/lit/ - Literature

>>11574620
Is eternalism really spooky? I suppose if you attempt to derive fatalism from its supposed truth. I find the abdication of personal responsibility and free will to be liberating, frankly.

I find the alternative interpretation of the relativity of simultaneity to be far more puzzling and perturbing. If we wish to preserve presentism, we must relativize existence, so that the universe is reduced to a zero-dimensional point, and anything outside of one's own world-line is ontologically indeterminate. Howard Stein formulated the concept in response to the rash of papers coming out in defense of a fatalistic interpretation of special relativity and as he well understood and pointed out, this point-present solipsism is "pluralistic" in that every man is, in fact, an island unto himself. As old Einstein would be appalled to discover, the moon really isn't there when nobody's looking!

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>>8493121
Wrong.

>>8449691
Once you get to the Münchhausen trilemma and realise coherent thought doesn't exist and philosophy is nothing but muh feels it loses a lot of its urgency.

I still read philosophy though, but treat it more like prose poems about the author's feels than anything else. Philosophy is autobiography.

>>8149894
This,
to be honest,
family.

>>8035434
>Exclusion is a fact of life
Exclusion from what?

>But what are you proposing as an alternative?
I already said it. Be calm. If you don't make a big thing out of your issues there's no reason why you should be turned down. People listen to tone more than anything, so even if you are giving God's truth on love and you're screaming, you will only give them a violent emotion--and powerful, heart touching statements are much more poignant when they aren't trying to be powerful.

Be personal, be understanding, don't dumb it down, but don't try to be so specific, don't try to convince. It's something that is sublime, there's no need to treat it as a war. Care for the way people act or will act upon your words, not how they are affected by them; the world doesn't end at your tongue.

>even the most sincere among us engage in rigorous and highly selective mental segregation
I'm not talking about sincerity--eloquent statements aren't different, they both express the same reality. And statements done violently aren't good, no matter how simple. There's no need to leave the selection process out completely, so much as let it act in the right means. Don't be at war with yourself and you won't be at war with the world.

>I fear banality.
Banality is simply a lack of prestige, and a lack of prestige is a lack of social importance. The point is not to be worried more than you need be about it. What do you need to be listened to, anyway?

>the degree to which you can disembody the spoken from the speaker in order to communicate effectively is one of the least tangible material divides among humans, though it may in a round-about way affect the development of those material divides.
See, now you just have me wondering what you are saying, even though it's probably not that complex.

this desu

anything eastern if you take it seriously.

>>7923210
You need to stay off the horse, anon. Building your life around the pursuit of knowledge is a sure way to end up miserable without knowing more than the rest.

What you need are quietism and therapeutical philosophy and anti-philosophy and things like that.

Pyrrho, Wittgenstein, U.G. Krishnamurti, Bodhidharma, Laozi, those type of lads.

You need to realise that what ails you is cured not by solving problems but by not creating problems. By realising that there are no problems in the first place without you constantly spawning them by getting caught up in some sort of linguistic neurosis. You need to realise the desire to know is your problem, not your inability to know. If you don't desire the impossible you will have no problem.

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>>7012785
Finding it's own off-switch.

>>6784044

Books on Quietism?

>>6700923
Forgot pic

>>6685342
Sounds like the beginning of the transition phase.

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>>6464861
Iktf, but I apply it the other way around. When I'm feeling pleasantly at peace without the desire to write I consider myself living the good life. I aspire to not write. Or think too much for that matter.

Writing can be therapeutic, but the need for therapy itself shows there is something wrong.

>>6408820
Yes.

>>5964637
Quietism.

What are the names of the thinkers pictured and what are their main texts?

>>5898527
>implying anti-philosophical schools aren't best philosophical schools