/lit/ - Literature

The Holy Bible

>>18169984
The Enneads

>>18169984
the body dies, you are eternal

>>18169984
Just read Phaedo

>>18169984
There is nothing more disgusting than a being who wants to live forever.
Poor was the life of him who had nothing to die for.

Epictetus

>>18169984
There is no dealing with it. Whatever you read won’t change the fact. Best to stick to denial like most people.

>>18169984
Take the Aubreypill

>>18170038

>>18169984
But thats a good thing, faggot

>>18170038
>>18170090
this is about right. good job guys!

I appreciate all the suggestions

>>18170189
You're welcome. Take it to heart.

>>18169984

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>>18170090
Unironically all evidence I see seems to point to a higher being (God) that created this world and that there is an after life. There's convincing arguments for why the bible gives what rules it gives, why there needs to be a trinity, pretty much everything begins to make sense in this context, and I find it sad there's unironically people who can neither find the meaning or even create their own. These people must certainly be the most miserable of all.

>>18169984
Any book.
Any book at all.

Stop posting this garbage, please. It isn’t literature related. It’s just r9k junk. Don’t post it here

>>18170261
Smoke DMT and find out.

>>18170104
yeah I can hardly wait

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the best work of fiction on this subject

>>18169984
De Brevitate Vita - Seneca

the conspiracy against the human race

>>18170438
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_shortness_of_life

>>18170086
You read that?

>>18169984
If some Buddhist dudes in Nepal can handle it you can handle it too. Just let go pussy

>>18170476
they can't, though. How many do you think reach enlightenment?

>>18169984
Behead All Satans

>>18169984
Hamlet obviously.

"Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. Oh that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter’s flaw!"

"Not a whit. We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be."

"Not where he eats, but where he is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but to one table. That’s the end."

>>18170553
How could I forget

"The rest is silence."

>>18170553
>and we fat ourselves for maggots.
that's fucking metal

White Noise is the right answer (and the Bible)

>>18170038
(you) are eternal

>>18169984
Bardo Thodol

>>18170261
There's literally nothing that points out the existence or works of Yahweh, but I'd like to hear what makes you think otherwise.

>>18169984
Who tf cares about dying

>>18169984
Suttree by McCarthy. A profound rumination on mortality.

>>18170090
Great. We doomed.

>>18169984
not a book but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_murdered_American_children#1990s

>>18171369
:(

>>18169984
Just take ayahasuca so you can see what death is like.

>>18170090
This puts into words something I've intuitively known for a long time. Thanks for posting it.

>>18169984
Thomas The Obscure - Blanche
Death sentence - Blanchot
Correction - Bernhard
Yes - Bernhard

>>18169995
fpbp

>>18170026
Very based

>>18169984
Stop equating your body with your life, fren. If your car crashes you just get out and walk home. Every single culture regardless of whether its the North of Norway or the South of Australia have one thing in common: the knowledge that our True 'Self' doesn't die when the body is destroyed.
But if you're worried about it then read things like the Vedas and the Nag Hammadi. They all have instructions on how to exit this life in the most spiritually beneficial way. It's something I personally look forward to not because of some suicidal bollox but because my curiosity and wanting to know is sometimes overwhelming. I'm honest to God really looking forward to it.
Also if you've got anxiety about this then I recommend L theanine kek. All the best.

>>18169984
Tom Brown's School Days

>>18170445
cringe

>>18172118
>your body with your life
doesnt consciousness depend on the mind? how do you make sense of concussions and comatose patients?

>>18172332
What people call the mind is actually the eternal part. The soul is more akin to what some called orgone. Its the eternal energy that permeates this reality and causes movement. Some part survives whether that is 'stored' in the heart or brain or whether those are just used as instruments through which this force operates I'm still not sure.

>>18170261
It seems to think the universe and life are a lot more simple than they really are, there's a ton of unanswered questions, like: Why did god make a universe with a diameter of at least 23 trillion light years for one species when he could have just made earth, the moon and the sun??

>>18172360
source?

>>18172436
The Corpus Hermetica
>All is Mind. The Universe is Mental.

>>18172118
Cope.

"The rest is silence."

>>18172536
I've thought that as well. If everything is a polarity then considering this is a universe of vibration (movement) then wouldn't the polar opposite be absolute Rest? If so I'm fine with that but nothing is ever that easy.

Knowing that my existence is too short for the historical frame of reference to really change during my lifetime is fucking unbearable.
"Uh, i can't wait to know how Hitler will be seen in 2500, or how the people of 3000 AD will talk about the first steps of the Internet. Oh wait, nevermind"
I don't care if my spirit is eternal or if life has a meaning, i just want more history.

>>18172620
I used to feel like this about planetary exploration. Born between the moon landing and the Mars expeditions but now it looks like I'll live to see the first men on Mars. There's a lot more history we have yet to live anon.

The Life and Death of Ivan Ilyich

>>18172828
Do not read this anon, this book will make you even more paranoid. Read Mishima's Sea of fertility instead. It offers or attempts to offer answers using Buddhist philosophy, very calming.

>>18172536
>"The rest is silence."
No, it's not. Silence implies some sort of experience (afterlife). The only thing you can say without making a logical flaw is this: "The rest is." Is what? If it "is", how can it be nothing? It could be silence as you said. But why would we experience silence if our body dies? That in itself implies a type of life beyond the corporeal for.

And please don't reply with "you're arguing semantics." This is something I've thought long and hard about, and even though on the surface it might look like a play on words, I assure you it is not. The experience of non-experience is entirely contradictory, and thus impossible, so your idea of eternal silence is simply flawed. I'm not one to assert anything about what happens after death, except that annihilationism is wrong.

>>18172319
cringe

>>18172850
No silence does not implie some sort of experience.

>"This is something I've thought long and hard about"

lol

>>18170038
Are all religious people just egocentric faggots?

>>18170090
Literally no argument can be levelled against this image, pack it up lads

>>18170090
A lot of our "personality traits" are hereditary / innate, being social, anti-social, outgoing, more curious, aggressiveness, intelligence. This is what everyone always considered the "soul" but it's just coding into our DNA.

>>18169984
anything by philip mainlanderr

>>18169984
Most philosophy and almost all religious texts

>>18172415
>Why did god make a universe with a diameter of at least 23 trillion light years for one species when he could have just made earth, the moon and the sun?
The bible never confines man to Earth, I believe he intends to let us impregnate the stars

>>18169984
You know how Sneed's was formerly Chuck's? It's kinda like that...

>>18169984
It is said the warrior’s is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.Although not only warriors but priests, women, peasants and lowlier folk have been known to die readily in the cause of duty or out of shame, this is a different thing. The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men. By victory gained in crossing swords with individuals, or enjoining battle with large numbers, we can attain power and fame for ourselves or our lord. This is the virtue of strategy.

>>18174116
It's not really deterministic, sure you have a higher chance to inherit some traits (psychological/physiological) from your parents than you have a chance to have a trait that is the opposite of your parents. But it's chance/probability. A lot of the development of your traits are just random processes (or processes that we cannot explain) that happen during development, fetal development, puberty, etc that aren't linked to any of your parents or yours DNA. The environment certainly plays a part (though not that big part). Does this disprove the existence of a soul? No