/lit/ - Literature

>>17504000
>>Are they red or green in your minds eye?
>mfw they're green despite the stereotypical image definitely being red
what's wrong with me?

>>12739601
>Also, extinguishing oneself completely and permanently seems like the scariest concept ever to me.
This right here is why I don't get how so many people see buddhism as a joyful philosophy when compared to others.
I'm leading a not so good life and what I see ahead of me and it's terrifying. A spiral down filled with bad karma until I finally to extinguish myself? No, thank you.

To summarize: consciousness, in wanting to escape from its ground, can only affirm its identity with it /in the mode of escape/. Ex. To release itself from its dependency on nature, human beings have to erect the infrastructure of an entire, second order of nature on which this liberation will depend (technocapital).

Nature does not unfurl gloriously into life and mind, it is instead Hegel's great insight to understand life and mind as the /spiraling inwards/ of nature, the tightening of a dialectical spring.

There is no escape, only the nesting of sanctuaries within sanctuaries, until the final sanctuary is death -

>>11836335
Come closer, we have such things to show you...

How do you accept that you will never be great? The idea that even with unfaltering effort you will still probably not amount to much in the end is devastating.