/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6801578]

What's the most powerful aesthetic (preferably literary) experience you've had?

[Anonymous No.6801590]

in basic military training, we were practicing pugilism with those massive padded q-tip like practice weapons

the guy i was against was twice my height

couldn't protest or anything

it felt like i was going to die

when the match started, he struck my face so fast i don't even remember seeing it happen

but i fell backward on my heels

it was like a camera shot slowly tilting up into the sky

as my head hit the floor, there was this crush i felt throughout my entire body, and then i was unconscious for a few minutes

i woke up a few minutes later and thanked the guy who almost killed me for the experience

[Anonymous No.6801596]

>>6801578
When I was 4 or 5 my parents gave me a casette which told the story how Mozart came up with the Magic Flute and told the story of the opera, too. Until today the aria of the queen of the night gives me chills and every once in a while I'm catching myself singing Papagenos bird catcher song when I'm alone.

[Anonymous No.6801598]

https://youtu.be/h018rMnA0pM

[Anonymous No.6801613]

>>6801598
Heh, I downloaded that version once. It all looks very cheesy and cheap but the music is great. Luciana Serra gives an awesome performance as the queen of the night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ivOUsjcxo

[Anonymous No.6801631]

https://youtu.be/J9neFAM4uZM

[Anonymous No.6801633]

>>6801631
I never understood that meme. He was great as mayor Carcetti though.

[Anonymous No.6801634]

My family has a real bad cuck history. I remember once getting chills and crying as I recited some lines to myself about Juno persecuting Aeneas.

[Anonymous No.6801709]

call me a pleb i dont care, its still the most magnificent portrait ive ever seen

[Anonymous No.6801711]

probably tripping on acid for the third time, first time I broke through

[Anonymous No.6801722]

>>6801711
In the same vein; mushrooms probably the 4th time or something. Somehow everything around me became a piece of art.

[Anonymous No.6801757]

>>6801711
>>6801722
Yeah, this. Listened to that Shpongle song with some reversed poetry in chinese and thought I was a wise Han dynasty kung fu teacher. I was also eating noodles meanwhile, so I had full immersion obviously

Also the Blue audiovisual project by Iamamiwhoami has recently made a big change to my aesthetic preferences, but maybe you have to be Swedish to get it 100%.

[Anonymous No.6801758]

>>6801711
>>6801722
First time mushrooms for me

[Anonymous No.6801779]

>>6801709
how?

[Anonymous No.6801796]

>>6801634
>My family has a real bad cuck history.
my parents used to have "swingers parties" at our house when i was a kid. they told me to stay upstairs.

i remember once opening the dishwasher in the morning only to find a bunch of dildos and sex toys and shit in it (i had no clue what they were at the time)

my dad is a total cuck and it hurts me to this day knowing that i share his jeans

[Anonymous No.6801805]

>>6801796
cuckolding != swinging you 14 year old virgin

[Anonymous No.6801815]

>>6801796
you guys share clothes?

>>6801805
his mom obviously got banged by plenty of dudes at those parties you obtuse mongloid.

[Anonymous No.6801829]

>>6801805
yes i know, but my dad was actually into cuckolding

i'm 30 fyi and not a virgin

[Anonymous No.6801842]

>>6801779
what do you mean by how?

[Anonymous No.6801849]

so much pleb

[Anonymous No.6802007]

>>6801578

Certainly not looking at a Barnett Newman painting, let alone reading about one, that's for sure. :^)

Book-wise I got to the Grand Inquisitor in B's K, and I had not been "primed" for the section in any way. Once I got into it I remember actually sitting up as a teenager and going "oh, this guy (Dostoevsky) is DEEP...!" It was only after I read the thing that it turned out to be a famous segment of the book.

Music wise, I've had a number of good experiences, but /lit/ has bad taste in music, so.

[Anonymous No.6802037]

>>6801709
back in the good old days reproductions of paintings were impossible so the only way to see any one painting was by making a journey to the place where it was shown. now paintings are made into images that travel to us instead. this cheapens the painting. interestingly enough, the more it is repeated, the cheaper it feels; the more it is reproduced the less of it does one see, as it becomes more and more of a coloured surface than a picture with depth. the mona lisa has become an icon which obscures itself: the painting has become impossible to see.

[Anonymous No.6802043]

>>6801805

Not that guy but you'll have to blame 4chan's rapid 'expansion' of the phrase, tbh. Muh Changing of Language, that type of thing.

