Why is there a sudden interest in Hegel on /lit/? It seems there's so many posts about him lately. Not that I'm complaining, he's pretty neat, I'm just curious. The same thing is happening with Schopenhauer.>Everyone please read John Owen also, kek.
>>24740313Yes, Hegel is the closest you will come to God in this life. And as in salvation the point is apt, as in Hegel's philosophy, when understood, you become God, not simply one with God, or one of God's, but God himself; reading Hegel is salvation in that sense. From Kant through the German Idealists to Hegel they are all beautiful Chrsitian figures that less philosophically developed cultures simply fail to recognize. It's like comparing Boethius to the common jewish rabbi. The rabbi will appear like a rat in a gutter contemplating his God compared to the perfect philosopher who encompasses all of antiquity's philosophy.Pope Benedikt had no problem referencing these German thinkers because he recognized (even if feebly) their devout Christian nature. You could not expect almost anyone else in the catholic church, let alone any of the debased protestant strains, to recognize that.
>>24740608>t. Damned heretic
>>24740313It's off-base in claiming that Hegel thought reading his books would mean salvation. But besides that it's basically correct.
>>24740669I'm catholic, thank you.
>>24740608>And as in salvation the point is apt, as in Hegel's philosophy, when understood, you become God, not simply one with God, or one of God's, but God himself; reading Hegel is salvation in that sense.Is this a proper use of commas and semi-colons?
Does the origin of consciousness point to a divine source or can it be purely material?
>>24738109How to refute any materialist argument about consciousness >this physical process produces “consciousness”!21!1>”ok and what is experiencing that process?”Or just point out that their position is structured to not be falsifiable. If their hypothesis is proved wrong, they always just say “well it’s just some other more complicated physical problem process that produces it”! Or you have data that refutes physicalism, they can just say “well you fucked up and didn’t control for all the variables right and that’s why your data shows that”! Or “well that means that means that it still must be produced through that physical process that supposedly refutes physicalism somehow!”
Thinking of picking Thomas Nagel's "The View From Nowhere"Should i?
You need some theory of particles or theory of consciousness to believe in God.I just believe. That is it. Faith in God. In Allah. The Creator. My ego, my pride, is not a part of it.As a child, I did not need some sophisticated argument believe. As an adult, it is the same.
>>24740734This guy does though >>24740832
>>24740769The right idea. I'll take it one further.Rather than consciousness being divine and ultimate (and of course, it *is* divine, ultimately), it may be more correct to say consciousness arises out of the universe so that it may perceive divinity within itself: the half of divinity which is not conscious.
>>24740760Finnegans wake
>>24740760>Tractatus Logico Philosophicus >anything by Taizen DeshimaruTaizen was imprisoned on multiple occasions and nearly executed a few times. Most prison Zen stuff is either brilliant or mundane. The Buddha in Jail was an example of the latter. There was even a master who supposedly lost it and turned anarchist and was imprisoned but his stuff is also pretty boring. There are 2 books about guys who converted in prison and wound up with support from the Dalai Lama but I don't remember what they are. They were both good though.>the severity of the crime creates a voice. >for a select few the circumstances that would ruin anyone else turns to expression. >people line up to hear what a dead man has to say.
Why do you read? Be honest.
>>24739254Me
>>24738911feels good. and it's a nice and enjoyable way to relax if not reading anything strenuous.
>>24739493Does it work? It hasn't for me.
>>24738916>>24738925>>24738928These.
>>24739606>60 hours a week in constructionYou must be pretty wealthy. At least, I hope you are for that kind of back-breaking work.
It's time for the weekly stack accountability thread! Post last week's stack, this week's stack, and share your progress.The regular stack thread is mostly just people showing off how much stuff they bought. This thread is about being accountable and actually reading.I finished up the last 300 pages of Burton's Wanderings in West Africa. Andrew Robinson's Lost Languages, a book about deciphering lost writing systems, finally came in at the library so it moved to the top of my stack. 70 pages in it's fascinating stuff. I also read 60 pages of Antiques Magpie. It's pretty much just an assortment of factoids and anecdotes about antiques, kind of like what a Reader's Digest overview of antiques would be like. It's not particularly good, but it's decent to pick up when you only have a couple minutes.
>>24738973classic
>>24738973Stack threads are usually just the pseudointellectual version of a selfie thread
>>24734455How was Wanderings? Am intrigued
>>24740718I liked it. It's mostly just Richard F Burton visiting a few places in colonial Africa and reporting on them and the people that live there. I like Burton's writing style and find colonialism interesting so I probably enjoyed it quite a bit more than the average person would. Burton's best book that I've read, and probably his most interesting book to most people, is Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, an account of when he pretended to be Muslim and went on Hajj.If you're looking for more of a "hack it through the jungle" book about Africa, you might like Henry Morton Stanley's Through the Dark Continent. I read it a couple years ago and enjoyed it although I don't think he's as good of a writer as Burton.If you buy a copy of these books, make sure to get one by an actual publisher (Dover Press issued good paperback editions of all the books mentioned above) and not a sucky OCR'd version by one of those publishers that just churns out print on demand crap.
