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Is it evil to wish death on evil people?

There are so many terrible people that the world would be better off without, but I often find this line of thinking not received particularly well.

>>22878697

What makes something evidence for a hypothesis or theory or proposition?

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>>19075867
Waging war upon the primordial forces of Chaos

What does the Leviathan really symbolizes?

1. Man is a naturally anti-social being in his natural state

2. He desires different things, especially those which are ample at guaranteeing his self-preservation; importantly he also desires glory and power.

3. Although man is not necessarily violent, in a natural state void of any moral normativity, he will act coherently to advance his own personal interest acquiring all the resources he needs, without any consideration of others.

4. This virtual monopoly over all things, comprises the individual's natural right, not a right eo ipso, but a lack of hindrances rather.

5. Natural right is a zero-sum game. Technically, everything can classify as being instrumental to survival, therefore there is no limit to what the individual can aspire to possess, in fact, he can and very likely will dispossess other men of their belongs, by killing or stealing.

6. Men are also fundamentally equal; the irreducible physiological and intellective differences between men, are ultimately mediated by their universal susceptibility to being killed violently, through brute force or subterfuge.

7. For this reason nature does not have a grammar of order, but one of conflict; the configuration of social hierarchies - a presupposition for political order - is not a natural phenomenon, but an artificial one instead.

8. The equality of means of each man in pursuing natural right, encourages each man to test his luck against others, granted that there are no insurmountable odds stacked in his disfavour.

9. This generalized anarchy, consisting of perpetual competition between men, which warrants murder, theft and injury as viable means to fulfil one's needs - frames the state of nature: a condition of anarchy, chaos, and conflict.

10. Granted that man has the faculty of foresight, he can predict that others will attempt to do him harm. This renders men, paranoid, diffident, and most importantly fearful of each other.

10. Within this condition of fear, however, is also inscribed the conceptual pathway to order and stability.

Tell me the biblical origins of the great Leviathan

>>16741501
for the cover I think something like this would be a cool image, idk how the copyright stuff works for the cover image or if we need an anon to create some art. Where is the coronameron cover image from?

>>15383369
Might makes right?

>FUCK PAUL
>FUCK PROCOPIUS
>FUCK BRUTUS
>FUCK THE SENATORS THAT KILLED AURELIAN
>FUCK MOHAMMEDANS
>FUCK MOHAMMED
>FUCK NIGGERS
>FUCK "WHITES"
>FUCK AMERICANS (AFTER 1891)
>FUCK THE PRINCE OF DENMARK'S UNCLE
>FUCK IAGO
>FUCK GONERIL AND THAT OTHER BITCH
>FUCK EDMUND
>FUCK LEAR
>FUCK THRASYMACHUS
>FUCK SOPHISTS
>FUCK PSEUDS
>FUCK INTELLECTUALISM
>FUCK ACADEMIA (WILL ADMIT, THE FRENCH GERMANS ARE ALRIGHT)
>FUCK GUENON
>FUCK WHITEHEAD
>FUCK SADNESS
>FUCK WOMEN
>FUCK JEWS
>FUCK HITLER
>FUCK LENIN
>FUCK STALIN
>FUCK CHURCHILL
>FUCK POSTURING
>FUCK FUCKING
>FUCK POOPY KAUR
>FUCK KEN WHEELER
>FUCK MYSELF
>FUCK THE SELF
>AND MOST IMPORTANTLY; FUCK FUCK FUCKING WELCOME TO /LIT/

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Brainlets, all of you

Is the Book of Job's answer to the problem of evil basically just 'might makes right'?

1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a fishhook
or tie down its tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through its nose
or pierce its jaw with a hook?
3 Will it keep begging you for mercy?
Will it speak to you with gentle words?
4 Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?
5 Can you make a pet of it like a bird
or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?
6 Will traders barter for it?
Will they divide it up among the merchants?
7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons
or its head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on it,
you will remember the struggle and never do it again!
9 Any hope of subduing it is false;
the mere sight of it is overpowering.
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse it.
Who then is able to stand against me?
11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay?
Everything under heaven belongs to me.

12 “I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs,
its strength and its graceful form.
13 Who can strip off its outer coat?
Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[b]?
14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth,
ringed about with fearsome teeth?
15 Its back has[c] rows of shields
tightly sealed together;
16 each is so close to the next
that no air can pass between.
17 They are joined fast to one another;
they cling together and cannot be parted.
18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light;
its eyes are like the rays of dawn.
19 Flames stream from its mouth;
sparks of fire shoot out.
20 Smoke pours from its nostrils
as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
21 Its breath sets coals ablaze,
and flames dart from its mouth.
22 Strength resides in its neck;
dismay goes before it.
23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined;
they are firm and immovable.
24 Its chest is hard as rock,
hard as a lower millstone.
25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified;
they retreat before its thrashing.
26 The sword that reaches it has no effect,
nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.
27 Iron it treats like straw
and bronze like rotten wood.
28 Arrows do not make it flee;
slingstones are like chaff to it.
29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron
and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it;
one would think the deep had white hair.
33 Nothing on earth is its equal—
a creature without fear.
34 It looks down on all that are haughty;
it is king over all that are proud.”

