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22092348 No.22092348 [Reply] [Original]

>The possibility of such a "unifying" and "coherent" knowledge -- which unifies created nature in its personal, relational ec-stasy outside its creaturely limits -- was restored by Christ. We call Christ the "second Adam," precisely because in his person the whole human nature is "recapitulated" -- the organic body of universal nature acquires Christ as its head; humanity is harmonized and summed up in a new mode of existence, incarnate in the personal hypostasis of Christ.

>In their essence Christ's commandments are the Self-revelation of God. Though expressed in seemingly relative terms, whoever would rightly obey them finds himself on the frontier between the relative and the absolute, the finite and the infinite, the determined and the arbitrary. The keeping of these unconstrained prescripts far exceeds our human strength. It is imperative that he Himself, the Almighty Who manifested Himself to us, by His effective abiding within us should lead us into His own sphere of unconditional and absolutely unconditioned Being

>Man is not only a being with physiological, psychological, and social functions, but he is a citizen of God's Kingdom, i.e., his entire life -- and especially its most decisive moments -- involves eternal values and God Himself.

>When the cyclical law of repetition suddenly stops its rotating movement, creation, freed from vanity, will not be absorbed into the impersonal Absolute of a Nirvana but will see the beginning of an eternal springtime, in which all the forces of life, triumphant over death, will come to the fulness of their unfolding, since God will be the only principle of life in all things. Then the deified will shine like stars around the only Star, Christ, with whom they will reign in the same glory of the Holy Trinity, communicated to each without measure by the Holy Spirit.

>By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.

>The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life.

Discuss.

>> No.22092360

Millbank



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22092332 No.22092332 [Reply] [Original]

> The possibility of such a "unifying" and "coherent" knowledge -- which unifies created nature in its personal, relational ec-stasy outside its creaturely limits -- was restored by Christ. We call Christ the "second Adam," precisely because in his person the whole human nature is "recapitulated" -- the organic body of universal nature acquires Christ as its head; humanity is harmonized and summed up in a new mode of existence, incarnate in the personal hypostasis of Christ. > In their essence Christ's commandments are the Self-revelation of God. Though expressed in seemingly relative terms, whoever would rightly obey them finds himself on the frontier between the relative and the absolute, the finite and the infinite, the determined and the arbitrary. The keeping of these unconstrained prescripts far exceeds our human strength. It is imperative that he Himself, the Almighty Who manifested Himself to us, by His effective abiding within us should lead us into His own sphere of unconditional and absolutely unconditioned Being > Man is not only a being with physiological, psychological, and social functions, but he is a citizen of God's Kingdom, i.e., his entire life -- and especially its most decisive moments -- involves eternal values and God Himself. > When the cyclical law of repetition suddenly stops its rotating movement, creation, freed from vanity, will not be absorbed into the impersonal Absolute of a Nirvana but will see the beginning of an eternal springtime, in which all the forces of life, triumphant over death, will come to the fulness of their unfolding, since God will be the only principle of life in all things. Then the deified will shine like stars around the only Star, Christ, with whom they will reign in the same glory of the Holy Trinity, communicated to each without measure by the Holy Spirit. > By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. > The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. Discuss.



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22092295 No.22092295 [Reply] [Original]

>He could, for example, pick up a fight with a Guénonian, a little-known target. Due to his familiarity with an inaccurate and uncommon thought, the Guénonian is kept in a state of profound ignorance with respect to the real world. The difficulty, indeed the almost impossibility of the undertaking, would consist in tracking down a famous Guénonian.

Guenonbros, I thought Houellebecq was based? Why is he writing this about us?

>> No.22092331

>>22092295
What is his opinion on that French village that lives according to Guenon's teachings?

>> No.22092333

what book is this from?

>> No.22092340

>>22092333
I think he mentioned Guénon in Submission

>> No.22092343

Someone told me Canadians are a combination of the worst of the Americans with the worst of the French.



