I think that vanishing Protestants would be enough as their level of education and understanding is sad, all Apostolic branches of Christianity are welcomed.

>he doesn't worship the Nuclear Dharma

christbabies are doomed to another cycle

>>13439294
more like
>stop talking about a question that many people erroneously consider the center of humanity because it's irrelevant to a board titled /lit/ - Literature and almost always leads into shitposting, bait, and non-arguments

maybe

NO

>>13439331
Imagine thinking mythology and religious texts are irrelevant to literature.

Holy fuck my dude please read Joseph Campbell. Jesus christ in heaven imagine not reading the I Ching and Bhagavad Gita and Bible and Quran.

Seriously what in the fuck my guy

>>13439308
Oh well, at least there would be more discussion of literature. Half of /lit/ users don’t care about reading, but the ideas in certain non-fiction books. And you don’t have to read books to discuss these ideas. Take away the philosophy and theology, and most people will stop coming to /lit/. And that’s a good thing

>>13439345
I never said we can't discuss sacred texts, only that religious flame wars are almost always not about said texts, nor any philosophical works about those texts, usually breaking down into mudslinging and tribalism. if you think arguments about non-literary subjects are relevant since those non-literary subjects have literature despite the fact those arguments tend to ignore the literature, you're beyond hope

>>13439246
>giving people useless advice like to embrace jesus
>useless

>>13439229
your arguments are probably dogshit and haven't changed since 2006, try keeping up with the dialectic buddy, Atheism+ is dead

>>13439392
Useless, yes, you're onto it.

>>13439297
No one is challenging anything.
The athiests are just acting autistic.
The Christians simply yell that everyone else will suffer horribly for thinking differently than them.
The Hindus just smugly sit in a corner doing nothing.
The Buddhists don’t understand their own religion so they argue over which misinterpretation of their doctrine is the best one to throw at Christians.
Reddit was right on how to do discussion btw

>>13439419
>Useless

>>13439379
Well I really don't like athiests out of the arrogance of it so I never really mind the Christians spatting at them. The issue with Christianity is that any of their arguements about why there is a God don't explain how their Abrahamic God is this God nor do they address the mythology itselfs having flagrant contradictions. However, prayer is meditation and is good for you. And I like their sense of community and charity. Their lack of critical thought regarding their mythology is very strange to me though. But I do think that the structure a mythology provides for a child is deeply good for their upbringing, especially a community one in which they know their place within it and their purpose.

Let's face it, the real reason athiests hate Christians is that they got angsty in their teen years and wanted something to rebel against and didn't see the utility of the structure provided. Then they go no further into thought regarding God or metaphysics and become souless empiricists.

>>13439423
I don't yell that people will suffer horribly for thinking differently, but then I also don't get into shouting matches on the internet in general unless they're about really stupid things like hendricks vs daddario (daddario wins btw because she's more snuggleable)
reddit was absolutely wrong, better to have a constant shitstorm than to never be challenged or meet anyone different than you, I get most of my book recs and lots of new ideas from /lit/ and if there wasn't a constant clash of ideas pruning the weak the board would stagnate and that wouldn't happen

>>13439446
Sadly you’re not the majority of Christians on 4chan, some simply are the most horrible people.
Also sure that’s great for what this board is meant for, opinions on media, but when it comes to ideas people are so set in stone about like religion it’s the worst format for discussing them

>>13439446
God, imagine if /tv/ and /mu/ were as good as /lit/. I've gotten one good recommendation on /mu/ ever. The rest has been absolute dogshit. Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues. Great album.

>>13439464
/mu/ has introduced me to some good albums

>>13439441
pretty much agree with the first part of your post, I also tend towards Christian-friendly deism
>Let's face it, the real reason athiests hate Christians is that they got angsty in their teen years and wanted something to rebel against and didn't see the utility of the structure provided.
I mean, radical anti-theists aren't fully without argument. and besides that, reducing atheism to teen angst isn't a very productive criticism of their ideology when recent atheist development has seemed to tend away from anti-theism

>>13439458
I'm sorry you've become so jaded, and of course I'm disappointed that my brothers and sisters (lmao) in Christ are low quality flamebaiters sometimes, but I think there are still some worthwhile discussions even around religion happening inbetween the shitposts, and if you develop a discerning eye you can pick out diamonds in the rough, so to speak. I've learned many new things about other people's beliefs, changed a few of my own and seen other people let go of their old ideas in favor of something new that they never would have discovered without /lit/.
4chan always requires a thick skin and the ability to wade through an ocean of piss, but it also has something that reddit et al doesn't and I think the two extremes are actually linked to each other. The same lack of social norms that lets people post dumb soijack edits all day also lets people share thoughts and experiences you won't hear anywhere else.

I am right

>>13439477
I can agree with that. Particularly with figures athiests generally harold like Neal DeGrasse Tyson. His particular grace when speaking regarding religion is masterful. Unfortunately, the loudest members of a group are who you hear.
>>13439466
Check out Jorge Ben Hor - Forca Bruta

>>13439158
Can all redditers on this board start including a tag "faggot" in their name? That way I could know who you are and filter all of your posts so that the quality of this board would increase 100000000000000000000000000x for me and most other actually thoughtful members of this board.

>>13439158
I have never met an intelligent atheist.