/lit/ - Literature

>>9757201
>I study jihadism for a living you cuck,

>>9754415
>The idea is to feel. Not to just experience the slight touch of emotion, but to truly feel.

>>9709262
>>9709058
>>9708985


>the complete works

I'm getting the impression that these works aren't as daunting as they seem?

For example, I've wanted to digest Shakespeare's work forever. I usually get thru the first act of the tempest and then waiver off

What's the key to consistency
I want that key

Dream list would be

Complete works of
Homer
Ovid
Shakespeare
Dante
Goethe

Man that would be awesome

>>9706565
>agnosticism and atheism are the same
>an indifference or undecidedness of the existence of God is the same as the belief that God does not exist

9666091
>/pol/ is undeniably one of the largest repository [sic] of truth in the world.
Not even a (You)

Maybe if you stopped agitating on pol for five seconds to talk to human beings you might find otherwise.

>>9642355
Oh I totally forgot

>The Divine Comedy
>Not a single joke in the entire thing

>>9386891

>a center-right professor is as ideological as the average left-wing professor
>retards start shrieking their heads off
I thought /lit/ was supposed to be a smart board

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.

>>9119087
>>9119114
>proving my point this much

there is no hope for humanity

>Latin is an ancient and because the vast majority can't speak/write/read it, it's more powerful
>Greek has the cool alphabet, mysterious alhpabet

Damn. Too hard to chose.

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.

>>8979635
>So my potential ideal self is a support structure? And If i dont get rid of it i cant live life authentically?

Not "get rid of"- because what's being said is that ideal self is a fantasy, key word being IDEAL, from idea. The point is to stop projecting this idea. You can't get rid of it because it's not even here.

>How does one live without the "support" of one self?

It's up to you. Meaning you can go on torturing yourself or you can come face to face with the impasse/deadlocks in the way of your maturation. The ultimate "red pill"

>Just living the moment without rationalizations and goals?

It sounds like you suppose rationalization and goals aren't an automatic function of our particular being.

>>8977242
That's the fundamental divide, something that's difficult to bridge by argument, because I'm not sure logic can be used, except to say: humans aren't and shouldn't have to be completely logical in all things.

>realise I've figured out a good life philosophy
>realise that it's vague and bullshitty and there is no heuristic or core distillation of how to live a "good life"

>realise I've figured out the best productivity philosophy after reading something anecdotal about great person X
>focus on as few things as possible / do many things / only do what you enjoy / make a list
>realise that it's all bs and great person Y did the exact opposite

>have job interview coming up
>tell myself I'll practise 5 interview questions on 3 separate days, a spread out approach is best
>tell myself instead I'll practise for 3 hours straight, a focused single effort is best
>tell myself instead I'll practise as little as possible, a naturalistic approach is best
>do little practise, out of laziness rather than conviction ("my natural lazy approach is best...")

>do practical things
>feel inadequate intelectually
>attempt more intellectual things
>feel inadequate practically

>decide to be well read
>realise I'll be cucking myself by reading boring shit
>decide to read infrequently
>realise I'll be ignorant

>realise I've figured out a good life philosophy
>realise that it's vague and bullshitty and there is no heuristic or core distillation of how to live a "good life"

>realise I've figured out the best productivity philosophy after reading something anecdotal about great person X
>focus on as few things as possible / do many things / only do what you enjoy / make a list
>realise that it's all bs and great person Y did the exact opposite

>have job interview coming up
>tell myself I'll practise 5 interview questions on 3 separate days, a spread out approach is best
>tell myself instead I'll practise for 3 hours straight, a focused single effort is best
>tell myself instead I'll practise as little as possible, a naturalistic approach is best
>do little practise, out of laziness rather than conviction ("my natural lazy approach is best...")

>do practical things
>feel inadequate intelectually
>attempt more intellectual things
>feel inadequate practically

>decide to be well read
>realise I'll be cucking myself by reading boring shit
>decide to read infrequently
>realise I'll be ignorant

If capitalism is the real enemy, why does it seem like it's always leftists ruining literature and poetry, with identity politics monomania and garbage like slam poetry?

>>8936052

Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.

I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.

History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.

Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.

I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.

I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment

And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.

Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.

Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.

>>8674752
she's perfect, /lit/