/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21513190]

Any cool Japanese books about Samurai, shopkeepers, and general Yojimboish spirit? Ninjas are fine too, good action genre fiction etc

[Anonymous No.21513196]

>>21513190
The Sims 4 Snowy Escape. You could have got it on sale a few weeks ago but now you'll probably have to wait for the summer sale. Well, at least the stark contrast between summer and winter will be comfy.

[Anonymous No.21513209]

>>21513190
Shogun
Mushashi

[Anonymous No.21513223]

>>21513190
Why does PewDiePie and his wife look so soulless? I fucking hate zoomers so much. Zoomers are like their own separate species.

[Anonymous No.21513228]

>>21513223
He's like 33 or something which makes him a millennial you dumbfuck.

[Anonymous No.21513261]

>>21513223
Definitely a consoomerist gaymer manchild faggot but I don't think he looks soulless personally. He's basically in the higher consciousness NPC tier. Could probably reach true consciousness after some reflection but he probably won't because his career is directly against it.

[Anonymous No.21513286]

>>21513228
Some millennials are more like Zoomers.
>>21513261
>higher consciousness NPC tier
98% of people are like that, but what makes Zoomer soulless is how they think in memes.

[Anonymous No.21513301]

>>21513223
No kids, totally isolated due to undeserved wealth plus he's on some sort of soul search reading Mishima out of all people and knowing he's the exact opposite of a man willing to act upon his principles. His wife should just get a lawyer and move back to Passo Lavazza or wherever she got broken in first.

[Anonymous No.21513303]

[Anonymous No.21513337]

>>21513223
Please do provide and example of someone with soul.

[Anonymous No.21513341]

>>21513337
AVGN

[Anonymous No.21513348]

>>21513223
You have meme brainrot

[Anonymous No.21513355]

>>21513337

[Anonymous No.21513357]

>>21513223
childfree couples are usually are

[Anonymous No.21513374]

>>21513357
Kek spoken like somebody who doesn't have kids. They do look pretty ambivalent about being in such a beautiful place, though.

[Anonymous No.21513378]

>>21513337

Andrei Tarkovsky

https://youtu.be/xTeXRqIeTm0

Take his advice if you want to stop being a soulless Millennial or Zoomer shithead. I can see the lack of contemplative depth in most people's eyes.

[Anonymous No.21513385]

>>21513378
if he was so soulful and content why did he spend his last years in a fucking italian refugee camp

[Anonymous No.21513400]

>>21513385
He is obviously soulful based on the great depth in his films and his remarks on the value of solitude, which is something most Zoomer shitheads don't get enough of. Walking alone in the woods while listening to music =/= solitude.

Forest Anon is pretty soulful too but a bit lacking in the intelligence department, which is fine. PewDiePie is actually more soulless but more intelligent. There is nothing more dangerous than soulless intelligent people.

[Anonymous No.21513401]

>>21513374
>They do look pretty ambivalent about being in such a beautiful place, though
they're desperately holding together in anguish knowing that their bloodline will end

[Anonymous No.21513399]

>>21513378
are you sure you're not just a racist with people's eye color though?
>tarkovsky
pseud

[Anonymous No.21513408]

>>21513400
i have never seen any of his films and never will out of protest. fuck movies to be honest. the last movie i saw i was age 13. but im not 13 anymore. im big. im a big boy. with big things.

[Anonymous No.21513413]

>>21513223
How do I know if I have a soul or not?
>>21513378
How do I know if I am contemplative or not?

I am not being facetious I just don't want to waste my life thinking I could be anything more than nothing.

[Anonymous No.21513417]

>>21513385
>>21513399
There are people this mindless on /lit/

[Anonymous No.21513422]

>>21513400
solitude isn't necessarily soulful.

>There is nothing more dangerous than soulless intelligent people.

and yet this globohomo it company age encourages their existence. their jobs are the only ones that allow upward mobility

[Anonymous No.21513426]

>>21513408
So you have never seen a good film in your entire life. What a sad man you are. Literal NPC

[Anonymous No.21513427]

>>21513286
>how they think in memes
bold of you to claim they think

[Anonymous No.21513428]

>>21513422
Most technocrats behind the liberal globalized age are obviously soulless but intelligent.

[Anonymous No.21513429]

>>21513426
I'm just not a big movie guy. I think its more NPC judge so harshly for something like that.

