/lit/ - Literature

I forgot the majority of the book's content that I read a few weeks ago.

There are too many books.

>>17803428
Yeah... haha... lmao... so stale, amirite?

>>12792233

>>12048706
thanks this makes sense. right yeah i read hebrews 9 (just a random chapter way far ahead) and that spurred me to ask this

> The Bible is NOT, as some Protestants believe to be a book that people can universally read and entirely comprehend on an individual basis. Instruction is necessary and both the Old Covenant Jews and early Christians had books about topics involving liturgy, sacrifice, interpreting Bible verses/history, etc
that seems worrying, what gauge can you use to discern true instruction from false?

>>12048754
>Judeo-Christian religion obviously reworked this long-standing tradition for its own symbolic ends. The notion that suffering is a way of "making up for" wrongdoing is a pretty significant thread of the belief systems that eventually culminated in Christianity.
are you sure about this? I've read Ecclesiastes and Job before and I understood them as suffering just being some arbitrary miserable mental/mechanical thing people sometimes experience. That it's not "making up for wrongdoing", its just the nature of life after the fall and individuals are responsible for just barreling through

On a similar note: my in-laws just discovered I've been dumping my pissbottles out of their window. Are there any books to cope with this feel?

literature is more nuanced and articulate than the actual human experience. music is more emotional than you can feel. paintings are more beautiful than the things they depict. this upsets me greatly.

authors for this feeling? how to overcome?

>>10488179
Why? I can't stop asking.

>on chapter two
>can already sense that my novel is going to be shit

I really like the idea for the story though. Should I finisu off the entire thing then edit it after, or try to change it as I go along? On 50 pages or so and just getting close to end of chapter two. There is thirteen chapters planned.

>>9046903
>tfw living in a shithole country where there's no real investment in high culture, therefore no patrician museum to visit

At least I have a qt gf who enjoys art, though.

I'm feeling particularly depressed today, /lit/. One word at a time, we're going to write my suicide note.
I'll start:
"To