/lit/ - Literature

>>22553400
>it won't turn out shitty if everything is blessed by a priest first

>>22268649
>>22268652

>make an off-topic thread
>>inb4 jannies delete this thread

>mfw reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is more pretentious than reading Laszlo Krasznahorkai's "Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens" because muh 15 years

>>19579057
>i have an incoherent grab bag of beliefs and uphold logic against Buddhists but not against Christians
>i'm not a nihilist like the Buddhists even though I prefer Heraclitus (momentariness) to Aquinas (prime mover)
>i understood Nietzsche which is why I am a Christian and call other people stinky slave moralists

>>19470461
>>19470492
lmao

>>Buddhism=nihilism=atheism

>>18732469
>verifiably has the most amounts of miracles of any other religion
Holy based. I am crushed beneath your epistemological weight.

>>18515818
>it should be taken seriously because.... Peterson

>>18486881
>He might want to seize control of the American State for himself. I've sometimes thought he's going to be America's Julius Caesar
He has a platform because he is harmless

>>18421373
>all attempts to ground meaning without God fail because lies cannot persist in place of truth.
You're lying right now thomist tranny

>>17649353
>I don't think there is a better place to go than the Traditionalist school for spiritual knowledge.
Gee I wonder... maybe some primary sources?

>>16859025
>post modernist

>>15155000
>he stopped at the monism meme
like read the Quran nigga lmao oh no
anything except nonduality is entertainment
>>15154994
He used maya to cover himself as part of play of conditional reality , self realization is knowledge that conditional and absolute are not separate even if they them seem so, only in true insight can one realize this . Even if eastern schools disagree they still focus on practical aspect of some liberation while abrahamics do not .

>>15112389
not a hindu
mensa member so i can tell you're a midwit brainlet that doesnt understand how creativity works , go read biographies .
>>15112407
>t. what is stream entry
go meditate and dont be a brainlet
Why cant a western ever understand zen? they cant shut their automatic thoughts for even 2minutes
GONNA THINK AGHHHHHHHHH THOOOOOM

>>15084036
>thinking man go hmmmm depression, why chemical make me sad for no reason hmmmm

>>15047648
Plato thought that through contemplation, the soul may ascend to knowledge of the Form of the Good or other divine Forms.[3] Plotinus as a (neo)Platonic philosopher also expressed contemplation as the most critical of components for one to reach henosis. To Plotinus the highest contemplation was to experience the vision of God, the Monad or the One

Btfo ,nothing personal kiddo

>>14950950
>but uhh its all new age conspiracy uhh
Spirituality is not for npcs that follow in line traditional dogmatics they cannot confirm themselves yet blindly follow.
>yeahh your e not your body broo you are like.... All! youre the universe haha
“You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body, either.”
― Adi Shankaracarya, Shankara's Crest Jewel of Discrimination
Hard filtered by the upper forces stay in your cubicle hylic wagie and much luck next lifetime.

>>14582097
>Ugghhh ancient egyptians are new ego broo
Literally just read Tao te Ching and Meister Eckhart Tolle teaches the same thing his method not much of a method but is direct experience and connection with absolute. You can find same patterns with any mystic path
Stop being thoughtcucked look within and you will see all roads lead to rome.

>>14571131
>Clarel, his best work, doesn't even have a goodreads page
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4404082-clarel

>>14511164
>Homer writes about PTDS
>no, that's retarded
>lol why are you so hostile

>>14341635
>bro, like, all relgions are the same maaaaaan
>they all just, like, wanna go to heaven maaannn
>bro pass the, like, weed maaaaaaan
>whoa dude, like, fat cloud maaaaaann

>>13542821
>Falling for the "don't read translations" meme

>>13444434
>Talks shit on a book
>Hasn't read the book
>Constant samefaggery
>Accuse others of deception
I can't imagine the level of loneliness that drives you to be this emotionally invested, grimanon. Maybe get out and make some friends in the real world. It's not hard as long as you don't sperg out