/lit/ - Literature

>see Schopenhauer reading my friend

fucking pleb

when will you niggas actually read schopey?

>>8829591
Give him some Tolstoy.

Even better invite him to join in on /lit/'s brand new War and Peace reading group starting next Saturday.

>see my retarded friend reading
nothing bad will happen

>>8829591
>friend

>>8829599
Just as long as it's not late Tolstoy, things should be mostly fine.

>see religious friend reading Harris

>begged friend to return schopenhauer he'd borrowed forthwith when suicidal
he read him later too so he probably sussed that out >.<

>see my pet cockroach reading The Metamorphosis

>>8829591
>see my wife reading Joyce's letters

schopenhauer actually made me less depressed

>>8829591
>suicide is bad

>see maman reading The Stranger

>>8829833
is he gonna turn into a human

>>8829854
Fucc

>see my gf reading Schopenhauer

>My papist friend is reading Dostoevsky

>>8830036
i remember readin schopenhauer to my gf right when i discovered him and the bitch fell asleep on me DUMPED HER ASS

>see the child reading McCarthy

>>8830027
Unlikely.

>>8829599
yeah, tolstoy will make him want to kill himself even faster. get the job done with less fuss, too.

>>8829591

I've noticed Schoppy becoming more popular lately, what gives?

>>8829591
He's in good hands, Schopenhauer's pessimism runs so deep that suicide is useless since there is no escape.

>Seeing my African friend reading Fanon.

>see Sisyphus reading Camus

>>8830074
vitamin d deficiencies caused by the season and general shut-in lifestyles of board frequenters.

>Child sister found the Lolita hardcover

>>8829591

>>8830074
/r9k/ has rose to prominence and one of the main boards on this place, arguably replacing /b/ in the Triumvirate of board influence (the other two being /pol/ and /v/ of course), so like how the romans would go to a place as settlers and absorb the parts of the local religion and say that it was actually Jupiter not whoever else, /r9k/-users go to a board and find the thing that reminds them of /r9k/ and meme it, in this case, Schopenhauer, who is honestly pretty /r9k/ (advocated suicide, hated women, nogf). Same reason you see so many Ezra Pound threads lately, it's /pol/acks, because he's admittedly pretty /pol/.

>>8830124
Why is Schopenhauer such a meme machine?

>>8830130
You tell me.

>see my schizo friend reading Hegel

I think I read Zhuangzi, but I might just be imagining things.

>>8830144
kek nice
>>8830201
shut up butterfly

>>8829591
You should tell him to himself

>>8830052
underrided

>>8830049
She probably fell unconscious from all of the blood rushing to her genitals, Schopenhauer is known to trigger female reproductive subroutines because when they see a man delving into the Schop pill they know he will soon render himself immune to her charms.

It's a final gambit kind of thing on their part.

>>8830658
ur pretty smart dude

post more schoppy quotes
i really want to read him but i dont want to read kant

What's wrong with Schoppy? He cured my depression and now all phenomenalism is simply the will as acting agent to my ideas.
The world isn't out there, dude!

But Schopenhauer is pessimistic in the sense that we are enslaved to our desires and that's just heartrending to realize that we will never be satisfied with ourselves. His arguments against suicide are simply pure beauty.

>>8829599
where do I sign up senpai

>>8831320
No they aren't, because his arguments come from fundamental nihilism and apathy. So if a person is already depressed and suicidal, some guy saying that suicide is the futile assertion of the ego past the realm of death isn't going to do anything for them. It only works in the (hypothetical, non-realistic) case of philosophical suicide

>>8830078

THIS

>>8829781
Good for him.Tell him to read Dawkims too.

>>8831320

>all phenomenalism is simply the will as acting agent to my ideas

what? no. you made the classic misunderstanding of transcendental idealism.

>see my sophist friend reading Plato
hmm

>>8831403
>DawkiMs

Do not use improper grammar when speaking of his name

>>8830129
why waste time, energy, and brainpower, analyzing this place?

>>8831485
Why waste anything? Why not just kys?

>>8831485
Took me like 5 minutes of thinking to write this post
If you can't spare that much for a website that takes up a large part of your time everyday then I don't know what to say to you other than kys

>>8831485

kys

>My fetus has been reading David Benatar

>>8829599
>War and Peace reading group starting next Saturday
Oh lord I need this.

>>8831485
I've seen several sociology and psychology papers written about us and the culture we have mantained over the years. Specifically studying /b/ and trying to figure out what the hell was going on in there back in it's heyday

>>8830129
>>8830074
/r9k/ has been a popular board for years now. Its ethos were present on the site even before /r9k/ was a board. I hate this retarded myth that "/r9k/ has invaded." /lit/ has been as /r9k/ as it was from the beginning. Schopenhauer is one of the most frequently mentioned philosophers on 4chan and has been for some time. There has been no surge. It's kind of surreal to me that some people have only been here since 2012, 2013, or even later than that. Like this guy >>8831841 who thinks something "was going on" in /b/ in its "heyday." Yeah, it was teenagers trying to make each other laugh. Nothing magical unless you've only been exposed to it secondhand which always finds a way to glorify something

>>8829833
GREGOR

>>8831855
I was stating that the people that wrote their theses about /b/ were trying to decipher it. I've been here since 2006. I'm well aware of what we were and how we worked

>>8831890
Okay, mr oldfag

>see DFW reading Schopenhauer

>>8829591
>>8829591
>Not allowing him to engage in sublimation

This thread is fucking sad.
Schopey was anti-suicide. If you had any understanding of his philosophical system you'd know it.

>>8830129
Schopenhauer didn't advocate suicide or hate women you total pleb

>>8832067
He hated women, but just as much as he hated everyone else (except Hegel whom he hated much more)

>>8832087
>(except Hegel whom he hated much more)

I giggled

>>8830052
best ITT

>See my stepfather reading Lolita

>see my gf reading On Women

>mom gifts me Catcher in the Rye

>>8831326
>>8831802
No worries lads. The thread will be up Saturday night (gmt) for discussion. Get your blankets, warm drinks, and cross your fingers for snow, cuz it doesn't get comfier than reading Russian realism in the heart of winter.

>>8833281
Are you 15?

>>8833267

>he even saved my numerical designation

>see gf reading de Sade