/lit/ - Literature

>>13614183
First of all, let me start off by saying that I agree with the idea that one should try and free ourselves from our passions.
However, I have to wonder, to what extent are we actually able to do that ? You speak of freeing ourselves from our biological shackles. To some degree we'll always be a slave to those shackles as no man can go without food and water for very long. Death would be the only way to be absolutely free from our biological shackles.
On the issue of sexual desire, how well do you really know yourself. Me and you, we have perhaps not had the opportunity to engage in much if any sex at all. It's easy to take the moral high road for us. But what if things have been different ? What if we were chads and girls were constantly lining up to take the D from us ? Would we still feel the same way ? Wouldn't our minds promptly and with ease convince us that it is a very natural thing and our right, nay our duty even, to indulge in these carnal delights. One has to wonder.
Thoughts are dangerous and of themselves become a trap. They seem so logical, everything makes perfect sense.

>>13079410
what if by a principle like the I Ching (if it's a true principle/if it's real) a device like this can become a tool for divination ?