/lit/ - Literature

Degenerate here. Some observations:
Plotinus' "coupling" as a description of conjunction of body and soul possibly closest to any written description of such a thing. Soul-intellect-world place of potentiality, mirage, towering images but about as concrete as clouds. Physical world place of actualizing, instantiation, & that makes it such a place of danger. Soul pure but can come to harm through its link to actualization due to couplement with body, body exists "in time" even though soul is "timeless" / without a past and present, & thus actions made through the body persist on the soul.
Demons quite possibly real, immense pressure on "soul" / "psychic" realm to bodily instantiate a fall from grace of any degree. "Alchemy" and "magic" quite likely real too but not as potions and spells but as exchanges of actuality for bodily-instantiated effects. Effects here meaning something like unconscious/supraconscious editing of personal horizon/phenomenal altering, think an otherworldly level of pleasure accessible only through engaging in particularly low sex act & acknowledging how low it is to oneself. Danger to those with weak moral frameworks different from danger to those with strong senses of morals - more to lose for the latter means greater "potential" exists in the psychic sphere & also greater harm can affect soul through bodily instantiation.
Take this with grain of salt, but beware dreams and fantasies, especially when on boundary between conscious and unconscious, very easy for "something" to present itself at that moment & very difficult for rational mind to organize a defense, obviously always your own freely made choice to take up the offer of the "something" but... sometimes the line between free choice and predestination can get blurry. Watch yourselves carefully.
Must reiterate on potentiality and actuality. Binding oneself to a moral code, a standard, a set of action, willing, (need better word for what I'm getting at here) creates the space in which potentiality presents itself. Two are inextricable and possibly the same thing. Think a man not having the potential to cheat on his wife until he is in fact married. Potential doesn't exist until the space for it to exist does, & this is present in everything, literally every thing one does - great & fearful importance may be found in smallest of actions or laughable things one has bound oneself to, honestly believe that nothing at all can be undertaken lightly lest unknown potentials arise.
Line between "this" world, instantiation, actuals, real things, actions, and "world" in general, possibility, intelligibility (not always to humans), etc thinner than many believe, & what many call their "self" is a deeper well than they would imagine. Possible that exits exist from here, or ways to go somewhere "else." Not sure if these are enlightenment (as in Buddhism, Advaita, insert your favorite) or dark things in guise of mystery.
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I love 4chan.
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This is a genuinely funny meme, though. The last image shows insight. Even if it were congruent with reality, Dylan rejects the figment of his own imagination.

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>age
21
>current read
Nothing
>how you're feeling
I would love to become a disembodied consciousness and spend eternity observing distant astronomical objects rather than continue trying to overcome my various issues in pursuit of relationships that are guaranteed to be fleeting and shallow and short-lived due to mistakes on my part anyway.

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