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What does /lit/ thing of my friend's saying? 2016-01-11 03:47:44 Post No.7570263
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Life is anything you want it to be. Life can be your dreams and aspiration. It can be your pleasure, it can be your sadness and demise. LIFE CAN BE ANYTHING AT ALL TIMES. That doesn’t mean life HAVE to be everything. Life is just life. When you bloat it up with goals and dreams and desires then it becomes those other things. It is no longer just life. Life is given to us for us to enjoy. Just like every other animal on earth. IF you like creating then do that. IF you like sitting around doing nothing, then do that. IF you like to work hard and earn lots of money and be super materialistic then you can do that too. The point is not forcing goals and achievements up your own ass just to feel good. Life is just about feeling good. Its not as complicated as it seems.
When you look at the core of life its simply existing. Universe did not dictate that fact that everyone should achieve a certain thing during their life time. In fact, the universe does not give a shit. So don’t think your goals and aspiration are real in anyway. They are all product of modern society and years and years of social construction.
All this doesn’t mean everything should just lie down and die. It simply means don’t try and follow anyone else’s foot steps just because you feel they are “right”. Do what gives your own self a sense of value and joy. When the self exists based on other people’s approval and perception then what will happen when it loses all those things. The self is crush and defeated. But if the self can exist without relying on anything external and can feel fulfillment by itself then it is a healthy self.
Working hard and having goals doesn’t mean it is all “good”. It just means you are working hard and trying to achieve some goal. A more universal saying can be: seek out freedom and give value to yourself. Be free from other’s perception’s of success and give value to yourself by doing what you think is valuable. (yes that could mean having goals and shit).
Ben, your tunnel vision of this “goal” is unhealthy. Im not saying it deadly like leukemia but its more like… You have broken bones. It will heal with time but at the present all you are focusing on is that broken bone. Lets say your goal is wanting to have your broken bone healed, But what’s after that??? After this goal do you think you won at life? No m8 there is a lot more. Life is of infinite possibilities and your idea of tunnel vision at life is just dumb.
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pt 2
Wisdom is not sought out. It is noticed. Wisdom is all in the experience. Reading about it doesn’t do shit. You read your bible, gathering all these “wisdom” and then you work hard and ignore everything else. THAT’S NOT HOW YOU USE WISDOM. Wisdom is universal. It is applied to everything. To read all that wisdom and then tunnel vision at life is contradicting. And don’t think that these wisdom help you achieve your “goal”. Wisdom wasn’t created for everyone to achieve their goals. It is was then our world wouldn’t be so shit right now. Wisdom is showing us how to appreciate life and enjoy life at every single moment. It is used so we can find out self and be comfortable with it. Wisdom is just “wisdom” its not a life hack that help you achieve anything.
I think right now. Saying you have a “GOAL” is comforting. Because its kinda like you threw a flashlight out into an infinite road so when you get to the flashlight, it feels good to pick it up. But you should realize that the joy is simply just running. I know how scary it is to live without a goal, The fear of not knowing what is going to happen in the future. I lived that fear for a few month so I know what its like. But after seeing family I realized. We can all make up goals for ourselves. We can set achievements for use to reach. But… we have to get there. We have to walk the road and go through the time. Nothing we can do can teleport us to our goals. Nothing we do is going to make anything go faster. Hurdle jumpers don’t look at the finish line leap over 30 hurdles. They just jump over each one until they reach the end. So knowing that there will always be the end and it will be reached at a set time. Why not just enjoy the journey.
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>>7570267
I dont go on reddit pls back to topic
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What went wrong?
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That fucking hat
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>>7570259
posting a meme
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sleep tight pratter
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separating the patricians from the plebeians 2016-01-11 03:38:00 Post No.7570227
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separating the patricians from the plebeians
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>"Anon, let me show you this trick I learned from a John Green video!"
What do /lit/? Have a nice relaxing later-on-nostalgia-inducing day lounging in the park with prime young pussy? Or walking away right that second and going to your writing cellar to work on your book in solitude for the next 10 hours in order to maintain patrician cred?
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>That's cool. Hey, if you want to hear about the opinions of a person that isn't suffering from severe Asperger's, you should really check out <preferred author>
Works every time.
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>>7570227
she didn't ask me to read one of his books
what are you, a faggot?
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>>7570227
>video
crashcourse?
no worries anon
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Which book has changed how you view the world permanently?
For me, On the Wealth and Poverty of Nations,
Manufacturing Consent
>inb4 edge lord
The Zeroes by Patrick Roesle
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>>7570032
Thank you for your contribution anon!
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>>7570023
War is a Racket, Schopenhauers essays.
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The Silmarillion - The Alpha & Omega of Fantasy 2016-01-11 02:32:26 Post No.7570001
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The Silmarillion - The Alpha & Omega of Fantasy
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What do you all think of The Silmarillion, the Children of Hurin, or Tolkien more generally.
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The Silmarillion was fairly good. It's sad we never got to see what Tolkien would have wanted. Children of Hurin is fucking brilliant and probably out does LOTR in content (not completeness or grandeur by any means). I just finished the Tree and Leaf book that is being printed, it was a pleasure to read. I've found Tolkien a lot more approachable after learning Old English. His poetry makes more sense but it still lacks the finesse of an accomplished poet. His translation of Beowulf is shit, but the notes at the back are useful. And LOTR his magnum opus is of course an incredible novel and fuck all the patricians who will deny its brilliance.
