/lit/ - Literature

"This love (of the soul that has its proper reason—logos—outside itself) is like a gadfly tormented by unsatisfied desire, because no sooner has it got satisfaction than its (substantial) want persists. It cannot be satisfied because a thing of mixture (of self and “other”) never can be so: true satisfaction is only for what is plenitude in its own being; where craving is due to an inborn deficiency, there may be satisfaction at some given moment but it does not last. Love, then, has on the one side the powerlessness of its native inadequacy, on the other the true satisfaction that is solely of the (self-sufficient) nature of the Logos."

Being self-sufficient doesn't eliminate desire; so what does he mean?

What is the magic of martyrdom? How is it that Christianity took over the world through it?

Physically it causes reactions but it has to be some sort of dark magic for it to have been so contagious.

is there a book where the guy goes back to empty home, in darkness, because his beloved wife is dead? so he is talking to emptiness, hoping his words reach her wherever she is right now.
a book about emptiness after death of a beloved person

The only thing all of us have in common is that some day, we will all die. Whatever experience that may occur after your brain dies will be incomprehensible and incommunicable to the living as it will require language to relate.

>OP, I am scared because I will be nothing.

You are only going back to the state you were in before you were born. That you have experienced consciousness at all is an anomaly.

What are you doing to cope with imminent nothingness?

>He thinks death doesn't make any experience afterward unknowable and beyond language.

It's ok anon, you won't be asked to do anything more than anyone else has ever been asked to do. And also, nothing ever harmed you before birth, nothing can ever harm you after death.