/lit/ - Literature

>>23336576
>>23332395
>writes Hermione as a self-insert
>casts Ginny as a younger version of herself
>Ginny's actress gigawalls
>JKR has stopped aging
>mfw she cursed Ginny for winning Harry and being prettier than her self-insert Hermione
holy shit she's an actual fucking witch

>>23336942
Also, some of the modern corruptions from the Gospels which I hate the most are the following:

"But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment:"
(Matthew 5:22 - the modern versions remove the words "without a cause" - and I've heard many people quote the corrupted version of Matthew 5:22 seemingly unaware of doing so)

"And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given."
(Mark 4:24 - the modern versions remove the words "that hear," which makes the statement nonsensical)

"And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom."
(Luke 23:42 - the modern versions remove the word "Lord," and this is the only time the thief on the cross speaks)

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."
(John 9:4 - the modern versions change "I must work" to "we must work")

There are so many more examples like this throughout the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament. I would say these changes are why people don't understand the Bible or struggle to understand it and it's why I always use the King James Version. It's also unbelievable that people would simply pretend these differences don't matter.

>>23336269
>>23335785
Islam seems silly but it's right about women so you have to respect it

If Brahman has no object (external object not in dream, external object and internal object not in dreamless sleep) and no subject (not in dreamless sleep) how can the waking life of subject-object duality be engaged with upon actually attaining Brahman in the Fourth which is like dreamless sleep (in that it is without internal/external object and subject)


So as I understand it if waking is like the top layer with external/internal object and a subject relating therewith, a layer beneath that is dream with internal object and a subject relating therewith, and behind that dreamless sleep which is without an external/internal object and without a subject, so then Brahman the Fourth is like the core which pervades all three, and is all that endures.

>So it seems there is a discontinuity between Brahman and engaging in waking life, if thinking about Dreamless sleep is anything to go by, or states of unconsciousness which fit the criteria as nondual? How could such a person interact with the world which presents the brute fact of an external object (not to mention the body itself being one) whether we like it or not?

So how does right perception operate in one who is in something like a dreamless sleep, yet going about in the world?

If the Fourth and dreamless sleep are only distinguished by misperception being absent from the formed yet present in the latter

This "Right Perception" seems to have to operate simultaneously with the Nondual Awareness, and if so we would be able to discuss it since people who have realized Brahman have been in the world and described that they have realized it.


Please people who know, elucidate upon this matter so I don't fall for "alternative hypotheses" like some innate embodied intelligence called "kundalini" taking the role of Right perception for a person who has realized the Fourth, or some power described like "Vimarsha shakti"

With gurus telling me you just have to "Get out of the way" and your doubts will fall away by the power of a descent of grace? Or is this actually the limit of intellectual reasoning that I have climbed to, and the only way to loosen the knot, or resolve the aporia is to now let love, light and nature take its course?

What medicine can I take to also assure myself on that I am not going to end up like that feared outcasted cataleptic puppet sunken, deaf, dumb and drowned in the undifferentiated chaos of the ocean, which I have become paranoid about after reading authors like Guenon talk about Quantity vs Quality or even Sankhyas and Yoga sutra inspired "citta vritti nirodha" stuff talking about Purusha vs. Prakriti, Seer vs Seen, and about there being a regression or inverted realization which is an inferior development bent to undifferentiated matter?

Help me see right and dare with courage, after dipping my toes, not knowing of my ability to swim in the water I have become paranoid about falling in and drowning! Set me right and show me the way to courage and daring.

Wondering if I should take a job at this online “campus” of a big university. It sort of seems like bullshit. These online schools are barely better than community college, but the university is respectable at least.

I don't know if it's real or fake. It probably is real anyways. But you seem like you can write very well so I'd like to see some of your works, if you don't mind

Most fiction is bad because it's smut written for femoids.

>>23335680
No

>>23336990
kkkk

bump

>>23333746
lol anglos actually do that lmao. if you had ever worked in a service job you'd know that coffee is the most profitable fucking thing you can sell. you take 3 bucks for a coffee which, mind you, still is way below average in the US and in UK cities and your costs including wages is maybe 20 cents tops. that includes the water and the wages. most of that cost is actually wages. the coffee bean price per cup of coffee is around 3-8c depending on the beans you use.
I could make maybe 100-120 coffees per hour if things were going fast, which would be an hourly profit of 360 dollars given our 3 buck price tag at a 24 dollars cost for the owner just for the coffee, wages, water, electricity. good daily income for a cafe/bar would be 1,5-2k at a central spot, 800-1,3k for something more off beat, and a middle sized club bar with a few hundred customers a weekend would make maybe 2,5-5k on a friday/sat night. just for scope. 360 dollars just from coffee almost pays for rent and wages that day, leaving you with pretty much just profit from the alcohol or pastries turnover, depending on what kind of place you run.
these restaurant, cafe, bar niggers are printing money still. and they were printing even more money when they only paid taxes on every third drink and pocketed the rest back in the 80s and 90s.

