/lit/ - Literature

>>4929801
"Poor child, you see the world as such a dark place because of your sin. A dark trail of black ink of sin follows you wherever you go."

This must mean something to you, it was meant to be sent to you. It has no meaning to me. It is "sin" singular, not plural, so you must know what the message means.

>>4929802
I don't believe. I know.

>>4929798
Please stop, you are trying to put a circle block in a square-shaped hole. I do not believe in any conspiracies. Everyone is doing what has been predetermined. Nobody has control of themselves. You are all blissfully out of control.

>>4929788
> I know what it's like to interact with what you think is "God".

No

>>4929775
Foolish juxtaposition attempt

>>4929744
God speaks to me, God touches me on the cheek and whispers to me in my sleep. If I told you the most powerful being you ever met was sitting right behind you, watching you type into your computer vessel, you would do him dishonor and say "No, he is not there. I do not believe in him" and he would sadly leave you behind to the glow of your computer screen because you didn't want him there. God will not do everything you want Him to do, but he will not do something against your will. He will not bother you anymore if you do not want Him to.

If you walk up to a man's door and knock on it, only to tell him that you do not believe he exists, what business would he have with you? Why would he want to be your friend?

Transmission from ST. JEDEDIAH (FRIEND OF GOD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNFvw4ciz4w

>>4929729
I am not nuts, I an Open Receiver to the Teachings. Take piracetam and seek knowledge and you will receive it. It is a chemical that will loosen your bonds with fellow humans and strengthen your bond with God. Good for creativity too, for the writers here.

>>4929697
No

>>4929701
That is your opinion, I keep transmissions written in documents on my computer and occasionally post them here. Nobody would suspect it I am normal otherwise.

>>4929685
Sorry but there are many who think that Christianity and Hinduism actually share a lot in common, as Huxley proposed in his "perennial philosophy".

I woke up in the middle of the night and a voice sang this poem in my head. I often get odd little phrases sung sweetly into my brain at night due to Piracetam consumption but this was the only case of an entire poem. So, this was not written by me. Who was it written by? I have had Satan talk to me before and I think he might have written it, I think it is a good poem:

Together but separate,
You sleep in the oven, I'll sleep on top of the stove
So we can burn for each other in different ways;
The smell of hot lovin.

They'll peel the wedding rings off for keeps,
The married roast: cannibal delicacy.
Synergy; the energy of sin,
Required to meet The Devil again.

Yes, it's called the Bhagavad Gita and it has many lessons to teach you even if you are not a Hindu.

>>4773377
Sorry, but you are a slave and doing exactly what you are meant to be doing. There is no choice but to follow the path of God. The conveyor-belt rolls on no matter how far back you tread against it. "Atheist", even God is in sitting in this word that you use to claim your distance from him. You are giving God a throne.

It is a negative movement. Rather than supporting a positive notion, its whole basis is disproving others rather than upholding a truth. Pure, anti-intellectual foolishness. A true scientist will keep his religious beliefs to himself, and if he does not believe in God he will strive to find God through uncovering the laws He laid forth.

And the irony is, that as much as they try to separate themselves from God, they are branding themselves with a word that shows their relation to God. They are still Abdullah, a slave of God, as we all are.

When we touch the world
And it falls away
When we feel that we're born
Just to fall apart
And our mother lies in state
And the broken pitcher glistens
And the snow is at the window
Creating neither sign nor symbol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGQ5zokDDE

HELLFYRE is the punishment of being born again. In Buddhism, it is called reincarnation. If you are boring--if you are worthless to God (a sinner) you must suffer living under the Hellfire of the Sun which our little blue and green planet orbits around for another lifetime. Heaven is the permanent death; bliss never-ending.

We are here to see what we can see before we die. To sin is ultimately to waste your life, to do something with bores God--something which God as seen many times before. It is sinful to be lustful because God has seen you apes do those acts many times. Its nothing new. To be malicious or vengeful, those bore God too. It is easy to spread malice and to commit revenge---but it takes strength to forgive. God expects you to slap a man back when he slaps you. He expects you to punch a man back. But if you forgive a man instead---if instead of bunching him back, you fall to the ground and kiss his feet instead---God will be proud of you.