[Anonymous No.21513433]

[Anonymous No.21513443]

>>21513408
Just read good poets like Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Wang Wei, Osip Mandelstham, William Blake, and many others if you want to know what's soulful then. Good poetry is obviously the best expression of soul.

Philosophy is anti-soul, the only exception being Ludwig Klages. Philosophy is a failing approximation of good poetry.

[Anonymous No.21513447]

>>21513429
I'm not talking about movies, I'm talking about films. Films are works of art. Most people don't appreciate films because they don't care about art. Same as you

[Anonymous No.21513449]

>>21513428
their explanation of social mores are dumb as fuck. they mostly get leverage due to economy being in their favor.

[Anonymous No.21513453]

>>21513447
I don't really fall for that word twisting. movies and films are the same word. you're just eager to find something you can be condescending about like most people are. suggesting i dont care about art is laughable.

[Anonymous No.21513460]

>>21513413
please someone respond. im scared that i do not have a soul.

[Anonymous No.21513539]

>>21513453
lol

[Anonymous No.21513590]

This board and its obsession with ecelebs.
>>21513400
Forest Anon is very intelligent, he tries to keep it from showing but it's obvious that he falls somewhere at the high end of the scale.

[Anonymous No.21513688]

>>21513190
Imagine being as rich as this dude, being married, and then not having children.

[Anonymous No.21513738]

>>21513190
"The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. It's a fencing manual by a man who is said to have fought and won over sixty duels. Great advice like feint attacks to the face and eyes to make the opponent flinch, and then cut their hands off.
"Musashi" by Eiji Yoshikawa. Book about the life of said samurai.
"Onihei Hankacho" by Shōtarō Ikenami. Samurai cop called Heizo the Demon solving crimes, cutting up bad guys, and trying to reform criminals in the Edo Period.

If manga are allowed then:
"Vagabond" by Takehiko Inoue. Adaptation of "Musashi".
"Lone Wolf and Cub" by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. The Shogun's executioner gets framed, so he and his infant son set out on the path of vengeance as assassins. This team also made "Kubikiri Asa"(another executioner), and "Hanzō no Mon"(ninjas).

>>21513688
Gotta be child maxxing like a Mongol khan.

[Anonymous No.21513770]

>>21513223
>Two happy and good looking people
>Their eyes arent literally glowing

Must be soulless

[Anonymous No.21513780]

>>21513413
If you could never be anything it is impossible to have wasted your life.

[Anonymous No.21513781]

>>21513261
>true consciousness
which is of course owning finnegans wake and reading that guenon guy again because mysticism and reactionary politics sets you apart from the NPCs by being the chud equivalent of a 30 year old burned out punk

[Anonymous No.21513807]

>>21513780
Exactly so I am trying to find out if that is the case.

[Anonymous No.21513820]

>>21513738
>"Onihei Hankacho" by Shōtarō Ikenami. Samurai cop called Heizo the Demon solving crimes, cutting up bad guys, and trying to reform criminals in the Edo Period.

thanks for the less obvious advice

my favorite manga is shigurui by far followed by blade of the immortal

[Anonymous No.21513856]

>>21513460
>how do I >>know
>if I have a soul
>please >>someone respond
>I'm afraid >>I do not have a soul
everyone has a 'soul' by any definition of soul. well, but for this one. soul means to be your own person, and you seemingly don't have a mind of your own. do what you want at all times, no matter the consequence. being able to take that chance is what makes you 'soulful', your own person.
there's no book to teach you that, that is hubris as much as it is a lie. that's the easy way out most people take when they're 'soul-searching'. many people especially on this board. you read books for entertainment, knowledge is a game and entertainment. you read books to experience stories and learn from them, you reaffirm yourself and your choices, your ideas and dreams more so from the books you read. books you come to when you in some sense already know what you want or that there is something you want. want in essence without reason for this want obvious to you.
it's knowing yourself without rationalising your psychology through autobiography; encompassing yourself beyond the person you are or were, or are going to be, which sounds mighty mystical and senseless, but actually just means to be above your day to day business at any time when it is possible to judge yourself in such a fashion from above. no one would expect you to ponder the meaning of pain when you're shot, being more than rational and rationality coincide by going to the hospital. deep thought, being 'soulful' or artistic shouldn't go beyond work and pleasure. true 'soul' would be to be 'soulful' while doing something entirely 'soulless', as long as that 'soullessness' is not itself acting upon you, restricting your capacity to be 'soulful', making it impossible.
soul is perception and measuring things. where do you draw the line between soulful and soulless. there's no mechanic or formula or even explanation for it, as you see, it's each time and every time. it's different and depends on a multiplicity most people fear. living with that and living in the moment of this multiplicity. looking at the trees and seeing not just green and brown but a tree and a species of tree and the wear of time and age of the plant and the birds and their names and so on in everything is a pretty good start.

