/lit/ - Literature

Somehow i never really felt relaxed or supported when growing up. Its not like i was abused or anything but theres always this emotional distance and coldness that i feel.

>>17070090
You are acting like social control has increased since the digital revolution. In fact, the opposite is true. The control big publishers and newspaper conglomerates over public opinion during the Cold War and the 90s was much greater than it is today. The liberal market reforms and the digital revolution culminated in our current age where no one is forced into prepackaged opinion patterns. Everyone can participate in the discourse. This is almost a Habermasian utopia were it not for the dissonance and cacophony media pirates, disinfo shills and foreign state agents generate. So in fact, you are decrying the newfound pluralism in the digital age as a sign of social control which is completely against the factual reality we live in.

>>17066449
>problem of evil
Once again, God is the pure act that upholds the whole of creation. What we perceive as evil is the "lack of something good" from our point of view. Evil being a lack of something good means it does not exist. Now you may ask: "Why did God create a world where I lack something?" And fair enough but if you did not lack anything, you would be God. And ultimately that's what you're going to be once your soul rejoins him after death.

>God as a strict father or an all-loving *****
Those are imperfect metaphors for God so as to make his being understandable to humans. God is neither strict nor all-loving, he is beyond both.

>>17026913
>half of the books read by OP are by non-fascists
>those are the only decent books in that list
wow

>>16547663
nice claim about objective reality, retard

>>16534337
>three hours of bippity boppy bappadee bappa and hand-flailing

>>15011607
Of course, removing the katechon will speed God's judgment and lead us straight into the end times. I could theologically justify this any day. Read Carl Schmitt.

The cat
He stole Jon's pipe
Yes
YES
The cat is smoking

Share here how you got into books. My story is quite elegant:
As a kid I was quite the little big brain: my mom would give me books such as finnegans wake and le fleurs du mal and I could, in one evening, do a exposition similar to a literature teacher explaining what it meant or its central themes. I was then handed Kant's critique, it would be redundant to say I could, by the end of it, write a explanation of it that could make a 3 year old understand it
When I had barely started to develop pubic hair, I could already understand The Phenomenology of the Spirit and easily refute every of it's ideas. What is more, because I am humility personified, despite having wrote a magnificent book debunking Hegel, Kant and all the intellectual throng in the past 3000 years, I keep it to myself and will publish as anonymous once I'm dead.

>bed, night
>rush of motivation strikes
>tomorrow will be the day!! I'll study, read and become a virtuous human
>bed, morning, wake up
>lose all motivation
>repeat for months
>mfw
Any books for this feeling?

>>13014242
neoplatonism is just astrology for pseuds

>>12997154
Based

>>12581429
Ah, so Joyce and Faulkner are shit. Thanks for the lesson, doctor Einstein.

>>12552873
Regardless of it being pseud behavior or not, I can't understand why anyone would want to read in a crowded and noisy public place instead of home or a library, you're just ruining the experience.

>>12484525
Yesterday I rejected a girl way out of my league because I deemed myself unworthy of her affection, this isn't the first time I back off from someone showing interest in me.
Deep down I know it's not just a question of low self-esteem, but it's also a lurking fear of commitment, I really don't know how to deal with this, I'm caught between my need for affection and my fear of not meeting that person's expectations.

>>12450791
I'm more like the early Garfield, based and redpilled that is.

>>11368508
I'm 26 and going to be a father this year, and the thought is really scaring me, I've never had a sense of responsibility and I'm always haunted by the fact that I would never be a better father to my kids than my own father was to me, I'm both happy and terrified about this.
I also want to raise my daughter into liking books at an early age but I don't want to alienate her from how her generation will be growing up, a lot of incoherent thoughts and future anxieties are swarming my mind about this.

>>11298798
I feel indifferent about death. Life, humanity and technology seems bizarre.

Now that I'm a post-university wageslave I cannot help but wonder if this is all there is to life. There is no greatness to be found in anything. No excitement whatsoever.

>>11043336
>rench people are inherently cynical, so we are very weary of institutions and the government. But pretty much every french citizen believes deeply in enlightnement values, so we can have 'soft propaganda' in schools, without much repercussions.
Man, I wish we Germans were that optimistic. We were never big proponents of the enlightenment and all we believe in now is being sorry about WW2.

>>11035680
>mfw I was one of the first to establish schmitt-shilling
Hard work paid off. Nice chart by the way.

>>10239114

Yeah. This is a really great read. I still have yet to get into Existentialist Psychoanalysis. I admittedly did not understand Sartre's arguments against the Freudian conception of the unconscious in Being and Nothingness.

>>10060354
I'm working as an official for a state agency in my country that specialises in (((political and civic education))).

Feels dystopian.

>>10009329
>Дocтoeвcкий
We get it, you're a pseud

So how do we deal with the problem of consciousness impermanence?

To be teleported via the induction of your physical matrix into a mechanised data bank and re-assembled at a distant location is no different, with respect to what your consciousness experiences, than losing consciousness in the process of sleep.

We die each night, we die every minute. A stranger awakens in your body and in your bed and in your clothes each morning. Never knowing that the memories they hold as accurate reflections of reality are nothing but the imprints of a decision making process that has turned to ash, and seen it born from them.

The nature of consciousness is such that any break in experiential sensation runs parallel to that of any other break. Meaning there is no such thing as consciousness permanence. Sleep and death are cognitively identical sets of stimuli.

Has anyone ever tackled the problem as to why we shouldn't just kill ourselves?