/lit/ - Literature

modern mechanized lifestyles are completely corrosive to spiritual pursuits

the protestant fetishization of "production" and the fear of being seen as "idle", "lazy", or quite simply "not producing"


the clean geometry of urban environments have a sterilizing effect on the mind. take the trees out of the 'burbs or the city corner and say hello to your dystopian walmart lot hellscape.

an obsession with the image

the social is almost always debasing, this was the case even in the time of the great classical mystery cults, imagine how bad it is now

thought preserves itself like an organism, it abhors its cessation, it will try every trick in the book to keep filling the void it's always filled, up to and including trying to freak you out with it

>The basic idea behind this hypothesis is that since the universe is composed of equal amounts of positive and negative energy – amounts that cancel each other out – the universe as a whole contains no energy at all. In this way the universe appears to be strangely empty, especially if you consider the fact that matter is a form of energy as well. According to many physicists – ranging from Alan Guth and Stephen Hawking to quantum chemist Peter Atkins – the hypothesis of the zero energy universe explains how the universe could have emerged from nothing, namely, through a kind of 'splitting' of nothing into positive and negative energy.

>"Where did the substance of the universe come from?... If 0 equals ( + 1) + (-1), then something which is 0 might just as well become + 1 and -1. Perhaps in an infinite sea of nothingness, globs of positive and negative energy in equal-sized pairs are constantly forming, and after passing through evolutionary changes, combining once more and vanishing. We are in one of these globs between nothing and nothing and wondering about it."