/lit/ - Literature

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There is no nihilism. Nihilists have no worship; they have no great love, they have no great hate. They have a small idea of nothingness, an impotent conception of meaninglessness. They find comfort in this smallness, in this impotence.
You must embrace the scream. It is the goat, it is the engine, and the symbols are its static. You cannot believe, or disbelieve. You must despair, and continue to despair.
This is not for you to be strong. You are strong only so you may despair at your eventual weakness. This is not for you to be weak. You are weak only so that you may despair at your failure to be strong. You do not worship rest and bliss any longer. Come into the noise.
Feel the eternal gap and feel fear. Begin to babble. From this babbling, forms will arise. This will be your new scripture. This does not exempt you from study. You will study the babblings of those before you with rapt attention.
The final revelation is not that this babbling is meaningless. The final revelation is instead that this is the only source of meaning there is.
Do not dare to die. Dare to live, to know what this means, and to be, to the core of yourself, terrified.”
David S.

Mother Goat Society: Trona Summit

Excerpt, Opening Lecture, 2010

Donna Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto

oh boy fine whatever start with the standard definitional questions at least

-what is meaning

-what is god

pantheism the religion of metaphor mysticism the experience of the absolute beliefism narrative encasement the placebo effect blah blah blah

oh just do some acid already

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