/lit/ - Literature

>>14337760
>grow up
"Amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven."

>>14329316
>Volunteering
This is what pseuds do who want to help people for want of positive perception. Volunteers are often the most narcissistic and selfish people I know, and while they derive sanctification for doing useless participatory work for strangers, while they ignore the people in their immediate and surrounding lives. It reminds me of the Dives and Lazarus. The Rich Man, wasn't inherently "bad" to the onlooker. Wore purple, so was presumably was an esteemed member of his community. Probably gave to the charities of his day. But we know he ended up going. To hell, where he must remain for all eternity. The same fate awaits most "do-gooders". If Augustine wrote his Confessions in 2019, he would have omitted the part where nobody would wish that there may be some unhappy person that they may commiserate. These people are not motivated by compassion but their own vanity and self-inflated view of their 'goodness' (oh I'm such a good person! Wow, I really am helping! I am a real saint!) . All truly good people have always felt and said the opposite of themselves, that they were worthless worms and any good they effectuated was not through anything they have done. Often, the most helpful thing someone can do, is doing something that won't look good on a resume. Talking to that lonely old man at the end of the street whose entire family is dead. Asking if that emaciated cashier you deal with on occasion is alright. Giving that one struggling friend some money. None of these will win you respect from the world, and often people will call you stupid for them.

Lastly, the entire end point of stage 3 is done for want of human respect, which the Angelic Doctor, proves it is a vice opposed to virtue because you are doing things to impress the external world. St. Augustine said the machinations of man are no different than the play of children. At the end of the day, your job, your status, your "business", is meaningless because you will die.

In fine, this meme is not going to lead to self improvement but on the contrary. Self-ruin.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

>CHRISTIANITY BAD BECAUSE I WANNA COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Yikes. If you want to read books that affirm your worthless sentiment, that I suggest you start with Martin Luther. He reconciles the "problem" (only a problem to small sensualist brains like yours)

>>14300366
File for SSDI; get a free housing authority apartment; get a crown vic; get ascetic; then become a priest.

>>14296516
I found it in the The Sunday Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori, specifically
>SERMON XXVIII. PENTECOST SUNDAY. - ON CONFORMITY TO THE WILL OF
GOD.

Alphonsus finds the most based quotes and theologians and packs it into one hell of a punch.

Get his entire book, "Sermons for all Sundays of the year".
Just as good, you can listen to them here.

http://www.traditionalcatholicsermons.org/wordpress/st-alphonsus/

I drove 12,000 miles over the past 3 months and listened to all of them, in addition to reading the text. He has great topics from bad habits, to lust, to bad thoughts, to virtue, to humility, to space-time, hell, heaven and eternity. Fascinating thinker. Cites big brained theologians and philosophers like Aquinas, St. John Christendom, St. Jerome, and Plato. Alphonsus was a polymath too, practiced law before giving it up, composed music, and had an interest in the physical sciences. Very underrated doctor of the church.

>>14282017
Congratulations for proving that you are a pleb. They aren't having fun. They are miserable. They are going roundabout from distraction to distraction. They offer images on social media of their "experiences" out of pride and vanity. If you were redpilled, you would 1) not seek the respect of these creatures 2) delete social media entirely. No facebook. No Twitter. No Snapshit. No Tinder. You do this, and your life will invariably improve and slowly work on eliminating 4chan from your life too. This place is a hellhole of distractions (lustful images, constant refreshing, data smog, etc).

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

>>14264194
Prayer.
Stop lusting/fornicating/masturbating.
Eat a diet rich in Omega-3 fatty acids.
Get prescriptions for dexedrine and sublingual benzos.
Enter seminary.
More prayer.

Online dating naturally attracts promiscuous people which make the worst partners. Don't bother with it. This applies to anons of both sexes.

Thoughts on the priesthood and its contribution to literature, philosophy, and the arts?