/lit/ - Literature

>>11464774
the best mystics are staunchly embedded in a tradition they take dogmatically.

>just explore your psyche, feel it out
that's okay when you're on the right path, if you're on the wrong path it could lead to you wearing black robes, drugged up, doing a sodomy ritual.
prelest is a problem, being "spiritual but not religious" is a sign of inauthentic searching.

>>11458985
>Reincarnation and karma are goobledygook
yes, without a Creator there is no karma to operate on behavior, since good and evil become meaningless, and no life to incarnate, let alone re-incarnate more than once.

>arbitrary punishments/rewards
nothing God does is "arbitrary" but freely chosen by him in his wisdom and good pleasure, for our benefit and justice.
>makes perfect sense?
Yes because
A. it's logical
B. it's been revealed truly
C. it's consistent with our deepest intuitions

>YOUR "WESTERN CANON" SHOULD HAVE LOTS OF NON-WESTERN MATERIAL!!!! JUST LIKE YOUR COUNTRIES!!!
>Why?
>WOW ARE YOU RACIST?! I MEAN SERIOUSLY?? UHH I CAN"T EVEN....

>>10283612
>imagine you created yourself out of nothing, by accident, that would be extraordinary
Sure, I imagine that would be extraordinarily impossible.
I don't believe I made myself, neither did the tree make itself, nor the sun, nor the cosmos, nor any atom make itself, nor any law in the universe write itself into existence.
Only by the grace and speech of God do I exist, and the sun and the moon exist, and the grass and the laws of order and disorder.

>>10262056
>reading books by a Mormon