In thinking about the, ahem, expansion of the meaning of the word, from the straight male point of view, this new-cuck-word... it makes sense as a shaming tool. It doesn't do a straight guy any good at all for another guy to be fucking his girl, taking his land, etc. This lost pride-sense of "cuck" extends into every context: /int/ uses the word to refer to union jacks pasted on other country's flags (or territory annexed), /sp/ uses it any time a team has scored, to shame the other team. It's a PRIDE thing. To be cucked in this sense is to have your power level sapped in whatever fashion, all of which goes straight back to the (straight) man's ability to sexually access women, and both metaphorically and literally harms same. Every heterosexual man understands this, which I believe is part of why the word has caught on so rapidly, easily.

The other component to this is that they want their own word to expand past absurdity. I believe the grabbing of "cuck" is a kind of reaction to the feminist stretching of "rape".

[Anonymous No.6802945]

>>6802037

>the most photographed barn in america stopped existing when it became the most photographed barn in america

please tell me this was a reference

[Anonymous No.6802965]

>>6802037
walter benjamin, dissolution of "aura" effect

honestly I don't agree with it, but I do agree that I can't say that I've ever seen the painting. And you cannot say that by becoming an item it becomes of less value, it's only the nature of its value that is changed. Quite remarkable that a painting can now have the same status as, say, a TV celebrity had in the 60's

[Anonymous No.6802971]

>>6802965
and you cannot say that by becoming an icon*

[Anonymous No.6803010]

>>6802037

Marxist claptrap, except that you are correct in the sense that images become taken for granted. Hoever, people do stop every so often, to actually look at something. Mass reproduction actually renders it possible for greater numbers of people to do so, with respect to some one image.

[Anonymous No.6803060]

>>6802043
Why is there so much chucking in old literature? The tone of the Decameron and of the Canterbury Tales is generally pretty light and yet everyone's made a cuck in them stories, all these men dropping in power level as you say. Ulysses gave cuckoldry some pathos but that was later. Even the One Thousand and One Nights apparently has many cuck stories and I thought their culture were touchy about their women engaging in debased things.

[Anonymous No.6803081]

>>6801578
Watching Naruto's 19th episode.

[Anonymous No.6803082]

jerked off to haruki murakami describing a boob

[Anonymous No.6803149]

One time a couple years back I was being driven home by my dad from a day-trip to Mt. Rushmore (it was a very long trip - 12-13 hours if I recall correctly. He lived in northeastern Missouri.), and by the time it was 1:00 AM or so I was, understandably enough, pretty goddamn tired. I was listening to Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space, which is normally not my favorite piece of music, but, in that altered state that is extreme sleepiness, I was able to read the cycles of Finnegans Wake and Giambattista Vico into the songs, and was so inspired that, though it was like 3:00 AM by the time we got home, I was inspired enough to create a diagram of how I perceived the cycles of the album. Unfortunately, I've lost the diagram I made, and can no longer remember clearly the significance I read into the album. Of course, I recognized that Spiritualized had no intention of pairing his album with Finnegans Wake, but nonetheless it worked for me. So that's certainly up there, and is what immediately comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.6803167]

>>6801578
Trying to get into Mishima for the first time. I know he's a meme writer like DFW and Stirner here but honestly the fucking prose in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea was oppressively, excessively beautiful, I had to take breaks so I wouldn't suffocate in the pages.
Felt the same way with the Torture Garden and Against Nature after I got some recs in a sharethread here.

[Anonymous No.6803175]

Holy shit, all boards on 4chan went to the shitter ever since a monkey mumbled "cuck"

[Anonymous No.6803185]

>>6803175
It's always been shit you delusional fuck

[Anonymous No.6803189]

>>6803185
Not as much as now

[The cats No.6803193]

>>6803167
>I know he's a meme writer.

Stop being new and posting retard

[Anonymous No.6803199]

Spike Spiegel saying BANG

[Anonymous No.6803208]

>>6803185
Never used to be quite this bad though.

You used to have to be somewhat original, and actually funny, to get a laugh here. Now the site has been gentrified by MRA memesters who circle jerk each other with CUCK and BIG Guy memes, and who I'm not so certain are even joking anymore.

[Anonymous No.6803216]

>>6803208
B-But I actually like Baneposting, if only for its ad-absurdum component.

[Anonymous No.6803217]

Book Club with the girl I'm in love.

[Anonymous No.6803219]

Airplane seat, sea beneath.
Whole world, gone.

Look at the sea, so silent.
Nothing speaks.

Shut up now, or you won't understand this moment.

Tranquil...

