/lit/ - Literature

>>21599615
Most ancient cultures were fear-based cultures.

The Old Testament was produced by a fear-based culture.

The New Testament was produced by a guilt-based culture (which began with the Stoics), and is the reason the West has a guilt-based culture today.

>>21599646
go back to >>https://www.youtube.com/@WhatifAltHist

>>21599646
So why is Latin America shame? And why is Armenia, Georgia and Ethiopia (the oldest Christian countries) also seem to be shame?

>>21599646
Yes and eugenics and no-fault divorce is now Christian because it comes from Western Europe

>>21599646
Why do stoics sound so much like Christians though? Who was copying who?

> A distinctive feature of Stoicism is its cosmopolitanism. All people are manifestations of the one universal spirit and should, according to the Stoics, live in brotherly love and readily help one another. They held that external differences such as rank and wealth are of no importance in social relationships. Thus, before the rise of Christianity, Stoics recognized and advocated the brotherhood of humanity and the natural equality of all human beings. Stoicism became the most influential school of the Graeco–Roman world, and produced a number of remarkable writers and personalities, such as Cato the Younger and Epictetus.

> “All men descend from the same original stock; no one is better born than another, except in so far as his disposition is nobler and better suited for the performance of good actions.” - Seneca

>>21599694
When barbarian Western Europe came into contact with Christianity, they were fear-based tribesmen. Christianity civilized them into guilt-based cultures.

Places like Greece or Armenia were civilized shame-based cultures already, so while they have elements of guilt-based culture, they still remained primarily shame-based.

>>21599738
I don’t know the map seems like it has more to do with Germanics and Anglos than barbarians in general

>>21599755
Better map. The most guilt-based are Protestants, basically.

>>21599615
He's literally me.
Except the part about praising semitic religions.

More people should see the parallels between Blake and Nietzsche:
>The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.

>Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then perswaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
>Then I asked: does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?
>He replied, All poets that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm perswasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm perswasion of any thing.

>Then Ezekiel said, The philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human perception: some nations held one principle for the origin & some another; we of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as you now call it) was the first principle and all other others merely derivative, which was the cause of our despising the priests & Philosophers of other countries, and prophecying that all Gods

>would at last be proved to originate in ours & to be the tributaries of the Poetic Genius; it was this that our great poet King David desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly, saying by this he conquers enemies & governs kingdoms; and we so loved our God, that we cursed in his name all deities of surrounding nations, and asserted that they had rebelled; from these opinions the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be subject to the jews.
>This said he, like all firm perswasions, is come to pass, for all nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what greater subjection can be? I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own conviction. After dinner I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost. Ezekiel said the same of his.
>I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years? he answer'd, the same that made our friend Diogenes the Grecian.
>I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side? he answer'd, the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite; this the North American tribes practise, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification?
-Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, a memorable fancy

>>21599646
why is ireland shame based?

>>21599615
>homosexual perma-depressed horse-fucking tranny incel thinks xe knows better than literally God Almighty