/lit/ - Literature

>>14514735
Fag.

As its holiest, it once loved "Thou-shalt": now is it forced to find illusion and arbitrariness even in the holiest things, that it may capture freedom from its love: the lion is needed for this capture.

But tell me, my brethren, what the child can do, which even the lion could not do? Why hath the preying lion still to become a child?

Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea

Aye, for the game of creating, my brethren, there is needed a holy Yea unto life: ITS OWN will, willeth now the spirit; HIS OWN world winneth the world's outcast.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit have I designated to you: how the spirit became a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.—

Thus spake Zarathustra.

Three metamorphoses of the spirit do I designate to you: how the spirit becometh a camel, the camel a lion, and the lion at last a child.

Many heavy things are there for the spirit, the strong load-bearing spirit in which reverence dwelleth: for the heavy and the heaviest longeth its strength.

What is heavy? so asketh the load-bearing spirit; then kneeleth it down like the camel, and wanteth to be well laden.

What is the heaviest thing, ye heroes? asketh the load-bearing spirit, that I may take it upon me and rejoice in my strength.

Is it not this: To humiliate oneself in order to mortify one's pride? To exhibit one's folly in order to mock at one's wisdom?
Or is it this: To desert our cause when it celebrateth its triumph? To ascend high mountains to tempt the tempter?

Or is it this: To feed on the acorns and grass of knowledge, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger of soul?

Or is it this: To be sick and dismiss comforters, and make friends of the deaf, who never hear thy requests?

Or is it this: To go into foul water when it is the water of truth, and not disclaim cold frogs and hot toads?

Or is it this: To love those who despise us, and give one's hand to the phantom when it is going to frighten us?

All these heaviest things the load-bearing spirit taketh upon itself: and like the camel, which, when laden, hasteneth into the wilderness, so hasteneth the spirit into its wilderness.

But in the loneliest wilderness happeneth the second metamorphosis: here the spirit becometh a lion; freedom will it capture, and lordship in its own wilderness.

Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for victory will it struggle with the great dragon.

What is the great dragon which the spirit is no longer inclined to call Lord and God? "Thou-shalt," is the great dragon called. But the spirit of the lion saith, "I will."

"Thou-shalt," lieth in its path, sparkling with gold—a scale-covered beast; and on every scale glittereth golden, "Thou shalt!"

The values of a thousand years glitter on those scales, and thus speaketh the mightiest of all dragons: "All the values of things—glitter on me.

All values have already been created, and all created values—do I represent. Verily, there shall be no 'I will' any more. Thus speaketh the dragon.

My brethren, wherefore is there need of the lion in the spirit? Why sufficeth not the beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent?

To create new values—that, even the lion cannot yet accomplish: but to create itself freedom for new creating—that can the might of the lion do.

To create itself freedom, and give a holy Nay even unto duty: for that, my brethren, there is need of the lion.

To assume the right to new values—that is the most formidable assumption for a load-bearing and reverent spirit. Verily, unto such a spirit it is preying, and the work of a beast of prey.

>>14172336
Funnily enough, the anthropic principle seems to be directly stemmed from this idea.

>>14173689
Richard Feynman

>>14173587
Great man theory is not enough to explain the patterns of development. It's insufficient.

>>14122841
>coom
never gonna make it

>>14122777
newfag

>>14121846
联经文学 means united literature or linked literature, so it's probably not that
It could be 亮 as in 月亮 which is liang in pinyin.
If you could give me more context, I might be able to help, but this isn't really enough to go on.

Materialism

>Marxist ressentiment thread
sage

>>13850400
What are we in fucking middle school lmao? underageB&

>>13852393
Foucault's History of Sexuality comes to mind.

While I like the Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy, I'm pretty wary of overarching theories that can always be stretched to apply anywhere. Personally, I think post-modern deconstruction is a better way to analyze culture, including aesthetics.

Christianity is inherently a slave's religion. It denies the totality of being and relishes in weakness and illness. It worships a dead man hung on a cross, for Christ's sake.

>>13817927
the virgin jaw

>>13817929
I guess that makes you a dumb nigger, then.

>>13817903
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-many-women-inventors-are-there-1992649

>Today, hundreds of thousands of women apply for and receive a patent every year. So the real answer to the question "how many women inventors are there?" is more than you can count and growing. About 20% of all inventors are currently female and that number should quickly rise to 50% over the next generation.

Three seconds in google lmao

>>13817796
lmao these countries are some of the most prosperous in the world. you need to re-examine your world view, friendo.

>>13817775
We would have lower standard of living as women would be de-incentivized to produce and innovate. Taxes would be higher for men as they would have to contribute more since women wouldn't be paying taxes. Also, we would need a stronger police state to stifle the suffrage movement. All together, not to good. Ressentiment!

>>13817740
explain the UK, US, France, Taiwan and Canada, then.

>>13816915
Just 4 u bb

Institutions are incredibly important in creating a modern society. If you disagree with this you're fucking retarded.

>>13817064
That's totally achievable in our current system