/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18799718]

You wasted your life thinking about how to live instead of just living. Philosophy is nice and all, but it is just one of many accessories to life. Not even the Greeks engrossed their lives thinking about how to live inside cubicles.

[Anonymous No.18799724]

You people always say this but I enjoy thinking about it and you can't stop me.

[Anonymous No.18799726]

>>18799718
Based and practicalpilled. The ""philosophers"" half you fags worship are cucks who just want to live a comfortable academic life and have an "ism" or "ian" at the end of their name

[Anonymous No.18799729]

>>18799718
Midwit take.

[Anonymous No.18799740]

>>18799718
>>18799726
How many times are you going to make these boring posts

[Anonymous No.18799748]

>>18799726
>practicalpilled
>fags cucks fags cucks fags cucks chuds fags chud incel cuck chud virgin
I hate this website so much it's unreal.

[Anonymous No.18799749]

The only useful philosophy is epistemology.

[Anonymous No.18799768]

>>18799740
>>18799748
Found the debt ridden beta male philosophy graduates

[Anonymous No.18799779]

>>18799718
Everyone here should read Tolstoy's essays, he completely dismantles all modern thought

[Anonymous No.18799789]

>Found the
>beta male
Fuck this subreddit

[Anonymous No.18799817]

You should primarily pursue physical health, your goals, and relationships. On the side, philosophy can help you determine you beliefs and what you want in life.

[Anonymous No.18799860]

Postmodernism isn't really that different from modernism. It's just taking modernism to its logical (or illogical, as it were) conclusion.
You can say that postmodernism is a disease and you wouldn't be wrong to say that, but the fact is that it's just the later stage of the disease that was already in place since the so-called "Enlightenment".

[Anonymous No.18799873]

>>18799729
It really is desu. They think they sound like a wise dad giving you some profound insight to "just live life, man." They make these same sorts of posts every day and it has gotten really stale.

[Anonymous No.18800034]

>>18799860
What's so bad about postmodernism?

[Anonymous No.18800053]

>>18800034
jordan peterson opened his dumb mouth and now we have "le postmawdurrnizm bad!" pseuds.

[Anonymous No.18800165]

>>18800053
Jordan Peterstein is a modernist, so he is no better than the postmodernists that he makes subpar, lowbrow criticisms of.

[Anonymous No.18800172]

>>18800053
We had those before Peterson too, though it was more based on DFW's mumbling about irony and sincerity.

[Anonymous No.18800178]

>>18800172
Stop equating me with these clowns. I have nothing to do with Enl*ghtenment liberals like Jordung Petershekel.

[Anonymous No.18800205]

better than Peterson desu
https://youtu.be/W7a5Z_K8LjU

[Anonymous No.18800572]

Let us begin and carry up this corpse,
Singing together.
Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes
Each in its tether
Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain,
Cared-for till cock-crow:
Look out if yonder be not day again
Rimming the rock-row!
That's the appropriate country; there, man's thought,
Rarer, intenser,
Self-gathered for an outbreak, as it ought,
Chafes in the censer.
Leave we the unlettered plain its herd and crop;
Seek we sepulture
On a tall mountain, citied to the top,
Crowded with culture!
All the peaks soar, but one the rest excels;
Clouds overcome it;
No! yonder sparkle is the citadel's
Circling its summit.
Thither our path lies; wind we up the heights:
Wait ye the warning?
Our low life was the level's and the night's;
He's for the morning.
Step to a tune, square chests, erect each head,
'Ware the beholders!
This is our master, famous, calm and dead,
Borne on our shoulders.

Sleep, crop and herd! sleep, darkling thorpe and croft,
Safe from the weather!
He, whom we convoy to his grave aloft,
Singing together,
He was a man born with thy face and throat,
Lyric Apollo!
Long he lived nameless: how should spring take note
Winter would follow?
Till lo, the little touch, and youth was gone!
Cramped and diminished,
Moaned he, "New measures, other feet anon!
My dance is finished"?
No, that's the world's way: (keep the mountain-side,
Make for the city!)
He knew the signal, and stepped on with pride
Over men's pity;
Left play for work, and grappled with the world
Bent on escaping:
"What's in the scroll," quoth he, "thou keepest furled
Show me their shaping,
Theirs who most studied man, the bard and sage,
Give!" So, he gowned him,
Straight got by heart that book to its last page:
Learned, we found him.
Yea, but we found him bald too, eyes like lead,
Accents uncertain:
"Time to taste life," another would have said,
"Up with the curtain!"
This man said rather, "Actual life comes next?
Patience a moment!
Grant I have mastered learning's crabbed text,
Still there's the comment.
Let me know all! Prate not of most or least,
Painful or easy!
Even to the crumbs I'd fain eat up the feast,
Ay, nor feel queasy."
Oh, such a life as he resolved to live,
When he had learned it,
When he had gathered all books had to give!
Sooner, he spurned it.
Image the whole, then execute the parts
Fancy the fabric
Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz,
Ere mortar dab brick!

[Grammarian's Funeral No.18800581]

>>18800572
(Here's the town-gate reached: there's the market-place
Gaping before us.)
Yea, this in him was the peculiar grace
(Hearten our chorus!)
That before living he'd learn how to live
No end to learning:
Earn the means first God surely will contrive
Use for our earning.
Others mistrust and say, "But time escapes:
Live now or never!"
He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs and apes!
Man has Forever."
Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head:
Calculus racked him:
Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead:
Tussis attacked him.
"Now, master, take a little rest!" not he!
(Caution redoubled
Step two abreast, the way winds narrowly!)
Not a whit troubled,
Back to his studies, fresher than at first,
Fierce as a dragon
He (soul-hydroptic with a sacred thirst)
Sucked at the flagon.
Oh, if we draw a circle premature,
Heedless of far gain,
Greedy for quick returns of profit, sure
Bad is our bargain!
Was it not great? did not he throw on God,
(He loves the burthen)
God's task to make the heavenly period
Perfect the earthen?
Did not he magnify the mind, show clear
Just what it all meant?
He would not discount life, as fools do here,
Paid by instalment.
He ventured neck or nothing heaven's success
Found, or earth's failure:
"Wilt thou trust death or not?" He answered "Yes:
Hence with life's pale lure!"
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
Sees it and does it:
This high man, with a great thing to pursue,
Dies ere he knows it.
That low man goes on adding one to one,
His hundred's soon hit:
This high man, aiming at a million,
Misses an unit.
That, has the world here should he need the next,
Let the world mind him!
This, throws himself on God, and unperplexed
Seeking shall find him.
So, with the throttling hands of death at strife,
Ground he at grammar;
Still, thro' the rattle, parts of speech were rife:
While he could stammer
He settled Hoti's business let it be!
Properly based Oun
Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De,
Dead from the waist down.
Well, here's the platform, here's the proper place:
Hail to your purlieus,
All ye highfliers of the feathered race,
Swallows and curlews!
Here's the top-peak; the multitude below
Live, for they can, there:
This man decided not to Live but Know
Bury this man there?
Here here's his place, where meteors shoot, clouds form,
Lightnings are loosened,
Stars come and go! Let joy break with the storm,
Peace let the dew send!
Lofty designs must close in like effects:
Loftily lying,
Leave him still loftier than the world suspects,
Living and dying.