/lit/ - Literature

What author/philsopher has the best and most complete and thorough system of metaphysics and explanation of god, the soul, creation, etc.? I have read an english translation of the Bhagavad Gita, an anthology of buddhist suttas from the Pali canon, some excerpts of Pythagorean and Platonist works, but I can't decide what I should devote my time to understanding. I am a total dabbler in many different subjects and can't figure out what to focus on.

>>11287110
>book set in the future
>Judaism magically disappears

>tfw you realize Aristotelian formal and final causality is true
>tfw when you realize substantial forms and real essentialism are true
>tfw you realize God exists

What Bible translation do you guys prefer? I like the King James Version, but I just started reading the Orthodox New Testament (they're still working on the OT--this is not the same version as the Orthodox Study Bible, which is a tweaked NKJV, this is a totally new translation), and I gotta say, I really, really like it. The commentary and translation are both top tier.

If you Google, "Eastern Orthodox New Testament pdf", it will be the first link, you can take a look for yourselves.

Happy Christposting.

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For what reason do the people celebrate, for what reason do the youth dance and the aged raise the glass saying, "happy new year"?

In what do the people hope of the coming year, shall it not be the same as all the years that have gone before? Shall it not be a year of wars, of adulteries, of fornications, of rumours, of arguings?

But the people have put their faith in drunkenness, their hope in death's shadow which they believe shall cover over with forgetfulness their unclean deeds.

But their beer shall not save them, and their wine will never content their hearts. In this life they shall ever be restless whispering among themselves, exploiting one and other, snatching at mean pleasures which shall not satisfy. So it is in this life, so it shall be in the next; living as beasts, they shall certainly die as beasts. In the eye of the beast there is no knowledge, but vanity and the urgings of the flesh.

It depresses the heart to see man fallen to the indignity of the beast, and it scandalises the soul to see the beloved bow down the soul before an idol. Man was not made to this corrupt purpose, but was made to rule over the earth with knowledge and with love. Though worshipping the world he became subject to it, so that no more is there communication between men and the angels of righteousness. Darkness has covered over the eye, and blindness entered the heart.

But the faithful trust in the Saviour come into the world, Who shall shepherd them through this dark and mysterious night. Their glory shall be manifest after time, their souls shining as do the stars in darkness of heaven's night. And their Queen stands upon the moon, who has the sun for her crown. The world shall be judged when their King shall return, for this is the judgement: the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, for their deeds were evil.

By the envy of the Devil death came into the world, and they follow him that are of his side. But the hope of the saints is filled with immortality, and death shall have no part in the martyrs. It has been given to those who belong to this world to make their pact with death, but to the saints belonging to the coming world to make war against death and to overcome it. Those that made their peace will death, shall be sent in peace by the Son of God to death eternal; but to those who have elected life, the Son of God shall raise to life eternal. So that all man shall have received that which they have chosen for themselves, so that no man in the end shall be able to say, "I have not gotten what I have deserved". For all justice shall be fulfilled in the world by the just God who has made it. Amen.

>>7332479
Mysticism.

It's led me to intensively deal with my personal hangups, which helps brings out an ability to be happy without reason.

I've also ended up in a top 25 university for a subject that's closely related to my personal interests in mysticism, the mind, and phenomenal experience. I'm confident I am where I am because of my interest and trying to follow it closely.

>did you become a published author?
I haven't really been interested in that, but who knows? Maybe one day.

>>7332449
Mysticism.

It's led me to intensively deal with my personal hangups, which helps brings out an ability to be happy without reason.

I've also ended up in a top 25 university for a subject that's closely related to my personal interests in mysticism, the mind, and phenomenal experience. I'm confident I am where I am because of my interest and trying to follow it closely.

>did you become a published author?
I haven't really been interested in that, but who knows? Maybe one day.

>>7322929
>tfw you realise that every atom in your body that was there at your birth has been replaced
>yet you are still you
>tfw you realise that when the atoms of your body disperse you will still be you
>tfw you are immortal

All I want to do is worship the triune God. But God is omnipresent and eternal. So I am pretty much sorted and guaranteed happiness for all eternity.

Thanks for creating me, God.

>>7250466
so was I

>>6218589
>In terms of most beautiful prose:
>Söderberg

I like you.

so when do you think that the Marxists will finally realize that the revolution was completed 2000 yrs ago, that the kingdom of heaven is here, and that it's inside you?

Verona represents the Italian renaissance period. The Capulets represent the Kingdom of Heaven, the Montagues the Kingdom of Hell. Juliet represents the Catholic Church under Pope Julius II and Romeo represents the Roman empire and Neoplatonic School of Renaissance Italy. Friar Laurence represents the Pope. The mystical marriage between Romeo and Juliet presided over by Friar Laurence represents the alchemical blending of God with Satan, Catholicism with Neoplatonic paganism, the marriage between the Catholic Church and the Synagogue of Satan, the "Marriage Between Heaven & Hell" (Antichrist): the aim of the marriage is to produce the Antichrist through the breeding of the Christian Juliet and the Satanic tempter Romeo. They do consummate the marriage and this union would have brought forth Antichrist, but as you know there is a double-suicide. This represents the end of the medieval Catholic Church, the end of Renaissance Neoplatonism, and the failure of the marriage between the two to bring forth the Antichrist . . . for now :^)))

>>5589653

Let's improve passages from famous authors by making alterations that do not take from the meaning or the tone but improve upon the delivery of its verse or prose.

>tfw emotionally invested in fiction

>tfw you realise that "the age", "the modern age", "the times", "modernity", "postmodernity", "the nation", "the State", "humanity", "progress", "Globalism", "liberalism", "conservatism", "Capitalism", "Socialism", "Communism", "Marxism", "Bourgeoisie", "the working class", "Feminism", "the elite", in short, all categories that group people into a phantom mass and that defraud he individual of his true worth, demoralizing him by convincing him that the highest things in life are these world-historical struggles that he can only hope to be a part of, and not his own relationship with God - that all of these are unreal spooks that do not exist, that there is no war between Capitalism and Communism, Bourgeois and Working Class, it's all just a phantom conjured up by the Media to demoralize people and make them hopeless while the Rulers of this World (they aren't "Capitalists" or "Bankers") go about their business devouring souls

>tfw you realize God exists
>tfw you realize the world is exactly the same today as it was two thousand years ago when the Son of Man ascended into heaven

Sober up. Stop getting drunk on world-history. The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

>>4757242
i read them in highschool, they were nice, good for between more cumbersome books.

apparently the series doesn't stay as good, but that's just what i've heard

>tfw you realize God's existence is subjective