I fucking love /lit/, I can learn so much stuff from the knowledgeable gents on here.

>>24508602 (OP)
You have some incredible people on here, but god are they drowned out by the sheer horde of retards.

>>24508667
It's the intellectual elite of the world that is gathered here.

>>24508602 (OP)
check out /his/ and /X/ then as this board is just the dregs who have been banned from both.

>>24508696
False. No one is mentally ill enough to get banned from /his/

>>24508696
/his/ is just filled with fedoras

>>24508696
/his/ is just /pol/

if /HIS/ and /X/ are out name two cross boards that best fit with /lit/

>>24508602 (OP)

>>24508602 (OP)
Can you give me an example of something you have learned while visiting this board?

>>24508783
ai was a mistake

>>24508783
A lot of stuff about anything including jesus Plato Kant and Aristotle

>>24508790
Were these issues you couldn't have resolved on your own?

>>24508759
Biz and trv

>>24508778
Looks like Apollo needs a haircut.

>>24508602 (OP)
Yes we have to help each other and lift each other up

>>24508803
dialectical elenchus with an interlocutor can be therapeutic sometimes yeah logos or something yeah

i thought parmenides was read here occasionally sometimes however that does not seem to be currently the case at the current moment

>>24508759
/gif/

/gif/ted here. Who is the BT of the literary ambient? And the Pippa one.

>>24508696
i literally don't get /his/
every time i visit it's literally only about race and phenotypes. It's worse than /pol/.
can someone explain the appeal?

>>24508679
Learn to notice the details for example, the similarities between Jesus and Superman end only with a) doing extraordinary things, b) sympathy of followers. Superman is an alien who operates a closed catalog of powers that are useful in specific situations. Superman can even be treated as a god. He is a Greek type god, closed within the framework of his individuality and quite limited. His divinity ends with strength and the ability to use it. Meanwhile, Jesus has no "power", Jesus is a soteriological figure who, instead of individual abilities, continues the actions of God himself, i.e. the process of Creation. One who follows Christ continues Creation. Jesus does not even have to perform miracles to have such a function (which is why he so often gives them up).

>>24509633
I can find more similarities.
C) They are both the son of an extraterrestrial being
D) They were both sent to earth
E) They are both heroic and ready to sacrifice their lifes for humanity. Saviour archetype.
F) They are both morally perfect (Except the edgy Superman comics)

Anyways, I think a character that has even more similarities with Jesus is Steven Universe but you are not ready for this conversation.

>>24508696
/his/ barely discusses history. They discuss religion vs atheism. Also the times they discuss history they don't speak from the knowledge of books, but youtube videos and history channel.

>>24508759
>>>/tv/ since you can get good narrative stories if you dig enough. Like Kurosawa or Lynch.
>>>/x/ is not so bad but you need to interact with it as if everyone was acting to be retarded. Kind of like >>>/s4s/

>>24508783
This site practically guided me through the ancient classics. I also learned a lot about theology and philosophy.

>>24508783
Bizarrely, given the usual tastes of this board, I’ve been recced a lot of post war American poetry that’s not well known GB and was pretty damn good.
I first heard of Robert Hass, AR Ammons, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Gertrud Schnackenberg on /lit/

>>24508783
To be fair, I've got plenty of good recs here, inamongst the spam, trolling and general shitposting.
It's like raking for pearls in a giant heap of horseshit.

>>24511295
Better than raking for dogshit in a pile of horseshit, which is what most other social media is

>>24508759
/mu/ is similar to /lit/. The development of board culture has forced a "taste" in opposition to mainstream slop culture.
My other favorite board is /hr/ (the worksafe threads with pictures of kittens and maps and glasses of wine and stuff)

>>24508602 (OP)
4chan is a normie's idea of how to be an anti-normie and no amount of revisionism will ever change the fact that this was always true in as much as the internet itself was always a captured institution that was never allowed room to give people "muh freedom" in the way so many people thought it would. Adam Curtis documentaries are highly recommended in this regard, just try to take some of the conclusions he is leading you towards with a pinch of salt. Compared to a lot of other boards I do think more people on /lit/ genuinely care about what makes a book worth your time than /mu/ cares about music, for example. But that doesn't mean much. For every genuine critique for a work that is genuinely overrated to the point of stifling further inquiry into its topic, there are at least 10 posts (or even 10 entire threads) dedicated to some obnoxious bragging along the lines of >unlike you losers who read book y I read book x or >this book is poopy diaper shit and if you disagree you're gay. If you have a disposition towards reading that makes reading feel like a passtime and an enriching personal experience and not just a cure to a certain kind of ignorance that only concerns you in a perfunctory/materialistic way then your own intuition built over time will lead you to books more worth your while than any advice /lit/ can offer. If you're someone who struggles with even bothering to read in the first place, /lit/ will just be actively harmful.

>>24509633
>>24509873
Is this a copypasta to mimic/mock the "intellectual elite" the other anon was referencing or are you just stupid? Superheroes are all for the most part Greek or Samson, they are anything that speaks to the divine and to power EXCEPT Christianity. They were created by Jews, anon, the appeal to Christian morality is only palpable in the sense that American culture at the time was already in the process of neutering what those values even mean and Jews thought appealing to those neutered values would make the propaganda pill easier to swallow. They were right.

>>24512090
We're operating on completely different levels of critique - you're asking me to submit my beliefs to your terms, I'm calling into question the validity of those terms. If your epistemology can't account for the existence of anything whatsoever outside of your mind, why would I use it to judge the reality of a poetic account of the origins of the universe? Hit the books, when your understanding has exceeded a pre-socratic level re-read my posts.

>>24508783
all of 4chan forces you to question the utmost absurdist claims and derelictions in regard to such. It forces you to fact check and often come to your own individual conclusion back by non-fictitious evidence or assumptions. as other anon said, looking for diamond in the rough. except it's very, very, very rough

>>24512044
What, you mean /kpop general/?

>>24508602 (OP)
I feel sorry if you’ve learn anything from me, must have been shit.
>>24508696
How da fuck do you get ban from /x/? By posting a picture of the myth buster or asking them if they took their meds?

>>24512090
Zack Snyder thinks otherwise. Thank God he could make Superman movies and you can't.

>>24512568

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo

Gonna post this here since I don't want to make a thread for this and there isn't a stupid questions thread.

I grew up unschooled and haven't really read all that much because of it. I want to start reading a lot and grow, but I am flustered where to start - of course I'll Google and go through the wiki, but I am wondering where someone who is getting into reading should maybe start?
I of course have read tons of fear street, goosebumps, various other books but if I'm honest I've probably read 200 books total maybe 400 if I'm being very generous.
What school classics should I read? Young adult? What classic should I start with?
Any recommendations are appreciated, thanks for reading my blog.

>>24508667
>You have some incredible people on here, but god are they drowned out by the sheer horde of retards.
That's the entire world

>>24508783
It's so much I can't even name it

>>24512090
Christianity is a Jewish subversion, and every modern "superhero" abides by Christian morals

I mean I have gotten good recs here. But 80% are attention fried zoomers.

>>24508602 (OP)
Shut up faggot.

>>24508602 (OP)
i love you too