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Has anyone ever managed to refute this book's claims, or Thomistic natural law in general?

>>19122687
This is still my favorite work of fiction apart from Moby Dick. Currently reading pic rel.

>>18090958
>Later read "The Metamorphoses" by Ovid
>Holy goddamn shit fucks
>The way information travels and is created in that book is incredible, with the theme that hiding information is a pointless endeavor as it all comes out somehow, and the harder you try to prevent it the more violent the revelation is
>My mind clicks, I've been hiding and lying to myself
>I need to get my shit together
>Start trying and failing to live a better life, dont even think about T
>after 2 years of failure give up until I start to see T in my dreams at least twice per week
My journey to order my life is now 4 years in the making and I'm just now seeing momentum form. But it's forming fast, and seeing results after 4 years of nothing does a lot to push me even harder. But, to my reflections on all this:

There is no room for fear with the ones you love, and there is no hiding your love without creating evil. I really wish someone would have taught me that when I was younger, but some lessons are best learned by experience.
I threw away a storybook lifelong romance through a mixture of fear, ambition, and lizard brain desire for pleasure. I threw it away in an instant when I didn't smack a bitch for being a detestable slut, but I also threw it a way with years of living carelessly, and building up a system of behavior that all but guaranteed I would make the wrong decision when it mattered.
There's no time to live carelessly. Some of you may whine about black pills but you're all just pussies looking for an excuse to live in fear and despair because it's familiar to you.
Familiarity is a lie. Life is always changing, and nothing real will be the same as it was before. It's up to you to shape it into a world worth living in.
I tried to reconnect with T about a year ago and she all but ignored me. To her credit, I still had fear in my heart and I still made it obvious in how I approached her.
My fear has left. I can see the leader personality I naturally am, and how my upbringing conditioned me to be afraid of it (Learned this reading Jung, I highly recommend him).
I don't hate my parents, I think they're fantastic, but they didn't know how to raise the kind of child that I was, and that's not their fault at all. They've always loved me and supported me.
As I stated above, my fear is gone. I plan to approach T one more time, but I need to make sure the words I use are chosen very carefully to most accurately represent reality, as it will likely be through text and that medium is wide open for misinterpretation.
It's going to happen soon though, because there's no sense in a defensive strategy without an offensive endgame.
She'll probably tell me to fuck off, but this time it will be final, and I will state in no uncertain terms that she has forever influenced my life for the better, and I'll always value her as one of he best friends I ever had.
Thank you to >>18090560 and >>18090565
for encouraging me to share, hope you guys got something to take home from this.

Read the appendix to The Abolition of Man

While I can’t remember most of it now since it’s been years, it set me on the right path to finding meaning. It’s also a decent introduction to Platonic thought to read before you go on to actual Platonic dialogues if you’re a pussy.