/lit/ - Literature

>>16977446
>Guenon made the distinction between being “saved” (which is a lesser achievement he conceded could be reached purely through the exoteric participation in and fulfillment of Christianity), and on the other hand the attainment of the transcendent, gnosis, moksha.
What does this distinction consist in? Where does he talk about this?

>>16969928
I descended from my mom's attic to bring wisdom to the world.

>>16949749
>Why is it that hardcore fantasy readers do not adopt any of the values that their literature promotes?
Let me edit that to connect some dots for you:
>Why is it that [any group] does not practice any of the values that their [any ideal] promotes?

>>16945910
>Hmmm... you're not a rationalist or a materialist, right, anon? If you are not, then that means you are based. If you are, however...
No, no no, my dear, I am not dogmatic with my thinking. There is a truth that is overlapped between the idealist Platon and the materialist Aristotles. Nevertheless, I am young and not foolish enough to abide to a single school of thought. Please tell me, dear anon, where you lie between these two schools of thought.

I never used any social media at all really before 4chan. My friends would pressure me into creating a facebook, Twitter, instagram, etc. I would only use my account to subtly browse what the retarded peers at my school would say. It was never that entertaining, so I put it on the back burner until I became intensely bored. I browsed Reddit because mt close friends did and that was the start of my transition. Reddit was fun for a little bit, but the user interaction isn't satisfying. I left around gamergate when everything became pozzed overnight, and reddit was blocked on my high school's Wi-Fi. I gave 4chan a shot, and I have been here pretty much every day for 6 years. I didn't post for the an entire year and simply lurked. I believe you would be surprised at how many lurkers there are. This place is full of fun characters. It allows everyone to be themselves even if they have no identify to match it up with. Every post is an unnamed character. Whether you can believe it or not, this place has changed me for the better. I was a fucking loser until this place made fun of me to the point of a psychotic breakdown. /fit/ is the best board on the site. I won't even debate this fact. That board has the sole ability to force some level of improvement. People think I'm chad now despite being a nerd. I truly love you all and consider you my friends. I like to think there is are anons I have been replying to and posting with for years almost every day that are my secret best friends I will never ever know. That thought warms my heart.

Life is good

>>15762070
Another based OP.
Reading this made me feel like a Roman patrician chatting it up with a couple of aristocratic bros.
>For those who wish to learn of Greek philosophy, I direct them to Athens to drink directly from the source.

>>15755532
You should write all books

>>15578756
I'll be there too my friend. We'll meet again.

>>15578320
BASED

>>15567035
Merci beaucoup

>>15519426
Xylophone

>>15511726
gz fren
this puts you in the top 1% of this board

>>15494250
Based irish bro. Imagine shitting on an entire cannon when it isn't even your native tongue.

i wish language was never invented

Personally, I construct memory palaces based on paintings to memorize words and grammar rules.

>read literary criticisms from the 19th ce
>use their diction and syntax
>prof calls me sophisticated and profound

>>15366320
Sometimes I wish that I could be Sancho so I could see Don Quixote's autism first hand.

>>15362593
$3.9b

>Enter Christian thread on /lit/
>Pick one anon and argue with him as a Christian
>Pick a different anon and argue with him as an atheist
>Spend 15-30 minutes arguing from two completely opposite perspectives
>Able to apply what I've read, test the soundness of the arguments, learn what I'm lacking, and have fun
Does anyone else do this type of thing? For the record I'm not religious.

>yo no se que