/lit/ - Literature

>>17434133
>try harder
I read a lot of ethnographic material from indigenous and shamanistic cultures, and almost of of the cultures I read about share a similar worldview; how can I manipulate specific non-human personages to discover hidden knowledge or benefit in terms of wealth and war. All "old-belief" systems are pretty much universally occultism. That's not to say they're misguided, those personages are real. However, the God of Abraham is unique in the fact that His will is obviously the polar opposite. Demons aren't a singular force of evil, but they are all mutually corrosive in different ways; preying on one's desires. Shamanistic cultures aren't to blame, because they were exposing themselves to the universal cosmology without an wholistic understanding of the spiritual warfare going on. However, most were definitely fishing for whatever could benefit them the most at the spur of the moment. Some saints who knew inuit cultures were surprised that inuit priests could name and angels (like Gabriel) and foretell their presence when monks from russian were coming to alaska. So basically, we're all operating in the same cosmology (some pagans actually followed and knew the God of Abraham) but you're choosing to follow the wrong personages which will fuck you up after you soul leaves the material world.
tl;dr - pagan larp is extremely gay and the Christ has shown us a world without whole burnt offerings

>>16616775
>getting filtered by Rodya
It's literally not that hard, try reading Gogol's short stories, maybe some Pushkin or Turgenev, and then the big D to get used to it with shorter works. Chinamen on the other hand, just can't write so that criticism is justifiable.

>>16599723
>for me it's BuddAllah