/lit/ - Literature

>>7135779

Fails to define "someone" and thereby doesn't provide a definition with any level of acceptability.

>>7135761

You must define conscience in a satisfactory manner.
You must demonstrate why the fetus does not fall into this category.

Provide a satisfactory definition of personhood which excludes a human fetus.

>>7128861
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_Andc3ImU

>>7091041

He would try to argue with the monsters and would die, if it's Silent Hill like in the movies.
If it's Silent Hill like in the games, he'd be constantly surrounded by people smarter than him who wouldn't talk to him.

>>7090526
Berkley pls leave

>>7090342

Spinoza is a kook who thinks that god can be defined as a substance holding properties of both x and not x.

If Dualism is true, then by what means does the mind interact with the body?

If Dualism isn't true, then how do we explain unseeable mental processes such as intention?

Jack was a troubled man. It’s not as if he ever expected much out of life, but the world had beaten him so badly throughout the years that he’d be a prime candidate for an honorary Ph.D. from the school of hard knocks. Last night was the final straw, though. Penny – that girl at the reception desk in his office building – had finally accepted his offer to go on a date. Jack was ecstatic and, through some connections with his old friends, was able to reserve a table for two at the finest French restaurant in town. The bill would surely top three grand, and a suit jacket was required for men, so he spent $500 at the nearest suit shop on a nice pinstripe top. Almost a month’s salary was going into that date.
Penny said that she would meet him at the restaurant by six, so Jack arrived at 5:30. He waited outside for a few hours, but she never showed up. By the time he had given up and went inside so that he could at least drink some wine and eat some French food, he was informed that his table had been given away. Now sufficiently angry, Jack went to the table in order to demand that whoever had taken his place leave the restaurant. He would surely be kicked out, or even banned for life, but if he wasn’t going to enjoy his night, whoever took his spot sure as hell wasn’t going to either.
To his horror, Jack found Penny sitting at the table with another man, their boss. Jack didn’t say a word; he left and went down the street to his car, a rental he brought to hide the fact that his own car was nearly twenty years old. Jack drove to the nearest Wal-Mart and bought a rifle and some ammunition. Earlier today after he drove to work, he shot Penny down as she was drinking her morning coffee. The coffee and blood mixed into a disgusting red-brown as it stained her white blouse. Then the sad bastard killed himself.
If he weren’t rotting in hell, I’d fire him. Now I've got to hire a carpet cleaner for the lobby. Prick.

>>6979138

Nobody knows my joy.

>>6926039

>Reading with your phone
Absolutely disgusting. If a book isn't worth carrying around with you and taking in the whole experience -- the smell of the paper, the texture of the cover and pages, the character that each book gains over time which makes it unique -- then it isn't worth reading.

>>6900970

That's not free will. That's randomly being given one of several possible options. Free will would imply I can do whatever the fuck I want and nobody would possibly know that I'm going to do it.

>>6895501

Nothing requires an end. Things just are. They are not means to ends. When we point at a thing and say "I am doing this for the purpose of doing this other thing," then that thing which is being used as an end loses its essential spirit.

Trying to find something to make you happy is also foolish. Be happy for no reason, like a child. When you begin to be happy for a reason, that's bad, since that reason can be taken away from you.

>>6893221

You, the woman; I, the man; this, the world:
And each is the work of all.

There is the muffled step in the snow; the stranger;
The crippled wren; the nun; the dancer; the Jesus-wing
Over the walkers in the village; and there are
Many beautiful arms around us and the things we know.

See how those stars tramp over the heavens on their sticks
Of ancient light: with what simplicity that blue
Takes eternity into the quiet cave of God, where Ceasar
And Socrates, like primitive paintings on a wall,
Look, with idiot eyes, on the world where we two are.

You, the sought for; I, the seeker; this, the search:
And each is the mission of all.

For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes
The built cart out; and where we go is reason.
But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling
Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.

How smoothly, like the sleep of a flower, love,
The grassy wind moves over night's tense meadow:
See how the great wooden eyes of the forrest
Stare upon the architecture of our innocence.

You, the village; I, the stranger; this, the road:
And each is the work of all.

Then, not that man do more, or stop pity; but that he be
Wider in living; that all his cities fly a clean flag...
We have been alone too long, love; it is terribly late
For the pierced feet on the water and we must not die now.

Have you ever wondered why all the windows in heaven were broken?
Have you seen the homeless in the open grave of God's hand?
Do you want to aquaint the larks with the fatuous music of war?

There is the muffled step in the snow; the stranger;
The crippled wren; the nun; the dancer; the Jesus-wing
Over the walkers in the village; and there are
Many desperate arms about us and the things we know.

>>6897103

Looking for opinions on books. This is the literature board, not the petty squabbles board.

>>>/r9k/

>>6897087

Language exists to express meaning. You got the meaning. No point in using excess words. Waste of time. Time is the only thing we own in life. Waste of time means waste of life. Thank me for not wasting your life.

>>6897039

Yep. Did you read any of these books?

Just finished Slapstick. Was nice. Going to start another one. Have three. Which order to read in?
Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, Hocus Pocus.

>>6892235

I don't have any handy.
You'll just have to take my word for it when I say that my neighbor (whose house is just a few feet away from mine) is a CB therapist who doesn't talk nearly as much shit about psychoanalysis as you pretentious /lit/ kids. Actually, most professionals I know in the field respect psychoanalysis and give a generally positive impression of it. Given that, you're also a fool if you think that professional therapists stick solely to one approach to therapy 100% of the time.

I saw a humanistic psychologist for years who also used Freudian style techniques in his practice. It's so overwhelmingly common to have a mix of approaches that it's borderline ridiculous to say "I am 100% a Jungian/Skinnerian/etc".

Fuck off I haven't slept or eaten in days.

>>6892186

It's mostly a hippie thing, Jung's some kind of mystic guru or something.

>>6892141

And how do you prove that? Through a brain scan? Brain wave activity?

Even someone who's just gone through philosophy 101 can tell you that your brain scan shows activity of the brain and that your brain wave stuff does the same thing. Nowhere in any of that can you actually explain the functions of the human mind.

OP, read your goddamn Freud. Psychoanalysis is still alive and practiced worldwide professionally. And you know what?
Freudian psychotherapy works. It's been demonstrated time and time again to have significant long lasting benefits for patients. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know a damn thing about what they're talking about.

>>6891914

Why the edge, my son? What troubles you? All men seek joy in their heart, but some struggle to find the path. Is there really a need for such behavior which only breeds conflict and misery? Tell me what brings you to speak in such a way.

>>6891873

Such crude speech is beneath you, my son.

>>6800776
I double major in those things.
>Philosophy
Start with Plato or Descartes. The Presocratics aren't that great. Descartes is best if you have a strong interest in the philosophy of mind. Plato is better to start with if you want a more classical understanding of philosophy.

>Psychology
Read Freud's introductory lectures before doing anything else. Then pick up a Psych 101 textbook and look into the subjects which most interest you. As for me it's Jung, but you might be attracted to existential psychotherapy.