/lit/ - Literature

>>23022434
>Are monks the prototype of the "internet addict" (information addict) personality?
Tell me you know nothing about monks without telling me you know nothing about monks.
The screen addicted, coomer brain, life in luxury faggots are unable to even comprehend, in any kind of proximity, the kind of hardship and renunciation a monk goes through.
And whilst I know some of you gaiboys are "suffering" or whatever, you're still suffering in the lap of luxury, and your suffering serves no purpose and has no reason to it.
You may not be normies, but don't fool yourselves, you've got nothing in common with monks.

The demons seem to energize and crawl out of the woodworks upon every mention of Fr. Seraphim's name. Makes me want to read all of his books.

>>18723198

You'll be glad to know that Fr. Seraphim Rose, the author of that book, was an ascetic monk, following a line of traditional initiation from the Optina Elders in Russia. Orthodox Christianity has not stopped being ascetic, since it is the true lienage of Christianity.

Heterodox Christianity, which we see in the west in the form of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, has become corrupt and anti-ascetic. Orthodoxy has retained that ascetic core of renouncing the world, and facing the real trial of their being.

I guarantee you, if you hate anti-ascetic (((Christianity))), you will love reading that Nihilism book.

>>15142956
Seconding orthodoxy and the religion of the future. The author was an ex-guenonian too.