[Anonymous No.21513865]

>>21513738
got links to ikenami mobi / epubs?

[Anonymous No.21513873]

>>21513223
I don't regularly watch pdp or youtubers as a whole but from the few videos I saw from him he clearly has a soul
t. knower

[Anonymous No.21513876]

>>21513856
So I am supposed to know the species of trees now ? Damnit I am an english major not a biologist

[Anonymous No.21513988]

>To throw away one's life for one's male lover is the ultimate aim of Shudo.
Hagakure 181

[Anonymous No.21515227]

>>21513223
I never understand people like this faggot who get upset when people enjoying life and then starts gibberish talking about soul. Touch some sun

[Anonymous No.21515350]

>>21513873
I hear you but at the same time hes illuminati.

[Anonymous No.21515366]

>>21513190
Musashi rules.

[Anonymous No.21515391]

>>21515227
because hes not enjoying life. he doesnt feel anything

[Anonymous No.21515448]

>>21513401
Im extremely pro natal, but you never know if someone might just happen to be incapable of bearing children. That is something to mourn, but doesn't mean it is a reason for divorce. Also he explained that the reason they had strollers for their dogs was because that was what was most convenient in Japan. Not because they were treating their dogs like children.

[Anonymous No.21515471]

>>21515391
>because hes not enjoying life. he doesnt feel anything

The real clue to these two is their ugly bug eyed artificially bred to thwart natures's demands, pug dogs. Seeing them baby turd gobbling pug dogs when they could be raising a family in a beautiful place, like some big ranch in Colorado or Wyoming is disgusting.

[Anonymous No.21516910]

>>21513190
Shopkeeper? Shoujo Ramune

[Anonymous No.21517093]

>>21515448
but people treat their dogs like children in Japan, hence why they have the stroller. Seeing a young married couple with a dog stroller is depressing as fuck. Japan has these dog events in parks and it's just seas of these 20/30-something couples walking around with strollers putting all the parental instincts into looking after fucking animals.

[Anonymous No.21517128]

>>21517093
Better that than globalism never fucking dying.

[Anonymous No.21517190]

>>21513807
Here, I will free you.
You were never meant to be anything. You weren't meant for anything. There is no purpose to your existence form the perspective of another person.

The most you can do is diminish the suffering you experience as well as the suffering of others. Start with the former and keep in mind the latter. Therapy helps many if your shrink respects your philosophies.

[Anonymous No.21517588]

Imagine your italian/nordic mutt spawn speaking like this

>herro, my nameu is anon
>preasu to meetchu

[Anonymous No.21517595]

>>21517190
This isn't what I asked

[Anonymous No.21517622]

>>21513688
theyre obsessed with their dogs. i washed one of his japan vlogs out of curiosity and it's crazy, they talks about them/treat them as if they were their children.
pewdiepie definetly browsed this board at some point btw

[Anonymous No.21517639]

>>21517588
If I was a betting man I’d say they’re not gonna breed desu.

[Anonymous No.21517644]

>>21517093
They do that in the West, too. It just manifests in the form of doggie backpacks and creepy IG posts. Most of the women I know are so afraid of the concept of having children that they hide behind the animals they accumulate. It's a pitiable thing.

[Anonymous No.21517648]

>>21517639
Yeah, she's already 30, so the clock is not exactly on their side.

[Anonymous No.21517802]

>>21517648
Anytime any of the audience has brought up having kids Pewds has always been super weird about it. Even when he just the topic of kids and babies comes up, not even like him having one but just the general topic when he’s talking to one of his friend’s whose a dad, he acts like he hates kids and babies are super annoying and he would be a very harsh father. He says this in jest but it’s every time so that must be some part of his genuine sentiment.

Also they’re very weird about their dogs, one of those millennial couples that treats them like actual kids.

It’s a real shame because they’re both successful people with amazing genes so I’d think their kids would be decent, but at best they’ll churn one out in a decade at the last minute when Marzia’s on her last eggs and it’ll have autism or some shit.

