/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10031544]

I just wanted to say that I love you all. I think you have to be a special person to end up at a place like this. Get your life in order, you deserve it.

Anyway, who's your favorite philosopher and why?

[Anonymous No.10031581]

>favorite philosopher
Nobody else takes the flower question seriously

[Anonymous No.10031588]

>>10031581
>the flower question seriously
PB Shelley was a better philosopher than him. Try trying.

[Anonymous No.10031748]

>you deserve it

xd

[Anonymous No.10031762]

>>10031544
Why, thank you sweet, kind, considerate anon. Let's pool our energy together to defeat the cynics.

[Anonymous No.10031776]

>>10031762
Good luck with that.

[Anonymous No.10031789]

>>10031544
>>10031748
>>10031776

Don't lose hope, cute people :3

[Anonymous No.10031805]

I love you too, OP.

[Anonymous No.10031831]

>>10031789
>cute

Nobody has ever called me cute before...

>>10031544
I love all of you guys, including you OP, even if we don't get along all the time! You are the only people I actually converse with.

[Anonymous No.10031838]

Thank you.

[Anonymous No.10031867]

>>10031544
Fuck off with your pretentious, canned happiness. You are clearly enamoured with the idea of being a generous giver of love, which only serves the conception of your self-image alone. It is a trivialization of the depth of human relationships, of the rarity of sincere respect and the aborbing admiration for a well cultivated character.

Get my life in order because I deserve it – why thank you, kind stranger! Nevermind that my life is fucked exactly as the outcome of my own actions. Nevermind any personal liability, the strenghtening merits of pain and suffering, the restless soul search for something of true merit.

I wish I could swindle my way through life with a plastered persona similar to yours, but I'm too self-conscious, too indifferent to this degenrate shithole of a world, too mesmerized by the invisible cities in my head.

Favorite philosopher has to be Giordano Bruno. Nicholas of Cusa comes close as well.

[Anonymous No.10031873]

Everyone thinks every forum the "end up on" makes them fucked up. This place is fine, look for an explanation for your shit elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.10031877]

>>10031867
I'm hugging my computer screen rn, pls hug back.

It's gonna be okay some day.

[Anonymous No.10031878]

>>10031762

>Let's pool our energy together to defeat the cynics.

Can we please. I'm not sure why cynical philosophers are regarded with such high-esteem here. It's much harder to see joy through the misery than to let the misery consume you. It's frankly weak as hell not to try and overcome your own emotional tribulations and find the strength to do something you know will make you happier.

[Anonymous No.10031879]

>>10031873
>forum

Imageboard!!!

[Anonymous No.10031884]

>>10031867
>I wish I could swindle my way through life
sort yourself out

[Anonymous No.10031885]

No, you don't love us. You might think you do, but that's because you don't know what love, or loving someone is like. I don't know if I envy or pity you for that.

[Anonymous No.10031889]

>>10031885
I'm sorry you aren't able to love us back.

[Anonymous No.10031909]

>>10031889

I'm not. I find it hard to love the people I actually meet and spend time with. I'm not surprised by having no attachment to people I will never see or personally connect with.

[Anonymous No.10031911]

>>10031867
Get your life in order, fuckface.

[Anonymous No.10031913]

>>10031879
reeeee!!!

[Anonymous No.10031916]

>>10031909
Well, fuck you cunt.

[Anonymous No.10031953]

>>10031867
>It is a trivialization of the depth of human relationships, of the rarity of sincere respect and the aborbing admiration for a well cultivated character.

Lets play a sinister game. Lets ask ourselves how wide a net our respect and admiration can be cast while truly remaining sincere. Can we respect and admire all people that we understand to be people, and can we do so completely? Does the faculty of admiration and respect emanate beyond reason and necessitate facile understandings of those of whom we would show our admiration and respect? Would you then say that all happiness is "pretentious" and "canned"? The impossiblity either of giving all agents respect and admiration or giving since respect and admiration is enough to call into question why it isn't better to give all or none, is it not?

Fav. related.

[Anonymous No.10031967]

>>10031878
the challenge is to see things as cynically as possible and still want to make it through. we strive to be stronger than you can even envision.

[Anonymous No.10031980]

>>10031953

It's not his fault that English lacks a term or expression to describe what we call "basic respect" in mine. "Basic respect" is unconditional and given to all. Respect is given to those who are worthy in the eye of the giver.

And can you honestly say that you love your lover with the same love you show to all mankind?

[Anonymous No.10031985]

>>10031967

Kinda. It's also kinda stupid to claim that seeing joy through misery is the harder road. Billions do it everyday by simply distracting themselves.

[Anonymous No.10031991]

>>10031776
Bugs...easy on the liquor

[Anonymous No.10031993]

>>10031867
>too mesmerized by the invisible cities in my head

I would say this is "tfw to intelligent" but actually I really, really like the way you put it

[Anonymous No.10031999]

reddit

[Anonymous No.10032012]

I love the /lit/ so much, except everyone acting like toxic leechs with bizarre negative thoughts ruminating in their heads

Plato/Socrates, Stoics, Nietzsche

[Anonymous No.10032016]

>>10032012
/lit/ is great, and it is very easy for me to not sweat the pseuds.

[Anonymous No.10032022]

>>10032016
>sweat the pseuds
bro

[Anonymous No.10032026]

Why is 4chan such a hive of negativity?

[Anonymous No.10032028]

>>10031967

I wouldn't go out of my way to 'see things as cynically as possible' but I get what you mean.

>>10031985

Well, distraction isn't the same as adopting a positive philosophy. They could be mutually compatible but not always.

[Anonymous No.10032030]

>>10032026
misanthropes collude to further a misanthropic agenda. bitter young men meet in the dark, and that's all.

[Anonymous No.10032035]

>>10031967

Actually, did you mean cynically or sceptically?

[Anonymous No.10032041]

>>10032035
cynically, but skepticism is a part of it. it's not pessimistic.

[Anonymous No.10032042]

>>10032012
>stoics
Back to plebbit

[Anonymous No.10032045]

>>10031544
>>10031544
Go make out somewhere else, Dave and Jonathan

[Anonymous No.10032047]

>>10031980
And can you honestly say that you love your lover with the same love you show to all mankind?

That's the point. Neither do you Give love to one or all. Neither can you give respect to all without knowing how to contain all within a grouping. In the same way you more likely love parts of your lovers character rather than them completely, you respect all incompletely, inaccurately. Your admiration and respect is an act done in faith of the reasons for giving and those are really only responses to action arising from emotions. There is no possibility of loving your lover any different than all whom you may may give agency. Nor can you be sincere in Giving these outpourings. You're only capable of reasoning why some particular Feeling for some particular character occurs. And so I'd say it's almost better to bludgeon each other with love rather than to pick apart the subtleties of our Sincere feelings for one and all.

[Anonymous No.10032062]

I'm taking a massive shit holy fuck kilograms of shit are pouring out my colon

[Anonymous No.10032216]

>>10031544
Special you say?
I suspect that the complete opposite is true. I'm not here cause I'm "special" in any sense of being superior to others, and of course I can only talk about myself, but I suspect that the majority of people here share my position. No, no I'm not special, I'm not an intellectual, or someone with an outstanding mind or subjectivity; I'm an misathrope. I hate other people, they're low in my eyes, thus I'm superior, therefore I find myself in a place where the hate is mutual. This place is a hellhole that regurgitates the shit it eats everyday, I belong here, because I don't belong anywhere else, so I pretty much don't have any place at all; this place only furthers the alienation, and the people here are the first that will feast upon your corpse, when you fall.
Fuck you, boy.