/lit/ - Literature

>>18576583
>>18576598
>>18576613
This is exactly why the Buddha is right with his anatta against the atman of Adi Shankara.
Liberation cannot come from identification, as Adi Shankara says: identification is a mental process, of the ego, of the jiva. The jiva who identifies itself with the atman is deluded. The jiva remains the jiva, the atman remains the atman, nobody is liberated.
Liberation can only come from the total stop of all identification, the death of the self, of the ego: anatta.
Then only the absolute remains.

I was wrong to say there’s no arman. there might be. I don’t know. I am attached to a wrong view just like the buddha said would happen. I have no idea if there’s an atman or not and i’m sorry for being really mean

Also i’m not guenonfag larping to make himself look good. He’s still a dumbass even more attached to things but i felt like i needed to admit i did something wrong. Peace to all beings

>>18432876
>>18433525
then le enlightened atheists are right about that. want to eat my ass now?

>>18039584
>They appeal to a person's sense of honor and decency
Very pro-social aspects of man that strengthen the community. I fail to see the fault in this. A decent, honorable man can be trusted.
On the other hand, someone lacking both qualities is one I'd rather line up against a wall.
>They appeal to (emotions) over their rationality?
All ideologies ultimately do. What else would motivate you in the end? It's these emotions and profoundly irrational values that ideologies are all built on. Just because the right in general holds values that leftists don't, doesn't mean they're in some way anti-intellectual.
Or are you sincerely suggesting that leftists somehow do not function based on emotions? That they're some sort of P-zombies with non-human brains?

>>18029688
idk

>book is made out of paper

>>17987293
>>17987251
I read the first 100 and the last 100 pages. Once he dropped the 'bomb' that he was ostensibly a self-hating Jew performing the ultimate in self-hate through a rational lens, I made the judgment that the remainder of this is meandering and likely just endlessly expanding upon what this anon >>17986402 summed up.
Every day pic related, a literal norm(an)ie face(berg)book meme, becomes more profound.

>>17974103
You view it to be one. You can travel down that road completely lonesome with no headway traffic at all needed.
Likewise, the angsty incels choose it to be a two-way street as well, refusing sympathy as they perceive themselves to receive none.
In the end both parties just grow more hateful, neither taking the prequisite steps to understanding the other party; to letting go of their hatred.

>>17974121
Sympathy is an intrinsic aspect of humanization and denying it a key aspect of dehumanization. Dehumanization strips another of the right to humanistic treatment, of being the recipient of empathy and sympathy. Denial of sympathy to incels is dehumanizing, whether you recognize it or not. Whether you think it is justified or not.
>Why should I have sympathy for them?
Because they are human beings. Never did they ask to be born. Never did they have control over the laws of the universe. Never did they get to choose their nature, their parents and place of birth. Never had they the opportunity to select their life's early environments or the way they were treated.
They are fellow human beings who were realized into this world and given a will that drives them forward to whatever ends. Nobody gets to choose who they are. Any decisions you make (or don't) on changing yourself are already built upon what you are in the first place. Success and quality predicate themselves further, while garbage forms more of itself.

>>17895097
Kek this

>>17834582
>bro this work isn't scientific,atheistic and materialistic
>the author must be INSANE bro!!

>>17828818
No
>>17828517
Start delving into esotericism,occultism and hinduism
Start by understanding Plato
>>17828537
>>17828547
Don't trust cringe materialists

>>17822160
I dont get it lit, I have read 25% of The Republic and so far he goes completely off the rail on the subject.
>Injustice>Justice
>But wait... What if anything that shares traits with injustice disappear on this imaginary city of mine

His idea has complete dictatorial traits and rapes the truth on all angles. Where is he going? I miss Thrasymachus, he was right.

>>17484163

>>17215595
I agree with you that it is best not to differentiate those terms. I just wanted to point out that very often causality works in more directions. Simultaneous causality is difficult to deal with and can lead to problems.

>>17215673
I believe pic related describes the berserk story quiet good. I also believe that in the berserk manga causality and determinism are to some extent mixed together. The members of the God Hand might be very powerful but they are neither omnipotent nor omniscient. Maybe the Skull Knight and Guts disprove the philosophy of Void by defeating God Hand. Meaning that the world view of Void was wrong all along. I also liked the old anime where Void is at the same time the narrator. The narrator knows so to speak everything and decides everything, which is in perfect line with his philosophy. But let's see how the manga ends.

Does this work? I know you can say "just write conventionally," but I fancy myself a bit of a stylist. It's my great pretension.
>https://pastebin.com/zVHQsQxx

>t

>>17022682
lol
>>17022660
>t picrel

>>16841099
>the ideal future is everyone doing nothing but being hooked up to machines experiencing artificial orgasms forever while being neurologically altered so they never run out of enjoyment for said orgasms
Enjoy yourself then, but don't anyone dare coerce that on others

>nothing has intrinsic value.
Except pleasure, because arbitrary reason

> Human beings are self replicating biological machines.
"Your brain is just chemicals bro, nothing matters bro"
Pic related
You're following what OP is warning us about to a tee

>>16833241
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>i just don't like it here.
Sounds like your real problem, all of your rational arguments stem from the emotional state.
Maybe you'd like Dorian Gray? They talk about this shit there. The better solution ofc is learning how to close the cynicism for a bit and enjoy beauty, which definitely exist.
You sound quite alright, just miserable. It will get better

>>16646172
You know what, OP? I might actually do this. Been thinking about a novel I want to write for quite awhile and this might be reason enough to finally start. Please keep making these threads throughout November

>catch 22
>the trial
>ubik
>infinite jest
>simulacra and simulation

Critical race theory and critical gender theory are such absolute trash. Critical legal theory was ostracized by neoliberal shills in the 80s and legal scholarship has never recovered. While the fucking federalists take over journals and force feed bullshit research to judges elected or appointed by faggots on their deathbed just hoping to get a little richer before they croak.


Social justice has unironically murdered what remained of any sort of leftism in jurisprudence. It’s fucking retarded. I’m so fucking mad. Wow, redlining, wage inequality, and the prison system are all racist and sexist! Good deduction Sherlock, now what are you gonna do about it? IF ONLY YOU HAD SOME LEGAL FRAMEWORK BASED ON ACTUAL WORKING PRINCIPALS INSTEAD OF JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT IT.


IM FUCKING SEETHING.

Any books on Nootropics? Do you take any? Do you just leave it to your diet? Do you snort addy? What daily vitamins do you take? Is it all a scam?