/lit/ - Literature

>>22834811
Self-predication of the form is so fucking based that scholars are still sperging on it 2000+ years after the Parmenides despite Plotinus clearly explaining how the whole thing works and how it makes perfect sense to talk about participation in Enneads VI 4-5

What great thinkers have detailed diaries/journals published so I can read them in order to decode their thought process and assimilate it

What great thinkers have detailed diaries/journals published so I can read them in order to decode their thought process and assimilate it

I am really gonna need some help here. So what is going on in orthodox ontology? I see the term hypostasis thrown around by orthodox christians, but also I am constantly hearing about how their God is personal. Now "person" (prosopon, persona; both literally mean 'mask, dramatic character [in a play]) seems to be diametrically opposite to "hypostasis" (hypostasis, 'substantia'; both literally mean "the 'sub' instantiation of a thing" i.e what is BEHIND the mask). So what is it that orthodox christians mean by "personhood"? I take that their use of "hypostases" to refer to their trinitarian God means that they believe the primordial substance that reality is made of is God? That is ok with me, coming from Plato, that seems to be implied heavily in his system, with perharps some influence from the Eleatics. But at the same time, the underlying thing that all things are made of is "personal" i.e the mask that it uses? Is that some analogic way of saying that God is *exactly what he is*, he is to be taken at 'face-value' when it comes to his nature, something like that?
The way I understand it would be
>What-is is, by self-definition, as a triangle defines itself by virtue of its being a triangle
>What-is-not is not
>What-is - we call it God for short - includes all things that are and can be
>HOWEVER, we [the christians] believe that this One-Thing-That-Is that we call God is 'personal' [???]
Now the 'personal' could also refer to 'an experiencing subject' or 'pure Subjectivity'. In that case, of course, again, the word used is the opposite of what it intends to convey. Subject is the opposite of the mask through which its voice 'personates' (that's the etymology of the word, quite literally the mouth of the mask which personates sound). Subject is the thing behind masks, behind ALL masks. So:
>The-One-Thing-That-Is, we christians believe it to be Subject
After that, it all could match your average metaphysics - subjective idealism etc etc.

Am I going in the right direction?

>mfw might actually make it this time

>>20339284
>panentheism

A guy once mentioned a story about a monk who was approached by angry farmers saying he went and had a kid with a woman and that he has fallen as a monk, they tell him to raise the kid, the monk says "is that so", he raises the kid for a few years, one day the woman admits she lied and she had the kid with some guy but he wanted to stay single, they go to the monk to recover the baby, they explain to the monk, the monk says "is that so" and gives them the baby

any fiction or stories about wisdom?

>Read one book about the teachings of Buddha
>Start talking in metaphors and idioms to everybody

>>20290423
>Marx's metaphysics

>>20241763
>"You don't have to do this, you know"
Yes I do

>>20211744
>Strasberg's students included many prominent American actors of the latter half of the 20th century, including Paul Newman, Al Pacino, George Peppard, Dustin Hoffman, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Mickey Rourke, among others
Maybe time to give this a shot

>>20120178

>>20073907

>>19996063
I've mostly been one for evidence and rationalism but had some weird shit happen during the time of reading Jung

For my own sanity I'm not sure I want to continue reading his stuff

I'm trying to break my mind, what books should I read?

>>19836891

I want to perform cognitive experiments on myself by sending shockwaves through my brain by hammering my skull again and again. I need to know which areas to target in order to trigger desired transformations. Where do you suggest?

What languages should I learn if I want to give my thought process the necessary linguistic flexibility to thrive

Books where the protagonist experiments with his own consciousness?

>HELLO... NIGGA

lol

I'm having eggonomic problems. Unpaid bills, unpaid credit card, debt. Luckily money is just an illusion and not real, it has no essence in itself.

Depends on the translation. Bible translators follow the "no fun allowed" principle as a result they translate everything literally and there's no flow in the language and nothing makes any sense. As a result you're reading literal greek and hebrew in english.

>>19129235
It does, if you keep coming back. It's the power I have over you that I enjoy.

Books where the protagonist does experiments with his own consciousness? Not necessarily drug related.