/lit/ - Literature

>>14639237
you are that?

>>14631984
indeed his videos unironically made me laugh man im going insane

>>12111475
>tfw a tantric neoplatonist chaldean heideggerian raw-foodist martial arts and tibetan dream-yoga practicing sufi

>>12091983
>How to live the ascetic lifestyle?

By being actually well-read in the literature which formed the basis of most ascetic traditions around the world, e.g. Upanishads/Vedanta, Daoism, Tantra, various Buddhist texts, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, The Bible and both western and eastern Christian mystics all the way from St. John to Palamas etc. All the rigourous lifestyle practices are in the end just meant to eliminate distractions so one can experience or focus on the absolute. If you are well read in all the actual texts that formed most ascetism throughout history you'll have a good understanding of what to do. It helps with getting past entry-level obstacles like overcoming boredom, distracting thoughts, quitting early etc that a lot of other people never get by.

>The Stoics hated happiness
>Augustine caused the dark ages
>Kant hated reason
>Rawls wanted everyone to be the same
>Ayn Rand is the last of the enlightenment

Both Biblical and Secular are welcome.

>>10633864
Christian/Muslim natalism is, at best, a form of entrapment.

>>10649432
>tfw Man's Search For Meaning doesn't even depict the Nazi regime as engaging in some mass extermination plot even though it was written by a jew in one of the prisoner camps
>tfw maybe /pol/ was right

Intelligence is something that transcends category because sufficiently intelligent people can convince themselves of even the most ridiculous thing and make it sound convincing if they really wish to believe in it.

>>10590651
or its both

>>10589911

>>10582771
>catholicism is based on food analogy (transubstantiation)

>>10580427
You mean, like God's?