/lit/ - Literature

>feel sad
>think of plato
>realize it's literally less plausible that he was just some random guy who happened to be really smart, than that he actually was a providential mystic sent by angels to pave the way for christ
>realize this means some form of hermetic metahistory is literally correct
>no longer feel sad

>>22727846
All form qua form is propaedeutic to ultimate and true form, or essence. When in doubt, study forms that great and noble men accepted in the past. Talking to your son, friend, or brother, and have an uneasy feeling he is a retarded faggot? Know what you DON'T like about him, but don't know of any alternatives (yet)? Study what other societies have considered normal and formal. Trust your instincts: at base, they are the same instincts (that is, metaphysical drives toward truth, beauty, and goodness) that impelled innumerable civilizations to create advanced moral frameworks and civilizations. But they had to start somewhere. You can start, right now, with even the most vague prehension that your chum acting like a FAGGOT is "bad." Your very recognition of a binary between good and bad anticipates the fuller awakening of your metaphysical faculties for distinguishing between GOOD and EVIL.

Don't like that women all act like whores? Not sure where to go from there? Study the 1950s. Are they likely to have had everything 100% right? No, but nobody is. Again, trust your instincts. Look for signs of health where today you see only unhealth. Notice everybody is smiling more? Healthier? More poised, more graceful, more natural? Correlation does not prove causation, but a series of correlations implies a cause to be discovered. Can you go back further than the 1950s? Soon you will begin to contemplate the very essence and nature of male and female archetypes and their archetypal relationships, without even realizing it. This is the metaphysical sympathy for essence that defines the philosopher, as described by Plato in the Seventh Letter. That's right, just by hating whores and vaguely preferring the way people in the 1950s "felt," you are already practicing Platonism. Go forth!

>teleology is real but relies on a metaphysics of process that humanity only began to explore in the last two centuries
>teilhard de chardin accurately described reality
>even darwin himself thought this, nature is conspiring to create complexity
>darwinian natural selection only explains microevolution, NOT macroevolution
>neo-darwinianism that places all its faith in eliminativist materialist molecular biology is a literal death cult that worships matter out of petulance and spite against God's greatness
>neo-lamarckian process-based epigenetic views of evolution and things like shapiro's "third way" are becoming the norm and destroying neo-darwinism
>every organic holism in nature has ontological status until proven otherwise
>turing completeness is a retarded thought experiment and require just as much metaphysical suppositionalism as any vitalism or metaphysical organicism
>fame in the brain is just humean bundle theory repackaged, and just as dumb as it was the day kant propounded the transcendental unity of apperception
>cybernetics failed in every one of its instances
>biosemiotics tends more and more toward phenomenology of irreducible animal souls, with real qualia, with every passing day
>"There can be no Newton for a blade of grass"
Eat shit, reductionists!

>>21473543
>Your IQ
131
>Your top 5 philosophers
Plato, King of Philosophers
Aquinas
Jung
Wittgenstein
Kant

>2000 years later
>still arguing about meaningless historical events in bumfuck palestine
>still not understanding true spirituality
I pity you.

>don't read philosophy at all

I don't believe in christianity because it has shitty aesthetics

>>19883536
>Hello, I’m calling from your nearby Church to ask if you’d like to join.
>Sure, sounds interesting
>Which god do you believe in?
>The Father
>Me too! Which religion?
>True Christianity
>Me too! Which denomination?
>Sethian

>my favorite what?

>christer still obsessing about the definitions of hebrew words that might spell a phrase that kind of somewhat more or less indicates the OT could've slightly foreshadowed something along the lines of what allegedly happened during Jesus' life as recorded by the totally historically reliable gospels
>meanwhile buddhists are trying to stop the wheel of Samsara
How primitive a mind abrahamism requires.

Why yes, I am nobody's servant and will not apologize to some cosmic tyrant for something I didn't do nor give a fuck about.

Hermes Trismegistus
Plato
Rumi
Ficino
Bruno
Jung
Eliade
McKenna

Perennialism is absolute bullshit and you are all larpers. Had you read Plato, you wouldn't be buying into this garbage.
No need to (you) me, this will be my only post and I am now exiting this thread.

>>17731341
>>17731446
>>17731473
I've never seen a man be so unfathomably based and redpilled.

Socrates would cum hands free.

>>17714112
>>synthesis
There is no difference between psychoanalysis (interiorizing the symbols of the unconscious aiming towards individuation) and mysticism (inner transformation that is exteriorized in order to grasp the mystery of existence). They are one and the same, for there is only the individual, and only the subjective experience. Everything is mind, existence is a dream.

>>17652113
>Should I accept your terms instead, of an immortal soul?
Yes.