/lit/ - Literature

>>12365109
>conceptually the west never reached anywhere near buddhism or dao so you're just gonna have to deal with it and never be enlightened
holy shit has there ever been a bigger pseud on lit than the burger buddhist who rejects the west because he hates his parents. how many self help books and crystals do you have on the shelf lad?

>>12081238
Turn your brain on.

have talent

>>11525592
Yes. And yes.

or, to the more mystically inclined (and otaku on this site)

>>11136014
mfw mister wakanda was quoting the neetch

>>11097451
good post, and not just because you agree with me. you nailed it: there are things we have missed or straight up forgotten. things like love and forgiveness that we are not applying in contemporary culture (incl. intelligentsia) because they belong to the Other of the spooky supernatural religious dingdongs. one can't even say they're religious aloud without being seen differently.

I especially thing you are correct about creating an opposite of critical theory. It's really the antidote we need. Some very smart people I know, philosophy majors(!), live like bugmen because they have fallen victim to the outrage/virtue economy. Common threads are bridges to each other, and the more we find the better we can understand each other and end this nonsense.

>>11102853
>so, there's hope, i think. but not while people prefer being rage zombies to being flawed, imperfect, suffering human beings.
I don't have much hope of this stopping being the case tbhwyfambly. Social media is largely responsible for this, and it is the new media. It is the New Paradigm. Cable news and all that bullshit is making the transition and fighting dirty for eyeballs, but it is weighed down by its own overhead and bad/old ideas and management. At least its monolithicness used to unify larger chunks of the audience compared to the whirlpool of news flavors today. Someone could easily start up a bridge building (as above) news site if it had some gimmick to it and a reward, like an anti-echo chamber. Anechoic? People love to self-segregate, why not coerce them into unifying against common ills instead of each other? tb h it sounds like i'm describing 4chan. it's a tough nut.

uh bros I am looking to begin a serious study of the new and old testaments. but which bible should I use? i'm not an expert in these matters. I've narrowed it down to three: NABRE, Douay-Rheims, and original Greek (UBS5) for NT only which is fine because that is what interests me most. I already have a KJV and that is what I read as a child but I don't know if its the best for study. thanks for your help.