Where do I start with Carl Jung?
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>>8201492
Bumping for interest
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Liber Novus
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Psychology and Religion
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Hey, /lit/. Since we realized that there wasn't one yet, and its a form of education that's sorely lacking in modern day we're making a discord chatroom to be a general community of philosophy, and its general overlap with science, sociology, or other forms of theory. As well as to be a community in general.
https://discord.gg/012OE9ge1GbmdqbZD
We only just started up, but this is something that could be useful if if becomes big.
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Oh boy I can't wait for the opportunity to read the even LESS carefully thought out and hastily typed words from the fine folks of 4chan
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>>8201437
You're free to go to reddit.
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This is nothing but dudes posting ass pics. Get an actual philosophy server mate.
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>Hey Anon! Glad you could join us for some grub!
>You're a smart guy, tell us, what is justice and the nature of the Good?
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nope, you cant greentext with that kind of pic. please dont try again.
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>>8201080
They're spooks.
Now hand over a piece-a of my property my dudes
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Wow, that's a really deep question.
Well I myself believe that there is an objective truth in the world that binds all mankind toget-
WAIT there's a Nigger inbetween you!
Get out of here!
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Has anyone here read some of Peter Sotos' work? I'm deeply interested in both his music and his lit but finding it online is a bitch. If anyone has pdfs or scans please drop em, otherwise I'd just like to hear thoughts/opinions on him.
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Buyer's Market fucked me up. I can't help but reel back when I realize that Peter Sotos was a legit pedo.
Like is he truly an artist or actually just a creep? Whitehouse is a band that I find very interesting, yet the music is obviously fucking insane. Peter Sotos was in Whitehouse.
I think he could be mentally ill and dangerous.
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>>8201076
I've occasionally seen things about him shitposted here, but I don't get what all the fuss is about. He just seems like an edgelord and likely a criminal. There isn't really anything that exceptional about that.
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I can't help but think he masturbates furiously to his works while making them.
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Is Anselm's ontological argument sound?
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>>8201071
No.
t.Catholic
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>>8201071
I was stoned the other day and came up with a really watertight theological argument.
Starting from the premise that God is an omnipotent being, we can therefore conclude that even if God didn't exist he would be able to use his unlimited powers to make himself real.
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>>8201094
>Starting from the premise that God is
you're begging the question.
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Reddit is doing a "best books" thread..
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4pgnso/serious_what_are_some_of_the_best_books_youve/
Material for good laughs.
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>>8200904
Lol
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>>8200904
So this gets around a thousand upvotes on reddit.
Bloomin 'eck!
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>Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files. Wonderful modern fantasy that reads just like a comic book.
christ
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>meet a woman in her 20s >she loves literature >Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, TFIOS, the list goes on and on!
Every time. Why do adult woman think reading children's literature is appropriate?
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>>8200809
Most Facebook using men do this too, although you could probably add A Song of Ice and Fire to the shitlist.
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Who cares dude its just a hobbyt
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Those are the female equivalent of dudes who don't read at all. Dunno which one is worse, 2bh.
Is pic related any good?
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I quit after like 60 pages of rambling clearly written in a drunken stupor
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>>8200700
The fuck you say, it's a quite conventional novel
Just read it, OP. It's pretty good.
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this was a minor /lit/ meme for a while
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>write 80 words of story
>write 160 words of notes I will have to take into account when I rewrite it later
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>>8200588
take the metafictive angle and just publish the notes instead of the story
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>>8202105
Nah, they ain't that interesting
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>>8202105
Has anyone ever done this?
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Are you enjoying Tao Lin's tweets?
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His twitter is kind of lame desu, I keep trying to get blocked from it but I guess he doesn't mind criticism
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>>8200506
I got blocked ages ago. And I didn't say anything bad.
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>>8200468
I like Tao's tweets.
I wish I could be good at twitter.
What are the famous whores/sluts/homewreckers of literature?
>extra points for whores who make the protag's life miserable with their deception
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>>8200129
lux Lisbon
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Do underage whores count?
If so, Tanizaki's Naomi
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Possibly one of the greatest plays, if not the greatest play, of the 20th century.
Consider this: Samuel Beckett told Sir Ralph Richardson that if he had meant God by Godot, he would have said God and not Godot. He then takes the time to tell us that Sir Ralph Richardson seemed "disappointed by this".
Is this another master ruse by a master absurdist ruseman? Was he bringing the disappointment of the play into our reality?
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>>8199971
I don't know man. What do you think?
