/lit/ - Literature

I always knew it was.

I'm just biding my time on this earth, entertaining myself with things I find interesting. I'm not here for success, or fruitful pursuits.

>mfw I sage your thread

Disintegration is a pretty good album, bro.

>>1842295
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LIrYVfjmhc&t=0m40s

It's worth something to me. What else matters?

WHOA YOU TROLLED ME OP

150 REPLIES, 20 IMAGES OMITTED

dont post a pic of that HRO whore

All pursuits are equally worthless.
Enjoy your pursuit of science, a study which provides evidence that the human race will most likely go extinct and its meager accomplishments occur in a universe so vast the idea that those accomplishments will mean anything outside of ourselves is ridiculous in a way which clearly evokes the root term "ridicule."

>>1842326
>behemoth while doing engineering:
guys, GET FUCKING REAL. you can say 'money doesnt buy happiness' and shit but at the end of the day once you've been there in a crappy job you know how sucky it is. so transfer out of your totally worthless degrees and then study to get a real job... FUCKERRZ

>behemoth after transferring out of engineering:
sciences degrees are is pointless as anything else.

>>1842344
That's not at all what I said before and you know it. I said don't judge other people for going into fields for the money, there's a purpose behind it too.
It coincides with my point in this thread. All pursuits are equally worthless. Going for money is perfectly fine. So is going for passions, whatever those passions may be.

>>1842314
Confirmed for financially dependent teenager yet to have any real responsibilities in life

>>1842326
>Enjoy your pursuit of science
LOLASSUMPTIONS

Glad to see those "critical thinking skills" are really paying off.

>>1842344
I don't really want to do anything worthwhile. I think I'll just loaf around, living life fairly inexpensively. Maybe become a wandering jew, idk. But I don't feel like having a good job, and buying a new bigger goddamn car every year.

I'll enjoy my time on Earth, rather than doing something I don't like for money. It's trite, but money isn't everything. The best things in life are free.

>>1842295
>mfw you probably don't even go to college and sit in your moms basement and you're telling us what is worhtless.

>>1842363
see
>>1842359
>LOLASSUMPTIONS

Furthermore,
>implying attending college has any inherent impact on one's worth

>>1842359
So you're not studying the arts, and you're not studying the sciences?
You're not a pragmatic person making fun of a different point of view, you're just some jerk-off who sneers at everyone. My first assumption was right, just had to test it by expressing the second one.

>>1842373
So someone can only be an artist or a scientist?

Nice false dichotomy, bro.

>>1842373
see
>>1842371
He's clearly a member of the working class who feels college isn't worth it because he didn't make it out of the slums. I'm not a class traitor. I love my working class roots, but whiney proles annoy the fuck out of me. I got out it, it just involves more effort.

If it's so worthless, why do people pay me for it?

>>1842377
The sciences improves lives.
The humanities enrich them.
Everything else is the shit from which flowers bloom.

>>1842381
ideological indoctrination

enjoy being a subservient tool of the dominant power structure

disgusting

>>1842385

Who is this "dominant power structure" who would want modern literary studies?

mfw I realized you're a quitter.

>mfw I realized that everything is pointless
>I have no face because reality is an illusion

Now I feel like listening to Disintegration again.

>>1842295

Depends on how you use it. I can analyze any situation 20x better and faster than you and react accordingly. This means that I'll get your jobs, your girlfriends, your whatever the fuck I want all the while making it seem effortless, simply because I have the supposedly useless talent of reading you, or any other situation like a text. So yeah, I actually love that literature and philosophy studies are decreasing in popularity. It makes people like me all the more powerful.

I am the best tripfag on /lit/

>>1842298
>I'm just biding my time on this earth

Where you expecting to go? Mars? It's now or never.

yea i mean you can spend a week and learn everything you need to know/unique contributions from that field of study

>>1842344
>he's not good enough to do something that provides both material worth and enjoyment
make your boring speech elsewhere to people of your own level

>>1843073
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M

>>1843110
learn to read/quote properly. im not sure which.

>>1842295

>mfw I realized that all my literary study has earned me real money -- shit was so cash!

Trust me, son, you ain't getting paid for book reviews and author interviews without this kind of background -- never mind being able to get an "honorarium" for an original Salem Press "Critical Insights" chapter.

