/lit/ - Literature

>>22903278
Prove what, after this body ceases to function all the memories (aka consciousness) goes with it, the atoms dissolve and get redistributed, eventually matter coalesces again to form new memories and some other consciousness, but there is no difference between my consciousness or another, there is nothing that dictates I couldn't have been anything else, a virus, amoeba, trilobite, your mom or even you, perhaps, within these billions of years of existence I could've lived out a thousand lives and I wouldn't know, for everything that I know is only what this form knows, but I know I was dead once and there was nothingness, not the sort you see when you go to sleep, you're still conscious then, but an incomprehensible void of absolutely nothing, no feelings, no memories, no time, no space, just nothing, maybe the "soul" is the universe itself, a simple primordial consciousness semi-aware of its existence (aka god if you will), because for something to exists there must be information of its existence, for there to be information of its existence there must be something to retain and process that information, which means that whatever holds that information has to be fundamentally aware of it to some degree and if it is aware of it it has to be, on some level, conscious, perhaps we are just an extension of that, instinctual behaviour of bare elements combined to achieve what they can not individually, to better understand themselves and figure out where they came from and what their purpose is, but of course whatever we come up with is ultimately fictitious and can't be proved beyond our immediate senses, even existence itself can be falsified to the point where everything just boils down to it being an illusion, since you can just enter entire realities every time you go to sleep and just a drop of acid can manipulate your consciousness to the point where unimaginable vistas open up before your eyes which feel as real as anything else in your waking dream. In the end it's all just a funny play and we have no choice but to roll with it.

>Learn to brown-nose
>Learn to hold grudges while avoiding open drama
>Learn to suck up to the winners, even if you got shafted
>Learn to not burn bridges with people until they're the ones coming to you and you have no use for them
>Learn malicious compliance
>Learn to get away with ghosting and inconsistency (use it as a front to fuck over certain people and not others)
>Learn to be a shallow person
>Learn to fake interest in people and their lives
There's your evil. Combined with talent and / or ambition you will become better. Be a skinwalker.

I think I might have missed some psychological/social developmental milestones growing up which resulted in being unable to fit into social environment
please recommend books exploring this concept
I know jung and freud but want to start off with something more digestible

Do you remember me /lit/? I made you scan an entire book for me after making the same thread about that book and asking for it's PDF for a full year.

>>22269656
I do.

... it is very obvious that material conditions affect consciousness. This is no different from how Hume admitted that factual statements can affect derivations of moral statements.

Chemicals can induce other states of consciousness. Injuries can affect the state of self-perception.

For a while I assumed the error of thinking that because these statements were true, that must mean that consciousness itself must be merely material as well.

This is fallacious reasoning because we can just as easily say that the physical components of the brain are “receivers” of a “signal” of consciousness.

In the same way that smashing a T.V. doesn’t destroy the signal it receives, damaging the brain or distorting its physical reactions in such a way to affect consciousness doesn’t mean the consciousness itself has an origin in the physical brain.

That might sound other-worldly, as if it entails consciousness must be something from another dimension, but it’s even similar to the way people approach their non-solutions in the Computational Theory of Mind.

Quoted from: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/consciousness-and-materialism/
Consider reading this also: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Nagel_Bat.pdf

I don’t take notes. Although if the topic is heavy enough, I do take notes to help remember it as well as listening to it while I read along to help absorption.

>>21970290
I'm autistic and I hate all change. Positive change isn't worth it, there's no such thing as neutral changes, and negative changes are terrible, terrifying, horrific even if they don't """directly affect me""" (everything in this world directly affects me because I live in it)

>>21964240
based, as a neurotic parvenu I love reading about the suicides of people more successful than me, and their loved ones' reactions to them. That said, these people aren't mentally capable of sufficiently suffering from the deaths of their loved ones. Even that small pleasure I get out of life from the suffering of others is tempered by its insufficiency. God, all humans should really fucking burn in hell many times over. I don't think infinity is enough but I can't express in words what "enough" would mean.
Let me try. I wish every soul would be fractally broken down into infinite conscious minds which could all experience their torturous negation and destruction, repeatedly, with no possibility to adapt to their situation and no respite to be found, and this process either cycling forever or dragged out into infintesimal parcels of time. FUCK

One can easily write 200 pages in 8 hours if you have the story in your head. 30pages per hour is nothing to a seasoned writer. Learning how to make it good is another thing.

