/lit/ - Literature

How do you read secondary literature? Before, after or together with the primary text? Do you take notes on the primary text only or on the secondary text too?

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>>16593012

Are we supposed to take these claims of yours at face value? Ffs just give us an argument

What's the Holy Spirit? I genuinely cannot understand what this concept is supposed to mean.

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>The Elect were forbidden to consume alcohol and meat, as well as to harvest crops or prepare food, due to Mani's claim that harvesting was a form of murder against plants. >The Hearers would therefore commit the sin of preparing food, and would provide it to the Elect, who would in turn pray for the Hearers and cleanse them of these sins.
How is this not just jewish shabbos goyim nonsense?