Is atheism more about not wanting to believe in God than about actual evidence?
>>2478521260 years ago nobody would care if a grown man made comments about a 25 year old girlToday people will destroy his life over it
>>24785365>The object of killing is irrelevant to it.So we shouldn't kill animals or insects either?
>>24785365Wrong, the object of killing does matter. YHWH ordered the Isrealites to massacre the Caananites as a prerequisite for achieving the promised land. Saul lost his divine blessing when he failed to carry out the genocide of the Amalekites. Elijah and Elisha were directly responsible for dozens (if not hundreds!) of deaths between them in God's name. War and conquest, especially as the chosen people, is clearly a justified reason, as is purging heresy.
>>24785017Power seekers are manipulative psychopaths. Beliefs are optional window dressing. You don't get it. You believe in things. They don't.
>>24784442Sorry you weren’t good enough for the rapture.
12 more hours and all of you niggas will be reading Solenoid with cartarescum dripping from your boipussies
>>24783987Honor Levy is going to win and we'll all be reading pic related.
>>24784311>"Solenoid" is a work of narcissistic self-obsession and self-pitying nihilism of the lowest and most disgusting kind.Perfect for the Nobel then.
>>24783987ew nigga
>>24784311> narcissistic self-obsession Have you read any nobel winner?
>>24783987when will this meme die? he won't win it in his lifetime
>be gay hedonist>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
>>24784920He redeemed himself by becoming Catholic at the end of his life.
>>24785674As neurotic, talentless, fags in denial tend to do.
>>24785674>In early 1900 in Sicily, Oscar Wilde became involved in a relationship with the 15 year old Giuseppe LoverdeHe didnt ungay himself it seems
>>24784920> write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touchHuh? Where can I learn more about this?
>>24785723I hate the late Victorian appearance of literary boy buggerers, for whom the steamship and British prestige only represented an opportunity to go noncing about the world. E.M. Forster being another.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24785363Demons Deathchase is widely regarded as inferior to the movie in almost every way.It's not until volumes 4 and 6 that the series really finds its footing.
>>24785459Ligotti is a hack
>>24785703>t. filtered zoomer from creepcast
>>24785710Ligotti appeals to zoomers who get filtered by BASED M.R James
>>24785718Lol
What are some of the funniest /lit/ related things you've seen?
>>24785330Does anyone seriously doubt this? Even Latin is from Greek, which is from Phoenician, which is from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
>>24784579>In the United States they use "", we are not like that in Germany.
>>24785581Thank you for confirming to me this whole meme is burgers attempting to cover their tracks when they get caught doing something retarded. t. burger
>>24784579>>24784602i dont understand what's funny about either of these. someone used stylized quotation marks, and then a guy didn't know what plums were?
I only read books written by dead cisgender white males
Same. 1950 is generally my cut-off for fiction.Posting pictures of swarthy muscle men is pretty gay, though.
>>24785717You are missing out
Tomorrow morning 10:00am BST the Character and Theme requirements of will be released.Your writing must reflect the Character and Theme requirements – the character requirement doesn’t have to be your main character and the theme can be creatively interpreted, but those who just ignore it will not be voted for.You will have until Monday 23:59 BST to write and submit.You will have until Friday Midday BTS to read, vote and most importantly CRITIQUE.Submit via rentry.co – you can change the url of your submission to your story name to be identified easily.No word count, but anything over three thousand is most likely going to drag and no one wants to read your novel.To submit, reply in the thread with your rentry.co url using a tripcode (Namefield: Name + “#” + Password).ANONS feel free to submit! We will just use the no.# on the reply to identify your story.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24785376I knew that
>>24785329Do you happen to like Shrek, Giga?
>>24785327I am an Armenian refugee orphan with ADHD forced to eat flowers, encrusted with dirt and still living in a fox den. This is my memoir.
>>24778337>The OvoidGood opening to set up our world. There are a couple of phrases that are a little too literal for my taste like: “I tried to stay calm and collected.” But you also have good lines which offset them: “pear shaped silhouette.”Second and third paragraphs do a good job of deepening and explaining the problem, catching the reader’s interest along with some good lines:>five scrawny men, all of us pale and myopic. >Despite dropping out during the first year of a math program at an unremarkable universitySomething that could use more explanation beyond a general disdain for life? Work? The Boss? Is why does he steal this money which causes him to live in such fear that it cannot even be used? I would be more invested or even urging him to get away with it I I had a stronger grasp of our protagonist's mindset. A misanthropic attitude is easy to surmise, however he is hopeful with Linda so it feels more personal. I also really like the time you’ve set the story in, the early floppy disc email era, however this comes in rather late. Making the year more overt I think will give a stronger authenticity of the world. The emotional peak is very funny:>Are you alright, Dave? You look pale.” I forced a smile. If this is it, then so be it–just enjoy these last moments with the mother of your three imaginary sons.“I… I am…”This unlikely anti-hero story feels complete and even had a hint of the new in the ending with a great last line. I enjoyed this and hope it places.
who is the audience for this crap
>>24784479>entirely wrong account, stated with full confidence
>>24784655To them it is cultural strategy.To you it is irrational behavior.
>>24784213/lit/
>>24784660I hate the new trend of faggot redditors growing rape-staches
>>24784667Someone pre-emptively replied to you. Dunno if you saw it.>>24784655
Why's there so little Mathematical Fiction, when Science Fiction is so big?
