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>>9564698

> CHRUMPFFE

>making things
gay

>>9563968
/lit/ is too slow and empty to survive on its own

>>9563968
first post worst post

only if your doing STEM

>>9563626
>universities worth going to for the sake of learning
No.
Unless you require facilities and tech for certain STEM fields then there is no reason to go to university for the sake of learning, ever. You go for qualifications and building connections. At most unis provide learning guidelines, if you really want to know a field you'll need to do 90% of your study outside of required work.

Let me put my question differently: I'm in the military and have the G.I. Bill to look forward to once I get out. This means that I can get paid to go to most any undergraduate or graduate school for 36 months (9 months of classes in a standard academic year x 4 years). Would I be stupid not to expend my benefit, or are there better things I could be doing with my time assuming I don't opt for a career that I need a piece of paper for.

you need to be at least 18 years old to post on this site

The 2x2 = 5 bit from Notes from Underground might be good, since the Underground Man is openly engaging in a one-sided dialogue with people, it's more comprehensible as a conversation than a lot of the book.

>>9563304
Senior in high school, just turned 18, etc.

PTSD

bananafish is the best one

a whole lot of boring shit t b h

unoriginal idea. I've seen this idea on /tv/, /b/ and more over the years and have even literally had this conversation with normies irl.
You will be sued also.
Do you want us to think this is cool or something? Fucking pleb.

i've often read that /lit/ is a chris chan board

>>9562822
I'd read it, OP. I've been thinking of writing a book on Pastor Steven L. Anderson.

>>9562456
Not if you plan on reading it front to back on your own

>>9562456
For entertainment, yes. For scholarly study, no.

>>9562481
Which would you recommend then?

i snort peyote before writing my homework

I think you could have three quarters of your brain removed and still successfully publish modern poetry. So what?

I think the post above me is splendidly right. So what?

>>9562070
>posts image about people not trying
>criticizes people for trying to improve
captcha: STOP

>>9562078
The picture is unrelated.

>>9562070
YA novels and most genre fiction deserve to be shat on. They are virtually nothing more than vapid and disposable time-wasters.

>>9561791
I'm more tired of people injecting politics where it doesn't belong and injecting different ideas into politics.

Hmm. I've never noticed this before. I dread that fact that I finally did.

>>9561798
This.
>But anon, politics is everything.
Indirectly everything is connected to everything, kys obfuscator.

Nobody is being sent to hell against their will. Hell is merely a term to describe the complete total absence of God, and because God is goodness itself it would be torturous to be completely separated from him. This is why depictions of involve lots of fire, because it would be painful. Anyways it is entirely your choice to be separated from God. God loves you so much that he won't force you to spend eternity with him if you don't want to. You can either be with God or not.

>>9561851
You don't think I've heard this apologetic before? Tell me what makes you so special? You think you're saved because you read a book. Yet you have more luxuries than the rich man in Luke. Have you forsaken everything, even your own kind in the pursuit of a devout life? Have you expunged all manner of sin? I'd be getting pretty worried about my salvation if I were you. On the say of Judgement you might just get a good 'ol "depart from me". All these Christians are self righteous that they are assured of their salvation but it would seem with all the conflicting doctrines somebody would have to be wrong. So why not you?

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>its another "i havent read the bible, but heres why its wrong" episode

>>9561257
>I haven't seen a new, promising novelist or poet in a long time
That's because instead of reading new authors you shit up /lit/ with poltardian bait threads, bucko.

>>9561257
Modern authors are just a bunch of wussies who can't explain themselves without putting labels. New American liberal movement trend does also adds fuel to the fire.

>>9561257
>morality, spirituality, nature or the supernatural
Because none of these exist in the modern mind.

>>9561194
>best stylist in the english language
Joyce. Is it really even a contest?

>>9561209
Heres a good excerpt. Not anywhere near his best, but it's all I could grab easily on my phone.

>A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

>>9561194
>Style
>Prose

please stop. The answer is Bryon.

>>9560934
Always King James.

>>9560943
Why choose a bible based on a King's certain choice of proto-Elizabethan English instead of a scholarly text trying to be as accurate a translation as possible? Sounds like a loaded question but it isn't, I'm honestly asking

>>9560954
Personal choice really, The translation has wording that comes together rather beautifully, though others may not agree.

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>reads Foucault twice

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>reads Agamben once

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>reads Faulkner once