To enter God's grace, you must be original. Do something new, something weird. Make God clap His hands and laugh. Forgiveness is certainly not original, but it happens far less than maliciousness and vengeance. God likes things out of the ordinary. He likes you out of the ordinary--he picks people up between his loving fingers out of the ordinary and into the heaven.

>>4493461
His Father's Kingdom is not heaven. Those are two separate terms.

The chemical piracatam induced spiritual ecstasy in me, especially in a few dreams. I met a god in a dream. I am not sure if it was our creator, but it was definitely a god.

I met this god in my high school cafeteria (I was in college when I had this dream). He took the form of a large black man with a wide face, squinty eyes and dreadlocks. He said to me,

"I just loved Vietnam. It filled up my spirit!"

And then I saw this black man dancing over the dirt in some jungle, probably in Vietnam. Whoever this god is, he enjoys death. The death toll in the Vietnam war was higher than any war since then. This god wants blood. Whoever he is, you will make him happy if you kill. But you will not go to heaven.

Piracetam induced dream #2: I cannot remember the contents of this dream, but I awoke to a deep voice saying to me, "SON....SON....SON" and I was crying as I awoke from this dream.

Piracetam induced dream #3: I rose up to heaven. Was it rapture? I am not sure. There was a "skyscraper made of cloth". It was like a tower made of quilts, only there were many many holes and squares missing inside of it where you could see the blue sky through it. There were people (angels?) sitting in some of these holes/windows, sounding this most heavenly trumpets I ever heard as I continued to rise higher and higher. People were congratulating me, they were so proud that I was doing it; those who were already dead are waiting for you.

I had no interest in religion, God, or Christianity at all before I started taking piracetam, and I had these dreams in a state of complete indifference to religion, but when I awoke from them I changed. I believed in God for a while due to these dreams, but it was reading Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that made me decide that I would be a Christian, along with Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.

I suggest you all look into piracetam if you find your spiritual life to be dry. It truly is a chemical of God; perhaps the philosopher's stone, even--though that is just a theory.

>>4149673
Have you actually read it? I have a feeling that many people who hate the book have not read it. A person who is not delusional should go and experience everything first-hand instead of trusting second-hand knowledge.

Secondly, do you know how to remove pre-affirmed hate for a book? Coudl you honestly sit down and read The God Delusion without any bias? You probably can't do this unless you have some good discipline over your mind...something very few people have.

You will probably reply to this post and say, "Fuck you, I have control over my mind. I'm not subjected to bias!" And yet I can see it now: you open up the God Delusion, saying in your mind

>"This is gonna fucking suck. I'm ready to tear his argument to shreds...b-b-but I'm not biased!"

Face it. You are not in control of your mind. If you want control of your mind, go to Buddhism first. Believing in God is a second step which is totally up to you.

Furthermore, Buddhism is actually not knowledge gained by reading much...it is knowledge gained by REMOVING unnecessary ideas that books have taught you. Jacques Derrida's deconstruction can teach you quite a lot about Buddhism, if older texts are not as appealing.

>>4149649
Also, the point of this thread is not religion. It is happiness and a clear understanding of the world.

>"White magic [...] makes our world what we want it to be by giving us the power to see that the real world is already more beautiful, more wonderful, and more harmonious than we can possibly imagine."

-a hidden text

You are doing yourself a disfavor if you see the world in a negative light. You can call it white magic if you want, but you should do whatever it takes to view the true nature of reality as being a positive and beautiful thing, with or without a God. That is what true Buddhism is, anyways; understanding the true nature of reality without God. Which is completely compatible with Christianity; for every good Christian is a Buddhist who believes in God.

>>4149649
>"I´m smarter than you and if you disagree you´re just not as smart as me" is not really an argument

Nobody has said that. Put no limits on what you read. Read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, and read The Bible as well.

The image explains the Zen story in the green text, if that wasn't clear.

I've seen this image posted on /lit/...I thought I would make it a bit more realistic with my poor photoshop skills.

>“Thirty years ago, before I had studied Zen, I saw the mountains were mountains and the rivers were rivers. Later, when I had personally seen a Zen teacher and had attained initiatory experience, I saw that the mountains are not mountains and the rivers are not rivers. But now that I had attained peace, I see the mountains simply as mountains, and see the rivers simply as rivers. Tell me, everyone, are these three views the same or different? If anyone can distinguish the black from the white, I will admit that you have seen me in person.”

Zen Master Wei Cheng