/lit/ - Literature

>>22489131
being called delusional by a christer apologist is badge of honor

>>21326413
neue monke comes next

>>19780483
>It is best to go back to the Iron Age.
cringe. take ape pill instead

>>19692929
If you can make someone respond to a sentence with an essay and they still haven't refuted you then you have had a good psychic harvest

>>19635251
>people are out to get me aaaaa save me volcano demon

>>18662248
Just read Baudrillard. The drudging up of extinct thought today amounts to an overproduction of ideological waste, same as industrial waste and pollution. The antique is desired as a sign of true being and solidity, because it lies closer to the myth of origin. Amerishart ecelebs babbling about gnosticism or stoicism are just trying to escape into myth and avoid their own ephemerality.

>>18575035
>read a book
On /lit/? Maybe. Is there anything here that isn't in Nietzsche? Also I'm sure he is misreading Darwin anyway. Fitness isn't always tied to raw strength it is just a function of how well something reproduces. So in all likelihood if I had to guess, his complaint would be that might should make right, but that society is obstructing this process from occurring? Society is inherently weak individuals banded together to protect themselves from threats, which may include other individuals (and societies). I suppose you could imagine a society of stronger equals dominating weaker equals (doesn't this already exist?), but these primitivist jeremiads tend to become absurd past a certain point.

>>18516838
>>18516843
Read part 3 of The Accursed Share. Sovereignty (what you would call being "noble") is incompatible with work. All work is the reduction of man to a thing, to an input, enslaved to a temporal end. Why would anyone be surprised at the increasing degeneration of work in socities which value efficiency, i.e. expediting the end? And if you want to pinpoint where the end replaced sovereignty on a spiritual level it is with the introduction of the life-negating, anti-dionysaic monotheistic counter-religions, and their subordination of all life to a promised eternal continuity after death.

>>18442664
>the Traditionalists (The One True Religion used to be and is fading) and the Perennialists (the One True Religion is yet to be and must be created).
These are effectively the same thing, from a Pragmatist, i.e. uninvested, perspective. If TOTR is fading that means what exists are decaying copies, therefore it no longer exists, therefore it is to be (re)created. These views lead to the same end for the invested party, to bring about TOTR. On the other hand, there is a certain naivete to thinking it can be repeated and not then decay again. Which I think some of these people grasp in their notions of cyclical time, but not all of them really get what underlies cyclical time, why a creator is also a destructor, and so forth, and become highly attached to this idea of TOTR and identifying which "tradition" kept the most of as an afterimage. This then devolves into petty slave moralities, with the respective dialecticians not even aware that they've implicitly renounced the very mastery of values-creation that made the tradition-shades they are gasping at even possible.

>>17790086
>there must be something like a first cause which permits them to exist since they are not individually eternal and hence need to originate from somewhere.
Not really, no. Why would the non-eternal need to come from the eternal? That's not very non-dual of you.

>>17581369
Based

>>17427816
When Buddhists use these sorts of atman-esque constructs they are always within the context of Madhyamaka, in other words even if you are claiming a dharmakaya or some cosmic body of Vairochana Buddha as the ultimate ground for reality, dharmadhatu, and so forth, this is equated to the teachings on emptiness, sunyata. The non-Buddhists do not equate henosis or pantheism or other related ideas to emptiness. It is less that Vajrayana or Shingon or whatever are teaching atman and more that they are teaching emptiness to people conditioned to believe in henosis or pantheism.

>>17395121
Reject the Bucklad Vidalite dichotomy, embrace esoteric pongoism

>>17379992
>130+ IQ: skipping over all the big words and looking at profile picture

this unironically

>>17322869
Movies:
>The Seventh Seal
>Nosferatu the Vampyre
>Perfect Blue
>Blues Brothers
>Loving Vincent
Albums:
>qp by Ichiko Aoba
>Etazhi by Molchat Doma
>Come In by Weatherday
>The Gereg by Th Hu
>Natural Born Losers by Nicole Dollanganger
Books:
>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
>Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
>Ficciones by Borges
>The Good Soldier Svejk
>The Canterbury Tales
>>17323272
>Les Chasseurs De La Nuit
Very based.
>Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy
>Junger - On the Marble Cliffs
Extremely based. Good taste all around anon.
>>17322879
Not Bowies best album, nor Shakespeare's best work, but good taste nonetheless.
>>17322949
>Riot Riot Upstart by Agnostic Front
>Complete Discography by Minor Threat
>Live Free, Die Free by The Gonads
Wew lad, that's some fine taste. Can't say I've heard of those books though.

>>17267899
I'll have to check my folders, but a good starting point in general is Felix Grougnard's Course on Saussurean Simianotics.

>>17149569
Realizing that there is no humanity, a man dwells in monke

>>16464119
>everyone is decadent and horrible
(You) are not excluded from this, no matter how much of a philosopher you think you are. Merely apeing the opinions of dead ascetics will get you nowhere. You must return to monke

>>16116254
Ooo ooo aa