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There are two definitions to good. There's the definition of good referring to morality, such as good vs. evil, and there's the definition of good referring to objective claims, such as good vs. bad.

Neither of these definitions are similar to or mean "like" and it's subjective variants. When you say "something is good," you're not saying "I like something."

So why is there such a prevalent use of the word "good" being interchangeable with "like" in our society?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 16:12:38 Post No.7576452
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 16:12:38 Post No.7576452 [Report]

you are autistic if you think language is defined by dictionaries instead of usage

also nice b8 fgt

Anonymous 2016-01-12 16:15:13 Post No.7576460
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>>7576452
Why use the word "Good," something that's been useful for defining positive moral and objective qualities, to describe something you like but have little knowledge of, when you could simply use the word "like" because the predetermined definition is much different and actually applies to your stance?

Saying "I like thing" versus "thing is good" will prevent people from being pointlessly debated over opinions. It's standoffish.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 16:16:44 Post No.7576468
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>>7576460
Because the good in both senses of the word is what is desirable

Sperging over language has been the death knell for real philosophy

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:30:18 Post No. 7576319 [Report] [View this topic]

What do you prefer, /lit/?
Buying new books, buying used books or getting books from the library?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:34:23 Post No.7576332
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:34:23 Post No.7576332 [Report]

buying used books > library books > stealing them online > buying them new

Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:34:56 Post No.7576334
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:34:56 Post No.7576334 [Report]

new books
support the industry and the author

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:35:24 Post No.7576338 [Report]

library
it gives me a deadline that isn't too pressuring

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:18:59 Post No. 7576282 [Report] [View this topic]

Please suggest me the best translations of the following books:
1) Notes from Underground
2) Crime and Punishment
3) The Idiot
4) The Brothers Karamazov

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:25:42 Post No.7576301
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>>7576282
>1) Notes from Underground

whatever except for p/v

>2) Crime and Punishment

mcduff or, second option, p/v if you cant find one

>3) The Idiot

none it blows

>4) The Brothers Karamazov

mcandrew

Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:26:50 Post No.7576303
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>>7576282
Already a thread on this bucko

>>7566741

Check the catalog next time

Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:27:12 Post No.7576305
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:27:12 Post No.7576305 [Report]

>Notes from Underground
Ralph Matlaw

>Crime and Punishment
Pevear & Volokhonsky

>The Idiot
Pevear and Volokhonsky

>The Brothers Karamazov
Ignat Avsey

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:47:56 Post No. 7576202 [Report] [View this topic]

He never finished a novel.

The Broom of the System
>ends in midsentence

Infinite Jest
>just stops

The Pale King
>died before finishing

Why did he do this?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:49:32 Post No.7576207
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:49:32 Post No.7576207 [Report]

He really escalated his methods.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:50:17 Post No.7576209
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>>7576207
lmao

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>>7576207
Fucking hell, Anon.

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John Green Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:20:02 Post No. 7576123 [Report] [View this topic]

Just curious on what your thought are of this guy as an author?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:20:57 Post No.7576126
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 14:20:57 Post No.7576126 [Report]

Fuck off newshit

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>“You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ [regarded by many as Green’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”
>[Green] seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Cassius says to Brutus: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

Anonymous 2016-01-12 15:46:41 Post No.7576376
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>>7576143
I agree with most of the things he says, despite the fact he's a low-testosterone blob

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 11:49:46 Post No. 7575861 [Report] [View this topic]

Which edition of Siddhartha to get?

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>>7575861
The Tunnel

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>>7575861

it does not really matter much it is an enjoyable but short and inconsequential read, you should just skip the fan-fiction and read actual Buddhist/Daoist/Hindu/etc primary texts if you are interested in eastern philosophy/religion

Anonymous 2016-01-13 01:33:21 Post No.7578669
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>>7575861
>>7576989
Don't skip it. It's a good read. Any new translation is good. I read Rika Lesser's most recently and it was good.

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 09:13:22 Post No. 7575607 [Report] [View this topic]

Give me some really really short books to read so i can increase my Goodreads' read-list by a huge margin

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 09:16:58 Post No.7575615
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 09:16:58 Post No.7575615 [Report]

Why not just play cookie clicker instead? Save yourself some time.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 09:19:49 Post No.7575619
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 09:19:49 Post No.7575619 [Report]

Pocket Primer (María Santiago)

Just Because You Are My Husband, Doesn't Mean I Have to Love You (Marcia Arbor)

Star-Stones (José Alberto Garcia)

Lest We Forget... (Bruce Elman)

Trismegurta [Academy Personal Series] (Pseudo-Trismegristis of Aleppo)

Frog on the Lotus (Pi Ling)

Hamster Shavings (Bart Brennel)

But Poop (Farty Butman)

As Poopy But (Elias Rectim)

Pennis Dicks (Rosa Saltman)

Opisa Fahgot (Yuri Gay)

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>>7575619
Thanks, random guy!

You get a free wallpaper

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New Age Technobabble 2016-01-12 08:29:38 Post No.7575524
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New Age Technobabble Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:29:38 Post No. 7575524 [Report] [View this topic]

"I am Ra[...]The Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator has only one important statement. That statement, my friends, as you know, is 'All things, all of life, all of the creation is part of one original thought.'[...]