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Better novelist than playwright desu
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>>8199971
Godot was a McGuffin
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Borrowing a mildly successful thread idea from /mu/
Short Story Edition
>Best
The Dead
>Worst
A Mother
>Overrated
Araby
>Underrated
An Encounter
post your favorite short story collection, call me names, etc
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>Best
Whoever Was Using This Bed
>Worst
Intimacy
>Overrated
Boxes
>Underrated
Errand
>>8199929
Incidentally I've just bought Dubliners on Amazon, should receive in a few days. Never read Joyce before
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>>8199929
you're overrated. Araby is so communicative and great, especially the ending. (I agree about the rest though)
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>>8199929
Is dubliners a good entry point to start reading Joyce or should I read portrait of a young artist first?
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Just marathoned the first three chapters. When will it get good ?
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>>8199752
Never.
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>>8199752
>shitposting on /lit/
There're greener pastures anon.
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He's slightly less irritating in the end. Just power through for the sake of having read it.
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Dude living was never for me, I literally feel sometimes that I am living purely out of spite for the universe, and that ever action is a sort of ironic defiance to sort of say fuck you to the universe. But you know how that leaves me feeling? It leaves me feeling incredibly scared when I have to be around people like when I was walking around outside yesterday, because you know why? When you have these sorts of thoughts in your head, it sort of makes you feel guilty. I feel afraid of when people look at me because I'm afraid that they'll figure out sooner or later that I'm just a fake husk of a human being and they would probably hate me for it anyways. Idk if that's because it's incredibly difficult to really communicate with people, like you know how when a person actually understands you, you can feel like the understand you even though you may not even be making sense to yourself, but they understand you because they understand your idiosyncrasies? Yeah you're not going to find people like that very much in the world, and yeah I know that my fear is irrational, but really I sort of dread interacting with other people for that reason, it's sort of like I have this deep, burning pessimism of other people and it never goes away and it really does feel like just about everything gives me an existential nightmare. The deep crushing pointlessness of existence is, I believe, not something that an animal mind was ever prepared to take on, it's nothing that I can overcome with even the heaviest of philosophical musing. It simply will not fucking go away, the pointlessness of absolutely everything, the deep burning pessimism, and it makes me fucking angry.
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Epic yarn, Kirby.
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I was walking around outside for a couple hours though, idk who I'm supposed to talk to. I don't know what to do for a job and no one is helping me, I can't stand doing school because it's too stressful and boring and I can barely function well enough to sit through class and get assignments done, because I just don't have the will power to do stuff that I feel is totally pointless and boring. I feel like the only way that I will get to have some friends is if I get a job, but I've had two part time jobs before, they were terrible and I am not looking forward to my next one. I don't know how getting a job is supposed to set me up with social connections.
I wonder what my life would be like without the internet. I wonder if I would have found a bunch of weird loner outsider guys and girls like myself who just live on the edge of society, maybe we would be making artwork with each other, or maybe I would be the same person that I am today except without the internet, doing some hobby like drawing and reading books and listening to my minuscule collection of music that I bought. I don't know, I just wish that there was some element of adventure in my life. It feels like you really don't get any options besides a beaten path, there hardly seems to be anything fun that doesn't require a reservation, a travel plan, but then again I hate mindless "adventure". I hate being in lonely random boring places because it makes my feeling of existentialism feel exponentially worse.
I dunno what to do with my life, but I wish that I could talk to other people. I wonder almost if I see that as a sort of fix and it's a false god, it won't really fix my problems, I wonder if that's actually the case. Because to be honest I have been searching for a reason to be happy, but it's so illusive. Every time I am happy I just forget later why I was happy and I go back to feeling sad. It's a very bizarre and abstract thing, wonder what makes me happy.
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Friends. I don't even know what friendship is. I have some friends online and they're interesting people, but to be honest I never really message anyone. I don't really even feel like talking to anyone, because I always feel that when you talk with other people you have to avoid a lot of things that are on your mind. When you avoid people, are you really doing much different from when you're just talking to them? It's like a little game of hide and seek, except you're never supposed to actually find each other, that is the way that I look at interactions with other people. I have always been a very awkward person, I think that people get very put off by me, even though I'm sufficiently self aware to not make people put off by me. I think that I often come on very strong to people, not in a sexual way, but in a way that makes them feel like I am probing too deep, and they want to back off because they're not willing to put up with me. Because ultimately to put up with another person intimately, is to grapple with their inner selves. This can lead to conflict.
It's weird to me to think about sex. I have never been a person that has felt comfortable when people come onto me, or felt comfortable coming onto other people. It feels so fake to me, it feels like it could be a ritual undertaken by only someone who experiences and feels the same things as me on an almost telepathic level, for me to give full vulnerability to someone else like that. I couldn't imagine it, yet it's something that people do around me all the time, it makes me wonder who is really the empty husk of a human being. In order to be happy, I'm sure that you really just have to not think about the absurdity of the world around you and really have no passion for life at all. That is why you see so many people of our world the way they are, that is why there are so many human beings, because who else makes other people and has sex but people who fuck. It's the people who fuck who've inherited the earth. And as if by some ancient hidden secret code, the genetics of someone like me appear out of pure misfortune.