/lit/ - Literature

>>14737650
My girlfriend (soon fiance) is a librarian and I met her in post-grad. The fact is that meeting a girlfriend is entirely a matter of chance, and because our society has no real community to speak of (except perhaps in churches--I was lucky enouhg to go to a small university, so not nearly as isolated as most), the opportunities to meet decent people are extremely rare. Can't get a girlfriend, unironically blame modernity--but not so much because you can't get a girlfriend, because remaining unmarried has historically been a common practice--more, blame modernity because it has robbed you of the kind of community that would make romantic singleness tolerable. Now, unless you have a significant other, you are doomed to a soul-destroying loneliness that will probably drive you to some kind of addiction at the very least.

>>14217413
Does everything that God does have to follow from necessity? The Christian God doesn't follow necessity. The Christian God isn't some Platonic monad. He is free and creative. If God chooses to make Adam out of dust and Jesus in the womb, that is no contradiction on God's part--he can do whatever he wants. Does there have to be a reason? No. But there is a reason: love. And does love have it's reasons? Yes, itself. God does what he does because Love. That's the answer. "Truly, I say to you, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it"