/lit/ - Literature

Life is a mistake.

>>6239389
Because you're right.

Is the human condition mendable, /lit/?

With its misfortunes, small, greater, and great, occurring hourly, daily, weekly, and yearly; with its deluded hopes and accidents bringing all calculations to nought, life bears so clearly the stamp of something which ought to disgust us, that it is difficult to conceive how anyone could fail to recognize this, and be persuaded that life is here to be thankfully enjoyed, and that man exists in order to be happy. On the contrary, that continual deception and disillusionment, as well as the general nature of life, present themselves as intended and calculated to awaken the conviction that nothing whatever is worth our exertions, our efforts, and our struggles, that all good things are empty and fleeting, that the world on all sides is bankrupt, and that life is a business that does not cover the costs; so that our will may turn away from it.

>>5253236
I bother as little as I can.

>>5211921
Contemporary first world living is a lot better than the past. I have a clean dwelling, healthy food, good medical care and I don't have to toil for it.

Still, life as a human is still inherently unsatisfactory.

>>5081524
>not realising that existence itself is inherently flawed and inescapable

>>5043693
Fear is not the only problem people face.

>>5027833
>Saria will never be your gf
>You will never cuddle with Saria

>>4925081

>Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man

>The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

They are fellow suffers, why would you wish them ill will?

rate the last 3 books you read

Is the human condition mendable, /lit/?

>>4610521
There's no such thing as a fulfilling life. It's this very reality that makes people conjure up other lives as compensation.

>>4588034
I'm too pessimistic to really care but once in a while I vote socialist in order to secure my welfare.

Where to end?

>>4564509
I've already arranged my life in such a way that it minimises suffering, OP. That's all one can do. "Living life to the fullest" is a silly, naive notion.

>>4476314
Because it's futile.

captcha: miserabile urrelax

>>4210080
I'm in pretty much the same situation but I love the hermit life and am on delicious first world welfare. Seeing as access to literature is constantly increasing and technology is getting more and more interesting I feel like I'm set for life if I can just hang on to that monthly check. I also enjoy doing fuck all and merely existing. If you can escape both pain and boredom then you've got the best life available. If you don't see yourself possibly ever achieving this I wouldn't argue against suicide though.

>>4164288
>It's just the cycle of yearning and almost getting then not quite reaching, only to fall back down again dissatisfied, turning away from the game- then coming back to it again. So sad, dude.

What is the best word processor for writing?

>>4149490
The only way to beat nihilism is to adopt a worldview worse than it.

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”