/lit/ - Literature

>>16869968
5 is also the brain of the prophets and holy men. Only the fivers could experience genuine communion with God/gods and be so convinced by it that they go out into the world and preach it without doubt.

Any of the other 4 that constantly goes around imagining things in their heads would either know that it was probably just their imagination running away or they're on purpose lying to the people. Only a fiver would find the experience so different from regular life that it would transform him utterly.

So if you believe in the possibility of prophets and holy men then you need to bow to the aphantasia master race right now.

>book is under 1000 pages

Literature > vidya > film > music = painting > sculpture = architecture > photography
Lit is the best, the purest of the arts in my opinion because it's far harder to misinterpret the creators message, which is also why video games is a very close second.
Video games are the peak of the audio-visual mediums, but unfortunately they are restricted by what makes the fact that the audience's imagination will always be just a little more amazing than anything a person can create. A very close second.
Film is the combination of the audio-visual, so naturally it must be greater than the two.
Music and Paintings are so similar that I couldn't think of which is superior to the other. In my experience Paintings inspire many melodies and vice versa, neither alone has made me as emotional as any film, video game or book.
Architecture and sculptures always come across as bland to me, maybe I haven't seen the right ones, or maybe I have and the fact that they were only mildly entertaining is why I don't care for the mediums.
Photography is for people the have no actual creative talent, but know what it looks like. Photographers are the leeches on any artists back. No, not leeches, because leeches at least are damaging enough to draw attention. Photographers and their "pieces of art" are far more forgettable.
My brain is so big that its mater is stretched out to the point where it's now smooooth.
BASK IN THE OVERWHELMING POWER OF MY MASSIVE, SMOOTH BRAIN!

>quantitative knowledge is circular
>qualitative knowledge is tautological
and why aren't these two statements the end of philosophy? sorry about the smug wojak, it just seemed to suit. i'm very intoxicated.

>you die
>you go to heaven
>the love of your life goes to hell
>ergo, you are not in heaven
Heaven and hell only work in a solipsistic universe. Christian non-solipsistic universe makes no sense

>>11778833
the real reason
GoT is just a deconstruction of tolkein-esque fantasy, cue the tax policy memes. so he couldn't rely on the standard tropes of the genre, there is no magic sword, chosen one, evil lord of darkness to defeat. so instead of using those tropes to he used drama tropes straight from soap operas, secret lovers, back stabbing, deceit, etc. the problem is that those tropes are for a continous open narrative, never ending stories like the ones found in comic books and soap operas. so there is constant escalation but no pay off in sight.
so in short he can't. the story is not structured to have a satisfying ending, just escalations to twists and turns. he has never written a real ending and realizes he can't possibly create a satisfying conclusion to all the plot points he opened up. his effort to avoid and deconstruct tropes of one genre led him to fall into the traps of another genre's tropes.

>>11642542
highly doubt that, my iq is too high for that

>>11525706
>amongst

from myself

How do I transcend most normal human emotions and dedicate myself fully to art? I don't want to care about any negative emotions that trouble ordinary people, I just want to be committed to producing the best possible art. Did any historic writers, painters, composers and renaissance men achieve such a state?

>>11055496
>mfw nobody can disprove this and it forces real intellectuals to consider their own stupidity

>>10194576
>tfw browse /lit/ and /sci/

I want to start with philosophy, with which books can I start ?

Around 2 years ago I feel like my concept of time has sped up dramatically. My 8 hour work shifts feel like 4 hours out of nowhere. I guess it's just a side-effect of aging.

This is kind of a good thing. On the other hand the months are just zooming past me now. I feel like August just started a few days ago, and we're already well into September.

I live in a constant state of existentialism so I notice all these abstract concepts immediately. I took a look in the mirror and just stared at my face for 10 minutes like some kind of aspie. I took notice of all the little changes and lines across my face, fully accepting my true physical image, rather than the mental representation I had of myself.

In my mind I was always a 19 year old, and it's already been 5 years since then. Only now am I fully understanding the unstoppable march of time leading me up to my inevitable demise.

I didn't gain a depressed outlook on life from this, I just finally accepted that 'fact'. Time now has meaning to me now. It is a finite resource being spent every passing second.

>>9968662

>that guy who reads between sets

embrace the merge you fool

>tfw too smart too lift

Where's a good place to go for writing advice /lit? Here or /adv?

>mfw I get laughed out of class for telling the class that morals are objective
>mfw those drones fell for the subjective morals meme

>>9129082
Brainlets please go

>mfw I started with the Finno-Korean hyper war era canon

>brain power
>which takes more
>doing

This is pathetic

>>9038790
>She thinks I lack the mental mechanism which prevents a young man from becoming too intelligent, too soon
yeah man haha

>>9035022
>tfw xhe didn't have a xir gender of an attack helicopter to make the book more intellectually stimulating and screen out all the dumb readers
>tfw too intelligent for books