Can we agree that Luke is the most /lit/ Gospel? The Magnificat, the Nunc dimittis, etc.
Gotta look at the good news all as one thing. the interplay between the synoptics vs john and the synoptics even at odds with each other is more interesting than Luke by itself.
>hurr im luke im a rich greek doctor i only know like tertiary sources dont you like how i took all the character out of the story of christ hey and guess what here's this paul faggot too
>>8626744
The synoptic aren't at odds with each other except over reasonable details that you would expect there to be conflicts of the account of. As Saint John Chrysostom points out, none of the conflicts relate to anything doctrinal, and it they weren't there, the Gospels would be suspect as a collaborative effort; with minor conflicts, it shows they are independent accounts.
Luke probably talked to primary sources. Especially women.
>>8626495
since /lit/ likes its incomprehensible prose in order to build up the myth of their own intelligence, I would think that Thomas would be the most /lit/ gospel.
I feel as if I have no purpose in life. It's as if I cannot decide on what to do with my life and how to divide the time I am given into pursuing different subjects. Books to push me out of this slump and become something of myself? How to find fulfilment?
>>8626443
Depression's a bitch that never goes away. There is no cure.
>>8626452
How do you know it's depression?
Tell me, /lit/, is it true that every story that can be told has been told? That we've basically been recycling plots for hundreds if not thousands of years?
Are we, as writers, simply trying to come up with new ways to tell old stories? Is there nothing original to say?
>>8626249
You aren't a writer
>>8626249
if you are asking that DO NOT label yourself as a writer.
I'm stupid and I want to become patrician. Should I even try?
It's basically their worst album after The Burning World.
>>8626208
/thread
Borrowed this from a friends library, is it worth reading?
>>8626127
Yes
ITT: Books you know you should read, but certainly cannot be bothered too.
>>8626209
Les Rougon-Macquart saga in full cover to cover
Best Astronomy/science book.
My nieces birthday is coming up and she wants to be an astronomer when she grows up.
What's the most entertaining/best astronomy/science book I can get her? Carl Sagan Cosmos? Thanks appreciate it!
>>8625998
Anything by Hawking, this dude knows some dope shit about space, yo
>>8626040
Is Stephen hawkings entertaining for a 16 year old though? Thank you!
Decent literary fiction about the "wars" and life in Palestine from 1900-1948?
>>8625960
היומן של סבא שלי דסו
>>8626065
don't bump troll threads, anon
>>8626072
Not a troll thread. Looking for memoirs of a Jewish terrorist during the dirty little conflict with great britain, or an angsty tale of a refugee coming to Israel after 45
You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.
>>8625944
You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.
ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING AUTISIM. Do you realize how fucking disgusting and stupid you sound? And what game are you even talking about ? I think you revealed a little more about yourself then you should have. I understand the difference between metaphor and literal text why the hell do you make it sound like its some impossible feat? I'm geussing you probably have some difficulty with that. I imagined the woods in a very similar way as you this is exactly why the text made no sense! Woods can be dark, depressing and creepy looking but how the fuck does it make it savage , harsh and wild? You can get through creepy looking woods without it being that way. I've been on strolls in pitch black woods before at 3am and never has it been SAVAGE WILD HARSH. ALL IM TRYING TO SAY IS THAT THE MAN SOUNDS LIKE HE HAS NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT AND GAVE IT NO THOUGHT ANY FURTHER.
>>8625944
Actually stay, you'll fit right in around here
Just finished this book, loved it. What would be a good book to read after it?
Epic novels like it
the epic sequel of course
You're all a bunch of fucking pseudo intellectuals who think you are so superior and intelligent because of the works you have read and studied but in reality you're all a bunch of fucking assholes who waste your time with this nonsense written by people who also wasted their time on nonsense for the sake of fucking time wasting.
Fuck you all , I quit this shit board, this shit website and shitty literature. It's all useless shit that makes you feel like you're better then you actually are. You're all a bunch of fucking resentful meat bags that judge and curse people AUTISTIC AUTISTIC ohhhhhh I bet you fucks have questioned yourselves constantly if you really are autistic or not.
Go back to reading your marvelous books and shit posting your amazing intellectually rich stimulating posts. Fucking faggots. Fuck you I'm out and never coming back to you pathetic miserable fools.
