/lit/ - Literature

>>15491067
Just shaked it. What should've happened?

Why do people make a distinction between pleasure obtained by drugs, or generally unhealthy activities and healty activies such a sport? Pleasure and suffering are inevitably linked. You consider someone taking most of his pleasure in life via drugs as a junky. Junky is a derogaty word for an unhealthy addiction. But is there something that could be considered an healthy addiction?

Love, good food, feeling of accomplishment, feeling of security and so on. Aren't all of those addictions? If those are stripped out from you, you're going to suffer, in the same way the junky craves for his drugs. So in a way you're a junky aswell, but toward "healthy" things. Supposedly, the only people not being junkies are the ones who extinguish their desires (buddhism).

But aren't the enlightened also junkies to the wholesome feeling of equanimity? If meditation did not bring joy nor quietness, but more suffering, would it be still considered as the rightful path? Why does the rightful path have to be linked to pleasure? They say that you can't access this state if you desire it, but isn't it just a strategy toward more pleasure and less suffering?

I kill my desires, but why? Obviously to feel better. Everyone who started getting interested in medidating did it to escape the cycle of pleasure/suffering. But, if you do it because you want to suffer less, then you're still a junky.

Siddhartha Gautama was a junky, there is no way out of the cycle.

>thread asking why atheist can't understand Aquinas
>atheist respond by demonstrating a complete lack of understanding towards Aquinas
OP is playing 3D chess.

What's a good amount of pages to read per day to increase my reading skills?

'x said', or 'said x'?

>>11484348
What's with the lack of GRI?

Is there a sf or f series longer or equal to three novels that clearly has absolutely nothing unnecessary since the author spent at least 20 years devising the plot so that everything fits together perfectly from start to finish?