/lit/ - Literature

>>18917558
>More like snore

>>18672488
But who created super god?

>>18651619
>entrepreneurship genes

>This thread is like watching too middle schoolers shouting at each other.

>Lol no, I don't need that

>>18480850
>socialism is the lower phase of communism

>>18000335
Why, then, is this written like some pretentious glasses-pushing liberal arts student thesis statement?

>the gods were anthropomorphic and not originally symbolic representations of the divine and metaphysical
*ahem*

>Algis Uzdavinys
To say that Thales' [statement: everything is full of gods, water] moves "beyond representations to the underlying, intelligible reality amounts to saying that the creators of mythological world pictures were extremely ignorant and unable to comprehend pure noeric reality which transcends all words and images.

But in this respect Thales says nothing new, nothing that had not been already and
better said by the Egyptians and other ancient nations a long time before.
The world is a living being, a divine body (like a statue) in need of the
animating principle [everything is full of gods]

This doctrine is the same as the Egyptian one: the gods (netem), who bring life (ankh) and animate all bodies, are manifestations (kheperu) of the supreme transcendent Principle and constitute the different levels of reality. For Greeks, the gods (theos) are ever-living and everlasting principles.

The concept of the primordial Waters (Nun as the ineffable God, the
Neoplatonic One) reflects the Egyptian cosmological picture of the
noetic universe as a sphere of the divine light

To think that Hesiodic genealogies or Homeric accounts were
accepted at face value by the Hellenes, even by the initiates and the
educated minority, would be to indulge oneself in rationalistic naivete
instead of trying to explore the metaphysical exegesis and symbolism of
the sacred.

>or

>uhm, did you know there are PEE PEE JOKES in Shakespeare? It's almost as if he wrote marvel movies of his day, heh, you literary snob

>>17744404
>This is literally just astrology

>>17715543
>The Bible is fictional because science man told me so.

>Zeal, not zealotry
What do you guys think? Also post your own OC quotes here

>>17543295

>>17528497
Found the /lit/ larper.

>>17496857
>Strawman Argument

>>17426259
>tfw broke up with my soulmate before she broke up with me, while we were still going well
Pro gamer move

>horoscopes for incels

>>17327986

>so based

>>17315943

>Congrats on picking up a book, nigger.

>>17168585
>unpack
>let me unpack this for you

>oh you don't like [incomprehensible philosopher]?
>looks like you got filtered, son