I was violently beaten throughout childhood and now as I enter my early 20s I see that it has affected me on a level more profound than I had originally thought. It's impeded my ability to feel secure among other people and even my retention and memory. For all intents and purposes, I've done the best I could to be a good man and succeed. I go to a prestigious university, have a girl who loves me, a desire to better myself constantly. But in spite of all this, this pain follows me. I cannot shake the helplessness. At my core, I am stunted. I remain a quivering child in fear.
Is there any literature that could perhaps give me some insight into this kind of fear and alienation? To what extent can an individual escape circumstance?
>>9698537
Yeah, but first you're gonna have to kill yourself. No one fucking cares about your sob story.
>>9698537
Idk dude, when I feel down I read some Hesse.
>>9698545
I'm sorry
What should I read before tackling this, besides Aristotle's Metaphysics?
All the greeks and all the germans.
>>9698199
Heidegger's essay "What is Metaphysics?" is basically mandatory before reading Being and Time imo.
Or you can watch this lecture about it by /ourguy/ Sadler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt-4hV6Rf1k
I want to read it but apparently the Dutch translation lacks a glossary. Should i get an English translationm?
I think my German isnt good enough to read the original version.
How many books will you have read this month, /lit/?
>12 book/month masterrace here
my diary desu
>>9697406
12 garbage books < 1 great book
>Martial Epigrams
>Aeneid
>De Natura Deorum
>De Senectute
>De Amicitiae
>Divine Comedy
>Catallus Poems
>De Officiis
>origin of the species
>bird beaks and shit
>therefore we is apes
The nerve of this guy
Darwinism is one of the most useless theories ever
Microevolution has been known and understood for thousands of years and macro evolution has barely any evidence to support it
He was a modernist shill who applied muh science to animals, big fucking deal
did you read the book just to shitpost about it?
>>9696967
You know, I'm not a very religious person myself, but sometimes I do wonder if scientists have maybe pushed extra hard for the theory of evolution due to its implications.
The Silmarillion Edition
Fantasy
Selected:
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General:
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Science Fiction
Selected:
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General:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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>>9695873
Is dragonlance the only time the movie has been better then the book ?
>>9695885
I vaguely remember reading that PKD liked Blade Runner better than Do Androids Dream...?
>>9695873
HAHAHA WTF is this?
http://bookriot.com/2017/06/23/cover-reveal-10th-anniversary-edition-name-wind-patrick-rothfuss/
They actually want $30 for this?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0756413710
What's the funniest book you've read?
>inb4 it was funny cause of how much it SUCKED
Catch-22
IJ honestly
Other books that I thought were quite funny are Faserland, Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren (both without an English edition apparently), Master and Margarita (iirc? it's been a while),
a confederacy of dunces
death on the installment plan
post the greatest right wing book of all time
post the greatest left wing book of all time
discuss which is the better book
Right-wing: Iliad, Odyssey, Bible, Aneid, Commedia. Hard to decide.
>>9694227
roll
>>9693719
because stacies all reside in a fantasy land
in it for the money.
>>9693719
Because most young adult fiction is written by ghost writers using a nom de plum.
Many of them barely speak english.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRj-2ftFUus
you should ask on a site for film makers
/ourguy/
Use a picture of the Simpsons to describe a book you've read
>The Sound and the Fury
Iliad and Odyssey
Isn't this As I Lay Dying?
Iliad and Odyssey
>In 1977, he was among the intellectuals, with Foucault and Althusser, who signed the petition against age of consent laws.
Remind me why this nonce is so highly regarded?
B A S E D
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>>9703252
>nonce
some guy used this word the other day, probably you. I had to look it up.
It's not a very common word outside of england. Pedophile is a more common term.
>>9703263
You realize there is more than 1 person in the UK right? Nonce is a pretty common term here. I don't complain when Yanks use their slang.
What are some good African literature?
has anyone here really read anything other than chinua achebe? I haven't. it's good, though.
>>9702988
Anything by St. Augustine
>>9702988
Here's over 250
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Writers_Series
The list stops at the year 2000 so you don't get good contemporaries like Two Halves of a Yellow Sun or Famished Road.
I really want to contact NYRB into getting This Earth, My Brother back into print.
But this is probably just a bait thread so whatever
I am going for a trip into the Sierra Nevadas this weekend and I need something to read. What would you suggest for reading "inna woods"? I already assume John Muir and the transcendentalists will be in that category.
>>9702977
if your a liberal or a women i hope you get eaten by a bear :D
what's the point of camping if you're going to have your nose in a book the entire time.
hello /lit/
i thought i'd start a thread devoted entirely to the original ideas that this board's users are mulling over atm. the goal is to help each other develop and or point out if it's original or not
i'll start:
i've been thinking about consciousness a lot lately and it's origins. i never gave a shit about history before but if we can find out what led to the development of consciousness (a feature that distinguishes us from other mammals/animals) we can not only propel this development into unprecedented areas but we can create super-humans by accelerating the speed at which consciousness develops precisely because we KNOW the cause
i read in an article that humans developed consciousness because of a combination of two things:
1. consumption of red meat (which up until the pre neanderthal paleolithic eras was never a thing)
2. consumption of human brains
so here's my original idea:
we take a group of volunteers and isolate them from the rest of humanity. we measure their intellect via IQ tests and various other standardized examinations. we feed them nothing but red meat and human brains for 50 years. we make them retake the examinations and compare the results. if we notice a positive correlation of at least 0.5, we take an even larger sample of volunteers and conduct the same experiments for another 50-70 years except this time we make them have children. we conduct this experiments on these children as well, since being born they will consume nothing but red meat and human brains for their whole lives.
we keep doing this for at least 10 generations straight and compare the average IQ of the last generation to the first one, as well as the rest of humanity.
if we find out there is a positive correlation between red meat/human brain consumption and IQ, we make it mandatory for the rest of humanity to include this as part of their diets. this will increase the average IQ of population tremendously and thus increase prosperity and peace
thoughts?
>>9702966
What in the goddamn hell is this nonsense?
>>9702989
why do you think it's nonsense? poke holes in my theory before u talk shit fucking idiot
>>9702966
This is absolutely retarded. If you want to learn about the origins of consciousness read Kant and Hegel
How do you imagine your soul?
I always imagine it as a glowing balloon attached to the top or back of my head via a "string" - I should add that I think of the soul and the consciousness are the same thing, even though I know they're two different concepts. For me, personally, the two just completely overlapped at some point and I can't untangle them.
A very christian friend of mine imagined it as a "glowing baguette" in the left side of the chest.
My grandmother said she doesn't visualize it at all and the whole concept of visualizing a soul is strange to her (which is strange since she's very into religion and philosophers).
Has anyone ever tried to "describe" a soul, or has it always been just a nebulous thing?
>>9702519
filthy dualists gtfo
>>9702519
i just imagine a glowing light, like the sun but not blinding
>>9702536
In your chest?