/lit/ - Literature

>>12211081
quiet you. we are vulnerable to sensory input. fiction is especially tasty.

>>11722947
I sincerely hope you find what you desire. As a struggling Catholic myself I have reservations about recommending philosophies that take you away from the Church, but I also can't ignore the similarities between say Meister Eckhart's apophatic theology and Nagarjuna's (or D.Lama's) middle way. All roads lead to God, after all. Personally I can't stand reading Nietzsche. He's partly responsible for the literally hideous mess we are in now: an ugly world where everyone is a slave and even the escape into theological and ascetic practice is cut off.

>Now I find myself only too willing to believe, to have faith. But I cant. I simply cant. It wont come up. It's as if it were stuck deep down somewhere, pinned to the bottom of my soul.
Allow me to once again remind you of Jung. He was a mystic as much as he was a psychoanalyst. He understood that mankind, especially modern man, has psychological needs that the world we are born into -- which stamps us on the ass with a serial number and indoctrinates us to a planned work force -- does not meet. Read him and Campbell, I recommend his Masks of God set. Absolutely wonderful review of the origins of man's belief in the divine from the days of the cave glow up to the present.

You've got someone cheering for you anon.

>>11049744
>judgment is not difficult
>"Good" is
Then how does a machine judge what is good or bad? Standards, obviously: was the intended manipulation successful according to the standard set by the experiment. What was the positive reinforcement to the data. Good in the philosophical sense is, I think, something that will appear on its own once enough data has accreted.

pls halp