these niggers can afford to hand out real cups. customers usually break stuff more rarely than employees do and having a dishwasher is either a convenience or profit incentive purchase. in real clubs in the city you need dishwashers because at some point you will run out of glasses and you will not be able to sell fucking anything. handwashing is slower and with the volume of some bars and clubs you cannot even consider that. those are just costs of doing business. the same goes for having real ceramic cups. and mind you, again, there are different grades. and I know for a fact if you don't go to the passionate italian or french place in those countries (run by families i.e. passionate and traditional people) or immigrants or franco/italophile people in other countries you will have shitty ceramic compared to the stuff those guys will buy. and they still make a living! they still live well! even without fucking tourists!
I used to work a place that made a weekly profit of a few grand in whiskey and related drinks and didn't have proper whiskey glasses. in my three years after I bought some they never broke. beer glasses break, some cups break, but good craftsmanship rarely breaks, and even if it did the volume of sales would've made up for that easy!

my tl;dr opinion on this service industry bullshit.

>>23336724
>paul
>nothing groubdbreaking
anon...

>>23336770
Can't help but think ol' neechy was right and this is a result of Christianity despite the beauty of the religion.

>>23336934
True, but antinatalists are typically also atheists

>>23336126
Kys you demoralising fed.

>>23336945
He’s certainly not amazing prose-wise and his sentences aren’t compelling, but I’d much rather talk about, and thoroughly enjoy talking about, Ubik, Three Stigmata, or Electric Sheep far more than 99% of shit people talk about now.

>>23336989
I read two books once at the age of 20, they are very popular works. I was strongly inspired by their basic premise and then other ideas ( my own) began to form, combining with the initial idea formulated by the two books.

My novel is largely original, but the premise was always inspired/sparked by those two novels I read five years ago.

On another matter, when I come up with ideas I'm usually reading something interesting, like out of a magazine, and then a completely different idea will suddenly pop in my head, and it'll form a great concept for a novel; and naturally, I'll start thinking of the storyline, how it begins journeys and ends and I'll write it down.

I got about 30 good ideas for novels. I'm happy just publishing 10 of them in my lifetime.

>>23336724
Specifically "chosen" ones I guess are a bit hard for me to think of but I think Lyra from His Dark Materials is a good "chosen one". She's a compulsive liar who doesn't even know she's the chosen one, to put it very simply.
Alv from the Winter of the World series is also a chosen one that makes a lot of selfish mistakes but he's not a chosen one in the literal sense. Don't wanna say much more so I don't spoil it but yeah

>>23336940
I agree with everything you said except this
>He was just using Christiane to get access to swinger circles, where he could fuck younger, more desirable women.
He did love Christiane, which is apparent before they even visit a swinger club. But his love was tied to her sexual value and died when her sexuality did.

>>23336914
>But soumission really hit home that the moral decay has left a massive vacuum in our society.
Submission is his most distant novel to me. I had a glimpse of the feeling you're talking about but it was difficult to sympathize because I'm not French and have little knowledge of French politics. I enjoyed it regardless because there are obvious analogs to American moral decay.

>>23331062
it's a small amount of protein just eat properly and you'll be fine as long as you aren't gooning 10x a day

>>23334048
Never heard of those. You recommend? I bought the first Prince of Nothing book based on a recommendation from here. Haven't gotten to it yet but skimmed it and definitely see Dune's influence. Reading Dune series now. I like it. Always meant to get to these. It's crazy how much EVERYONE else stole from this book. Even Game of Thones ripped it off. Had no idea. Just started Children. People said I'd hate these but I don't. I think I'm enjoying them even more than the first. I like all the talking, plots, philosophy. Action in books doesn't really matter to me.

Those new movies definitely missed a lot of shit and also turned Chani into a "bAd biTcH" that doesn't need no Muad Dib. Reading the books actually hurt the new movies for me and increased my appreciation for Lynch's version. That one is also silly in a lot of places but felt closer to the book than the new ones.

>>23336929
Everyone has one uninterrupted change to kill. If it ever gets bad enough, you have enough time to prepare everything to target your victim and eviscerate them. How glorious it may be to exact suffering upon a life drenched in wealth and happiness, until their life, as a sum total, is denigrated to the middling existence most humans deserve.

Or, perhaps with greater difficulty, one may try to enjoy life's offerings as the sole participant of a content existence.

>>23336959
Yeah, love Dutton. I just see AN as the final boss of Anglo Utilitarian ideology, even if I sympathize with it. Just another bottleneck.

They have definitely helped me in better understanding while reading principal texts.