>>14305029
Turns out mental illness and creativity isn't a meme
Recently developed some mental illness where I have stress-induced blackouts during which I still do things but can't remember them afterwards (never bothered to go get a diagnosis after the first checkup where they listed a few possibilities) and after refusing further treatment and throwing myself into writing it's like my creativity has just exploded.
The quality of my writing has gone way up, and the amount I'm producing is so much greater than what I was in the past. I've actually written entire chapters now that I'm still satisfied with even after returning to them and I only have more ideas to build the rest into a finally complete novel which I would actually be proud to put my name on and I actually think people would enjoy reading.
On the down side it severely fucks with the rest of your life though kek

What is the best academic translation of the bible that doesn't try to demythologize or reinterpret the original text? I am very slow at reading it untranslated.

>>14158931
thank you for sharing
yes, the girl is most likely an anima figure
considering archetypal situation here again it seems to be connection with the girl and the dragon >>14156417 mentioned above

crowd again here symbolizing 'various persons of the unconscious' it seems with the snake being most obvious antithesis that is collectively projected shadow figure

>>13930781
Kinda, the wisdom books are fun to read - especially job. The history books could probably be skipped, but they are referenced a quite a bit by the rest of the bible (including the new-test). You should definitely read the prophets though; they build up quite a bit to Christ and have generally important stuff, for example, Jeremiah 7:21-28 explodes the practice of animal sacrifice for the Canaanite rituals they really are

Just as a refresher, the LORD ignores Job's arguments and instead enumerates the various facets of His creation, emphasizing how great and powerful He is and how far away his concerns are from humanity. It is as though the LORD is saying, "I am in charge of the cosmos, petty human affairs don't particularly concern me."

This is the interpretation taken up by the New Oxford Annotated Bible that I have: "The divine speeches are notable for their silence over Job's complaint of injustice, as if God means to say that administering justice is not part of his cosmic plan."

Thoughts? Does this make the writer of the book of Job a deist? From the author's perspective, the LORD creates the universe and manages nature but doesn't respond to or care about human concerns. This is hard to reconcile with the historical books in which the LORD actively concerns himself with the righteousness of the Israelites.

Come on in and post yer stuff. Prose, poem, novella excerpts, or just write something to get your voice criticized.

Post whether you're nervous or not. More contribution = more thread.

It was a Monday afternoon. The city was bustling with worker-bees at this hour. Lunch breaks and midday strolls crowded the stores and streets. There was a man on 21st street sipping coffee at the slighlty-short outside table of a local coffee shop. By him passed a girl with a bright yellow jacket, which distracted him for a moment. His gaze went to her, and she noticed from her peripherals, but her focus was on the crosswalk. The time was winding down; she hastened her steps and took the mercy of patient automobiles for the last few feet. The cars first in line to see her cross were as such: a grey sedan with dim lights in the left turn lane – no blinker; a red SUV in the stright lane – one passenger; a blue truck in the right turn lane – this was the one who waited for the girl in the yellow jacket who had caught the gaze of the man sipping coffee.

Plans were not the specialty of Thomas Gross, local printer salesman at an industrial printing company. It had been at least an embarrassing amount of weeks since he'd sold a printer, and the business was thin enough that any underperformance made a difference. Every day was sweat at the workplace. “Will I get the talk today? The pink slip? Oh God, I'll get fired and my life will be over!” Thomas Gross was very unimaginative concerning jobs; he had fallen into his position by the network of his father, a father which couldn't stand an unemployed son. Thomas was waiting for lunch to have some reprieve from an inactive inbox and an empty voicemail.

Thomas' lunchtime finally arrived. He worked a hop-skip down from a spot that served beer, and as the business got worse he'd taken a habit of drinking with meals. He shut down his computer, pushed back his office chair and made way out of his cubicle. At this exit, he kept his head socially level, making sure to avoid any passing conversation with quick steps and a glance to the generic office carpeting with that design that you could see in every office. The elevator dinged – people coming up. He took the stairs. After all, he was only one floor from the main exit. As he descended through the gray stairway, he was trying desperately to reduce his panic. How long would it be until the guillotine came down? How long until he is ousted as a redundancy? Was he just lazy, or were there simply no consumers for the PrintMaster UltraInk 3500 left in the tri-county area? These were the problems that drove him to drink, to dissociate from his family, to take up a habit of masturbation to pornography which had no resemblance to his marital relations.

I cannot begin to imagine how someone could bear being a dentist or an engineer or almost any STEM profession

>el libro de Job
>el libro de Hobbes

>>9920516
>express
>depress
>oppress
>suppress
>repress
>impress
>pressure

>>9920763
The last one is not wholly coincidence, eleven and twelve used to literally be the same as"one-left" and "two-left".

Your question implies the whole of reality is based on something besides itself, that is to say, that past "events" have determinating power over present ones (and these over future ones), when reality seen as a whole would not make a separation between causes and effects, and so their relationship would work both ways. What this (likely) would imply is that what you want is not this knowledge but a principle on which you can control or determine the future, as an escape from the present, as clouded by the past; therefore you're working under the assumption that things have to be "easy", or that they need to be reduced to their very basic truths to be true, when in reality difficult/ease (or potential/actual) is a matter of dimension, and reality does not operate on what is easy or not.