/lit/ - Literature

>>18192280
>Gimme your worst experiences in college and uni in the literature and philosophy departments

There was a talk on weakness of will in the context of gay barebacking. I left academia shortly thereafter.

>>17546243

Undoubtedly Nietzsche would have come to resent his own writings, would have written a complete set of critical retractions, and would have died in an even more miserable state. He is embraced by the saddest people, those who lost their faith or came to despise their own traditions, and are so utterly desperate to feel big. I think Nietzsche would have much preferred to just win over the spirit of the happy faithful, and not to undermine them but only to transform them into something more sensitive to their own inner guiding princples. I'm an Augustine fag, and I think true power of Nietzsche is in coming to take seriously the internal sense of right and wrong, without conditioning it to the whims of any convenience. I think Nietzsche was himself coming to terms with the true fire of the Holy Ghost, but didn't embed himself in the spirit of any tradition, and that's why he dies alone.

>>17089715

> says a bunch of shit about Newton
> will never amount to anything even close to Newton
> will never lift an entire world on your shoulders like Newton
> will never have beautiful hair like Newton

Take your whiny complaints and stuff them up your ass

>>16668071
>Would Plato have been a Buddhist?

I don't think so, but I do think that he could have been a Buddhist. There are pretty good Buddhist thinkers, but I don't necessarily attribute that to their Buddhism.

>>16631036

There's a lot of COPE in this thread, but I don't see any actual criticisms of the argument. Another basic version of this is given by Plantinga. If you are going to address either, you have to first understand the modal logic and what it's meant to capture (there's actually nothing very controversial in those 'axioms').

>>16619288

The "ought" follows from when Big Boy Hume does some serious judo shit and fucks you up and your desire to not get wrecked starts firing off those practical inferences.