(every single time)

[Anonymous No.6803223]

>>6803208
there's a lot more of /pol/'s white supremacy than inane memery by a long shot, I think their traffic is driving the latter into enclaves as places like /int/ and /tv/ are filling up with fanaticism

[Anonymous No.6803235]

"The Highwayman" poem
"There Will Come Soft Rains" poem

[Anonymous No.6803239]

ulysses tbh

[Anonymous No.6803250]

Bach English suite bouree 1 (19:00 in this vid), http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RBULK00aK9Q

And all of French suite

[Anonymous No.6803251]

>>6803219
Airplanes are loud tho.

[Anonymous No.6803272]

>>6803251

Loudness acts as silence, enveloping you.

[Anonymous No.6803300]

>>6801590
thanked the guy? what?

never joining the military

[Anonymous No.6803341]

>>6803223
There is no white supremacist conspiracy to annoy you on 4chan. Identity politics and race relations have been getting a lot of media coverage in the past several years, with the general tone of these discussions becoming more confrontational, condescending, and aggressive. Couple that with increased immigration to Western countries, the failures of multiculturalism, and a rebirth of 90s political correctness in the mainstream media and on college campuses, and you are going to see a lot of backlash against progressive social beliefs.

[Anonymous No.6803358]

this is more of an anti-answer but

The series Hannibal seriously injured my view on art and the value of "aesthetic experiences."

picrelated

Hannibal being maybe the wicked interpretation of Nietzsche's übermensch, although the writers go far beyond Nietzsche or existentialism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3ABpCNJrs

in the 2nd season finale they play the aria of goldberg's variations, which I had long associated with raw beauty and essence, after hannibal slaughters a shit ton of main characters. it made me fucking angry, that they would chose that particular song and strip away its innocence. beauty can never be innocent, it will capture your attention and shape any view you want it with its lulling voice, but without beauty what is a human life worth all for or some shit like that

[Anonymous No.6803556]

>>6802007
Barnett Newman:
>'Aesthetics for me like ornithology must be like for the birds'

[Anonymous No.6803579]

>>6803300
its only for people that enjoy being cucked and obeying orders and being abused

[Anonymous No.6803583]

Leaves of Grass fucked my shit up.

I cried like a bitch despite trying to kill that in myself along time ago after a hard childhood. And i work with counseling and hear such fucked shit all the time, so you start telling yourself you can distance the tender part of you from reality and well, i could not. And it all came back at once.

I've never read anything that honestly gave me the sensation of being hit all at once by some powerful force of emotion. So drastically that it really did feel physical.

I was just reading along minding my own business then suddenly out of nowhere i was crying. But not in a sad way. I was crying because i felt like life was beautiful and precious and temporary and i had not felt like that since i can remember. I don't know if i ever really felt like that before .

[Anonymous No.6803604]

Watching Vertigo, Nashville, Sunrise and the last scene of City Lights (the rest of the film too)

[Anonymous No.6803612]

>>6803583

"But I must have [felt] this before, since I am [feeling] it now"

[Anonymous No.6803613]

>>6803358
Hannibal is so fucking pretentious.

[Anonymous No.6803626]

>>6801815
And his dad probably banged a lot of ladies. What's your point?

[Anonymous No.6803633]

>>6801578
listening to Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians live

it was absolutely perfect

[Anonymous No.6803637]

>>6801578
Nonlit was probably dropping acid in an art park and getting lost in the woods. I was thinking about my girlfriend and that turned the trip into a weird erotic adventure where I was making love to the earth. I was mashing my feet in warm mud, my skin was tingling in the sunlight, water was running slowly down every slope, big or small. I felt like I was constantly on the brink of orgasm. A++.

Literary, I'm not sure yet. I'm not as well read as I'd like. Maybe reading A Clean Well-Lighted Place for the first time. Or the description of Eva (?) In Uncle Tom's Cabin when I was in school. She was surrounded by holy light. Or the fiddler in Night that fiddles as a crowd of people stampedes about him (also from middle school, I was a good goy).

[Anonymous No.6803643]

>>6803633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmX_GgozpQs

superior

[Anonymous No.6803669]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS3PGKUiSco

Have some classic Taiwanese Hieroglyphs and be enlightened.

[Anonymous No.6803852]

>>6803643
these are very different tbh

i mean i like knee 5 from einstein on the beach too, but imo it is too much of a conceptual piece

[Anonymous No.6803874]

When i was around 20 i was arrested for a nickelbag of weed and it pretty much destroyed my life. i lost my license even though i wasnt driving, and had began suffering frequent panic attacks which lasted a few years and led to a nervous breakdown. i was also sentenced to community service, and i did maintenance around the city hall/library and snuck away into the the woods nearby and had a cigarette. it was very relaxing.

