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If we had to send aliens one work of literature to reflect all of humanity, what would that work be?

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>> No.13343251

You couldn't do that. Texts presuppose languages and languages presuppose a conceptual lifeworld, which arguably presupposes a certain transcendental comportment unique to or at least similar to humans. You can't detach a text from any of these contexts. To teach the aliens how to read anything, we'd have to be teaching them our deep grammar as well, which would immediately require drawing upon other texts, individual human life experiences (which include texts), etc. If they are even somewhat capable of understanding these things, then they probably share in our transcendental comportment to some degree, which is already more interesting than sharing any single atomized text. If they are readily capable of understanding because their baseline cognition is extremely similar to ours, it arguably suggests even more interesting things about νους and λογος that alien life is cognitively "anthropomorphic."

>> No.13343499

>>13343211
Demons (which is what you actually mean by "aliens"), by their plasmic nature, possess capability of immediate access to, and apprehension of, information that is present within the noosphere, and unprotected psykhe, therefore, intellectually, and, according to the intellectual affinity, and capacity, of each - they already know. It is rather by following spiritual work that they learn.

>> No.13344016

>>13343499
How do we go about killing these beings? Since, as you already know, they have supernatural abilities such as super strength, super speed, shapeshifting abilities, telekinesis, etc. and the time where we will have to fight such beings is rapidly approaching.

>> No.13344029

From the West: Blood Meridian.
From the East: The Book of the Five Rings.

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>>13344016
With spiritual/aetheric weaponry, which will autogenerate in Hyperzone, and manifest in Kosmos when optimal electromagnetic conditions are met.

>> No.13344150

Something with a good cliff hanger

>> No.13344157

Harry Potter

>> No.13344165

I had a shower thought earlier. What if we are an alien weapon? Notice how war and murder has permeated history. Most of our technological advancement came from war. Maybe we were put here to rape and pillage the universe

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There is nothing in life more powerful than this piece of fiction. It is still the final and the greatest expression of human thought, the most bitter irony that a human is capable of expressing; and if the world came to an end and people were asked somewhere there: ‘Well, did you understand anything about your life on earth and draw any conclusion from it?’ a person could silently hand over Don Quixote. ‘Here is my conclusion about life. Can you condemn me for it?’

>> No.13344195

>>13344165
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbT1fCHOjfI

>> No.13344204

>>13344133
Thank you. How does one prepare to be a proper combatant in God's heavenly host?

>> No.13344213

Parmenides by our boy Plato

>> No.13344257

>>13343251
Yes.

>> No.13344355

>>13344204
>How does one prepare to be a proper combatant in God's heavenly host?
By becoming the best/most optimal version of oneself that one can imagine oneself being.

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In the Search of Lost Time.

>> No.13344524

>>13344355
I will strive to be better than I was, despite my current, pitiable condition and past mistakes.

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>>13344185

>> No.13344727

>>13343251
fucking cringe
>>13343211
War and Peace

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>>13343211
Complete works of Shakespeare, except for Titus Andronicus.

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Inb4 Mein Kampf.

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>>13344185

>> No.13345145

Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson by Gurdjieff
Or
Being & Time by Martin Heidegger

>> No.13345941

>>13343211
critique of pure reason imo

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Knowing 4chinz, and the type that generated the name "Boaty McBoatface", I submit pic related for consideration, as an example of the true nature of mankind.

>> No.13346133

AAAAAAHHHH

>> No.13346171

>>13344665
>>13345048
the fuck does this mean?

>> No.13347256

>>13343211
War of the Worlds

>> No.13347268

>>13345013
but that's the coolest one.

>> No.13347450

Game of Thrones!

>> No.13347589

>>13343251
>Texts presuppose languages

You mean classes of objects and experience presuppose language and texts, idiot

>> No.13347596

>>13344133
How many drugs are you on