/lit/ - Literature

>>18370517
this

>>18370505
without Platonism, and the real ascent to the vision of the Good and Truth and Beauty and Justice, knowledge is literally and absolutely impossible.

If I injure some (physically or psychologically).
Why should I ask forgiveness of god? Shouldn't my victims be my true judges?
>After they have been carried along to the Acherusian lake, they cry out and shout, some for those they have killed, others for those they have maltreated, and calling them they then pray to them and beg them to allow them to step out into the lake b and to receive them. If they persuade them, they do step out and their punishment comes to an end; if they do not, they are taken back into Tartarus and from there into the rivers, and this does not stop until they have persuaded those they have wronged, for this is the punishment which the judges imposed on them

(I) Adoration of Thoth, Son of Re, Moon,
Of beautiful rising, lord of appearings, light of the gods,
By the Prince, Count, Fan-bearer on the King's right,
Great Troop-commander, Royal Scribe, Haremhab, justified,
he says:
Hail to you, Moon, Thoth,
Bull in Khmun, dweller in Hesret,
Who makes way for the gods!'
Who knows the secrets.
Who records their expression,
Who distinguishes one speech from another,
Who is judge of everyone.
Keen-faced in the Ship-of-millions,"
Courier of mankind,
Who knows a man by (5) his utterance,
Who makes the deed rise against the doer.
Who contents Re,
Advises the Sole Lord,
Lets' him know whatever happens;
At dawn he summons in heaven,
And forgets not yesterday's report.

Who makes safe the night-bark,
Makes tranquil the day-bark,
With arms outstretched in the bow of the ship.
Pure-faced when he takes the stern-rope,
As the day-bark rejoices in the night-bark's joy,"
At the feast of crossing the sky.
Who fells the fiend,"
Sunders western lightland.
The Ennead in the night-bark worships Thoth,
They say (10) to him: "Hail, [Son of] Re,
Praised of Re, whom the gods applaud!"
They repeat what your ka wishes,
As you make way for the place of the bark,
As you act against that fiend:
You cut off his head, you break his ba,
You cast (15) his corpse in the fire,
You are the god who slaughters him,
Nothing is done without your knowing,
Great one, son of a Great one, who came from her limbs,
Champion of Harakhti,
Wise friend in On,
Who makes the place of the gods,
Who knows the secrets,
Expounds their words.

Let us give praise" to Thoth,
Straight plummet in the scales,
Who repulses evil,
Who accepts him who leans not on crime.
The vizier who settles cases,
Who changes turmoil to peace;
The scribe of the mat who keeps the book,
Who punishes crime,
Who accepts the submissive!
Who is sound of (20) arm,
Wise among the Ennead,
Who relates what was forgotten.
Counselor to him who errs,
Who remembers the fleeting moment,
Who reports the hour of night,
Whose words endure forever,
Who enters dat, knows those in it,
And records them in the list.

>>15888748
particles can be in multiple different states simultaneously and you find it difficult to imagine that once the nous, the heart, has been reconnected with the whole that in the face of any pain the soul remains holy.
And still you cling to this selfishness of abandoning all for the personal cessation of your own suffering.
>If a guardian seeks happiness in such a way that he’s no longer a guardian and isn’t satisfied with a life that’s moderate, stable, and—as we say—best, but a silly, adolescent idea of happiness seizes him and incites him to use his power to take everything in the city for himself, he’ll come to know the true wisdom of c Hesiod’s saying that somehow “the half is worth more than the whole.”

>It is our task as founders, then, to compel the best natures to reach the study we said before is the most important, namely, to make the ascent and see the Good. But when they’ve made it and looked sufficiently, we mustn’t allow them to do what they’re allowed to do today.
>What’s that?
To stay there and refuse to go down again to the prisoners in the cave and SHARE THEIR LABORS and honors, whether they are of less worth or of greater.
>Then are we to do them an injustice by making them live a worse life when they could live a better one?
You are forgetting again that it isn’t the law’s concern to make any one class in the city (Being) outstandingly happy but to contrive to spread happiness throughout the city by bringing the citizens into harmony with each other through persuasion or compulsion and by making them share with each other the benefits that each class can confer on the community. The law produces such people in the city, not in order to allow them to turn in whatever direction they want, but to make use of them to bind the city together.
>That’s true, I had forgotten.

>>15815108
based

>>15315547
>but i swear they matter somehow
they don't
Only at the twilight of the cycles, when you will remember everything, when guilt and shame takes you to Tartarus.

One moment of true joy is worth a thousand moments of anguish: the opposite of what schoop thinks citing Petrarch: “A thousand pleasures do not compensate for one pain”.
When the unique cycle, that is your soul, completes. You will be presented the return of eternity—or rest, as schoopy wished. But there is no sleep without dreams.

>>15107735
the lake of fire/gehenna is purification of evil, it is destruction is you are pure evil (you will become like a child, reborn after a second death)

“As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt,
I will show [h]them wonders.”

16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
17
They shall lick the dust like a serpent;
They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth.
They shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
And shall fear because of You.
18
Who is a God like You,
Pardoning iniquity
And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?

He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
19
He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.

You will cast all our sins
Into the depths of the sea.

>>14947543
By willing for the damned soul to be, he is willing for its damnation to be: because for him (knowing the future) it's future is a certainty before he creates the soul; but solely if he creates it, which he freely chooses to do.