/lit/ - Literature

>>14934219
The charming good-natured conversations and humor of our merry brotherhood has rubbed off on them, as it has on most of the board. I now see people often using pbuh and retroactive refutation for contexts which are not related to the venerable master (ﷺ) despite that both memes were created by his disciples. His influence is all-pervasive like Brahman.

>>14733602
You seem so eager to nitpick my own views, I'm curious, do you have a response to or an argument against Robinson's refutation of Nagarjuna's logic or against Shankaracharya's refutation of the other two schools of Indian Buddhism? That is what the thread is about after all and that's really what I'm interested in and curious about. I'm going to chuckle to myself if this thread reaches the bump limit without anyone even trying.

>>14528827
>Guenon usually does not engage with, and simply dismisses modern philosophy
t. hasn't read 'East and West', 'Crisis of the Modern World' or 'Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times' where he extensively comments on and dismantles western philosophy

>The formation of a priest you caste as, as a distinct ruling class, necessarily led to the desecration, secularization, and materialization of the political idea: all the rest is only the consequence of this. The first anti-Traditional revolution was the one in which the priest replaced the “divine king”, and “religion” took place of the elites, who were the bearers of the solar, victorious, and aristocratic spirituality.

>It is only int the west with the rise of the Semitic religion and the Semitic spirit that the disruption appears to have become decisive, and irremediable from diverse points of view.

>Primitive Christianity, with the transcendentalism of the values leading everyone in the expectation of that “Kingdom which “is not this world”, with the characteristic Semitic will of submission to God and humiliation of the creature, smashed the solar synthesis of spirituality and politics, of royalty and divinity, which the ancient world knew.

>>14201978
obsessed

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>>14136192
based, I'm an entp also

Did Guénon predict the Clown World?

>The consequence, paradoxical only in appearance, is that to the extent that more uniformity is imposed on it, the world is by so much the less ‘unified’ in the real sense of the word. This is really quite natural, since the direction in which it is dragged is, as explained already, that in which ‘separativity’ becomes more and more accentuated; and here the character of ‘parody’, so often met with in everything that is specifically modern, makes its appearance. In fact the imposition of uniformity, while actually leading in a direction exactly opposite to that of true unity, since it tends to realize that which is most remote therefrom, takes shape as a sort of caricature of unity.

>Man ‘mechanized’ everything and ended at last by mechanizing himself, falling little by little into the condition of numerical units, parodying unity, yet lost in the uniformity and indistinction of the ‘masses’, that is, in pure multiplicity and nothing else. Surely that is the most complete triumph of quantity over quality that can be imagined.

>As against this, it could be said that subversion, thus understood, is but the last stage of deviation and is its goal, or, in other words, that deviation as a whole has no tendency other than to bring about subversion, and that is true enough; in the present state of affairs, though it cannot yet be said that subversion is complete, the signs of it are very evident in everything in which the special characteristic of ‘counterfeit’ or ‘parody’ is conspicuous.

>The ‘Great Parody’ in its completest form, will be the ‘satanic’ imitation and caricature of everything that is truly traditional and spiritual.

-The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times