/lit/ - Literature

>>22474572
Ok, heretic, enjoy your Pope-provided sodomy.

>>21969055
Doubt that american--or english in general for that matter--literature is capable of being based. The Idiot is based, War and Peace and Anna Karenina are. Don Quixote. Les Miserables.
>>21969062
And yet your "civilization" endorses trans "pastors", degenerate worm.

>>14078431
>Condemned as heretical
Yeah, by all Orthodox Christians

>>13787425
This

>>13787114
Shut up women. Esoterism is not for you, go to the office and repent.

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>>12832334
> 'muh everything is fire, everything changes aside from my shitty arguments!'
> 'muh read Deleuze who developed a whole metaphysical system with literally no foundation or actual base rendering it all useless!'
> 'muh more relativism fallacies'
> 'muh read Dawkins I can do what I can want'
> 'muh spaghetti monster!'
> 'muh word salad to try and escape the obvious nonsense of my views'
> 'muh christcuck'
Yeah yeah this is just sad lads. Embrace CHRIST, you all know Orthodox is the only way. Here's some basic questions I want answered:

1. There are eternal metaphysical laws (logic, truth, etc) that underlie all existence and that you presuppose. How do you explain them without God?

2. Where do you derive free will from? There is no scientific evidence.

3. If you reject we even have Free Will, how are you making arguments?

A few for the process philosopher Deleuze fags:

1. If everything always changes, why doesn't the fact that everything always changes change?

2. How do you answer Zeno's paradoxes?

3. How can you have any conception of knowledge?

Hello! A thread for Orthodox books!

For an intro I suggest reading "On the Incarnation", by Saint Athanasius. The read Romans and the rest of the NT

For a comprehensive introduction beyond that, I recommend the multi volume "Orthodox Christianity", Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev

For asceticism, a good introduction is "The Path to Salvation", by Theophan the Recluse

Novels, check out Laurus, the Way of the Pilgrim, and of course The Brothers Karamazov

If you have money and want very high quality mystical books, I strongly recommend the Holy Transfiguration Monastery translations of the Ascetic Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian, and the Ladder of Divine Ascent. Very expensive but painstaking translation and editions that will outlive you.

For a good Orthodox movie, see Ostrov

Orthodox cartoon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XP0J2eDPIjU

Orthodox hymns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noetoc2W4Pc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDoyZtkrU0s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI234C5f620
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IomxvOTf-So
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g4Og5koL9Pk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=o3LLR8zPvVk

This is a composition by the aforementioned Metropolitan Hilarion (he will likely be the next Patriarch of the Russian Church, also the first one to speak English). It is very much his own, but also a tribute to Bach's work by the same name, as he is a great lover of Bach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5XgsLqUN6k

Here is an interview with him https://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/an-interview-with-metropolitan-hilarion-alfeyev

This is the article the op pic refers to
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-16/the-orthodox-church-stays-in-the-dark-ages

Conservative /lit/ discord
https://discord.gg/c5Vga4E

>>11546014
fpbp

Sure seems to be a lot of tension and frustration in the Latin church these days. hmmm