/lit/ - Literature

>>17783317
Based.

>>17309144
>You're agnostic, not atheist: you can't prove God's existence nor can you disprove it.
yeah that's what I was looking for, English isn't my native language and I'm not educated enough in this sort of subject to know what the word I was looking for was

>"God manifesting itself" is not something you should expect.
why not? most christians I talked to irl and on here were like "just ask God to reveal himself and he will", and from my understanding of god, imperfect as it is, I don't see why that would be wrong, what does god gain from hiding himself?

>That is because most religious text—especially the bible—have been stripped of their esoteric meaning, all that remains... religions, and you'll start realizing things.
uhh so you're saying that you can't share all the knowledge I'm asking for right here and right now (namely why do things exist rather than not exist and if they exist because god let's them then why does god exist rather than not exist) and instead I have to sort through all this stuff myself? I seem to get this answer a lot, no one can really explain anything and just tell me to read books
>we'll never understand God's ways nor the Truth.
after asking around about this subject I'm beginning to suspect this, but why? what prevents us from knowing?
I'm afraid you're wasting my time, sorry if you are genuinely trying to help, but I'll read the book and the things you mentioned anyway for curiosity's sake since I don't think I can bring myself to suicide anytime soon.

>>16171641
You could read stories by other characters REH created: Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, and Kull. Clark Ashton Smith also wrote some S&S stories in his Zothique tales, but they're different from REH's Conan tales; more morbid and dark and less action focused. And there's also all this:

Select stories by Schuyler Hernstrom. He's writing some of the best modern S&S (and Vancian fiction).
Imaro by Charles Saunders.
The Voidal by Adrian Cole.
Rogues of Merth by Robert Zoltan (blatant Fafhrd and Gray Mouser homage, but entertaining).
Fafhrd and Gray Mouser by Fritz Leiber.
Elric by Michael Moorcock.
Gonji by TC Rypel
Berserker trilogy by Robert Holdstock
Far Away & Never by Ramsey Campbell
Bard by Keith Taylor
The Chronicles of Caylen-Tor by Byron Roberts
Bloodsong trilogy by C. Dean Andersson (hesitant recommendation).
The Incompleat Nift by Michael Shea.
Conan: Road of Kings and Legion from the Shadows by Karl Edward Wagner
Conan and the Emerald Lotus by John Hocking