We are those who are of [The Law of One]. In our vibration the polarities are harmonized, the complexities are simplified, and the paradoxes have their solution. We are one. That is our nature and our purpose[...]

That which is infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. To have infinity you must identify or define that infinity as unity; otherwise, the term does not have any referent or meaning. In an Infinite Creator there is only unity. You have seen simple examples of unity. You have seen the prism which shows all colors stemming from the sunlight. This is a simplistic example of unity.

In truth there is no right or wrong. There is no polarity for all will be, as you would say, reconciled at some point in your dance through the mind/body/spirit complex which you amuse yourself by distorting in various ways at this time. This distortion is not in any case necessary. It is chosen by each of you as an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought which binds all things. You are not speaking of similar or somewhat like entities or things. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You are. This is [The Law of One...]

The Law of One, though beyond the limitations of name, as you call vibratory sound complexes, may be approximated by stating that all things are one, that there is no polarity, no right or wrong, no disharmony, but only identity. All is one, and that one is love/light, light/love, the Infinite Creator[...]

The Law of One states simply that all things are one, that all beings are one[...]When your peoples grasp infinity, then and only then, can the gateway be opened to [The Law of One...]

There are no mistakes under [The Law of One...][The Law of One being universal], there are infinite forms, infinite understandings, but the progression is one[...]"

What is Lit's opinion on literary depictions of ancient gods?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:32:53 Post No.7575534
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>terrible taste in cinéma
>terrible taste in literature
>terrible taste in musiqué
>woman
>sex life
>a fucking leaf

Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:33:27 Post No.7575536
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:33:27 Post No.7575536 [Report]

REPORT AND SAGE

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Yeah look I'm going to ignore everything you typed in and just post my version of that image.

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:25:18 Post No. 7575515 [Report] [View this topic]

thoughts on this? what publishers should be where, should we make it more detailed?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:27:24 Post No.7575518
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>>7575515
Everyman in hit or miss. I generally stick to Oxford when I can get them.

Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:28:03 Post No.7575519
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:28:03 Post No.7575519 [Report]

Why do I give a fuck about publishers again?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:29:03 Post No.7575523
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:29:03 Post No.7575523 [Report]

Should be more like:

Academia tier:
Norton
Oxford
Loeb
Hackett

Obscure/patrician/hister tier:
NYRB
Hesperius
A few more I can't remember atm

In-between tier:
Everyman
Modern

Mass market tier:
Penguin
Viking

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:15:27 Post No. 7575495 [Report] [View this topic]

Hi lit. I'm drunk and writing down my thoughts. I'd like critique or debagte on this small snippet that I wrote because I know that despite your madness and contrarianist attitude, most of you on this board are fairly brilliant, and for the most part I respect your advice. Here:

Were I to exact some truths about myself in the most patient way possible I would come up short of the expectations of many. A man at the age of 22 is to have experienced many things. I admit (however reluctantly), that I have, compared to many, seen a great many of things. I have also heard a great many of things, or read them, or understood meaning that admittedly, may have been a creation of my own.
But I have yet to experience many things, and because of this I believe myself and my peers to be liars—whether to themselves or to all. They (as I do) believe they have experienced the foundational moments that create the essence of what is. That is what all is… that which makes a human being. On this we are incorrect, as none can experience such things; as such things do not exist. The creation of art, I believe, is proof that these people are in fact liars. And they will always be liars, by the very nature of their existence, for the human being cannot exist without being a hypocrite.

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:17:26 Post No.7575501
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>>7575495
there is more to the art component, I'm still thinking about how to approach that without sounding like an ass.

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>>7575495

read more philosophy; don't bother reinventing the wheel. and at least write something meaningful ffs

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>>7575511
Fair enough. I'm working on reading more philosophy. Only really read The Republic and Thus Spoke, reading notes from underground now.

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:08:28 Post No. 7575482 [Report] [View this topic]

Never see erotica discussed here.

What does /lit/ think are the most erotic of novels?

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:10:07 Post No.7575485
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:10:07 Post No.7575485 [Report]

InB4 Henry Miller b/c that shit didn't give me even a semi and he's a pretentious fucker to boot

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 08:11:42 Post No.7575489 [Report]

just go on f-list

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>>7575485
Did you read Tropic of Capricorn? I had to stop it because the erections became far too many and furious

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 07:28:08 Post No. 7575402 [Report] [View this topic]

Do any of you /lit/eral shits have writing jobs?

I'm an assistant writer of story letters for realtors, ideal for a university semester of 5 science classes, but VERY spread out (usually one assignment/month).

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Anonymous 2016-01-12 07:37:15 Post No.7575416
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Anonymous 2016-01-12 07:37:15 Post No.7575416 [Report]

Oh man, OP, please tell me is this you or some meme picture? I am totally laughing my ass off at the irony here. That gaudy attempt to look sophisticated, combined with those tacky books...Goosebumps? Really? And seriously, that bread...Why is it in his (your?) shirt?

Anonymous 2016-01-12 07:41:34 Post No.7575423
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>>7575416
please be trolling
i refuse to believe someone could be this new

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>>7575416
Welcome new-friend. I'm as excited for you to be here as you are, but I'm afraid you came in the wrong entrance.
This is the door you were looking for: reddit.com