/lit/ - Literature

If you would, please provide your recommendedation for books on metaphysics. Thank you.

>>16600847
>could of

>He reads

>>7804586
>Life is what you make of it
>Cringingly edgy
>Life = shit and humanity should stop existing
>Not cringingly edgy

What's an alright definition of the poetic in art? Such as when someone calls a film poetic. It's definitely an abstract thought, and I think it exists because I feel it constantly. Is it simply the unexpected metaphor, or linking of ideas/images, that when it becomes expected it's a cliche? Poeticism is certainly a term that is abused too often. What do you think?

>>7234495
>and the Quakers or other Anabaptist groups from pre-Nicene Christianity.

uuuuuuuuuuuugggghh

>>6929430
deep

>>6827831
Yeah I've heard the vast majority of library was just bullshit records of sales and shit. Or maybe that's what we tell ourselves to feel better about losing god knows what

>>6807408
makes a bit more sense. i've also felt this feeling. it's amazing how little suggestion we have of the enormity of pain, death, and warfare that has happened in the past when it's a sunny day out and you're out for a bike ride. almost like it doesn't matter, that anything can be "forgotten".

here's my take on your question, and of course I'm still young and this might radically change. i was a fedora atheist just 5 years ago after all:

the universe is moral.

what meaning we impose on physical or abstract objects/systems is either one of two (or sometimes both) functions: moral meaning, or necessity.

necessity is all the absurd shit like rendering service for a few slips of paper, or exchanging your time and energy for those same slips of paper. this universe is the farthest point from pure Source, which is infinite being, infinite consciousness.

mystics liken these modes of being to rates of vibration. matter is inert (its vibration is extremely low whereas the Source's rate of vibration is infinite) it must be manipulated, carried, honed, whatever. and because we must contend with a universe composed of dead, unwilling stuff we impose these absurd but necessary meanings. and presidents take a shit.

murder, the shedding of blood for a base impulse, these are profoundly immoral to us. even though we're all gonna die anyways. things like this are inherently repulsive to us.

oh, well, someone can say it's just evolution yadda yadda yadda. the friendliness of dogs is also (artificially forced) evolution, but it does not mean they're "faking" it any more than a naturally cheerful person is faking it.

in the physical laws that govern this universe are written the seeds of love and joy and profound beauty. to the make the leap from "insinuations of transcendence through love and beauty" -> "God" might be like a big one. I don't think it is.

our reptile brains and our rational brain are the "hardware", and our consciousness is the "software". we are influenced very strongly by our hardware but the software can assert control over unruly impulses with enough grit and willpower.

my point is the universe speaks to us on a level that feels far deeper than chemicals or physical processes.

as for how we fell out of this supposed perfect union, there are different theories according to which system you subscribe to, but as God is the All, then the All must necessarily encapsulate all levels of Being, from the supreme to nonbeing (which accounts for evil, for it is spiritual decay and death, and must subsist on the energy of the Divine)

finally, all levels of being are conscious accordin to their position on the Chain. the lower they are, the dimmer that consciousness is. we have the privilege of being able to comprehend the transcendent but also the danger of giving into all our lower, animalistic selves.

who wants to write my dissertation for me