/lit/ - Literature

>>18979369
>The escape is inescapable, that is precisely why it's the whitest of all pills
Again, great formula. I was reading the Stanford article on Tiantai Buddhism (highly recommended, on par with the ideas presented here: extremely high level analysis of the nature of the Mixture) which ranks the Buddha's teachings on a scale of greater and greater understanding, with the Four Noble Truths we are conventionally taught being just Tier 1. Anyways, I remember reading a very mysterious line in it which said something like at higher tiers, the practitioner knows that death is already the process of liberative negation the practitioner craves. I was flabbergasted. Of course I want to escape cause of death and pain and sorrow but what if these things have already been taken "into account", as it were? Not excused or redeemed, but what if they can possess an Identity only I can give them on my side?

Remember that the Stranger doesn't get loaned an identity (even unilaterally) by the World which he must then actualize FOR the World - we're back to man being an organ of God's self-knowledge... No, he gives the World something it did not have before. What if I give death something it did not have before? Then our resident schizo-poster here in this thread started talking about true death, I had the Cartesian angel intuition, read a paper on the Gnostic resonances of Heidegger in which death consummates my separation from The They, then the intuition that death is a difference in kind... and the rest is history. And now you're repeating this intuition back to me almost verbatim. I'm blown away. What a whitepill.

I mean I guess you could go the Bakker route and say... there's nothing a priori forbidding us from just imagining the Other Side as an unimaginably Evil terror dimension (which is basically Descartes' deal), but there's nothing forbidding the Angel either. Maybe all horror is concentrated here, and horror is a son of this world and not the next. Is Love? Maybe, but not Escape.

It's not death worship, aestheticization of death, a call to suicide. It's something else. "A death for the dead and a death for the living."

bruh come on

>>14528413
>no anime comes close to a decent piece of literature

lmao step aside faggot, chad coming through