/lit/ - Literature

>>4477671
pls name it (i'll give you a clue; he's not only hideously, but improbably, deformed)

>>4478192
Do elaborate.

>>4478185
*believe in logic

>>4478146
This assumes that the nihilist is unexposed to intelligent criticism. One very important thing to understand about nihilism is the full implications of what it means to have no belief: take things people believe in; the rule of non-contradiction, A is A, two twos are four and so on. The nihilist is without these beliefs; this means a nihilist can, without any shred of cognitive dissonace 'do something for a reason' (to acknowledge >>4478164) while still being bereft of reasons; as that law of non-contradiction has lost its application. But of course the nihilist is still a physical person; they cannot perform magic, so they may still develop 'expectations', and in that sense experience, and by that draw inferences and contribute to arguments. This I think refutes the Aristotelian idea that if one does not believe then they have no power to argue against logic, as they must do so through the medium of logic; because contradiction, and thus creation, however 'ex nihilo', is all the same allowed for.

>>4478114
>Warning: This Book Will Change Your Life!
the point is i'm skeptical

>>4478021
>There are no self proclaimed nihilists
This simply isn't a fact. The rebuttal that 'anyone who calls themself a nihilist is an idiot and doesn't know what they're talking about' is, for what should be obvious reasons, no rebuttal at all. There are nihilists, even self-proclaimed ones, and some of them are even solid reasoners.

>>4477999
>i can re-add you back to skype
That'd be cool. How many are still there?

>tfw everyone you know likes to read alt lit
It's not that bad a feeling.

>>4477988
Or now, fucking tablet.

>>4477984
Fuck; wrong quote. Try now.

>>4477955
A lot of the time I felt that his constant deference to religious logic was interrupting the soundness of his reasoning, but then I kept catching hints at a kind of more 'existentialist' basis for that's usage, as in the pic (which quote I love), and I found that that made his positions more respectable, even if not exactly more accurate. I don't know, it was all fairly elementary stuff; I was eager to do more.

>>4477916
Yes I read all of it but then the group disappeared.

>>4477896
Oh, it's a libertarian manifesto; I should have guessed from: >>4477844

>>4477844
Fine, but I still don't understand what the manifesto is 'about'. (I've only glanced about 5 paragraphs of it.)

>>4477863
*an

>>4477828
>Also that it's not taken seriously because MRA's are being systematically discriminated against by an academia which wishes to exclude them on grounds other than MRA theory is unsophisticated in the extreme
Cut out all of these pointlessly connotative terms - 'unsophisticated in the extreme', 'systematically', 'an academia which wishes to exclude' - and let's have instead: 'MRA theory is discriminated against by academics' (and if you'll allow me to return some connotation of my own; 'because academics have a unrepresentative tendency to support feminism and because these movements are generally seen as oppositional, and because, perhaps, 'unsophisticated' is an adequate description for MRA theory, but as I've said; 'sophistication' is provided through academic legitimization'), and yes then I'd say that's also part of my conspiracy theory; that academics will in general like feminism more than MRA, and in general be feminists more often than MRAs.

>>4477805
Where do you deliver on the " 'so what' moment"?

>>4477775
My conspiracy theory: that MRAs have literature.

>>4477753
>no critical MRA work has ever been written
A blatant falsity. Perhaps you mean, No university-published MRA work has ever been written? I'm going to on pure gut confidence here and say that that too is false; once again, all you can say is 'not as many'; once again, all you can say is 'MRAs have less friends'.

>>4477742
I didn't say anyone was lazy or had it easy: I said your argument was stupid.

>>4477693
why the jpg? i liked cloud atlas

>>4477708
Or try: feminism has enjoyed a legitimization by Western academia; MRA has not. The number of 'complex', postmodern, existential and Marxist theories that could be implemented toward MRA's favour is not negligible either; only it has yet to have become intertangled and 'bound up' with these theories and with these philosophical movements. All your statement serves to declare is: MRAs have less friends.

>>4477561
homophobe

>a hideously deformed teenager establishes a meaningful relationship with his mother on account of him being too ugly for her to molest
Name It, Guys