/lit/ - Literature

Spinoza.

>>18641394
That's the entire character ark of Wotan in the Ring.

>The development of the whole poem sets forth the necessity of recognising and yielding to the change, the many-sidedness, the multiplicity, the eternal renewing of reality and of life. Wotan rises to the tragic height of willing his own destruction. This is the lesson that we have to learn from the history of mankind: to will what necessity imposes, and ourselves to bring it about.
t. Wagner

https://youtu.be/ZiqkO2upJKI?t=5042

people wouldn't have built mausoleums and burial mound had they not had paranoia of dying.

Montaigne's essay "To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die"

>>18641394
just lose consciousness a couple times.
I don't see any reason why dying would be any different. You won't even notice.

>>18641449
Plato's philosophy-death connection > Montaigne's philosophy-death connection

>>18641394
The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato

>>18641458
Ghosts are real though, anon...

>>18641458
>lose consciousness
>have a dream
What now you fucking retard?

>>18641615
I don't know, dude. when I pass out, I don't even know until I wake up. I don't know what the fuck you're doing when you pass out.

>>18641394
Friendly reminder that fetishizing POAs (People of Animation) is ableist against ICs (Inanimate Corpses). Talking about ICs causing you "fear" is disgusting. Acting like becoming an IC is the worst possible outcome for your life is vile. Check your privilege. Just because you are a POA doesn't mean you need to act like a POS (Piece of Shit).

the bible

Why, the Tao Te Ching, of course.

>>18641469
Whats the diff

>>18641394
you should always fear death somewhat, but you should just become more accepting of it

>>18641748
Have just enough ego, OP, so that you don't step in front of a moving bus. Excessive egotism leads to anxiety and depression, but a little bit is required to function. After all, humans are very egotistical creatures.

>>18641619
I'm dreaming and thinking, like everyone. You just don't remember it.

>>18641761
Plato's is metaphysical, Montaigne's is practical.

>>18641394
>discus
fucking faggot

Go bowling, learn to not fear death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSmaWEK_rD4

>>18641394
It is nigh impossible to truly free yourself from the fear of death. Either your psychological fear of the idea of the void, or pondering about the way (you) will die, or the desperate physiological struggle of your own body to keep you alive at all costs, it is almost certain that you will still fear death at some level. If you ever felt any sort of fear in your life then you also feared death, because all fear is born from something which could potentially threaten your livelihood and so, by extention, when you fear something specific and even unrelated to the concept of death, you also fear death. And that's fine. Because you share this aspect with every single organism on this planet.

>>18641394
the death of ivan ilyich

>>18641868
>t.

>>18641394
Plato's Apology

>>18641394
there are none; if you want to get over dying you have to will yourself to. anything external won't matter in the face of death.

Reading Schopenhauer often brings me great consolation when contemplating death. After all, I am the world, and the world is I. I am but a dream of the will, a temporary instantiation of its innumerable forms of expression throughout all eternity. And from whence I came I shall again emerge.

"There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annihilation of his being."

>>18641394
You will never get over it, but you can accept it and see it, like death, as your nature itself.
I am this rotting corpse, this is my nature.

Getting over the fear of dying is easy.

Try getting over the fear of reincarnation. Much harder.

>>18641394
Have you tried dying?

>>18641615
you dream when regaining consciousness
if you're dreaming all night, you probably have sleep apnea or something, get it checked out

Phaedo got me over it

>>18641394
why get over it?
do you plan on dying?

>>18642337
It's a scientific fact that you dream every time you sleep, you just don't remember most of it, or it at all sometimes.

>>18641394
This is the book you want

>>18642389
I was expecting something more ideological and "heroic" from his Prison Notes but was surprised to find such a sensitivity and tenderness in his personality.

>>18641394
https://books.google.ru/books?id=pFglAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA238

>>18642397
Men like him were rare then and even more so now

>>18641394
Ars moriendi

>>18641394
phaedo

>>18641427
i know you have been trying to get Wagner become a part of /lit/, but I really fear that he is too patrician for this board to even properly meme about.

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