/lit/ - Literature

>>16413048
70–73 If you delay telling me who fetched you to this island,
I will make you find yourself as ash,
having become one who is not seen.”
73–76 But he spoke to me without my hearing it,
though I was in his presence, because I had fainted.
76–78 Then he put me in his mouth,
took me away to his place of residence,
78–80 and set me down without my being touched,
sound, with nothing taken from me.
81–82 He opened his mouth at me,
as I was on my belly in his presence.
83–84 Then he said to me, “Who fetched you?
Who fetched you, mister?
84–86 Who fetched you to this island of the sea,
whose two sides are in the waters?”
86–89 Then I answered him,
my arms bent in his presence,
saying to him, “It was I.
89–93 I went down to the mining country on the sire’s mission
in a boat of a hundred twenty cubits in length
and forty cubits in width,
93–94 a hundred twenty sailors in it
of the choice of Egypt.
95–97 Whether they saw sky or saw land,
their mind was more observant than lions.
97–98 They could predict a gale before it came,
a thunderstorm before it happened.
99–101 Each one of them, his mind was more observant
and his arm more forceful than his companion;
there was no fool in their midst.
101–103 A gale came up while we were at sea,
before we could touch land,
103–106 the wind lifted repeatedly,
with a swell of eight cubits from it.
The mast was what broke it for me.
106–108 Then the boat died,
and of those who were in it, not one survived except me,
and here I am beside you.
109–10 Then I was fetched to this island
by a wave of the sea.”
111–13 So, he said to me, “Don’t fear, don’t fear, mister.
Don’t blanch because you have reached me.
113–14 Look, the god, he has let you live
by fetching you to this island of ka.
115–16 There is nothing that is not inside it,
for it is full of all good things.
117–19 Look, you are to spend month upon month,
until you have completed four months inside this island.
119–21 A boat is to come from home,
with sailors you know in it.
122–23 You will go home with them,
and die in your town.
124 How happy is he who relates what he has tasted
when something painful passes.
125 So, let me relate to you something similar
that happened in this island.
126–27 I was in it with my siblings
and children amid them.
127–29 We totaled seventy-five snakes,
consisting of my offspring and my siblings,
without me mentioning to you, from experience, the little daughter I got.
129–30 Then a star came down,
and those went up in fire from it.

>>16087088
>>16087080
>...the Different isn't just conformed to the Same and dissolved/corrected, rather the Harmony is the balance of chaos and order: chaos is willingly introduced and nourished in the cosmos...

>Damascius Problems and Solutions is all about how if the two principles are truly real, then they demand a third unifying principle to not be pure Dualism. Or you must make the Monad prior the Dyad as Plotinus did, sort of. But then you have priority monism not dualistic monism.
If the Different self-differs from The Same, then the Same can undo this. Likewise the Same isn't the cause of the Different for then difference would be in it and he would no longer absolutely simple, and Difference must be the absolutely indefinite and pure potentiality of all things; otherwise whatever is 'many' is again subordinate to the Absolutely Simple, and you lose true unified duality again.
The Harmony that proceeds from the two is the same Unity that precedes the two, for it is equal the two—each of them is before and after each other in the Ineffable One. The Dyad itself doesn't "emanate" from the Monad, nor does the Monad remain at rest in respect to the Dyad, for difference does not exist in it, so too Harmony isn't caused by Sameness and Difference: rather they are the principles of these aspects and natures found in nature.
I mentioned an infinite regress but did not elaborate on it: if Likeness and Unlikeness "produce" Harmony then harmony would produce harmony before them (and this harmony needs a harmony), because they need harmony to be anything but in permanent opposition, an unceasing conflict. [While you might argue that the opposite in their interaction produce Harmony, but then this, for it to be truly real, has to come from nothing. Which defeats the whole purpose of principles. And if Harmony is a necessary consequence of the interaction, that nothing else can emerge from it, doesn’t this show that Harmony already pre-exists the Duality?]

>>15993206
If you're arguing against me you should perhaps read every sentence in that picture. The black horse is to be resisted always if it wishes to put peper in poopoo.
and the last sentence that you cut out is most poignant,
>since they have not approved of what they they are doing with their whole MINDS (soul), So these two also live in mutual friendship (though weaker than that of the PHILOSOPHICAL PAIR) aka true philosophical lovers should never indulge in sex unless they're of the opposite sex and also married

>he thinks thinking is self-awareness

>>15893469
I'm so far basing this on the presuppositions of >>15893384, your senses can't prove anything that matters, for they don't give identity to areas of spacetime; thus without the metaphysical above the senses your senses only sense a flux of smears, we can't even sense the sub atomic ""particles"", so we can't even sense the true distinctions in the world and rather project an sociobiolgically evolved illusionary presentation of color and shape like "table" and "tree" that only have reality to me and not the objective world.

>>15758333
>it's one thing to lick the boot of earthly authority, but a cosmic tyrant? hilarious
You'll come around. They all do eventually.

>>6112010
No

>>5925550
Who says I'm denying it?

>tfw ignorant

>>5678494
A degree in what, pretending Scots is a real language?

>>5616043
>mfw both of these are unfinished and will stay unfinished for a long time

>>5524594
>>5524601
This is pretty tame
Here, have this, it's not Noise but you'll get the idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txsTFYtLaGw

>>4000000