/lit/ - Literature

>>4018288
yeah, I think that even though the term "renaissance" doesn't fit it in the same way it does to the Italian or Northern Renaissance, the developments of the Carolingian Renaissance are most deserving of being considered a genuine rebirth

>>4018386
"we are not anymore respected nor taken resioulsy, you seem all gone insane, you tried to took us away dignity don't you ?" has a poetic ring to it but I think it was a /pol/ troll or something
a /pol/ with "the worst retarded scum" and shitposting in monstrous volumes does sound pretty outrageous

>>4018243
but stoner douchebags love wittgenstein

>>4018178
Alexander VI and Julius II were not "average" popes in any regard. You should study the history of popery, as sorry a record of villainy tho it may be.
Which renaissance are you even talking about? Carolingian, Italian, Northern? The fact that Greek works were "rediscovered" owes more to the Muslims obliterating Constantinople and scattering Byzantine intellectuals than to any sort of secularism.

>"Better watch out Goth "she mock Livia" spoiled brats" Rune thought." Well whatever just don't step on my line the next time we meet" She said ti Livia giving her the finger and then she goes to add she just have its itching in her throat to say the first day in school or not " BIACHE" she yelled.

>>4017832
Oh! For one thing, at least the KJV glosses over the subtle difference between Mark/Luke's "Good Teacher, what must I do ... Why do you call me good?" and Matthew's "Teacher, what good things ... Why do you ask me of what is good?" but this might be pedantry and I think other translations differentiate. I've also detected something vaguely anti-trinitarian in the Greek phrasing of "no one is good but the one, the God" but this might just be sloppy reading on my part.

As far as aesthetics, I think that e.g. the line "What is impossible with man is possible with God" sounds better with Greek word order (τα αδυνατα παρα ανθρωποις δυνατα παρα τωι θεωι εστιν) than in English but the meaning is basically the same

>>4017900
>The Renaissance was essentially the process casting off of religion
did you forget the part where the Pope controlled almost literally everything that went on in Italy or something
also Ancient Greek sources condemn homosexuality as badly as incest but nobody can say what the Greeks really believed and so on

>>4017674
That's not entirely true. Mark is clearly unpolished, but Luke had some extent of a Greek education. You'll want to read most of the letters in Greek to pick up on the classical rhetorical techniques, too.

as at least one example, the story of the rich man and the camel through the eye of the needle is better in the Greek than in translation, imo

>>4016725
>>4016736
>not recognizing Paul was speaking to specific audiences and tailoring his arguments, rhetoric as such
was this your first go at reading or something

>>4017100
Paul was asexual you flagrant moron; he even says as much.
in this regard my favorite book is Galatians
those who don't understand the significance of cutting-off will be cut off

we can also use Galatians as a striking example of Paul tailoring his message to best fit his audience, if you had enough discipline to follow Paul's friends through the Bible

I like Luke a lot I guess
haven't read the OT in so long but I rather like Exodus and Jeremiah

what is your self attached to?
it's something more than memories of experiences, I hope

I Am a Strange Loop is good if "really vague" is what you're looking fo

>>4009776
I thought someone would call me SRS for saying "privilege"
has /lit/ really taken le blaue pille?

this isn't a polite sage anymore; OP should be more serious
Om dat de werelt is soe ongetru / Daer om gha ic in den ru

"Exquisite Corpse makes most other so-called transgressive novels du jour seem like romance novels in a bad mood."
it's pretty good, lots of gay sex lots of disembowelment

>>4009502
I have Starkey making fat jokes at British schoolchildren
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkrhhlAQgu0

what books, authors would you say are getting undue attention
what theories are you even talking about

please don't say that you think things like deconstruction are just getting popular; I don't need to know how old you are

>>4008560
other anons (probably Yuro) criticized feminism for being too silent about the 3rd world ITT; it was established that a minority of feminists (certainly not "tumblr-feminists") address 3rd world concerns at all
what could it be about feminism that causes people to feel such contradictory negative impulses toward it?
witches are real

>>4008050
but their collection of Foucault interviews is really useful

Semiotexte is feminist by association more than intent imo

>>4007954
>a lot of modern academic work is pretty fucking off the wall
name some

>>4007730
I wouldn't really want to be "seduced" by Sartre in any capacity though, even as a young lesbian

>>4007577
from the front page of /pol/
>"Fuck drugs, fuck religion, female genitalia has and will always be the number 1 societal control method unless you do something about it. Take some thick rubber bands and wrap them around your testicles for several days. After this they should be dead and you will be free from Jewish control. You literally can't be free unless you do this, the choice is yours."
>"Will feminism and liberal degeneracy ever plague anime like it did for western media?"
>"TOTAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE IMMINENT PREPARE YOUR ANUS"

there's a passage in The Screwtape Letters about people for whom asceticism has become a sort of vice, in that everything becomes "too much": portions of food are always too generous, people are always too kind, and so on; the problem is how one can live modestly without modesty becoming a bourgeois privilege itself
none of this is really important because you're a shitty troll or otherwise unacceptably incompetent

Herculine Barbin
Discipline & Punish

>>4006818
>Cultural Marxism really is a disease. I know how chronically it has infected Reddit, but I had hoped that 4chan was still reasonably immune. The problem is that almost everyone seems to want to adopt extremes. You've either got third wave feminism on the one hand, or neo-Nazism on the other.
say more crazy things

where did Cultural Marxism come from and how did it get to reddit?
where does one go to choose feminism, where for neo-Nazism?

>>4006666
>I'm all about dualism
terminate yourself

you're the disgusting one for thinking that a person's taste in literature informs you of the bad things about them rather than the good

if you post some of her plays I can call them dogshit and someone can dox you or something

"Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning."
--Gabe Newell

the feeling when you will never experience labial relations with fellow c/lit/s

Frankenstein, anything by Kenneth Branagh really

>>4004913
>this weird weed-like substance
did you smoke spice
that's literally worse than meth

>>4005580
you can build on her shaky Romance languages to teach her Latine gloriose
have you never dated anyone before or something

>>4005485
OK so my problem is that people who see the microtransactions within the system often overlook the broader trends that created that system
"feminist dykes" (who are much much better people than the average 4chan user) didn't cause anon's mom to be abusive and destroy herself and everyone around her; who could benefit from that?
the idea of victimization is as treacherous as objectification, obviously, as the discussion winds awkward circles around "real" intentions, where they got them from, and so on

>>4005462
I didn't say it was worse? I only said that they aren't the same thing. I don't know why people are so desperate to get an argument about this.

>>4005429
>metaphor
"The essential qualities or predicates of the Divine Being are the essential qualities or predicates of speculative philosophy."

other people in this thread have been making arguments in this thread and I don't really feel like it
OPs argument was that the objectification women janitors get for being women is the same as that which men janitors get for being janitors which is the same as that which people in wheelchairs get for being people in wheelchairs which is a little silly, i m o