/lit/ - Literature

>>2117287

i think the problem is that i lived and worked in long beach and echo park for years, where everybody did shit like that. plus my wife lives in seattle, and i have friends in portland, brooklyn, and san francisco. this shit just registers as normal to me, just like baggy jean shorts and trucker caps register as normal in the inland empire. it's a cultural landscape.

but hey, i'm a bit of a ham. i try to stand out via accomplishments these days, but i don't object to people who like to look ostentatious. my ex was a comic writer and she basically dressed like a superhero every day.

do what you want, people. just be real about it. really want it. have passions, and let that guide your image, not the other way around.

>>2117282

oh, forgot my trip. how unhipster of me.

>>2049877

i love that painting.

it's incredible in person. it's most terrifying fucking mulberry tree i've ever seen in my life.

>>2051501

>mfw i'm in an open marriage and enjoy both companionship and freedom

i like that book.

either Ballard's Crash or The Elementary Particles.

>>2037270

Ernest Becker much

The most productive, meaningful, important thing you can do is to go completely insane.

http://www.slate.com/id/2302202/

this is relevant. i promise. read the whole thing.

>>2031683

that depends entirely on the experience, the classroom, and the person involved.

>>2031679

you're on /lit/, not /b/, shithead.

college forced me to think critically, network, meet deadlines, work in groups, generate my own ideas, and implement them. it surrounded me with intelligent peers and colleagues, and exposed me to a broad range of influences and experiences that increased my psychological flexibility, gave me a rigorous mind for details and analysis, and gifted me with invaluable cultural background for my work in public relations and publishing. I squeezed that shit for all it was worth, and now i have an invaluable network of contacts and a sharpened perspective. what you get out of college depends precisely on what you put into it.

>>2028973

language is a bottom up, not a top-down, process. the word god has arisen in these situations because it evokes unique qualities as a descriptor that fit the experience in question-- the immensity of these ideas and experiences, the subjective sensation of interconnectedness, and the reference to a transcendent principle unencompassable by language. your attempts to regulate language use managerially and proscriptively will never match languages emergent, organic generative force. the feminists have had problems with this for years.

>>2028970

yep.

>>2028933

so. good.

>>2028919

not at all. i luv 2 swapping teh brainz. my communication style can come off a bit aggressive sometimes (sometimes i'm actually being aggressive).

>>2028895

unshielded existential horror is anything but a lax dialectic, and suckling at the teat of a disciplinary ideology proves your addiction to daddy's belt and nothing more. make your own discipline.

>>2028628
this

>>2028804
my point, and his, i interpret, was that identification with transcendence and with the godhead is still identification with something, is still life-force conceptualization. i'm not really a dualist, but i can look at reincarnation as a model or metaphor for formal and material recycling. given that, the true end, the end of everything, universal heat-death, escape from the existence of anything at all, is the next step after cosmic consciousness. absolute rest.

>>2028540

*as wrong

>>2027731

1: i interpret your interpretation is wrong, or at least not necessarily correct. i don't think, in other words, that OP is referring, necessarily, to the supernatural, but you seem pretty fixated on the idea.

2: i'm referring not just to language and human interaction but to the whole system of particle interactions that make up everything. i suppose you're free to feel there's nothing profound about everything, but that sounds pretty sad.

>>2027745

yeah.

bedtime, people. i<3u

>>2027709

components of complex systems interact, and complex systems have emergent properties. you want to get into particle physics? i thought we were talking philosophy.

>>2027702

yeah, whatever. pick a noun.