/lit/ - Literature

>>22723632
If you've ever hung out with rich people you'll know that they're also vapid dumb cattle. You can give people education but you cannot give them a keen intellect and sound judgement. Most people are too busy consooming to really get serious about anything - whether it's playing the latest Need for Speed or test driving the latest Maserati doesn't make a difference in the end.

>>22675787
Not if you're me.

>>22567281
>But plato was ugly and denied life.
Plato (PBUH) was a GOD. Plato mogs, brainmogs, bloodmogs, wealthmogs and soulmogs you, Nietzsche and BAPtard combined. Plato isn't his real name - it is his wrestling moniker. Plato, the father of philosophy, has burnt his name into the history books as a shining beacon for two and a half millennia, and will be known at least another two and a half millennia more. What he knows of life, a bug like you cannot even imagine.
Plato wasn't ugly either btw. Socrates was the ugly one.

>>22239960
I suspect it's a case of practice makes perfect, anon.

>>22207121
The lack of what evidence, exactly? Material evidence? It is very clear that your agnosticism is heavily leaning towards material. This is also why you follow up on your agnosticism with scepticism ("in the event of there being nothing after death"). You either know what comes after death, or you do not. When you posit nothingness in the way people usually pose it, you are taking a materialist position, be it more or less cautious.
>>22207172
>Yeah but we know for a fact that you can remove like significant parts of the brain and it does not free significant parts of the spirit
This is a stupid line of argument to pursue but even here, how do you know that? Do you have a special spirit detection gadget that traces the amount of spirit present in a body in proportion to the amount of brain matter? For all you know, destroying chunks of the brain does free up chunks of the spirit. Although positing spirit in such quantitative terms in the first place is, as I said, stupid.
>while it does significantly damages consciousness in a myriad of ways
It doesn't damage consciousness btw. It may or may not damage reason, which is a wholly different thing. Or it may just impair bodily function.
>>22207179
Science can't study consciousness at all because consciousness is not something you can cut open and stuck electrodes in. You're full of shit my friend.

>>21046509
Is that controversial? I use these a ton in my essays and non-fiction writing. They're awesome. Rare to find a use for them in fiction though.
>>21046530
Literally just write and think lol. You don't need Sandersoy or a gorillion self-help books written by retarded hacks. Literally just write. I started writing as a braindead 16 year old and I am actually pretty decent now. How? I wrote millions of words, and I experimented with different techniques, analysed my own writing, read the writing of other people of various skill levels through an analytical lens to sort out what works from what doesn't, etc. It's fucking simple. Just practice and you get better. Fuck, now that I am writing this post I feel dumb for not applying this methodology to the other areas of my life.
>I need to actually be successful in creating something before I try.
This is literally putting the cart before the horse, it's a subzero IQ strategy. Here are the facts - you will write a ton of stuff, and you will improve. As you improve, you will start to see your old writing as garbage. Repeat ad infinitum. Other people of course will not see it that way, especially if they have no taste, as most readers are.
>I think I'm going to take a few years off and try indulging some of my other creative interests. just so I can get back into a state where trying to be creative feels good again.
Take the time if you really need it for emotional reasons, but if you're deciding this rationally, then it's a dumb choice. Practice makes you better. If you are procrastinating practice because you think you suck, you'll never get better and you'll feel even worse as time goes on. No one is born good at something - if you want to learn how to write, or do anything really, you have to be willing to be a retard who gets everything wrong, at least for a while. Only then can you improve. Even talent doesn't help this. All talent does is shorten the time you spend as a retard. But you still have to be a retard.
Be the retard, anon.

>>19326969
I am not gonna take a photo of it but I recently purchased a copy of Plato's Complete Works. I want to get into Platonism, then move onto the Enneads. I feel like there's a lot of useful ideas in Platonist thought that I could harness for my own aims.

I don't want to become an autist, I just want to understand the Platonic metaphysical and philosophical framework and be able to apply it to the world. I want to understand the Forms, all that shit etc. and be able to give Platonist interpretations of things, ranging from the nature of God to analysing the latest trends in shoewear from a Platonic perspective.

I have Plotinus' Enneads, will that suffice? Should I read Plato's Complete Works first? Is there anything else I would be missing/need? I don't want to spend three years reading shit, I just want to understand and absorb the framework faithfully, then move on. I want to master the Platonic worldview, if you prefer.

>>19063913
I bet you didn't even spend an entire chapter learning about whale biology, missing out on those mental gains. You literally paid someone to keep you a midwit.

>>18681321
IQ might be bullshit

t. certified 134 IQ

>>18332954
>i am veri smart
>spacing is dum dum

>>18216935
> The effect of weekly sessions with a subject expert where they go over your essay and make you defend it against their own criticisms and the criticisms of other students really can’t be (over)stated
Shit, sounds like this place.

>>17980517
>Why do you think all fiction needs to have a self insert? Besides, my stories are supposed to make you feel uncomfortable, not coddle you. Why should I write watered down overdone shit like you? How did you even get into this school?