/lit/ - Literature

>>23234144
>lets talk religion
very based anon, him, esoterica and for (pol and theory) CCK philosophy are my fuckin bedrocks of convincing me intellectualism is fucking awesome, so long as you still keep a critical mind, of course

>>22594940
>I'm having a daughter in January
*hits pipe*

>>22544119
True, I forget how much damage the romantic novel did to the female psyche in the 19th century. In The Leopard, the patriarch reads all the vogue novels from the mainland before allowing (or not) his daughters to read them. And they all turned out old virgins, so he must've done something right.

But Flaubert was a frog, he doesn't have the moral authority of Ruskies. If he said he was Madame Bovary, maybe he was just a bitch too.

>>22178169
You're a lucky man.

>>22134623
>The Witcher books
This. It isn't exactly 'Dark Souls' (from what I've seen, as I've never actually played Dark Souls), but it is a lot darker than Lord of the Rings. Lord of the Rings is like the bloomer's version of the doomer's Witcher and the zoomer's Harry Potter. What would be the boomer's fantasy series?

>>22058259
Dumb female detected, go back to Crystal Cafe and cry about the you miss Chad's dick, bitch.

>the Bakkerfags are now shitting up /v/
>>>/v/631627296

>>20370290
>Is the devil real?
>*hits pipe*
lost

>>20274129

Trans women and men are 1000 times better than any regular woman.

>Be me, regular college kid, third-world shithole
>My brother and his wife are disabled
>Her mother used to look after them but she left them
>I rushed to their help
>I clean and cook for them and bunch of other chores all day
>She complains, shouts and scolds me and my brother in any single minute detail she doesn't like about me doing chores
>Not only this, but they get government buxx through me and pay for mortgage
>They have a house and everything they want
>Even able bodied people are not as lucky they are
>She still wants to divorce my brother and hates me
>I literally do nothing wrong. If nothing I am doing my best helping them but she doesn't care about it.
>Her big plan is to divorce my brother and scare him off to live with my parents so all this house is left to her
>Think about it, even tough she is disabled she is extremely lucky that she has their own house, including everything they want. They have me to help with everything she might want to do. She still finds a way to complain about it and hates it.

>>18269440
The famous patriarchist H. Pipe

>ITT: Contrarians
Book 4 and 5 literally had nothing wrong. God I hate this stupid board

Can we talk about Tolkien's prose for a little bit? I posted this on a Silmarillion thread but that's been archived/forgotten. I'm currently rereading LOTR and the Entmoot is about to happen (so I'm more or less in the beginning of the Two Towers). Even though I still like the books as much (or perhaps more) than when I was a kid and teenager, there's somethink wonky or odd about Tolkien's prose at certain points. It goes from beautiful to unclear in a matter of paragraphs, there seems to be some great inconsistency at work here. Do you know any article/essay/paper/piece of scholarship that discusses this aspect of LOTR?

>>17992539

>>16798493
*hits pipe*
Ahem

Is having daughters the ultimate cuckoldry?

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than having a daughter. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are feeding, clothing, raising and rearing a girl for at least 18 years solely so she can go and get ravaged by another man. All the hard work you put into your beautiful little girl - reading her stories at bedtime, making her go to sports practice, making sure she had a healthy diet, educating her, playing with her. All of it has one simple result: her body is more enjoyable for the men that will eventually fuck her in every hole.

Raised the perfect girl? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random man who had nothing to do with the way she grew up, who marries her. He gets to fuck her tight pussy every night. He gets the benefits of her kind and sweet personality that came from the way you raised her.

As a man who has a daughter, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 years of your life simply to raise a girl for another man to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

*hits pipe*

>>16296699
>the importance of Communion/Confession/Baptism
That's literally all of what Christianity revolves around, that's what Christ gave us and why God allowed His own cruxifiction. If you don't want the Sacraments then just be a Muslim, they do ok.
>It's wordplay and conjecture
Peter's chair still holds weight desu, it's just wobbly without all the other apostles. Apostolic succession is the reason Christianity has survived for so long, and is the only thing standing between a cohesive Christian worldview and every lay person pretending they have a new Gospel or preaching something that goes against Christ's teachings. We won't ever know everything, but the Church is the closest we get to knowing. Saint Iranaeus said it best:
>One should not seek among others the truth that can be easily gotten from the Church. For in her, as in a rich treasury, the apostles have placed all that pertains to truth, so that everyone can drink this beverage of life. She is the door of life.
Just talk to a priest and read instead of people on the internet.
>>16296745
>I know too much about the origins of the Bible.
The Church literally wrote the Bible

>>15406314
>daughter

All the laws in the world only exist as a sort of compromise between the state and normal society. We surrender certain liberties in order to prevent bad people from doing the wrong things to the wrong people. But at what cost? How much can we surrender before we can't take back what we have given? That, to me, is the most important part of political discussion regarding safety, law and order. People love to use mass-shootings as a sort of smoke-screen in order to push for more government control. This is the reason that we all can't have guns. But most people in this society would not be any different if they had a gun, and if everyone had a gun, would the rate of violence increase? I think it's useless to quote stats on violence broken down by the type of weapon that's carrying out the crime, would a killer choose to stop what he's doing just cause he doesn't have the ideal arms to carry out the deed?
Perhaps it has more to do with the culture surrounding the violence more so than the arms used to carry out the violence. In my home country of sweden, the rate of violence is escalating to an absurd point, and few of these crimes are carried out with guns. There is an insidious aspect within the culture of the gettos and slums where most of these crimes take place. The culture they harbour does not feel guilt over being arrested. This means that the inherent threat of violence in the system has broken down to the point were the lamb no longer fears it's own slaughter.

>>14636754