/lit/ - Literature

More experience bigger box to draw from. Only one who has felt every emotion truly knows how it feels.
All authors are neurotic.

No. Read Damascius' Lectures on the Phaedo
Or Plotinus On Virtue.
Permanent "contemplation" is sin and impossible, all the monks who die in meditation are trapped by their own nonbeing, fallen into matter completely. The truly contemplative life fills our souls to such great a degree that we too will overflow and create Beauty and Good by our own Energia for the world and gods.

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>Scale Yahweh back to Zeus-level power
>scale back

'Now look at the wisdom of the Greeks, and examine it as follows. The authors of the Orphic hymns supposed Zeus to be the mind of the world, and that he created all things therein,containing the world in himself. Therefore in their theological systems they have handed down their opinions concerning him thus:'

Zeus was the first, Zeus last, the lightning's lord,
Zeus head, Zeus centre, all things are from Zeus.
Zeus born a male, Zeus virgin undefiled;
Zeus the firm base of earth and starry heaven;
Zeus sovereign, Zeus alone first cause of all:
One power divine, great ruler of the world,
One kingly form, encircling all things here,
Fire, water, earth, and ether, night and day;
Wisdom, first parent, and delightful Love:
For in Zeus' mighty body these all lie.
His head and beauteous face the radiant heaven
Reveals and round him float in shining waves
The golden tresses of the twinkling stars.
On either side bulls' horns of gold are seen,
Sunrise and sunset, footpaths of the gods.
His eyes the Sun, the Moon's responsive light;
His mind immortal ether, sovereign truth,
Hears and considers all; nor any speech,
Nor cry, nor noise, nor ominous voice escapes
The ear of Zeus, great Kronos' mightier son:
Such his immortal head, and such his thought.
His radiant body, boundless, undisturbed
In strength of mighty limbs was formed thus:
The god's broad-spreading shoulders, breast and back
Air's wide expanse displays; on either side
Grow wings, wherewith throughout all space he flies.
Earth the all-mother, with her lofty hills,
His sacred belly forms; the swelling flood
Of hoarse resounding Ocean girds his waist.
His feet the deeply rooted ground upholds,
And dismal Tartarus, and earth's utmost bounds.
All things he hides, then from his heart again
In godlike action brings to gladsome light.

Zeus, therefore, is the whole world, animal of animals, and god of gods; but Zeus, that is, inasmuch as he is the mind from which he brings forth all things, and by his thoughts creates them.

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>cringe

You should go like this:
Alcibiades 1&2; Ion; Last Says of Socrates; Cratylus; Clitophon; Charmides, Meno; Theaetetus-Sophist-Statesman; Protagoras, Gorgias, Lysis, Laches, the two Hippias, Symposium; Phaedrus, Republic, Timaeus, Critias; Euthydemus, Parmenides, Philebus; Minos-Laws, Epinomis.

Suffering is nothing but the sensation, and/or knowledge, and/or intuition, that your present situation is worse than it has been or could be.
There can't be Time, Freewill and value (God being the Good), without there being suffering. It is the presence of potential for improvement.
Do you wish to exist without the option for progression? You can't have free will without the reality of change, you can't have change without loss. One can even say thay to exist as an individual implies that you have a will, otherwise you'd would only be a cog in the wheel and not actually exist, (qualia is then illusory) this then implies that evil does not exist because perpetrator and victim don't exist.

One can of course argue that the magnitude of suffering is unfairly high, but absolute freedom and the lack of a ceiling of ascension of good = the lack of a bottom of pain.
All evil in the world is product of ours, the Christians claim that in our sin we poison the world, we created death, all creation is fallen. (I'm not Christian.)

Anxiety, doubt, false affirmation of doubt, false denial of doubt, affirmations of anxiety, getting the girl anyway, have taste and feel love, grow apart, lose girl, be alone, meet and fuck girl again a few years later, lose woman again forever. Never love again.

books about becoming who you are

What are some good books on the topic of toxic masculinity? I'm sure you will think it is "beta" to ask that even when the myth of alphas came from a flawed study and is parroted and paraded around hy equally flawed (and foolish) individuals.

What books tackle this? It can be fiction or non-fiction. Preferably non-fiction, if you please.

A second question would be why has propaganda and fiction tried to push the image of the "alpha male" and completely discarded history or anthropology? Why was Jack Donovan even given a publishing deal with 'The Way of Men' when it's so obtuse and fantastical? It seems more people want a pseudo reality and Conan the Barbarian or John Rambo (the later movies as the first one was excellent and wasn't just, "AHHHHH DIIIIIE") instead of an actual reality where compromise and understanding and, dare I say, sensitive men exist.

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