/lit/ - Literature

>>22857232
I'd rather recommend A New Introduction to ON, if you must use an English language resource.

>>22860219
Reading, or, if you, like me, like grammar, just memorize the word stems and verb classes. I find it pretty straight forward, and you'll feel the same with most word stems; the only thing changing things up in that regard is that, during the classical period, Old Icelandic started having gender-based declension alongside stem-based declension. It's a bit of a mess, but that's why normies seethe to this day about Scandinavian plurals.

>>22860240
>the premier dictionary for the language sucks (Zoega's)
Zoëga's is fully serviceable, and should not be discredited, but it's not my go-to, no.

>>21578980
I believe you can't, unless you forfeit your desire for knowledge altogether. "Intellectuals" are pseuds by definition, some just less tame than others.

I'd say listen to others and never subscribe to any ideas yourself. Do not dismiss any attempt of discourse since this is where you start to become not only pseud, but hypocrite. You absolutely can speak about that which you don't know, just make sure you stress that you are saying something that you can't prove for sure, such as - I believe, since one of the base rules of reality is uncertainty.

>>21554536
Art.

Art is philosophy but physicalized.

>>21468788
This is the whole point of philosophy and any intellectual literature in general. It is what it is because it removes that "translation for public", unlike fiction which is exactly the opposite of that and is written explicitly with focus on appealing to as many people as possible, using themes and as stories that are not individual, but general or archetypal. Intellectual writing is done through a personal subjective point since this is how you arrive at knowledge in the first place.

The reason you haven't had this "profound" moment is, arguably, you simply read the literature that doesn't speak to your true self, since you can't relate to the "condensed brain excerpts" that what subjective process of thinking actually is.

"Intellectual" or philosophical literature, or non fiction is written by certain people for certain people. If you see the whole field as a hoax, then you simply are not that person for whom it was written for. Just as fiction written by the exact opposite type of people for the exact opposite type of people from non fiction, so my suggestion is to look there.

>>21397984
Fret not my dear normie, it was all done for you and your sake only, only if you've paid attention.

>>21383804
>Not true control
You still don't get it do you. That's the whole point, you do have control, some lunatics even might say that you can "will" things into existence. That is the most sinister part about the whole "ride", that it is you who's holding a wheel, yet driving nowhere, and it's up to you to make that drive whatever you want, however much you can reason yourself out of this responsibility.

>>21363160
That's it, thread is closed. 99% of it is cocks larping about their everyday petty conflicts and misery anyways.

>>21362083
Hello frens!
I hope you all are doing fantastic!
Keep it up and good luck!

>>21280775
I don't want to bulk my mind, I just want to tone it.
Any recs for an ottermode mindset?

>>21279803
I think about death and Schopenhauer

Back when I was a wee lad, we would play this game called "The train of the death that kills". The game worked like this : we would make a human chain by each facing the same direction one next to the other, the first one would hold the left arm of the second one with its right arm, the second one would do the same with the third one, and so on and so on...
We would put the strongest boys at the beginning of the chain, and then we would all run and pull hard, the ones at the back were projected left and right by the motion like a snake's tail.
When we would abruptly turn near a wall, the ones at the back would violently slam into it.
It was a lot of fun, but eventually we were forbidden from playing it by the school staff because of the injuries.

Anyways, I thought about it recently, and the name really makes me think "the train of the death that kills" what kills?
The train or death?

Can death even kill? Or is death the result of being killed?
But then I thought about the grim reaper, during the black plague, entire towns would die to the illness, while others remained untouched, the idea arose that the grim reaper was "slaying" the entire town, thus being the death that kills.
But that's my only example.
So my question is, can death kill?

how does it feel knowing whether or not you choose to off yourself is nearly a coin flip

Enkidu's death in the epic of Gilgamesh hit me harder than the death of my cat

Any comfy books about brazil?

How do you consistently believe in God?
Sometimes I simply know he exists, I feel his warmth deep within my soul.
Sometimes the entire idea seems ludicrous to me.
I wish he would give me a clear sign, but I know it is too much to ask and it wouldn't be true faith.

>>17796668
Yes go ahead sir

>>16533152
Then what?

>>16468964
No one ever comments on what I write

>wrote my first poem yesterday while I was drunk
>It felt really well-written while alcohol was pumping my IQ down.
>Now that I am sober, I find it to be absolute shit.
How can I cope?

Reminder that a complete secession from your daily habits is sometimes necessary to put everything you learned from reading into perspective and assimilate knowledge better