[Anonymous No.6803908]

>>6801578

Honestly, I can't think of anything.

I live a very uneventual and dispassionate life.

[Anonymous No.6803984]

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L44Ml8K_mDg
2) the last few episodes of NGE/EoE, I was extremely angsty after being forced to move away from the girl I lost my everything-virginity to, I chugged the series out in two days, and by the end I wouldn't stop crying.
3) My baptism.
4) During the summer before my freshman year of university, I decided to spend a week playing LSD: Dream Emulator, only breaking to eat and buy more caffeine tablets. Eventually, I became so immersed that I began to believe it was real.
5) My senior year of high school in general, everything went perfectly.
Bonus: a week into carving a bust of my fiance, I began to truly appreciate her facial structure.

I've read a lot of books, but never had an extreme experience from one.

[Anonymous No.6804043]

>>6803341
Just because the Weimar Republic had failed, that doesn't mean the Nazi Party was the answer, or even "understandable" in the sense that you're putting it.

[Anonymous No.6804174]

1. Diego Rivera's mural at the Detroit Institute of art.

2. Philip Glass' minimal piano composition made me tear up when I watched him playing a small concert on tv.

3. L'Abbe C by Georges Bataille. The ending made me curl into a ball and sob viciously until white light felt like it was stabbing me in the middle of my brain. After a while my stomach muscles clenched so hard from racking sobs that I felt nauseous. It wasn't sad, though. It was this crushing realization of horror that seems to lie at the core of existence.

[Anonymous No.6804183]

>>6803984
>3) My baptism.
How the hell do you remember this? Or are you some late covert fag?

[Anonymous No.6804206]

>>6804183
I was 18, I was raised Anglican.

[Anonymous No.6804209]

Making a solo open field tackle on a guy running full speed who's 60 pounds heavier than me

Getting the ball on offense and breaking that same guy's ankles, seeing open field

Looking into the mirror and seeing a rugby player's physique pic related

Reading postmodern lit and realizing everything is shit so I might as well fight and fuck for a lifestyle

[Anonymous No.6804240]

I remember first reading The Great Gatsby when I was about 11. I wasn't used to such eloquence so I think I cried a little when I read the first few paragraphs. I didn't even understand it well, but it just flowed so perfect to me.

[Anonymous No.6804314]

>>6802043
>being this autistic

[Anonymous No.6804320]

>>6804209
how's your ass looking?

[Anonymous No.6804325]

Where the Red Fern Grows

[Anonymous No.6804342]

>>6804320
Grotesquely perfect. These are from like 4 months ago too

[Anonymous No.6804349]

>>6803341
>Identity politics

White nationalism is identity politics incarnate. It invests almost the entirety of a stormfag's sense of pride and persecution in his group identity. SJWs are also identity driven and fucking annoying, but nowhere near on the scale of white nationalists' "day of the rope" escapist wank fantasies and cartoonish "muh jews" conspiracy theories.

[Anonymous No.6804370]

>>6804342
>>6804320
Why is this board so gay?
>>>/soc/

[Anonymous No.6804391]

>>6804370
you think perfecting the male physique is gay? i'm just posting my j00cy male ass on an anonymous image board, nothing gay about it.

[Anonymous No.6804507]

>>6804342
pretty joocy. any more pics?

rugby seems like a fun sport, apart from the concussions and all.

[Anonymous No.6804574]

>>6803167
what translation?

[Anonymous No.6804596]

>>6801578
>What's the most powerful aesthetic (preferably literary) experience you've had?

Reading Kafka on acid. There was literally a Jew Cockroach Hybrid in my room.

[Anonymous No.6804628]

>most of the posts in this thread aren't literature

I knew you fucks didn't read

[Anonymous No.6804722]

>>6803358
Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Hannibal is what would happen if an evil person became an ubermensch

[Anonymous No.6804724]

>>6804507
Upper body is hilariously out of proportion but catching up

[Anonymous No.6804750]

>>6803358
>making it to the end of season 2
That show went full anime-tier in season 2

[Anonymous No.6804776]

>>6804724
yea SS will do that to you

[Anonymous No.6804814]

>>6804776
true but i do actually have a shit ton of functional strength (core and legs). can deadlift 500 for a single and squat 405. it translates more into my sport than any brosplit bs. and i don't do ss, but i do compounds primarily (exclusively)

[Anonymous No.6804884]

>>6804209
Nice rug burn on your knees, you cock smoker. Pretty average physique, tbh.

[Anonymous No.6804903]

>>6804884
no it's really not average, but it is actually really gross.

