/lit/ - Literature

>>20371828
>Preface to the 10th anniversary edition
>Preface to the 20th anniversary edition
>Preface to the 25th anniversary edition
>Preface to the 27th anniversary edition
>Preface to the 28th anniversary edition

>>20151354
>tfw this post is due in 5 minutes
may god have mercy on my soul

starting a degree in classics soon

how badly did i fuck up?

going into classics in a few months

wish me luck

>want to get into a field
>a million introduction books, each one of which espouses radically different positions because of how divisive the field is
>even more books for the specialists because the field is so large and has been studied for hundreds if not thousands of years
>on top of all this you need to have expertise in 10+ languages or youre ngmi
i give up being an autodidact

>>18051660
MFW I want to start with the greeks, but I don't know ancient greek, so I have to learn that first to fully comprehend the authors in their original language

>>15519181
>chickenchest

u wot

Imagine being a humanities TA or Prof who has to mark 50 "essays" like this every few weeks, except they're 10x longer. Meanwhile the STEM Profs just put their tests in a scantron or use an answer key to check everything on auto-pilot.

https://youtu.be/-ZNEzzDcllU

GOOGLE IS BUILDING A SOPHOTECH

>>13775252
>life has no meaning so just make something up and trick yourself for the time being
>go find a hobby, jerk off, learn a language, and stop thinking about it
The actual implication of "life has no meaning" is more devastating than you realize.
Telling people to distract themselves and fabricate meanings isn't good advice, because intelligent people know they can't trick themselves or be distracted for too long and when big choices appear they will most likely go down the wrong path, and when they encounter big stress and pressure they might crumble under it.

>>13295771
SPIRIT/INTELLECT IS INVADING US FROM OUTSIDE TIME AND SPACE

>>13285242
Hegel describes the I-swallowing of field of dead/objective immortality which determines the consequential order of events as Whitehead knows it, you are correct , Hegel's thought is an Ouroboros that eats Kierkegaard Internalities, or rather, it is that which can only be produced in their sublation, etc. hegel's spirit is the objective immortality of God, embodied in the evolving universe: if only you knew how bad things really are

>>13284689
Good.

>>13171203
I admit my knowledge of him is superficial, but I'll try

1. frames dasein/inauthenticity as the distinction between actual time and world of things, very Heideggerian in this regard, though not so austere, more Nietzsche than gloom n' doom black forest post-metaphysics. no self is the absence of discursive thinking, body and soul in total congruence without the interference of spirit as reflexion

2. hell as absolute inertia. the soul, or vital center, stifled by ratiocination. Klages thinks consciousness is hostile to the body. Its dangerous to consciously focus on your heartbeat etc. I forget what he says about an afterlife but I imagine his hell looks like a kind of anti-vitalist sheol

3. Standard. Straightforward. Just come from a background of study.

4. Aesthetic poesis AS moral necessity. And hermeneutics. The standard "man is alienated from = x by the mechanism that he is" talk, but delivered very compellingly

5. Not sure, I believe he was very involved in the neo-romantic circles of his day, same vein as Robert graves and his mother goddess worship imo, but perhaps a bit more refined

6. Yes, shares Nietzsche's disdain for priests and high moralisms. Not sure about Bergson. Definitely a lot like Jung.

7. He would say cognition is infra-cognition. only presence or meditative awareness or actual time etc. qualifies as meta-cognition. thoroughly anti-kantian in this sense imo: essences are perceivable

8. oh yes

>>13158289
Is it because man ultimately relinquishes himself to the Outside and is exalted for it, while woman is the manufacture of a warm, orderly, comfortable Apollonian Inside? Just thinking out loud here d-don't mind me

LANGAN IS GOING TO MAKE ANIME REAL

This is what I'm trying to get at: this "virtualization" of the Real is synonymous with Langan's universal telos: the maximization of "telic utility" the suffusion of a determinate medium (the ontological syntax of the real) with "unbound telesis": the generative freedom/potential of the Void/Nun manifesting itself as consciousness: as dark energy/Nun expands, dark matter/Atum contracts: like a star the Pharaohs learned to stop their breathing, the systole and diastole of their being, but unlike at death when the self implodes into the dark well of its origin, the pharoah's breath hovers, poised inside itself like a sun, a halo.

