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>>9255622

I thought about posting on that website again, but the kids just told me to kill myself and that my prose was shit.

It occurred to me, that my life is shit, my writing shit and posts shit.

La serpiente vio del árbol caer dos frutos que el viento arrancó.

Y después de comer la carne de ambos, tuvo una visión: al atardecer, más allá de los ríos y montañas que rodeaban su residencia, se alzaban dos torres; a contraluz sus siluetas se revelaban dispares, y sus sombras se prolongaban y parecían fundirse en una sola, uniforme e inmensa.

"Dead niggers don' tell no tales."
Old Man Henry "Crow Killer" James used to tell this to me.

Get enough sleep and read during the periods you're most alert

read boring books that use blown up language for every detail. drink a glass of wine with it.

>>9272801
How the fuck is drinking alcohol while reading a good plan, it will make me even more sleepy and it will fuck up my concentration
Coffee helps me but it isn't cutting it anymore

>>9272432

I'm reading the oxford annotated right now and enjoying it, historical context via annotations adds enough to compensate for any stylistic niggling

>>9272673
Are you reading the RSV or NRSV edition?

>>9272432
RSV is from 1977, NRSV 4th ed. is from 2010.

Of course you can get the NRSV NOAB and a copy of the RSV with Apocrypha (with just the text of the Bible), or read the latter online for free on BibleGateway.

John Green.

there's an interview where davy boy says feminists claim that male authors who write big huge dumb books are imposing their phallus onto the publics consciousness. they're right

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>>9271134
My nigga Dostoyevsky destroyed atheism back in the 19th century. TBK, C&P and Demons are enough to do the job.

>>9271158
I tried giving him TBK but he just couldn't do it. Literally couldn't deal with Alyosha or any part vaguely positive about Christianity. I'm not Catholic myself, him and I both agree the Bible is a work of fiction, but this hate boner is insane. I think the trick might be something not immediately obvious to be Christianity.

>>9271134
depends what his reading level + interest in the topic is
Orthodoxy by Chesterton?
The Last Superstition by Feser is rather polemical but if he's a Dawkins-tier atheist it would be a good antidote to that

if he can handle it and cares enough, Edward Feser's Aquinas or Introduction to Christianity by Ratzinger - probably need to take notes with these honeslty, pretty dense
For the whole "wtf i hate catholic sex doctrine" try Love and Responsibility by John Paul II, or if polemics + personal experience would be more convincing try "Gay and Catholic" by Eve Tushnet

I don't know, how does it feel to be so insecure about yourself that you have to attack an anonymous group of people?

>>9271130
Quit projecting

Who hurt you OP

Destory the corporeal forms of all p-zombies around us until only the individual remains.

be like me

Destroy religion utterly.

>>9270592
I just read the Iliad and Odyssey without any supporting works and I don't feel like I missed out on anything

it isn't but it will improve your experience if you do

>>9270807
Well you did.

Plato

>>9270420
What is knowledge, and what is virtue?

Because people think that if they can articulate on what they saw and heard, creating knowledge, that gives them a tool to protect themselves from the typhoon that is life. So they begin to admire those who acquired a lot of knowledge, projecting in them this sense of protection from the accidents and the unexpected.

Intellectual pursuit is like a sword. It cuts, analyzes, defines, pierce, destroy, indicates, imposes itself.

Go melancholy, you're already writing My Immortal.

>>9270392
Maybe consider the meaning of all of those isntead in relation to the story?

>>9270401
I am?

Post an excerpt here and I'll give it to you straight

>>9270398
I suck but I want to improve.

>>9270398
This

and don't get offended when people say it's shit. It's free honest advice you can choose to take or just ignore.

very, if you do it right

not very, if you do it wrong

pretty average if you do it mediocrely

As endlessly self-hating /lit/ is, it's actually a fantastic place for that

I've spent all day debating with people here on subjects I've been personally trying to force into focus while it rains outside

>>9270103
Really intellectual discussions on the net are carried out in closed groups by people who are peers of each other.

If you have to ask, you don't need to know. If intellectual discussion groups had an open door policy, then they would quickly become not intellectual, because everyone who thinks they're an intellectual but is actually a retard would infest the board with retardation.

>>9270121
Instead of making it difficult to get in, why not just enforce a policy like:
>You can join, but you have to prove yourself to stay

nobody likes poetry on /lit/
i thought this would be an awesome place
to know writers and poets
but sadness and tears are in my face

your poems are weak


faggot

>>9270156
no my poems are strong like rocks