/lit/ - Literature

>>23398451
70 IQ people from Africa and India can speak multiple languages and read. Neither are indicative of intelligence or accomplishment even.

>>23398458
Are you OP?

>>23398296
MLP FiM fanfics. It's the only way.

You have to think about the why first and develop some type of motivating theory behind reading and why you want to do it. I recommend Sex and Character by Otto Weininger

>>23398296
Read food packaging. That's short enough for your attention span. Keep doing that and before you know ot you're reading The Histories by Herodotus in Greek while standing.
>testimony: I did precisely that

>>23398291
Absolutely. Schiller is in the top fifty of critic-philosophers. He's top five among the Germans.

>>23398291
Schiller is a genius. The aesthetic letters are a work that can change your life

name field edition

>>23398310
Should be Netflix Gardnerverse edition or whatever that’s being called

>>23398280
>Anya Taylor Joy was 19 in Split
HNNNNGH

who here reads books?

>>23398236
I just tried doing that and the person next to me told me to shut my hole

Me. Sometimes I like to hear the sound of My own voice. It's fun! Though I especially do this when playing video games and voiceless dialogue appears.

What do aloud books look like joker anon?

>>23398246
fags, probably

>>23398224

Watered down kant derived from dogma

t. Icchantika

>>23398268
retard

>Jews Don't Count: How Identity Politics Failed One Particular Identity is a book by British comedian David Baddiel. First published on 4 February 2021 by TLS Books, the book discusses the status of antisemitism as a form of racism, particularly in left-wing politics. Baddiel argues that antisemitism is treated differently from other forms of racism, creating double standards and discrimination against Jews. The book covers a range of topics related to modern antisemitism and Jewish identity, including under-representation in popular media, relationships with Israel and Zionism, and the status of Jews as a minority group.
lol

>David Lionel Baddiel was born on 28 May 1964 in Troy, New York, the son of a Welsh-Jewish father and German-Jewish mother.[2] He moved to England with his family when he was four months old.[1][3]

>>23398223
It didn't come from nothing if it's always existed. The steady state model better explains cosmology than the BBT which was a pseudoscientific theory invented by a priest and has been totally contraverted both by the JWST and computer simulations. You're stupid if you think the universe had a start point.

>>23398494
>>23398494
>The steady-state model is now rejected by most cosmologists, astrophysicists, and astronomers. The observational evidence points to a hot Big Bang cosmology with a finite age of the universe, which the steady-state model does not predict.[1][2]
Steady sisters...

Gabriel Syme was not merely a detective who pretended to be a poet; he was really a poet who had become a detective. Nor was his hatred of anarchy hypocritical. He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists. He had not attained it by any tame tradition. His respectability was spontaneous and sudden, a rebellion against rebellion. He came of a family of cranks, in which all the oldest people had all the newest notions. One of his uncles always walked about without a hat, and another had made an unsuccessful attempt to walk about with a hat and nothing else. His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike. The more his mother preached a more than Puritan abstinence the more did his father expand into a more than pagan latitude; and by the time the former had come to enforcing vegetarianism, the latter had pretty well reached the point of defending cannibalism.

Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left—sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible. His hatred of modern lawlessness had been crowned also by an accident. It happened that he was walking in a side street at the instant of a dynamite outrage. He had been blind and deaf for a moment, and then seen, the smoke clearing, the broken windows and the bleeding faces. After that he went about as usual—quiet, courteous, rather gentle; but there was a spot on his mind that was not sane. He did not regard anarchists, as most of us do, as a handful of morbid men, combining ignorance with intellectualism. He regarded them as a huge and pitiless peril, like a Chinese invasion.

He poured perpetually into newspapers and their waste-paper baskets a torrent of tales, verses and violent articles, warning men of this deluge of barbaric denial. But he seemed to be getting no nearer his enemy, and, what was worse, no nearer a living. As he paced the Thames embankment, bitterly biting a cheap cigar and brooding on the advance of Anarchy, there was no anarchist with a bomb in his pocket so savage or so solitary as he. Indeed, he always felt that Government stood alone and desperate, with its back to the wall. He was too quixotic to have cared for it otherwise.

>>23398176
Pretty easy to find right/left wing perspectives on the sort of modern technological machine.
Ernst Junger - The Worker vs Herbert Marcuse - One Dimensional Man

If you actually read left wing stuff it doesn't hide it. One Dimensional Man is one of their most influential books for modern stuff. The author is a well known CIA asset and the book literally has a thanks to the rockefeller foundation on the first page. He details the machine quite well but then just says we should try to use it instead of fighting it. Kind of obvious but I found it insightful to read regardless.

>muh conservatism is the new counterculture
what is it, 2016 again?
anyway nuanced thoughtful conservatism has always been countercultural just like nuanced thoughtful leftism

>>23398457
This is brilliant. One of the most compelling portraits I've recently read. Although the parents and family seem to be the spirit of revolution strawmanned. I just don't understand what it means that he is more anarchist than the rest of them. Is it a poetic conceit or the notion that he is the sole revolutionary in a world where the rule is disorder and chaos?

>>23398176
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty and Utilitarianism

>>23398131
>Spends 227 days at sea.
>22/7 is used approximate the value of pi
Woah

>>23398131
I don't know. I thought the movie was alright. I liked the mad parody where they replace the tiger with the cat in the hat, its very funny

>>23398131
Loved the book. It's simple but still has some layers so it can be very easy reading while also provoking thought.

>>23398131
The book was much better then I expected, worth reading.

>>23398131
anything else to go with the date?

