/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14480685]

>'everyone secretly wants to die'
>kills himself
Was he projecting?

[Anonymous No.14480808]

He was a mystic who made a radical step into the Void. He understood that the Cloud of Unknowing—the Ineffable Abyss that one experiences before the flood of light we call God/ Being/the Unified/The One-All—is the true core of God and Everything, not the aforementioned Light. The Incandescence shining through the Clouds of Heaven is a mirror, the Abyss peering back at us, as above so below—know yourself and you shall become God.
Plotinus entered the Void and told us to wait for the Light of truth that truly is The One, and indeed the light is the natural eternal actuality of the Ineffable, but The One-is-not, the impenetrable thrice unknown darkness is true reality, the Ineffable everything and the nothing; neither one nor many yet solely One and solely Many, I.
Reality is the ever-splintered eternally whole Dionysus. God is dead, long live God.

[Anonymous No.14480820]

>>14480685
Yes. It was a banal statement followed by a banal act.

[Anonymous No.14480850]

>>14480685
Yes, that goes for most of the cringe sadboy incels.

[Anonymous No.14480857]

>>14480685
If people didn't want to die, people would care a lot more about things like curing aging/life extension. Instead, all people seem to care about is signaling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9vLQUqG_l4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UN9tHi83z8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1EDPEt2rL0

[Anonymous No.14480861]

>>14480685
not if you realize that those who “do not want to die” simply are unaware of their secret desire

[Anonymous No.14480865]

>>14480850
>cringe sadboy incels
the term is 'philosopher'

[Anonymous No.14480897]

>>14480808
Excellent post, Mainländer is rarely given his philosophical due. Most just write him off as suicidal and pathological, he actually succeeded in building a fantastic post-Kantian/Schopenhauerian philosophy while avoiding the pitfalls of becoming a lebensphilosopher (the route of his opposite, Nietzsche).

[Anonymous No.14480901]

>>14480865
Some of them are based Chads, so not really.

[Anonymous No.14481001]

It is a sterilised way of looking at the world. Everyone wants to be useful, to feel wanted and even needed. When you want nothing, everyone has to suffer for it.

[Anonymous No.14481135]

>>14480857
who is this cute trap?

[Anonymous No.14481153]

>>14480808
based schizo

[Anonymous No.14481480]

>But [the will to immortalise] can also be the tyrannic will of one who suffers deeply, who struggles, is tormented, and would like to turn what is most personal, singular, and narrow, the real idiosyncrasy of his suffering, into a binding law and compulsion - one who, as it were, revenges himself on all things by forcing his own image, the image of his torture, on them, branding them with it.

[Anonymous No.14481607]

>>14480685
>>14480897
im interested in reading this guys stuff but does he have any books in english? looked on abebooks and couldnt find anything

[Anonymous No.14481874]

>>14481607
Anybody who likes this guy enough to translate him usually commits suicide instead.

[Anonymous No.14481900]

>>14481874
That would seem to be the case at first glance, but it's more that anyone who would be interested in him never gets the chance to hear his work discussed. And in the case that they hear about him, it's often dismissive and never constructive.

[Anonymous No.14482033]

>>14481874
darn

[Anonymous No.14482053]

>>14481607
there's a translation on reddit or something done by some random guy, it's only around 200-300 pages of the philosophy of redemption or something so not the full thing but its something at least. i haven't read it so i don't know if its good or not. apart from that, there's a scholarly translation in the works - no specific date has been attached to it though.

[Anonymous No.14482078]

>>14480685
He's literally me.

[Anonymous No.14482646]

>>14481135
Mario Montano