This thread might not take off, but does anyone want to share general recommendations on the above subjects?
Basically anything about how the current age is a pile of shit, and methods for either fixing it, or surviving it.
Spiritual renewal, inner emigration, riding the tiger, asceticism general
Jaxon Foster
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Benjamin Gonzalez
Yeah, your misery has nothing to do with you, it's the world that's a pile of shit
Connor Garcia
Yeah great food security, drinking water quality and access, hygiene, medicine, travel capabilities, etc. are SO shitty.
Wow this world sucks. At least that's according to young Western males' defense mechanisms and externalizations.
Luke Gonzalez
>We may note that Gnostic eclecticisms have the following features in common. Their religion appeals to the proud rather than the humble in heart, for it claims to sum up the best in other religions and thus castigates adherents of the older faiths. Its appeal is largely to intellectuals and initiates and not to the great under-privileged multitudes of the world. Their philosophy is almost always pantheistic and shares the characteristic weaknesses of that outlook; for example, it despises the body which for the Christian is the temple of the Holy Spirit; it teachers an automatic immortality which makes an end of a moral interpretation of history; it depersonalizes God so taht He becomes an 'essence' or 'principle' and ceases to be the Person; consequently it despises history and the world as illusory, and shows an ostrich-like optimism towards sin, and an unwillingness to change the social conditions, which militate against the full development of personality. Salvation is through identification with God by means of meditation, not by the transformation of the will.
Fucckkk, how will they ever recover?
Jace Ward
This, OP is an arrogant pseud
>claims world is shit
>enjoys luxuries
>makes no effort to become a valuable human being who could alleviate that shitness
>continues to claim that the world is shit
David Walker
Not OP, but the world is in a very sorry state right now. If you're not aware of that then you're not paying attention.
Besides that, sure, everyone is responsible for their own happiness when it comes down to it. I don't see an indication of him denying that.
Owen Diaz
>Fucckkk, how will they ever recover?
Through some simple critical thought
Wyatt Peterson
The More Beautiful World that Our Hearts Know is Possible
Samuel Foster
Yeah it's in such a sorry state. How many hours did you spend fruitlessly hunting and foraging today versus shitposting on an ephemeral message board while reclining in a climate-controlled shelter that is luxurious beyond our ancestors' imagination, with potable water available at the mere twist of your hand and immaculate food stored at an optimal temperature to insure freshness and longevity?
But no, politics are polarized more than ever so The End is Near.
Jaxson Wood
Be that as it may, if you have enough time to read eclectic shit like Guenon in earnest, you live in unbelievable privilege.