>>24740757NTA but Someone told me to wishlist the H.M. Stanley earlier today
I’ve been getting told to „embrace tradition” for like 10 years now, after all this time I’ve decided totake religion more seriously. So seriously in fact that I started looking into biblical scholarship. What Ifound out was surprising, I have no idea what I was expecting, but one of the interesting facts Ilearned is that the gospel of Mark was written first, both Matthew and Luke used it as a source.This has been proven, in my understanding, basically beyond a shadow of a doubt. It also hasprofound implications as to how to interpret the bible on the whole, since with the knowledge thatboth the authors of Matthew and Luke had Mark in front of them, we must now make sense of thechanges and differences between those and Mark, since this would make them editorial changes.This makes a lot of the bible make more sense and was very eye-opening as far as understanding thetext goes.I could talk about the implications of this single discovery further, but this isn’t the point of thethread. The point is: only after re-reading the bible in this light did I realise, the catholic church insiststhat Matthew was in fact first, going against pretty much all scholarship on the matter, I assume inorder to place the founding of the church by Saint Peter arbitrarily early.
>>24740352>evola was revealed to be just another wop trying to make a buckwhat happened?
>>24735175You don't!
>>24740173>>24740173>Any claims that one of the Gospels was copying another make absolutely zero sense when you actually read them, because there are plenty of unique passages in all three.When people say copy they mean use as a source, which is objectively 100% certainly what happened because some passages are word for word exactly the same. To say no gospel copied another would be like saying that I wrote the greentext part of this post completely independently of your post. Ridiculous.This is the one thing EVERYONE agrees upon, some gospel writers had some other gospel in front of them when writing down their own.
>>24740780>To say no gospel copied another would be like saying that I wrote the greentext part of this post completely independently of your post. Ridiculous.If a second person came and wrote the same greentext that you just did, that would just mean they both witnessed the same post. It would prove that my post happened even if you didn't see the original post itself.
>>24740786>If a second person came and wrote the same greentext that you just did, that would just mean they both witnessed the same post. Word for word the same? For paragraphs at a time? No. If I copy paste the first page from a biography of Abraham Lincoln, do you honestly think people would go "wow these 2 guys are so in sync"?
books on the concept of "McDonaldization"?>t. had McDonalds yesterday, ironically enough
>>24740737>Is the childhood conditioning really that powerful?Insanely. Just look at homosexuality instilled by as little as an older man's hand fondling your genitals when you're in grade school.
>>24740360 No I don’t. Though that’s not difficult to reconcile. They’re all different paths to the same goal that developed as emergent phenomenon in their local context. Forgotten truth is a very good book that goes into death about that.
>>24740742>talks about McDonald's, which has burgers, a type of meat sandwich>first reply is about a sexual meatOnly on 4chinz
>>24740796The Huston Smith book?
>>24740198 (OP)Burgerpunk 2.0Just ask AI to help you write it already!
I have finished 0 novels this year. How do women manage to trudge thought so much slop.
>>24738495>>24738520>>24740652>/lit/fags cannot comprehend someone completing a bookThis board is hopeless
>>24738488They don't actually have an inner voice or can deduce right from wrong so they cram books instead of their own self assurance
>>24738488I can guarantee this nigga has spent far more time on vidya and streaming than women do on romantasy (which is objectively more respectable than gaming)
>>24740674Bussin for real no cap
>>24738488cute pepemost girls really just love reading YA pulp and smut which is very easy to read quicklyI myself love reading Horus Heresy between what I have to read for classI believe in you anon
When a couple breaks up there’s always a clear winner and loser. So /lit/, who won?
>>24740773Megan Boyle won. Tao Lin seems insufferable. No longer having to interact with him daily is a win in and of itself.
>>24740773She married Blake Butler after his wife cucked him 50 times and killed herself. Tao won.
>>24740773Do not care one shit about this 15 year old picture of the never-was-beens in it. You still hung up on Farmer, anon?
>>24740773Who has more Twitter followers? I'll guess Tao.
What Redditors are saying about Honor Levy>holy fuck I wish I never read this>the worst people i know are excited about it>it’s astounding how poorly she writes>The one excerpt I saw is literally the worst thing I’ve ever read in my life>You couldn't waterboard me into reading a full book of that, Jesus ChristIs she our girl?
>>24735928lit version of lena dunham
>>24740207BASED
>>24740640Girls was hilarious though. My First Book was not.
I'm going to buy another copy of My First Book today
>>24740772I'm going to order a catalog of Indian creepshots of Honor's feet today
Did he help you with something?
>>24737669I encountered one of his fanboys awhile ago and he was an irritating pissant. Made me not want to read him even though I have some of his books.
>>24738434A key point is to not idolize him and to focus on the work itself, you gotta be all alone in this, all alone, run him over next time
I would like to know as well. I know this guy was big on discipline and I sorely need some discipline in my life.
>>24738422What have you learned from him so far?
>>24738822His work helps to bring me back into myself, it resonates well with me and im enamored with the mythos he created. I would suggest watching Theodore Nottingham's videos on YouTube, he's my preferred guide in his interpretation of the work. A good book id suggest as well is toward awakening by Jean Vaysse, concise, readable and informative
Is Freemasonry a path to enlightenment? I've always thought it was a satanic cult, but that's what everyone thinks. I'd be willing to give it a shot, it wouldn't be the first time I realized that everyone is wrong about somethingIs it really all allegories and teachings of Luciferianism? I haven't read any literature on Freemasonry, except Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly Hall, but desu i didnt really understand much of what i read in that bookis there like a chart or something for getting into freemasonry literature? i'm not sure i was meant to start off with Secret Teachings by Manly Hall, it just didn't seem very entry level
>>24738913Yeah, I bet. Secret Teachings Of All Ages is so fantastical and mysterious
>>24738248one of my teachers in college put on a performance of the Hiram/temple of Solomon story.What the hell was up with that? Was he a Mason, or trying to get noticed?
>>24737739Freemasonry, especially nowadays, is mostly just a fruity club with dumb secret rituals where dudes play dress up in ceremonial robes, drink, and hang out.
>>24738237https://youtu.be/l7k8fD72AsI?t=8171Jeff Van Drew.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Van_DrewVan Drew is a Freemason[128] at Cannon Lodge No. 104 in South Seaville, New Jersey.
Weekly World News ed. Weird fiction & sci-fi/horror welcome as well :)Old: >>24702117
>>24736912I enjoyed it. If you're an animal lover you're going to have a bad time
>>24740429I fucking hate stephen king. I hate the way he writes, I hate the way he talks, I hate that he's a pedophile and nobody seems to care, I hate the way stephen king novels always pop up in horror discussions just because he wrote a million books when he was fucked up on cocaine
>>24740591None of them are even good.
>>24736100As a kid I was 100% convinced these were legitimate news articles, since they were sold on the racks right next to Time.
>>24740429He's most popular because he's the best at it. Cope
Al Ghazali refutes his contemporary followers of Greek philosophy, asserting that religion and faith in God is superior to philosophy in regards to metaphysics and knowledge of the divine. The 11th century text from a Muslim polymath basically describes my view on Greek philosophy as a Muslim myself, and this book is highly popular in the intellectual circles of Muslim countries like Pakistan. Especially in regards to students of Islamic mysticism.I reject the polytheist, pederast cult of the ancient Greek philosophers that pervades the ruling class and Western academia (and /lit/) in favor of faith in God and religious studies, which leads us to Al Ghazali's magnum opus: The Revival of Religious Sciences. A subject for another thread.>Start with the Greeks!They always say. With such commanding arrogance, as if looking down on you as an unenlighted peon.>Start with the Greeks!Thick tomes of indoctrination slammed on the psyche of young liberal arts students, not-to-secretly inlaid with ancient and revolting perversions and cult idol worship. Minerva? Athena? Zeus? I worship God! Not unliving statues! What backwards, primitive nonsense at its foundation, twisted into an image of sophisticated cultural heritage.>Start with the Greeks!No! Start with prayer, start with the prophets. Start with the Scripture and read it and re-read it for life. There you will actually find spiritual satisfaction, sufficient answers for sincere truth seekers.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24739579It's not a myth. But the ones who were doing the teaching were actually all Syrian Christians and not Muslims because Muslims were busy rejecting all knowledge.
>>24738782>tfw you will never be up in a rug and trampled to death by a khan
>>24738769So knowing that it is easier to fuck a 5 year old than a 9 year old because their bones are more springy to flex around and accommodate your girth in their underdeveloped cunny is divine knowledge?
Muhammad is the narrator in Lolita
>>24740713
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>>24740582Yes and that’s exactly why they confuse the absurdities of their pedagogy with the difficulties of the language itself. Their timeframes imply Latin is harder than Mandarin or Japanese.>>24740586Gee I guess I should be like those PHDs on forums claiming 10+ years of nonstop study that still ended up having to read LLPSI to finally learn to read.
>24740586this is the spic who got filtered by LLPSI after a month btw
>>24740696OK smart guy, tell us what this means. In fact let's make this an open challenge - can even ONE anon read this sentence from a famous work?"Dum crebrius istos Hymenaei versiculos , nescio quid inopinum intactumque moliens, cano, capillis respersum albicantibus verticem incrementisque lustralibus decuriatum, nugales ineptias aggarrire non perferens, Martianus intervenit dicens: Quid istud, mi pater, quod nondum vulgata materie cantare deproperas, priusquam foras aditumque reseraris, ὑμνολογεῖς?"
>>24740720While I sang more quickly those verses in honor of Hymenaeus, heaping up something inexpected and untouched, my white hair spread out on my head and decuriated in lustral increments, not bearing myself to babble such inept foolishnesses, Martianus interrupted saying: What is that, my father, that you hasten to sing with a material which is not yet well-known, and before you open the doors of the temple, you ὑμνολογεῖς?
>>24740748I regret to inform you that your translation does not make sense and contains many errors. Is this LLPSI in action? Why would you even post this? Can you not see that the sentence you've given us is nonsensical?
