/lit/ - Literature

man shut the fuck up

>>16696586
Londonfrog, get an AI gf. Stop being lonley and sad. Stop reading fiction. Don't be a fag.

not literature

>>16696586
peepee poopoo

>>16696586
Thread theme
https://youtu.be/yBISfv-6hfo

>>16696586
>Numbing my brain with mindless internet browsing, walking, driving, or work, is all I do.

>>16696586
there is nothing left to do but to become a sannyasi, leave all your meager material possessions behind

You’re working hard, not smart. You clearly think if you just go through the motions - going outside, walking, reading - things will just magically come to you. Well, you’re wrong. I commend you for taking the first step though. It’s better than many achieve.

Is there anybody who collects all LF posts in order to make a novel out of them?

>>16696586
Based london frog
Thanks for the update

Thanks for the update, LF! I will recommend you roll20. That way you can socialise, stay safe and have some fun while being creative in these trying times, while every chad and stacey risk catching the rona while fornicating.

>>16696586
You need to give something to the world. Success, money, fame and power are the most common substitutes for those who refuse to give their gift. All the same pointless activities you described suddenly have meaning if you are fulfilling your purpose. Doing those activities while not fulfilling your purpose will seem pointless. Everyones gift is unique; some gifts are obviously world changing to the observer, others seem much smaller and insignificant, and yet they are all world changing equally.

>>16696763
Of course some obnoxious twat had to butt in with unsolicited life advice.

/lit/ has that hangover depression today, huh?

>>16696810
nah, it's just londonfrog being londonfrog

>>16696586
>The novel I'm reading is so pointless. It's just rich people doing nothing.
man without qualities?

This board isn’t your shrink faggot

>>16696586

what is the name of the book

>>16696899
Londonfrog, the /lit/ diary.

>>16696804
Of course, and I’ll do it in the next thread too

Is this the fucking guy who used to post in brit/pol/ about drinking starbucks and getting depressed ogling women around London?

>>16696827
100 pages in, will it ever be more than Ulrich cucking people and train of thoughts to nowhere?

>>16696586
Take up gardening or woodworking or something. Or photography, or painting. Get a guitar. Learn to cook good food instead of eating this convenience store shit. Stop listening to podcasts. Walking is good but it's not really a hobby, much less a productive one. You've been posting these threads for years and they've been the same the whole time. You wanna do something? Then do it. Stop telling yourself you can't, stop wasting your time posting these threads where people tell you to fuck off and eat shit repeatedly. If you really love being humiliated so much, get into bdsm. Just stop with this shit already, change your life in any way possible by any means necessary. You obviously have enough money to waste it on stupid bullshit, so do something more interesting with it than buying clothes and chocolate.

OP here, currently reading F Scott Fitzgerald's Wikipedia page and feeling sad that I'll never live an interesting and high class and hedonistic youth like him or the characters in Bret Easton Ellis novels.

>>16697039
>OP here, currently reading F Scott Fitzgerald's Wikipedia page and feeling sad that I'll never live an interesting and high class and hedonistic youth like him or the characters in Bret Easton Ellis novels.
Londonfrog, you've just lost the minimal ounce of respect I had for you.

>>16697039
keep reading

>>16696586
You are finished.

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Stop with the cucked fiction and read Heraclites, Parmenides, Hegel, Marx.
It's many order of magnitude harder, but you'll feel you've done something.
See you next time incel.

>>16696946
No. If you don't enjoy it now, don't bother reading it. It isn't meant to get great insights but to enjoy the flow of the author and his 'ironic' thoughts about the society back then. There is no great plot that will make it a page-turner. It is unfinished and it shows, however the result wouldn't have been finished.
I chose it a few years ago because I was very interested in the life of the Vienna high society and aesthetics of that period but all I read was the disdain and ignorance of the author for it. That might have been fine but I didn't really get why he looked down on it and I don't have the knowledge to understand the book and its references - it expects to have witnessed this the late 1910s to get it. I dropped it not a lot later than you did but checked the further plot on Wikipedia to see whether I would make a mistake.
Imho it's a rather special novel and I wonder whether the people who praise it as a masterpiece or put in on lists have really finished it at all, because the few literature fans I know who read books dropped it as well. I mean it is pretty long - more than 1k pages and once a novel reaches that threshold it becomes a milestone meme book either way.

you should probably jerk off more, and stop reading boring books that bore you

>>16696586
The absolute state of materialist rationalist cucks. Never forget, you could have chosen your life to be a cosmic drama of transcendental proportions over the salvation of your own soul, you could have chosen it to be an existential struggle to guarantee the existence of your people fuck you could have even chosen it to be a gentle voyage into the depths of Being through meditation, but of the many options of philosophy you chose to live in an atomistic, self-contradictory mess.

>>16697119
This philosophy crap is also just fiction

>>16697221
>This philosophy crap is also just fiction

>>16697221

>>16697199
Lately I have my doubts that anyone chooses these things. People end up where they feel comfortable, which oddly is sometimes not where they feel happy or fulfilled. Every system of belief is riddled with contradictions, which its adherents either vehemently deny or gladly ignore. Materialism is not unique in that respect.

>>16697221

>>16697224
>>16697237
I have no respect for anyone who wastes their time reading Hegel. You'd be better served by getting into chaos magic.

>>16697242
>Every system of belief is riddled with contradictions, which its adherents either vehemently deny or gladly ignore. Materialism is not unique in that respect.
Look at this nigger projecting, haha no faggot it is just your crooked episteme of liberal democracy, its teleology is literally rationalizing usury, you fell for a scam bro

Frogposters are the worst scum on the internet. Yeah, we get it, you're a loser.

>>16697247
What's wrong Schoppy, why are you grumpy, your maid forgot to iron your shirts today? lol Schopenhauer the quackbuster, with his empty lecture halls btfo'd by the geist

>>16697271
Shut up you christfag pussy

>>16697280
Reminder that these people are the same as these pathetic 'people':
>>16696586
truly Chesterton was right when in he put nothing but nihilism, cynicism and boredom in the mouth of pagan Alf, the skeptical Ogier and of course "Rational" atheist Guthrum. At least nazis get to be caught in the race struggle and occupy their minds
>and the heart of locked battle
>is the happiest place for men
>where shrieking souls as shafts go by
>and many have died, and all will die
>this world so mysterious, death is most distant then
>death shines brightly on the cup, sits proudly on the crown
>but in this dream of battle we seem to thread it down
>and I'm a great king, who wastes the world in vain
>for Man has but one power
>in dealing Death for dower
>he might forget it for an hour
>but to remember it again

>>16697309
I get that you can't accept the contradictions in Christianity because your faith forbids it, but they are there. Intellectualize it all you want, you're engaged in the same game as the materialist, with a veneer of self-assured piety. Christposting has ruined the culture of 4chan, I barely recognize this place anymore, and for the life of me I can't see why a website with boards dedicated to cartoon porn would be so attractive to you people

>>16697342
I am not a christian tbqh senpai but you can be a nazi, a christian, a buddhist, a student of advaita or dvaita, etc etc. You can even be a muslim. What you can't be is a retard i.e a materialist liberal-democracy supporter

>>16697369
>materialist liberal-democracy supporter
At least those support Capitalism without being hypocrites. They do not pretend to be enemies of the system just to be able to look at themselves in the mirror.