/lit/ - Literature

>>15685172
That's the most bourgeoisie post I've ever read

>>15685172
the same way i feel about you losing your virginity: it didn't happen

>>15685172
>this is what is treated as unpopular opinion on reddit

>>15685172
how is a screenshot this low res
also
>bro there's no meaning to anything we're just monkeys hurrr

>>15685172
>he doesn't know earth is flat, reincarnation is real and our lives have a spiritual component

>>15685194
Tfw it’s unironically true. Humans are animals whore just too conscious for their own good

>>15685172

>>15685172
Imagine the kind of prolefeed they're feeding this guy

>>15685172
he did the pickle chungus, wholesome 100
Keanu reeves

>>15685172
>Live your life, be happy.
"No."

>>15685172
joe rogan > thomas carlyle

OP I think you need to stop posting, we're all just a bunch of social outcasts marginalized by like our own demons and shit and no good can like come from talking to each other. We need to just stop posting and go out and live our lives or whatever.
I don't get why OP would stop sucking dick and focus on terrible debates on /lit/

>>15685172
I hate that these fucking faggots take nihilism and act all fucking happy go lucky with it.
>haha life has no meaning we're just monkeyz lolz stars r just gas
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M FUCKING SUFFERING BECAUSE NOTHING MEANS ANYTHING YOU FUCKING ACTUAL HOMO. YOU FUCKING TOOK ALL THE MEANING AND FUCKING THREW IT ALL AWAY FOR FUCKING REDDIT UPVOTES YOU SHITSTAIN.

the irony of this mindset is that it wioll absolutely ruin you by the time you hit 40 at most, and you will find you still have decades left to live in pure mental and physical anguish all alone

>>15685203
dude apostrophes are important

>>15685253
imagine being a cuck to being

>>15685253
>>15685290
lol you stupid little shits, you don't have special insight into the meaning of life any more than that person in the OP pic

>>15685253
Life is not even the kind of thing that has "meaning". Words have meaning. Sentences have meaning. Life is a biochemical process. Elementary category error.

>>15685172
This is what happens when you watch too much rick and morty smoke weed and browse plebbit all day

>>15685327
Never said I did you fucking stupid pinhead progeria fuckup.

>>15685172
monkey lives matter

>>15685333
The reduction of life to nothing but a biochemical process is a cope for the implementation of procedure.

>>15685327
The person in OPs pic is incapable of finding meaning, it will continue to elude him due to his shortcomings of intellect, faith, values, and inspiration. That is not the case for the people who possess these traits.

>>15685333
>biochemical processes don’t have meaning

>>15685356
Not sure what any of that means, but living things are just open systems that maintain homeostasis, are composed of cells, have a life cycle, undergo metabolism, can grow, adapt to their environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce and evolve. There is no further "meaning to it" any more than there is a "meaning" to nebulae.

>>15685387
That's fucking gay and you know it.

>>15685369
really anon and do tell us what meaning you have found

>>15685356
all philosophy is a cope for the prescription of procedure either on an individual or social level

>>15685383
Meaning is simply a relation that holds between representations such as linguistic inscriptions and the things in the world that they refer to. "Life" per se is just not that kind of thing.

>>15685402
Procedure is fucking gay and inhuman. Go back to your rat city Stuart Little.

>>15685172
You lost me at
>How do you feel...

I think I better start with the Greeks, move through Hegel, peruse Kierkegaard and Heidegger, scan the analytics, Witty, and finally when I really, really get it, Deleuze

>>15685253
You just hate them because you know they’re right and have a more intelligent worldview, but yours makes you feel special so challenging it isn’t allowed

>>15685401
Why bother? I've already said that you are incapable of understanding.

>>15685459
I hate them because they take nihilism and use it as a fucking fashion statement and pick and chose whenever they feel like it.

