/lit/ - Literature

>>11861412
im a street walking cheetah

>>9599856

>You have much profound information to give about God, and have for thousands of years "searched the depths of the Godhead," and looked into its heart, so that you can doubtless tell us how God himself attends to "God’s cause," which we are called to serve. And you do not conceal the Lord’s doings, either. Now, what is his cause? Has he, as is demanded of us, made an alien cause, the cause of truth or love, his own? You are shocked by this misunderstanding, and you instruct us that God’s cause is indeed the cause of truth and love, but that this cause cannot be called alien to him, because God is himself truth and love; you are shocked by the assumption that God could be like us poor worms in furthering an alien cause as his own. "Should God take up the cause of truth if he were not himself truth?" He cares only for his cause, but, because he is all in all, therefore all is his cause! But we, we are not all in all, and our cause is altogether little and contemptible; therefore we must "serve a higher cause." – Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well-pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is – a purely egoistic cause.

>earlier infestations of memes have already played a major role in determining who or what we are
But what exactly is stopping people from becoming something other than that?

If we couldn't change ourselves we wouldn't be able to learn.

Where is the boundary of this metaphysical essence that cannot possibly be reprogrammed, unlike the rest of the psyche?

>it is not that the ego is all, but the ego destroys all, and only the self-dissolving ego, the never-being ego, the — finite ego is really I. Fichte speaks of the “absolute” ego, but I speak of me, the transitory ego.

>>8888087
> confirmed for Clifford Lee Sargent

>The impure man renounces all “better feelings,” all shame, even natural timidity, and follows only the appetite that rules him. The pure man renounces his natural relation to the world (“renounces the world”) and follows only the “desire” which rules him.
>Driven by the thirst for money, the avaricious man renounces all admonitions of conscience, all feeling of honor, all gentleness and all compassion; he puts all considerations out of sight; the appetite drags him along. The holy man behaves similarly. He makes himself the “laughing-stock of the world,” is hard-hearted and “strictly just”; for the desire drags him along.
>As the unholy man renounces himself before Mammon, so the holy man renounces himself before God and the divine laws.
>The self-renouncers must, as holy men, take the same course that they do so as unholy men; as the latter little by little sink to the fullest measure of self-renouncing vulgarity and lowness, so the former must ascend to the most dishonorable exaltation. The mammon of the earth and the God of heaven both demand exactly the same degree of — self-renunciation.
Fuck off, I want to be free.

Hi.

>>8782753
>I do have a problem with it, which is why I made this thread.
Well, if you want to love people but cannot because of what they are, you could try changing them.

Oh, wait, that would require politics. Politics to end politics, at that!

You want contradictory shit that does not and can not exist.

Either you stop that or you learn to enjoy this misery.