/lit/ - Literature

>>16907447
Who is to say that you believe in the truth, if you can not help but believe what you believe in?

You only believe in what you were predestined to believe, then. You can still change in the future, for that, too, would have been predestined.

Don't complain about what others are and about "cultural Christianity" if you present a fatalistic view of life, in which there's no difference between me (who is predestined to believe in souls and that this is truth) and you (who is predestined to believe in no souls, and that that is truth).

>>16907550
The entire crux of your argument is that "we're afraid of atheism so we hide from it" and that there is no soul or free will. But there's no difference between free will and determinism; I still have the ability to choose. I do, after all, choose to talk to you right now, I am not being directly 'predestined' or 'controlled by some magical Fate/Norn.'

This is just "you are unnatural because you believe in [thing I don't believe in] and cannot come to terms with what I see as truth."

Nothing is impossible. A God will and must always exist. Even if He did not exist, He would exist.

>>16907635
Why is it bad to serve others? It's bad because you can attach a negative word to it, effectively creating a strawman? (you like to serve, therefore you want to be a punished slave!)

>>16907609
That's because he and I have proclaimed victory over it. And we continue to reenact this victory over atheism every day, on this very board. Every knee shall bow.

>>16907744
You accept the life that YOU have chosen. You have come to the idea that there is no God, no soul, and you "accept the idea" and move on. I merely choose to believe in a God and soul and move on with my life; there is still suffering to be overcome, gaps to be bridged, even in the life of a Godly man.

You are stuck in this crude psychoanalysis, thinking that we "believe God because we are afraid of perishing." But what if we believe in God because there is a God?

What is so great in accepting that you will go to nothing, either way? This is only a concession you must make when you disbelieve in the soul; it does not make you any stronger to accept it. Most atheists will (cope) say it is a relief that they will not go either to Hell or Heaven, but rather oblivion (fearing Hell).

>>16907829
I do not follow their philosophy, but their philosophy might as well exist because it casts a light upon what's going on. Besides, if man inevitably leads to the Ubermensch, it is okay for their philosophy to exist or not to exist. Either way, they win. They just desire to be aware of these things and serve the Ubermensch, an unworthy goal when all can become Ubermenschen in God.

>>16907881
I would say Christianity reigns in the "individualist's will to power" by recognizing it as a perversion of the will to God all men have. They try to find pleasure or power in something that will bring them neither, so they must be corrected.

Hey, /lit/, what are some good books about the late Edwardian/Belle Époque era about life in that contemporary society? I'm also looking for books that detail what life was like at home during World War One. How did people live in Munich, Paris, Budapest, London, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Jerusalem? I know a lot about the battles, so I'd like to get a fuller picture of the conflict.