/lit/ - Literature

>The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I looked into Paradise and found that the majority of its dwellers were the poor people, and I looked into the (Hell) Fire and found that the majority of its dwellers were women."

>>18009204
That thread was so comfy :)

>>18009214
It's so simple yet moving.

>>18009204
Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go, The sun rises and the sun sets, The wind blows to the south and turns to the north;
round and round it goes. All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come
will not be remembered by those who follow them.
Meaningless! Meaningless! Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.

>>18009257
Based

>>18009204
Fuck off from this board with this idealistic bullshit. Or embrace the eternal wisdom of pessimism.

I often remind myself that we’re all puppets trapped in a decomposing cage of flesh and bone, with a million desires whirling around us at all times like sirens attempting to lure us to our doom. That these desires are nothing but the conjured demons of economics, society, and evolution and while they promise fulfillment they will only use you to their own ends, increasing their strength over you, leaving you a slave and a broken human. The world of phenomena is a test, projected by the noumena, and to conquer it you must conquer yourself.

Although I might try to convince myself that life has some external value, after a night drinking with “friends” or a sexual encounter with woman, it quickly becomes apparent that most friends are not worth having, and that woman’s sexual desires are so perverse and banal that their even having desired you bears the weight of a bad conscience. What man does not disgrace himself by submitting to a woman’s desires? He becomes a fool, a brute, a scoundrel, a cuckhold, all at once— and looses himself in the process. What man benefits from society? He devoured his life’s work to the machinations of warfare and industry, he trampled the earth, he becomes bound up in stories told to gullible children, he is sold slavery and like an idiot wears his chains with pride.

Service originates in the Latin word "Servi”, meaning slave. That’s what society, friends, woman the whole world, asks from you, your slavery. In English, the familiar for of “you”, “thou”, has long since died from the language. For those lonely men in Anglo countries seeking company, this should be (with honest reflection) enough proof that you will never find it. We live in a civilizational world-spirit which lacks even the words to express friendship, closeness.

There are two things in life worth their weight in gold: freedom and silence. How many men exchange these treasures for paper? Or for a soft touch of flesh? Or for some false sense of meaning to disguise their emptiness?

In books, there is the peace of forming a genuine connection with another person. If you cannot read, write. If you cannot write, read. If you are still lonely, hire a whore; it is less demeaning and less expensive than going to clubs. Logos is the breaking free of the soul from the flesh, embrace this and turn your eyes from the treachery of desire.

>>18009300
false

Reminder that these books are proof that we’re all gonna make it. We can write and finish a book if we work as hard as F. Gardner.

>>18009257
Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where--wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll be there. See?

>>18009204
apu always makes me feel better

bump

>>18009204
>When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere.
-Sam Spade

>>18009204
Never in the history of this website has there been a phrase as smugly demoralizing as “We are all going to make it”. I’m tired of seeing it posted, more than even based and cringe and söy.

>>18009300
Imagine being a schopenhauer-obsessed edgy loser trying to act tough. Degenerates like you are the reason post-modernism is blooming. You've got some growing up to do, kid, the wannabe sociopath stage will pass around 25-30.

>>18010569
>Never in the history of this website has there been a phrase as smugly demoralizing as “We are all going to make it”. I’m tired of seeing it posted, more than even based and cringe and söy.

>>18010668
Imagine being a WAGTMI-obsessed edgy loser trying to act tough. Degenerates like you are the reason post-modernism is blooming. You've got some growing up to do, kid, the wannabe sociopath stage will pass around 25-30.

Christ is King

>>18010701
I have no idea what WAGTMI means, monkey loser, not does anyone care whatever kids like you say about anything. You'll either grow out of this stage or will forever remain an edgy wannabe sociopath loser.

>>18010775
At least have some fucking self awareness, if you are posting on this shithole out of all places and you are spending time arguing with a "monkey loser" then I really doubt that your life is any better(according to normalfag standards).
I don't give a shit about what deluded cunts like you think about life, I have felt the pain, nearness of death and futility at the core of everything far too many times. So fuck singing songs in the praise of life. The emergence of a predators in the world is enough for me to spit on the face of naive romanticism.

