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who is yalls fav english-language poet?
>>8247746
ur mom faggot haha
>hair tied up in the shower
B-Real
Marxism is practically racism for the lower class.
Marxism is an ideology designed to appeal to the dumb and poor, the loosers. It is destined to lead to genocide and end in chaos and economic collapse .
Yeah Marx wrote several thousand plus page volumes, complete with dense footnotes and references to Feuerbach, Hegel, the French socialists, Smith and Ricardo in order to appeal to poor, dumb "loosers."
>>8247397
You don't say?
How much have you read about Marxism? Probably the same amount that about feminism, and your perception of both probably is equally correct.
Would You a Dragon? Edition.
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Previous: >>8235718
Would you?
I'm going to write a fantasy story that might as well be a Ligotti story in a fantasy setting. I'm going to take this genre beyond GRI, watch me.
>>8246726
Please do, I'm sick of everything being an edgy GRRM derivative.
Has anybody ever done an alien terraforming story before, or no, has the idea not been done before? If not, I think I just brainstormed.
Relevant Philosophers who believed in God:
>Aristotle
>Plato
>Thomas Aquinas
>Anselm
>William of Ockham
>Francis Bacon
>Thomas Hobbes
>Spinoza
>Descartes
>Leibniz
>Berkley
>Augustine
>Kierkegaard
>Kant
>Hume
>Hegel
Relevant philosophers who didn't believe in God:
>Nietzsche
>Wittgenstein
Whose side are you on /lit/?
>>8244699
>relevant philosophers whose careers, livelihood, and even life could be taken from them if they explicitly advocated atheism
>>Thomas Aquinas
>Anselm
>William of Ockham
>Francis Bacon
>Thomas Hobbes
>Spinoza
>Descartes
>Leibniz
>Berkley
>Augustine
>>8244717
So atheism was such a dubious and improbable position to them that it wasn't worth taking the risk of espousing it. Thanks for clearing that up.
Christians risked their life to spread belief in God, why couldn't atheists do the same for the god of materialism?
>>8244717
>Kierkegaard
>Kant
>Hegel
>life could be taken from them if they explicitly advocated atheism
Come on now. I agree for Plato and Aristotle (although even then, it's very possible they did believe in a God, just not the christian one of course), but why these?
>>8244699
>Hume
>believed in God
He was an agnostic. Also you could name many more atheist philosophers than those two. Are you baiting?
ITT: books that are as long as Infinite Jest but actually worth reading.
my diary desu
>>8243387
shieetttt
So, my friend gifted me infinite jest. Then my sister got me 2666.
I chose 2666 over IJ, and I'm roughly 100 pages in. Impressed so far, even though nothing really happens.
>>8243387
Damn fucking brutal. Ulysses is of comparable length and it's made me laugh out loud a couple times (call it 5-9?) at 412 pages in. The prose is gorgeous and you learn some daedal words.
Booktuber Sasha Alsberg has written a book called ZENITH it's the first installment in The Androma Saga.
Here's a sample:
Thirty-six days of endless darkness.
It surrounded Valen Cortas in cell 377, twisting and turning itself into his bones until he and the darkness had become one.
His thoughts had long since stopped running wild with every groan and creak of the prison walls. A thinning blanket, his only companion, was wrapped tightly around his shoulders, though it didn't block out the cold kiss of air that snuck through the threads.
I am Valen Cortas. He rolled the words over and over in his mind. It was the only thing that kept him going, and it leashed a sharp coil of courage around his veins as he added, Vengeance will be mine.
This is actual dogshit.
>>8241211
Let it go.
>>8241211
>This is actual dogshit.
wait...
then why make a thread about it?
>>8241235
cyberbullying is fun
What does /lit/ make of ebooks and ebook reader devices? While a big bookshelf is always nice to have around, it's hard not to avoid e-books as a voracious reader. Because instant digital gratification, and piracy if you know where to look.
If you feel absolutely no shame pirating e-books, go for a Kobo reader instead of a Kindle. It's the most open platform out there when it comes to sideloading ebook files (mainly .epubs, but also .mobi and .pdf). The 4GB nonexpandable storage might be off-putting, but get this, if you're willing to void your warranty you can actually replace the storage inside, it's all on an internal MicroSD card that can be dislodged and replaced with careful attention to correct firmware.
