Anonymous
7/19/2025, 1:37:16 AM
No.40752425
>>40752247
It's so frustrating to read this kind of take. It really is.
Please do not read ancient literature without training in reading ancient literature, and I do not mean from modern scholars. Your best bet for learning to read ancient literature is to study it within a living religious tradition connected to its verbally transmitted source or else to become a voracious reader of poetry.
Only after you gain the ability to read, write and think using metaphors does it become possible to understand ancient texts, and even still only in a profoundly restricted way (for reasons I cannot possibly get into here).
The modern mind untrained will always end up collapsing all meaning into factual descriptions in the same manner it perceives its own reality, as an unfolding of factual physical events bound by the laws of sciences and reconstituted in linear subject-object sentences which are rational linguistic correspondences of them. This manner of perceiving reality and language and their relationship has only been common since the 19th century.
It's so frustrating to read this kind of take. It really is.
Please do not read ancient literature without training in reading ancient literature, and I do not mean from modern scholars. Your best bet for learning to read ancient literature is to study it within a living religious tradition connected to its verbally transmitted source or else to become a voracious reader of poetry.
Only after you gain the ability to read, write and think using metaphors does it become possible to understand ancient texts, and even still only in a profoundly restricted way (for reasons I cannot possibly get into here).
The modern mind untrained will always end up collapsing all meaning into factual descriptions in the same manner it perceives its own reality, as an unfolding of factual physical events bound by the laws of sciences and reconstituted in linear subject-object sentences which are rational linguistic correspondences of them. This manner of perceiving reality and language and their relationship has only been common since the 19th century.