/lit/ - Literature

i just finished reading the tale of the bamboo cutter.
i was not ready for that ending bros...

>>19276049
>Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? what you seek you shall never find. for when the Gods made man, they allotted to him death but life they kept to themselves. fill your belly, day and night make merry, let days be full of joy, love the child who holds your hand and let your wife delight in your embrace. for these alone are the concerns of man

>>18330795
but anon if I'm not allowed to post them here, what am I to do with all these feels I'm feeling?

>>18311762
perhaps the real prostitute was the friends we made along the way

>>17545507
>>17545668
do not let harlots deceive brothers. the only size that matters, is the size of a man's heart

I need your help anons about this topic. Is Adam truly the first man or simply the first man placed in the garden which was the place closest to God?Creation of both men and women is mentioned in ch.1 while Adam is created in ch.2.There is a clear passage of time between the two chapters so I don't see how ch.2 could potentialy be just a recap.

>>16049434

>>15224356
>tfw im growing out of this place
it is what it is

>>14962543
Chronological, or else by genre. Once you immerse yourself fully in The Plays you realise that they are like unto a vast ocean, the resources of which can never be exhausted...

Nothing like death to wake us up. Good morning, anon. Try not to slip back to sleep too quickly...

Its over

>>14430902
Yeah, or the last Goy.

>>14247420
I see. in the end, the real tranny was the friends we made along the way

>>14003594
I'm glad I'm not alone. I'm about to just flip a coin at this point

RIP muthafukka.

>>13986479
I did. Changed my life. Should be required reading in all schools.

Can suffering ever lead to anything good? I'm not gonna go into specifics, but life's been tormenting me for the last 4 years to the point that picturing myself in different suicidal positions has become my regular pass time. If all these are ever over, will I come out a different man?

>>13661401
>it turns out that the real high IQ thread on /lit/ was the friends we made along the way

>>13644571
Thank you, I shall do it.

>>13491186
>Do you practice Advaita Vedanta in ways additional to reading? How do you practice?
There are numerous practices described through the works of Adi Shankara, I have to go to bed to get enough sleep for my job tomorrow and don't have the time or interest in summarizing them right now. It wouldn't be of much use even if I were to do so though, because they would only make sense or be applicable/useful if you'd read most of Shankara's works and understood EXACTLY what he was talking about when he mentioned them. If you tried to do it based on reading someone's 4chan posts or through wikipedia etc it'd be hardly better than larping. I would also add again that merely reading through Shankara can induce states of gnosis/jnana/realization if you pay close attention to him, and that for me at least some of this has always remained with me afterwards as a constant and blissful understanding/awareness which is never lost, and that this itself constitutes something roughly equivalent to a 'practice' or the result of a practice; although I sometimes follow the practices Shankara talks about as well.

>>13490199
>Do you have a guru? Are you an autodidact?
No Guru, I'm self taught, you can be too it's not that hard. Just prepare by reading several books on Vedanta and Indian philosophy and then spend a year or two reading through all of Shankara's works.

Atlantean archons are black hole brains.

https://eversmarterworld.wordpress.com/2016/10/16/key-assumptions-of-the-transcension-hypothesis-do-advanced-civilizations-leave-our-universe/

>The leading edge of intelligence always migrates its brains and bodies into increasingly dense, productive, miniaturized, accelerated, and efficient scales of Space, Time, Energy, and Matter (what I call STEM compression), because this is the best strategy to become the niche-dominant local intelligence (and for modern humans, Earth’s biosphere is one precious and indivisible niche), and because the special physics of our universe allows this continual migration into “nanospace“. Human brains with their thoughts, emotions, morality, and self- and social-consciousness, are the most STEM-compressed higher computational systems on Earth at present.

>The acceleration of STEM compression must eventually stop, at structures analogous to black holes, which in current theories appear to be the most computationally accelerated and computationally efficient entities in the known universe, an insight Seth Lloyd made in 2000 which remains widely underappreciated by most information, computation, and complexity theorists today.

Maybe there's a way out?

>If not only intelligence, but also immunity (stability, antifragility) and morality grow in leading intelligences in our universe, in rough proportion to their complexity, in other words, if these three life-critical systems are each not only evolutionary, but also developmental, and thus their emergent form and function is at least partly encoded in the “genes” (initial conditions, laws, and environmental constraints) of the system itself, then we can predict that more advanced intelligences, including our coming deep learning computers, will be not only more intelligent, but also more immune and moral than we are today.

>manic pixie frogposter had his heart broken

They grow up so fast