>>15685369
>the person in OPs pic is incapable of finding meaning
No they aren’t. A person can both ignore ideology and have meaning in their lives. In fact it makes them more free than the mental slavery that is remaining “relevant”

>>15685172
Most philosophers more or less agree with that post. They work on real problems, not the faggy-assed pseudo-problems about the 'meaning of life'.

>pale blue dot shit

Call me when someone actually posts something life affirming instead of nihilist, entropic faggot bullshit.

>>15685473
>real problems
Like..?

>>15685465
ok apparently your "meaning" is being a whiny little shit on 4chan. let's face it anon you're here because you're a socially awkward 19 year old with no real-world friends and nothing else to fill the void of your zero-prospects life. you no more have any "meaning" than a piece of gravel

>>15685172
It's a statement that comes from a place of privilege. He won't be so concerned with meaninglessness when he is - rightfully - being tortured for perpetuating the ills of slavery and systemic racism through his calls to inaction. The "meaninglessness" of his suffering will no more mitigate it then than it does for the millions of PoCs who face starvation, rape, and death under white, patriarchal tyranny.

>>15685387
>The contempt for reality manifested by such pronouncements is unfathomable. What kind of libidinal catastrophe must have occurred in order for a physicist to smile when he says that nature’s secrets are almost exhausted? If these comments were not such obvious examples of megalomaniac derangement, and thus themselves laughable, it would be impossible to imagine a more gruesome vision than that of the cosmos stretched out beneath the impertinently probing fingers of grinning apes.

>>15685484
Universals; substances; predication; propositions; modality and possible worlds; causation; space, time, and spacetime; persistence through time; mereological composition (parts and wholes); numbers and abstract entities; probability and chance; knowledge and epistemic justification; sense and reference; etc etc.

>>15685525
>trying to psychoanalyze physics
wew

>>15685546
>gobbling up pop-sci and calling yourself a nihilist

>>15685555
That's what I'm mocking, my dude. You're the brainlet attempting to use dime-store pop psychology to draw conclusions about the structure of reality.

>>15685561
Never even implied any of that you fucking idiot. Learn to fucking read.

>>15685546
look at him, he's drinking from the cup of pure reason! he has absolute knowledge! he's escaped the noumena! He's become the superman!

>>15685253
Kill yourself if you're so miserable.

>>15685594
I stick around just to spite faggots like you.

>>15685203
>hurr just animals
>no I can't explain the congitive revolution
>sapience isn't worth anything, just because I make poor use out of it
Hylics, when will they learn?

>>15685578
Explain what the purpose of that quotation is, then. It is just ungrounded ad hominem shitflinging.

>>15685490
That is A LOT of projection my friend.

>>15685172
people act like the "meaning of life" is some elusive question that mankind has been trying to find the answer to ever since its inception. yet no one cared about it until the existentialists because they were too busy actually living. contemplation really is feminine. the question of nihilism is a liberal psyop.

>>15685582
Memes and personal insults aren't philosophy, anon.

>>15685535
this is all analytic philosophy, aka one gigantic cope. though I agree with your original post. le 'meaning of life' is a non-problem.

>>15685253
I hate that these fucking faggots take nihilism and act all fucking depressed and edgy with it.
>ugghh fuck life has no meaning this is so depressing I'm completely beholden to my pessimism and need for outside forces to dictate my values fuck fuck fuck shit cunt ass fuck
When nothing has intrinsic meaning (setting aside that this is debatable), it means that you have full control over your own purpose in life. With no rules regarding what meaning you derive from existence, the result is no fail state.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

>>15685652
cringe.

>>15685627
It's a quote from Land analyzing from Bataille's viewpoint.
>it would be impossible to imagine a more gruesome vision than that of the cosmos stretched out beneath the impertinently probing fingers of grinning apes
This is a truly nihilist statement. This weird emergent phenomenon of faggots combining pocket pop-sci knowledge with baby's first nihilism is fucking enraging. You're not a nihilist. You're a fucking rick and morty fanboy. I'm sick of all this "muh cells and muh atoms live no mean anything" shit. Those don't matter either dipshit.