>>24784023What is this nerd shit about?
>>24784023Because 'science' fiction has literally nothing to do with science. If it did it would be boring as fuck
>>24785195Retardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction
https://www.quantamagazine.org/which-computational-universe-do-we-live-in-20220418/>Algorithmica>In this world, the most natural computational questions are all easy, which makes cryptography impossible. Here, the set of problems with efficient solutions — a set called P — doesn’t just contain the problems we’ve already figured out how to solve. It also includes all the problems in another set called NP, which consists of the problems for which it’s easy to check a proposed solution if someone hands it to you.>Heuristica>In this world, there are problems in NP that aren’t easy to solve, but every problem in NP is easy “on average,” meaning it can be solved efficiently in most cases. For example, if we’re in Heuristica, then there exists an efficient suitcase-packing algorithm that nearly always succeeds, but that might fail for a few rare combinations of suitcases and items to pack. (These fast and usually successful algorithms are commonly called “heuristics.”)>Pessiland>This is the worst of all possible worlds. In Pessiland, some problems in NP are hard even on average. For these problems, any efficient algorithm will fail not just occasionally but often. Yet these hard problems are not of a kind that is useful for hiding secret information.>Minicrypt>In this world, some problems in NP are hard on average, and this hardness is enough to build the most fundamental building block of cryptography: a “one-way function,” which is a function that can be carried out efficiently but can’t be reversed efficiently. Cryptographers have shown that secure cryptography requires one-way functions. And if we have them, we get an array of cryptographic goodies, such as secret key encryption, digital signatures and pseudorandom number generators.>CryptomaniaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24784023The actual audience for such a thing is pretty small. Most people simply aren't interested. Math people, who might seem the prime demo, even if they like fiction tend to get annoyed at "fake" math, and with good reason- fake science falls into the "maybe things could have gone this way" camp, but fake math is something you can't describe at all without the "but this isn't true and I can prove why" alarms going off, and if you keep it vague enough to avoid that problem then it's also too vague to be at all exciting. Meanwhile those who aren't math people invariably are way off the mark as to both what mathematical work entails and what is interesting about it; not much incentive to try to enter their world if you're just going to sabotage your intellectual merit in the eyes of people you don't even understand while alienating virtually everyone else.Flatland is a fun read but ultimately has very little to do with mathematics; it's an aesthetic trapping, which is the most you can get away with and it still mostly just irritates actual mathematicians. If something relates to mathematics and is intellectually exciting, it's math itself- if it's anything else, it's trivia or camp.
What the fuck is wrong with James Joyce?
>>24776131Portrait of the Artist as a Dirty Old Man
Just because Joyce had a scat fetish doesn't mean Ulysses has no literary merit. Can a man not be allowed to create art and have a fetish society frowns upon?
>>24785680I don't think anyone said a fucking thing about the literary or artistic merit of Ulysses.
>>24778823>it's gross and humiliating but normies live and die for it.Every species lives and dies for it. Your views on life and the world are far more humiliating.
>>24785701Read the thread, retard.
I'm 5 chapters into this. Be honest, does it get better?
In the interest of contributing to /lit/ as a place that discusses books, I started reading this today. Anyone read it? Or his book The Shallows?
Thoughts on Douglas Rushkoff?
>>24783764I've never read him.
>>24783742we weren't in a literate society before the internet lol we haven't been for centuries. carr is just butchering actual authors
>>24783699Haven't read Superbloom. Saw the local library has a copy so should pick it up. Enjoyed The Shallows but think all the problems Carr described have gotten worse.
>>24783742>Well, to give Carr credit in The Shallows, he was fairly neutral.>>24783756>I wonder if Carr looks back at his writing and realizes how naive he may have been.This is largely the point of Superbloom. Certain applications of the internet have been causing social disfunction to an extent that we should no longer ignore. It's not trying to be some "Top 100 Books For Extremely Intelligent People" philosophy book /lit/ can put on their bookshelf to impress the guests they'll never have. It's just a damn book. It's popular because it explores it's premise more thoroughly than other social media=bad books.
Have you ever marathoned a very big book in a very short amount of time?
>>24779155>did you ever chug away a good wine?No, I have not; that would be a waste.
>>24779155I read most of Infinite Jest in a single weekend. I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.Was a bit annoying having to pause the playback to read the endnotes, but it was manageable.
>>24783482and, what would you have rather done?
>>24783507>I had the audiobook version playing at 3.5x speed in my ears and the physical text in my hands.
i was supposed to read moby dick over the summer for AP lit back in high school and didn't do it until right before school so i sat down and read the whole thing in one day. i usually don't read very fast and didn't retain much. but i did enjoy it. this was like 12 years ago, i'd like to read it again soon
Forget the Nobel Prize. When does this video of Houellebecq come out?
>>24785324he looks like Mr Boss lol
>>24785683Ok cartoon watcher
Should I watch the film adapted from the masterpiece of 2025 Nobel winner, or dive into the book first? I guess no one here will be able to read the book in Hungarian, and I'm lingering between the English and Russian translation (fyi neither of them is my mother tongue).
>>24785663The film is literally 7 hours long. Reading the book is actually faster
I only watched the film, in one sitting (on the day of the Capitol takeover lmao, I completely ignored the news that day). It is a very good film, but it could have been shortened to 5 hours and a half - six hours...
>>24785685It could be shortened to 90 minutes easily.
