/lit/ - Literature

>>12172044
Lazy rich slob with a messy night stand. Effiminate feet.

>>12171973
>I might ass
:) I might too
Pounds book of translations includes some nice eastern texts from China, India and Egypt (if that is eastern), you are right in that it is probably not what OP was looking for. Any recommendations on Mongolian or Tibetan?

>>12171922
Ezra Pound’s Translations is as good an intro as any.

>>12171907
David Byrne is a straight edge and a vegetarian, nick took a lot of drugs and lives in China

>>12171908
All those things are European traditions

Spiritual, Altruistic, Idealistic, Ascetic Nihilist, Romantic, Skeptic

>>12171784
>I’m old as shit must mean I’m heroic

>>12171522
>actions have consequences
What a way to say nothing

>>12171492
Isn’t Ambient 1 the same as Airports?
Also
>we are legion

>>12171485
Basically most proselytizing larpers on 4chan enjoy the unwarranted superiority the law gives them but doesn’t recognize that the law makes us all sinners and they are also too uncaring or lazy to put their ethics into practice, which calls them to be healers and what not, so they end up defiling the name of Christ and probably damning themselves if not for the salvation which is given freely (we hope)

>>12171471
Well sometimes help is more than just saying “hey stop that faggot”;
Like if we really cared about abortion we would try to help mothers who are in a bad situation to have security and raise their kids, but instead lean on legalistic methods instead which is one of the things the story of Christ most fully shames and criticizes.

>>12171461
Ambient is supposed to be background with foreground noise on top of it. DFW is kind of shit, I shouldn’t have said unironically I was being ironic.

>>12171452
Well those two works weren’t contemporary so ignore what I said, to be honest they just seem to fit together. Ambient works by Eno and IJ would work wonderfully in the setting of a mid class business hotel lobby or regional airport.

>>12171445
A certain nonchalant virtuosity, and besides they were contemporaries at their peak so they share aesthetic and zeitgeist. Read some Infinite Jest with Ambient 1 in the background.

>>12171395
Have you ever actually tried to help an alcoholic in denial, or for that matter, a drag queen? Anyway being put off by something and being horrified are different. To me life is not horrific, and even things I disagree with or have major problems with have their charm, they are human at least. The downfall of Christian ethos is that it is espoused with inconsistency by people who practice it inconsistently in their own lives, and the love of truth would lead anyone to despise it—Pharisees, the lot of them and Woe unto them.

>>12171365
I don’t even consider condemnation of homosexuality to be homophobia, but saying drag queens are horrific is definitely homophobic. I don’t think condemnation even follows the rigors of the Christian morality, as it was described by its founder anyway, and to me, the obvious despair, horror and wrath engendered by condemnation seems to suggest it is incompatible with Christ’s example of mercy and long suffering.

>>12171354
You have not answered a thing, I know the context of the scripture you’ve quoted and I have answered in kind with context, what’s more is you are being disingenuous, and I have no share in that because I don’t subscribe to Christian morality nor claim to, you are the one being “luke warm” and you’ll be spat out of gods mouth like the rest of us if it comes to that.

>>12171298
DUDE DEPOPULATE THE THIRD WORLD LOL

>>12171271
You’re cherry picking odd fragments, especially that one which implies that you should leave your family and everything you cling to in order to follow Christ but in stead you spend your time arguing with me on an anime/porn site in your parents house. Drag queens, due to their fabulous shamelessness, give you comfort because you don’t have to consider your own spiritual impotence, in stead you can just imagine your own virtues as opposed to their supposed vices; or whom I kidding your probably posting from the monastery computer.

>>12171256
Imagine what you would do without a job, a television, internet, etc.

>>12171242
Thanks for the recommendations, I am definitely trying to get more into contemporary writers. Why bewail the death of literature if all we do is pick its bones?

>>12171231
DFW unironically.

>>12171209
Oh yeah...next time. What is he waiting for? All the Torah did was put values which promoted social cohesion and group survival into the mouth of God, to give them weight, to make those Hebrews feel like their lives mattered as they wandered a desert for 40 years.

>>12171196
Well likely the same could be applied to most people.