/lit/ - Literature

I‘m tempted but this has gone south very quickly in the past so i guess i‘ll have to restrain myself. Good luck op.

>>20296571
:(

>>20296571
Care to explain the particulars of your experience?

>>20296599
It‘s just that i end up being online 24/7 and nothing irl gets done anymore. I‘m trying to get my screen time down so that wouldn‘t help. I‘m sure you‘ll find someone.

>>20296604
Fucked up my sleep schedule 100%. Didn‘t get anything done irl anymore. Was completely disconnected from reality to an even greater extend than before. Ruined my relationship. Yep. It wasn‘t a good idea.

>>20296553
humans are a virus
you're better off further contemplating your loneliness until you arrive at suicide
consider the fact that it was not lonely at all before existence

>>20296615
I've arrived at the conclusion that I want to live. I have plans. I'd just like to pass the time I guess.

>>20296615
Life is a flight of the alone to the Alone. Has suicide's wraith pulled up to your doorstep yet?

I have little interest in mysticism, theology, metaphysics, or ancient philosophy, so I don't think I'd be much of a conversationalist.

>>20296653
What do you have interest in?

>>20296663
korean pop music

>>20296553
I embrace my Siberian Solitude Silo

>>20296677
Literally?

>>20296663
Languages, history, literature, math, physics.

not sure how much I know in comparison to you, but ill try my best
did you have something specific in mind or were you just looking for people to talk to about it when something bubbles up?
also are you sure this is the right place to be looking for this beerspit chan? wouldnt you be better off just posting your topic rather than looking for a specific type of friend in a place like this?

>>20296611
Was it a girl or a boy you were talking too?

>>20296723
What kind of literature?

>>20296615
All of reality is just one schizo talking to himself

>>20296775
Originally perhaps. Not anymore. Embodiment and generation attest to this.

>>20296775
Like a puppet with no puppeteer.

read this

Already have.

>>20296672
I dont get kpop. I know this isn't /mu/ but seriously. Its just normal western pop trash marketed as being something different. Whats the deal?

>>20296553
Sure man, email me killallhipsters@yahoo.com

>>20296898
Correction: I read his Essays and Aphorisms. I might look into this volume in the future. I'm currently reading two books on Kindle. The Kindle copy is .61¢. I also have some paperbacks I need to finish. I was reading three at a time.

>>20296922
Asians and Jews conspired to gang up on the west. Dugin and his handlers are likely doing a double-sided attack on a forward matching army. Beware.

Are you in university? That's where I found friends who are interested in and capable of talking about these topics

>>20297012
>tfw no college experience

>>20297012
I am yes. I study Comparative Lit. Almost done with my BA. I want to pursue a Master's in Computer Sciences. Do I want that? I really just want to earn good money. I'm not career/study oriented. I'd rather communicate online. I'm not sure that anyone there is versed in these subjects.

>>20297035
I'm most probably asocial.

>>20297012
i´m not op but i live in south america and college is literally high school part ii and most of them are dumbfuck normies who ostracizes you if you´re new in the class or some shit, hard to believe but it happens, funnily enough the closest to someone i met was a dude from engineering

first worlders have it easy, you know full well you can at least befriend some autist in college, not so luck for me

>>20297043
I live in the Caribbean.

>>20297049
i wasn´t asking you

>>20296615
How about you kill yourself before others read more of your narcissistic whinging

>>20297055
Prick.

>>20296922
>Its just normal western pop trash marketed as being something different
It isn't, and you can't even begin to understand it so I won't even bother trying to explain.

>>20296553
I would like to be your conversation partner, although these topics interest I have no idea what to say about them.

>>20297206
How old are you?

>>20296553
I know but a scratch. I could try to answer (via text of course). I'm close to graduating and getting a job. So much shit I want to read now, but other much unrelated activities need to be done first.

>>20297269
What do you want to read? What kind of job? What are you studying? Do you use WhatsApp?

>>20297253
27

>>20297206
Do you also have no confidence in yourself?

>>20297325
I have transcended it.

>>20297328
Congrats anon
I had hoped transcending it would mean knowing what to say though

>>20297274
I want to read Kant's Critique this year, and I'm feeling also very attracted to Schopenhauer. Right now I'm finishing the Birth of Tragedy. Want to read The Will to Power this year too. Also some of Freud's works that I haven't read yet like Psychoanalysis of art, and Psychology of the Masses. Want to read The Buddenbrooks. Wanna read the greek tragedies that I haven't read yet.

I'm studying Pharmacy, my thesis is about nutrition (keto diet in some neuropathologies). I'm very bored of it though. And I have delayed it for a long time, so now I feel extra pressured to finish it soon. I use whatsapp but I'm from latin america, don't know how that works.