>>15685662
Memes erode the mind and soul. I'll pray for you.

>>15685652
Incorrect and cringe. Also gay.

>>15685651
>this is all analytic philosophy, aka one gigantic cope.
Aristotle was an analytic philosopher? Boethius, Aquinas, Dun Scotus, William of Ockham, Leibniz, Hume and Kant were all analytic philosophers? Perhaps in spirit, but technically analytic philosophy began in the late 19th century. Indeed, early analytic philosophers are famous for rejecting all metaphysical questions.

>>15685669
"Nihilism" is not a thing, you fucking moron. "The meaning of life" is not a thing. Only internet emo pseud talk about such nonsense.

>This is a truly nihilist statement.
It's the exact opposite. It is a straightforwardly normative statement with zero relevance to anything in this thread.

>You're not a nihilist. You're a fucking rick and morty fanboy.
Projection alert.

>>15685763
"Internet emo pseud talk" is not a thing, you fucking moron. "Normative statements" are not a thing. Only people with phimosis talk about such nonsense.

>It's the exact opposite
wrong

>Projection alert.
wrong

Stay mad faggot.

>>15685763
>"Nihilism" is not a thing, you fucking moron.

>>15685790
Ah, so you're just a schizo troll.

>>15685805
Nah just realized you're actually a fucking moron and I might as well treat you like one.

>>15685813
You're a teenager who has never studied philosophy or science and who thinks "nihilism" is a thing. Keep seething.

>>15685821
You're a faggot who's never heard of nihilism before this thread.

>>15685836
Nobody in science or philosophy talks about "nihilism", pseud. It's a word teens use when they're feeling blue. Approvingly quoting a Twitter "thinker" like Nick Land only confirms the point.

>>15685879
>Nobody in science
Of course nobody in fucking SCIENCE talks about nihilism you fucking braindead retard.
>or philosophy
Nietzsche
Strauss
Stirner
De Sade
Satre
Bataille
Cioran
>It's a word teens use when they're feeling blue.
Moron statement.
>quoting a Twitter "thinker" like Nick Land
Twitter didn't even exist when Land published this.

You're a moron.

If you have any more inquiries refer to the line above.

>>15685319

>>15685599
You spite nobody but yourself. I like to now other people are miserable too.

threads like this really stink of people not understanding what they're talking about/me being too much of a smoothbrain. feel like I just need to go take a course on this shit

>>15685997
Keep telling yourself that gaymo.

>>15685319
LMAO

>>15685923
Don't post here again until your acne clears up, little buddy.

>>15686083
cringe

>>15686102
Don't do that again - you almost burst a comedone.

>>15686128
see >>15686102

>Live your life, be happy
Why?

>>15685459
>they’re right and have a more intelligent worldview
They aren't and they don't.

>>15685633
Find God

>>15685172

Without even any philosophical arguments, this can be shown to be plain stupid. The poster seems to be completely ignorant on how complex a system modern society is. Complex system require complex ways of governance, and those just are not possible without being serious and having conflicts etc.

>>15685633
>contemplation really is feminine
>mainly done by men

Oh I should just "be happy and chill," is that right, you bugman? How about I cave your skull in? I'm being mean? Nah, I'm just straight up chilling and you're being a total narc right now, real square I tell ya! You have no authority on deciding how Imma be chill or not, life is meaningless, as you said yourself!

>>15685253
Imagine life has an objective meaning. Like some kind of goal that ultimately all human beings must attain to or die as unfulfilled failures. Imagine the amount of stress this will induce to your life. And now imagine this objective purpose of life is some bugman-tier stuff like having a successful career or loving family. Oh wait...
Anyways, zen monks say, fuck it, life has no meaning, the world is just a big black hole of nothingness and that's what makes it good to be alive. Because nothing is important and you don't have to do absolutely anything unless you want to. Ain't it swell?

>>15685172
Why are reddit nihilist so concerned about finding the objectively best way to live life?

Daily reminder Stoicism isn’t a philosophy.