/lit/ - Literature

>>17606120
Last night I dreamt that I owed a blood debt to a yakuza boss. He strung me up from the ceiling and carved enormous chunks of flesh out from the sides of my body. My parents watched the whole thing, refusing to pay the ransom because it was too high. I kept calling on them to help but they wouldn't do anything. Then, just as the boss was about to slice open my belly I managed to get away. I ran away through labyrinthine hallways to safety. The dream ended with me alive but feeling incredibly betrayed by my parents.

What did it mean?

tfw you realise everything is ressentiment

>Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
>I am blameless; I regard not myself; I loathe my life.
>It is all one; therefore I say, he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
>When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
>The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges—if it is not he, who then is it?
>My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.
>They go by like skiffs of reeds, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
>If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of good cheer,’
>I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.
>I shall be condemned; why then do I labor in vain?
>If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
yet thou wilt plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.
>For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
>There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand upon us both.
>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.
>Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

Is Job the ultimate redpill?

bummmp

How do you guys read? Just read or do you take notes? Or do you summarise a chapter after reading?

>>14230518
every making moment is a mystical experience

>>14211958
Job chapter 9 got you covered; it predicts how the world appears under the aspect of modernity:

>If I summoned him and he answered me,
>I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.
>For he crushes me with a tempest,
>and multiplies my wounds without cause;
>he will not let me get my breath,
>but fills me with bitterness.
>If it is a contest of strength, behold him!
>If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
>Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me;
>though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
>I am blameless; I regard not myself;
>I loathe my life.
>It is all one; therefore I say,
>he destroys both the blameless and the wicked.
>When disaster brings sudden death,
>he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
>he covers the faces of its judges—
>if it is not he, who then is it?

>>14186880
>evolution is a telos

there's your mistake