/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7039871]

>Reading a sci-fi novel
>suddenly, telekinesis

[Anonymous No.7039879]

>>7039871
What if it has a good explaination?

[Anonymous No.7039891]

>>7039879
Perhaps, but it would just be a masking of what's essentially magick and pseudo psychology. It works best in Dan Abnett's WH40k novels as far as I know. And they have magick.

[Anonymous No.7039906]

>>7039891
Gotcha. I know what you mean.

[Anonymous No.7040166]

>>7039871
Get into the dead genre that is Mundane SciFi, m8.

[Anonymous No.7040212]

>>7039871
What were you reading? Sounds up my alley, tbqh

[Anonymous No.7040220]

>>7039871
Why are these two women so disgusted at each other?

[Anonymous No.7040221]

>>7040212
Referencing cyberpunk for example, nothing specific I guess.

[Anonymous No.7040317]

>>7040220
Wouldn't you be if you had to sit next to either one?

[Anonymous No.7041236]

>>7040220
They're not disgusted at each other, m8. They're disgusted at you.

[Anonymous No.7041265]

>>7039879
>explaining magic

[Anonymous No.7041279]

Based Sarkeesian. Can't believe I forgot to post her in that 'contemporary intellectuals' thread yesterday. My only disappointment was seeing her recommend that schlock biography by Felicia Day.

[Anonymous No.7041280]

>>7039871
>although human scientists have been known to be wrong on about a million occasions
>and we still have no idea how half the universe works
>i'm going to diss a foreign concept, because I don't have any imagination, also because it does not fit within my narrow worldview
>and this gives me comfort in my own ignorance
>because if I don't think about it, and I dig my head in the sand like an ostrich
>uncomfortable possibilities that threaten my fragile ego and psyché magically disappear
You are literally what the catholic church was 500 years ago.

[Anonymous No.7041286]

>>7041280
>>and we still have no idea how half the universe works

pff, not even 1/billionth m8

[Anonymous No.7041298]

>>7041280
Oh look, the old "because there is uncertainty in science, WE LITERALLY CANNOT KNOW ANYTHING" canard. Further proof that most people on /lit/ are literally no-shit actually suffering from some form of mental retardation.

[Anonymous No.7041303]

>>7039871
God, they are hideous. Why are feminists always so ugly? Its like the only women that complain about male sexual objectification are the ones that never get any.

[Anonymous No.7041313]

>>7041280
imagination has no place in scientific concepts

[Anonymous No.7041336]

>>7041298
>others pointing out the flaws in the way I think makes me angry
>so I'm going to strawman and use ad hominems
>that'll show them that I'm a reasonable and logical person
>it also soothes my easily bruising ego, and the sting of humiliation

>>7041313
>I don't understand what hypothetical questions and scenarios are, and how can they benefit research

[Anonymous No.7041341]

>>7041336
>uses slippery slope
>accuses others of using of fallacis

He didn't even us an ad hominem, he just insulted you after making his argument.

[Anonymous No.7041360]

>>7041336
>research

keep researching magick psykers in your sci-fi

[Anonymous No.7041365]

>>7041279
lol b8

[Anonymous No.7041397]

>>7041336
>applies categorical imperative to your argument
>"strawman"
>drops a phat diss
>"ad hominem"

Want to know how I know you didn't learn very much in school?

[Anonymous No.7041472]

>>7041303
Hatred of oppression still distorts the features
Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly
Oh we who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness
Could never be friendly ourselves
-Bertolt Brecht

Also body positivity is used as justification for a fat ass

[Anonymous No.7041664]

I'd let them peg me tbh ;}

[Anonymous No.7041666]

>>7041664
tbh i kinda want to see them do a foot tease video

[Anonymous No.7042111]

>>7041666
>>7041664
these tbh

[Anonymous No.7042170]

>reading genre fiction

[Anonymous No.7042178]

>>7042170
>reading fiction

[Anonymous No.7042291]

>>7041298
>there is uncertainty in science
>therefore we can't know anything
This is not the chain of logic that led to the realization that objectivity is impossible. Science had nothing explicitly to do with it.

[Anonymous No.7042332]

>>7039879
Telekinesis never has a good explanation.

[Anonymous No.7042341]

When will she write a book so I can purchase it /lit/?

[Anonymous No.7042404]

>>7042341
I want to eat her out while she eats popcorn

[Anonymous No.7043584]

>>7039871
Childhood's End?

[Anonymous No.7043597]

>>7041280
>You are literally what the catholic church was 500 years ago.

You mean a progressive institution that upheld knowledge and reason after the fall of the roman empire?

Please don't spread the whole evil catholic church meme. It's prodistant propaganda. I'm not even a christposter, probably the edgeyist atheist on this board right now, but the whole science vs religion thing is so wrong it hurts.

[Anonymous No.7043598]

>>7039871
>sci fi
>novel
No.

[Anonymous No.7043610]

>>7042332
Mass Effect tried.

[Anonymous No.7043611]

I feel like Anita was cute once, but a mixture of her gaining a massive amount of weight and trying really hard to look like a terrible life choice (the colored hair, REALLY?) has caused me to lose interest.

I would still probably pay for nudes, though.

[Anonymous No.7043614]

>>7043597
He said 500, not 1500.

[Anonymous No.7043643]

>>7043611
The Jew nose doesn't help her.

[Anonymous No.7043851]

>>7043611
Really? The worthless, ankle deep cultural criticism didn't turn you off immediately?

[Anonymous No.7044046]

>>7043851

If ankle deep criticism turns you off why are you still here in even shallower territory

[Anonymous No.7044108]

>>7041313

While I think smoothing over telekinesis with some sloppy pseudo-scientific explanation isn't the greatest idea I have to remark that this is the stupidest thing I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.7044362]

>mfw Arthur C. Clarke is quoted

[Anonymous No.7044938]

>>7044108
keep dreaming

[Anonymous No.7045177]

>Newtypes

[Anonymous No.7045236]

>Reading Hard Sci-Fi
>Suddenly vampires

[Anonymous No.7045310]

pretty sure i saw those chicks in a joi video on xhamster but they where wearing latex n shit so cant be sure