/lit/ - Literature

>what do you think about this anon
>hm maybe, idk
>that's what you say to everything

>The wheels on the bus go round
and round

>immanent critique

What books would you recommend a guy who may have fucked his chances at becoming a doctor by going to class on MDMA for 5 days straight?

>Abraham failed the test

>>15268769
>In fact why aren't the scriptures itself maya? Isn't Vedas and Upanishads supposed to be clothed in maya? That pretty much defeats the whole purpose of AV.

An 11th century advaitin named Ānandabodha in his work Pramānamālā wrote the question "If the universe is unreal, the scriptures are also unreal, and so how can they be valid in regard to Brahmin?' to which Ānandabodha answered "Just as in a reflection, which is unreal, can indicate the prototype, which is real."

>Petersonian metaphysics
>Roganian epistemology
>Shapiroian logic
>Harrisian ethics
>Weinsteinian aesthetics
>Rubinian politics

>>15018325
Raising the standard of living has the most injurious effects on society. Raising the standard of living means tempting people to encumber themselves with more luxuries and thus leading them ultimately to real poverty in spite of increased production.

>tfw eliminated television, movies, video games, youtube, podcasts and now spend that time studying metaphysics
>tfw have a gf but practice no-fap and semen retention and never come when I have sex with her which I do regularly
>tfw limitless power, clarity and knowledge

Childhood: Marx
Teenager: Neitzche
Adulthood: Marx

All of art, literature, and culture is already determined by your biology. There is nothing that is "constructed." The Postmodernists, Marxists, and libtards are wrong. Biological determinism, race realism, essentialism, and ethnonationalism are the final redpill.

>Petersonian metaphysics
>Shapiroian logic
>Roganian epistemology
>Rubinian politics
>Harrisian ethics
>Pinkerian aesthetics

>>14268842
im just gonna vomit my two cents on "enhancing mental acuity"
hearsay tells me the brain is similar to any other muscle; you can give it "work outs"
>see, doctors recommending crosswords to Alzheimer patients to slow down the process
im not sure what would qualify as as a mental workout though. doing complex math problems (or puzzles) certainly seems to qualify. im not sure sure about reading unless its tough material. but everyone knows that reading "tough material" is not fun - there's nothing quite as frustrating as reading 3 pages in an hour, and then having to re-read a paragraph here and there.

physical health seems to be correlated with a "sharp mind." this would cover moderate exercise (prob 3 times a week), a healthy diet, and probably some supplements. healthy diet depends on how far the rabbit hole you want to go. a deeper dive would have you avoiding processed foods. a shallower dive would have you just doing the basics: attain the necessary calories (TDEE), and hit your desired macros (carbs, fat, protein), all within the umbrella of "healthy eating"
>healthy eating: carbs = rice/veggies, not twinkies. fats = animal fat/peanut butter, not chips. protein = meat/yogurt, not just milk/slim jims.
supplements would include items that have, by and large, been accepted as demonstrating actual value. the easiest example being fish oil. you may choose to try supplements where the literature is more iffy if you find it worth it.

sleep is most likely important to brain function. adequate sleep will vary by individual, but the old wives tale of 8 hours seems to be "relatively on point." there is literature that you sleep in cycles. you can use a sleep cycle calculator to figure out when you should sleep/wake, and how long you want to sleep.
>you want to wake up at 0700. you should probably be asleep by 23:30.
other stuff you can do to tweak your sleep is to refrain from blue lights 3 (or 4?) hours before sleep - aka no computer/smart phone. you should adjust the temp so that its slightly chilly enough to warrant a blanket. there should be "fresh air" flow (you dont want all windows closed). and ideally, you want to wake up not with an audio alarm, but via a visual alarm (something that simulates sunlight or perhaps a curtains/blinds timer).
ideally you want a strict sleep schedule, but if you must compromise, its more important to wake up at the same time (even if it means sleeping only 3 hours) than getting more sleep (and disrupting your wake time schedule).

posture can affect mood, which then indirectly influences your mental acuity. there are simple exercises to counter the dreaded "computer neck." you can take it further with yoga. but i would throw posture under the umbrella category of "mental health."
theres literature that meditation can improve mental health. professional treatment can help as well. a solid social circle (aka frens) most def helps. and as cliche as it is, having secks helps as well.

>I'm a Traditionalist Guenonian White Nationalist Ethnostatist Race Realist Mystic Fascist Spiritual Racist Gender Essentialist Carnivore
Is this the most based and redpilled world view?

>>14154923
I have never felt like this, because I am not a brainlet like you OP.

>>14130020
Advaita Vedanta agrees that we can infer there is a eternal, immutable, omniscient entity viz. God who is responsible for the universe but they say that when you pay close attention and analyze the metaphysics of how creation happened that it's too paradoxical and contradictory, and hence that creation can only be an illusion and really that there is no creation but only God. God cannot create something out of any desire because desire arises from a lack of satisfaction and a perfect and complete God should not be lacking in anything or have needs. Creation presupposes an infinite regress which only ends (or can be initiated) with that X emerging from something else or from nothing, both of which upon further analysis are inherently self-contradictory and illogical. X cannot ever 'emerge from nothing', nothingness begets nothingness, add 0 an infinite number of times and you get 0. X cannot really 'emerge from something else' either as this creates an infinite regress that only can be begun or initiated by that X emerging from some base X existing eternally, but to claim that some eternal X existing forever as the uncaused eternal X suddenly gives rise to a series of emergences is really to say that the eternal becomes non-eternal, which is a contradiction in terms as the eternal can never become not-eternal because then it wasn't truly eternal to begin with.

An immutable God is unchanging and cannot suddenly create something because this would constitute an act violating the immutableness of God's nature via it being a sudden change that didn't exist before. Any real creation existing as something separate from God as not-God would compromise God's infinity as true infinity precludes anything from being excluded from belonging to that infinite thing. There are just too many holes in the notion of God suddenly creating the universe as a real thing. To fully accept that God has the attributes of eternity, immutability, divine simplicity etc without reservation makes creation in a real sense impossible.

>>14132803
Creation and causality are unreal. Relation is neither internal nor external. If it inheres in one of the two terms, it would not relate it with the other term; the same relation cannot inhere in both the terms as it is indivisible; and if it falls outside both the terms, it becomes a third term which requires another relation to relate it with the first two terms and so on ad infinitum. And without a real relation there is no causation and hence no creation.

Relation is neither internal nor external. If it inheres in one of the two terms, it would not relate it with the other term; the same relation cannot inhere in both the terms as it is indivisible; and if it falls outside both the terms, it becomes a third term which requires another relation to relate it with the first two terms and so on ad infinitum. And without a real relation there is no causation and hence no creation.

>>14098755
fellow entp masterrace

>The protagonist must be unlikeable
Books like this?

>Petersonian metaphysics
>Shapiroian logic
>Roganian epistemology
>Pinkerian politics
>Rubinian ethics
>Weinsteinian aesthetics

To even post on this board, you should know Greek and Latin at a MINIMUM. What other languages must you know to become entry level as an intelligent poster?

refute this /lit/
>pro-tip: you can't

"Relation is neither internal nor external. If it inheres in one of the two terms, it would not relate it with the other term; the same relation cannot inhere in both the terms as it is indivisible; and if it falls outside both the terms, it becomes a third term which requires another relation to relate it with the first two terms and so on ad infinitum. And without a real relation there is no causation and hence no creation."

>I LOVE the Austrians and the Pessimists

>Reality mirrors art