[Anonymous No.6804919]

>>6801578
Probably Stephen Dedalus' epiphany in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

[Anonymous No.6804961]

Did shrooms with some mates a couple years back. I first fucked the Sun, then time-traveled

Also ecstasy last year in my last year in my previous uni, before I ran out of money and had to move back home. Now I get pleasure from hating my new uni, which I believe is a sentient being set on destroying my soul slowly

[Anonymous No.6805040]

The first massacre in Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.6805050]

>>6804961
hell yeah man

i would also call psychedelics ascetic because they're incredibly challenging for me . this is why i love them

[Anonymous No.6805065]

>>6803219

May I add, using the toilet and realizing you're doing so IN THE SKY

[Anonymous No.6805152]

>>6804342
p qt m8

[Anonymous No.6805168]

>>6804961
>>6805050

lol men on psychedelics are so dumb
wow man i saw the Whole World and understood existence!!!

[Anonymous No.6805237]

>>6805168
>lol men on
>men

Why do you have to do that? That kind of bait isn't even fun

[Anonymous No.6805245]

>>6801578
For literary it would have to be Lolita, Franny and Zooey, and Dubliners/Portrait.

To be honest ever since I got over my rolling panic attacks life just has random moments that seem incredibly powerful. Just immense relief.

[Anonymous No.6805355]

>>6805245
Oh man, Franny and Zooey has to be one of the most enjoyable things I've read. Do you know anything else like it?

[Anonymous No.6805379]

>>6801633
FUCKING SPOILERS MAN IM JUST STARING SEASON 4

[Anonymous No.6805429]

I have 4 vivid experiences that come to mind, the first 3 of which are musical.
The last was the first time I was on a plane; I was 20 and reading about some ancient African tribe's technological capabilities for a bullshit elective in college when it hit me that I was riding a giant flying metal can designed and built by man. For some reason the whole thing was very cyclical to me and I broke down crying.

[Anonymous No.6805504]

Riding my bicycle with my friends as an adolescent during the autumn. It was a beautiful day, and I remember looking around and thinking "I'll remember this day forever. It's perfect." That was 15 years ago, and I can still recall that moment vividly. It was almost metaphysical in perfection.

[Anonymous No.6805615]

>>6803613

It's ridiculous. Like Batman-tier ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.6805628]

>>6805355
The rest of Salinger is very good.

But besides that no not really. It is difficult to find, at least for me, a novel or short story that is able to earn a happy ending the way Franny and Zooey does. Not only that but the characters themselves are some of my favorites just because they seem to care so much about what they are dealing with.

[Anonymous No.6805677]

>>6802945

also my first thought lol

[Anonymous No.6805716]

Watching my mom get arrested in a Toys R Us parking lot a few days before christmas as a kid.

[Anonymous No.6806159]

Reading Ezra's translations of chinese poetry.
Especially The Exile's Letter the fourth or fifth time around.

[Anonymous No.6806379]

Both literary and irl

I had been living in a halfway house after being hospitalized. There was nothing to do; tv didn't work; all black house filled with schizo's
I rread the GoT books, Steinbeck, and repeatedly read this breif book on a brief history hedge funds and I was working at the 99cent only store (read grocery store for poor people), I read the business section for fun etc, basically I was bored as fuck

I started traveling the 2 hour transit ride back to the area I was from and met this very pretty girl smoking meth with my friends (an activity we had recently picked up). Meth had kind of let me rediscover my confidence and social edge. Over the course of like a week I didnt go back, didn't go to work and spent the entire time with that girl smoking shit with this random motel hopping couple we met, this guy who didn't smoke and let me use him for his car and some other people. I got in 5 fights that week including an attempt at stealing this disgusting asshole tweaker's car (he made a scene as I was choking him in his parked car, honking etc so I stopped), got a blowjob from a random girl right after the attempted gta and I had this almost
t transcendental experience on a beach
I came back and wrote about it in my notebook. I had just read American Psycho and I was definitely channeling that while writing something a lot more visceral

[Anonymous No.6806427]

who /midnightsnack/ here

[Anonymous No.6806456]

>>6801757
iamamiwhoami is top-tier, good taste, and I'm 'murrican farmbred.

[Anonymous No.6806471]

Matthew 7:21-23
Completely changed my life

[Anonymous No.6806488]

>>6806379
Maas

[Anonymous No.6806494]

acid

[Anonymous No.6806524]

>>6801578
Smoking a blunt while reading part of the Duino Elegies. Fuckin' incredible m8

Among many, many other experiences

[Anonymous No.6806666]

>>6805237
because women on psychedelics are usually more profoundly interesting.

