/lit/ - Literature

>>22241380
But he'll send them to heaven
They get into heaven early which is what everybody wants but they all have to do it the hard way
On this note does anybody else think heaven and hell seem oddly convenient for the church

>>21826876
Oooh like abortion for adults

When Plato talks of what is not, this is not the same void of nothingness that I envisage from Parmenides. If a sophist says that he has expertise in something it is not a case that expertise doesn't exist, instead the problem is that he falsely applies a real quality to himself. Falsity might be thought of as lacking in existence but it is made up of parts that do exist being applied in a confused manner. This relates to appearances in general - the method of acquiring images via the senses. These images must have an existence or else they would not able to be viewed, but it is not necessarily the case that they fully correspond to thing in themselves.

Basically I am torn between the intuitive simplicity of Parmenides "nothingness does not exist" and the Plato's doctrine which appears contradictory at first glance: "that which is not, is". I would like to think that appearences must exist, although that they have a lesser existence than things in themselves but if I say "lesser existence" I hear the voice of Plato whsipering to me that that implies that it must have a part of that which is not. Which surely is absolutely impossible! I have not been able to solve this contradiction to my satisfaction yet.

>>21436719
Basically what you're saying is... Hitler did nothing wrong?

>>21426667
The rebuttal is real life.
If God exists and is all powerful he must permit everything that happens in the universe therefore by definition "everything" is already permitted by God.
If God were to cease existing then supposedly something more would be permitted but how could you know what that something would be supposing that you believe God has always existed?

>tfw you realize determinism is just Pascal's wager again

>>20255830
>rejection of anything marginally critical of the status quo and the capitalist system, rampant antisemitism...

Surely it would be utterly foolish for anyone to seriously argue that truth doesn't exist. What someone actually means when they say "there is no truth" is that "the truth is not able to be known".

>>19738391

>can you believe that these people don't want to shove a pig heart in their body because they're not so afraid of death and the natural cycle that they won't go to the ends of the earth and do literally anything including to live a little longer

yeah they're the crazy ones...

I don't know why you fags focus on suffering so much. Don't you ever feel any happiness? Is it not pleasant?

>>19162991

but like... what about the coliseum and all that...

What are some good books to read aloud to my gf before sleep?

>the reader finds out he's the protagonist