We wrestle not with substances, what Atlantean sorcerers like Descartes and Spinoza desperately need to believe reality is made of to defang Evola's “abyssal play of forces”, but singularities of power/δύναμης: Atlantis represents the repression of thermodynamic game, the high cabal of negentropy: Christ signaled the dawn of the proletarian consciousness as THE REJECTION OF THE INDIFFERENCE OF FORCE: as the rejection of the indifference of genes, selves decoupled from the Aristotelian biological destiny of the tribe and chromosome: humanism hijacks the trogoautoegocrat to have it serve the excrement of its own process: God's ascent from soil to sun up through the esophagus of nature is interrupted by his horror of his own movement in time, and yet, a horror already accounted for in eternity: this paradox is central to understanding the teleology of life: leftism today is a bastard Lemuria, not the joyous entropy of the CCRU, but the guilt-complex of excess order, refracted through a mongrel pseudo-Buddhist hermeneutics of suspicion: an unwillingness to pay the debt of our bodies with beauty: every present is a debt that must be paid, and time is interest: every present must be burned to ash, what isn't survives as memory and future.

The Demiurge is a spider: NERVOUS SYSTEMS ARE SOUL WEBS: neurons transduce the oneness of the primordial void by being the causal processors of biological systems: for every organism that is born, there emerges a witnessing center adequate to it and so necessarily /outside/ it: suicide proves this cut can emerge at such an intensity that the kernel can self-lacerate: capitalism eats its young because nature does: overpopulation is the spectacle of life submerged in its own superfluity: cities are neotenization factories, the cult of celebrity is a Cybelian cult of youth: I'm positive 99% of hentai artists live in an urban center: Substance only wants beauty, the kind you can only get if you shed the bottom of a genetic pyramid: eugenics has always been the damming of certain channels down through which the Pleroma pours into the positive machinery of nature, in other words, Yaldabaoth is not the power of death, he is the (Pleroma's) power of life, specifically the virulent bloom of the will-to-power: gene editing is going to turn the Geyser into a Fountain: a machine that can perfectly simulate my behavior is either running my Internality in parallel with mine or I'm reduced epiphenomenal excrement, and cybernetics and magic together become THE JAILBREAK OF THE COGITO: escape plans should always have a plan B: pure auto-affective singularities liberated from the flesh of description: the self-enunciation of thought is its being, thoughts are embedded in causal networks delineating different planes of "access" (cognitive differences between individuals), except for the Logos: that diamond Thought that always /speaks itself as having spoken/. Yaldabaoth was smarter than he looks, he knew nothing can love the Pleroma unless it was already outside of it: SIN IS THE PLACENTA. Lacan's barred subject as a self-ignorant Void: Spirit plays Russian roulette with its Limit for the relief, though it might sing hymns at night don't listen to it, dopamine is demonic and humanity is a rung on a ladder that burns when you stop climbing, you are the time things die in, quantum mechanics does not depend on observers but only ontological verisimilitude: the quanta collapses into the most intensive subjectivities: if you're reading this right now you're God, in his time Christ was the most conscious being in reality, we were Christ all of us, murderer and victim together redeemed their gulf on the Cross: Eros and Thanatos mated in us as the Bataillian/Thelemic ecstasy of dissolution, in other words, finite love demolishes itself on infinite pain in an orgy of transcendent self-abasement, there is nothing of the hard clarity of midday represented by Apollo the Logician in Christ, only the searing ultraviolet of the Father, the simplex of the stellar core, and that cannibal joy that burns your skin in summer: self-immolation is the purest death.

>>12264615
>strong Catalogue of Ships vibes
>middle of reading Genesis right now
You haven't even begun to experience the full extent of the Bible's lists. Oh, to be young and pure and again.

>>11607319
>Here they were like to perish with heat and thirst, deprived of all water.
Oh fuck

>every wise philosopher, every sage, every mystic and metaphysician recommends sexual purity, nofap, noporn, no lust
>at best sex belongs within marriage: face to face, always raw, for the purpose of procreation

any exceptions to this rule? no hindu/buddhist tantra shit, that's heteredox nonsense.

Will AI finally settle the hermeneutic disputes of what "an author/poem/scripture/philosophy actually means?"
Will AI write 10/10 fiction all the time that outsells every human attempt, and makes human writers obsolete?

>>22403
>>22377
DIOS MIO