/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7223938]

bow down to the based king of /lit/

[Anonymous No.7223944]

huh

[Anonymous No.7223996]

>>7223938
Nay.
The queen shall return.

[Anonymous No.7223999]

go to bed sam

[Anonymous No.7224010]

I didn't know Ben Stiller was an important literary figure.

[Anonymous No.7224025]

Take a seat either in a chair
Or cross-legged on a cushion.

[Anonymous No.7224031]

>>7223938
How can one man be so damn intelligent?

[Anonymous No.7224036]

And just
Cover the breath
With your awareness

[Anonymous No.7224048]

>>7224031
he is enlightened by his own intelligence, not a phony god's blessing

[Anonymous No.7224050]

>The truth is that religion, as we speak of it – Islam, Christianity, Judaism – is based on the claim that God dictates certain books. He doesn’t code software, he doesn’t produce films, he doesn’t score symphonies, he is an author. And this claim has achieved credibility because these books are deemed so profound they could not have possibly been written by human authors. Please consider for a moment how differently we treat scientific claims and texts and discoveries. Isaac Newton went into isolation for 18 months starting in the year 1665. When he came out of his solitude he had invented the calculus; he had discovered the laws of motion and universal gravitation; he had single-handedly created the field of optics. No one thinks this was anything but a man’s labor. And it took 200 hundred years of continuous ingenuity on the part of some of the smartest people who ever lived to substantially improve upon Newton’s work. How difficult would it be to improve the Bible? Anyone in this room could improve this supposedly inerrant text scientifically, historically, ethically, spiritually – in moments. If God loves us and wanted to guide us with a book of morality, it’s very strange to have given us a book that supports slavery, that demands that we murder people for imaginary crimes like witchcraft.

godfags btfo tbqh fam

[Anonymous No.7224052]

>tfw I unironically worship Sam Harris (for everything he did outside of his anti-theism even though I agree with his anti-theism)

[Anonymous No.7224063]

Does /lit/ really hate him that much?

I really liked his talk on death.

[Anonymous No.7224068]

>>7223938
This is not Sam Hyde

[Anonymous No.7224072]

>>7224063
>Does /lit/ really hate him that much?
Really only the loud Christturd minority.
It should be impossible to dislike Harris based on his kind and loving demeanor.

[Anonymous No.7224073]

>>7224063
just christfags using reverse psychology. nothing to see here. do your part and report the thread. click the little arrow next to the reply button. a menu should drop down. select 'report post' and make /lit/ a better place for the discussion of literature.

[Anonymous No.7224075]

>>7223938
looks like a hobbit

[Anonymous No.7224083]

>>7224052
>for everything he did outside of his anti-theism
Yeah, but did he *do* Christie Brinkley?

[Anonymous No.7224088]

>>7223938
/lit/ - literature

[Anonymous No.7224115]

No.

[Anonymous No.7224125]

>its alright to kill innocent people because muh intentions

[Anonymous No.7224130]

>>7224125
Glenn Greenwald pls.

[Anonymous No.7224134]

>>7224125
Why are you lying about him?
He said there's a difference between murdering with murderous intent, and killing when your intents were different.
And he is 100% right, why?
Because they give us -different- predictions about the future, we can determine whether someone is prone to murdering again or is less likely to do so.

That's his only point, you are an anti-intellectual coward.

[Anonymous No.7224136]

>>7224073
>just christfags
Sam harris was a meme before Christposting ya know?

[Anonymous No.7224138]

>BA in philosophy with a freshman level understanding of ethics
>king of /lit/

[Anonymous No.7224139]

>>7223938
>not a writer, the only requirement to being literature
>somehow the king of a board about literature
??

[Anonymous No.7224141]

>>7224139
>Sam Harris
>Not a writer

pls

[Anonymous No.7224143]

>>7224139
Uh but he is?

[Anonymous No.7224144]

[Anonymous No.7224148]

>>7224144
>still shitposting this image filled with fallacies and rampant christfag anger

>Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris are stupid because they offend my christfaggotry despite their PhDs
- /lit/shitposter

[Anonymous No.7224150]

>>7224144
The guy who made that cartoon obviously hasn't actually listened or read what Harris is saying, and how Hume's fact-value distinction does not apply to Harris' ethical approach at all.

[Anonymous No.7224152]

>>7224148
*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.7224153]

>>7224148

[Anonymous No.7224155]

>>7224148
>muh PhDs

*le tip*

[Anonymous No.7224156]

>>7224141
>sam harris
>having literary merit

[Anonymous No.7224159]

>>7224155
>I save fedora memes on my computer and I'm smarter than people with PhDs I promise

>>7224156
Read Waking Up, his anti-theism is kind of boring because he really is just stating the obvious over and over again.
But his writings regarding meditation, drugs and consciousness are very interesting.

[Anonymous No.7224161]

>>7224156
You are an excellent mover of goalposts sir, but the fact is that he is a writer, even if you don't think it has any merit.

[Anonymous No.7224163]

>>7224159

[Anonymous No.7224167]

Sam harris seems like a smart and reasonable guy to me, and his atheism doesnt offend me. I think religion is cool, and complex, but cmon, the abrahamic god is no different from any other god you dont believe in, lets get real.

[Anonymous No.7224171]

>>7224167

[Anonymous No.7224415]

>>7224134
Holy shit, people are actually taking Harris' side in this debate? Chomsky articulates very clearly why Harris is wrong. Pretending that you had good intentions doesn't mean shit when the death of tens of thousands of innocent civilians is a direct foreseeable result of something that you do.

[Anonymous No.7224443]

>>7224415
>Why can't I hold all that slave morality?

[Anonymous No.7224454]

>>7223938
Hitchens is Dead.... forever.

[Anonymous No.7224467]

>>7224167
euphoric