/lit/ - Literature

>>16189204
Yes.

>>15971512
But in saying this, we are creating three things. The Father is himself, with the power to generate all things after him, the entire triad. Therefore, the entire triad is a monad, and a monad is not the beginning of number, but a cause of every monad and every number, nor is it isolated like a form by means of a definite delimitation, but it is the unique form of simplicity that is inherent in all things.
Are the three the same thing or are they different, and is the monad a triad?
None of these things is true. There is none of this in that realm, not sameness, not otherness, not triad, not monad as distinct from triad. There is no antithesis in the intelligible.
Therefore is the Unified just the One, or is the One just the many, or are the many just the Unified?
Surely not, I shall say.
How then are all things not three?

>>15758089
“Why not depart from life as a sated guest from a feast? Lucretius, iii. 951.
If you have not known how to make the best use of it, if it was unprofitable to you, what need you care to lose it, to what end would you desire longer to keep it?
“Why seek to add longer life, merely to renew ill-spent time, and be again tormented?”—Lucretius, iii. 914.]
Life in itself is neither good nor evil; it is the scene of good or evil as you make it.’ And, if you have lived a day, you have seen all: one day is equal and like to all other days. There is no other light, no other shade; this very sun, this moon, these very stars, this very order and disposition of things, is the same your ancestors enjoyed, and that shall also entertain your posterity:
“Your grandsires saw no other thing; nor will your posterity.” —Manilius, i. 529.
And, come the worst that can come, the distribution and variety of all the acts of my comedy are performed in a year. If you have observed the revolution of my four seasons, they comprehend the infancy, the youth, the virility, and the old age of the world: the year has played his part, and knows no other art but to begin again; it will always be the same thing:
“We are turning in the same circle, ever therein confined.” —Lucretius, iii. 1093.
The year is ever turning around in the same footsteps.” —Virgil, Georg., ii. 402.
I am not prepared to create for you any new recreations:
“I can devise, nor find anything else to please you: ‘tis the same thing over and over again.”—Lucretius iii. 957
Give place to others, as others have given place to you. Equality is the soul of equity. Who can complain of being comprehended in the same destiny, wherein all are involved? Besides, live as long as you can, you shall by that nothing shorten the space you are to be dead; ‘tis all to no purpose; you shall be every whit as long in the condition you so much fear, as if you had died at nurse:
“Live triumphing over as many ages as you will, death still will remain eternal.”—Lucretius, iii. 1103
And yet I will place you in such a condition as you shall have no reason to be displeased.
“Know you not that, when dead, there can be no other living self to lament you dead, standing on your grave.”—Idem., ibid., 898.
Nor shall you so much as wish for the life you are so concerned about: “Death is less to be feared than nothing, if there could be anything less than nothing.

>>15716399
the movie is based on the book
supposedly
Alternatively:
Plato's Euthydemus, Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedrus, Phaedo, Timaeus-Critias.
Unironically.

>>15704808
NO
He was the new god brought forth upon the end of the age of Taurus and Aries!
And now another aspect must arise from this darkness.