/lit/ - Literature

apocryphon of john, hypostasis of the archons, sophia of jesus christ

the bible is all allegory. every theist is filtered.

>>19485357
>>19485309
the frog is an embodiment of pure unfiltered authentic emotion and can be used to both humbly admit that beneath it all youre nothing more than a child in your confusion about the world and basic human desires of joy, comfort, love (apu) and also inspire transcendence from that state as a sign of uncaring strength and ultimate truths (pepe in pic)

>>18425450
>"hack and fraud hack and fraud" over and over again!!
based dad nab. all is vanity

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>>17736567
>what differentiates us from animals is not emotions
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. ... More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”
>>17736636
>>17736640
im normally in the camp that calls you soulless and cliched but whatever muse youve called to really worked for me on these ones. the allusions arent just there to reference something infinitely better in a cringy way but they create a sort of mystery and repetition. it feels like a similar nightmare to the book of revelations, without the listing of a billion barnyard animals with trumpets. it really shows how much difference not using overused adjectives and adverbs can make. maybe its because youve portrayed evil and destruction, which is all your god is good at
>praise him, the terrible, at your own peril
seems almost to be a sign sent to you about the You knoW wHo. jokes aside-and it was a joke pls dont respond in manuscripts-this one is good and i hope you continue down this style. i would put a coma after "i must remember"
>>17736629
masterful
>>17736068
an app on my phone that looks like a calculator but when you input a secret code, you find all my poetry. i hope to die without anyone finding out about it.
>>17736060
why are the best written ones always meta shitposts? i would love to see you write about something you truly loved. but as it is, its very pristine
>>17735423
love it. if youre not wholly against using punctuation, i would move the "like" to the upper line "just silly words, like:" cuz "like" looks very alone rn
>>17737826
actually perfect. im a slave to g*rls so this feels very transcendent and free like cosmic pepe in pic.
>>17736888
not him but theres a reason he gets the same criticism all the time.

>>16987654
write that his division of the apriori and the aposteriori are stupid since logic, time and space all rely on us existing within a reality that happens to have them instead of those qualities being neccesary requirements for reality or observation of reality. and since they are just arbitrary qualities of this reality (like any quality), they can only be known by observing that we exist within this reality, and thus, they are all empirical.

you could also write that he uses words like "knowledge" that dont really refer to something that accuretly corresponds to reality since "knowledge" is really only a belief and a belief is really only a feeling.

you could also write that he doesnt go far with his skepticism enough and assumes we could know anything even about our phenomena. and since we cant really know anything, advancing metaphysics as a science is impossible as it will always be stuck in pure skepticism.

or you could write about how his ideas are almost identical to that of islamic philosophers like gazali or farabi and rely on core concepts that were talked about thousands of years before him so hes very overrated

>message
art is for those who percieve the joy of transcendent beauty. its pretty shapes when you get down to it. its never ever something stupid and earthly like a -ewewwwewwwewww- message

>>16629659
i cannot sweetheart, for beauty is the only thing worth searching for, and this mediocre strand of existance doesnt provide enough for me to live on

transcendental scepticism ideologically

and following your instincts on a practical level

>>16371937
i take no one who isnt an aestheticist seriously even though i know that deep down every one is one. there is nothing that isnt beautiful thats worth anything. its the only thing of value. its why the concept of value exists.

its divine and yet, if there was a god and divinity, and even if beauty origintated from them, just the false idea that there might be something more beautiful than them would make beauty a higher power than god. it transcends transcendence.

i think of all the beautiful things. i dont think of functional, or political things -eweweww-. i dont think of messages, ideas, morals or longevity -ewwwewwww-. if i thought of them, id have to use the bathroom, so i think of the beautiful things. i cant use it for escapism, or else the bad things would taint it. it can only help me celebrate, and i celebrate it only

youll never experience death. your experience when alive will always have existed and will always exist as the shape of time. stop thinking in terms of one way time. youre a ship of theseus spectrum of baby-dead baby. do what you do. wallow if youre into it

