/lit/ - Literature

>>17354336
>>17354168
>bro just believe in unverified miracles like rainbow body and controlled reincarnations of a non-existing self, that's how you know Vajrayana is real
the more things change, the more they stay the same

>>16282388
This is all you got left wagie? Lol think about me as you sleep tonight

>/lit/ is a slow board
Well, at least you got that one right!

>>14492812
>"God lets the oppositional will of the ground operate in order that might be which love unifies and subordinates itself to for the glorification of the Absolute. The will of love stands about the will of the ground and this predominance, this eternal decidedness, the love for itself as the essence of being in general, this decidedness is the innermost core of absolute freedom."
>"Only a god can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poetizing, for the appearance of the god or for the absence of the god in the time of foundering; for in the face of the god who is absent we founder"
>"For us contemporaries the greatness of what is to be thought is too great. Perhaps we might bring ourselves to build a narrow and not far reaching footpath as a passageway."
>implying

Atlas Shrugged

>>6942111

A is sort of right. B is not.

Often when I discuss these matters, most often with family, they bring up "personal responsibility" and "gut feeling".

So my grandmother will often argue that morality is something intuitive to humans and we can "feel" it. This is very much an objective and transcendential morality she is talking about. But all she bases this on is a gut feeling and an idea of personal responsibility in some metaphysical sense (like it is elevated from the material world).

We talked about this a lot when I was assaulted once. She was mad that people were so evil, and we talked about criminology. I argued that there was nature, nurture and some randomness. She said again that there was some personal responsibility, I then asked her how you are supposed to gain this if your parents never teach you, but she said it was something "more than just that".

And I find that many people where I live are like my grandmother, I love her to death, but I don't get her always.

But A is probably right.

>mfw a yuropoor was jelly of america's cultural dominance near me

>>6460630
Wrong. Your mistake is that you'd be going in with an optimistic attitude, which will lead to either satisfaction or disappointment.

Read it instead with a pessimistic set of low expectations. Read Catch-22 thinking it will be utter shit. That way, you will either experience smug satisfaction at your own superior foresight, or you will be pleasantly surprised.

Win-win.