/lit/ - Literature

>>23116342
1. focus on getting good neighbors
2. don't talk to females over the age of 21
3. read stuff written from before the 1950's... could recommend you stuff but won't, because if you find what you like by yourself it will make you a more valuable neighbor :)0

>>22613107
>controversial
They ban right-wing, Christian, and anti-communist literature. Being "right-wing" (no such thing in america), Christian, and anti-communist is a normative position. These people are radical, extreme leftists, and everything they believe and do should be mocked, riduculed, and aggresively shamed

>>20786248

>>17805739
The gnostics of this board can delineate upon this better, than I, but I will still offer you perspective.

In order to speak on faith, unbelievers need to adopt a theological stance, since faith is a grace from God, and the faithless are "on the outside looking in," and graces from the Lord are only rescinded by way of sin. Sin separates man from God. So, the reason why faith would have been weakened over these centuries, or even lost, is that: as the world nears the eschaton, the prevalence of sinful, behavior increases significantly, because of the separation of "wheat and tares." It is not merely a problem of internal division, within THE traditional institution -- which is the Church --, but one of constant attack from without the Church.

To say that the modern condition is a mere reaction to hypocrisy is naturalistic fallacy, failing to address that there has always been a reaction to the spiritual nature that tradition represents, and that reaction is rooted in anti-spirituality. It is more accurate to say, the modern condition is the victory of the anti-spiritual over the spiritual, and that humans brought up in anti-spirituality will both proliferate it's spread, and deepen its roots, and this anti-spirituality is slowly overcoming the traditional institutions that have served as a fortress against it for many years.

In order for institutions to be revitalized, new generations must be both uncorrupted, and like you say, inculcated in high culture, but this wave of anti-spirituality precludes both.

Does anybody find that L-theanine helps them write better / more consistently, or does its sedative effect negatively affect writing?

Also, I drank one cup of green tea for the first time and felt nothing different. I currently have no access to any nearby local / online stores which sell L-theanine pills, so I'm stuck with green tea: how much cups should I drink to feel the effect?

>>17436775
Oh yeah, no doubt. But like >>17436736 says that’s just run of the mill for types like Peterson.

I can't wait for the replies to this one. As a person he has his flaws, and he's not really ideologically consistent in the political sense, but as with any public presence the distance from the person lets the mind bridge the gap of understanding with whatever unconscious, distasteful spillover the person is carrying. The fact that a person has influence scarcely justifies brutalizing his character on part of another person morally speaking, but nevertheless that seems to be the social mechanism we have to make sure power doesn't fall into undue hands. Meaning I can't object too hard to people being skeptical of him for whatever reason. It's hard to say anything useful about public opinion without just adding to the cesspool itself. The pressure is on Jordan to prove himself worth listening to.

>>16644038
"A brain disorder"

>>15640266
Lol
Sucks to be you

>>15517772
This, I'm buying all old books i can from second hand shops before they burn them
Got a 1870 latin grammar for 3€ the other day
They hate knowledge. Hoard, hoard

>>13407665

>>13352053

You seek creatures.
That is your problem.

Carnal people are evil.

>>13118478
People or their secretaries still mostly replied to letters and inquiries back in the day. No longer is this so.

He is living in mortal sin and writes his own book, his own law, out of his prideful and sick heart.
All divorces are invalid.
>Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

>>12886848
They're in for an even bigger surprise when He wakes up.