[Anonymous No.6806890]

At a park, on lsd, listening to various audiobooks such as the tao te ching, dhammapada and buddhist sutras. There came a point that I stopped listening to them and just meditated and felt very peaceful, then it started raining and it was great, the rain felt very nice. Walked home in the rain, looked at flowers and plants along the way. Once I got home I listened to classical, I'll never hear Vivaldi's the four seasons in the same way again.

[Anonymous No.6806907]

>>6806379
Nice, wish there was a meth scene in England

[Anonymous No.6806917]

>>6801578
Heroin and Ulysses you dipshit

[Anonymous No.6806958]

>>6801578
When I was 14 I got a blowjob from my babysitter in a room filled with colored lights and mirrors.

Too much, it was just too much!

[Anonymous No.6806987]

>>6806159
Yes. YES. YESSSS. You are my new favourite anon. The Exile's Letter is heartbreaking.

And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring’s end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking—
There is no end of things in the heart.

Makes me break down and cry every time.

[Anonymous No.6806997]

>>6806159
Yes. YES. YESSSS. You are my new favourite anon. The Exile's Letter is heartbreaking. Makes me break down and cry every time.

And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring’s end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking—
There is no end of things in the heart.

After I first read that poem I had to close the book to hug and kiss it.

[Anonymous No.6807154]

>>6803643
no

[Anonymous No.6807240]

>>6805628
I still think that Catcher in the Rye is pretty worthless, but the other stuff about the Glass family is great.
That's too bad, though.

[Anonymous No.6807247]

>>6805245
>>6805628
Also, how'd you get over panic attacks?

[Anonymous No.6807294]

>>6801578

Listening to Tallis while watching the sun set through a storm in the desert from the window of a plane descending into Phoenix, Arizona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ

Literary - Reading the Ithaca episode in a local coffee shop and being overwhelmed by the vastness of the world and of humanity as I walked home.

[Anonymous No.6807366]

>>6801578
Hearing the third movement of the third Brahms' symphony for the first time.

[Anonymous No.6807415]

>>6807294
>8:18

[Anonymous No.6807417]

>>6801578
nah

[Anonymous No.6807494]

I had a vision of God looking at me from his throne. The issue is, I could not see his face. He wore royal-blue robes and his throne was made of gold. It was an out of body experience.

God threw me from his kingdom with the force of one-thousand raging bulls, which shook and convulsed my body, throwing me into fits. I thought I would die that night, drugged on valium and having fasted for two days. In my fear I grabbed my copy of the bible, a gift I had received in prison.

The bible burnt in my hands, and shaking, I opened to the Book of Romans and read chapter seven.

My body calmed, and I heard God call to me from his throne. The ever-high gates to his throne room drifted open. Behind him were the faces of one-hundred ghouls: spectres of the kingdom of God, which hid in his shadow.

I confessed every sin since I was a boy. To Hell my adulterous nature; To Hell my violence!

In his pardon, the rough waters of my mind calmed.

To this day do I sin.

>Be gentle, it's the first time I have fully articulated this experience.

[Anonymous No.6807504]

>>6807415

REEEEEEEEspice humilitatem nostram

[Anonymous No.6807536]

>>6807494
>fully articulated
>implying this garbage was articulate

[Anonymous No.6807549]

>>6807494
thanks for sharing bro. not being sarcastic.

[Anonymous No.6807568]

>>6807549
Thanks bro, though I've seen fan fiction written better than what I have written.

>>6807536
It probably wasn't done too well. Yet, OP asked for an experience. I doubt many people have experienced such a hardcore religious experience, even if they could articulate it.

[Anonymous No.6807604]

>>6807568
One time on campus I got this very powerful feeling of everything as-it-is. If you've read Siddhartha you might know what I'm talking about if you remember when he talks about his realization that everything is perfect and everything is as it should be.

I'm not gonna mar the experience by trying to get poetic or describe it more but lemme just tell you it was probably the only time in my life I ever felt fully at peace. I almost cried like a bitch in public. True story.

[Anonymous No.6807619]

>>6803300
You never know how you are going to react to being hit in the face until you've been hit in the face, fairy.

>never joining the military

Yeah, we know. You're a NEET pussboi who probably sleeps 14 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.6807630]

>>6807494
are you black

[Anonymous No.6807639]

>>6803219
Man oh man...first time flying was insane. Went over to Europe. Flew over the East Coast at dark and saw all the city lights stretching, marking their little outposts of society. Then on the way back we flew over the ocean during the day. When you are over it and there are no clouds above you...it's something.

