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Anonymous Fri May 19 00:49:50 2023 No.22047956 [Reply] [Original]

Metaphysics books are the best. They are not just books, they are systems of thought, thoughts tied together by a thread, formed into one coherent whole. You do not just read them once and put them down. You re-read them, memorize passages, meditate on those passages, unfold through your own thinking what is implicit within them, and return to the text with a higher conscious than before, Each return to a metaphysics book is like returning to a new book because so much that you were too much of a brainlet to see the first time only becomes seen on the second reading, or the third, or the fourth, etc. Metaphysics is the greatest of genre of books in the world, it is the genre of genres, the theme of themes. Blessed be the metaphysicians of /lit/, blessed be all metaphysics book readers. Amen.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 00:53:03 2023 No.22047963 What metaphysics book did you read?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 00:59:53 2023 No.22047976 quaintly sophomoric. enjoy this honeymoon phase while you still can, I had the most fun in the morning years of my studies too. dont forget to revisit these metaphysical texts in 20 years.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:00:39 2023 No.22047977 Damn, this DALL·E 2 art right here is truly impressive. I mean the composition is there, it just needs a human finish. Beautiful :)

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:19:40 2023 No.22048015 >>22047963 many metaphysics books like Critique of Pure Reason and System of Transcendental Idealism and Science of Logic and Phaedo and World as Will and Representation and other books like such as that.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:21:11 2023 No.22048026 >>22048015 I also kind of read all those books, not that I read them, but I stumbled upon many books that made hidden references to them, and books that appear as references in Critique of Pure Reason, so I basically read them, and I didn't like them.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:33:27 2023 No.22048073 Mental focus. Clarity of thought. Clarity of mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:35:44 2023 No.22048081 >>22048015 >not a single work of Christian thought you're missing so much

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Anonymous Fri May 19 01:37:05 2023 No.22048086
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>>22047976
I’ve been at it for 6 years now. It’s tiring even exhausting since I have full time work and family also. Never went to university, just had lots of questions and needed answers. Maybe it’s autism. Idk. I just have a will-to-metaphysics God knows why.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 01:38:16 2023 No.22048091 >>22048081 I’ll get there eventually. I’m reading the Catechism of the Catholic Church now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:01:53 2023 No.22048173 >>22048091 kino. doctors of the church are a nice next step.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:15:32 2023 No.22048219 So metaphysics bros I have a question: do you think Hermes Thrice-Great and The Most Holy Trinity are related to each other? They both have three in their name.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:18:20 2023 No.22048228 Bros I just ate frozen pizza and I don’t feel so good. Recommend a metaphysics book for this please.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:27:22 2023 No.22048263 >Discover Platonists/Neo-Platonists, Christian mystics, and the Indians had metaphysics figured out already. Modern philosophy seems bloviated in comparison now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:29:47 2023 No.22048272 >>22048263 Yes but each generation has to achieve it for themselves because young people are ignorant and stubborn. But yes nothing new under the sun.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:32:07 2023 No.22048282 >>22048263 imagine when you find out the greeks back then already reasoned that God exists and that it's a single God and not their whole pantheon, even without knowing Him yet.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:33:45 2023 No.22048290 >>22048272 >Yes but each generation has to achieve it for themselves Damn, good point. I kneel. I also owe thanks to Schopenhauer for getting me into metaphysics - so yeah.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 19 02:35:24 2023 No.22048299 >>22047976 >sophomoric > conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature Hmm, I learned a new word to describe /lit/