/lit/ - Literature

Foekalt
like in 'one's foe' and kalt like in Cult but with an A, obviously it's spelled like it sounds

>>16176609
I wrote this in a burst of inspiration in a single go without re-checking any Platonist book.

>>16105749
>>Egyptian religion was Platonism
>rather the other way around
same statement

>>16104099
also just realized Plato here proves Damascius third Henad. Niccceeeee

>But it isn’t possible to combine two things well all by themselves, without a third; there has to be some bond between the two that unites them. Now the best bond is one that really and truly makes a unity of itself together with the things bonded by it, and this in the nature of things is best accomplished by proportion.

>>16087102
>>16087088
>>16087080
...Like the Neoplatonic Mone-Proodos-Epistrophe, one seemingly comes after the other, but this is again only how becoming/time functions, not how the eternal is. All three subsist simultaneously, eternally, and completely in their unity, bring the principles of the "music of the spheres". Every triad has a leader and this must obviously be Harmony (since if Remaining/Mone was "dominant" then there'd just be the absolute One and all multiplicity would be illusion (but the entirety of Neoplatonism is sort of an apology for the Many), and if Difference was dominant then there'd only be infinitely infinite plurality/aka Chaos). This triad is the same as the Ineffable-One in a transcendent sense, instead of the 'Simple One' we call a Monad, even if Plotinus seemingly portrays it as the ultimate Supreme.
Damascius also postulated the Ineffable itself as "beyond" the triad of the One, but I'm less keen on this since he himself says there are no distinctions between the One and the Ineffable. But also that everything we say beyond the effects of the triad as principles is pure Indication; also that that the triad is in one way "synthetic" and in another way that "the One"of the triad is" not even one". I haven't read his later work yet but I believe he even dares to abandon "the One" utterly for the idea of the Ineffable.
You're not wrong to say that the Ineffable is One as Plotinus would say, but if you only say this about him and not its unfriendly paradox of the All, then you deprave God his Life. And the fact that you can only speak of the Absolute in paradoxical terms is itself proof that he is Oneness and Otherness in a perfect Harmony.

>>16022653
>explain what you mean by the trinity being ''three useless copies''.
the three hypostases are indentical to each other,you can't even call them three person since all their Acts are acted together as one, which means their thought is one thinking, their will is one will, their, there's only one seeing one perception, one understanding, one speaks, one who hears; what I'm saying is there aren't three subjects but only One Subject and Actor in the Trinity; going by most definitions of a 'person' the trinity is one person, it's just Christians who have a nonsense idea of what "person" means.
Of course protestants have no idea of what I'm tailing about.
The only this that distinguishes the trinity is that it's ONLY the Father who begets the son and proceeds the spirit. So much for shared Energia, does the Father have two natures?, they can't answer this paradox...
Unless you ask a catholic then the Son also persnally (whatever that means) proceeds the spirit individually, but this breaks the whole ontology of he trinity and creates two Arches/Principles of divinity, which is true polytheism. Unless you say that the Father somehow only shares his processional act with the son who then does it secondarily, but that's not what the filioque implies, and this only doubles the uselessness of the plurality of God in Christianity (for Catholics who use the Filioque, Orthodox trinity is also ontologically useless).

what's this?
i thought /lit/ could read greek
>πάντα ὅσα ἔχεται τῶν αἰσθήσεων εὐαισθήτως ἔχειν, ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὸ ποιεῖν τυραννοῦντα ὅτι ἂν ἐπιθυμῇ, καὶ τὸ δὴ τέλος ἁπάσης μακαριότητος εἶναι τὸ πάντα ταῦτα κεκτημένον ἀθάνατον εἶναι γενόμενον ὅτι τάχιστα. ὑμεῖς δὲ καὶ ἐγώ που τάδε λέγομεν, ὡς ταῦτά ἐστι σύμπαντα δικαίοις μὲν καὶ ὁσίοις ἀνδράσιν ἄριστα κτήματα, ἀδίκοις δὲ κάκιστα σύμπαντα, ἀρξάμενα ἀπὸ τῆς ὑγιείας: καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸ ὁρᾶν

>>15993760
try having sex with your mother and see how you feel afterwards

>>15277831
He's the most based retard in existence. He absolutely stumps liberals because he doesn't alter his beliefs to make them more palatable to them, like many cuckservatives do. He is unapologetic in everything he believes. Also he's black so libs can't call him a racist. I don't watch his program but I do catch some of his highlight reels on youtube, they're fucking hilarious. My favorite one are when he has skinny, soi gargling, white liberals on his show and just assblasts them with his blunt retard logic.

>>15204124
>sitting in my chair reading a text
>look up
>see a tree outside my window, existing outside of the text i'm reading
smelly Frenchman """philosopher""" BTFO

>>14873714
the only /lit/ sport is nude greco-roman style wrestling

>>14578609
>70+ years old
>been in the public eye for 30 years
>wrote numerous books and given lectures/interviews all across America
>still not well known enough to have his own wikipedia page
LOL what a fucking loser

>>14407425
I don't assume that Jung isn't full of shit; I know he isn't because I've read his work.

Men act. Women are acted upon. It's that simple.

>Why do you visit /lit/ anon?
To shit post. Also for book recommendations/discussions.
>How frequently do you visit here?
Once or twice a day.
>How has your life and outlook changed since becoming a frequent 4chan user?
It's hard to say; I've been coming here since I was very young. I am probably more racist than I would have been had I not started coming here.

>>13569886
no that's modern textbooks

>>10200925
There's not much other use for this board.

So when does this book get "good"?

Is there a genre where the author makes ironic commentary about the fact that others commonly make ironic comments about certain topics, phrases, themes (love, depression, existentialism, babby's first existential crisis etc etc) or popular quotes? Kind of like two-layers of irony.

Also, why hasn't anyone done this?

Visualizing the realism of life and actuality
Fuck who's "the baddest"; a person's status depends on salary
And my mentality is money-orientated
I'm destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it
Cause yeah, we were beginners in the hood as 5 percenters
But something must of got in us cause all of us turned to sinners
Now some resting in peace and some are sitting in San Quentin
Others such as myself are trying to carry on tradition
Keeping the effervescent street ghetto essence inside us
Cause it provides us with the proper insight to guide us
Even though, we know somehow we all gotta go
But as long as we leaving thieving
We'll be leaving with some kind of dough
So, until that day we expire and turn to vapors
Me and my capers will be somewhere else stacking plenty papers
Keeping it real, packing steel, getting high
Cause life's a bitch and then you die

Implying that this wouldn't be considered goat poetry if it were submitted by someone 100 or so years ago (with the nigger ebonics scrubbed out of it).