>>20297337
I mean I guess the more correct way of putting it is that I have so little confidence in myself that I kind of just don't care about it anymore, and just say what I want.

>>20297338
I have a monograph I need to write. I'll get to work on it tomorrow. I'm far behind on it. I'm Hispanic too.

>>20297338
Why Thomas Mann in particular?

>>20297350
How's that different than knowing what to say? I think if I knew what I wanted to say, then I'd know what to say. I just don't know if I know enough to know what I want to say.
Flip Flappers is neat btw

>>20297355
>>20297371
Pues hola. I've read The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus and Death in Venice. Liked TMM a lot, probably one of my favorite novels. He just scratches that intellectual itch that I don't think many novelists do. Musil does it aswell. As they write their stories they tangentially add long boring essays, I like that.

>>20297426
Sounds like you enjoy "novels of ideas"/philosophical fiction. What about poetry? My favorite poet is currently Alexander Pope.

>>20296553
So much of this board is just lonely people looking to talk about random things on their mind without even really reading books. It’s quite sad. You Zoomers have it rough, huh?

>>20297450
I read plenty of books.

>>20297450
I read the Tao Te Ching 2 days ago. But like what the fuck is there for me to say about the way?

thats a nice cat.

>>20297417
The difference is that I don't really have an anxiety or confidence issue, it's more a rational one, I have this idea that anything I have to say could also been explored through reading or google.

>>20297473
All has been said already. You can try rehashing some of it though.

>>20297448
I like poetry but my knowledge of it is pretty much normie tier. I've read Baudelaire, Pessoa, Emily Dickinson. I would like to read more but don't really know what to read. Any individual poems that you like?

>>20297502
I like Pessoa too. His Book of Disquiet is great. I like the poem "Mirrors" by Jorge Luis Borges, Shakespeare's first 30 sonnets and Pope's Eloisa to Abelard

>>20297479
Probably true. Still I'd like to be saying things. Maybe it doesn't matter if it's a re hash

>>20297513
What kinds of things? Nebulous and obscure things? I can't be bothered to say any thing at all.

>>20296611
>Ruined my relationship.
Disgusting failed normies are the absolute worst.

>>20297523
You've said a lot here haven't you? Maybe not of substance. I'd like to be specific. Normally I just say how I feel, but that seems lame. Who cares how crazy and pained I feel, everyone feels that way. When I say things I'm happy with it's normally in response to that. I guess really I want to be inspired to have things to say. I think I'm wasting my time here today maybe though. Maybe everyday I spend here is a waste of time. Nothing has taken me. It's frustrating. I want to say beautiful and insightful things. Things that spur others and myself into action. things that make people feel when they read them. I want to say things that are clear, that help my understanding and others. I want to say things that connect people to each other. I don't know how to unstick myself though. I don't know how to get there. Especially since I feel like anytime I do anything everyone is just laughing at me. Bleh.

>>20297594
Reflection > Action

>>20297502
You might enjoy Blaise Cendrars. Or you might not. I've never read him. Knut Hamsun is a good one.

reading is the lonely activity by excellence. if you love reading, you should at least enjoy being alone.

>>20297642
I thrive in my aloofness. Being alone is a treasure. Is it?

>>20297594
"Nothing has taken me."
I feel that. We must await the coming of a new divinity.

>>20296553
>>20296890
Nice cat. Is it a tom? I think most ginger cats are male.

>>20297642
I did so well for a while. But then I was out and some girl said some nice words to me, and now I'm not so sure.

>>20297701
Nice words?

>>20297689
Yeah. His name is Ludwig and he's four years old. Neutered.

>>20297450
Sure do, sonic
Sure do

>>20296686
No I fucking wish I live in a Bible Belt swamp shit hole like Shrek mad af

>>20297762
What?

>>20296553
sraoshanincarnate@gmail.com

Here's something I wrote for fun recently:
https://www.docdroid.net/UMTc6RE/buddha-wisdom-pdf

>>20297938
George Grimm has a nice book on Buddhism.

>>20297938
The link doesn't work.

>>20296615
I'm terribly lonely and have been since I was a child but I'd never kill myself. Life is still worth living even with some sadness in it.

>>20297948
Does this work? https://docdro.id/UMTc6RE
If it doesn't, I'll upload it somewhere else.

>>20297957
Nope.

>>20297976
What about now?

https://buddha1229.tiiny.site/

Yep. Thanks.

>>20297991
I was reminded of Foucault's four similitudes while reading your article. And of a term in Sufism which denotes an intermediary realm i.e. barzakh. In the particular is contained the universal. Through the deconstruction of your thesis you've actually affirmed its validity. The parts need to be studied in order to gain comprehension of the whole.

