/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15434571]

>the bush told me you gotta free my people

[Anonymous No.15434580]

Has anyone ever commented on the symbolic significance of the burning bush?
Have always been confused by that since childhood.

[Anonymous No.15434586]

>slave comes to me and says a bush commands me to free his people
>says i will get plagues and bees
>laugh and tell him to go away
>plagues and bees arrive
>bush was real

[Anonymous No.15434591]

>>15434580
yes
I think the importance is just that its a burning object which symbolizes life (a plant) that is not consumed despite burning
but I've wondered why a bush in particular was selected

[Anonymous No.15434592]

>>15434580
>inb4 it's bullshit
does it matter?

[Anonymous No.15434597]

>trust me guys
>the sea will separate

[Anonymous No.15434611]

>>15434580
Knausgaard talks about in book 5 or 6 of My Struggle. He essentially says that fire is the only element in the universe that ceases to exist. It is brought into existence and then snuffed out. Only to be brought back in the exact same form unchanged at a different time and location. It is this property of fire that encompasses the divine. Its ability to be brought into existence, cease to exist, and brought back unchanged. Knausgaard obviously worded it better, so I'll see if I can find the passage.

[Anonymous No.15434639]

>>15434580
>Bible has symbols
Nigga the jews who wrote this garbo couldn't get basic storytelling right much less symbolism

[Anonymous No.15434640]

>>15434611
>retard doesn't know how combustion works and writes a book about it

[Anonymous No.15434654]

>murder, rape, steal, and lie whole life
>right before dying call the priest and say I'm sorry
>go to heaven
Sayonara, suckers

[Anonymous No.15434691]

>>15434654
>he thinks there's a heaven
you're going straight to the soul sucking chambers where you'll be turn into energy to feed the silver city life support

[Anonymous No.15434714]

>aight israelites, I'm gonna leave for a couple days to talk with G-d, restrain yourself from doing anything too retarded
>come back
>fucking kikes are already worshipping a bull made of gold

[Anonymous No.15434776]

>>15434611
>>15434640
Found it! It's in Book 5
1/4

[Anonymous No.15434784]

>>15434776
2/4

[Anonymous No.15434796]

>>15434776
Are all 5000 or whatever pages of Mein Kampf just r/showerthoughts like this?

[Anonymous No.15434801]

>>15434784
3/4

[Anonymous No.15434814]

>>15434801
4/4

[Anonymous No.15434841]

>>15434580

The Master Rene Guenon (pbuh) did so in his book 'The Symbolism of the Cross', in the 17th chapter titled "Ontology of the Burning Bush"

[Anonymous No.15434868]

>>15434796
Sometimes. It's mostly him reminiscing about his life. Each book has a central topic. Book 1 is about his Dad, his Dad's death, and Knausgaard coming to terms with the man his father was and the overbearing influence his father had on his life. Book 2 is about his second marriage, love, and raising kids. Book 3 is all about his childhood, growing up and making friends, and childhood crushes. Book 4 is all about his quest to lose his virginity, his experience as a teacher at a school, and his burgeoning desire to be a writer. Book 5 is about his active pursuit of becoming a writer and all that entailed, failure included, but ending with him successfully being published, his Dad's death, and him going to Sweden where he ultimately marries his wife Linda. Book 5 brings the arc full circle back to Books 1 and 2. Book 6 is a metanarrative. It's about the fallout/effect writing My Struggle has on his life and him expressing why he felt the need to write the book and why a book about his Dad was so important to him.

[Anonymous No.15434873]

>>15434868
>Chapter 1. My dad died.

[Anonymous No.15434895]

>>15434873
What's your problem?

[Anonymous No.15434899]

>>15434895
I cannot choose only one.

[Anonymous No.15434924]

>>15434654
Considering the lifestyle of god’s favorite son David, I don’t see why I should be ashamed of my hedonism. At least I never sent a guy to go out and die for me so I could screw his wife.

[Anonymous No.15434941]

>>15434580
>symbolic significance of the burning bush
It is a foreshadowing of the blessed Mother of God, who birthed the Logos without being burnt.

[Anonymous No.15434956]

>>15434924
Just because something is permissible to the chosen doesn't mean it's permissible to you.
That's the significance of being chosen, you dumb brainlet. Comparing yourself to David is of course a bourgeois absurdity, but then again this wouldn't be /lit/ if it wasn't for the implicit conviction in democratic egalitarianism in every post at which I come here to laugh.

[Anonymous No.15435009]

>>15434580
>>15434580
joe rogan says he was on some psychedelic trip so he was imagining things, maybe even some ayahuasca type bush that contains dmt

[Anonymous No.15435030]

>>15435009
>joe rogan says he was on some psychedelic trip so he was imagining things, maybe even some ayahuasca type bush that contains dmt

[Anonymous No.15435056]

>>15434841
based...