/lit/ - Literature

Any suggestions for books that actually made you look forward/optimistic towards your future? That brought you hope and direction?

>>17935697
until the very end anon

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>>16888197
I'm confused, showing up to church at age 35 alone sounds kino as fuck. Seek salvation in Christ anon.

>>16715582
stay strong, brother.

>>16428106
I really don't have a favorite, I pretty much like them all. I'm a cityfag, so I've only really seen European robins, thrushes, blackbirds, pigeons, mourning doves, crows, magpies, sparrows, seagulls, and just once a hawk, more or less up close. Owls are adorable with their big eyes: https://youtu.be/FC4vbwE0OQc

>>16428215
Some birds are definitely smart enough to remember human faces, and will recognize you even though you change clothes. I know crows can (https://youtu.be/bOkj7lJpeoc)), and it seems like pigeons too can recognize you. Parrots too are pretty clever.

And outside of birds, I've read that jumping spiders have great vision, compared to other spiders, and as a result tend to be more clever in their hunting strategy (they don't just set up a web and wait until it jiggles, they actually chase and ambush their prey), and there's a study that claims that they even have different personalities and approaches to hunting. Though you're right about anthropomorphizing them, it's all too tempting, especially if you keep an animal as a pet...

I wonder if pets that are social animals in the wild recognize you as "one of them", albeit a weird-shaped one, or whether they really don't care, and just accept you into their group because you're nice to them. I wonder, because animals of very different species can bond and get along. For example...

- Cats and dogs can be very willing to play together: https://youtu.be/iriBuIunNYM
- Ferrets (and rats too, I've read) will consider part of their social group: https://youtu.be/OcCRZkeqFY8
- Pigeons can enjoy being petted by humans/think of them as their mates, and dogs can be tremendously jealous: https://youtu.be/itVzolHZt8E
- Geese and some other animals can imprint on humans, and think of you as their parent.

But it really makes you wonder up to what degree the genuinely get along, or whether it's just us thinking that they're behaving in a human-like manner. For example, I've read that pigs tend to be smarter than dogs, so it makes you wonder: do they see dogs as "pets" too?

But then again, intelligence is a hard thing to pin down. I've read that mice are just as capable of solving problems as rats are, it's just that we were being unfair to mice because we were using tests designed for rats for them (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/rats-arent-smarter-than-mice-and-that-actually-matters/381430/).).

Rats and mice, despite looking similar, split ~20 million years ago (https://www.researchgate.net/post/When_did_rat_and_mouse_diverge)), while we split from chimpanzees about 7~10 million years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_common_ancestor#Age_estimates).).

But in the end it doesn't really matter, as long as I can pet them and they enjoy it, it's enough for me.

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>>16270954
Walden (life in the woods).

Comfy as fuck and 100% makes me feel so good being a NEET lol.

bros I unironically love apu and i want to protect his smile

here you go: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls070122193/

>>13486564
Dirty little NEET living out his MOMMY fantasies

>>13005281
>people on 4chan have aspirations and closely held beliefs
"STOP LARPING!"

>>12734862
Goodbye OP, I wish you the best of luck whatever you choose to do.

>>12225497
the true enlightenment were the friends we made along the way

>>12096801
fren

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>>11991710
we need all frens here to speculate

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>>11985979
breddy gud, i guess technology is our fren after all

How do you get better at reading comprehension?

>>11981151
Idk. There is something endearing about grown men pretending to be retarded frogs online.

>>11970276
we are all gonna make it fren