>people have to spend years of their lives learning about irish folklore to fully understand his books
i mean this guy was a real jerk
It's not that hard to understand just read it and pay attention
>>8625866
>irish folklore
you mean the wanderings of ulysses?
DUDE
FARTS
LMAO
Are you on your third exploration of Nietzsche's oeuvre yet, /lit/? This is where it really begins.
First you read him as a teenager without much patience or context and cherry pick and misunderstand.
On your second visit you are embarrassed for your first interpretation but not yet distanced for it. This is often in your early twenties. You are more well informed and have a more in depth understand of philosophy in general. But in this phase, people still consider their teen Nietzsche to be Nietzsche. In other words, Nietzsche's work is tainted for them by their first experience. Their former idolatry sickens them. This is the time where most people cast Nietzsche aside because they confuse him with their own former incompetent readings. People in this age like to think of themselves as having overcome their teenage years, being more sensible, more adult. There is a certain flirting with common sense that they consider maturity and like to dismiss Nietzsche while secretly dismissing their former selves and casting off the things they associate with it. They throw out Nietzsche like an old band shirt. Like their adolescent poetry. This is a necessity.
Then some years later, in your late twenties perhaps, you may feel enticed to read some Nietzsche again. Maybe you've encountered a quote or found an old paperback laying around. And this is where great things start happening. You've embraced him once and you've dismissed him once. In both cases probably largely for the wrong reasons. But having loved and despised Nietzsche's work, you are finally able to engage with it properly.
>When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he paused, like one who had not said his last word; and long did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand. At last he spake thus--and his voice had changed:
>I now go alone, my disciples! Ye also now go away, and alone! So will I have it.
>Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you.
>The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
>One requiteth a teacher badly if one remain merely a scholar. And why will ye not pluck at my wreath?
>Ye venerate me; but what if your veneration should some day collapse? Take heed lest a statue crush you!
>Ye say, ye believe in Zarathustra? But of what account is Zarathustra! Ye are my believers: but of what account are all believers!
>Ye had not yet sought yourselves: then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
>Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
>Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you. And once again shall ye have become friends unto me, and children of one hope: then will I be with you for the third time, to celebrate the great noontide with you.
Bitch I'm on my fourth Nietzsche encounter. I spent last night having sex with a Nietzsche cybrid and he's about to ask me to bear his consciousness for him.
>>8625862
>ye
for what purpose?
>>8625887
fascinating
>almost always read book in english
>feel kind of bad by no reading more in your mother tounge
>holy fuck the books are expensive
>the translations are horrible
>you dont even know any more or less interesting contemporary authors from your country
What to do bros
where u from
>>8625829
Who is this self-caress mistress?
>>8625829
yo momma's so ugly you refuse to read in her tongue
Ok /lit, before you shit on me for posting here just hear me out, i have nowhere else to go. I know you guys probably dont consider light novels literature, but i need help if any of you know what im talking about in the content below. A couple months back i started reading a light/web novel where the MC is a military veteran several hundred years into the future. Things happen and he decides to participate in a contest? In a virtual world. I remember that at the start he screws up and cant walk because he didnt put enough points into strength and that he grinds day after day for money and business transactions in order to get stronger. Its a very sophisticated type of writing style that im starting to crave recently, this novel has been clawing at my mind for quite some time now and if someone could tell me what it is id be very thankful.
it's not that i have disdain for you, it's just that i never read this sort of thing and can't help
>>8625633
Ok, I'll help you. I know a blog that is specialized in light novel.
That blog acknowledge there are *trashy* litterature, but he likes them and knows what's up.
Let me search some links for you, and read them, it's worth
>>8625642
Thanks, i appreciate it
Was this book supposed to come out early? I kept reading that is wasn't coming out until 10/18, but it just got delivered to me this morning.
Well, what's in this thing OP? Did you like what you bought?
I like Twin Peaks and behind-the-scenes-exposes so this sounds cool.
>>8626066
It's a very beautiful book. I've only read the first 10 pages, but it's mostly a documentary presentation. Lots of documents in the form of a dossier.
>>8625566
anything secret in it?
whichever one appeals to you more
>>8625466
Mrs. Dalloway is far more accessible than The waves, but I guess if you are used to stream consciousness and modernist literature it must not be a problem.
But anyway, the order will be first Mrs Dalloway, then The Waves. The middle point would be To the Lighthouse, which is actually beautiful.
Enjoy this great author!!
>>8625466
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