/lit/ - Literature

Transcendental scholasticism heaven

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>how to make more money and be better at business?
Embrace voluntary poverty for better business.

Which book (apart from holy texts) changed your understanding of the world?

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>>21524334
>girl, girl, girl, etc
>this girl that was X
>cute girls
I guess they don't even pretend about beliefs and are just banking on the imagery of animal happiness. Playing on that the Mormon mythology of polygamous husbands of tradwives scissoring each other waiting for you to get home to impregnate them.
Christianity typically send celibate men whose attire already show renunciation to the world to spread the gospel.

To dig deeper into theology, where should one start with these?

The Epistles- St. Ignatius of Antioch
The Complete Works- Pseudo-Dionysus
The Triads- Gregory Palamas
An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith- Saint John of Damascus

>>14550558
>and I'm thinking of starting a book collection myself

Don't. Just stop yourself right there.

Get ONE book that you want to study. Plato's Republic, Dante's Inferno, the Bible, fucking Lord of the Rings, it doesn't matter. Look up the best version/translation and then buy/pirate it and read that book. Next, do one of the following; A - get a related book, such as a sequel or similar philosophical work and read that, or B - reread the book you first read but take notes the entire time and try to properly answer these questions (taken from How to Read a Book):

- What is this book about as a whole?
The leading theme, and how the author develops the theme.

- What is being said in detail, and how?
The main ideas and assertions.

- Is the book true, in whole or part?
You must make up your own mind, if you are reading seriously. You can’t take the book for true without critical inspection.

- What of it? Why is this important? What follows?

If you did A, then proceed to B.
That is how you build a library instead of a collection, and it will take a very long time to accumulate books, but you'll find them becoming a part of you.

What are some introductory-level philosophy books? I tried reading some Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schelling, and just couldn't get into them. Really dry and boring to read.

Imagine how much you could have read if you didn't waste your time here

I need help /lit/ , I became obsessed with reading to the point of no return. The only thing I want to do in my life is to shut myself inside my room and read the countless books in my shelf. I don't want to talk to anybody or do anything else. I've got money to survive. Do any of you had a similar phase? Do any of you have the solution to my problem?