/lit/ - Literature

>>4533260
me

>>4533832
in America that maybe comes from Protestant preachers roaming around the Midwest and the radical sort of pluralism that came from that, at least on the level that Americans seem to have a really moral response against being told not to do anything

>>4533842
most patents are stupid or harmful tho
a woman invented you and I bet you're glad she did

>>4533777
>>4533780
what does it mean to "pretend" to like something? I'm judging you by telling you that you're making silly assumptions, whereas you're making judgments about women's reading interests according to some strange criteria of authenticity which I certainly don't understand. The average fedora quoting Call of Cthulhu on Pacebook is probably a dude, anyway.

why do misogynists feel they have the right to judge anyone's intentions because they're pathetic scumdog shits with nothing better to do than hate on people they barely know nobody cares get it out of my sight fuck

>Euthydemus
10/10
>Leviathan
6/10
Hobbes' theology is weird and I don't like it
>Ham on Rye
7/10

>>4510635
Luther's work on the canon is a lot more critical than that of most papists of his time and most every Catholic today. He even suggested that books be taken out of the Old Testament, I think, for having no connection to Christ or prophecy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther's_canon

>>4510510
A broken covenant isn't pardoned in the same way that a sin is. In a symbolic sense, Adam and Eve are the only humans who can make such a contract. But a certain definition of good justice would be to fulfill the law without denying redemption in some other way, and what else does it mean for God to be a perfect judge? Somewhere Leibniz says that the capacity to do good always comes in as if through a slit in the middle of shadows. I think universal salvation is possible.

>not vivisecting cats to prove that they're soulless monsters

>>4468308
>How excatly has the Frankfurt school fundamentally ruined Western Civilization?
it ruined videogames they used to be for real gamers now they're just for girls and casuals

>>4468364
concepts like diversity and multiculturalism aren't unique to the Frankfurt school and if you taught most of the people in that infographic in basically any University in the west you'd be fired for being too boring

terminable
perfectible

>At this moment, I am memetic. Not because of some phony biological fitness, but because, I am selected by my own genes.

snark+desperation/contingency

>>4461707
one reading of de Sade (which I don't know if Deleuze follows) is that his characters seek a sort of egoistic pleasure that actively denies all others. So if it is an act of pure reasoning to the point of death etc then it is one that surpasses communication; it suppresses others.

>>4461727
not really related but I wonder if anything in Deleuze's body of work would shed light upon the IDF's "accidental" use of a photo of a glamorous Malaysian mall mislabeled as the Gaza Mall in a blog/twitter piece denying a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and what his work might have to say about the (encouraged) dissemination of that photo through social media and so on
this is also relevant to /pol/'s weird bikini bridge anti-protest

>>4431717
>>4431807
I can eat lots of things at a buffet but that doesn't mean I want to eat there every day.
or in a less pretentious sense, it's annoying to choose between expensive modern translations and 100-year-old ones on Perseus

all the languages I know are decaying from lack of use tho so I shouldn't talk
weed aestuate omne die
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Di6 or Sol Invictus for the fascist element in /lit/, lyrics reference Jean Genet and Evola
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix for pretension: http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/liturgys-hunter-hunt-hendrix-would-like-you-to-be-more-pretentious
David Byrne wrote some books
Beyonce if you like illuminati death-cultists
Carrie Brownstein
the guy behind INTERNET CLUB
etc

>>4413864
ok

>>4416806
to be exact, Essay on Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XXI, §14 and onward: http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/johnlocke/BOOKIIChapterXXI.html

the problem of free will is "unreasonable because unintelligible": liberty is one power and willing is another
boring enlightenment philosophy etc but Asian philosophy doesn't really concern itself with free will even enough to reject it. To connect it with Locke's ideas, I think that a part of one of the aggregates is will (as a faculty) but there's no debate on whether it's "free" any more than whether one is free to feel pain or see colors.

free will is a contradiction in terms or else redundant according to Locke but I forgot what his argument is. I think the idea is that "free" already implies an ability to will what one wants, so "free will" is a will that does what it... wills. If you agree that actions are caused by one's will, you don't need to go a step further and say that this will is free.

Christian Wolff tried to promote determinism and his enemies told the king that determinism meant soldiers couldn't be punished for deserting (as they couldn't have willed otherwise) and the king told Wolff he had to leave the country in 48 hours or be hanged

The Lament of the Mormon Wife

Normally Marietta Holley wrote goofy satires, but she wrote a really bleak poem about a Mormon polygamist's wife whose husband doesn't love her anymore. It's really a poem and not even 100 lines. Mostly it's an interesting historical document, maybe.

>>4409670
A culture of anonymity is inherently contradictory; it's just a bunch of dudes circlejerking with paper plates on their faces. "Anonymous" isn't just a name, and an anonymous name is still anonymous. Defending some spurious board culture is less "anonymous" than having a name. Maybe the people saying /pol/ should go are just as bad, but it's probably equally bad to extrapolate that and claim that /lit/ has a political agenda at all. It just riles up certain individuals who certainly don't represent the board as a whole and certainly aren't leaving any time soon.

Anyway, if having a name makes one a unique individual, maybe it's better to take a name and act as an (alienated) individual instead of some "reddit-tier" culture. I'm not speaking on behalf of anyone or anything.

>>4408922
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo,
Cicero pathice et cinaede OP,
Qui me ex uersiculis meis putastis,
Quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.
Nam castum esse decet pium poetam
Ipsum, uersiculos nihil necesse est,
Qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem,
Si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici
Et quod pruriat incitare possunt,
Non dico pueris, sed his pilosis,
Qui duros nequeunt mouere lumbos.
Vos quod milia multa basiorum
Legistis, male me marem putatis?
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.

Roadside Picnic is pretty good and free online I think
"Descent Into the Maelstrom" is about a guy who gets sucked into a whirlpool
you should probably just read the sticky but Coriolanus is patrician literature more or less

>>4408715
This is very confusing; for some reason plenty of internet sites repeat the exact claim that he died on his couch, reading, with a cat, but he definitely had dogs as well. Oh well.

>>4408256
He opposed Plato in that he thought an ideal society shouldn't educate women since it wouldn't be as "effective" as apparently education is a limited resource or something.

>>4408691
he died with his two cats or something

not a fan of any philosophers really but Edith Stein or Kierkegaard maybe

if you actually become a hobo don't try to ride boxcars or you'll get the shit beaten out of you; just watch Emperor of the North Pole
hobo signs are pretty cool but most of these are fake I think

>>4408458
communal living is better if you don't have similar ideas unless you're willing to put a lot of work into it

>>4402139
it doesn't seem like people made much out of it, though. same thing with Taipei.

um i made a collage out of naked-people-with-books-thread if anyone is actually compiling these and using them in a card
idk if it's some sort of breach of trust or 'netiquette' to use them but i can post them as soon as someone is making a card if someone is making an actual card or something