/lit/ - Literature

Any advice? I'm pretty fucking dumb in general but I want to stop spending my time midnlessly browsing websites and investing it in something worthwhile

But I feel pretty stupid whenever I try to get into it

>>21878062
Fucking Russians, man.

>cucked by an AI
Didn't know this could sadden me
Anyway, both Ender's Game and Speaker for The Dead were enjoyable enough but depressing to read, is Xenocide any good?

Tired of this capitalism vs socialism meme.

The means of production should own themselves. No human interference in economic activity allowed.

>>14332928
i never saw my parents kiss once in my life and for the five years preceding their divorce my mom slept on the living room couch. dad had OCD, mom was depressed as fuck, shitbox house, got left places when i was young. one time my dad was supposed to pick me up after sunday school, which was on a saturday night in the winter time and i was the last one to get picked up. eventually everyone left and it was just me and the priest but i told him my dad was almost here and he went back to his house and i was alone in the darkness waiting for my father for i don't know how long, until he finally showed up drunk blasting bruce springsteen on his trucks speakers. if Christ didn't tell us that with God all thing s are possible, i wouldn't even believe love was a real thing.

Now when I say this town is out there… I mean it’s out there. The end of the earth. It’s barely accessible half the year.

The ground is permafrost so we can’t put pipes in – everyone here has to shit in a special bucket which is collected several times a week. The food is atrocious – and it’s even worse coming out the other end.

I first bought into crypto in March. I’d read about coins on /biz/, and I could have sworn I was some kind of King Midas. Every coin I selected would shoot up. My wealth doubled, the tripled, and by spring I had lost track.

I convinced myself that I really was living in the best of all possible worlds – there was no other explanation. It was like magic. I hitched a ride south one weekend and went on a shopping spree, buying up all the expensive wines I had lusted after back in university.

I called up my only living relative, my hag of a grandmother, to gloat about my success. I rubbed it in her face. Said I was the happiest man on the goddam planet. She disagreed:

“I doubt that. There’s a mongoloid down the hall from me who is the happiest man in the world. You should see his stupid face. Though I’m not supposed to say that nowadays, right?” I could hear her laughing to herself. She continued: “Life isn’t all about money. That kind of happiness is fleeting. Take it from an old broke bitch like me – without you here, I’ve never been happier!”

“Fuck you, you dumb cunt. I hope you rot in that cancer ward.” I said, and hung up. We never spoke again.

>>13970329
Anon you already know what you need to know so why do you keep stealing success from yourself?

I saw a dream where /fitlit/ was still a thing and realizing it was just a dream ruined my morning.

In the Iliad? It takes 1 minute to read and is a very interesting but brief look at the geopolitical situation of Greece.

What is with all the Iliad hate lately?

If you think this man is in any way intelligent or even cogent you are at best an extremely gullible, impressionable idiot and more likely a cultist or on your way to being one.

>Trying to find journals to submit to
This isn't fair and I'm about to give up and just start whoring myself on instagram

There is no hope. Just look at this thread. Everyone in this thread is a complete mongoloid and yet also somehow more intelligent than 95% of the population. Meaningful change will never occur and all you swine will keep shitposting with glee about how the status quo is actually good even as the environment collapses and the last shreds of authentic human life are commodified and sold back to the oblivious normies, which you'll laugh at and mock and proclaim your superiority to, all while consuming the same shit just marketed differently. What a wretched world.

>librarian threw my novel draft down the ink well

I hate atheists so fucking much, fucking imbeciles.
>SCIENCE GOOD SKY MAN BAD
> EPISTEMOL-WHAT?
>I AM SO SMART
I'm not even a theist but they make me want to become one

>tfw realizing that your life is objectively easy and leisurely, that your prospects are better than 99% of people your age, and that even if you were to completely crash out in addiction or mental illness your parents would support you indefinitely
>tfw people literally dream of having your life
>tfw the things you think are great tragedies or sources of despair are, to most people, unbelievably childish and naive
>tfw the only justifiable reason you're unhappy is that you're an overly-sensitive, friendless neurotic

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>>11759039
end me

>>11703217
>>11703230
I want to believe in transcendental things because modern materialism is really fucking shit way to live, but to believe in God always forces me to take that faith leap and nobody ever explained how could I arrive to God by reason.

no, you shit. /thread

How do you deal with smug atheists that dismiss any kind of spiritual thought as "lol skydaddy doesn't exist you dumb dumb"? These people are so fucking infuriatingly closed minded and just fucking stupid. I wrote several paragraphs explaining my experience with the sublime and I associated it with God, being very careful to explain that I wasn't talking about a physical entity that came down and fucked around with the world. Literally *nothing* I said contradicted any kind of physical science (it was all about subjective personal experiences how the fuck could it), yet I got multiple replies to the effect of "yeah well have you heard of this thing called SCIENCE it proves that God don't real). What the fuck is wrong with these people? Is this a failure of humanities education?

>>11406896
It's a shame how when reading history with hindsight you can see where there could have been a way to solve things between Massoud and the taliban if they just talked.

>there is a sequence of actions I could take right now that would lead to me having a comfortable, happy life with a loving gf and wide circle of friends
>I don't know what it is and probably won't guess it

step off ese

>>11049860
>accurately modeling a reproduction of the human mind in binary
>teleological nonsense
pic related, it's you.

And "good" and "bad" would initially be equated with pass or fail, or as an infant would see it: mommy loves or mommy withholds love based on your action. But as the data and processing power increases and a sense of self emerges the individual machine comes to define these terms for himself. Just as humans do by their own experience and with the guidance of others.

>>11049871
You're human, sure, and if what you say is true you obviously found some other way to learn. You have parents, I'm assuming.