/lit/ - Literature

>>22608619
Hitting “post” and immediately realizing that you’ve made a typo and now no one will respond to your thread is one of the worst feelings ever

>>22608704
he was actually by all accounts pretty cool not only was he the one porphyry came to when porphyry was about to kill himself but convinced porphyry not to do it

nah he stay coolin'

>Despite his general reluctance to talk of his own life, some few details he did often relate to us in the course of conversation.

>Thus he told how, at the age of eight, when he was already going to school, he still clung about his nurse and loved to bare her breasts and take suck: one day he was told he was a 'perverted imp', and so was shamed out of the trick.

>>22609639
>porphyry was about to kill himself
if even he wanted to kill himself what hope do we plebs have?

>>22609675
>loved to bare her breasts and take suck:
my man loved the booba. i too love the booba.

>>22609731
antidepressent addiction and/or hysteria

>>22608619
>writing huge mystical ascetic works about union with the One
>taught by Ammonius Saccas, a dude who literally traveled all the way to India and was probably taught by Brahmanas
>literally everyone rips off your system after you die
The world’s most interesting man.

>>22609746
He also taught himself how to read and write. He also only became interested in philosophy at 28.

>>22609741
>antidepressent addiction
this is actually real. the doctors won't tell you about it.

>>22608619
if neoplatonists are any clue, yes, he would extremely boring

Yeah, he probably wouldn’t even own several dozen hunting rifles, have a collection of loud exciting American movies with explosions, bombs, gunfights, car chases, and the works, drink himself into unconsciousness with the mates regularly on the weekend, or even partake in the time-honored tradition of “nut-tapping” friends, as we (fun people) do from middle school onwards. Like what the fuck? How can your life be fulfilling without any of this, and especially without double bacon cheeseburgers? From some abstract “union with the One”? As Norm MacDonald’s BDSM safe-word used to be, “Bo-ring!”

>>22609639
why did porphry want to kill himself?

>>22609799
He doesn't say. After being talked out of by Plotinus, he travels around the Mediterranean and gets married, so maybe he was lonely and stir crazy.

>>22609781
>this is actually real
no it's not. now take your Lexapro like a good little anon

>>22609793
Show me where the American hurt you anon

>>22609675
> take suck
I'm gay actor michael douglas

>>22609799
gender dysphoria

>>22609675
Holy crap that’s funny. Might have to finally read this lil nigga

>>22609675
He knew what he was doing. I was horny af at that age.

>>22608619
I'm going to presume this thread is a continuation from >>22605291 and from now on will just continue the subject whenever I see Plotinus on here

>>22608222
> fair to say that the pagan world practiced fasting only for the upregulation. Mastery over the drives was always asymptotic: you'll never get rid of desire, but you can indeed master it. Fasting for ascetics goes all the way
Well you know if we (roman pagans, jew-christian, ascetic, gnostic, buddhist, universal) all agree on this single thing; that is: if each of them came to it and expressed this single function after having discovered it, then where's the disagreement with any of those groups? Rather: 1) they have each made that discovery, 2) their expressions of conclusions about it are very similar but wildly different in some regards, but that 3) they're all looking at the same thing; as like: seven Men examining the same rock.

Where Plotinus and Irenaeus enter is also into this circle of seven Men; Plotinus chides the ones who believe it is something wholly immaterial they are looking at, Irenaeus shouts at the ones who believe it is wholly material or who don't share his view that it is wholly immaterial.

>Irene
It's funny as I think of it, other than the gnostic gospels there really isn't a 'christian' source to draw from as they all seemed to be in denial over this thing; considering it like Jesus only did it, which is an irrational premise as like for a person proselytizing Buddhism to say that 'only' Buddha was capable of achieving enlightenment and so there being no point to convert to Buddhism as the converso could gain nothing lol - for sure though the disciples and Jesus's "magic powers" were coming fro ascetic rejuvenation and the sciences thereof; Thomas puts this beyond any dispute for a learned reader.

>>22608619
>an extremely boring person
as I said: >>22607391 you probably aren't understanding La Contextua Foundacion

>>22610080
Wanking in the cabbage field
cumming over the bugs
"hello little caterpillar!"
she sings back, "hello, my love!"

>>22608704
>Hitting “post” and immediately realizing that you’ve made a typo and now no one will respond to your thread is one of the worst feelings ever
you must feel like Porphyry in his despair, OP, I sympathize greatly

Why does nobody bring up the story about the time one of his haters tried to curse him, but his soul was so pure that it backfired and hurt the other guy
Or the time he went to an Egyptian oracle and the oracle said his daemon was a deity

>>22610223
The second one sounds like a really lame rupoff of Socrates.

>>22610229
>At the summons a Divinity appeared, not a being of the spirit-ranks, and the Egyptian exclaimed: 'You are singularly graced; the guiding-spirit within you is not of the lower degree but a God.' It was not possible, however, to interrogate or even to contemplate this God any further, for the priest's assistant, who had been holding the birds to prevent them flying away, strangled them, whether through jealousy or in terror. Thus Plotinus had for indwelling spirit a Being of the more divine degree, and he kept his own divine spirit unceasingly intent upon that inner presence. It was this preoccupation that led him to write his treatise upon Our Tutelary Spirit, an essay in the explanation of the differences among spirit-guides.

>>22608619
>I get the feeling that Plotinus would he an extremely boring person to know.
Yes. For (You), hylicfriend.

bomp

>>22608619
I don't think you can get a hagiography written about you and be a boring person

>>22609675
That's how you know he was a true philosopher.