/lit/ - Literature

beelzebub's tales is unreadable gibberish. it was basically a prank on his followers. gurdjieff used to get really drunk and recite it to his followers and just crack up at himself while everyone stood around awkwardly trying to do their "inner exercises". gurdjieff is kinda based if you realize he was just pulling everyone's legs and you don't take his ideas seriously.

>>11346506
The perennial wisdom has been passed down through the history of humanity. Showing that religions were influenced by past religions doesn’t necessarily need to lead to a reductionistic and historicist view of it. The initiates pass down the flame. Outer forms change and adapt to the needs of the people. The esoteric core remains the same.

>>11309450
“If you’re not X, you’re Y. If you’re not Y, you’re X. If you don’t agree with everything I say, you’re racist and sexist, and that’s bad.” Thanks for proving my point.

That paragraph clearly was a satire of Pomo nonsense, the terms are not used correctly, but the gist is correct and my claim is simple. What OP thinks is political is really psychological. I didn’t redefine Nigger, 4chan did. I’m just bearing the news. I bet a fair amount of people who type it here aren’t thinking about sending the blacks back to Africa, they’re just indulging in and enjoying breaking a taboo, being released from a constraint. And yet, there clearly are genuine racists here. Why just ironically pretend to be a fascist so you can feel freed from social norms and feel powerful when you can unironically BE a fascist and feel even MORE powerful?

Once again, Nigger is not even used here politically for the most part, as the OP assumes. It’s not used to refer to black people. It’s used as a joke, as a shocking Zen koan meant to pierce directly into the heart and mind, illuminating the moment like a clap of lightning, liberating you with humor and offensiveness.

>>11181548
GURD
JIEFF

in order to be authentic man must first be, but man as one ordinarily finds him is not, he has no being.