/lit/ - Literature

girardfag, i summon thee!

When God told Man not to eat from the tree Satan came and tricked him, through the idiocy of Woman, into thinking that it was a tree of knowledge. It was not. Mans original sin is the conceit of knowledge. It is no coincidence that any honest pursuit of knowledge leads to God. The conceit of knowledge is the beginning of all sin, the remedy is philosophy.

The only fun
Here is to come
And raise suns

>>10983126
Okay Nancy Reagan. No brains are "fried" from ingesting these particular chemicals. LSD, mushrooms, and DMT (to name a few) are all physiologically harmless. No malfunction occurs, but your perception is definitely altered during the experience. Because of this physiological harmlessness, coupled with the tiny amount of the chemical is needed to produce such a profoundly impactful experience and altered state, makes these chemicals superior to the majority of other chemicals we categorize as "drugs". You call it escapism but they aren't escaping from anything. If anything, you are becoming more sensitive to impressions of the external world and become more aware of your interpretations of those impressions.

>>10983172
Little "revolutionary potential" (whatever that is) is wasted with these chemicals. If used responsibly, these chemicals would be ingested only a handful of times a year in as high of a dose as one could handle. Plenty of time to left to waste on petty conflicts over material, if that kind of nonsense still appeals to you after such an experience.

>>10548200
Yes, though Dante resorts to the physical form of light to portray the incorporeality of Paradise, he does so with reason. This is built on the medieval light metaphysics put forth by thinkers such as Robert Grosseteste: light is regarded as the first and highest form, distinct from all other forms of matter, bearing semblance to the angelic order of the intelligences. It has an analagous relations to these forms, "light is incorporeity itself." This is also driven by the centuries-old equation of the Godhead with the metaphor of the sun - one cannot bear to look at the sun directly, underscoring the ineffability of God (the divine darkness which is really a superabundance of light), but one can 'see' the emanations of light that proceed from the sun. Indeed, it is light itself that enables the faculty of sight in the first place. It is itself the condition of possibility for all vision.

>>9742109
NO!!!!!

What is your favourite story of the creation of man, /lit/?