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>>7570606
I agree
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>>7571622
great input, very constructive.
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What are your goals for the year, /lit/?
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Reduce my liquor intake to acceptable proportions, stay NEET, acquire more ataraxia, read some books.
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To finish both meme trilogies.
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to read at least one book
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Is it necessary to understand Hegel before understanding Marx? 2016-01-11 01:41:04 Post No.7569770
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Is it necessary to understand Hegel before understanding Marx?
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Most of the people I talk to, whether they claim to be Marxist or absolutely hate him, haven't read Marx. They don't even know who Hegel is. They just spout quotes and jargon without any knowledge of Marx's ideas or how Hegel's ideas influenced his thought. Do you think it's necessary to read Hegel before Marx, and if so what should I read?
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Help??
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It's better to start off by reading the works of Hegelians before reading Hegel himself to understand the dialectical method in action. You just need to understand a bit of Hegelian philosophical terminology before hand:
http://www.london.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/students/philosophy/ba_course_materials/ba_19thc_hegel_glossary_01.pdf
First read Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity and his Principles of the Philosophy of the Future:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/essence/
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/index.htm
Then read Marxs "Feuerbach," from The German Ideology and the "Theses on Feuerbach."
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
Then read the preface, introduction, and opening chapters through the "Organic" of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Mind
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>>7569828
thanks pal
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So, I'm audiobooking this novel.
I read it in high school when I was 15, but I couldn't get into it and even had to cheat using Sparknotes just because I couldn't understand what was going on.
24, now, reading it as part of my classic literature pilgrimage, and while I understand what's going on, it's just so goddamn BORING.
Please tell me there's a theme, underlying message or symbolism that I'm not seeing so I can enjoy it. Just got to the part where they picked up the Duke and the King. I've heard someone say this is the Great American Novel, but so far, it's just a bunch of unstrung adventures featuring bland one-off characters. The only stuff I like is the relationship with Huck and Jim
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It's the Great American novel because it doesn't mean anything and Americans don't do anything t b h
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>>7569739
Wow, never got a post this fast, before.
Strong point, lol.
Anyone else?
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You're probably just a moron with no idea how to read basic elements of literature.
>Just got to the part where they picked up the Duke and the King. I've heard someone say this is the Great American Novel, but so far, it's just a bunch of unstrung adventures featuring bland one-off characters. The only stuff I like is the relationship with Huck and Jim
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Could any of you recommend literature that sort of resembles greentext stories on 4chan? Basically stuff written by outcasts, weird stories like that? I like Bukowski and I sort of like Dennis Cooper. I'm looking for autobiographicalish stuff about maybe "disenfranchized" youth or something. Obscene stories about alternative kids.
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>>7569706catch her in the rye
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>>7569706
Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis is the best story about a NEET ever written
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>>7569754
Verwandlung is not entirely a story concerning a NEET, considering the fact that Gregor Samsa is the sole source of income in the family.
It is rather a story of a massive cuck and beta.
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Hi lit
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>>7569550
hello
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Hi anon.
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sup nigga?
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ITT we post our handwriting and critique others.
Pic related: Mine
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>>7569413>2016 and writing by hand
here's my handwriting bro
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>>7570375
>bro
You ever hear of a thing called a period bra?
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Does this ever start to be less wordy, or at least with more direction? The imagery and dialogue are fantastic, but few and far between passages that contain references I don't think I'm understanding.
I loved V. and enjoyed Lot 49 but this book is making me feel pretty dumb so far.
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It be like it is
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>>7569376
>hasn't read Gravity's Rainbow before
>is either too stupid or too lazy to search online for a companion guide
>incorrect usage of the idiom "few and far between"
>is a "dumb" person by self-admission
Stop posting here please
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>book you're currently reading
>what you think about it so far
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Buckley's The Relic Master (from 2015 the newest book I've read since 2008)
Mildly entertaining, but feels like Canterbury Tales' the Pardoner's Tale or some shit for normies.
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>>7569312
>Elect Mr. Robinson For A Better World
>I need chapters to function.
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Well, I just finished the Plague like an hour ago, so I'll comment on this anyway.
It was superbly written, but I'm a little confused as to the meaning.
Was he trying to say that the best way to live a "purposeful" life is to fight death?
He was quite heavy on the whole "you don't know what you have until it's gone" motif as well, I thought.
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>So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane
What did he mean by this?
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>>7569062
I'm meek. She's brash.
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This is literally describing the mental moment some cuck is putting the pussy on a pedestal.
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>>7569062
That he is an embarrassment to men.
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http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz 2016-01-10 22:41:47 Post No.7568958
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http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz
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http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Bookz
>;_;
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Find the words anon I know you can do it.
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>>7568970
>be me
>buy my books like a faggot
>re-discover #bookz after a few years
>read 3 books in about a month
>happy satisfied feeling at having all this knowledge at my disposal
>its over
>Gott ist Tod
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>>7568984
>We're probably being DDoSed to oblivion by SJW fucks
Why, tho?