/lit/ - Literature

>>16470898
>transexuality is not a mental illness anon.

Not that anon, but wanting to have one of your body parts cut off should definitely qualify you as having a mental illness. If someone wanted to have their arm or leg amputated, then that person would unequivocally be mentally ill. The only reason people say trannies aren't mentally ill is because they don't want to be mean and they value kindness over the truth.

>dude the world is bad because of a cosmic snake lion trust me bro

Why are you retards still talking about his?

football is hardly comparable to any ancient sport
I'd rather stare into emptiness for 2 hours than to watch a full soccer game.

>>16390264
>>16390355
As Damascius, now in his late twenties, watched how people responded to persecution, he discovered many unpleasant things about human nature, reviewed his scale of values and lost confidence in several of his associates. But he also verified for himself the cardinal Platonic axiom that man is not an essentially evil creature: the behaviour of several pagans during the crisis~including that of his own younger brother Julian, who “was beaten up with many rods, but did not utter a word” (119J)-showed that, by triumphing over moral laxity, adversity may reveal unsuspected depths of bravery and nobility in quite ordinary men.*? Thus the persecution of 488/9 proved a turning point —and a positive one—in Damascius’ life, prompting thoughts like the following:
>Men tend to bestow the name of virtue on a life of inactivity, but I do not agree with this view. For the virtue which engages in the midst of public life through political activity and discourse fortifies the soul and strengthens through exercise what is healthy and perfect, while the impure and false element that lurks in human lives is fully exposed and more easily set on the road to improvement. And indeed politics offers great possibilities for doing what is good and useful; also for courage and firmness. That is why the learned, who sit in their corner and philosophise at length and in a grand manner about justice and moderation, utterly disgrace themselves if they are compelled to take some action. Thus bereft of action, all discourse appears vain and empty.

>>16390439
>There are no geometric shapes in nature. There's no perfect circle, perfect line, etc. All appearances of such stem from a weakness in eyesight; even a line drawn on a piece of paper with a ruler or compass is not perfect if measured closely enough with a magnifying glass. What appears like a perfect circle or line at a distance only appears that way because our eyes are not strong enough. Consequently, geometry represents nothing besides the weakness of our eyesight.
such incredible insight!
>The forms are the same way. We sit in many different types of chairs, and the idea of a "perfect chair" may arise in our head, but only due to a weakness of perception. The "perfect chair" does not dictate all of the particular chairs; it is all of the particular chairs and our comparison of them that dictate the erroneous notion of the "perfect chair." The forms are merely an expression of a will that is too weak to dominate reality and requires its own mind to fill in and compensate for that insufficiency.
see >>16388421

>>16369408
>They were less social, less frequent breeders. The chan autists of their day.

And humans still banged the shit out of them.

>>16368605
>that the logoi, or forms, are purely ideas and not also will(ed), impersonality of the En

>he Archangel Michael and his hosts—on behalf of the English—and Lucifer and his hosts—on behalf of the Danes

>>16263786
>go outside and talk to girls you wretched little incel goblin

No.

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come on

Probably Camus’s The Stranger. Wow, what a fucking autist Camus was. Both books of his that I’ve read are so fucking mechanical and uninteresting. The Stranger had probably the most boring and bland prose I’ve ever read in my entire life. Not to mention the brain rotting story.

>>16217359
>massive in its content and grand in its rhetoric

>>16215735
>inb4 this twerp posts something about "bone structure"
hit the gym twink

>the movement-image
Yes Gilles, we call it a "film" or a "movie," I know it's fun to spice these things up but let's try and not inflate ourselves

>Irregardless,

>>16148025
We don't really consider him to be our token black guy, we just think it's hilarious how hypocritical lefties are regarding black people. They tell us that black voices should be respected and receive preferential treatment, but if a black person steps out of line from leftist ideology then they flip out and call that person racist names like "Uncle Tom."

Leftism is an ideology built on hypocrisy and intricate falsehoods that obfuscate reality.

>>16138446

>1984 was a warning, not an instruction manual!

>>16115602

Are you a woman?

>>16068056
>it's August and he still believes the kneeling move blocks the airway
>he hasn't seen the Czech video
>he simply Hasn't looked it up

>>16055908
What is this?

At least to me it is. Maybe it's because I am overwhelmed by stimuli like smatphones, videogames and porn, so reading becomes very unattractive.
When I was younger I could read a little more, I even read Atlas Shrugged front to back, but now I get so fucking bored. Even "cool" books like fantasy and shit I can't bear to read.
It's crazy, but I would rather do nothing than read.
Has my brain been fucked beyond hope by now?