/lit/ - Literature

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You're going to hear about the Jews until everyone knows... they have to be made aware

>Is the intellect a blockage to the soul? when one thinks in the abstract the eyes shut off and thoughts become the focus, however when one is focused on the world around him, thoughts still appear, and appear directly relevant to ones situation. This makes me wonder, is thinking purely for computation, to solve problems along purely logical tracks? I don't think soul has any part in intellectual thinking. Maybe daydreaming has a function.

>Children are excellent examples of beings that are undeveloped in everything except their affinity for their soul. Ones affinity for the soul is gradually dampened during growth and maturation. How do you maintain your affinity for your soul while still being able to function independently in the world? Are they diametrically opposing functions? What processes exactly make one forget their soul and become beings of matter? Is it as simple as not engaging with things that singularly appeal to the senses or the intellect in themselves? See with your eyes, think with your mind, but act with your soul. What does this mean? You cannot slice up the world into what you choose to engage with and what you don't, tragic things are inevitable, mistakes are inevitable. The world has infinite possibilities, and I mean that every single concept you can attribute a positive or negative valence to, the intellectual trap is to try and delineate them all rationally, into good and bad, as an authoritative structure that is meant never to be left. How do we get out of this mess then? Simply never enter it. Goodness comes from beyond, and acts through us, not in authoritative way but something parallel to our perception, we simply have to perceive the world for how it is, not to impose ethical structure onto it, and this force will do everything else. This is not a cop-out, intellectualising is the easy way out, because you no longer have to see the world, only impose structure onto it. There is another form of cop out, the meditative way, it throws the good out with the bad, in favour of staying a child forever. But we know children are invalids and incompetent in living in the world, as well as changing it, as they lack the intellect necessary to act independently.