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Hey cunts My girl friend wrote this poem and doesn't Believe me when I sag its good, pic related
>>8209496
why is it at a 90° angle and gilded
Sorry, bad photo
It's okay. Not too cringeworthy but it doesn't scan and totally falls apart towards the end.
Is atheism intellectually satisfying?
I get much more from studying theology and metaphysics as an agnostic.
>>8209309
>as an agnostic
>>8209309
>Is atheism intellectually satisfying?
define intellectually satisfying
also it depends, some people will find it so and others won't
>>8209309
>le alt-right strawmen line drawing meme
/lit/ I need some help.
I had an episode of severe social isolation/agoraphobia not too long ago. It lasted about a year, and though it's been a while since I don't feel 'right'.
Every day feels like I'm scraping the bottom of a barrel. If the soul was a well filled with vitality and life, mine has run dry. I'm on edge, I don't feel at ease. My baseline level of existential pain is a dull headache, but transitions to the level of a migraine very easily. Worst is while I'm lying in bed after a particularly devoid day.
I've...
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>ageraphobia
It's called depression, m8. See medical help.
go see a therapist. you can't just expect books to solve all your problems. that's retarded
Stories about illiterate or linguistically challenged people?
>playing cranium
>girl has to draw a blimp
>doesn't know what a blimp is
>picks another card later
>has the word "gradient"
>has to ask what it means
>she's applying to MBA programs
I thought my vocabulary was bad. How can you not know these basic words?
>basic
For survival you need ~20 words
>>8209305
uga uga krah krah
Non-native speaker that considers himself about 80% fluent and i have no idea what blimp means. It didnt show up in books i have read and neither in other parts of english culture.
Most /lit/ fairy tales?
Hesse and Wilde have some good more recent ones.
>>8209239
Sounds interesting, thanks.
Yates and his irish folktales
Some anon recommended Sandberg's German for Reading a while ago on /lit/, anyone know where I can get a pdf? There seems to be one link that has cropped up a few times searching, but it's expired, and it's not on Project Gutenberg.
das bump
>>8209195
http://bookzz.org/dl/1305760/d82299
>>8209590
>http://bookzz.org/dl/1305760/d82299
<3
Why is reading real books so much more comfortable than reading e-books?
>>8209134
Because you don't have a Kindle Paperwhite
>tfw snuggled up in bed, in the dark, with my kindle glowing
>2016
>dead tree editions
>>8209140
>in the dark, with my kindle glowing
This feels awful. I'd rather have my paper absorb light than emitting it.
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Punk.html?id=LPJGYgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
>Punk: An Aesthetic
How do I read this now for my project that is due in a couple days?
>(pic unrelated)
by saying that the punk aesthetic was manufactured by record labels to pander to the already dead punk scene that would become trendy.
and that the 'greatest punk bands' were actually just power pop bands and no-wave did punk better than any movement since.
>>8209165
a bit reductionist but more or less: this
>>8209165
Whether or not they were manufactured, Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Damned, et al. had some great fucking tunes.
Hey /lit/ I have a question. I've been writing a book for a while. Its partly based on true events. The books contains my account of the abuse I suffered as a child. Some of this is very sexual in nature. Some is downright vile.
Can I publish this story on amazon or will I get banned and v& for writing child porn? Under what circumstances is it allowed and how graphic can I get about the abuse? The story is mostly my biography, I slapped together a happy end (one which I hope for) but save for that and everything is directly from my diary.
>>8209098
Also, can you write erotica containing children on amazon? I've seen a copy of lolita which could be argued to be exactly that.
I'm asking because I'm thinking of making money off of my misery by publishing my abuse story separately so that I can at least get some money from pedophiles.
>>8209098
There's literally nothing wrong with child sex in literature.
The reason CP pictures/video is illegal is because it's evidence of a criminal act and encourages "production" which necessitates criminal acts.
Words on a page are not subject to the same laws.
>Also, can you write erotica containing children on amazon? I've seen a copy of lolita which could be argued to be exactly that.
Argued by whom?
Google "Old Joe's Collection"...
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Anyone else here a PKD fan? I've read a few of his books and he's become one of my favorites very fast. Here's my rankings for what I've read so far. Feel free to share yours.
Martian Time Slip > A Scanner Darkly > Ubik > The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch > Now Wait for Last Year > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? > The Man in the High Castle > VALIS
you're fucked man, VALIS is his indisputable best
>>8209088
didn't engage me the whole way through like the others
Do Androids Dream > VALIS > Three Stigmata > Martian Time Slip > Man in the High Castle > Scanner Darkly > UBIK > Flow My Tears
Is there any good literature on the topic of this, the most pressing problem of our time?
>problem
>>8209054
>not literature
Feel free to talk about non-fiction resources as well, I suppose, though that is more the remit of a board like /his/.
Read Civil Disobedience, was bretty good.
Very eloquent and makes you think very hard about stuff--but I was a little disapointed that he didn't write about going inna woods to think about shit.
Anyway--his main message was "be a man, do what you know is right, disregard consequences--slavery is bad, and governments are bad because they can be used to make slaverly legal and enforceable--and good small town livin is da best: also, fuck all taxes except for the highway tax".
Cool guy.
Go to bed, Chad.
bump for righteousness
Wow. Really makes you think.
Has anyone else here taken the Popper pill?
>enjoy the systematic dismantling of Plato, Hegel, Marx
>in turn given a nihilistic philosophy of liberalism and scientism
Why live, /lit/? No higher purpose. No higher truth. Just democratic checks on power, and the scientific method to rationalize away what Karl calls 'mysticism'. Pure nihilism.
>people read Popper's political philosophy
any person who just has an axe to grind against other philosophers and doesn't have a full theoretical structure to support it is bound to come across as nihilism.
>>8208708
Popper makes all of your theoretical structures look like.... Spooks, if you will. But popperian spooks. Since Popper is just replacing the big Other with the scientific method itself, even in political philosophy, but there's something about it that feels so... true.
>>8208712
>Since Popper is just replacing the big Other with the scientific method itself, even in political philosophy, but there's something about it that feels so... true
buddy read Feyerabend and Kuhn. don't fall for "scientific method" justifying political philosophy when he doesn't even know what the fuck that is. Scientific method is a spook and applying it to politics in the way popper does is the spookiest of spooks.
containment thread: >>8206127
>>8208696
>tfw the "Dark Fantasy" section in my local bookstore is larger than the "History" section
>>8208696
the Kane series
Can anyone please help me out. When i was twelve or so i read this book that i really liked. the book had really heavy sexual and criminal themes which blew my cringey faggot tier mind at the time. Problem is i dont remember the title so i was hoping one of you might know it.
>book centers around woman who randomly finds a letter in a library.
>letter contains 50 dollars and says that every letter after this one will contain double the reward of the last.
>50 to 100 to 200 to 400...
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>>8208687
That sounds dope.
Bumping for interest.
>>8208688
Yeah like i said. At the time is was really great and sparked my interest in adult fiction.
My diary desu ;)