>the Other's ultraprismatic mind beam extracted the key to the vertical half-syllable script and is awakening the Great Old Ones

JBP is the savior nobody asked for or expected

Look, I'm have a weird political view, I pro extensive social welfare for people, and regulations over the market, but also I'm pro market somewhat, don't believe in full blow socialism and neither free for all capitalism, I'm kind of slightly left of the center, but I don't agree with "wokeness" at all, I do acknowledge that race exist and that exist deep biological racial different in behavior and mental capacity. Do exist a ideology close to mine? What are some books about it? I truly don't know where to look.

I just realized the trans fad is the deep state attempting to combat overpopulation. My dissonance is beginning to reach all time highs as I fail to compartmentalize my hatred for human trash and my hatred for trannies as I realize they are one and the same. The only problem is this is only occuring in Western countries. Therefore the deep state must be comprised of magians seeking to eradicate the Faustian people for an influx low IQ easily manipulated barbarians...

Now is not the time for such subtleties, all this can be corrected by worldwide EMP detonations. HELTER SKELTER BEGIN

Anxiously awaiting issue 015 and the reception of my flash fiction. I already know people are gonna just say it's purple but I really just wanna know if anyone will understand it because it's borderline schizology.
I'm already working on more for issues to follow

>>20928644
aside from what others have said about this post, my only other takeaway is that I wish I could inflict this type of living hell on the mass of superficial alcoholic normalfaggots for whose benefit I mask my crippling autism and various neuroses

>>20884414
I think it's multi-faceted issue:

When images, videos, and virtual reality have hit the point where you can please your deepest desires, why even bother going out and dealing with the messy, emotional, and frankly un-sexy aspects of meeting someone, being vulnerable, and going to bed with them, when you can just get to the point in the safety in comfort of your own home?

Exposure to pornography from a young age does something to you that we haven't quite figured out yet scientifically, but it's probably bad, but from a spiritual and emotional perspective, is horrible. For some, like Billie Eilish, it's traumatic.

I'm sure religious guilt plays some part of it, but how can it when the zoomers are the least traditionally religious generation in forever?

I think dating apps abstract that process of meeting someone naturally, reducing people to mere image, caption, and soundbite. Which makes the whole matter worse.

>>20733775
No, it shows they're primitive unevolved monkeys whose conscious experience is that of literally aping a representation instead of the ultimate step of abstractly grasping it. Put another way, you're the horse, led to water, not drinking
>inb4 you don't have le internal monologue, n-npc
I do, but I'm too smart to need it for reasoning things out, I intuitively understand and experience them on an abstract level. The monologue is for organizing thoughts, and also for commenting on everyday trivial amusements and annoyances
The nitwit is a hylic acting on instinct
the midwit is a desperate herd animal rationalizing on the irrational
the intellect is an intuitive thinker and a thought-leader by nature.
Sorry cucks, your highs of experience are well-trodden utilitarian commutes to a mind like mine

>>20529197
Should I read the Tractatus before reading this? It's currently on my shelf and I've been hesitating to read it.

>>20227171

The entire tertiary sector of the economy is, by nature, non-productive and administrative. It should also be clear that administration can produce and increase value. The question is whether it currently does so, and I would argue it does, even if the wagie gets the short end of the stick.

In that sense, there are very clear advantages to having a low-level clerical class of bureaucratic instruments, namely adaptability and interchangeability. Having an office of modular drones you can train in two weeks is a much less fragile system than having an office a quarter of the size where training might take months and losing people means a significant short- and long-term setback.
The people who complain about this office drudge-work absolutely could not make it in professional programs on the level of accounting or law degrees. Offloading the work onto accountant-level dedicated bureaucrats, while the rest of the population is supported by UBI, would require exactly that transition to occur in broader society. I'm personally pessimistic that you could even find a competent portion of the general workforce large enough to train into this new bureaucrat niche, let alone that the other required changes could take place.

