/lit/ - Literature

books have only made me a worse person no good can come of reading

also is that joanna newsom
she is so sexy

>>1763152
I thought you left /lit/ forever.

OP what have you read that you really liked, and have you read anything that you felt changed you? Talk about yourself so that it is easier to make recommendations.

>>1763158
No I was having an existential crisis
hard to understand if you're someone like yourself who hasn't had one yet

>>1763167
you're a smug little know-it-all

god you are such an obvious troll, why am i mad right now, WHYY FUUUUCK

>>1763158
Hm ok, the thing is, I feel some sort of retaliation if the books don't fit lit's standards.
Anyway, books like "The god dellusion", "Long fuse, big bang", "A desperate cry", and I'm thinking about reading "The alchemist".
One book that hit me a lot was a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, I think it made me more aggressive in achieving goals, I think it made me grow as a person.

>>1763173
>the god delusion
How has becoming an atheist made you a better person, that is what i want to know

Well, because you posted Joanna Newsom, I feel obliged to help.

Read Paradise Lost.

I would have to say Dinotopia.

It taught me life's greatest lessons. Love, sharing, and the gift of friendship with Protoceratops.

>>1763171
I'm not a know it all but i know a good amount leave your basement once in a while and you'll know what i mean

>>1763178
AAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGHH STOOOP ITTTT

even trolls have some sort of code of honor, you take trolling too far.

>>1763174
I think it just makes me feel better to know that I'm in control, I'm one of those kids who felt helpless and as if there was nothing I could do to change my destiny, as if my actions were irrelevant to an end that was already set. I makes me feel free I think.
It's made me a better person simply because I feel better.

>>1763184
>It's made me a better person simply because I feel better.
if murdering babies made you feel better, would this make you a better person?

listen, fags, you both suck my nuts but quentin is far worse

>>1763184
You must be new here. Whatever you do, do not engage Quentin.

Read some biographies and shit of people you admire.

For some reason I feel you will like the writing of Antoine De-Saint Exupery. Read Citadelle and Wind, Sand, and Stars.

>>1763186
Haha I could go on and explain, but it's irrelevant.

>>1763192
it's relevant if you don't want to seem like an idiot
but i guess it's too late for that because you've already made a fool of yourself so w/e

>>1763194
YOURE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DIE.

>>1763184
>I'm in control

Determinism?

>>1763186
Yes. As long as I didn't get caught.

>>1763198
why do people think this
see>>1763167

also read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

how old are you and what are you currently doing with yourself, OP?

>>1763201
fuck you for getting our hopes up you useless troll

>>1763174
Hitler wasn't an atheist, I don't even know if he ever renounced Catholicism even. Even if he did there is no indication of him being an atheist. He seemed to always believe in some sort of god even if not a personal one.

>>1763206
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

sorry this had to happen to your thread, OP

>>1763206
>fascist dictator
>not an indication of atheism
what are they teaching you kiddies in school nowadays

Even with this I'm being flooded with off-topic posts. I highly recommend this to all of you, look up the 4chan filter. Then instead of posting shit like >>1763198 you can just discuss literature.

>>1763184
Believing in a god is not exclusive with believing in destiny or preordained fate. Believing in a god does not require belonging to/being shackled by religion.

>>1763210
thx bro, may use

>>1763212
you'll find that there's no use in telling a dawkins-fan that
they're seriously worse than nazis

Woah my thread has be derailed beyond recognition.

On a side note
http://soundcloud.com/love-and-light/shackles-in-the-back

>>1763228
well I made you a few recommendations, what did you think?

>>1763209
Al-Muthanna Club is a fascist Islamic party. There have been several fascist Islamic movements.

Hitler was a catholic and never renounced Catholicism and he was both fascist and a dictator.

"In 1941, according to the diary of Nazi General Gerhart Engel, Hitler stated "I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so."

In a speech delivered in Berlin, October 24, 1933, Hitler stated: "We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out."

>>1763228

Filter, bro.

Based on your list of what you did like, I'm not sure my suggestion of Paradise Lost is what you meant, and I'm not entirely sure what would be good like that.

My recommendations would mostly be poetry stuff, which I feel you should like if you posted Newsom.

Semi-outside of that, read excerpt 5 at the bottom here:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/keatsltr.html

It's a short passage taken from a letter, but see if you like it.

>>1763245
>doesn't understand propaganda
it's like i'm living in the fucking stone age

anyways I guess I'm done schooling you guys here so I'm going to sleep cya tomorrow when we can do it all again