/lit/ - Literature

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I own the Lovecraft one, and it's fine. My only issue is that most of them look pretty gaudy.

>>9894762 is too troll-y and >>9895308 adds nothing to the discussion.

But in the end the former is still what I think. I had a crush on a muslim girl who was so devout I couldn't help wondering how she could try to become a doctor while at the same time believe everything in the Qur'an (well, maybe not "believe" in the general sense, but at the very least in the fact that there was 100% another life after this one).
Our discussions were great but in the end the answer was always one of those:
1- you can't understand me because you don't believe yourself
2- I can't explain because it's God, so case closed
3- deflecting when I asked her about the sense of the Qur'an of Bible (which lead to 2 almost all the time), especially about things like "Earth created in 7 days, how can God let millions of children die if he's so good", etc. So basically the answer would be "some people devote their lives trying to understand the sacred texts, so don't try yourself when you haven't read any (which is true)", but I find this retarded when next day she would "blindly" follow what was written in a book "because it's from God", like 5 prayers a day, not eating pork, and all that.

tl;dr or ;didn't care, I'm still trying to understand how people can both defend "the word of God" while at the same time claiming that no one understands it, and if you try to find flaws you will never get a satisfying answer. Basically it's like "I follow what I want (# of prayers, what to eat and not to eat, ...) but reject what I don't like (calls to violence, inaccuracies in how the universe works, ...)"

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I'm actually going to start reading this book. However, I am unsure if I should read the spanish or english version. I am 60% fluent in spanish, so I think I'll just read it in its original tongue.

Why do anons say that its better in spanish? this thread persuaded me to read it in the original formal, tbh

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Any /lit/izens genuine Buddhists?

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