/lit/ - Literature

>be told my entire life that the moral of the Tower of Babel story is that its builders were prideful and arrogant and wanted to reach to God with their tower and they were rightly punished
>finally pick up the Bible once in my life and start reading
>tfw pride isn't mentioned anywhere, the builders actually wanted the tower to be high so that they should not disperse too much and should always see where their homeland is from afar to be able to come back and God found this atrocious for some reason

>>21440616
>when a thing happens in our religion it's God
>when the exact same thing happens in another religion it's demons
How many levels of cognitive dissonance are you on

How do I become a professor of philosophy in thus day and age? Will or will I not have to suck a dick or have sex with an old ugly woman? Be real with me.

>>21393609
My dream job is to be a tenured professor of metaphysics with no teaching duties. How do I get this job?

>Anno Domini 1488+420+69+42+3
>people are still arguing about some Canadian crayfish industry lobbyist who said trannies doesn't real once half a decade ago

No book has ever changed my life

Im trying to start a guenonian traditionalist cult were we take psychedelics like the ancient aryans did with soma and also worship the sun
Thoughts?

>>20801950
A book is only good insofar as the reader is smart.

There is an episode of Seinfeld where Elaine finds out that the guy she's dating is a Marxist and he is the archetypal upper class, soft nerd pretending to be a working man revolutionary and all he accomplishes is getting Kramer fired from his job as Santa Claus at the mall by putting communist ideas in his head.

There is a difference between irrational and arational.
Irrational is that which contradicts rational thought.
Arational is above or prior to rationality. It does not contradict rationality. It transcends it. It is more fundamental than rationality.

Why is subtlety so highly rated in the art? Subtlety mixed with le mystery or gibberish?

In art world subtlety=genius

Natural magic, at least, is entirely compatible with transcendental idealism.

>>20675388
But how do I know you're not just projecting when you say that?

>adhuc nemo mittit merdaenuntios
Iam lipsi librum consumandum erat
etiam, estne satis legere ut discam recte scribere? num sunt libri proprie ad hunc finem? suntne utiles an melius simpliciter legere est?

>>20596893
>reads book translated to his europoor language
>complains about writing
You don't even read in English

>>20525654
I feel you. Doing it doggy or reverse cowgirl is the thinking man's way

I refuse to write my intended post ITT, given its current dying state. Lets just await for the new thread to emerge
On the meantime, lets discuss the current state of global political tensions. Who will rise victorious? China? Russia? America?

Books where the protagonist battles his inner homosexual feelings? Asking for a friend

Was Jung considered a philosopher?

I took the neuroplasticity pill. i will become a 170 iq super genius

I read 500 pages per day, get on my level midwit

How do I write a /lit/ cult classic?

Life is a ponzi scheme

How can a sane person believe murdering and raping will land them in hell when vikings/barbarians/savages have murdered and raped for time immemorial? How can I be expected to follow a Christian morality when the way of the world is in complete contradiction? Lying, cheating, manipulating is what gets you to the top. I'm starting to believe morality is just whatever TPTB shove down our throats for their advantage. HEADS UP. IF YOU MURDER SOMEONE AND GET AWAY WITH IT, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN. LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE PUNISHING YOU WILL BE YOURSELF AND YOUR NIGGER CATTLE PROGRAMMING