/lit/ - Literature

>>4915180
smoke cigs

>>4912140
man, what the fuck

>man made all these myths up
>>If there is any god it/she/he/they either 1) don't like us/have nothing to do with us, 2) don't know about us, or 3) died during or after "creation".

how are you postulating these claims as objective fact, what on earth are you basing these claims on

>>4912102

what?

>>4912048
>If there is any god it/she/he/they either 1) don't like us/have nothing to do with us, 2) don't know about us, or 3) died during or after "creation".

You claim this based on faith, no? What are these claims based on?

where is that graph that displays the average income of all these personality types

>that happy feel when entj trumps all

>>4886192
Oh, man...

Stop shaming yourself, will you?

>>4886164
>implying I am arguing my own opinion

anyway, is this what every /lit/ debate degenerates into, presumptuous ad-hominem arguments?

>implying causation is NOT an empirically meaningful concept

this is a very bold claim, is there anything "meaningful" that you can say to back that up, or are you going to resort to your primal defense mechanisms again?

>>4886152
freedom implies the LACK of a capacity

holy fuck, who browses this fucking board?

>>4886137
why? It's a valid argument

If I am directly the cause of you doing something, you are not, by definition, doing it freely

that isn't to say that your inevitable reply to this post occurs as a result of a lack of freedom, you "choose" to respond or not to respond, I am not the cause of your response therefore

the choice itself is a result of a cause however, so whether you reply or not, you (according to this side of the argument) are not doing so freely. So technically speaking I may as well be the cause of your choice.

>>4886100
>it doesn't

who are you quoting?

anyway, agency implies a capacity to action, it accounts for constraining causes, whereas will negates this notion

"I will fly" - Flight must occur in the future
"I will to fly", by extension, means "I desire to partake in something that must occur in the future"

Constraining cause negated

>>4886071
agency is the capacity of an agent to act. "free" agency implies the ability to act intentionally

Let's get one thing straight here:

Free will does not exist.

I will to fly.

...

Free agency, on the other hand...

If free will is real, there is no reason not to believe in a deity

>>4885845
LEL

The previous post was meant to be sort of humorous, and regardless, I was "criticizing" the pretentious nature of his earlier statement: "stop using that word."

That doesn't prevent me from presenting a problem in the way the term is abused by some

Don't be dense

>>4885834
The problem with the term is that it seems almost like a scientific, applicable method, like something that would require a procedure/protocol. It isn't, Derrida himself was hesitant to use the term until it became popular

>>4885651
why do you have a problem with that word? Did you see some pretentious professor on youtube say you shouldn't when you looked up "deconstruction philosophy explanation"?

>>4878225
Exactly my thoughts

Lost every shred of respect for him after reading these letters

I only enjoy hanging out with those whose sentences are a little more difficult for me to finish

>>4874779
I mean, what did the white colonist write about him

waiting for godot

>>4874176
no one really wonders about that ;)

>>4874426
haha

have you read the last page of things fall apart? How is Okonkwo's death (or, life rather) portrayed?

>>4873350
You missed an important one bro: Why did he kill his father? Because of his short temper, a flaw. A layman would argue it's his own fault, which it is, but in the grander scheme of the play, it was destined to happen. His fall was determined from before he was even born. You're missing the point here. Tragedy relies on a tragic flaw(s) that leads to fall of the hero. Although Oedipus seems like he fell because of his flaws (main one: his short temper resulting in the death of his father), his flaws (and also his regrets) mean nothing when he is just a plaything for the gods.

>>4873362

Shakespeare's Othello follows perfectly the conventions of tragedy. Lear, on the other hand, a pagan play, elaborates on the absurdity of the order that society followed at that time, BECAUSE there is nothing after death. A life lived to attain glory/legacy/honour after death (e.g. beowulf) is a meaningless life, according to Shakespeare, due to the absurdity of the temporal order upon which such concepts rely on. The Wanderer's life is meaningless, whereas the Seafarer's life is meaningful still.

>>4872629
thank you bob))))) bobby