/lit/ - Literature

bump for answers seriously, just some input.
I'm making this decision right now as we speak. Leaning towards more drunk, but can't remember when I ate last

Should I eat something or get more drunk?

looking for interesting life experiences..do hard drugs, have sex for money, abandon all the comfortable things...etc...kill someone...

Oh shit, I hate his guts but happy birthday all the same bro

>wanting to live forever

Is the literature experience, an occult practice? Why or why not? It certainly isn't social.

Seriously /lit/ I'm out of here for real this time. When I realized that Marcus Aurelius originally titled the Meditations "To Myself" I became aware of the true use of literature and philosophy. Not to mention the front page is like 90% pictures of that fat guy from Seinfeld. Goodnight, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

>>1783055
mental illness? Yes, that is a convenient way to excuse the abuse of the working class.

>>1782964
Hm, only someone aware of their enslavement would be capable of this....
Also, the working class have existential crises all the time.

>fuck-ups
>implying they are not victims of oppressive dysfunctional social organization
try harder to justify your privileged existence d&e

trollpic? Anyway, the existentialists are generally superfluous reiterations of stoicism/skepticism/cynicism. I am in a bad mood so I'm going to go ahead and say that this variety of thought exercise was pretty exhausted by the fall of the Roman empire. These are the people who made money from Greek/Roman philosophy in the modern era.

>>1780559
Real men are feminists

>>1780540
I love the S.C.U.M

I have had this feeling before...drink some orange juice to help it last

I want my works to be published posthumously.

existential crisis=suicidal (more or less)

Yah read "Story of the Eye" for some good erotic and William Faulkner for good stream of consciousness. Henry Miller is a hack

>>1779917
my nigga

>>1779880
Are the yale intro to psych lectures online?

Plato's republic is going to bore you and you won't like it and you'll give up and plato was a fraud just ask Diogenes.

>>1779863
Thanks I was definitely interested in more modern approaches.

>>1779852
Yeah I'm not so keen on being dialectical at this point, looking to stick to some principles, really.
>>1779849
I might read Cicero, because it is such an interesting suggestion.

I have been reading the Discourses of Epictetus and The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, and generally studying Stoic philosophy. Are any other /lit/izens? I was wondering what other texts would be of use and whether or not you have had successes in applying the philosophy in your life. To be honest, this outlook is steering me away from visiting /lit/ and even urging me to abstain from reading fiction.

Quetzalcoatl by Dh Lawrence