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22092237 No.22092237 [Reply] [Original]

Especially during and after the decolonization period in Africa



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22092236 No.22092236 [Reply] [Original]

Hi, the image is my writing.



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22092198 No.22092198 [Reply] [Original]

Anons, I am in a situation where reading is near impossible due to the overwhelming amount of talking and noise going on.

What are some good earplugs that block noise?

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>> No.22092292

>>22092234
*niggers*

>> No.22092299

>>22092258
they look like mini hot dogs i feel like i couldn't help myself and eat a couple

>> No.22092300

>>22092292
stop living in a shithole

>> No.22092306

>>22092300
actually there are no niggers in my country but i hate people in general

>> No.22092312

>>22092198
3m foam plugs like the ones in the picture, watch a video about how to actually put them in
they're the best for sleep, too



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22092193 No.22092193 [Reply] [Original]

whenever i have time i read a book, when i watch a movie i read the subtitles when i listen to music i read the lyrics when i am at my phone i read posts all day when i have nothing to do i pick something anything and just read read read

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22092213

>>22092193
>my brain is a dustbin
you should be more selective about what you read, instead of just filling your mind with words. being a tasteless receptacle for anything and everything arguably makes you worse than a non-reader



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22092192 No.22092192 [Reply] [Original]

Post a single word, and others must find out which author you are talking about. Starting with an easy one:
>cyclopean

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>> No.22092276

> jacking

>> No.22092291

>nigger

>> No.22092315

>>22092192
lovecraft
my word is
>headlong

>> No.22092318

>nystagmic

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>>22092291



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22092116 No.22092116 [Reply] [Original]

Why does it feel a lot more easier to read these three books for me? Have I gone insane or autistic?

>> No.22092120

>>22092116
>a lot more easier
None of them are difficult to read, GR and IJ take some effort to sort out, Ulysses is easy as long as you do not get caught up in the references.

>> No.22092177

Nah they're just fantastically written in a way that makes them enticing

>> No.22092254

these are all amazing books that get overhyped by literal mongoloids who can barely read in the first place, they really aren't that difficult

>> No.22092281

>>22092177
Only one good book there

>> No.22092351

>>22092177
No, the joke is comparing ij with gr and uly



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22092098 No.22092098 [Reply] [Original]

The natural world remains at a distance, because it is apprehended only by the senses. So too do human beings: "A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque to us, presents a dead weight which our sensibility cannot lift."

Fictional characters, on the other hand, occur "within us." The novelist "provokes in us within one hour all possible happinesses and all possible unhappinesses just a few of which we would spend years of our lives coming to know and the most intense of which would never be revealed to us because the slowness with which they occur prevents us from perceiving them."



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22092042 No.22092042 [Reply] [Original]

Does the expression "looks like ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag" refer to pounds as in weight, or as in pound sterling? Thinking about it when have you ever referred to a bag as how much it can carry outside of listing it for sale online or something? Like you wouldn't say "i'm going camping, i'll bring my eight pound bag" so i'm starting to think it's referring to the cost of the bag, not the capacity. What are your thoughts?



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22092033 No.22092033 [Reply] [Original]

Will reading more books get me the same enjoyment that watching summaries do? I’ve just had a weird affection for them since high school.

>> No.22092046

>>22092033
There are books which are essentially summaries of summaries. I know it's a meme but the first that comes to mind is infinite jest. There must be at least 300 condensed stories in there.

Just read what you want, anon.



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22092003 No.22092003 [Reply] [Original]

What are your favorite birds in literature?

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>> No.22092040

>>22092003
the nightingale or the cuckoo

>> No.22092066

>>22092003
The vöglein in Siegfried.

>> No.22092067

>>22092003
The eagles that could have taken the ring to Mordor but didn't.

>> No.22092274

>>22092067
if the eagles would have taken the ring to Mordor than Frodo and most importantly the reader would have never learned their lesson.

>> No.22092307

>>22092003
Zeus before he raped some bitch.



