/lit/ - Literature

>>11692826
All of the above? And to kill time I guess

Neck yourself OP.
This is now a Deleuze thread.

>>11692826
>To just meme?
you got it

>>11692826
I do get a lot of quality recommendations from here. Other than that, some chuckles.

>>11692826
just trying to gauge how stupid the public is.

>>11692826
Because I'm at work

>>11692826
someone to talk about philosophical and religious stuff. theres a lot of stuff i feel i need to understand and there isnt always someone covenient irl so i come here. I think it is mutually beneficial for the people involved

i occasionally discuss poetry or novels and other languages

then i sometimes really shitpost, most by blogposting except i make things more dramatic than they actually are

>>11692826
I used to come here because I liked to discuss literature. I deleted my bookmark last year when the Peterson threads and Christ LARPERS started to bring down the level of discourse of the board as a whole. Now I just pop into this dumpster fire periodically out of habit. The days of /lit/ being capable of actual discourse have long since passed.

electronic/internet addiction. o wow

now that i've identified my problem I can fix it. Thanks OP!

>>11692964
i dont find that's true. Maybe there has been a decline of sorts since 2013, which is when i came here so all i know about, but there are still people to talk to, and there were always shitposters

CHARTS

now post some

I was born with a dick in my brain, yeah fucked in the head
My stepfather said that i sucked in the bed

Read a lot. If I talk to people about all I read I come across like a know-it-all douche. Plus occasionally a good rec comes out of this

i come for the hourly meta threads about the state of the board

/lit/ is honestly one of, if not the, smartest board on 4chan. Good OC here, even if light on the dank may mays.

>>11692964
This is what I find, too.
>>11692943
Are you the frog with the blog or are you the bullshit mysticism guy?
>>11692868
And how stupid are they?

>>11692826
I mostly come here to bent on th "write what's on your mind" threads. I don't have anyone else to listen to me besides my therapist and maybe my mom.
Sometimes I also get good recs

>>11693026
vent

I still find interesting books and writers and thinkers here. Even in the memes--I'd genuinely never even heard of Deleuze before he started getting spammed here a few days ago. /lit/, for all its faults, tends to uncover ideas and texts that just don't pop up in most mainstream book discussions.

Also, I come here to ask for recommendations, and you guys are usually top notch at that. I got a great recommendation for a translation of the Cloud of Unknowing a few weeks ago.

>>11693025
>bullshit mysticism guy
i dont make threads but yeah i talk a lot about mysticism

my shiposting just details the insane things i have done, mostly when drinking.

>>11692987
Shit posting used to be the exception, now it is firmly the norm. The /pol/ boogeyman gets thrown around here a lot, but it used to be that you could have a thread without some sperg detailing the conversation with right/left bullshit.

I like to shame tripfags by becoming experts in subjects they believe themselves to be proficiently educated to the degree necessary for comprehensive high level discussion in a few hours and destroy their sense of self respect.

>>11693052
I was talking about the guy that uses pic related as his threads image then throws out a block of text. I suspect you aren't him though. Mysticism as an idea is at least interesting, so I'll give you that.
>my shiposting just details the insane things i have done, mostly when drinking.
I'm gonna need an example

>>11693055
I try to stay away from /pol/ topics for that reason. The only crossover between the boards for me is Oswald Spengler

and as to prevalence of shitposting, i really dont know, i mean its not like we have data on here/. The shitposting maybe changed ni nature, coming to be dominated by identity politics stuff likie the rest of the internet

>>11693025
id agree with >>11693023 they’re smarter than most other boards except for /sci/ (though a huge number of people on /sci/ are 110 iq’s LARPing as smart people; uncreative engineers and subhuman programmers who wish they could do math), but at the same time the quality of posting has plummeted to an absurd degree and i think im not going to return after sending this reply. It was a good 3.5 years here but you people are extraordinarily dull, i haven’t laughed at any threads in 6 months and i stopped learning when Girard, Hegel, and Nietzsche posting stopped. I miss Schmittfag, i miss Heidegger and Husserl threads, i miss listening in on actual literature threads, i miss the heated Nabokov v Dostoyevsky threads and the Christfag LARPers from 2015 who were all actually quite witty and well read. Good times, thanks for giving recc’s have a pleasant life anons.

