/lit/ - Literature

What music makes you feel close to God?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSif77IVQdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvMx8uWaX4

>you are now imagining the day when the universities admit they are diploma mills and STEM training factories that rarely even produce good technicians, and the whole potemkin village of "humanistic education" finally collapses
>you are now imagining the day when all the normies don't know what to do, because "One goes to college" is as much a part of the firmament of objective reality for them as "One listens to the News Man, he's on the Tee Vee" is
>you are now imagining the day when the money dries up and a thousand ponzi schemes within pyramid schemes, like the standardized testing racket, implode
>you are now imagining millions of unemployed office bitches wandering the streets in shellshock, with CVs full of fake jobs like "Head Administrative Liaison of the Wellness Center at Penis University," in an industry that doesn't exist anymore
>you are now imagining millions of nouveau riche chinamen and latin americans streaming back to their homelands, their visas expired, their heads full of the managerial jargon of a dead system
>you are now imagining millions of upper middle class new englanders and californians returning to their parents' houses in their collapsing states, with nothing to do now that getting three masters degrees in fake bullshit to get them out of their parents' hair for a decade isn't an option anymore
>you are now imagining the empty hallways of "LMAO THE HOGWARTS BUILDING XDDD IT'S JUST LIKE IN HARRY POTTER XDDDDD"
>you are now imagining the empty, ugly brutalist library with its 90% "study area" space for loud teenagers
>you are now imagining Professor Hepcat trying to rebrand himself as a "consultant," and describing his 21 years of rewriting the same anthropology book (on the othering of LGBTQIA+ bodies in the contemporary berlin underground) as providing him with "Interpersonal skills" and experience in "Digital media" and "Knowledge work"
>you are now imagining modern states reconsidering what it means to have an organic intellectual elite in a time of austerity
>you are now imagining it dawning on ordinary people that "Effete coastal elite weirdos filling a bloated inscrutable Snakes-and-Ladders guild system via nepotism and 'networking' cronyism" is not the natural or inevitable way for an intellectual caste to function
>you are now imagining real people redrawing plans for new universities on the humboldtian model
>you are now imagining Professor Hepcat washing dishes
>you are now imagining the parents of millions of californian instagram artists going insane as they can't send their 30 year old children to forever-daycare anymore

Has a book ever cured severe depression?

“Don Quixote… is an allegory of the life of every man who, unlike others… pursues an objective, ideal end that has taken possession of his thinking and willing; and then, of course, he stands out as an oddity in this world.” - Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

Have you ever had a moment of true understanding? Where all the material barriers slip away and you are united with wisdom? What was it like?

How can you distinguish good and evil when one wouldn't exist without the other?

Can reading help confront mental illness? Are there any psychology/philosophy books related to this?

What are some good books about characters who redeem themselves after having committed heinous acts?

anti-natalism isnt about disliking existance. its about not forcing non-existant beings into existance. even if existance was pure joy, forcing a non existant into existance wouldnt be good, because if you dont exist, joy is meaningless. i like existance, but i only like existance because i exist. add on top of that all the possible bad things that can happen like medical abnormalities, extreme bad luck and inevitable bad parenting (there is no such thing as good parenting, you WILL ruin your kids) giving birth becomes a bad idea. its obvious to me that natalism is a neccesary cope for people who have kids or want kids. i cant judge you if youre body requires that you have children, just like a body rejects suicide, but the correct (less morally ugly) way of responding to havng a kid, is apologizing to your kids.

>>15995856
>The very fact you could dislike existence is due to you existing
for this to make sense as an argument, one would have to like that they dislike existing. disliking existance is equally undesired as existance to an anti-natalist.
>they can choose to die
they will always have had lived and they will experience death which isn't the same as never having been. suicide is ugly, painful, you are internally forced to resist it.

Call each other based or cringe or whatever
>Blood Meridian
>New Order - Low-Life

>got a kindle
>downloaded The Iliad, Odyssey, and Bible
See you lads in 2021, take care of yourselves while I'm gone

>>15722675

>music is unexplainable in evolutionary terms and is proof that our aesthetic senses pick up on the fundemental beauty that nature has outside of perception

>even if god exists and is the ultimate thing and he is ALL, the idea of other gods or divinites that are alien to our god and completely seperate pains me as i or even god will never know of them.

>anti natalists are completely right. life might be good for you but imposing that on a potentail non-existant being is cruel. plus there are millions of things that could and will go very wrong and you WILL be a bad parent.

>>15678810
i agree. even if at a quantum level, things are fundementally random and unknowable, just wait and time will solidify reality. things will always be the way they will have been because in the future, the past is set in stone.