/lit/ - Literature

FUCK YOU /LIT/ AND FUCK YOU GUENONFAG YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND MY REPUTATION AT MY UNIVERSITY

>be me
>blah blah somehow i end up a /lit/izen during college
>get meme'd into reading guenon
>was pretty impressed with his stuff
>one day i stick around to chat with my favorite professor
>dude is the head of the phil department and has read literally the entire canon, knows 10+ languages, mathematical genius with a degree in pure math and logic, even has beautiful body because he works out daily
>"so what have you been reading?"
>"oh i've been reading this french philosopher named rené guénon"
>"never heard of him"
>he proceeds to google guenon
>pulls up his wikipedia
>"he's got this weird muslim name"
>i start to get read as i realize i made a mistake
>"oh yeah... he converted to islam near the end of his life and moved to egypt too"
>"oh..."
>he proceeds to read out the names of his books
>i realize how pretentious the names sound when my prof reads them out loud
>"introduction to the study of the hindu doctrine..."
>i try to explain some of the ideas in his guenon's books but start fumbling my words
>"so the idea is that... all the major religious traditions share some fundamental truths about metaphysics..."
>prof starts to realize i can't explain guenon's ideas too well
>"have you read all this stuff?"
>"n- no i've just read two of his books so far...."
>"oh.... well good luck, anon"
>shuffles me out of his office
>hear him snickering with his low, masculine bass voice as i walk down the hall in shame

what have i done :(( THIS IS YOUR FAULT LIT YOU STUPID RETARDS GUENON IS A FUCKING MEME AND ANY SERIOUS ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHER WILL LAUGH AT YOU IF YOU TALK ABOUT HIM WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME

saddest part is that this professor has read a lot of stuff considered taboo by modern academia such as spengler, weininger, grothendieck etc. :( i thought i could talk about guenon but no.... you faggots did this :( my life is over

according to /sci/:
1. Grothendieck
2. Euler
3. Newton
4. von Neumann
5. Witten
6. Gödel
7. Gauß
8. Maxwell
9. Einstein
10. Clausius

thoughts?

according to /sci/:
1. Grothendieck
2. Euler
3. Newton
4. Gauß
5. Witten
6. von Neumann
7. Gödel
8. Maxwell
9. Einstein
10. Clausius

thoughts?

FUCK YOU /LIT/ AND FUCK YOU GUENONFAG YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND MY REPUTATION AT MY UNIVERSITY

>be me
>blah blah somehow i end up a /lit/izen during college
>get meme'd into reading guenon
>was pretty impressed with his stuff
>one day i stick around to chat with my favorite professor
>dude is the head of the phil department and has read literally the entire canon, knows 10+ languages, mathematical genius with a degree in pure math and logic, even has beautiful body because he works out daily
>"so what have you been reading?"
>"oh i've been reading this french philosopher named rené guénon"
>"never heard of him"
>he proceeds to google guenon
>pulls up his wikipedia
>"he's got this weird muslim name"
>i start to get read as i realize i made a mistake
>"oh yeah... he converted to islam near the end of his life and moved to egypt too"
>"oh..."
>he proceeds to read out the names of his books
>i realize how pretentious the names sound when my prof reads them out loud
>"introduction to the study of the hindu doctrine..."
>i try to explain some of the ideas in his guenon's books but start fumbling my words
>"so the idea is that... all the major religious traditions share some fundamental truths about metaphysics..."
>prof starts to realize i can't explain guenon's ideas too well
>"have you read all this stuff?"
>"n- no i've just read two of his books so far...."
>"oh.... well good luck, anon"
>shuffles me out of his office
>hear him snickering with his low, masculine bass voice as i walk down the hall in shame

what have i done :(( THIS IS YOUR FAULT LIT YOU STUPID RETARDS GUENON IS A FUCKING MEME AND ANY SERIOUS ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHER WILL LAUGH AT YOU IF YOU TALK ABOUT HIM WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME

saddest part is that this professor has read a lot of stuff considered taboo by modern academia such as spengler, weininger, grothendieck etc. :( i thought i could talk about guenon but no.... you faggots did this :( my life is over

>>18814748
>is the efficacy of the rite still intact in the catholic church's way of doing it?
Yes, since the Church says so. May as well ask a Prot if he believes something written in the Bible. Are you going to go full Guénon? Never go full Guénon OP.

> Initiatic teaching, outward and transmissible by forms, in reality is and can only be—we have said this before and stress it again—a preparation of the individual for acquiring true initiatic knowledge by personal effort
> Le Frog Monkey (pbuh)

FUCK YOU /LIT/ AND FUCK YOU GUENONFAG YOU RUINED MY LIFE AND MY REPUTATION AT MY UNIVERSITY

>be me
>blah blah somehow i end up a /lit/izen during college
>get meme'd into reading guenon
>was pretty impressed with his stuff
>one day i stick around to chat with my favorite professor
>dude is the head of the phil department and has read literally the entire canon, knows several languages, mathematical genius, even has beautiful body because he works out daily
>"so what have you been reading?"
>"oh i've been reading this french philosopher named rené guénon"
>"never heard of him"
>he proceeds to google guenon
>pulls up his wikipedia
>"he's got this weird muslim name"
>i start to get read as i realize i made a mistake
>"oh yeah... he converted to islam near the end of his life and moved to egypt too"
>"oh..."
>he proceeds to read out the names of his books
>i realize how pretentious the names sound when my prof reads them out loud
>"introduction to the study of the hindu doctrine..."
>i try to explain some of the ideas in his guenon's books but start fumbling my words
>"so the idea is that... all the major religious traditions share some fundamental truths about metaphysics..."
>prof starts to realize i can't explain guenon's ideas too well
>"have you read all this stuff?"
>"n- no i've just read two of his books so far...."
>"oh.... well good luck, anon"
>shuffles me out of his office
>hear him snickering with his low, masculine bass voice as i walk down the hall in shame

what have i done :(( THIS IS YOUR FAULT LIT YOU STUPID RETARDS GUENON IS A FUCKING MEME AND ANY SERIOUS ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHER WILL LAUGH AT YOU IF YOU TALK ABOUT HIM WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME

saddest part is that this professor has read a lot of stuff considered taboo by modern academia such as spengler, weininger, etc. :( i thought i could talk about guenon but no.... you faggots did this :( my life is over