/lit/ - Literature

What exactly quantifies human charisma? I listen to a passionate speech by Hitler or watch a perfectly exectued live performance by Michael Jackson and I feel the same feeling: I can't help but watch. I'm totally enchanted and can't take my ears and eyes away. Thousands of men have tried to replicate this charisma but almost all fail, even if they're talented and well-rehearsed. There seems to be a very small subset of men, perhaps less than half a dozen per generation, who can effortlessly captivate hundreds of thousands of spectators. What is it that makes them special? I know that they practice their craft but it always seems like there's more to them like that. They appear as demi-gods among men.

Help me out bros. Do I move out into an apartment now or save up for at least a year for a down payment on a house? I don't like living at home with my parents because I can't bang cunny here, but I also don't want to pay some kike landlord $800 a month for an apartment I don't own. What would you do??

>>18715483
God is a metaphor for the Cosmos. I believe in the metaphor as a metaphor; I think it's a valid one. So Yes.

>>18077707
Fucking KEK, someone finish it please

>>18032076
>be me
>be being of intangible regress following Eckhardt's Theory on Manifold Proprietary
>studying Political Philosophy at University of Blackstone
>half the class are Mengionite faggots
>other half are women
>the shadow halves are also lame
>lecturers constantly reference Meyer and Clunksberg
>Everytime this dumb bint mentions Clunkian economic theory I roll my eyes
>a dumb fat hand raises in the lecture hall
>"ummm....does Clunkian thought even work with Femocentricality as Maggie Fuggbode proposes? uhmm...it seems they... like, umm idk.... like don't.. work I guess???"
>feel my shnarglar pulsate rapdily
>chergaxes start squeezing
>remember my Thediean training and Astrally Project into the nth dimension beyond reality
>turn into a quasar and metaform into energy
>last idiom I manifest is: fuck jannies
>etched into the fabric of eternity
>fuck jannies

>>18022926
I know it's thrown around a lot these day, but uhmm....
BASED

>mfw vocabulary gains from reading 19th century lit

>>17555178
seems like you wank a lot then

E tenebris tantis tam clarum extollere lumen
qui primus potuisti inlustrans commoda vitae,
te sequor, o Graiae gentis decus, inque tuis nunc
ficta pedum pono pressis vestigia signis,
non ita certandi cupidus quam propter amorem
quod te imitari aveo; quid enim contendat hirundo
cycnis, aut quid nam tremulis facere artubus haedi
consimile in cursu possint et fortis equi vis?
tu, pater, es rerum inventor, tu patria nobis
suppeditas praecepta, tuisque ex, inclute, chartis,
floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant,
omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,
aurea, perpetua semper dignissima vita.
nam simul ac ratio tua coepit vociferari
naturam rerum divina mente coorta
diffugiunt animi terrores, moenia mundi
discedunt. totum video per inane geri res.
apparet divum numen sedesque quietae,
quas neque concutiunt venti nec nubila nimbis
aspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruina
cana cadens violat semper[que] innubilus aether
integit et large diffuso lumine ridet:
omnia suppeditat porro natura neque ulla
res animi pacem delibat tempore in ullo.
at contra nusquam apparent Acherusia templa,
nec tellus obstat quin omnia dispiciantur,
sub pedibus quae cumque infra per inane geruntur.
his ibi me rebus quaedam divina voluptas
percipit atque horror, quod sic natura tua vi
tam manifesta patens ex omni parte retecta est.

>mfw reading book
books are so much better than movies, damn.

>>17265704
this one

>To bring philosophy closer to the form of science, to the goal where it can lay aside the title 'love of knowing' and be actual knowing

Holy based

>mfw reading book and learning thing

IT'S MAGNIFICENT

>>16826143
>two copies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
BASED BEYOND COMPREHENTION

>>16381617
>God is the greatest conceivable being
>the greatest conceivable being is one that exceeds conception itself and must actually exist
>therefore God exists
The first premise of his ontological argument semantically necessitates the implication that the ultimate cosmos is God, for that is the greatest conceivable being: the being of everything.
Anselm may have been Catholic but his argument indicates pantheism.

>>16126508
>read Socrates

I AM CREATIIIIIMG AGGGGGHHHHHHHGHHH CREATIIING SUFFERINNNNGGGG THANK ME FOOOR IT

>>15749999

How do y'all like the multiverse explanation?

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/

How do you balance reading fiction and nonfiction, writing, working hard in order to get rich, your scientific / technical self education, exercising, social life, outdoor experiences, and internet browsing / current events reading?

I feel guilty for doing literally anything because I'm not doing other shit.

I haven't even decided yet whether hard work is self cucking (on the existential level) or not.

>couldn't fulfil my prose quota at the factory today
>tfw qt in the metaphors department talked to me today

At least I used my waste prose to make some Snapchat selfie captions

>listen to In Our Time
>they talk about Julius Caesar
>they glorify him for killing people and taking over shit
>they mention almost off hand that 100,000 people died in one day (they implied that this was not a sure figure but obviously it was a lot)

How the FUCK can anyone take morality seriously when Napoleon, Julius Caesar, Alexander the great, and Genghis Khan (and eventually Hitler and Stalin and Mao) are WORSHIPPED by the posh historians? Literally lol at someone who died in one of these pointless wars. Literally fucking lol. Please post your thoughts about this. This is like the twilight zone. The BBC will throw mud at you for saying you dislike Islam for not giving women equal rights but they worship killers in plain sight.

Even the slightest amount of history education has made me take current events a lot less seriously - but reading about history also makes me take history itself a lot less seriously. Look at Zizek and many dumber social commentators (or "critiquers") now, talking about things. Admittedly technological acceleration justifies their claims that we are living in important times but imagine what people talked about in 1916: "The world has changed forever!"; "The nature of the nation state has fundamentally changed!"; "Human nature has reached its conclusion!" I have intentionally written vague and bullshitty hifalutin statements. And what do we think of 1916 now? "The middle of a pointless war that led to a slightly less pointless war with some strange economic happenings in between" (>inb4 you scream that something more profound happened).

>go for a walk in a park on a hot summer's day
>feel sad and bored and unfulfilled
>go to the cinema and a walk around the city centre
>feel sad and bored and unfulfilled
>stay on internet all day
>feel sad and bored and unfulfilled
>learn programming
>feel fulfilled and interested but have a strong desire to stop after a few hours and waste the rest of the day and even starting it takes huge amounts of willpower
>read books
>feel sad and unfulfilled and comically impotent
>have a part time job
>mind numbing at best but becomes excruciating and humiliating by the end of each 6 hours, and despite only working 3 times a week my days are filled with dread due to it

So... This is the power of the human condition!