/lit/ - Literature

>a century of gurdjieffians being gurdjieffian
>not one interesting manifestation of supernormal power

Why are occultists so fucking shitty at showing off their powers?

Respectable
>Exploiting, dominating, or harming a sentient being is wrong. I can't find good reason to exclude animals from that category, and I don't want to do things that are "wrong," so I am vegan.

Respectable
>There is no right or wrong. Might is right. Mere social convention stops you from eating me right now. Everything I do, I do only because it suits my pleasure and whims. I want to eat animals, so I do.

Fucking retard
>Might is right >;) The weak should fear the strong. I CAN eat a cow, so I WILL! Hahahahaha! Wait, don't do anything that harms ME, though, because that would be immoral and wrong!!! :( Just because you can get away with murdering a human, and you want to, doesn't mean you should!

Fucking retard
>Exploiting, dominating, or harming a being of Sentience Qualification Rank 99 or higher is wrong. Humans are rank 99, and everything else is below rank 99 - as decided by [ability to play the piano / capacity to appreciate Adult Swim cartoons / some other one of my uneducated, arbitrary gut feelings about what kinds of sentience count as "important"]. Therefore it's okay to gouge a monkey's eyes out to test consumerist prole products, and I'm still a moral being for doing so!