>>18010822
>Hurr durr everybody who posts on 4chan is an underage wannabe sociopath loser like me
See, the thing is you can't even decide when to have a dinner since your mom decides that for you, so you're not really in a position to make bold claims about other people based off your insecurities, despite whatever delusional retards like the fucking schopenhauer of all impotent losers might have convinced you is plausible. But that's ok, like all edgy underage clowns you will likely grow up and quit being the obnoxious laughable degenerate that you are right now thinking that it's cool and hip.

>>18010923
Oh please seethe harder Mr. grown up.
It is funny that you're calling Schopenhauer a "delusional retard" when his theory of Will-to-Life is literally proven by current research in thermodynamics.
Pessimism is as old as humanity itself. Use as much as adhom you want but it is here to stay and you could find it in the wisdom of many sages throughout the human history. I am sure they were all underage clowns but you are a grown up 1367 years old sage who knows everything.

>>18011004
You so want to be a part of the cool gang of pessimists, it's too bad that you are yet to accumulate any experience, let alone enough of it to even begin to consider to think about discussing anything regarding the topic. Just like the obnoxious wannabe sociopathic losers like schopenhauer. Being edgy is fine when you're a brainless eternally butthurt teenager, you will grow up past this stage even though right now you wish you wouldn't.

>>18009253
HOLY FUCK BASED BASED BASED BASED ASFASGSGSGSDGDFGHDSRD

>>18009204
crabs in the bucket
stay fucked and stay mad, the future is ours, you can nip and pull but there will always be those who succeed in happiness while you wallow

>>18011057
>it's too bad that you are yet to accumulate any experience,
I have told you already about it. What resonate with you in the books, it is close to your inner self. Otherwise one would simple drop that book because I am not a scholar.
You were talking about pessimism as being an underage phenomena and I just argued that this is not the case. Right now I am approaching my late 20s so take it however you want. And I am not a sociopath, I am just sad and tired.

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>>18011134
I'm glad that this thread which was meant to be positively inspirational has been hijacked by shitflingers.

>>18009204
My love for OP is like the wind.
And wild is the wind.

>>18011486
then post good feels
the crabs win when you let them pull you down
does /lit/ have a zyzz?

>>18010764
Amen

>>18011134
See, nobody gives a fuck what a shopencuck loser tells anybody. You're that one outcast eternally butthurt emo loser who smells and can't figure out why nobody likes him or wants to interact with him. That is because you have no clue how one lives a life. But that's ok, you will eventually grow up.

>>18009204
Rip and tear until it is done...

>>18010764
If Christ is king, then Buddha is the Imperial Sovereign.

>>18013919
Kek
Are you a fucking woman?

La préméditation de la mort est préméditation de la liberté. Le savoir mourir nous affranchit de toute subjection et contrainte.
— Montaigne

>>18013968
No, just not a misanthropic loser.

>>18014018
You are posting on 4chan out of all places. This is a enough proof that you have failed by your own superficial standards, you failed normalfag.

>>18014179
>B-but muh 4chan
Lol. See, the thing is that's not up for you to decide.

>>18009300
>wordswordswordswords
>just to say "waaaagggghhh"
Didn't read, lol. Get that faggy hairlet manlet outta here.

>>18014190
>a spiteful poster on one of the most degenerate website is in denial
Cope harder.

>>18014196
>Alexander quote
Huh? Even this so called conqueror of world cried like a bitch on his death. And every larper should read his last three wishes.

>>18011004
>thermodynamics
what the holy fuck? what did statistical mechanics ever do to you humanities niggers that you have to blaspheme its name in this way?

>>18014229
Calm the fuck down bugman.
See: Jeremy England's Dissipation-Driven Adaptation. And consider the Will-to-life in it.

>>18013993
Basé et rougepillulé.

>>18014254
equivocation is the eternal pastime of the pseud and the schizo. the only question that remains, which are you?

>>18014219
>Calling people disgusted with loser misanthropists spiteful
Found a triggered loser misanthropist.

>>18014405
If someone don't see the patterns in things they literal subhumans. It is a common knowledge that modern science emerged from occult. If you are willing to give up on your dogmatic beliefs, you will start seeing some similar patterns.
The Willi-to-life is very apparent in Jeremy England's theory.

>>18014460
Yes. And?

>>18010681
thats a cute duck