You feel it when in love or in a forest old. In Ypres they saw it. The great bard's metre or an old master's stroke. When your child coddled in your arms or you bathed in the Sistine. What is this mysterious ether that gives meaning to our lives? Is it a figment of psychology or a glimpse of divinity?
It is simply awareness of the stillness of the present moment of which every moment always is.
>>24966458Seriously low iq and embarrassing post. Never try to sound profound again.
>>24966501Thank you, its meant to be unprofound. A flash of love, a breath of clean old growth forest air, a glance from your arms where lay swaddled child; the pleasure of the master's stroke and the bard's metre exist fully in the simple present moment, that is what lends it its power, its laminar swell of emotion, born and dead where it stands
how come western writers keep trying to reinvent Taoism, but gay and retarded?
>>24966537This. The sublime is to live. To laugh. To love.
>>24966454THE SUBLIME IS WHAT LIES BEYOND AND UNDER THE LIMES OF THE SENSORIALLY PERCEPTIBLE; THE SUBLIMINAL; ALL THAT SENTIIMENTAL SCHMALTZ TO WHICH YOU REFER IS GERMANIC IDEALISTIC DRIVEL.
>>24966454>the sublime is something indescribable which can only be gestured at through examples, which in turn can only be grasped by one who has experienced some of those examples>nyooooo I demand a clear explanation expressed in the vocabulary of formal logic!!!!!autism
>>24966454i've had the thought more than once that the point of my life is maybe just to experience beauty. If this whole things an incidental cosmic coincidence then it seems like the best thing I can do with my time. I've had a lot of impactful beautiful experiences through music, literature, romance, etc, and I stay chasing that, but it does suck knowing that an endless supply of perc 30s would solve the issue
>>24966590sublime, from the latin sublimis, actually means lofty, uplifted, on high - something above. it’s not under anything the way subliminal suggests, that’s a category error.
>>24966748«SUBLIME»: FROM LATIN «SVBLIMIS» —«SVB» («UNDER»); «LIMES» («LIMIT»)—; LITERALLY: «UNDER LIMIT».THE SENSE THAT SOMETHING SUBLIME IS SOMETHING «LOFTY», «ÆTHEREAL», «UPLIFTED», IS AN ABERRATION FROM XVIII CENTURY IDEALISM.
>>24966501Please kill yourself you dumb fucking retard, You're literally a waste of breathe for many other people, Your whole existence accounts for nothing but disappointment, do yourself a favor and kill yourself
>>24966537Beautifully written
>>24966763latin did not use sub the way modern english does. here sub = up to. and the second element is limen - threshold - not limes. virgil uses it for towering objects.
>>24966767Nta but do not let his words perturb you. It is of no consequence really.
