/lit/ - Literature

Going by the sentence order of the german original.
We pause after every sentence to reflect, contemplate and discuss the meaning of it.

http://library.lol/main/00194E00ACB458FDEEE47C89604F5707
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>>15775854
Man hört so viel auf den Kanzeln von der Unsicherheit, Eitelkeit und Unstetigkeit zeitlicher Dinge sprechen; aber jeder denkt dabei, so gerührter auch ist, ich werde doch das Meinige behalten.

Kommt nun aber diese Unsicherheit in Form von Husaren mit blanken Säbeln wirklich zur Sprache und ist es Ernst damit, dann wendet sich jene gerührte Erbaulichkeit, die alles vorhersagte, dazu, Flüche über die Eroberer auszusprechen.

Trotzdem aber finden Kriege, wo sie in der Natur der Sache liegen, statt; die Saaten schießen wieder auf, und das Gerede verstummt vor den ernsten Wiederholungen der Geschichte.

>>15297524
>Has anime progressed since Kant?

>>15215495
>capitalism is the vanishingly minute proprietorship of the financial system of debt note usury
>liberal progressive global hegemony is its mask
Real antitheses to capitalism must cease huffing the miasma of ideologies obscuring the what and whom of Capital, from whence they issue forth out of its pleroma.

>>15115258
N E G A T E D

>>14898224
>biblical (world) typology and proselytization mission (comparative religion)

>>14908914
>>14903766
>YHWH being the/an architect
Upper Egypt (Memphis pantheon) coup with Setian/'assyrian' Hyksos

>>14898189
Having ridden the razor's edge of just this -- being ready does not entail resignation (or elation at a prospective new life in a novel beyond, or remorse).

>>14898274
One day, we'll deal with the neanderthals for good.

>>14899071
>mars slave colonies
NJMZA. Hans Dellschau. Dirigible sightings mid-late 1800s. non-'banker' physics. Tesla. Nazi Bell. Red Mercury. Torsion fields. -- The world war two rockets space travel paradigm is a dog and pony show since these developments went black following the JFK thing. There is a danger of breakaway societies/civilizations that got there first simply astroturfing terrestrial development, forever. The missing 21 trillion (now closer to 40) from 'undocumented adjustments' in HUD & DOD testified on by Rumsfeld the day before 9/11 in all likelyhood went straight 'up'. Same for Gadafi gold (look up the NXIVM connection) and the alleged F-35 boondoggle (hand-me down off the shelf gibs). Pure speculation of course.

>>14899215
They are conditioned to response reflexively, too quickly for self-reflection/intent/will to really be expressed. It takes a lot to drill out natural curiosity. Their OODA loop is partitioned from the gut, hamster wheel appetites electrocuting their ego constanty.

>>14899654
>Each race shares a collective "soul"
Biomorphogenetic fields (mediated by microtubules) probably facilitate ancestral memory -- instinct, spirit, whatever -- and the erection of a new Babylon has more to do with erasing these intangible roots than anything else.

>>14899865
Say his name (internal, aloud, doesn't matter) every day; speak to him at his burial/ash spreading site.

>>14900270
>namely Ishamel's ultimate realization of how to digest the inscrutabl
You give this impression well, been meaning to reread it again.

>>14901256
There are biological/physical correlates to disease (~Chinese medicine) -- 'demons' are like viruses that require a certain receptor lock on a cell [spike protein]

>>14906710
>LYNCH: Letting a good idea just get away is worse than death, you may as well kill yourself.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170118-how-east-and-west-think-in-profoundly-different-ways

Bow down before me, plebes, for I have transcended the divide! On those tests mentioned in the articles, I consistently chose the eastern options (no assumption of intimidation, train/track, background of picture before foreground), while simultaneously choosing the individualist options on introspection (valuing personal success and freedom over other things, not concerned with views of others).

Real talk, what a load of bullshit. This is the kicker:
>Nisbett points out that Western philosophers emphasised freedom and independence, whereas Eastern traditions like Taoism tended to focus on concepts of unity. Confucius, for instance, emphasised the “obligations that obtained between emperor and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, and between friend and friend”.

Nisbett just described the first day of any Western philosoophy course.
Eastern philosophy is stagnant and stunted, and is absolutely not holistic -- it focuses almost entirely on group and only emphasizes the individual as a cog in the wheel. It's the philosophy of slaves.
Western philosophy as a monolith generally blends the external and internal. It's the philosophy of masters, and would-be masters. The failure of average Westerners to value its philosophy is a failure of our post-modern, commie-loving education system, which promotes the futility of our society. If we educated children on the Greeks and the Enlightenment, we would see far fewer Kardashians.

>>13718724
Where do I start with Coomaraswamy?
I studied Guenon so I'm not unprepared.

>>13574444
gotta do it op

Is Mazalan good?
Is it overrated? If so, what's better?

>>13339056
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit unironically.

So I tried reading Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit because of all the memes on /lit/ and all I've gotten so far from it is that to reach absolute truth you have to find the middle ground (synthesis) between two supposedly contradictory positions (thesis & antithesis). Wow, how profound! Honestly, it's getting quite repetitive. People meme about how difficult it is to summarize him, but this is literally all he talks about.

>>12856679
>It's not a book, but the living moving truth.
>"OH ANON FUCK ME WITH YOUR ABSOLUTE SPIRIT"

>tfw you realize fascism is just applied Hegelianism

What are your reading goals for 2019? I've been backed up on a shit ton of books. In 2018, I've hardly read anything, so I want to make sure 2019 is different.

For the longest time I wanted to be an author. However, I have little experience in writing, nor do I know if I have the talent for it. But most importantly what I lack is the discipline to commit myself to building upon a story for an ENTIRE YEAR. How do you develop this discipline? The skills can come with work, it doesn't happen if I continuously default to my usual routine every day of jumping on YouTube and watching videos. Reading has become a struggle too, the internet has rotted my mind. Any successful authors here? Is the secret to turn it into a routine?

>>11953318
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hegel-dialectics/#HegeDialMethLogi

>“[T]he important point to make here, and again and again”, Robert C. Solomon writes, for instance,

>is that the transition from the first form to the second, or the transition from the first form of the Phenomenology all the way to the last, is not in any way a deductive necessity. The connections are anything but entailments, and the Phenomenology could always take another route and other starting points. (Solomon 1983: 230)

>In a footnote to this passage, Solomon adds “that a formalization of Hegel’s logic, however ingenious, is impossible” (Solomon 1983: 230).

In other words, its shit

So there have been two new translations of the Phenomenology this year (Pinkard, Inwood). What does /lit/ think of them? Would you recommend them over Miller?

>>11719189
It feels so fucking good to know your school of thought is dead

>>11625475
The dialectic is the process of how change occurs. The status quo (the "thesis") will have shortcomings from which its "antithesis" will emerge. Conflict ensues.

After the inevitable struggle between thesis and antithesis, the two will eventually sublate, each stripping away the flaws of the other and forming a "synthesis," which contains the essence of both but the imperfections of neither. The synthesis then becomes the new status quo.

>>11560260
>that part in the beginning on german intellectual history

>>11428768
HEGEL