/lit/ - Literature

>>20320077
>blocks your path

>Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. A thought has escaped me. I wanted to write it down. I write instead that it has escaped me.
Irrefutable anon.

>>19507444
I'm thinking it's our boy Blaise Pascal. Deeply unfortunate. Very nice writing though

What makes it such an important work of Christian Philosophy/Theology?

Is there more to Pascal than Pascal's Wager? What do you like about him as a thinker?

I'm reading the Pensees now. I had not realized that this is an unfinished work and is basically a collection of notes and seeds of ideas that he never got the chance to expand upon. Why is he considered one of the pivotal Christian thinkers of the enlightenment? I understand he was a polymath in mathematics and science, etc., and is thus at least interesting as a highly intelligent and learned man who believed in God. Is he primarily fitting in somewhere between Descartes and Spinoza? I have read Descartes Discourse on the Method and enjoyed it, but have not read Spinoza.

I want to give a little more effort than just "Explain Pascal to me," since I know there are a million posts on /lit/ like that and I would like to see the level of discourse here raised, but I don't really know what to make of him yet. I do find the idea of him interesting as I have seen him connected to the Stoics and Augustine, as well as influencing contemporary Christian theologians like William Lane Craig. Could you guys give me some help here?

>>18109322
Even if his wager is invalid the rest of the pensees has convinced me to become a priest. Sacrificing the tiny sliver of time that is our life, for the eternity that shall follow. And if God doesn't exist everything lost was vain anyway.

Post underrated philosophers

Why did Nietzsche admire Pascal?

*Retroactively refutes atheism*

>>17017739
Without faith nothing is possible

why was pascal such a brainlet bros?
you have everything to lose by living your life in service of a false god, and as such everything to win

>The year of grace 1654,
>Monday, 23 November, feast of St. Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology. Vigil of St. Chrysogonus, martyr, and others. From about half past ten at night until about half past midnight,
>FIRE.
>GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob
>not of the philosophers and of the learned.
>Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace.
>GOD of Jesus Christ.
>My God and your God.
>Your GOD will be my God.
>Forgetfulness of the world and of everything, except GOD.
>He is only found by the ways taught in the Gospel.
>Grandeur of the human soul.
>Righteous Father, the world has not known you, but I have known you.
>Joy, joy, joy, tears of joy.
>I have departed from him:
>They have forsaken me, the fount of living water.
>My God, will you leave me?
>Let me not be separated from him forever.
>This is eternal life, that they know you, the one true God, and the one that you sent, Jesus Christ.
>Jesus Christ.
>Jesus Christ.
>I left him; I fled him, renounced, crucified.
>Let me never be separated from him.
>He is only kept securely by the ways taught in the Gospel:
>Renunciation, total and sweet.
>Complete submission to Jesus >Christ and to my director.
>Eternally in joy for a day’s exercise on the earth.
>May I not forget your words. Amen.
atheists (and analytics) will NEVER have anything even remotely this kino.

Guys, I just realized that there could be a murderer with an axe hiding in my house. There is no evidence that there is, but if I don't do anything he might kill me. Should I call the cops?

Do pessimistic, life-denying, completely bleaked out protestants exist? Looking for the Lutheran version of pic related.