Also, there's no DRM on cracked, local .epub files. Your copy of 1984 isn't going to disappear over a copyright dispute (This actually happened with Amazon Kindle - buyer fucking beware.)
>>8240758
After having to move twice in the same year, in and out of a 2nd story apartment, with a couple hundred pounds of books I am pretty dead-set on picking up a Kobo on Cyber Monday
>>8240758
>4GB nonexpandable storage
Why would anyone need more? No point in having over 2000 books on one device at one time.
Writing about loneliness and need some inspiration. Any good books or films on the subject? Preferably a visceral exploration, but really just anything that portrays it well.
>>8253422
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
>>8253422
Go to /r9k/. Not joking, it's pure loneliness and the results thereof.
>>8253422
I'd suggest watching Pi and the footage of the Bjork stalker
Hey /lit/. What do you think of the "everything depends on how you see it", and "if you are optimistic everything is possible"?. I don't believe those affirmations are true, but I may be wrong, I don't know.
What I'm asking for is different point of views, so please, explain yours.
>>8253350
I forgot to say, pic unrelated :'|.
>>8253372
It really is, I just like that quote, pls don't be mean :'|
>>8253332
did Nietzsche die happy? (question to all who are reading this post)
Help me /lit/. Does everything happen for a reason or is everything random and chaotic?
>>8253222
The rules the universe operates under are arbitrary and not designed but everything happens according to those rules
Accept Jesus
Everything happens for a random and chaotic reason.
Is it possible for a book to fuck with your brain so much that it makes you high?
not as high as you are right now
>>8253149
Stoner here. Not possible.
>>8253149
Sometimes when I read about philosophy of mind on SEP binges I get chills. One time I cried. So.. Maybe?
I'm looking for something tantalizing, which revolutionizes your mind and makes you feel like you've stumbled into some dark, obscure way of thinking which illuminates everything else around you. I want to feel like I'm digging through an old abandoned library of a victorian mansion from another dimension, I don't want it to feel like it was written by someone of this world at all, and I certainly don't want it to be about trivial daily affairs or dramatized in any way. I just want stone cold literature that pierces through your brain like a surgeons scapel, like an ancient alient civilization who monitors our planet and waits to blow us up when we reach a certain state of technology.
just take ketamine you fucking hippie
>>8253030
This
Why does /lit/ not like Bukowski?
>>8252951
He's not really any more accessible than the whole of the /lit/ starter kit.
His writing sucks
He's should be an inspiration to all 4channers honestly. He proves that you can spend your young adult years a bitter, degenerate virgin, and still have a successful and acclaimed life ahead of you.
>"German Romanticism? Wouldn't French be better for that sort of thing?"
>>8252899
Except someone just said it to me
>>8252896
>Romanticism
i dont think that means what you think it does. cause germans were perfect for it. i cant imagine how frenchies would have done it.
english romanticism was better anyways
Unsure if this goes in /his/ or /lit/.
But I want to create a Language Thread because I don't speak a very good english.
I'm having troubles on punctuation (.,;:) and parenthesis [](){}
Also, when do you use which or with:
For example:
Which programming language is the best of all?
What programming language is the best of all?
Also how do you say plural "you"?
You lot is what they taught me in school, but I've never heard it.
>>8252883
Regarding the plural of you, "you" is actually also the plural. "You lot" isn't particularly common but nonetheless correct (however could be seen as condescending). The correct plural is "ye" but that's archaic (isn't used anymore).
Also, certain dialects include other variations such as "yous", which is used in the North East of England where I am from, and "y'all" which, as I am lead to believe, is mainly what American hillbillies use. Both of these examples aren't formal.
>>8252883
Also, colons (:) are used when listing something e.g.
There are many things to do in Switzerland: hiking, skiing, snowboarding etc.
Or when stating a clause that directly relates to the previous clause e.g.
There is only one problem with Windows: it is very unreliable.
Semi colons (;) are slightly more complicated. They can be used to separate things in lists when the things are sentences as opposed to words e.g.
There are many things to do in Switzerland: you can go hiking in the Alps; ski down one the many slopes dotted across the country; etc.
Regarding parentheses, () are the only ones that you'll encounter and/or need in everyday use. [] And {} don't really have a specific use other than sometimes when there is a parenthesis within a parenthesis:
I have a rabbit (I bought it at the pet store [which is on First Street])
![desert_sage_080308[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qU9YSIz.jpg "desert sage 080308[1]")
