/lit/ - Literature

>>19986773
picrel

what do schopers think of this

Why was he such an asshole bros?

What the hell is this comic author's problem?

Thoughts?

>Always hear about how Schopenhauer was already described by the Upanishads and the Tipitaka and how hindu culture has already concluded everything important and is greater than the Greeks.
>Find this strange considering how little people could know about the world at that time, given the lack even of basic navigation tools, astronomy, anatomy, etc.
>Decide to read it anyway:

"Eternal among the eternals, intelligent among the intelligences, one in many, the fulfiller of desires, the cause that can be known only through Samkhya (knowledge) and yoga (union). By knowing Him one is freed from all bonds."

"So then, monks, I fabricated a fabrication of psychic power to the extent that Brahma, the Brahma assembly, and
the attendants of the Brahma assembly heard my voice but did not see me. Having disappeared, I recited this verse:"

>Find a bunch of esoteric absurd shit that could literally be interpreted any fucking way. Becomes absurdly obvious that modern materialist buddhism and hinduism is just using Schopenhauer to shape their interpretations and not the other way around.
>People literally believed in Brahman and Buddha having super powers and took a lot of the esoteric stuff to be literal.
>Comparing a real life well documented atheist german's conclusions to magic fairy dust cherry picked interpretations of 5000 year old RPG manuals.
Why are people like thist?