/lit/ - Literature

>millions of Jezebel threads and despicable, disgusting, sinful comments
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>one thread complaining about it
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Why are the mods here against truth and intellectual awakening? If I brought lewd pictures to a literature club I would be considered a disturber of the peace and thrown out, not to mention I ought to be reprimanded for being a reprobate. What is to be done about reckless Jezebel posting?

It seems to me that the great controversy between traditions lies in Dualism.

Eastern religions do not seem to deny dualism, but are convinced that abolishing it is the way to heaven. The sage should not view the world in terms of good and evil, up and down, heaven and hell, etc. This is a common criticism held by the East towards Christianity and the West and general. The West along with Christianity seem to actually find disapproval for this reason, based on the belief that characterizing things in terms of good and evil ends up bringing evil to a person's awareness. If you begin to distinguish between truth and lies, moral and immoral, all of the sudden people will start asking themselves whether this or that is a lie, whether this or that is the truth, whereas before they lacked this dualistic perspective. The idea is that before this Fall, humanity lived in a certain non-dualistic state. Whether we should characterize this state as ignorance or as enlightenemnt is a matter for debate.

Nonetheless, I don't think you can make the argument that Christianity is responsible for this, since the Old Testament acknowledges the Fall, and acknowledges that humanity fell into sin by attaining to a dualist perspective (the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil). Christ did not bring humanity into awareness of hypocrisy by calling certain people hypocritical—by then, hypocrisy had already existed. It is unfair, then, for the East to blame the West for this.

While I might agree that attaining to the non-dualistic state is the ultimate goal, it is nonetheless pertinent to our current state to adopt a dualist view. Not a single Eastern tradition can claim that they are not "guilty" of the supposed folly of dualism, since to posit that the non-dual state is what we should aspire to, above the inferior dualist perspective is in itself dualistic and creates an above and below, a good and bad.

For Christianity to characterize certain behaviors as sin does not make it inferior to Eastern traditions, since man has indeed fallen into a state of sin. It is not practical, then, to preach this non-dualism in our current age, and I don't think it is possible to return to the Golden Age where humanity had not lost its innocence. We cannot even impart this non-dualism to the next generation before we have wiped ourselves clean from it, which is impossible for the same reason. Humanity, then, having fallen into dualism, must embrace it and move forward.

Sexuality is female. The man descends into the female principle the more sexual he becomes. Homosexuals tend toward homosexuality, as do womanizers, who in their manners are markedly feminine. The mature masculine tends toward restraint, intellectualism, austerity, and chastity. He tends not to delight in nakedness or physical contact, or in vulgar pleasures. He prefers to be plain, polite, respectful, and so forth, all of which lend themselves to a clearer representation of a man's actual worth). Vulgar men (read: sexual) mistake these characteristics as being feminine or unmanly, when in reality it is their own coarseness and sentimentality which has more in common with the feminine. In the presence of women, one becomes either increasingly disgusted at their lack of the aforementioned virtues, or eventually acclimates to them, thereby allowing their own mental sobriety to be diluted by frivolity and fruitless sentimentalism. Women trivialize or ridicule masculinity (read: masculinity, as opposed to sensuality) because their own nature is foreign to it; on the other hand, they delight in flamboyant and extroverted men, and love nothing more than to hear of a man's romantic feelings. Womanizers and feminine men tend to show off more of their bare skin, tend to take a interest in fashion and presentation, may wear excessive jewelry and accessories, or even wear make-up, all of which are highly characteristic of the feminine. It is also not uncommon to hear that womanizers have had same-sex intercourse at least once. Women find little solace in religion, philosophy, piety, and solitude, and it is the same with men insofar as they are coerced by the sexual urge. The thoughts of men like Kant or Augustine are absolutely incomprehensible to women, whose considerations remain deeply submerged within gross sensuality. Insofar as a man indulges in sexuality, whether by himself, with women, or with other men, he falls from a more masculine height into the sensible, sexual realm of the feminine. This is why chaste men accomplish so much more of lasting worth than sexual men.

Recommended reading:

On the Apparel of Women, Tertullian
Confessions, Augustine
The Symposium, Plato
Critique of Practical Reason, Kant
Sex and Character, Weininger
Ecclesiastes, Solomon
Father Sergius, Tolstoy

Quotes:

>"Of the woman came the beginning of sin, and through her we all die." (Ecclesiastes 25:22)
>"The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids. If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly, lest she abuse herself through overmuch liberty." (Eccles. 26:9-10)
> “It is only males who are created directly by the gods and are given souls. Those who live rightly return to the stars, but those who are ‘cowards or [lead unrighteous lives] may with reason be supposed to have changed into the nature of women in the second generation’." - (Plato, Timaeus 90e)