>>20298133
http://openfileblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/michel-foucault-four-similitudes.html?m=1

>>20297938
Your email doesn't work.

>>20298159
I made a typo. It's sraoshaincarnate@gmail.com

>>20297938
that's real room temperature IQ stuff right there

>>20298198
That's a disparaging thing to say.

>>20297035
textboard.org

>>20298226
?

>>20298185
Do you publish your articles?

>>20298273
If you want to talk to hyperliterate programmers with a bent towards wisdom and relish in the limit of anonymity, go there. All the shitposters that come with this invitation will leave after a short period.

What are your thoughts on God op? Is he a faggot or no? I think he must be or males wouldn't have nipples or cute butts.

>>20298285
That would explain why the male G-spot is located in the anus.

>>20298278
I took a cursory glance over one of the forums. Not good. 4chan seems more coherent. Yes. I've spoken.

>>20298302
Well, good luck, then. I'll keep my thoughts on Cynicism, Simone Weil, egregores and ubi sunt to myself. As usual.

>>20298324
You're free to broach them with me.

>>20298324
:)))))))))

>>20298324
Do you know of any other forums?

>>20298385
Yes

>>20298391
Spill.

>>20298361
I have none of any importance. It's all vanity, anyway. I chose those topics because they are close to me and I wanted you to feel deprived. This was not skillful nor in good standing. I'll melt back into the abyss of the lurkers now. Even this is vanity. Whatever.

>>20298397
Gloomy, aren't we? I can never feel deprived.

>>20298411
I know no privation.

>>20298277
No, I just wrote that one for fun. I do have one weird fiction story published in a literary journal. I was also trying to publish a fully illustrated picture book a few years ago but gave up. I even had a popular webcomic series involving cats.
Literary agents are largely motivated by leftist political agenda rather than artistic merit.

>>20298396
It will be more fun if you find it on your own won't it?

If knowledge is only recollection, no meaning can be given. If knowledge is discretely transmitted, only dead things can be told. If knowledge obeys its own autonomous laws, we are mere conscious automata. Schizoids playing with the antecedents of ponerology.

>>20298422
Don't tell me you're one of those conservative, right-wing, zealous ideologues.

>>20298429
How?

>>20298451
"In other words, they have seen God and do not remember? Ah, no: it is that they see God still and always, and that as long as they see, they cannot tell themselves they have had the vision; such reminiscence is for souls that have lost it."
- Plotinus

P.S. I'm not religious

>>20296553
Anon I can read your fortune using tarot cards. Is that mystic enough for you?

>>20298659
Sure. Read it. I'm familiar with the Tarot.

Could we have a regular thread for discussing a text? I kind of want to read Henri Corbin's Man of Light in Persian Sufism (it's short)

We could pick short things like maybe a single treatise of Plotinus in the Enneads

>>20298623
Cats are clever. I believe you'll find it if you want to. Plus posting it here might ruin it

>>20298672
Or you could just tell me.

>>20298668
I recommend Algis Uzdavinys. Seeing as you are interested in Corbin.

>>20298679
I wouldn't just be telling you though would I?

>>20298692
Send it here
graubenann@gmail.com

>>20296922
My exes always seem to get into kpop after we break up, within 12 months or so. Like I go to see them after emotions have cooled and they're debntmaxxing for korean makeup brands, wearing joggers and button down shirts, and learning a dance to a Twice song. I don't get it.

>>20296956
some literally who country is entire asia now

Catholic 31 y/o male. Trying my best to live a purposeful life and I have dreams of helping lonely kids like I was who need direction and encouragement to take the hard path, but I have no network of people around me for support or just to build meaningful relationships with. When I find people who have similar interests, either they're on the other side of the country or they're content just being lukewarm about their hobbies. Local churches are mostly gray-haired congregants and the younger ones just come off like they're living half-alive. I like working out and reading, art, etc. Nobody really seems to want to live with passion or do great things for their neighbor. I'm serious about my faith so I just flirt with most girls (although I messed up big time with one who had serious issues but that's in the past) but the ones my age seem to all have issues with immaturity, being overweight and not wanting to do anything about it, or a lot of emotional baggage. I looked to marriage as a way of building that platform but a virtuous woman with prudence and self-discipline seems impossible to find.

I succumb to my anxiety and frustration sometimes (hence how I find myself on here after long stretches), but I'm still trying to better myself every day, journaling, building muscle, reading devotionals and anything useful on self-help. Most guys I know, Christian or not, seem to have given up on dating for a while and are doing their own thing. I'm more trying to just find what's lacking in myself to be able to do more for society without needing support from others.

>>20296553
you are loved </3 (its broken because im EVIL >:0)

>>20296553
read The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon