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>>9222458
can't find one but its true. western society has turned meditation into meme like its fucking caffeine. if you meditate your life will improve and you'll become 'enlightened"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXyLbU1GGqU

>>9222471
It improves how you deal with mental stress

>>9222458
Donald Lopez is a professor of Buddhist studies and I'm fairly sure he's made the same statement. Most Buddhists are Asian laypeople who see meditation as something for monks to do.

>>9222396
CRIPSR and rejuvenation sounds quite promising, but automation is pretty overrated IMO, and if neural networks are anything to go by, AIs will be kind of like us - something that has very little idea of how it actually works instead of something precisely engineered.
>Will the religious community crack under the new strains and findings?
You overestimate the unity and power of the "religious community" and underestimate the amount of mental gymnastics that can be done by the religious, these findings won't change anything.

>>9222396
>I'll be happy as an immortal robot
Lmao

>>9222396
Go read The possibility of an Island, instead

>>9222374
Study classical music and the basics of electronic music making, and come uo with complex, sophisticated music that follows those forms. It may take a lifetime to get that right, if you're not twlented enough.

>>9222374

I have the same problem. I love listening to music but I don't know how to write about it. How to write about the sounds, for instance; all I know how to say is stuff like "synth" or "piano backdrop".

Oftentimes reviewers will say "this song has a bluegrass feel" or "this song has a particular new wave influence" but to me that just makes it more complicated, genres feel so fuzzy and non-descriptive.

It helps to learn fundamentals of composition. I find music in general hard to right about, though.

Neofascist Japanese authors are the future

Byung Chul Han

Michel Henry

Holy shit, do whatever you want, store them in folders, in USB devices, in dropbox, but don't waste a fucking thread for such an irrelevant question

>>9222282
keep a physical paper copy of every book, and get several flash drives.

>>9222163
he was a loser and an edgelord

He lived autistically though his parents' income.

>>9222367
That settles that, thanks anon

typed him in google, looks gay
does he even have a youtube account?

POst his patreon so I can give him 20000 dollars a month

ah yes a surjection
*surreptitiously opens google*

You seem a little annoyed that somebody in another thread blasted you into another dimension with some basic facts that completely deconstruct your naive fantasy about how black and white morals are thanks to being "progressive". I suggest trying to read a little more, expand your awareness and appreciation.

ah yes surreptitiously

*yells at Alexa to define urreptitiously *
*Alexa reports me to CIA*
*Alexa plays Trap Queen by Fedy Wap*

read the bible instead, that stuff will lead you straight to hell

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>>9222008
It's too late to turn back now, I've already drank of the life, pic is me

I have a copy of Nabarz the mysteries of Mithras which is decent. He's a bit of a loon since he actually believes in this stuff. If you get the chance head to Roma and see the Basilica di San Clemente...

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Grimm Brothers Germany
Aesops Fables

Kalevala
Russian Fairy Tales -A'fansev
Havamal
Beowulf

>/b/
I haven't read much anthropology at all but Clifford Geertz is very readable with his thicc description.

People still post on /b/?

>>9221997
What have you read from Lévi-Strauss ?
I thought that Tristes Tropiques was really comfy.
De près et de loin is comfy as well, not too technical, but I don't if an english translation exists.

If you are a good person, it's ok to make mistakes.

>>9221881
They are pretty similar.

Basically, virtue ethics focuses on what it means to be a good person. That is, what are the kind of character traits that a good person would have (as opposed to moral "laws" that can be followed in any situation).

Situational ethics agrees with this, but also seems to put forward the notion that love is a virtue that would apply to any situation.

Virtue and situational ethics are both relativist in that they agree that ethical behaviour would look different in different situations.

>>9221912
Thank you for your reply!

just write you are caught up in impossible perfction

Just draw a picture instead.

Abstain from editing until you're done with the writing portion of your effort for the day, otherwise you'll be stuck perfecting one paragraph forever.

>>9221774
I'd be a genius if there wasn't internet

Still a nobody.

>>9221780
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Number is antithetic to word as quantity is antithetic to quality.

>>9221745
Ah, good old Watts.

Seriously can we do like a kickstarter for this dude or something? He wants to write and I think a lot of people want to read him, but he's expressed a few times that he's having trouble with funding and publication processes generally. Feel like the online lit community should be able to help him in some way.