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22091996 No.22091996 [Reply] [Original]

There was a Christian book that got some headlines maybe two or three years ago. It was for parents on parenting strategies to avoid having gay children. Mainly based around healthy relationships and such. It has been completely removed from the internet I can not even find a trace of it. Does anyone remember the author or name of the book.

>> No.22091998

>>22091996
Shouldn't it be pretty obvious how to treat your children if you don't want them to be gay?

>> No.22092007

>>22091998
I have no children I am not interested in it for parenting reasons. It was deleted from amazon and there news articles about it, but I could find it with search results. Now I cannot find it at all.

The results even from Yandex are extremely controlled. You actually can no longer find a book that speaks negatively about having gay children at all, from the Christian perspective.

>> No.22092008

>>22091996
Reading books is inherently effeminate. If you're a reader you're likely to produce homosexual offspring and shouldn't reproduce. Leave it to the real men.

>> No.22092012

>>22092008
I would never read it fellow chad. I would have one of my twinks read it aloud to me.



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22091995 No.22091995 [Reply] [Original]

>Omensetter's Luck
>Crime & Punishment
>Oliver Twist
what should I read first, anons

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>> No.22092002

>>22091995
Dosto

>> No.22092043

>>22091995
Dosto

>Dosto= pronounciation: those-toh = translation in hindi = friends

>> No.22092109

>>22091995
Oliver Twist is comfy. Charles Dickens is so comfy, I don't know what it is with anglos and comfyness, but i like it

>> No.22092284

>>22091995
Oliver Twist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>> No.22092289

>>22092001
nta
got some epub of iliad from libgen and it has like 100 pages of introduction, should i read it? really dont feel like it
read hamilton already



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22091990 No.22091990 [Reply] [Original]

How would you describe the word "mystic" in terms of people, creatures, spirits, etc? I can't find a good single definition for mystics.

>> No.22091992

>>22091990
>How would you describe the word "mystic"
Jaden Smith



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22091957 No.22091957 [Reply] [Original]

>Like a writer
>Find out he was fat irl
>Like him less
Am I the only one?

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>> No.22092174

>>22091957
>Book shows a strong connection between a man and woman
>Author has been divorced several times
As retarded as relationship counsellors who have multiple ex-husbands.

>> No.22092176

>>22091957
>like a writer
>find out his father died when he was young or still a kid
>find it even more relatable

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22092181

fat chad coming in

>> No.22092184

>>22092181
A B S O L U T E U N I T
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>> No.22092189

>like a writer
>read and enjoy the writer



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22091948 No.22091948 [Reply] [Original]

Reading Meditations currently.

>> No.22092266

>>22091948
you and everyone else who discovered stoicism on youtube
isn't there a mountain of reddit threads out there asking this exact question
fuck off

>> No.22092273

>>22091948
Remember: It's pronounced "stoik".



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22091944 No.22091944 [Reply] [Original]

Why does gaudapada the advaitin precursor of adi shankar verbatim copy lines of the mulamadhyamakakarika?

Advaitabros...?

>> No.22091964

>>22091944
Because truth has no need for ego to be attached to it

>> No.22091969

>>22091944
I have no clue what any of those nouns are.

>> No.22092083

>>22091969
Gaudapada is an originator of the nondualist school (advaita) of scholarly Hindu philosophy. He was the precursor of the far more famous philosopher of said school Adi Shankar.

The Mulamadhyamakakarika is a Buddhist philosophical treaty that expounds the emptiness doctrine as the inner teaching of Buddhism.

>> No.22092117

>>22091944
hinduism and buddhism are intrinsically linked, there's frankly a lot of overlap between them



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22091943 No.22091943 [Reply] [Original]

Every book I have ever read has made me want to kill myself more than the last. All knowledge leads to the same conclusion. Philosophy was a mistake

>> No.22091950

>>22091943
yet you continue to live, interesting.

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>> No.22091954

>>22091951
Please make me eggs and hashbrowns for breakfast wife/mommy

>> No.22091967

>>22091943
>Philosophy was a mistake
You finally understood it. Now go and read a real book.



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