>>23398128
Let me start pushing this rock up the hill bro

unban me

It doesn't do anything. If you have eternal life, you partake of it. The eating of the body and blood is a visible manifestation of a spiritual truth about the one who eats and the One offering Himself.

There have been saints who've lived off only the Eucharist as sustenance for some period of time, but this wouldn't work for the average Joe. Because again, the eating of the Bread of Life is a manifestation of an existing spiritual reality about the person. Thinking about what the consumption "does" is likely to mislead.

This is my understanding, I'm not sure how orthodox it is.

>>23398589
Stop begging the question you retarded nigger. Why do you pajeets keep doing that everytime you get caught in your own sophistry. You're like Jews who start heckling you and calling you an antisemite whenever you point out their behavior. Purely sophist trickery

>>23398537
>The master argument is "neither the same nor different"
Buddhist scholars disagree that this is the master argument and there seems to be no primary source which says as much. You also have to be completely retarded or trolling to think that's some kind of "master argument", lmfao.

Nowhere in that text you cited does Mipham provide any logic argument that refutes Svabhava or Absolute Existence as a general category. All he does is attack the idea of skandhas and composite worlld objects being singular and then says with regard to other types of singularity "it can't be found" and "it can't be established", but this does absolutely nothing to refute the general concept of Svabhava in its own right, either as a general notion or when identified with the Absolute like God or Brahman having Svabhava. You can take Mipham's same trash argument there and flip it around and direct it back towards Buddhism and say

"Sunyata cannot be found or established, therefore it's not true"
or
"Nirvana cannot be found or established, it's nowhere in experience, therefore it's not true."

To say that a theoretical notion is ruled out and disproven because an example of it cannot be found in experience as Mipham writes is engaging in the question-begging fallacy. Lastly, Mipham isn't even being consistent here but he contradicts himself and defends consciousness being a partless unity in other works of his.

And someone who accepts a non-Buddhist analysis of mind can simply disagree and offer their own analysis of mind that regards consciousness as a partless unity that overcomes the 'neither-one-nor-many' argument, the Buddhist has no proof or demonstration that their own analysis of mind is correct and that the analysis of non-Buddhists is wrong, so a """refutation""" that hinges on accepting this unproven Buddhist analysis of mind is no refutation at all. The Buddhist analysis of mind into skandhas is completely unproven, so it's a fallacy to act as though it's some sort of self-evident truth accepted by both parties upon which logical arguments can be based.

>>23398566
>beyond that shit Robinson paper
Buddhists still malding at Robinson (PBUH)

Nagarjunafags were never able to recover from Robinson (PBUH) debunking that sophist.

>>23398600
It is not a logical contradiction to say a constellation is neither the same nor different from its stars, because it is just an imputation upon parts. It's not the same, because there is nothing in the stars which can establish them as an individual entity independent of mental imputation, but it is not different because it cannot be found anywhere apart from those stars.

>>23398619
This is an atomist argument. But if I recall Nagarjuna refuted that too

Oh fuuuckkkk ohhhh FUUUUUUUUUCCCCKKK I’m gonna I’m gonna UGHHHHHH *fart*

Trapped behind the mirror, thoughts reverberating of all I'd ever fear, a state of stasis almost beyond what the mind can bear as entropy always cruel stands to strip the being of all it had has hasn't held dear.

>>23398045
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK I TRULY HATE BEING ALIVE

>>23398045
Life is going great again ever since I rediscovered lesbian porn. After years of endless searching and trying out all the fetishes I've circled back to good old girl on girl action. Every little bit of gynocentrism helps.

>>23398025
I fucking love neetchud

>>23398025
Based
Reject all Platoniggers

Real skeptichads disbelieve in the existence of the Catholic Church entirely.

>>23398166
>is computer code contradictory because it's composed of a series of 1's and 0's?
No, because the 0 represents a certain physical state of existence. This is not the same for the "void", which by definition does not exist.
>i believe reality is the same
Can you say more here? How does reality differ from existence?

>>23398175
>because the 0 represents a certain physical state of existence
and you mean what by that exactly?
the 0 represents, literally, 0 energy passing through at a given moment

>>23398179
The zeros and ones keep track of transistors, which have energy or do not.

>>23398183
>which have energy or do not.
yeah
sorry for not making it obvious earlier:
the monadic equation of Existence = Truth = Good = Beauty, also applies to Energy
Existence = Energy

Why do you want to annihilate yourself?

>>23397944
The Buddha Dharma transcends annihilationism and eternalism

>>23397919
>>23397944
>>23397950
Nāgārjuna refutes all views of existence and non-existence with his metalogic. Read Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

>>23398143
I'm a Theravada buddhist and Nigarjuna is a Mahayana buddhist

Frogposters cannot reach enlightenment.

>>23398364
no ble must be latin or greek for parts or something

>>23397916
>>23398420
Unfortunately you can look up "Bible etymology" on Google and it will tell you this is not the case. It comes from Greek biblia, meaning books, because the Bible is a collection of many holy books.

>>23397916
>two books
The Bible actually has 66 books.

>>23398508
73*

>>23398605
66**

>>23397943
>History repeats itself
No it doesn't.

>>23398164
Yes it does.

>>23398164
just like threads on 4chan, they don't quite repeat but you get a strong sense of de ja vu

>>23397899
There's nothing to look forward to. We're not going to the stars, we're going to be buried under an avalanche of third worlders.

>>23398597
YOU are
because you are poor and worthless

>>23397870
Sidney Carton and Father Zossima are the two fictional characters I wish to be in real life.