/lit/ - Literature

I definitely find it sus that Palamas developed an entire theology - his tortured essence/energies "distinction" (which he variously argued was and was not an actual distinction) - to defend an alleged (prelest?) mystical phenomenon (the hesychast monks).

It is rather like Luther developing an entire theology out of his "Tower Experience" moment of mystic revelation -- even though his new theory of justification required him to effectively (if not in actual fact) dispose of the Epistle of James.

In both cases, the attempt to reconcile personal mystical experience with established doctrine resulted in novel theological interpretations. And in both cases the new theology created a major schism in the Church -- which certainly makes one wonder about the ultimate source of the mystical experience that underlay and drove the new theology. It was certainly not the spirit that Christ prayed for in John 17:20-23, but rather something quite the opposite:

>I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me.
>And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me;
>that they may be made perfect in one,
>that the world may believe that You have sent Me.

>>22993081
They're wrong about the Chair, but their critique of Palamism is glorious and irrefutable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d07mgLoOW8g

I still don't really understand what death of the author is supposed to mean

>>22812845
>"The fondness of human females for the anal sphincter is derived from a vestigial behavior for storing nuts and seeds in the rectal cavity in times of hardship. The strongest males capable of providing protection and hunted game would select females based on their rectal storage capacity, encouraging an evolutionarily adaptive preoccupation with the posterior orifice."

>>22716305
Piaton mouthed "kill me" to Severian who got the message and brained *him*, not Typhon. A plan which worked since Typhon didn't reflexively move to defend his slave's head.

>>22667614
>The title of the book is The Dragonbone Chair

>>22540907
> tfw you want to synthesize the Talmud, Augustine, Calvin, Blackstone, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Kant, Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Marx, Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Stalin, to make as much profit as possible (Talmud), promote anti-civil theological strife (Augustine), give others a sense of ontological doom (Calvin), to the very edge of the common law and legality (Blackstone), to be as individualistic as possible (Franklin) even in the most dire circumstances (Douglass), while gaslighting as many others as possible (Kant), knowing what their traditions and prejudices are (Burke, de Maistre), absolutely criticizing and demoralizing others (Marx), annihilating all belief in tradition and theology (Lenin), provoking fears of racial cuckoldry (Hitler) and racial conflict for maximum chaos (Rosenberg) while terrorizing and spreading fear to control others (Stalin) all to my advantage and others disadvantage

Thoughts?

> “. . . No war is any longer possible for Prussia-Germany except a world war and a world war indeed of an extent and violence hitherto undreamt of. Eight to ten millions of soldiers will massacre one another and in doing so devour the whole of Eurepe until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done. The devastations of the Thirty Years’ War compressed into three or four years, and spread over the whole Continent; famine, pestilence, general demoralisation both of the armies and of the mass of the people produced by acute distress; hopeless confusion of our artificial machinery in trade, industry and credit, ending in general bankruptcy; collapse of the old states and their traditional state wisdom to such an extent that crowns will roll by dozens on the pavement and there will be no body to pick them up; absolute impossibility of foreseeing how it will all end and who will come out of the struggle as victor; only one result is absolutely certain: general exhaustion and the establishment of the conditions for the ultimate victory of the working class.

>“This is the prospect when the system of mutual outbidding in armaments, taken to the final extreme, at last bears its inevitable fruits. This, my lords, princes and statesmen, is where in your wisdom you have brought old Europe. And when nothing more remains to you but to open the last great war dance—that will suit us all right (uns kann es recht sein ). The war may perhaps push us temporarily into the background, may wrench from us many a position already conquered. But when you have unfettered forces which you will then no longer be able again to control, things may go as they will: at the end of the tragedy you will be ruined and the victory of the proletariat will either be already achieved or at any rate (doch ) inevitable.
- Friedrich Engels

> I saw a terrible flood that covered all the northern and low-lying lands between the North Sea and the Alps. It reached from England up to Russia, and from the coast of the North Sea right up to the Alps. I saw yellow waves, swimming rubble, and the death of countless thousands. … I also saw a sea of blood over the northern lands. “I saw yellow waves, swimming rubble and the death of countless thousands… Two weeks passed then the vision returned, still more violent than before, and an inner voice spoke: ‘Look at it, it is completely real, and it will come to pass. You cannot doubt this.’ ”
>On July 31st, immediately after my lecture, I learned from the newspapers that war had brokenout. Finally I understood. And when I disembarked in Holland on the next day, nobodywas happier than I. Now I was sure that no schizophrenia was threatening me. Iunderstood that my dreams and visions came to me from the subsoil of the collective unconscious.
- Carl C.G Jung

What did Friedrich Engels and Carl Jung have in common to predict WWI?

What's your opinion on reading the texts of enemy schools of thought?

Who is the right-wing counterpart to Karl Marx?

What single right-wing author's name can be used as a slur the same way "Marxist" is for lefts?

How do you use your well-readness to hurt, dominate, browbeat, enslave and potentially kill others?

How do you use your well-readness to hurt, dominate, browbeat, enslave and potentially others?

> "They borrowed names they heard on the radio for feared fighters: “Biso toza ba Taliban” (we are Taliban), they told villagers. Several of them gave themselves nicknames of international bad guys; Ghadaffi was a popular one. Later in the war, Osamas began popping up. Years later, some Congolese villagers told me that the leader of the AFDL troops in their area had been Rambo or Chuck Norris." p. 122

> "Close by, a Voice of America reporter found a mass grave containing the remains of a hundred people who, according to villagers, were refugees massacred by the rebels. Rwandan Bibles and identity cards were scattered amid human remains and UN food bags." p. 137

> A Congolese friend once described the curse of Congolese politics as “the reverse Midas effect.” “Anything touched by politics in the Congo turns to shit,” he told me. “It doesn’t matter if the Holy Father himself decides to run for president, he will inevitably come out corrupt, power-hungry, and guilty of breaking all ten of the holy commandments.” p. 314

> "The way the victims were killed said as much as the number of dead; they displayed a macabre fascination with human anatomy. The survivors said the chief’s heart had been cut out and his wife’s genitals were gone. The soldiers had taken them. It wasn’t enough to kill their victims; they disfigured and played with the bodies. They disemboweled one woman by cutting her open between her anus and vagina, then propped up the dead body on all fours and left her with her buttocks facing upwards. Another corpse was given two slits on either side of his belly, where his hands were inserted. “Anavaa koti—they made him look like he was wearing a suit,” the villagers told me." p. 257

> "I had barely finished when a woman at the back cried out: “Baba! All of us, all of us here have been raped! Every single one of us!”
A dozen other women raised their voices in angry agreement as the men looked at their feet, shaking their heads.
A woman in a green headscarf and pink sweater pushed her way to the front. “I have a child from rape. My husband doesn’t like me anymore because of it. And the men who did it to me are around still in this village! They are our own children who joined the Mai-Mai!” p. 263

Capitalism is shit and the downfall will be fucking ugly

>>22110067
>Gay
You aren't gay. Lair.

What's the most /lit/ fast food chain to work for when you're 30?

Any books that capture the life of the superfluous academic, doing trivial work for trivial publications, at universities of secondary importance?

Anons in academia, do you feel like the work you do is genuinely important?

>>21568908
>As an Indo-European
>Greek "mythology" lacks the philosophical rigor
>Schopenhauer

>>21376958
um that thing is really ugly though the frog is a qt.

For the past year or two I have only read books whilst on the toilet. Ranging from basic crime novels to Hegel. Can't mentally focus to read anywhere else anymore.