This is despite the fact they could easily afford more then a dozen kids lol. And pewds isn’t even particularly leftwing, and Marcia doesn’t seem so either.

[Anonymous No.21517809]

>>21513228
Gen x you stupid cunt.

[Anonymous No.21517840]

>>21517802
Also if one of them is infertile why not adopt?

[Anonymous No.21517863]

>>21513190
Man takes pic for instagram, obscuring the interesting thing with his head.
>justwomanthings.jpg
Thats a femboi and she rump rides him with a strap on.

[Anonymous No.21517880]

>>21513422
No different from medieval times, where the only way up was to become a clerk, which meant training as a priest and becoming celibate or a homosexual.
The game was rigged from the start.

[Anonymous No.21517900]

>>21517802
Being anti-child is probably part of the contract to allow him to be successful.

[Anonymous No.21517933]

>>21517880
While those people were forced into cloisters, most of the work they did created a net benefit for the public.

[Anonymous No.21518152]

>>21513876
>english major
you seem more like a smart ass to me.

[Anonymous No.21518179]

>>21513590
>This board and its obsession with ecelebs.
>Forest Anon is very intelligent

[Anonymous No.21518198]

>>21517809
Everyone on the planet gets older when the years go by anon. Generations aren't static. The youngest Gen X will turn 43 this year.

[Anonymous No.21518536]

>>21518179
It's not obsessive for them to simply point out someone's intelligence. Forest Anon is a wise individual. Anon was just stating a fact

[Anonymous No.21518804]

>>21513190
>Libshit whites run away to Japan after ruining the West with their retardation
kek

[Anonymous No.21518843]

>>21513190
The way they treat their inbred pugs like children is sad as fuck.

[Anonymous No.21518859]

>>21518843
Pugs are abominations.

[Anonymous No.21519056]

>>21513223
>>21513190
It's sad his wife is very insecure about her looks. She's extremely beautiful yet seems to be falling for the surgery meme.

Why is it beocming so commonplace for women these days

[Anonymous No.21519067]

>>21513223
I wonder what happened to him to make him the shell of the man he was in around 2016-2018

[Anonymous No.21519071]

>>21519067
by what metric is he a shell of 2016 pewdiepie? now he just lifts weights fucks his gf in japan and reads the greeks, i thought you faggots loved that

[Anonymous No.21519092]

>>21519071
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN4gEchJtY4&t=507s

He made slightly offensive jokes back then and didn't seem as soulless as he is today. his book and exercise stuff is good though

[Anonymous No.21519093]

>>21519092
The part I was trying to link in that video is at 8:25

[Anonymous No.21519097]

>>21519092
kek fair, but i generally think it's good that he finally came to the realisation that watching all these random videos talking about memes and reacting to shit is a waste of time. took him a bit longer than it should have imo, now he's just semi-retired chilling out which is probably the best outcome one could hope for in our current time

[Anonymous No.21519103]

>>21517128
this. I think childeren are great and I think I might have wanted some, but then I realize that they have to exist in this globhomo horror show world that will just keep getting worse

>>21517190
You cant know that

[Anonymous No.21519260]

>>21519056
That bitch isn't beautiful at all. She's your typical shitalian greasecunt gobliness who's caked up in mountainous levels of makeup.

[Anonymous No.21519269]

>>21519260
she's "conventionally beautiful" as those who pretend that objective beauty exists tend to say.

[Anonymous No.21519273]

>>21519269
Conventionally beautiful my ass

[Anonymous No.21519275]

>>21519056
>Why is it beocming so commonplace for women these days
Obviously the internet. Touching grass has greater truth to it than the zoomers would ever admit

[Anonymous No.21519336]

Hello felix, keep up with the reading buddy.

[Anonymous No.21519349]

>>21519056
I noticed that she seems to hide her face in the vlogs. Maybe she doesn't want to be recognized.

[Anonymous No.21519368]

>>21519056
Women can be very insecure about their looks and how they compare to other women. It was easier when the only comparison were ordinary women from the neighborhood, but the more fashion, movie and pharmaceutical industries began to serve perfected women, and perfected women telling other women they too can look perfect with this and that, it created something akin to obsessive-compulsive disorder where one is never good enough and they have to keep doing more and more of the recommended procedures.

[Anonymous No.21520399]

>>21513688
behold, poor and stupid mentality.