/lit/ - Literature

>>11080723
Are you happy without her? If no, work on that first. If yes, go for it.

>>9884675
You're going at it wrong. You're conceptually zigzagging like a motherfucker. Change "difficult" with any other polar category; for example, what is really hard or big? You think the divine would measure up the whole universe and find the one biggest/hardest thing. That's not how it works: the divine would accept all the perspectives of the world, even those that completely left out others in scope. What you percieve as soft or hard is only so from your perspective, with the organism you are, from the center of consciousness from which you try to escape. The truth is that reality is stupidly gradual; the mind can make it infinitely so as seen in Achilles and the Tortoise.

"The wise man looks into space and does not regard the small as too little, nor the great as too big, for he knows that, there is no limit to dimensions." [Zhuangzi]

Now if you're asking what the thing labelled as difficulty is, it's a bit more complicated, but it comes down to, I think, expectations and experience with a certain object, the receptivity one has to it, the luck factor, and so on.

Say I try my hand at the bass one day, without much care. Not knowing exactly what I'm doing, I have some fun, have some vision of how I could improve, but ultimately leave it at that one test. Now having done this, I wouldn't consider playing the bass mesmerizingly difficult. That doesn't mean I would belittle it, but I would think if I routinely went at it I could get to a more-or-less decent level. It wouldn't be so "difficult". Now, the funny thing is that an advanced bass player *could* be mesmerized by what a genius bass player does!--because he has no way to get around how he does it. But to me, the post-pseud, the genius bass player is one among hundreds who I recognize as a better, so I can enjoy him all the same. (Not to say the advanced couldn't enjoy him; but that kind of thing often turns to fanaticism; which is not that bad a thing so long as it doesn't get out of hand.)

The point Stirner is trying to make is that it's fine for you to be whatever. If you believe he's telling you to quit your job or stop believing in God then you haven't understood that such a You is as much an institution as the State or the Church, one put in place so it can be compared to others and past instances of its trail, so that you can be told that's not the real You and so on, so that you can play the part of a chastised or praised individual; which is ridiculously dramatic when you understand how arbitrary what separates you from everybody else is.

To want to be an Egoist is not to have set your affair on Nothing. It is to not understand all your actions fall in accordance to your Might. It's to either ask of yourself what you aren't or you already are. If you have a problem in your life then solve that instead of bothering yourself with something else. But if you find that the life of a stray suits you then go for it; you might be interested in the life of Tsuji Jun if that's the case.