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>>21656291
4.7 The Immortality of the Soul

Whether or not the human soul is immortal or wholly destroyed
As Form is to Matter, soul is to human

Whenever soul is in fire, air, water, or earth, the life generated is still borrowed
-There are no other forms of body but these four

3 Those who believe that atoms or other entities come to produce souls
-Bodily substances are repulsed from unification, soul is one, and things which cannot take the quality of part can’t produce body or bulk
-Body itself can’t exist if there weren’t Soul
-Everything would dissolve if it were made to depend upon the coherence of body

The Stoic pneuma
-Rarefied matter, ‘spirit’ in the lower sense, the nominal rank of ‘soul’ as air or fleeting breath
-Pneuma is the base of life and soul
-No Soul or God, “the lowest alone is”
If all were body, everything must grow the way body does. If the soul were body, how can the soul grow? If it were a soulless addition, would it not be a loss? If it were an addition of more soul, “whence and how does it enter, and by what process is it adjoined”? How to explain memories if there is no stably identical soul?

6 If Soul were a corporeal entity, there could be no SPs, mental acts, knowledge, or morals (Sophrosyne)
-No perception without a unitary percipient whose identity enables it to grasp objects as entireties. The sense of pain is explained by them as occurring in consciousness at the last. This transmission is not in the nature of the body to understand suffering in one part and knowledge of it in another.

8 Why intellectual acts are impossible if Soul were body
-Abstractions like circle, line, point, is not understood by flesh or matter, Soul or mind must separate itself form the material to understand it, similarly with beauty or justice as they are also without magnitude
-Concepts of geometry are eternal and unchanging, these cannot be like body

8^2 If Soul could mix with body, it will have lost that by which it is soul, like how sweetness disappears when mixed with bitterness

8^3 “These teachers” make the inferior precede the higher, and at the bottom have a term “Habitude”
God is thought by them as “engendered, deriving intellection from without”

8^4 Pythagorean school holds the Soul as belonging to the nature of a certain pattern or accord being orchestrated upon the body, like a song played on a lyre’s strings
-This is untenable since Soul is prior to body (accord is secondary to lyre)

8^5 Entelechy
-A theory of the nature of the soul
-Inseparable from the being of which it is the accomplished actuality
-How could an identical soul of one living being become another being if Soul were the Entelechy of one particular being?
-An Entelechy is not a thing of parts, yet is claimed to be a part in partible bodies

12 If Soul were dissoluble the universe ought to have ceased to exist long ago

13 The IP has appetite, and is “eager” to make and create, so it imprints itself on existence
-This is how the Soul enters body

>>15916875
1. Good book, I enjoyed it.
2. Western Buddhists are converts and it seems to me that they are using it to substitute their (hippy-)lifestyle with this philosophy and aesthetic.
3. Buddhism for native Buddhists is very different to what western converts are doing, it's more of a idolatry. Not so intelectualised, rather praying to Buddha.
4. Read the greeks, then Nietzsche, then stop.
5. The most interesting thing in zen buddhism is being present at the moment and shutting the thoughts of your mind down:
You are not your mind.
Watch your own thoughts, you can do that.
What are these thoughts?
See, you are not your mind by 100%.
Not do something and don't think.
It's useful for getting asleep faster.
For many people and myself, Eckhardt Tolle was an entry to that and the first 30 pages of his most famous book are good, the rest isn't worth reading. Besides, Tolle is a hack and you shouldn't trust him, he is a greedy millionaire.
6. My favourite book by Hesse is Beneath the Wheel.

>>13195837
This picture actually triggers me. You know how annoying feminoidlings say they get triggered when others say RAPE this is the same thing. Should I demand you stop posting these images for the sake of not triggering me? Or should I embrace it and get a grip on my personal vanity insofar as it is more inclusive? Or should I only remain to publicly denounce images of such subject matter when it is posted on this board?

The correspondence between these questions begins with a self examination of my personal relationships of which I have very little awareness. Holy fuck I'm lonely.