>>11693062
Too bad you only shame yourself in the process. Remember this morning, December? The other three links? Gonna check them out?

I'm addicted.

/lit/ is to reading what pornography is to sex, it may look like it, but it isn't actually it.

>>11693065
The shitposting also used to serve a purpose: keeping the level of discourse higher by identifying and shaming the posters that hadn't lurked long enough to understand the board culture. We've been in an Eternal September for ages, where the number of dedicated /lit/ posters is a drop in the bucket next to self-deluded idiots who have learned all there is to know about their echo-chambers and think that makes them clever. They gravitate to this board because literature seems like an intellectual pursuit, and they've listened to seven or eight Ted talks this week, so hey, they can hang with the best of them.

>>11692826
Community, obscure literary recommendations, articulate shitposting, and a venue to argue about religion and philosophy. I feel that this also is a good testing ground for broader personal understandings I am working on; to properly understand something you need to be able to articulate it in addition to merely absorbing it, and it's always nice to get BTFO'd by somebody who knows a particular topic better than me because it highlights a personal weak spot which I need to turn my attention to.
>>11692964
>>11693025
I have this feeling too but I think it might be a matter of novelty wearing off and becoming familiar with the topics that are frequently discussed. See: >>11692987
A lot of my previous interests were childish or "low level" but they were important scaffolding to where I am now. /lit/ is just more scaffolding, although I'm unsure what the next step is (at least in regards to finding a community that will discuss these things rather than being hermitlike about my obsessive pursuit of erudition).

>>11693064
threatening people with knives, getting sent to psych wards, having insane party hopping episodes that bring my into genuinely bizarre situations, drawing maps of genesis(this one realy preoccupied me for a while, my floor was covered in papers i taped together to create a giant sprawling map of the metaphysical arrangemetn of genesis'), running through the streets at like 4 am because my apartment makes me afraid,

typical crazy person behavior. there is so much of it that idk where to evne start. The thing is i know with certainty that im crazy but when i drink i lose recognition of it and i genuinely dont remember

and yeah i am not him, i don't ever make threads

>>11693090
You are completely based.

>der it's inherently bad to be on 4chan meme

>>11693067
>except for sci
Not even. /diy/ has more intelligent posts than /sci/ does. /sci/ is a bunch of schizo’s larping as PhD’s and engineering students who can’t get a job.

>>11693090
You sound like you're either a methhead or bipolar

>>11692826
I like the lit lifestyle threads. And every once in a while I get a good book out of this place.

>>11693112
It`s a fair opinion. Crabs in a bucket.

>>11692995
You're insane.

>>11693122
im bipolar, i think there is some other shit going on in there but im tired of having to think about it

>>11693062
>"shitposting and faggotry."
>"oh yeah and being a retard"

>>11692826
I'm addicted to the internet and masturbation, I am also afraid to actually make an effort in life as I do not know how to process defeat and I am afraid of being exposed as the low IQ subhuman I know deep down that I am.

>>11692826
why theres always a thread like this on /lit/?
i never saw people doing it on /v/, /g/, /a/, etc etc etc

we do it because
a. we like it
or
b. we need to do it

i took a fuckton of easy philosophy classes in college as electives (compsci major) and i like reading people's shitposts about the big brain niggas i studied

Shitposting.

It's easier to rile people up on /lit/ than anywhere else for some reason.

