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Are there any philosophers who argue that the thing to strive for is love/a loving nature and go into detail on their ideas of how to do this. I feel like love (not just romantic) is the only thing worth staying alive and making an effort for but I don't know how to go about it
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Epicurus, kinda.
Erich Fromm also kindasorta.
Some forms of Christian ideas, I guess.
Philosophical/secular Buddhism also, but it's more like a natural result.
Many philosophers were of the opinion. But there weren't a whole lot who managed to work it into their theories. Probably because psychology and especially cognitive-emotional psychology are just about not taking off. Meaning that we simply didn't really understand what we meant by it before. Like intelligence. Everybody kinda-sorta knows what it meant, but nobody can agree on a usable definition.
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sorry if it is a little hard to read
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/comfy/-poems to contemplate, but not overthrow, your life. 2016-06-15 18:10:11 Post No.8165122
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/comfy/-poems to contemplate, but not overthrow, your life.
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Who here feeling /comfy/?
I just realized. I am pretty darn comfy, eventhough life is financially unstable. Is it because i choose it to be so?
Nevertheless, /comfytextsthread/.
Ones to read before sleep.
Ones to meditate over
Ones to dries your tears and eyes
Or ones to fulfill your spook secret guilty-pleasure?
As OP; I can go first. Mind with me, meter is not my thing, and no, im not a cuck because i write prose.
>Pour it, poet!
Open up, not spit, pour it, poet!
A bird that flew by said
The winds are changing and so should you
For life is never a headwind fight
but another mystery to dissolve
between your fingers
To catch the words is to catch a bird
And to catch a bird is to kill a bird
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Critiques are welcome ofcourse, but contribute aswell lads! Remember, /comfy/.
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>this poet
>on 4chan
I can rest easy now.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnZnnkJxoC8
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The translation actually kind of kills it but I already went through the effort of looking it up so here you go.
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>I listen exclusively to classical movies
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but they got some nice soundtracks m8
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Daddy zizek
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The influence of ancient literature on everything ahead 2016-06-15 17:41:04 Post No.8165026
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The influence of ancient literature on everything ahead
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Pablo Picasso spent his entire life trying desperately to do something new, something unique. He moved from style to style, mastering and then abandoning both modern and classical methods, even trying to teach his trained artist's hand to paint like a child.
In 1940, four French teens and a dog stumbled upon a cave that had lain hidden for 16,000 years. Inside, they found the walls covered in beautiful drawings of men and animals. When the Lascaux caves were opened to the public, Pablo Picasso visited them, and as he stared at the prehistoric hunting scenes, was heard to remark in a despondent tone: "We have invented nothing".
>literally this
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Picasso sounds like a KEK
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>>8165047
You don't know shit.
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>>8165052
i know he made degenerate art in attempt to subvert western civilization and decency and morals.
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What is writing?
Why do we write?
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So we can learn to sharpen our pencils, Alfred.
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We ought to write for existence itself because only existence exists; we are only its dream. The existence calls to its dream, and so I answer.
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It makes you feel as if you are doing something meaningful/with purpose, so you don't loath yourself in boredom.
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I've just came across some of the most retarded shit I've ever seen regarding e-books.
Why are some e-books on Kobo not available in certain countries? Isn't that the purpose of them being "e"!?
Any one knows how to trick the Kobo store on this?
>inb4 buying e-books
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>>8164499
Go away, stupid frogposter
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e-books still have publishers. Those publishers only have publishing rights in certain countries
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>>8164499
There is no "inb4 buying ebooks"
Stop buying digital goods for inflated prices.
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Have you read the entire works of any authour(s)? Who?
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Lovecraft. Some gems and a lot of trash, honestly.
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Philip K. Dick. His straightforward prose is easy to digest, and his books aren't very long.
Once I read "The Unvanquished", "Pylon", and "The Reivers", I'll have conquered the Corncob Chronicler.
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Bulgakov
Borges
Emily Dickinson
Pushkin
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ITT: Authors who would browse 4chan if they were born in the 90s 2016-06-15 10:11:42 Post No.8164122
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Pic related would browse /x/ wasting all his talent roleplaying.
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Would? I do already.
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>>8164126
I love your work.
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>>8164140
Thanks, mango. I appreciate the kindness.
