/lit/ - Literature

>>17639207
>>17639210
Didn't he go to church? He referenced it in one of his essays I think. Either way he believed in some higher power, as he basically stated so in his speech. He also seemed very much against the sort of postmodernist cynicism that goes along with meme atheism.

>>17573081

brainlet detected

>>15915604
how expensive can rent be? what happened to stacking people in close quarters? what happened to moving to a cheaper place where the rent is much lower?
if youre poor, and you cant afford to live in the city, then too bad. you gotta make sacrifices.
you can share a room in the city for $500. you can probably get a single in bumfuckville in South Dakota for less.
making minimum wage (you have to be true levels of retardation to make minimum wage, and even then, youre only supposed to do it for a certain amount of time before you get promoted to less shitty job) you still earn 1200 a month. 500 goes to rent leaves you 700. 50 on food if you go rice and beans and you have 650 left. 50 for basic internet, 25 for basic phone plan, 50 for public transportation and/or bike, and another 25 to spend whatever.
now you have $500 left to save. and thats on absolute dogshit federal minimum wage working absolute retard level jobs.
1) if you are truly retarded you can only work retard level jobs without the possibility of advancement, then im sorry, you deal with the cards you were dealt. because even retards can work hard enough to inch their way up.
2) if youre one of those "but i was dumb and i have 5 kids!" then im sorry, after the first or second kid (assuming, somehow, someway, you did not know about safe sex in the 21rst century) you think you would have realized after the first or second child that "hey, children are costly and time consuming." you made life choices. we all do. deal with it. also this doesnt even count the fact that poor families get subsidized housing.
my grandmother and grandfather had 5 children, all of them stacked into a tiny little hut. my father told me stories of how he used to walk miles to school. my grandparents still saved enough money to allow every single one of their children the opportunity to not only go to college, but also masters and PhDs in the United States.
if youre retarded. if you make bad choices. if you dont learn from your mistakes. if you dont double down on your efforts to not only rectify past mistakes, but to try to get head, then im sorry, you deserve your suffering.
we make mistakes. its unfortunate. and we all like to think "just saying sorry" is enough but that frankly isnt true. you have to pay for your mistakes. you have to atone for your sins.
welcome to the water, kid

>>15781064

>author rapes the reader irl
Uh...wtf?

>Crime and Punishment
>Notes from Underground
>Journey to the End of the Night
>War & Peace
>Moby Dick
>Lolita
>Storm of Steel
>Ulysses
>The Iliad
Those guys sound based

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