>>11693167
lower barrier to entry and /a/ is for retards so they don’t think about much of anything at all besides sex
>>11693140
those are lyrics to an eminem song you retarded subhuman
>>11693114
nah you’re wrong

>>11693090
>Sc-sc-sc-sc-sc-sc-sc-sc-schizo
You all good, based Bob Arctor.

>>11693167
And I`m asking for what reasons it is liked because nobody needs to go on /lit/. Thus there must be a desire to continue visiting. Also, threads like this are prevalent on /mu/, or were, until every oldfag left /mu/ and now it is a wasteland of underage posters.

>>11693189
/mu/ is the one place i can think oif that is simply no longer the same board. what it was in 2011 and what it is now have almost no connection with each other

>>11692826
This community has given me soooo fucking much. In all humbleness. I´ve been here for roughly a year. And I´ve had the biggest philosophical and spiritual ephiphanies ever since reading the thought out quailty posts and discussions that sometimes pop up from time to time here. Of course with some serious ground work already being done - but still this chanel has given me very very much. So people, please stop the "Im only here to meme"-meme. It´s uncreative and makes fools think they have place here. Please be better than that and soak in the posts that has seriously thought provoking ideas in them!

Peace.

>>11693026
This and a occasional good rec.

>>11693209
can u elaborate on that

I keep telling myself it's an interesting and unique social experiment with revitalizing properties whether or not that's just a line of bullshit.

>>11693179
Yeah...
THE SONG "INSANE", YOU FUCKING CONCRETE-BRAINED PSEUD.

>>11693232
I think it's definitely something which hones critical thinking. A prerequisite being you need to be capable of critical thinking, and be somewhat knowledgeable about basic dialectic skills; and posses them.

Otherwise it's the diametric opposite; it retards you. But those retards are the way the smart people learn.

It's beautiful, honestly.

>>11693087
B A S E D
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>>11693087
This is correct.
I come here because I go to a stem school where literally nobody I know reads, and I like having stupid banter about books and finding out about authors I otherwise definitely wouldn't hear of. But after spending about 5 years on /lit/ and 10ish years on 4chan, I can honestly say that since the election /pol/acks thinking they own the site have degraded everything.

>>11693236
>pseud for not knowing one of Eminem’s worst songs’ titles
sorry, did i upset you? I was busying myself with more important things. >>11693248
critical thinkin has never been proven to exist in any neurocognitive studies ever performed its literally made up by humanitards who can’t think abstractly

This board brought me to russian literature and then ultimately back to Christ and my life has completely changed. Used to live in doubt and skepticism and now I live with faith and love. It's unreal how much better my life has gotten.

>>11693079
I rescind my earlier response

>>11693275
Are you schizophrenic or somethin, pal?

Lord I don't know, it's a bit toxic and I'm guessing the majority of you are still in college.

With that said, I can't go ANYWHERE else to find this much literature and philosophy discussion. There are definitely gems on this sub, and I'd like to think that deep down the majority of us here are looking for the same thing, capital-t Truth.

>>11693280
same for me but it went /pol/-Spengler-Russian lit-Christianity

i dont even know when it happened, i was always confused about God, and then at one point I realized 'i definitely believe in him' but it was kind of gradual and ambiguous up until then.

It does help me but it hasnt transformed my life like with youi

>>11693179
t. Schizo who larps as a PhD

>>11692836
Actually this is now a pro Jordan Peterson thread

>>11693259
>/pol/acks thinking they own the site
dude they're fucking everywhere

>>11693275
You are easily one of the most retarded people on this board: posting an Eminem song's lyrics, aggressively misunderstanding the reference made to the very song you posted, then obliviously assuming your pseud post was worth any critical value to anyone whatsoever.

>>11692964
SEETHING

it's fun and funny and i can openly tell faggots like OP to go kill themselves with no repercussions

>>11694054
I don’t think you need to be on the literature board for that.

>>11694063
the other boards aren't as smart or cynical and therefore are not as fun or funny

>>11692826
I can't leave this place, I keep coming back.
I'm just too bored and lonely.

