/lit/ - Literature

>>23513613
Ok, anon, I will not demand much of you concerning exegetical analysis, hermeneutics, criticism, etc., but I will make you a question based off your claim that the scripture is self-attesting: what scripture? The one text in Portuguese translated by João Ferreira de Almeida? The one of King James's? The one text of the seventy wise Jews? Why is scripture self-attesting if it then contains all these different words?

>>23513627
yes but why?

>>23507116
>>23509306
Relatable. I just write in my journal. There I feel I have the most freedom to say the interesting things I'd want to say without having to restrict myself.

Cioran and Lars von trier

>>23513625
So why didn't they kneel down and pray before Nebucuhadnezzar like Catholics do the Pope? It's not worship, right?

I am Heathcliff
He is literally me

>>23513607
Verse SF is the way of the future

>>23513611
any ww2 book that uses d day as its cover is probably filled with horse shit

>Do you exist?
Yes, therefore you are. You are now well versed on being.

>>23513620
>Care of souls. Does that mean spiritual authority?
Yes. Yes it does.

>>23513617
Obeying authority is not the same as WORSHIPPING authority?

>>23512020
They read differently and notice more than adults. I don't know if it's questionable reading comprehension making them read more carefully, or a shorter attention span that sticks closely to the text and events, but mystery structures and subtext don't slip by them. I think they're also in that mode of magical thinking that we can call a hypnotic trance that bypasses the critical faculty and lets symbolism and embodied writing through. The dreamlike and psychedelic are much closer to their own experience and taken in a different way.

Probably why I wasn't too hot on some jewish authors, they're qabbalistic with it and go down some very strange Paths on the Tree.

>>23513618
>I, ESL fuckwit.
Concession accepted

>>23513614
Thanks for posting in it.

Any /lit/ guides to ontology? I would like to become well versed in the question of being.

>>23513587
>spiritual authority ?
Who said that and what does it mean?

Care of souls. Does that mean spiritual authority?

>>23513610
The problem with the Ecclesiastical Italianate pronunciation is only that it takes the wrong, non-conservative language as its basis. If it was based on Spanish or Portuguese, there would be much less problems with it.

>>23513439
Not what I said, ESL fuckwit.

>>23513602
>But there's authority and responsibilities
God gave Nebuchadnezzar authority over the Israelites. Why was it wrong for them to worship him in Daniel?

>>23513557
>>23513504
My difficulty is how there can be continuity between lives. This simply can't be explained, not even the Buddha or the most learned Theravadins will suggest to you that they can 'prove' how this works. Dependent origination doesn't prove rebirth. It has to be taken on faith, or experiential blah blah you get it im sure.

>>23513605
I don't kneel and pray before pictures of my Mom lol. Just accept that the Bible celebrated people for refusing to do what you do.

pretty great thread

>>23513519
What could your deranged mind mean by this? The principle of scripture interpreting scripture? Or something else?

>>23513410
you'd think so but no