/lit/ - Literature

>>20702587
That settles it then.

>>20691745
Or on the other hand -- a histrionic and petulant sophist.

>>20694436
It runs in the family, eh?

>>20688947
Don't show your face.

>>20684095
Male homosexuality is the height and culmination of masculinity.

>>20684264
Which writers? I enjoy Alexander Pope, Knut Hamsun, Percy Shelley, Whitman, Borges to name a few.

>>20682355
>all moral certainty collapses when you stop believing in God?
Why should equanimity and sound living be coincident with (and necessitate) the permanence of a transcendent intelligence? Seems to me like the individual in question was severely impoverished to begin with.

>>20683944
>For that is what he is, like us, even in his self-renunciation.
The renunciant is no better off by his mortification than anyone of discernible integrity and vigor.

>>20683944
I detect vestiges of sarcasm in this passage.

>>20683944
>elevation
Doesn't this elevation constitute, to a certain extent, a denial of life? Nietzsche alluded to this.

>>20682937
Look no further than Eriugena. Shame he called himself a Christian.

>>20683910
Probably their self-evidence. What else does one have recourse to in the realm of discursive reasoning?

>>20682858
Be wary of renunciants.

>>20682069
>smile when you give birth to handicapped offspring from your bad choices in life.
I've never suffered a single bad choice. I'm also never rearing and bearing children. I am unfazed.

>>20682051
>, your behavior here has been fairly 'terrible'.
How so?

>>20681961
>pretends to consider "sticking to the subject" as a bad thing
Ideally, any discussion should transcend the subject's bourne. Take your arguments to their limit. Be wary of dealing with absolutes.

>>20681931
>higher planes of discourse
What subjects do you suggest?

>>20682020
>Try and discover the sentences that were carefully written for you to read in the earlier post here
You reek of insolence.

>>20681837
I presented a cogent argument already.

>>20681961
>the subject
What's the most salient concession you are willing to make? Let's not waste my time. I, for my part, concede nothing.

>>20681931
> higher planes of discourse
Apophaticism?

>>20681729
>poor grasp of English
Ha!

>>20681729
I'm not even Greek, cretin.

>>20681688
>Wizard
*Magus.