/lit/ - Literature

>>3752573
>I'm grew up atheist and prefer buddhist practice

I get the sense that you never really explored your own religion. There's nothing in Buddhism that Orthodoxy doesn't have, down to the weird meditation and mantras and breath control shit.

It seems everyone here is defining capitalism as necessitating an uneducated and uncaring populace.
Can someone tell me why this is? The crux of the argument against the Hipster Aesthetic is that it interferes with the definition above of capitalism.
Do you not account for those who willfully do not shop at Walmart because they are against their ethics despite low prices? Or those who won't shop at Chik File because of their anti-homosexual stance?
There is a growing effort to increase the awareness of the consumer... why are you against this movement? I think this is the future of capitalism, truly. It isn't against capitalism any more than regulations and unions are. Imagine if 50% of the consumers will only buy fairtrade non-slave-labored products....
I'm serious. If you account for consumer awareness, then Hipsterism is the solution.
There. This is what I derive. This is flawless.
And it isn't like awareness has been absent from capitalism in the past. For instance, many times in history people wouldn't buy from jews solely because of their jewishness.
So tell me, what is your excuse for not being a selective consumer? I dare you.

>>3158490

Everyone is heretic scum apart from the one, true, catholic and apostolic Eastern Orthodox Church.

coffee & cigarettes
>life's ubiquitous suffering temporarily subsides
>slight nausea at times

opium tea
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>tiredness days after

>>3099609
Aristotle was further than Plato in subscribing to conventional religious views, though he gives theology the highest place in the rank of possible studies. Aristotle speaks of theology as "the most divine knowledge" and the "most worthy of honor."

"We say therefore that God is a living being, eternal, most good, so that life and duration continuous and eternal belong to God; for this is God."

The more you know, friend.
Remember: God loves you.

>>3061232

The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Orthodox Church, of course.