If people actually have such a problem with bullshit jobs they'd agitate for social collapse and embrace luddite sub-industrial lifestyles, which nobody does. They like the shit the giant machine spits out but hate the fact that it requires them to be a part of the machine. They will bitch and moan endlessly about how there is some talent of theirs being wasted and how UBI / reorganization and redistribution would bring benefits in professional and personal life, which was always dubiously optimistic at best. But now we've had a mass pandemic, and in all countries the vast majority of furloughed workers just consoomed more superficial material pleasures, and their cope was exposed. Where the fuck is that throng of artists and intellectuals I was promised?

Technological societies only really work in one way. A consumerized person is mindbroken and must be coerced to do anything beyond consumption. They can't even socialize outside consumptive contexts. They don't reproduce and have no cultural expression; culture is a glossy product they consume. The lastman underserf deserves a bullet in the head or death in a workcamp, he should be content for some drudgery to break up his ceaseless hedonism

>>19955719
not that anon but if my psych refuses to give me the meds I need at our next appointment I will actually beat the shit out of him, and maybe that'll get it into his head that my problems are real.
I suffer from extreme ADHD which has become intolerable since the pandemic and is threatening to torpedo my entire career, but my parents want nothing to do with it and refuse to cooperate so the DSM requirement for "symptoms must have been present before age 12" cannot be satisfied, because they keep testifying I was a model child. I had an easy time in school because the level of content is fit for complete retards, and I wasn't ruined by electronics yet. But even then I had some symptoms.
Anyways, he got it into his head that all my problems are just simple anxiety which is the furthest thing from the truth, and refuses to even entertain what I say. I actually put together two pages of evidence which I read out to him and he found two things which allowed him to pin it on anxiety and disregard the rest.
I'd rather be in prison getting harassed by retarded guards and convicts than interacting with these civic cow-eyed cretins who think they're invincible because of their little bureaucratic world. I have basic hygiene and grooming and I'm tall and I look respectable so these dipshits all think I must be a perfectly domesticated cog in their machine.
anyways thanks for reading my blog

My parents moved to the West when I was six years old in order to "give me a better life". They worked hard and unfailingly supported me and they tried bought into all the propaganda about how to get a good life over here. My mom's a mid-level manager in accounting and my dad's a freelance systems engineer.
Anyhow, I have a great career now but I never adjusted or got over the move. I hate this country and everybody in it. so for all of their hard work I'm going to find the cheapest urban nursing home staffed by the blackest gorilla negresses, throw them in there, and never visit them until they die, at which point I will have them cremated contrary to our culture.
You wanted the Western standard, didn't you? Hope the fancy toys and big TV were worth it. Cunts.
It could be worse, my little brother is a literal incel who plays league of legends with his arrested-development friends all day every day and works a dead-end brainless codemonkey job

>>19746092
>I used to be Protestant and converted to Orthodoxy
This is obvious. I pointed it out.

>Orthodoxy is universal and not reserved to Greece and Russia
This is a cope. Outside their homes, these are poorly grafted. You sense that. The priests and monks sense it. The currents of their teachings are not present in the people in or out of the stark house of worship you walk into on Sundays.

>50%
Predictable lol. You're not even Christian. Your brain was developed around what? Where? In What culture? What are you surrounded by now? Give up the pretense that you have any special insight here. No one is falling for it. Don't fool yourself, seriously.

>doesn't mean you understand what the author is trying to convey
It does and there are plenty of resources. Your only possible out here is that one would need years of contemplating church doctrine (which they don't L O L). But even that is meaningless for someone wanting to read this. You don't make connections of information that cannot be conveyed.

>Have you read Huxley?
So the irony is totally lost on you. Nice.

>I am not gatekeeping
Your post was exactly what gatekeeping is, you sperg.

You're a clown. And don't tell people you're Orthodox. You're trying out a new church. Give it a decade.

Where can I read about Abraxas and how he fits into gnosticism?

>>19520562
Read the books that I've read. They are all about how CONFUSION is virtuous
>NOOOO THAT'S NOT WAHT THEY WERE AKCHUALLY ABOUT???1?1??1?1?
didn't read them. don't care