/lit/ - Literature

>>22279180
>you need to be liberal about everything
>otherwise you're just a larping trad

>>18975842
>>18973942
tl;dr yes possibly. Since they were going to die soon anyway. Think about keeping someone in terrible pain on the verge of alive on life support because you’re so selfish you just want to cling and hold onto that chance that they might, might, might just live. Imagine being a reverse Holden Caulfield obsessed with saving the lives of the already very elderly and sick — wanting to shut everything down, lash down at everyone, and freeze time in place just to save to these people. Think about that. Then think about the fact that even of 70+ year old people, it STILL has a 94.6% survival rate, and the literal average age of death from COVID-19 is still 73, as well as having on average about four underlying conditions.

Once again, millions of deaths from car crashes. Imagine banning cars, then saying, “Only the selfish are against it. Even if we save one single life...”

>There are 30 million Americans over 65 (closest I can get to 70 without putting in effort). 5% of 30 million is 1,500,000 people.

>Total US war deaths (in combat or not) is about 1.3 million. Worth it to you?

>>18971614
Ever heard of animal magnetism? What the Taoists call Qi? Or Hindu yogis call kundalini shakti? What Sufis call the baraka, blessing?

How do you think such energy is accumulated?

How do you think Christ raised Lazarus from the grave?

Sorry to sound like MANTAK CHIA or some corny New Age universalist master, now. This is all more fit for /x/. If anyone is bothering to read this and wondering why I’m even bringing it up, it’s to make the point that everyone here is so sure they’re some enlightened master for brainily discoursing on Vedanta vs Buddhism, but none of them can:

>raise people from the dead
>walk on water (as Christ, Sufis, AND various Hindus and Buddhists were claimed to have been able to do after meditating enough, somehow)
>telepathically communicate with others (again, an admitted possibility in these traditions)
>levitate (ditto)
Etc.

But levitating doesn’t necessarily bring spiritual enlightenment. This is even admitted in Buddhism and Hinduism — yet, enlightened Buddhists and Hindus supposedly did things like that.

I can’t levitate or walk on water myself.

How do you consider this? Could it be that we’re half-assed Westerners? How come you all keep pulling all these dense Hindu philosophical tracts out of your ass, but neither you nor I can see into the future or fly, as is an admitted possibility in these traditions?

Could it be that you and I are actually stupid unenlightened assholes with nothing really going on for us?

>take meds, schizo

No. Think about it right now, you cocky asshole. Where are your siddhis? Where’s your genuine enlightenment and miracles instead of half-assing shit on /lit/? There’s Hindu monks in India and Sufis in the Middle East probably doing this crap right now while you and me are writing our little blog-posts and essays. Why don’t you go kneel before one with devotion and ask for his (or even her) blessing?

As for me, I increasingly dislike ranting about religion online and arguing with pseuds who are NOT my guru and not qualified to be so, neither am I qualified to be anyone’s guru. You’re not here getting darshan from Ramana Maharshi. You’re just learning to bullshit more and more efficiently and sound like a wise-ass. Some of these Hindu and Buddhist saints were so fucking advanced, they literally saw miracles as unimpressive and unnecessary. You and I are so UNadvanced, as brainy cynical Westerners, that we’re not even sufficiently enlightened enough to be unimpressed by miracles.

Ramana Maharshi literally told some guy who bragged to him about his guru’s miracles, “Though a man can enter ever so many bodies, does it mean that he has found his true Home?”, but the guy who experienced the guru’s miracles is still in more advanced incarnation than either you or I, and Ramana Maharshi was even more advanced than him still.

Thanks for reading my blog.

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>>12419177
>10k words a chapter.

>>12198260
>A Thousand Plateaus
>Nous avons écrit l'Anti-Œdipe à deux. Comme chacun de nous
était plusieurs, ça faisait déjà beaucoup de monde .