/lit/ - Literature

>>12373304
Like little kids who keep asking "why?" to everything. Some kind of basic animal instinct seems to insist there must be.

God made a map for happiness.

>>12373304
people want dicks entering pussies and bullets entering heads, anon.

>>12373304
What is the point of living if there is no meaning?

>>12373312
Faggot

>>12373304
Because it would be really depressing if life is just a pointless accident. Of course, even if you believe in God the question of why still remains.

>>12373304
Because meaning is the ultimate form of rational schema. The ego seeks to bring things into the totality of its ipseity, logic is a tool through which it commits this conquest. Meaning is the structure and self-justification for this experience.

>>12373304
GORGEOUS painting, OP.

>>12373304
well shit, if getting pussy and having kids is enough of a reason why we're suffering in this massive void then there'd really be no reason to look for an answer ?

If there is no meaning, what is there?

Fulfillment

'People' want meaning because of Western metaphysics or onto-theology that places presence/being as the meaning of meaning in its sign-signified economy, i.e. phonetic language. We sense the world of signs, the derivation of the eternal, and we want to overcome it to that eternal that is 'being'.

>>12373304
Hey there, I see you've decided to make a thread on /lit/. Here's some helpful questions for you to self-evaluate on whether your thread is a piece of shit or not:

1. If you are asking for reccomendations based on genre/subject/content/a certain atmosphere or feel, have you tried searching other places beforehand, such as review sites, academic journals, university syllabuses, or, if you have any, friends?
2. Does your thread contain the name of any famous literary or philosophical figure(s) (or that figure's ideas) that has been shilled extensively on /lit/ in the past few months?
2a. If the answer is 'yes' to question 2, does your thread contain any extensive references to that literary/philosophical figure's works in order to provide a good jumping-off point for deeper discussion?
3. Does your thread contain any ambiguous buzzwords (e.g. "postmodernism", "nihilism", "Marxism") that would require a great deal of eIucidation and scholarly analysis to come to a consensus as to the exact meaning of the word?
4. Is your thread related to the act of/motivation to/doubts about etc... reading books rather than the books themselves?
5. Is your thread related to religion?
5a. If the answer is 'yes' to question 5, do you reference any theological studies or actual religious texts in detail in your thread?
6. Do you use any terminology that is used frequently on /pol/?
7. If you are asking for an opinion about the quality of a specific book, is it a book that has been extensively shilled on /lit/ in the past few months?
8. Does your thread contain any actual words (as opposed to punctuation marks or emojis)?
9. Is your thread related to writing advice, yet is not a part of a critique thread?
10. Does your thread consist of only 1 sentence?

If you have answered 'yes' to any of the above questions (or if you have answered 'yes' or 'no' question 1) - Congratulations! Your thread is a piece of shit. Kindly remove yourself (and your thread) from the board and contemplate what you are doing with your existence.

If not - Congratulations! Your thread may possibly be contributing to humanity's total written knowledge of the world. Keep doing what you're doing.

>>12373730
Autism

>>12373304
life without meaning is no life at all

It's not that I want meaning, but that I can't stand uncertainty

>>12373304
Meaninglessness is frightening.
It goes against anthropocentrism, in an age when it's More necessary than ever before, the Twilight of the Gods.

>>12373777
yikes

so that's why people wageslave and then die

>>12373518
literally what Kant said in the first actual line of Kritik der reinen Vernunft

>>12373304
why does OP ask this question?
OP btfo

>>12373304
they want to know the ‘correct’ way of living their lives

>>12373304
memetics
We want the same shit that we think other ppl think they want.
"meaning" its what happened to got left unsatisifed once every other need was successfully satisfied by raping resources. Any other "meta" stuff has been abolished (like God, karma, etc..). Its just a word play.

Cause all I been doing is sitting in my study and drinking peach brandy. Like wtf is that? Sure I'm not unhappy, but it is hard to say if I am happy. For if anything ever will please me

>>12373508
to progress mankind and society for the next generation to live in

>>12373304
Without Meaning there is no Reason.

>>12375214
That seems kinda meaningless desu

>>12375243
people tend to try and find a meaning within it all for themselves like raising a family or getting a job and things. people dont really want to think about whether or not there is some kind of meaning to what they are doing

"they" think it will bring them peace, maybe even happiness

Outside or total "meaning" is inaccessible by construction, but people are taught very early on the lie of the good, and they grasp after this idol, some trodding along like satisfied little swine (it suffices for them to simply bat at the angler fish's light until) and others rushing and bolting and bringing a great chaos, an intensity appropriate to their ends.

>>12375284
It is better to orient your life around purpose, not the notion that your actions have absolute consequences or a transcendent purpose (which is meaning).

>>12373304
The very meaninglessness of life, forces man to create his own meaning. However vast the darkness we must supply our own light.

>>12375214
Why do that if everything is meaningless

>>12373777
There is no inherent meaning for life, but only death is useless.
Life in fact has a multitude of purposes to choose from

>>12373304
Because the brain is designed to complete things, if something is not complete it freaks out, so we dont "like it".

>>12373304

To feel joy, pleasure without meaning is just empty and despair