/lit/ - Literature

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> in love with ancient roman poet

can't get these fantasies about having a long respectful conversation with a lonely shy man of cloth with a roman collar outta my head.

sunday morning coming down

>Another infidel will ask: How can God justly punish with eternal torments a sin that lasts but a moment? I answer, that the grievousness of a crime is measured not by its duration, but by the enormity of its malice. The malice of mortal sin is, as St. Thomas says, infinite. (1, 2, q. 87, art. 4.) Hence, the damned deserve infinite punishment; and, because a creature is not capable of suffering pains infinite in point of intensity, God, as the holy doctor says, renders the punishment of the damned infinite in extension by making it eternal.

>Moreover, it is just, that as long as the sinner remains in his sin, the punishment which he deserves should continue. And, therefore, as the virtue of the saints is rewarded in Heaven, because it lasts for ever, so also the guilt of the damned in Hell, because it is everlasting, shall be chastised with everlasting torments. ”Quia non recipit causæ remedium,” says Eusebius Emissenus, “carebit fine supplicium.” The cause of their perverse will continues: therefore, their chastisement will never have an end. The damned are so obstinate in their sins, that even if God offered pardon, their hatred for him would make them refuse it.

> mfw was unwillingly exposed to pop cliches as a kid and now i can't enjoy the original classics from which the cliches stemmed

Read Dog's Heart by Bulgakov.

I work 70+ hour work weeks.

Is there any philosophy that can stop me wanting to kys myself that isn't cope?

Fr. Avila used to say, that "a single blessed be God, in adversity, is better than six thousand thanksgivings in prosperity."