/lit/ - Literature

>>14954420
>we are trying to invent god with technology

>>13626976
>God
>but also impotent and not really good
You might as well say A = not-A , men are women, and 2+2 = 5.

>>10203806
>Strictly speaking, Jesus didn't say adultery was still forbidden,

Lord have mercy.
He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness..." Matthew 19:18 ESV
"You shall not commit adultery"

> And that law is the only two commandments that bind Christians - love God, then love your neighbours.

Loving God means keeping his commandments. Loving yourself means submitting to God's commandments, being virtuous, being humble and disciplined. Loving your neighbor means guiding him when he's in error, helping him when he's in need, rebuking him when he speaks evil, and potentially chasing him out of temples with whips if he commits sacrilege.

>>dude let me decide your religion for you by throwung charged buzzwords
>Christ was not a person, he was a spirit
>Jesus may have existed, or he may be not
>maybe he was a Hellenic Jew invention
>I'm a Christian, don't challenge me....

You're not Christian in the traditional orthodox or even modern protestant sense. You're some sort of new-age "anything goes" Christian who cherry-picks the bible, twisting Christ and scripture to fit your very secular, relativistic, deistic hippie presumptions.
It's like someone claiming to be a Muslim but denying Muhammad is the final prophet, eating pig because whatever dogmas are just bigoted and oudated, and rejecting Hadiths and parts of the Quran he finds "oppressive" because you think your feelings are the ultimate arbiter of truth....You're lost, confused, you aren't even a Platonist or whatever you think you are.

You're still searching, and that's fine, but don't pretend you've figured anything out, don't label yourself a "Christian" the word has a meaning; all you've made is a buffet of random beliefs you're trying to smash together, it isn't working. It's sad.

>>10030757
>All it is is cells

if you're a materialist then this is a pointless thing to say, since all humans are is "cells" ... and what value do cells or "stardust" have in themselves? What is wrong with stardust killing stardust?

>It's a good thing we don't have the draconian church breathing down our necks so we can actually advance as a species, now go back to your cloistered general thread and pretend among yourselves.

yes because freely killing babies for predominately economic/selfish reasons is a metric for human advancement.

>>9236698
>Jesus circa 1st century was exposed to neo-platonism
>"Neoplatonism is a modern term used to designate a tradition of philosophy that arose in the 3rd century AD and persisted until shortly after the closing of the Platonic Academy in Athens in AD 529 by Justinian I"

>>9236682

in fact our modern minds have become sub-optimal in this kali yuga of ours. the ancients thought much more clearly and their intuition was on point

>"There everything is transparent, nothing dark, nothing resistant; every being is lucid to every other, in breadth and depth; light runs through light. And each of them contains all within itself, and at the same time sees all in every other, so that everywhere there is all, all is all, and each all, and infinite the glory. Each of them is great; the small is great: the sun, there, is all the stars, and every star again is all the stars and sun. While some one manner of being is dominant in each, all are mirrored in every other... All the essences see each other and interpenetrate each other in the most intimate depth of their nature. Light everywhere meets light. Every being contains within itself the entire Intelligible World, and also beholds it entire in every particular being.." -- Plotinus

what did he mean by this? And how do I attain such a vision (without drugs)?