/lit/ - Literature

Alissa Nutting. She has it all:
>hot (and extremely hot for an author)
>writes /ss/ smut
>has crazy BPD eyes so you know she's a demon in the sack

>The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is
>“It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desires of our hearts…However this mirror will give us neither knowledge nor truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.”

This shit blew my mind as a kid and forced me to confront my insecurities, I will be forever thankful to Rowling for this

>>23318158
To begin understanding metric simply mispronounce words you are very familiar with the pronunciation of by stressing the wrong part. Now you will start to understand stresses and you simply have to listen for them.

>>23313217
>it's not my job to fix it
This sort of attitude is what makes places like China such a shithole

>>23318114
I don't
>Historical fantasy may also be set in a fictional world which resembles a period from history but is not that actual history

>>23318155
>morality is subjective
nah wrong
Read Anselm. Morality is rationality. If people didn't have an ego, Kant's categorical imperative would be right.

>>23318072
Best post ITT. Was wondering if this was Paglia copypasta before you cited her.

You can still turn back
Are you brave enough to lose yourself to knowledge? To lose the very lens through which you perceive the world? To be so blind, and yet so free? If so, rejoice, for in spirit you will join the greats.
Why are you alive, anon?

>>23316046
kek

>>23316006
To be fair to him that is what almost every critic of eugenics (which is most people in general) says about it.

>>23318166
Ridicule

I have an aesthetically Roman coc̶k.

>poetry
>doesn't rhythm

>>23318035
>I interact with Somalis on a regular basis.
I don't know why you would even subject yourself to that.
t. one of them

>>23315576
No one has ever claimed that Christians themselves are morally superior. We strive, with varying degrees of commitment and success, to live as representatives of God on the Earth for the sake of the blood of Christ. But it is Christianity itself which is morally superior. Christ is morally superior, but Christians are just regular people who have one critical point of difference: we recognize the sovereignty of Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Son of God, and wait by faith for salvation through Him, and in that faith, are made perfect. But you'll find Christians on nearly every level of imperfection, and there will be many surprises in Heaven—people who everyone thought would be there that aren't and people who no one thought would be there who are. God knows who are His.

You're better off studying Scripture than trying to have-it-out with believers when you don't really understand what it is we believe.

>>23313687
Being a Quaker is when you hunt whales.

The more whales you kill, the more of a Quaker you are

>>23316791
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Managed to get him a fatwa written for his death

>>23318065
>Being smart doesn't make you a better person though
it literally does, the same way that being tall makes you a better basketball player.

>>23318153
I am independently wealthy. Next?

>>23312891
>Kind of like Ozymandias in watchmen feeling his only peer could have been Alexander the Great
literally me

>>23317233
Dante

>>23316006
What's frustrating about Christians is that they never acknowledge how, in reality, religiosity increases with high infant mortality, and it's general comfort and longevity that's made people irreligious and decadent.
Prior to the industrial revolution, Christianity adaptive because the most fit and mentally healthy had the most surviving offspring (weirdos became monks).
Christians just want society to collapse so we can return to Darwinian high infant mortality conditions by any means necessary. That's when the theocracy is established. This is why they're "against eugenics."
It would be easier if they'd just admit this instead of all the bad faith arguments. As long as it's God taking the babies rather than modern medicine, Christians are fine with it. They celebrate it. It's a child sacrifice death cult in a way.

>>23318146
Catholics are about appealing to authority clouded in Latin and golden raiment.
Anything post reformation, obviously including Mormonism is going to encourage you to actually read and interpret it.
Funny, I am in the UK and met some Mormon girls recently, very nice people, I decided to read your book.

>>23307507
that sounds gay yo