What does /lit/ think about Eckhart Tolle and his teachings?
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>>9536417
Not pure garbage but not good.
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>>9536417
It's good if it leads you toward traditional meditation practices and bad if it leads you toward healing crystals and other new age stuff. /lit/ will shit on it because that's what they do
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A complete misinterpretation of traditional mysticism, dumbed down and repackaged as a miracle cure by a delu$ional hack.
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Requesting literature and poetry that feels like being held and told in a whisper that everything will be okay and it won't be easy or perfect but the pain will stop.
pic related desu
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>>9536291
fucking fag. Take the redpill and embrace masculinity and your white brethren
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>>9536299
Please fall asleep on a railroad.
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>>9536299
Maybe it's a female?
If not, proceed as ordered.
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Discuss.
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>>9536137
Disgusting how women, blacks, and gays wanted rights all of a sudden.
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>first half of that timeline probably represents 500 times less books than the second half
Wonderful sample
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>>9536151
>doesn't know the difference between less and fewer
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>"read these depressing books anon it'll make you less depressed"
>*reads*
>becomes more depressed
for what purpose?
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>>9536022
Maybe you need to spend less time reading books and more time getting your life in order, you utter faggot.
You probably have a frog folder and spend most of your time complaining about women and semites online
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when i was in my early and mid 20s all i did was read depressing "classic" books, and it made me a lot more depressed, but now that im 30 and im happy Im really glad i read all those books because they taught me a lot about how to live
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>>9536039
I'm in my 20s and depressed. Can you recommend me one of those books?
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Should we read books written by Jews? 2017-05-21 09:46:15 Post No.9535789
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Should we read books written by Jews?
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I'v come across quite a few books written by Jews, in fact Jews seem to write quite a lot. It doesn't seem wise to ignore everything they create, it also seems unwise to paint them all with the same brush. They do have an overall higher iq and so, they most likely are capable of writing some very interesting and intelligent books.
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If the Jew writer is well known in Israel. discard the book. It is most likely pure propaganda.
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Stick to books that are not written by Jews.
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There are works of Jews you should read, but only so you can understand the mind of the average Jew.
Jesus was a Jewish High Priest?
From the source Christians use to prove Jesus:
Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews
>"Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges,
and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James,
and some others, [or, some of his companions];"
>"...King Agrippa took the high priesthood from him, when he had ruled but three months, and made Jesus, the son of Damneus, high priest."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_son_of_Damneus
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>The works of Josephus refer to at least twenty different people with the name Jesus
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It sounds like he was a big deal in the religious circles at a very troubled and turbulent time in Judaea. Trying to deduce anything more is wishful thinking
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>>9535747
It's literally in the same paragraph as the Christ Jesus.
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekTexts&query=Joseph.%20AJ%2020.199&getid=1
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Let's get a Haiku thread on a roll. Been a while /lit/, give me your best poetic encounters of this dull and drudging life.
Visions I seek
Of a phantasmagoria
Wish upon a star
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>>9535719
Eagle flies
Dragon cries
Muhammad Rises
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>>9535719
This form sings beauty,
But it is meant for Nature;
Your haiku does not.
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>>9535740
What excuse for post,
When the meter conforms not.
You have not a clue.
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What did Tolkien mean by this?
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"oh shit I forgot to have something bad happening to the Shire, now it looks like some paradise that's never affected by anything and our heroes will just be ignored when they return"
"maybe if I sneak in this completely out of place subplot about them being enslaved for like a week the reader will get a feel for the stakes"
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>>9535279
It kinda makes sense that the shire was attacked, though. It wasn't at all defended, and it was Saurons way of fucking with Frodo.
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>>9535305
First of all, yes it was defended by the Rangers and justing by what Aragorn said, there was some serious shit around there. Second, there was absolutely no point in taking over the shire. There are no resources there and the hobbits are total crap for labor because they're small and weak. And besides, how long could this whole operation realistically last with the war won and the new king AND Gandalf being massive hobbitboos?
It was just a clumsy way to demonstrate everybody could get hurt by evil even if they hide in their home and to kill off Saruman
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Who are your Top 5 Supreme Literary Geniuses 2017-05-21 06:15:44 Post No.9534955
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Who are your Top 5 Supreme Literary Geniuses
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> Homer or Aeschylus
> Vergil
> Dante
> Chaucer
> Tolstoy
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>Barth
>McElroy
>Gaddis
>Wallace
>Pynchon
Yep.
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>>9534955
>Vergil
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>>9535030
What?
Anyone else genuinely wish they were dumber?
All my best moments in life have been when I didn't overthink, acted on impulse, didn't analyze and just went plain stupid
Intelligence brings so many bad things with it
The anxiety, the questioning of everything, the doubt
I wish I was a meathead jock sometimes
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fine """""american""""" specimens in that picture
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I agree that intelligent people tend to overthink things instead of acting
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I think you're confusing intelligence with insecurity and narcissism.
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What books of the Old Testament should I read?
I'm familiarizing myself with the essentials of the Western Canon.
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>>9534226
Bump
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>>9534226
Everything except Leviticus and Deuteronomy
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>>9534226
All of them. And then read the New Testament.
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>Book of Job.
>No employment tips.
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epic
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I am ashamed for laughing at this, because it's really stupid.
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>Animal Farm
>no tips on husbandry, breeding or animals
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Literature equivalent of this brilliant and highly accurate documentary? I already read Curtis' blog. But is there any philosophy/theory on the topic of hyper-normalisation, or guys similar to Adam Curits in general? (no Baudrillard, please)
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I was actually planning on asking lit the same thing haha. Who is Adam Curtis?
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you could read the authors he references in his films.
Ulrich beck - "risk society" etc
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>>9533845
I'm planning on reading Roadside Picnic soon.
I tried looking for Surkov's writings but I guess they haven't been translated into english.
How would you describe something kafkaesque ?
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kafkaesque
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work that thematically deals with frustration, alienation, anxiety, and futility in a disorienting, dreamlike manner.
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>>9533716
I find the word "modern" works.
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Describe your favourite book in one picture
I'll start
>The Trial
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If on a winter's night a traveler
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>Storm of Steel
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Odyssey