/lit/ - Literature

Yes!

>>19533122
>>19540738
ooh shit forgot to answer why, was busy.

It's best to start a great endeavor like philosophy by taking a small portion first as an introduction. Plato is massive, and Trial and Death of Socrates plus Euthyphro are an excellent start to understanding what its all about. New Testament is a must for understanding western philosophy, and if you're going to read any of it at all you should read the Gospels. Acts and Psalms as well, for what-happened-after and context respectively. You can find tiny NT pocketbooks with those books of the bible in them, frequently they'll have military camouflage on them and have been given out for free. Pensees because Pascal's observations imo are timeless and he informs a lot of common wisdom in the modern era. St Gregory of Nyssa's Great Catechism is basically a primer for understanding Catholic philosophy under Aristotlean logic, something nobody by Theology PhDs seem to do anymore but its sorely needed by the public.

While you're getting recs pick up Aristotle's Organon as well, its where western philosophers have started for millennia. Good luck anon happy reading.

>>18255694
>Oh wait evolution just explains why we feel happy when we see all of that. Flowers mean the possiblity of acquiring medicine, and clouds mean there is a chance of rain. Right anon?
Maybe, all that matters is flowers are beautiful and untouched scenery makes me feel good. The why is largely irrelevant to the question of living.

Can you address >>18254055 though, anon. And what is your stance on eternal punishment for sin? Especially since you're not describing a single deity or religion as the absolute truth.

>>17581607
>5 inches
There's 5 feet outside currently where I'm at

I love the snow bros

I want your best suggestions on nature books from Russia.
Give me ecology books, nature writings, essay collections, nature poetry, religious/theological nature writings, biographies of naturalists, ornithology books, dendrology books. Give me all of it.

>>17392657
I'm about to go to my job at the local bookshop, reading O'Neill's collected plays and lots of other American literature. Drinking guinness, listening to Blaze Foley and watching the snow fall outside. Birthday's coming up, talking with a cute gal from uni again. It's a wonderful life frens.

>>17322471
>Movies:
Raising Arizona
Big Trouble in Little China
Moonrise Kingdom
The Kids Are Alright
It's a Wonderful Life

>Albums
Exile on Main St - Stones
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Astral Weeks - Van the Man
Fun House - Stooges
Bridge Over Troubled Water - S&G

>Books
The Grapes of Wrath/Cannery Row - Steinbeck
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Adventures of Huck Finn - Twain
Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein
Selected Poems of Dylan Thomas

>>17117140
>Who
My family

>Eat
Ma got us a tenderloin and we had it with mash, biscuits, salad and guinness.

>Where
Stayed home unfortunately

>Books
Journey to the end of the night - Celine
Nostromo - Conrad
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Resurrection - Tolstoy
Woodcutters - Bernhard
Justified Sinner - Hogg
Transcendentalists Collection - Thoreau, Emerson
Billy Budd - Melville
Franny & Zooey - Salinger
Growth of the Soil - Hamsun
Surviving Autocracy - Gessen
The Stranger - Camus
It Can't Happen Here - Lewis
Sportsman's Notebook - Turgenev

>>17042227
I'm in the middle of Catcher in the Rye, but may put it down and read the Hobbit instead.

top o' the morn to ya lads

Why do English majors get a bad rep? I feel like my critical thinking skills, argumentation, work ethic from writing a bunch of papers have all skyrocketed over the past four years. I have attained a wider knowledge of a variety of different fields (philosophy, politics, ecology, psychology, anthropology, history, art, etc). I will admit a lot of my development was due to my own efforts reading and learning extra shit on my own time but being around and having discourse with academics and being around other people my age willing to learn has all been helpful to me. Take a STEMbug out of their specialization and they are all embarrassing and are obviously stagnant in their development.