/lit/ - Literature

>>19940148
>omnipotent
Source?
>malevolent
A pathetic, effeminate whine. What meaning does "evil" have, if the heavenly kingdom is true and life after death exists? There is absolutely no meaning to your sufferings on this earthly plane, if after your death you are raised into heavenly bliss.
The argument here is obviously made from an atheistic point of view, where the speaker does not believe in the afterlife promised for Christians. There is no other way they would make this argument otherwise. (Except complete retardation)

>>18216931
Look at the image again: women love their children (maternal love). If you're a provider for the children they'll love you in turn.
But I'd like to add that women do love; it's just very hard for that to happen (at least most of the time)

>>18173181
exactly, this is essentially the Bertrand Russell thread a couple of days ago
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>>18117637
I'm just weary of cosmopolitan centers. Every single person is just the most fugacious creature I've come across. When looking at the generations that came before us, I see life, a purpose; something to fight for... an ideal, a higher being. It has been forgoten or maybe worse, lost.
While I cherish the recomendation, I don't think scribbling over megacorporate buildings will help much.

>>18073656
>Cool painting.
Thank you, I'm quite fond of paintings.
>>18073700
There really isn't any; it's made by Karl Lessing who, and I quote wikipedia
>his themes he depicted were castle ruins, forgotten cemeteries, rugged rock formations, which he inhabited with figures of monks, knights and thieves.
He liked a bit of everything. Here have the link for the painting if you want https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Crusader.jpg

>>18031981
Hobbes sees the King as the provider of individual rights. No word of duties to community/nation (nation in the westphalian sense).
>>18033091
Yes, Hobbes, for example, is essencialy the first liberal