/lit/ - Literature

The Holy Bible
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The Philokalia
The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick
Lord of the Rings

>>10145621
>what if no creator
so you created yourself? trees and animals and minerals created themselves, stars and the sun and space made themselves? come on.
Finite, contingent, entities with clear harmony of design all beckon to their creator. "the fool says in his heart there is no God"

>>10145616
bodily improvements are of some use in this life but will be no use when you encounter your Creator and have to carry the weight of your sins before him. Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Buddhism discounts and ignores the fate of the soul, and so its "seeming" pragmatism is simply that, a seeming, a fleeting vapor.