/lit/ - Literature

>>3503968
To be fair I think a degree in music is just as valuable as a degree in English.

>>3503935
>>3503935
>I value pleasure

Then what separates your philosophy from existentialism?

I think that that's what you really are, not a nihilist. Existentialists believe that, while there's no such thing as intrinsic value in the universe, there are values that can be individually constructed (i.e. the pursuit of pleasure) that are worth living for.

>>3503901
So you prefer the state of life over death because you find pleasure to be more valuable to you than nothingness, yet you're now stating that pleasure has no value?

If pleasure holds no value to you, then we're back to my original question of why you prefer the state of life over death when they're equal in your eyes.

>>3503880
Oops, I forgot to mention Atlas Shrugged as well.

Anything by Ayn Rand really ;)

>>3503866
>>3503867
So what separates your philosophy from hedonism?

You're playing with fire here OP. I'll recommend you some books that will help, but don't say I didn't warn you.

>Fight Club
>American Psycho
>50 Shades of Grey
>Boku no Pico
>The Wind in the Willows
>The Da Vinci Code
>Finnegan's Wake
>In Search of Lost Time
>Romance of the Three Kingdoms
>Game of Thrones

>>3503860
He's better than Dan Brown or Stephen King I suppose.

>>3503847
Why would you "prefer" the state of life over the state of death if life has no meaning or value?

>>3503838
don't u mean a dark dyke lol am i rite

cuz she's a lesbian

>>3503831
The Horror at Camp Jellyjam is number eleven.

>>3503823
Steinbeck didn't quite make the cut but Grapes of Wrath is in the top 50 easily. Of Mice and Men would be somewhere in the top 100 as well.

>>3503819
>dfw
>good

>>3503810
>I prefer being alive

Then life obviously holds some significance to you and isn't entirely meaningless.

>>3503801
>Jane Austen
>good

I've made a list of the top ten English language novels of all time, tell me what you think:

>Henry James: "The Golden Bowl" (1904)
>James Joyce: "Ulysses" (1922)
>Emily Bronte: "Wuthering Heights" (1847)
>Vladimir Nabokov: "Ada" (1969)
>Thomas Pynchon: "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973)
>William Faulkner: "Light in August" (1932)
>Virginia Woolf: "To the Lighthouse" (1927)
>William Gaddis: "The Recognitions" (1955)
>Joseph Conrad: "Nostromo" (1904)
>John Barth: "Giles Goat Boy" (1966)

Why don't nihilists just kill themselves?

Serious question.

>>3503378
No reason that trolling can't be educational.

>>3502045
>orwell
>british

>>3501914
One drawback of Rand's literary method to present her ideas, although it follows in the great Russian tradition of philosophical novels, is the manner in which it sometimes obscures historical realities that would reinforce her argument. Thus the Taggart Railroad of Atlas Shrugged may strike someone with an average knowledge of American history as the kind of thing that never existed. Most people know that the transcontinental railroads were built with federal subsidies and federal land grants. They may also know that such railroads were tangled up in hopelessly corrupt, politicized financial schemes and in the end were so badly run and managed that they all (Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, & Northern Pacific) went bankrupt in the Panic of 1893. It takes somewhat better knowledge to know about James J. Hill (1838-1916), who built his own transcontinental railroad, the Great Northern, without public subsidies or land grants and often with the political opposition and obstructionism of the rival Northern Pacific and its political backers. Some of Rand's stories about the Taggart, for instance the challenge of building a Mississippi bridge, seem to have been inspired by real incidents in the building of the Great Northern. Unlike the other transcontinentals, Hill's railroad was financially sound; and after they went bankrupt, he was able to buy the Northern Pacific and also the Burlington. Hill, sadly, had to end his days furious and frustrated with the ignorant manipulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission. By merely fictionalizing Hill, Rand did not help combat the standard, biased history of American railroads.

>>3503012
the horse broke his leg
he said he still wanted to live
we shot him quickly

>>3503005
If the question is me, the answer is you.

>>3503000
Albert Einstein's General Relativity is a relatively simple idea. There is spacetime, which is a continuum of infinitely small points. There are masses that are unevenly distributed over this continuum. Each mass is also energy. Masses warp spacetime. All masses would simply move in a straight line at a constant speed if spacetime were "flat". Because it is warped by masses, masses move in all sorts of convoluted trajectories. The route of each mass through spacetime is determined by all the other masses of the universe. The actual details of the route depend on the observer. Everything is relative to the observer. Each observer is witness to a somewhat different history of the universe.

Pure straight reppin',
Poppin' niggas inna dome,
Bitches don't know when I robbin' their home,
All up in the gangsta side,
Get fucked, son, or you gonna get died.

Little nigga roll up in an old-ass Chevy,
Tries to pull a gun, shiieeet situation's gettin' hairy,
Bitch din't expect my 9mm Glock,
Pull it out, yo homes, shoot him right in the cock
Lil' faggot ain't gonna be able to fuck no more men,
Now that he ain't got nowhere to shoot semen.

Cus bitch, I'm the most gangsta nigga,
No girl with me dare be a gold digga,
All bitches want a piece of my dick,
Wanna lick the cum off the tip of my prick,
I'm nine million karat gold-plated mo-fucka,
Shoot you in the face 'cus you no playa, sucka

>>3502978
I like how people still mistake Stirner for being edgy. In the end what is called his egoism isn't egoistic in the ethical sense, it's egoistic in the sense that the motivation for ones actions stem from oneself without being seduced by external tempers who try to manipulate you into doing their own bidding. Stirners philosophy is emancipatory. How one lives one's life after this cleansing is what comes from oneself, what springs up for one's own well. To me Stirners thought has almost mystical aspects and goes way beyond "fuck you I won't do what you tell me". Of course it may very well lead to that and there is nothing particularly strange about a Stirnerist embracing illegalism or something like that. On the other hand, there's nothing strange about a Stirnerist living like a saint either. If anything, an act of kindness from someone who embraces Stirners thought is more truly kind than one from someone who has accepted compassion as a homework assignment from God.