>>1843138

For Whom the Bell Trolls

LIBRARY CARD

SUCK IT LIBARTSDEGREEFAGOTS

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>>1843134
learn to read at all.

>>1843194
i was quoting behemoth. it's actually hard to tell whether you got that or not since you have a big problem with typing up clear, understandable posts.

>>1843198
make yourself more respectable and maybe i'll read your posts more closely.

>>1843198
You still weren't being accurate about what it was I actually said, and even if it was accurate, it still wouldn't contradict what I said in this thread. People saying something different isn't hypocrisy, it's changing their mind, there's a very real difference between the two. Hypocrisy is stating things one way and acting upon things in a contradictory fashion. Changing your mind is stating things one way, and then stating them another way later. Hypocrisy is dependent upon being simultaneous, something many young people don't understand in their naivete.

the only cure album i've listened to was 3 imaginary boys but that was pretty cool

Yup. But at least it's fun.

So, let me get this right-- none of you understand the value of a BA in lit analysis?

>>1843307

The intellectual or economic value?

>>1843228
Try Disintegration, it's pretty great.

>>1843214
why would i care for your replies? smarter people than you on this board give my replies the normal attention.

>>1843225
yeah i know sorry, i was more joking around though i did think you said that before. if you didnt w/e i cba checking, stay cool koro :]

*attention

>>1843345

comedic value

>>1843358
>>1843228

Fuck that. Mixed Up is where it's at.

'honest working people have no use for the arts'

I've never met an "artist" with anything interesting to say that couldn't be said quicker and easier just saying it. I read memoirs, I read history books, I read about STEM. Gay, fake stories can be interesting. I mean, Dune was pretty interesting, but then it was just about a bunch of real ideas. But in the end, fiction is just for shits and giggles. You don't learn anything worthwhile reading it that you couldn't not reading it. Plus you stupid fuckers read 1984 and come out of it going "LOL FUK U I DON'T WANT CCTV" or you read Brave New World and go "LOL BIG PHARMA BAD." It's like you don't even care. It's like all you want to do is have cool tattoos and listen to cool bands and get laid a lot, and then also pretend you're doing something more interesting than people who do all that with just big-screen TVs and cool cars. I mean, seriously: you guys are tools. Pic related, it's you.

>>1843434
yeah yeah. all facts no passion.

>>1843434
>mfw no pic

>>1843441

Passion isn't its own reward.

bebe zeva luv

>>1843452
that's the entirety of your argument. OK then - facts are not their own reward either.

Ta da.

>>1843483

Sure they are! You do stuff with 'em. Passion, you just sit around whacking off, enjoying the fruits of STEM's labors. Children are passionate. Children are defenseless. Children are useless, except that they'll change.

>>1843517
Fact: passions are what motivate people to use facts

Theory: the internet is what happens when you have lots of facts and no passion

>mfw reading is an enjoyable activity that I find relaxing and fulfilling

>>1843520

>shits and giggles

>>1843518

In that case, everyone's passionate about everything and we're back to art not mattering.

>yfw you realize everything is worthless

>mfw phrases like "inherent worth" sound absurd to me now.

>>1843358
>>1842431
>>1842307
my niggas
>>1843228
3IB is their worst one
and by worst I mean not the strongest out of 13 god tier albums

>>1843681

idk the whole post-punk thing really did it for me (i was on a big gang of four kick at the time)

what besides disintegration is top priority

>>1843686
Well I'm biased and love all of their albums but
Pornography(psuedo goth)
Head on the Door(New Wave)
Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me(New wave, some pop tracks)
Obviously Disintegretion
Wish(Disintegretion-lite)

I want to listen to Bloodflowers.

>>1843746
do it then!

>>1843652
>mfw the phrase "inherent worth" had never before been used in the thread

>>1843686

By the Cure, or post-punk in general?
Disintegration and Pornography are often considered The Cure's best. But they have a lot of good stuff.

My favorite post-punk bands- and albums are Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and Closer, most things by The Fall, and Wire - especially their first three, but the rest of their discography is harshly underrated as well -, and Public Image Ltd.'s Metal Box. Among others. I fucking love this genre.

Totally worthless. To the extent I turned to politics. And that was with a doctorate. The Volk needed me anyways.

Anonymous, Erwachen!

>implying