>>16305684
>>16303614
no legacy lasts. only moments in time last forever. art or science provide nice moments that will have always been. having kids too, but dont have kids op.

an omnicreative and omnipotent god wouldnt create this universe and this universe only. if there is a god, than he created every possible universe. a that point he has no specific intention. no point in calling that being god. all god talk is people trying to feel intentional.

art is always eternal and should never ever ever care about relevancy or longevitiy. art always exists and will always exist in the moments it is experienced in. nothing else matters. surviving through time isnt a show of quality. what kind of impact it has during the moment is.

time may forget good art, but it will always have been, thus will always be, in the 4th dimensional shape of existance. now never disgrace aesthetic experience with time-speak

>>16234000
i dont quite know why beauty exists. theres no evolutionary reason to it. theres not even a mystical reason to it other than god made the world beautiful, like an artist would do. but why would god value beauty? does beauty exist outside of god? did god create beauty -this arbitrary quality- just to value it? anyways, even though i dont know what or where beauty is, and maybe because of its mysterious nature, i hold very firm beliefs about beauty. so to answer your questions

the artist should thank the girl, because nature may have created something beautiful, but it also created the perception of beauty. you are a beauty appreciator in the same way a ball thrown into the sky is a faller. the ball doesnt thank nature that it fell, it just does.

than you might say, doesnt that mean i shouldnt thank anyone? why should i thank the girl? and id say, cuz she cute

hey /lit/, i really want to read sci-fi books that are really mysterious and alien (doesnt neccesarily have to have aliens in it). i want it to be as creative as naked lunch or even just the time machine for the time it was written.

leave your sad irrelevant sticky abhorrent eweweww! moral labels in reddit, for that is where it belongs. they possess not the power to make the slightest dent against the divinely inspired. they are better reserved for those of the retarded variety, those who'd rather settle for primative didacticism -eweeewww!- in favour of facing nuance and true, yet-to-be-deluded, uncomprimised beauty.

alas 4chan, once again, reveals itself to be, but of the unending filthy pile of those who simply can not see.

imagine EVERYTHING was a number line. it strecthed infinitely in both directions. if you were god (an observer of EVERYTHING), you would be every number. but you still couldn't even begin to imagine what the alphabet was. so no matter what the nature of reality at the basest level is, there could be something completely unconnected to EVERYTHING that even god couldn't imagine.

either that, or there is no such thing as the alphabet in reality and truly ALL (both numbers and the alphabet) are connected. but then, could that even be known for certain by a god? can a god be sure that EVERYTHING was ALL? maybe things seeming unconnected is a human illusion and there is no such things as the alphabet. i still like the idea of an alphabet which isn't really a philosophical thought.

ive said it in other threads, ill say it again. it is a dystopia not because its actually logically bad, but it is fundamentally against the human spirit. there isnt REALLY anything wrong with that society technically, but it doesnt resonate with us or at least me. there is no reason for this except our irrationality, but that irrationality is a special core thing in mankind. the idea of losing that is sad. if i was taking soma, i wouldnt mind it, but from where i am now, i wouldnt take soma, because im stupid and i like it that way.

also i havent really read the book so i dont know.

>>15316077
when it is, its in sevice of the feels, or its bad
>>15314301
>aesthets
>deprived of spirituality
only beauty brings you closer to god.
>>15315730
>It is supposed to fill you with behaviour patterns of how to react to moral problems
storytelling is a tool like you said. this is only one disgusting use of it. the value of storytelling, why we enjoy them, still come from the beauty of narrative
>>15316062
gay
>>15314453
based

>>15194108
there is a very fundemental dillema about being human in here. on the one hand, you are right in every way. some makes life better. on the other hand, its an idea thats repulsive and against the human spirit for no reason at all. its like the opposite of music, there is no reason for us to enjoy music and yet we do a lot. humans are stupid, but in a way that makes us interesting. so i suppose i value interesting more than pleasure. you might argue that soma makes everything feel interesting but again, that wouldn't be an interesting idea to my current self so i wouldn't take soma.