/lit/ - Literature

>>21560199
It's a theoretical substance proposed to satisfy physicists perplexity that there isn't more matter in the universe based on observations about gravitational forces that seem to have no mass to produce them. As far as I understand it. The comparison doesn't bare much weight though. I made it last night before I'd finished the chapter. Maybe if you take the more stoic view I outlined but not the Plotonian one, imo. Also a lot of this stuff >>21557723 that I posted is pretty inconsistent with what he actually says by the end of the tractate. The whole tractate is very interesting though imo.
It's funny I've learned about this kind of distinction between intelligible matter and mundane matter before but it never cease to give me that "wow" sensation when I remember it.
Pic rel is me listening to Bach's partitas and thinking about The Intellect and The Good, and what the christianity took from us. Thank the heavens that we still have what we do though.

The thing that's most sad is that if most of these guys who haven't had contact with a girl did achieve to have sex a few times they would understand how meaningless it is.

I thought sex was important, that it was a big deal. I had sex and realised that it meant nothing. Once you're done fucking a girl you feel satisfied, but for an hour at most. You can have sex once a day (for me at least it's every 1-2 days), but what do you do in that downtime? You are equally as unhappy, you feel equally as alone. Human beings cannot be happy, we were never meant to find happiness in this world. The only happiness that we can achieve is by being close to God.

All physical pleasure is fleeting, and we become numb to it over time.

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

I think I have a solid foundation thought out for the Great American Novel, but I recently discovered my writing is seriously deficient. What do I do?

>>6398371
I strongly disagree lad