/lit/ - Literature

>>21694617
>re there any w40k novels that don’t read like grimdark YA drivel? I understand it comes with the territory but still ..
you are on step one

Existence here is defined as that which physically is and is unchanging. That is, anything that physically is not or is not unchanging does not exist.

"The Bible", as in "THE Bible", the "Abstract Bible", "The Original Bible", "The Eternal Bible" physically does not exist. Furthermore, for those physical instances of those things that are named the Bible, of these, the same Bible is never read twice.

> The same Bible is never read twice.

Pic related. When your hands get onto the Bible, the dirty grease and grime get onto it and change the pages and the ink. Your brain receives light from an object physically different from what it was a while before and then it processes it. You subvocalize it and read it and it makes sense. If you apparently read the same page again, you've physically read something else and that hasn't even accounted for the different day and time you read it in. Furthermore, suppose that for argument, you are immortal and read the Bible again and again and again, until pages crumble off and you repair it by replacing it with other pages. Let this be repeated again and again until all the original pages are crumbled and replaced and eventually the spine is too.

> Is that same thing the same Bible?

By definition, "The Bible" does not exist.

Existence here is defined as that which physically is and is unchanging. That is, anything that physically is not or is not unchanging does not exist.

"The Bible", as in "THE Bible", the "Abstract Bible", "The Original Bible", "The Eternal Bible" physically does not exist. Furthermore, for those physical instances of those things that are named the Bible, of these, the same Bible is never read twice.

> The same Bible is never read twice.

Pic related. When your hands get onto the Bible, the dirty grease and grime get onto it and change the pages and the ink. Your brain receives light from an object physically different from what it was a while before and then it processes it. You subvocalize it and read it and it makes sense. If you apparently read the same page again, you've physically read something else and that hasn't even accounted for the different day and time you read it in. Furthermore, suppose that for argument, you are immortal and read the Bible again and again and again, until pages crumble off and you repair it by replacing it with other pages. Let this be repeated again and again until all the original pages are crumbled and replaced and eventually the spine is too.

> Is that same thing the same Bible?

By definition, "The Bible" does not exist.

>>18145659
You could break its constituent parts down etymologically, for example, to get to the original sense of the word in its originating context, see how that meaning has been complicated/simplified/distorted/adapted by successive cultures.