/lit/ - Literature

>>15040831
Become Reformed.

>>11602964
There's no reason why the One would diminish as it radiates outwards and its light becoming imperfect and give way to suffering and illusions and also evil. An infinite source of power does not "diminish" or give way to impotence.

>This emanation is imperfect compared to the creator and is in levels getting lower and lower until it reaches matter. Higher along in it, there’s thought and beauty and virtue — higher stuff than matter which is so good because it’s getting closer to the All/Absolute Principle.
There is no ontological divide between "creator" and its "emanation", the emanation is the creator, so whence cometh imperfection?

>Similar to nondual beliefs of Eastern philosophies and religions like Sufism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
They all suffer from this problem of explaining how delusion/imperfection/samsara arises within an allegedly flawless Totality/One that simply expresses itself out of abundance.

Basically they are replacing the "fall of man" with the "fall of the perfect One", at some instance the One stopped pondering itself and became distracted by its emanations and then got sucked up in them and confused and forced to reincarnate over and over believing itself to be distinct individuals...how could this even happen in principle? And what is the guarantee that once the soul "returns" to its source it remains there and doesn't just continually "fall" back into matter again and again....

Of course this doesn't even touch the fact of whether monism is "true", I'm just looking at the implications. There really isn't a way to answer the "how do you know Plotinus was right?" question, because the methodology is pure subjective introspection

>>10843318
i never understood why people post dumb thots on a christian and literature board.

>>10679464
everytime
>cute alt gurl
>'proud to be a slut'
>*complains about sexual objectification*
>*lauds promiscuity and sexual degradation*
how do they manage that

ohh well i hope this was just an oddity that kind of sexuality is not endearing what an odd thing for most women who speak of objectification to then fetishize it with an ostensible member of the 1% and they fetishize that to the flexing of material power ohh how romantic?! it isnt just stop it you silly womens

>>10636078
I fucking hate feminism
And I don't mean that in a "le sjw" way I mean the foundation of it is a break from conventional morality, as if that were an abritrary perenniality, or based soley on religion, as if human conception of religion isn't exactly that, human. No thought to it just break-tear-deconstruct, I hate it and I hate how its sold as empowering or positive when it is NEGATIVE it is all about the wanton discarding of binary or their reversal, never a measured transvaluation- as if these people were capable of that in the first place

so now that we're out of the postmodern buddhist/nihilist/atheist stage is it fair to say that Christianity is making a literary, high brow, intelligencia comeback?

Just look at david bentley hart or james cutsinger.

>>10325086
>shallow pond
>child is drowning analogy
>don't you have an obligation to help?

Yet he thinks abortions are moral.
This is your brain on grass and soy.

>>10321049
CATHOLICS NOOOO!

>>10302972
>mentioning the good Messiah in his rant against evil kikes
for what reason.

>>10287646
Apparent contradictions become unraveled with a wider understanding of the text. Keep seeking friend. I was in a similar place at one point.

>>10276241
No. Women don’t feel love – if they even feel it at all – the same way we do.