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>>15002261
>dualism is only brainlet perception due to faults of the mind , you must correct the mind to see clearly
dualism and monism are both resolved in the trinity.
repent.
There is no teaching higher, truer or more beneficial than what Christ taught.

>>10234936
>What is timeless truth?
Omicron Omega Nu.

>Irenaeus?
Yes read him.
> St. Catherine of Siena
Read her too.

>analytics and dualists?
they will burn in hell.

>Wittgenstein
by his own admission he has nothing to say.

>Aristotelians?
Apostates. But Platonists are bros.

>Simone Weil
anarchists get zyklon b

[Simon Zelotes speaking after the Crucifixion. Fere=Mate, Companion.]

Ha’ we lost the goodliest fere o’ all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O’ ships and the open sea.

When they came wi’ a host to take Our Man
His smile was good to see,
“First let these go!” quo’ our Goodly Fere,
“Or I’ll see ye damned," says he.

Aye he sent us out through the crossed high spears
And the scorn of his laugh rang free,
“Why took ye not me when I walked about
Alone in the town?” says he.

Oh we drank his “Hale” in the good red wine
When we last made company,
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere
But a man o’ men was he.

I ha’ seen him drive a hundred men
Wi’ a bundle o’ cords swung free,
That they took the high and holy house
For their pawn and treasury.

They’ll no’ get him a’ in a book I think
Though they write it cunningly;
No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly Fere
But aye loved the open sea.

If they think they ha’ snared our Goodly Fere
They are fools to the last degree.
“I’ll go to the feast," quo’ our Goodly Fere,
“Though I go to the gallows tree.”

“Ye ha’ seen me heal the lame and blind,
And wake the dead," says he,
“Ye shall see one thing to master all:
‘Tis how a brave man dies on the tree.”

A son of God was the Goodly Fere
That bade us his brothers be.
I ha’ seen him cow a thousand men.
I have seen him upon the tree.

He cried no cry when they drave the nails
And the blood gushed hot and free,
The hounds of the crimson sky gave tongue
But never a cry cried he.

I ha’ seen him cow a thousand men
On the hills o’ Galilee,
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi’ his eyes like the grey o’ the sea,

Like the sea that brooks no voyaging
With the winds unleashed and free,
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret
Wi’ twey words spoke’ suddently.

A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea,
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.

I ha’ seen him eat o’ the honey-comb
Sin’ they nailed him to the tree.

>>9999713
> Or when I see videos of a guy laying helplessly on the ground, both hands cut off and a box cutter knife forced repeatedly into his mouth, while those around him laugh and blast pop music, setting a horrible contrast, as some final affront to the pain of the victim

Those situations are terrible and perverted because they contradict what is good, they go against God's laws and our deepest nature which is made in his image.

If God was evil or neutral/impersonal or didn't exist
there would be no objective grounds, no justifiable reason to find such torture scenes objectionable and to have an existential crisis over suffering itself.

I addressed the general theodicy problem here >>9999523

We are going to suffer and fall victims to evil because the world is fallen, broken, it is not perfect, we have lost our primordial connection to God that Adam and Eve once had.

Also consider [from the Christian perspective] that even the Son of God himself suffered brutally at the hands of men, he thirsted and hungered and they gave him vinegar to drink on the cross.
They flogged him, spat on him and crucified him and impaled a spear in his rib. So if the divine incarnation is not "above" suffering and pain, how can we (his creations) demand or expect to be above it in this life on earth??


>I hate this banal garbage. God's love, if such a thing isn't an oxymoron, is completely twisted. That egomanaic wants me and you to suffer, but It's okay because it's part of some completely arbitrary, needless "plan" that he conjured out of his misbegotten asshole

You're struggling with God and that's good, hopefully in time you will see the bigger picture and how most (but not all) suffering we experience here helps release us from our attachment to trivial things and flee towards what is good and eternal.

However, all suffering is transient here, however painful some situation is it will be unraveled and annihilated by God via time. Evil is evil and should be repudiated but you can only be disgusted at evil, suffering and death if you accept a transcended and eternal Good, a divine law maker, a personal God who takes interest in your life and the life of mankind.