>>11694054
That's not nice

>>11693130
What does it have to do with crabs in a bucket?

I think I'll be changing my trip back to what it originally was soon.

I don't lurk here, I just had a fun idea for a thread and figured this would be the most appropriate place to post it. Rn I'm reading a few pages of threads to make sure this board isn't too heavily-condensed with inane faggotry and autism for me to bother posting here, which so far it appears to be, unfortunately. However, I like responding to threads that ask something personal, so here I am. C'est la 4chan, I guess

>>11693370
maybe we're just outgrowing this place? but where else to go?

>>11692847
this

>>11694536
Here's what I'll do:
>Join specific obscure Reddit communities
>Spend time reading essays I find on interesting topics
>Connect with the people around me
>Find a music community better than /mu/

>>11693055
>Shit posting used to be the exception

This must have been heavenly.

>>11692995
Good rap mate see it on my upcoming ep

>>11692868
lit doent represent the public though anon,
you should counter strike or going outside

>>11692826

/lit/ used to be a good place to discuss books and authors I enjoy. In the last few years the quality of posts has been significantly lowered; I suspect by newfags that found their way here after our 2014 "Top 100" chart circulated on certain undesirable sites. Nevertheless I still pop in for about twenty minutes at a time just to laugh at some of the retardation and occasionally give my input on serious topics.

>>11692826
find good authors and to be influenced

>>11692826
you understand yes you understand you are GOD please dont leave please dont go away I CROWN YOU KING BY DIVINE RIGHT you are king king king CONVEX !2JFC8Gml3c is KING KING KING I worship him

I'm just here to shill my book.

i'm just getting my youvote fix

>>11695452
Thank you pooposter

>>11692826
I never watched anime. I wasn't here for the /b/ shenanigans. Not a gamer. I really don't belong on this site. However, /lit/ is the one place with users such as myself. I like the anonymity and if the mods did a better job at keeping this place free of Jezebel posters, I'd probably buy a 4chan pass. The capcha gets tiring, especially since legacy captcha was disbanded. I'd rather have to write until the character limit than solve these damned things. That's the main reason why I'm quitting this place. It's a source of frustration to have to solve it.

>>11692826
More interesting subjects and discussions than I can find IRL (work and studies (biz), friends, family)

I have such little else in my life that the occasional replies I receive to my posts on /lit/ are essentially my main form of interpersonal communication. It's essentially why I have, for the best part of four years, adopted increasingly bizarre, outlandish but fundamentally entertaining personas on this board, each the result of increasing fear that not doing the previous persona, or at least establishing itself as utterly distinct from it and thus capable of receiving similar amounts of attention, will lead to my having no remaining means of having other people acknowledge my existence. To be honest, I barely read fiction any more as I work full-time in a decent-paying but emotionally and spiritually draining job, but I really don't find any other boards as fertile as this one for growing and harvesting my nourishing crop of (you)s. I mean, I read claims here often by users claiming their lives are pathetic, their mental health shattered, their loneliness unbearable etc, but I must truly be honest in saying that my own life probably surpasses every other board user in its utter debased state of autistic, pathetic, obsessive, embarrassing event after another. Aware of this, and unwilling to contract my self-awareness for the sake of living an "easier" life, I continue to essentially articulate mental illness in every post I make, day after day, in the guise of various personalities, all for no real "reason" except to maintain that one fine thread which still links my massively elaborated imaginative interior life with the real world in which I have never, don't, and will never succeed.

>>11695832
Is one of your personas London Frog?

>>11694581
this is the life

>>11695832
if I reply I'm enabling you but if I don't I can't tell you that you're definitely not as bad off as you think hehe

>>11695832
Read this aloud and ask yourself if this is how you speak out loud IRL

>>11696160
>speaking out loud IRL

Found the normie

If you spend long enough trudging through shit you eventually find things of value. And, well, some of the shit's just funny.