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Why is there so much philosophy on this board? Why can't we just discuss literature?

>> No.14535977
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Carl thread?

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>>14535977
JUNG?

>> No.14536850

this is why r/books (really just reddit in general) is way better than this place

>> No.14536858

>>14535961
Get yourself out a piece of paper.

Start ranking things in order of how based they are. The most based things get discussed the most. Philosophy wins this big a long con.

>> No.14536880

>>14535961
Solid thread, definitely helping the problem

>> No.14536898

>>14535961
Because despite endless asking, those who will not be named say that there would be no point to a philosophy and religion board, because it is either for /lit/ or /his/ or /pol/. /Lit/ has just been the most accepting board for conversations which deserve their own board. Consistently, we are told that there are not sufficient threads on philosophy and religion to have their own board, and yet it is an obvious self-fulfilling argument; if philosophy and religion threads are not tolerated on /lit/ and /his/ beyond the scope of those boards, then obviously those threads won't exist. Every board that has ever been made has always grown in comparison to the original threads which spawned it. It's pretty obvious that religion and philosophy threads move faster than any thread on /wsg/ or /p/ or /out/. The more likely outcome of such a split is that /lit/ would die, since philosophy and religion now make up at least the plurality of threads. I imagine this thread will soon be either deleted or moved.

>> No.14536914

>>14535961
no one who posts here actually reads

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>>14536914
Fucking rude! I read.

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There are /lit/ and /philosophy/ boards elsewhere, but I get the feeling anons are comfy here

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>>14536850
OK. Then go back, faggot.

>> No.14537986

>>14536850
>DAE hate old books?
>Don’t let anyone tell you there’s something wrong with reading YA!
>Harry Potter is just as valid as any other series, if not more so because its mature themes are aimed at kids. KIDS!
you have to go back

>> No.14538026

it's the best way to pretend to be smart

>> No.14538274

The real reason is because the other boards that might possibly be philosophical blow at it half the time. /his/ is filled neoliberal faggots and redditors who would never once consider their uncritically derived and pedestrian worldview is wrong, and /pol/ is /pol/ (though I've seen some really good posts on /pol/ and /his/).

>> No.14539018

>>14536850
you need to go back

>> No.14539032

>>14535961
I WANT TO CONVERT MY EMOTIONS INTO INTELLECT(TM) SO I CAN GET MORE ATTENTION

BUT THERE'S ONE CATCH: I ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT COMPROMISE ANY OF MY EMOTIONS OR SENTIMENTS BECAUSE I CAN'T RISK BECOMING UNPOPULAR

WHAT BOOKS SHOULD I READ LOL????????????????????????
WAIT UNTIL YOU HEAR ALL MY COOL OPINIONS THAT WERE FORCED ILLOGICALLY TO BE CONSISTENT WITH MY EMOTIONAL COMPLEXES DUE TO SOCIAL PRESSURE HEHEHEHE XD LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL WE'RE GONNA HAVE SO MANY GREAT THREADS

>> No.14539036

Foreas

>> No.14539354

>>14536008
cringe

>> No.14539507

>>14535961
Why wouldn't it go here? 95% of it was written in books.
>muh genre fiction
Shut the fuck up.

>> No.14539524

Anons need a reason to argue and philosophy facilitates that much more than standard fiction/non-fiction

>> No.14539545

>>14539354
You sound like a bitch

>> No.14539585

>>14539507
No ones arguing that philosophy shouldn't go here, it just takes up a disproportionate amount of discussion. No one ever really talks about creative literature even though it ties into philosophy and is at least as important. Poetry especially is something that receives little to no discussion, whenever people bring it up it's completely surface level engagement

>> No.14539597

>>14539032
Based

>> No.14539786

>>14539545
cringe

>> No.14539802

>>14539585
Yeah, I agree that poetry is underrated here but then start a thread on it. No one is making you not discuss it.

>> No.14539808

>>14539585
be the change you want to see

>> No.14539820

>>14539802
Kinda missing anon's point, insofar as the prevalence of philosophy threads might very well take up interest that could otherwise be spent on lit threads. I mean, he can post shit about literature all day and not get the responses he deserves, if everybody is stuffed up Guenon's asshole

>> No.14539831

>>14539820
People respond to those because it's a stupid, easily spammable meme like John Green or Tao Lin used to be.

>> No.14541090

>>14539802
Said thread would most likely die from lack of interest. A wojack philosophy meme would get more traffic 100% of the time.

>> No.14541107

>>14535961
because most of the people that use this board are socially awkward american teenagers who think that reading philosophy will give them a sense of self worth and will act as a stand-in for social interaction and give them some way of blaming someone else for the misery of their lives

>> No.14541285

Easier to pointlessly argue about. Its why discussion of authors instead of the works themselves is more common imo

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because
1. philosophy is intrinsic in literature, so a lot of people interested in literature get naturally attracted to philosophy. If you are not exposed to philosophy reading literature, you are reading shitty books.
2. philosophy can be very /lit/.

The same would happen on a strictly philosophy board, some literature discussion would inevitable come up.

>> No.14541338

>>14538274
/his/ is full of LARPers engaging in waifuism but for obscure 17th century states or generals

>> No.14541371

>>14535961
FUCK literature.
all hail philosophy!!

>> No.14541379

>>14536898
>those who will not be named say that there would be no point to a philosophy and religion board

People who ask for one are idiots. It would kill /lit/ and attract pseuds like flies. Philosophical discussion is best kept cloistered away from the masses.

>> No.14542541

>>14541379
If the absence of off-topic threads would kill the board, the board deserves to die. But, more likely, /lit/ would return to actually discussing literature, and /rp/ would become a containment for pseuds from many different boards. It would be beneficial to the site as a whole for these threads which currently derail multiple boards to have their own board, the same way that the existence of /x/ effectively cleans up the whole site.

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>>14535961
TFW you literally just got called to speak at a library about your new novel--one that is rife with philosophy, wouldn't have existed without it.

>> No.14543393

>>14536008
As someone who likes Jung I'd just like to say that he was also decidedly non-christian, almost anti-christians, so I don't want the christfags trying to pull him into their camp with that God quote

>> No.14543659

>>14535961
Start with the Greeks

>> No.14543690

but you guys don't even discuss philosophy, you just say shit like "dude hegel is wrong, heidegger is right"

>> No.14543697

lots of pseuds here. thus lots of philosophy.

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>>14536850
Reddit is a circle jerk. Notice how you don't get banned here for having an unpopular opinion, rather, you get rewarded with (Yous). You're welcome. Now kindly fuck off.

>> No.14543718

>>14543710
>(Yous)
>shitty meme
Follow him out, retarded zoomer.

>> No.14543734

sorry i just dont read much fiction atm

>> No.14543868

>>14543393
As I a Catholic, I would much prefer that no one ever tried to associate heterodoxy with orthodoxy, but what can you expect? The devil is clever, and the proud are fools. Only the simple are wise.

>> No.14544521

>>14539545
cringe

>> No.14544613

>>14536850
r/literature is leagues better than that dump
>dae stephen king
>dae ya
>dae audiobooks

>> No.14544636

>>14543868
Classic simpleton cope haha

>> No.14544706

>>14536850
r/books is laughably bad, trashiest of genre trash and people who enjoy the "lifestlye" aspect of reading more than the act itself. The kinds of people who would make social media posts of them reading.

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>>14544613
>Reddit anything

Go back.