[Anonymous No.6807659]

>>6807604
I often get that experience. I meditate on a regular basis. During meditation you begin to become comfortable with the moment. Buddhist monks learn to play with their breath during meditation. Sort of like a toy which we're all born with. Some Buddhists believe that the breath is how you take in happiness.

Many people understand the notion of living in the moment, but it's much deeper than an inspirational FB quote. There is so much that is in this very moment to appreciate. Right now, there are birds chirping, and cars driving; and I'm breathing, and I just read your beautiful post.

[Anonymous No.6807701]

Reading the last page of Blood Meridian in the back of class in high school. It was the second or third real "literary" book I'd ever read and I felt like I'd been through some sort of horrible war. It literally rendered me unable to react to normal life for several weeks because all I could think about was how soft and sheltered my existence was compared to that, and how McCarthy had made the Judge's victory seem so real and probably that it didn't even matter that it was fiction, it was just as significant as if it had happened in real life.

Also deadlifting 300 pounds for the first time in my weight training class. I took the class two years in a row and the first time around I got bullied a lot by the other guys in it because I was weaker than them. None of them could ever deadlift anything close to 300 pounds though. My ears were ringing and everybody in the class was staring at me. My friend said "it looked like you were being punished by God" and that's more or less how it felt, except more victorious. I had turned to weight lifting as a way to let out my anger and depression, and reaching that milestone made me feel reborn.

[Anonymous No.6807725]

>>6807701
blood meridian is some heavy shit. I remember finishing the book, and even knowing how it ended with the judge doing something unspeakable to the kid, I was blown away. had to put that shit down. probably the only book with so much evil and beauty in it.

>>6807659
I had meditated before and I knew there was definitely something to Buddhism and religious experience but it wasn't 'til that day I felt it bone-deep. Namaste brother.

[Anonymous No.6807734]

I have this theory about the aesthetic experience.
ive read the the aesthetic expirience its the amount of attencion or being in the moment you put in something.so that something becomes art
so i think you can enjoy better music,or even life on weed,lsd ,shromms because it changes your perception of the world, and so it makes you notice and focus more on the music/painting etc- therefore it creates the aesthetic experience.
Did i expressed myself ok?

[Anonymous No.6807753]

>>6807734
conscious awareness, and concentration as an extension of that, are a cornerstone of any religious life.

i know that when im blunted music is some transcendental shit.

however there are some things you can never find beauty in like depravity and evil. but that's the outlier. the rule holds for most things

[Anonymous No.6807769]

>>6807725
Practising certain sorts of meditation can actually increase your capacity to read the emotions in others faces. There is science on this, but I couldn't state a source.

What the Buddhist believe to be the most powerful meditation is the meditation on death.

"As the elephant leaves the biggest footprint in the sand, so does the meditation on death in the mind."

Christians and the Ancient Greeks practise this also.

In fact, an Ancient Greek philosopher thought death was the most powerful thing to remind yourself of.

Just food for thought.

Source: half-heartedly studied religion at college.

[Anonymous No.6807771]

>>6807725
>meditation
>inherently Buddhist

Anon never claimed to be Bhuddist or even to agree with them, only that they believe certain things.

>>6807753
>being unable to find beauty in evil
>1863+152

[Anonymous No.6807823]

>>6807771

[Anonymous No.6807839]

>>6807771
now you're just fuckin with me. stop being a robot.

>being unable to find beauty in evil

dis nigga

>evil
>beautiful

stawp

>>6807823

iron commitment to the carrying out of a horrible act =/= beautiful

[Anonymous No.6807842]

>>6807823
wtf?
explain

[Anonymous No.6807851]

>>6807839
>implying beauty isn't in the eye of the beholder

take your tumblr speak and leave

[Anonymous No.6807855]

>>6807851

dude c'mon, level with me here. evil. not le dark gothic castle in dark souls xDDD but actual, horrendous evil. that shit is not fucking beautiful you clown.

go to /d/ and if you a find a single legitimately beautiful thing in all that depravity ill eat my hat

[Anonymous No.6807867]

>>6807855
evil is just good from another direction. The falcon's good is the rabbit's evil.

good is one

you are full of meme

[Anonymous No.6807883]

>>6807867
we're talking about indisputable moral evil you bozo not predation

get outta here with your moral relativist bullshit

[Anonymous No.6807894]

>>6807883
>we
you
>indisputable morals

are an idiot

[Anonymous No.6807900]

>>6807894
>he thinks the rape and murder of a child by some sick fuck isn't intrinsically abhorrent

[Anonymous No.6807920]

>>6807900
it is abhorrent to me, but obviously the sick fuck gets something out of it.

hence the predation metaphor
you
idiot

>he thinks anything is inherent

[Anonymous No.6807932]

>>6803010
>claptrap
I know this post is ancient by now but do you perchance think you live in England in the fucking 20s?

