/lit/ - Literature

>>15826282
>I’ve done what most people do these days, read secondary analysis of those thinkers

Who is doing this? Who is most people? Since you have no academic background I know you’re not getting this from an educational perspective. Read the source texts.
>I did begin in 2020, earnestly, to study the big thinkers
My nigga it is July. You’ve been writing this book for 6 of those months. I really hope I’m being baited effectively right now, for the sake of the world

>many of the ideas of someone like Aquinas are embedded in society, it’s not even society that needs deep thought.

Then why the fuck did you write a book.

I really appreciate you dedicating your time to showing us how your inflated ego is able to so effectively distort any understanding of reality you have. I look forward to future threads where you no doubt will continue to surprise and impress us with new levels of complete delusion. I might even show some friends your writing so we can laugh at the state of the right. Pathetic

>>15637651
Thank you :)

The Zohar didn’t click with me either. I mentioned earlier in this thread the traditional Jewish stance on Kabbalah, and how it’s very esoteric because those who teach it understand how much prior knowledge is needed to truly understand Kabbalah- see the Talmudic story of the Pardes for a description and explanation of why a grounding of prior knowledge is needed. Don’t worry about the Zohar, I don’t think I ever will. Besides, tradition holds you need a knowledgeable teacher to teach it to you personally, and learning alone is discouraged. Zohar really isn’t a big deal at all.

Ive heard there are a few good Daf Yomi (a page of talmud a day) podcasts and daf yomi is basically a giant book club on a 7 year cycle, but I haven’t listened to any of them- you could look into that. Considering where it seems you’re at, try focusing on the Mishnah for a bit just to get a broader idea of how the legal framework of the the talmud builds off the logical and legal framework the Mishnah.

Received like the rest of American society received it. Smartphones and computers are nearly universal, it’s really only the fringe.

With corona, some places are doing prayers over zoom to make a minyan, but integration of technology into religion hasn’t really happened. Conservative Judaism ruled people can drive to synagogue on Shabbat by a slim majority but that’s really all I can think of.

>>15637679
After reading kikes run the world 2000 times a day, it gets inside your head whether you want it to or not. Combined with what I describe in >>15633002 gives us the posts above you. Their “logic” is that someone with a Jewish father making primitive movies of two people fucking in 1923 directly causes them to spend 4 hours a day on pornhub. Do you see how ridiculous it is?

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