/lit/ - Literature

>>11806616
I understand that sentiment. But I do think it maintains a difference in kind. God is "off the spectrum of perfection". If you think of perfection as being assigned a number, then God is beyond any number, he is completely perfect, and therefore infinitely perfect. So I think it does maintain a difference of kind (finite vs infinite).

>>11735321
>>11735308
I'll check these out

>>11735315
I'm trying to gain as much wisdom from the Bible as I can. I'm currently reading John.

>>11721601
In the essay Heidegger speaks of HR departments and medical clinics as examples of revealing other humans as standing reserve. In our day and age, social media multiplies these effects a hundredfold; nowadays identities are such a farce it's just sad. The other is now only a means of validation.

I cannot think of a more perfect example of a challenging-forth than the pressure to maintain a social media presence. It is such an excellent example that I believe it even deserves a different recognition: it is a fracturing of the world. The world is now the actual and the digital, with the digital ever encroaching upon the territory (what remains of it, at least) of the real.

However, what I find even more disturbing is the attempt to "solve the problem", the "movement" to give up social media. As if that were at the root of the problem! The problem began centuries ago. Now it has sprouted and grown tall. Who of us is lumberjacker enough for our today? Who will save us?

This will only grow worse. It makes one want to betray the world and leave it behind, becoming a hermit somewhere or another, taking up a small cabin up in Maine.

Is this our only hope?

I get it now, fascism, that is. I think I get what Heidegger saw. I get how it seduces the twenty-something. I understand its presence in places like /pol/. It all makes sense. People know, deep down, that there is something wrong with the world. Something is unnatural, not quite right. But we all feel helpless. And our lame attempts to "diagnose" the problem ("jews!", "multiculturalism!", "globalists!") are simply last ditch efforts, last signs of a failing health, to strike on final blow against our situation. I get the seduction of fascism. Compared to what politics has become (really, what it always was). "Democrats" and "Republicans": two factions of the techno-industrial-complex. Bickering. Whining. Moaning. The noise, O the painful noise. Make it stop!

But is fascism the answer?

>>11708162
You are right to say I am concerned about this. I am greatly concerned. You know, sometimes words just don't seem to cut it, they just sit there like dead signs. How can one really express oneself? I suppose only by reawakening in the other what that one has already experienced.

But anyway, I gave your essay a read. I even gave it a second read. It has certainly led me to me to think of writing an essay like it, in order to get my thoughts down (so that I can see what they even are).

I am curious: what do you prescribe? How do you answer the question of how to live one's life?