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I CAN'T START WRITING
WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
FUCKING BLANK PAGE
KILL ME
I'VE FAILED BEFORE I'VE BEGUN
I CANT EVEN BEGIN
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
>>7876255
unironically the best writing i have yet to se eon /lit/
Just write something. Anything. Random words, if you have no idea whatsoever. It'll turn into a story eventually.
>>7876255
Try thinking of a specific person in your life to write to. A friend, a family member, a lover, anyone really.
Write sad, /lit/
>>7876020
For sail: baby shoes
>>7876022
torn
>>7876020
sad
Thoughts /lit/
>>7875888
only if you will join sea org with me. we should get a bunch of people from 4chan to join sea org then fuck shit up when we get there.
>>7875906
holy fuck did you actually join?
>>7875919
no but my buddies girlfriend went there last year. her parents are scietologists. she never even talked about it. but they fucking went and took her with them. no one's heard from her since. we want to rescue her. shit is retarded.
What's your favorite chapter?
Chapter 5, when Oedipa wanders through the night. One of my favorite passages in any book.
I enjoyed the one where she went to see the Courier's Tragedy play
>>7875879
I liked when that one character smoked weed and was paranoid.
Is Brave New World actually a dystopia?
The people are happy, there's no war or hunger. The world state is stable, the police aren't brutal (they are actually kind) and enemies of the state aren't put down. They are given the option of an island to live in, and are not persecuted at all. People outside the world state are allowed to live their lives unmolsted.
Sure the culture may be strange to is, but if you look at it from the view of ethical relativism, the people all legitimately love the culture, and for reasons unlike 1984.
How is this a dystopia?
>>7875825
It's a fairly divisive issue. I think it ultimately comes down to perspective, from our perspective it's dystopic, but to the average BNW citizen it's utopic.
>>7875840
This is where I stand on it, thought it has been a long time since I read the book. The thing that made it a dystopia for me was the lack of choice the people had as to where they would end up
>>7875840
I feel like that is what makes BNW utopia. Besides, even those that don't like the WS live good lives
>tfw he was right about video chat
And trump
What'd he say about it
What did he say about video chat
>Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independently of consciousness, that human beings have direct contact with reality through sense perception, that one can attain objective knowledge from perception through the process of concept formation and inductive logic, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness (rational self-interest), that the only social system consistent with this morality is one that displays full respect for individual rights embodied in laissez-faire capitalism, and...
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>>7875510
For fucks sake lit truly is being invaded by pol his and sci, fuck off already.
Why is she wrong?
>>7875514
t. Tony Francis
>ITT: Others tell us the type of /lit/ our new names would write
Rollin
>>7875447
YA fiction.
>>7875447
shitty romance novels or hair cosmetics guides
Can there be a creation, without an architect?
Leave religion-bullshit aside. We are talking about reality.
i also want to hear /lit opinions on that
>>>/sci/7971784
>>>/his/918601
If we're looking at reality then there is no difference or separation of the creator and the creation. Mythologically speaking, God created the world, but God is eminent in the world. The apparent separateness of things is only secondary. "I and the Father are one", that whole thing.
>>7875451
You do understand that you're argueing for pantheism right? Not theology. Thats heresy!
>>7875459
>heresy
Welcome to the real world, where truth isn't delegated by the middlemanclergy
NEW FORMAT: Contain your bitching about the new format of the board in this thread.
So that normal discussion can continue unfettered in other threads.
Better than the Honkening desu
I'm digging it desu. Pretty hilarious stuff
>>7875171
The catalog view is still the same as before if that helps. The threads still appear in the new format unfortunately.
Analytic Philosophy or Continental Philosophy?
RED SOLO CUP
I FILL YOU UP
LET'S HAVE A PARTY
LET'S HAVE A PARTY
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>>7874313
is that a hook from some swaggy trap rap? cuz it would be good
Where should I start with H.P. Lovecraft? My friend is going to send me on audiobooks of H.P. Lovecraft's works, and I'm wondering where I should start.
I was thinking of starting with 'The Rats in the Walls', but I'm not so sure.
What do you think, /lit/?
I read 'The Rats in the Walls' first, and that worked as a solid introduction for me. I don't think it's hugely important where you start though
Have fun
I started with the Shadow Over Innsmouth, and I think it was a pretty solid introduction. It is a large story, more like a novella, and it contains every Lovecraftian theme except for his later more cosmic phase.
If you want to start in a non-committal way, read Call of Cthulhu or a couple of short stories like The Rats in the Walls and Dagon. Don't start with a story like 'The Color Out of Space'.
>>7873953
Honestly just get one of those big collections of his stories and start readin'. I've read like 20 and they're all good shit
"Look man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid it is? In dark times, the definition of good art would seem to be art that locates and applies CPR to those elements of what's human and magical that still live and glow despite the times' darkness. Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this dark world AND to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. You can defend...
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AP > IJ
DAVE STEP AWAY FROM THE ROPE
AWAY
FROM
THE
ROPE
Eeh... No
OK, I'm wanting to learn Latin now (I'm learning Spanish, Japanese, and Ancient Greek as well).
What's your opinion on Wheelock's Latin? I just purchased the textbook and workbook because I found it cheap at a store. There's another book called Thirty-Eight Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin which includes stories of ranked difficulty; however, I could not find this book in the store. Should I purchase Thirty-Eight Latin Stories Designed to Accompany Wheelock's Latin as well?
What should I get for speaking Latin?...
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>speaking latin
top kek
>>7873134
Why are you laughing? I want to learn how to read and speak Latin.
You can't really learn how to speak it unless you do some really specialized thing in a church or some shit
But "correct"/uniform pronunciation is important. Fortunately it takes like five minutes to learn the basic rules, and you can personally decide whether you give a shit about rolling r's or even pronouncing v's as w's and so on
>science exposed him as a charlatan decades ago
>the humanities still worship him like a god
>>7873040
>the humanities still worship him like a god
Lel. No it doesn't STEMfag. No kindly fuck off to your containment board.
No one takes him seriously except for people like Lacan
the reason we remember freud is for his idea of the unconscious/subconscious mind. there are things going on in our heads even without us being aware of it. this is helpful in studying ideology and how it functions. it's why freud and marx are still remembered, even though they still got a lot of stuff wrong.
