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Why those guys who laugh at "spiritual" social constructs like god or afterlife often manage to take "secular" social constructs like morality or human rights seriously?
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>>9233290
Because God isn't gonna steal a nigga's bike.
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"God isn't real and if He was I'd kill Him" - Richard Dawkins
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Glad that retard Hitchens died
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Have you read anything from the Nordic countries?
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>>9233036
Yes, I'm a scandifag.
What do u wanna know?
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>>9233036
Of course
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>>9233036
GOATs of Scandinavia:
Sweden: Strindberg
Norway: Hamsun
Denmark: Kierkegaard
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Author Warren Ellis is speaking at MIT today.
Starting.... now.
live stream here:
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/medialabtalk/
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>>9232857
He's got three prose novels out too.
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What are some good sci-fi/fantasy/history books i should read?
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>>9232281
/lit/
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Genre_fiction
>saged
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Lucifer's Hammer
Starship Troopers
Forever War
Wheel of Time
Catch 22
Dune
Metro 2033, 2034, 2035
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malazan
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The German word for passion is "Leidenschaft".
"Das ist meine Leidenschaft" means "This is my passion", however literally translated it means "This makes me suffer".
I'm searching for books about passion, "Leidenschaft" - but no love stories.
It should be about someone pursuing something so badly that it drives them crazy,
something like Stefan Zweigs short story The Royal Game.
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Passion means suffering in English as well.
e.g. The Passion of the Christ
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>>9231893
That's good to know, thank you.
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>>9231892
>"Das ist meine Leidenschaft" means "This is my passion", however literally translated it means "This makes me suffer"
No, it doesn't.
Und fang jetzt bitte nicht an über Etymologie daherzulabern.
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Ok /lit/ I'm dying and I wanna read some dope ass myth legends, so far I've been reading māori myths still not done actually. But I rlcould use some good recs.
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>>9230931
What's wrong?
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>>9230935
Nothing I literally have cancer and I hurt a lot everyday but it's ok reading about Maui and how much he's struggled for life is really fun even his death was fucking hilarious.
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>>9230931
start with the Greeks
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is there such a thing as "lit bro culture" and if so, is DFW part of the problem?
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What classifies something as bro-lit?
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>>9230601
>is there such a thing as "lit bro culture"
Yeah this board
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>>9230601
what is this 'bro problem' your feminist lit class is trying to address
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Hey /lit/,
I heard about this crazy motherfucker, and I got really curious about reading him. Regardless of whether or not he is bait, I want to dig into this nerd. What work of his should I start with? Also, who should I read before I read him, if any?
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>>9230397
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/derrida/
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>What work of his should I start with?
Positions.
>What work of his should I start with?
You should know a bit from this a bit from that ... et cetera.
Primary heidegger and husserl.
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Let me save you some time:
Everything is relativ so can you really even know ANYTHING?
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>hasn't released a book since 2012
What's he got up his sleeve?
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>>9229933
Why does everybody get so triggered over this guy? He writes YA fiction. Why not attack other YA writers, why solely Green?
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>>9229938
Because he's very, very successful.
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>>9229951
Heaps of YA authors are. What's your point?
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Why aren't you working on your novel right now?
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Novels are dead. Short stories are the future
No one has the attention span for novels
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cuz im a ba d writer
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>>9229872
>implying anyone has the time to sit down and read an entire fucking short story
get the fuck outta here
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How do i practice schizoanalysis?
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are you schizophrenic?
you aren't? then fuck off.
> inb4 jokes about dissociation
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>>9229905
underrated
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>>9230114
i studied writing with a schizophrenic. he was cool, as long as he remembered to take his meds. he wrote a lot of stories that included the words "... and then, a fight ensues...", to where it became a running joke. he appreciated the humor and we were laughing with him, not at him.
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What's /lit/'s opinion on YA?
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>>9229487
It's a nice stepping stone for new readers but should be ignored once you're able to read better things.
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Better than nothing, right?
But l don't get why people over the age of 20 would read anything like it. I'm not saying they should be reading Joyce or Melville, but maybe they should consider transitioning to airport lit.
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>>9229513
what is airport lit?
how could we summarize hegel's philosophy? i read several articles and attended several seminaries, but in the end the only thing i absorved was dialetical theory.
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thesis-antithesis-synthesis
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>>9228581
Master shitpost
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>>9228581
Fuck off and die.
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Friendly reminder Simone De Beauvoir literally raped and molested children 2017-03-12 06:19:42 Post No.9228532
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Friendly reminder Simone De Beauvoir literally raped and molested children
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To be fair she probably didn't realize they were kids considering all of them were bigger than Sartre
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>>9228532
/ll/ is great desu.
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>>9228541
Is that her?
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I'm going full vegetative 2017-03-12 04:53:34 Post No.9228272
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Lately I'm finding myself getting more and more numb and apathetic: I can't think straight, I can't verbalize what I think, I can't manage to care about what I have to read for my college essays, I can't sit and start reading or writing the non college related stuff I enjoy because I constantly tell myself I ain't got no time 2 looze; but everytime I try to read some monograph (I face it as a task, and I approach the work with the perspective that it's something to finish, not something to do) for an essay I end up lurking on my social media. I only want to ditch my college duties, dedicate myself to ISOLT (maybe that's the problem, I've heard about people that only managed to read it while unemployed or on vacation) again and take back my own writing, which I left 4 months ago or so. I can't concentrate on (and therefore calmly enjoy) those things because I constantly feel that, a couple hours after, or the next morning, or during the weekend, I'll have to get them out of my mind to focus on the other stuff. As a result, and as I said before, I don't do shit but stare at my fucking phone in the whole day. Only things I enjoy are the rare moments of peace when I can keep calmly reading ISOLT, MDMA and (sometimes) being drunk. It's been three months like this.
Any other anon has ever gone through a similar experience? If so, how did you get out of it? I've even condidered ditching college, getting a manual job, moving out of my pops' (inb4 basement dweller, it's usual to live with your family as a young man or a student in my mediterranean catholic country) and devote myself to reading, writing and learning on my own.
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>>9228272
might be the eccies mate, don't do it so often or it will fry your brains happy makers.
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>>9228281
Yeah I know, I already put some distance between my highs
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