/lit/ - Literature

>>20044173
> "we all are born rational but have to try are hardest to convince ourselves to become ridiculous through a belief in god, who isn't real"
If you’re illiterate of course that would be your misguided takeaway from my posts, wouldn’t it? Despite the fact that I’ve never said we’re “born rational” or that we have to “become ridiculous”. Your reductive paraphrasing isn’t even remotely accurate, nor is that approach to discussion productive or fruitful in the slightest. I admit that I am still learning and your response is to tell me I’m retarded? Why don’t you tell me something that I’m NOT willing to admit to myself?

>>20035034
It’s almost as if the point of the thread was to make sweeping generalisations about philosophy and mental illness.

>>20029040
Th-thanks fren :)

Is intelligent design possible without teleology?

>>20017672
That’s okay I’m more than happy to provide shelter and security for my frens without expecting anything in return :)

>>19993455
All the international finance types are kvetching mightily about this for some reason thoughever. I never know how many levels of ops to believe in

>>19921838
I liked listening to Leftover Crack while going on nightwalks and lighting things on fire as a teenager.

>>18671921
To be fair I'm writing a graphic novel that is Hellboy meets Don Quijote with a side of Onions basedmilk:

Act I:
Gigachad Hellboy is given the Willy Wonka ticket to Earth from Hell and sets out to conquer the world while Beta MC is to busy not trying to get fired from the lowest rungs in the democracy of literal hell as a butcher boy who used to be the top haunter in the Middle Ages Black Plague. An old soul yearning for legacy, he wants to beat this young chap who is turning eyes in Hell and granted the most ambitious takeover for demon kind. Problem is there is no hierarchy in hell. But there is on Earth. Hell turns flip upside down into an Empire as Earth turns into Idiocracy conquered by dinosaur flying vampires where every human is his own antihero but all are under a sovereign demon. Hell turns into a respect check of alpha males flexing on betas and the lowest one of all now that Earth is conquered, Beta MC intends on conquering GigaChad Demon antagonist.
Act II: Gigachad Demon Lad doesn't have MC on the radar but is dealing with several insurgents and constant civil war everywhere making mankind's enslavement not fun and not profitable. Beta MC tricks everyone and becomes king of worst shitty Earth but now everyone is so bummed out and demoralized no one's had sex in 50 years. Women feminize the world under Beta MC's reign. Action is stunted and only by bringing out the worst in people is anything done in cannibalistic fraud.
Act III: the generation born in the gutter poverty distractions has no language. No canon. No time spent on anything but putting out fires. Their development is stunted. Primitive people in the ruins in shock, they start to bury the last trace of the old and mighty civilization that crumbled under vampire mutiny. Beta MC is nowhere to be found in the throne but he was never killed in the greatest demon bloodbath of all time. He is simply sweeping up the ashes of his statue whistling by as new Hellenistic temples are built over the Tartarus grave of his prideful foes. The worst demon of all is the most pernicious and cute, he who insidiously tempted all insecurities: the Beta.


Basically this is supposed to be a satire on bad news and mankind's inability to act when needed according to foresight and the urge to shoot the messenger being a joke parable. "don't shoot the messenger" at the messenger's funeral every time.
The story's nowhere near being fleshed out to show how erudite I am or will be by the time it becomes identifiable for now it's just a template I'd like to collect thoughts on or inspire with.

How did Personality discussion get so cynical?
Is it the resentment of leftists and their equality lust to just shit on everyone up top?

Rarely do sequels live up to the original. What do you consider to be the best book sequels, and why?