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Underappreciated Dystopian Fiction/ Dark Alternative Histories 2016-06-15 08:02:23 Post No.8163972
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Underappreciated Dystopian Fiction/ Dark Alternative Histories
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I recently came across this work and I wanted to ask /lit/ if it had any other examples of under-appreciated dystopian fiction or dark alternative histories. I found Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" to have a bit of Twain's satirical bite a la Letters from the Earth and the imaginative scope of Dick's Man in the High Castle. It was a fun read, particularly considering current events.
The other "unappreciated" dystopic work I can think of is The Camp of the Saints, which reads about as imaginatively as The Turner Diaries. Help me out, /lit/. I'm in a mood to read creative imaginings of how western civilization dies.
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
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Darkness at Noon
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Does /lit/ know any other dystopian fiction that isn't Brave New World, 1984, or We?
Every single time this topic comes up, it's always We that gets brought up, and usually in a post that simultaneously is condescending in regards to the other two like it makes the poster so well-read just because it's not in high school curriculum like those.
I mean, I enjoy We as much as the next /lit/izen, but can't anything else get some love?
On that note, and to respond to the OP, I recently read Ray Bradbury's short story The Pedestrian and thought it was pretty terrific.
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2016-06-15 07:32:25 Post No.8163896
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Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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Any recs for erotic sci-fi and fantasy? I don't care about subtlety, just hotness.
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Help me name my JRPG parody. I'm thinking something with Eternia, Fantasia, Tales, Quest, and/or Chronicles, maybe with a fantasy name generator generic name in front of it. Or just Eternia Fantasia Quest Tales Chronicles, but if I can't make it euphonic I probably shouldn't.
Loving parody, poking fun at the cliches but playing the story mostly straight a la Soon I Will Be Invincible.
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Gave the Selected Fantasy chart a little update; replaced two authors books with better (in my opinion) starter books, replaced the YA pick, while good is probably not what people here are interested in and took off Hobb/Locke Lamora because they're actually kind of ass. Give it a look if you're looking for something new to read.
Also I'll take this moment to shill 'The Buried Giant'. Everyone here needs to read it, it's short, stand alone and very good.
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Short Story/Poetry thread 2016-06-15 07:08:05 Post No.8163868
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Write and Rate:
Somewhere, far off, the Sow cried. We could hear it from the path's diverge.
It's there that our gate whispered a little clatter as our hands burnt, almost blackened by the rust-hot heat the iron held. I clipped my leg on the top-bar. There was a fumble; he scooped me up, and I scaled out into an sea of meadows.
The whins, shipped and narrowed our path. We flopped feet on the hollyhocks, feeling the tinkle of their grass-crew grab and lurch at our bare, shorted legs. His face was red, he walked puffing into the dense air; my chest tightened more and more as we took on a few last tacks down the land.
We were left more sweltering than we ever were on the walk behind us, and we felt our tops tighten and cling as we turned, like to Eurydice, at the path we'd dug out. It had wisped us into a little heath by a stream.
The sallies, under the writhing trees and in the shade; they flicked with us on the stream. The little beads on his forebrow left his head through his hand while wiped them off. He leant in to kiss me.
The eyes were closed, sullen. It was very clear he saw his next kiss, returning.
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We walked back, said little after he'd come. The field was more open now, I ran in front while he walked, my skinny, boy-body whipping out as if I were just a child, as if he were the big man, the Bigfellow.
The gate proved less troubling and once we hit the road, my friend gave me a hug and parsed one last chance at my promised kiss. I reeled, he turned, I sighed as the free wind kept the fields moving, kept my face cool.
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I posted an old version, fugg :^))))
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Bump again jfc
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Serious question: can diverge be used as a noun? I've never heard it used that way.
Also, about a 5/10 desu
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What is your favorite work of erotic fiction /lit/?
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The Lusty Argonian Maid
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worth every septim
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Bitch Whore by Phil Phantom
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I'm convinced no one on this board has actually read Atlas Shrugged.
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I read it in 1997.
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Prove it.
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>>8163367
if so, better off this way.
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where do i start with him?
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TCoL49 or IV. Could start wit V. but it's much more difficult than the other two.
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Start with whatever the fuck you want except against the day because it's way too long
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I agree with this except the part about against the day. start with what ever you want. don't be a faggot. might I suggest son & xon
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Let's have a retarded review thread.
Go to Amazon or wherever and find the dumbest reviews for whatever book you please.
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Make one with a women next time, and say that it can only be women reviewers. then we can have a women hate thread
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Was gonna start one of these threads myself. Will post a few.
