/lit/ - Literature

>>22468937
>And yet without said levels of infant mortalityl, dysgenics begin to rampant. That leads to a competency crisis and eventually to a total downfall.
This is so stupid and detached from reality that I don't even know how to comment. Take your meds, as the kids say.

After interpreting a few dreams of mine, I have come to the conclusion that the Quran originates from Egyptian paganism

How do you get the attention span needed to sit down and read for 30+ minutes?

>>22042857
obviously https://www.leafly.com/strains/gandalf-og

>>21990046
>>21990032
I never understood why people bring up the two spirit thing, or the (I think) Maori people raising boys as girls in case the mother has no daughters, to support the argument that gender has no biological basis and is wholly cultural, while at the same time claiming that non-binarity etc exists.

I mean don't these practices mean precisely that the cultures recognized that there actually are two genders with certain characteristics determined (mostly) by biology? Allowing for two-spirit people to exist or raising boys as women both in itself acknowledges "duality" of genders and that "gendering" serves some practical purpose. How does this go along with the non-binary trope or the idea that women are caretakers predominantly due to socialization and not natural predisposition?

please give me a book that, after reading, changed and impacted how you saw the world, yourself, life, other people, religion, or anything else

please also tell me what it changed and why

>true youve been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her and that is something i have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me
>there were more than a few, she went through them like a pen though wet paper

I thought you guys were exagerating but no, kvothe is a straight up cuck.

>>21654031
>shentong views
>against the anatta principle of buddhism
Lets be careful with our loanword salad here. "Anatta" is not going to come up in Tibetan discourse because they are not working from Pali (and barely touching the Sanskrit agama versions of those texts). Roughly speaking what is at stake is whether there is a positive exposition of sunyata or emptiness (the idea that phenomena lack an intrinsic self-nature, nairatmya or anatman) or not. The orthodox Gelug position follows Chandrakirti's reading of Nagarjuna insofar as even emptiness must be empty while the Jonang is following Dolpopa's use of Yogacarin texts which often privilege consciousness as sort of positive emptiness. And this debate really can be dialed back even further to the Sarvastivadans, who are the doxographical ancestors of the Yogacarins—so you get Madhyamikas arguing against both throughout the course of medieval Indian intellectual history. Both Yogacara and Madhyamaka are going to agree that dharmas in the sense of entities are without an intrinsic identity, but again the debate becomes how to present that emptiness—is it just the quieting of all possible assertions of this or that, or some sort of purified mind that lacks all those assertions. The orthodox will prefer door a to door b, not because door b is wrong but because they are of the view that door b is essentially for dumber people who cannot grasp door a. Whether that is convincing is ultimately up to you

>>20478598
Easy Peasy is the typical play-on-emotions self-improvement book. I don't run on emotions. Then I read the title 'RATIONAL Recovery', and so...

Rambling. I hate technology for so many reasons but primarily because of this gay 1984 surveillance world we live in, specifically smartphones and CCTV. You can mess up anywhere and there's always a camera there recording you that can be used against you later. Thank fuck nobody recorded me during my manic episode but it's incredibly horrifying. Your identity can be stolen at any time thanks to database breaches, chatlogs used against you by ex-girlfriends YEARS later no matter how small the grievance, phones recording you constantly, social media that's specifically designed to control your emotions and thoughts (see NATO Cognitive Warfare document and also https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/)), rapidly evolving technology that SUCKS you in making you completely reliant on it... I could go on. The worst part is that when I was little I wanted to do computer programming but even the so-called "mentor" I looked up to admitted to hating computers himself. He should have told me to begin with. So today I smashed two modem/routers and I plan to smash another.