[Anonymous No.6807937]

being on mdma tbh

[Anonymous No.6807941]

>>6807900
>its bad because it hurts my feelings

[Anonymous No.6807943]

>>6807920
But we're not exactly gonna base any sane, non-spergy moral statements on outliers now are we?

This nigger

[Anonymous No.6807952]

>>6807943
>believes he possess a complete objective morality
>b-but outliers don't count!

kill yourself

[Anonymous No.6807970]

>>6807952
>he thinks because some are blind to moral truths that there arent any
>he thinks the good means what is pleasant or natural to a person, up to and including child rape

Get fucked libcuck

[Anonymous No.6807974]

>>6807941
Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.6807994]

>>6807970
dead ass, the closest real thing to moral law is might makes right. (which I am not endorsing nor condemning, it just is what it is)

all else is so much squawking in the wind

[Anonymous No.6808014]

>>6807970

>Finally, I have reached absolute truth. These statements are so evident, that everyone will agree with them.

>Hm, it has reached my knowledge that not everyone agrees with them. Obviously this seems to imply that they are not evident...

>...I do not want to bother looking for absolutes again, there must be something I should do...

>...EUREKA! It's not that I wasn't right! It's just that there are some people who are blind to my truths! They agree with me, they just don't know it!
If it doesn't hold that everyone

[Anonymous No.6808045]

>>6801578

visual art: seeing pic in person - i longed to be with these women

literary: the first time i read the refrain from "the stolen child" by w.b. yeats really knocked me out
also, the section in infinite jest when mario touched the "touch me" guy - cry for like 10 minutes

[Anonymous No.6808064]

>>6807941
it's bad because it wilfully brings a person serious harm with no edification for the victim. stop trying so hard to be edgy.

[Anonymous No.6808071]

>>6808064
>It brings people harm so its evil
>i have no argument so ill use buzzwords

[Anonymous No.6808081]

>>6808064
>guy who brings up child rape/murder accuses others of being edgelords

pot calls the kettle nigger

[Anonymous No.6808090]

>>6808045
>i longed to be with these women
It gives me the opposite reaction. I find it unsettling, everything is just slightly off, something to be avoided.

[Anonymous No.6808091]

>>6808071
go back to /b/ please

[Anonymous No.6808094]

>>6808081
different poster though.

[Anonymous No.6808101]

>>6808094
i'm sure

[Anonymous No.6808102]

>>6808091
muh felins erybudy shud du wat i went

[Anonymous No.6808105]

>>6808090
i get you: it has a quasi-surreal atmosphere, but still something alluring in the "gaze"

[Anonymous No.6808106]

>>6808081
in an argument about evil

are you fucking retarded?

>>6808014

actually ignorance of moral truth is a common theme in all wisdom writings and religious texts. think im gonna take the word of holy men over some fuccboi on a burmese auto fellatio board. im done.

[Anonymous No.6808107]

>>6808064

What is any conversation on morals worth for, any absolutes when this is what tribal cultures are up to:

"Every week or two the Willigiman-Wallalua and their enemies arrange a formal battle at one of the traditional fighting grounds. In comparison with the catastrophic conflicts of "civilized" nations, these frays seem more like a dangerous field sport than true war. Each battle lasts but a single day, always stops before nightfall (because of the danger of ghosts) or if it begins to rain (no one wants to get his hair or ornaments wet). The men are very accurate with their weapons — they have all played war games since they were small boys — but they are equally adept at dodging, and hence are rarely hit by anything. The truly lethal part of this primitive warfare is not the formal battle but the sneak raid or stealthy ambush in which not only men but women and children are mercilessly slaughtered [...]

This perpetual bloodshed is carried on for none of the usual reasons of waging war. No territory is won or lost; no good prisoners seized. [...] They fight because they enthusiastically enjoy it, because it is to them a vital function of the complete man, and because they feel they must satisfy the ghosts of slain companions."

I don't care call them any less human than I am. But the circumstance makes the man

[Anonymous No.6808112]

>>6808101
for real-real

[Anonymous No.6808148]

>>6808106
moral exegesis is a power play (everybody listen to me! do as I say!) -> reinforces might makes right
disregard moralizers, they are snakes
the end

[Anonymous No.6808744]

>ctrl+f

>Sade

>0 results