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Fear and Trembling

>>12028831
you are correct anon, notice how >>12029271 gives lip service to the ridiculousness of his own assertions but then falls back into the old mental trap with words like "superior" or "intuitive" and even that sneaky little "worse" near the end and then caps it all off with that caveat emptor: "imo"
everything an atheist says can be immediately discarded because all of their morals and ethics are entirely subjective and they have no way to graft them onto your conscience. All they can do is say "well I guess you don't technically have to listen to me if you really insist on it" and impotently seethe at you from the disjointed, relativistic island of their feelings and "intuition".

>needing a book to consolidate your knowledge

this is why G*d gave us brains

>>11119285
This

>>10217581

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Would you ever read an entire text and post it online for no recognition whatsoever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpqeIUk2UHY

>>9968959
it means your real self is being held hostage by archons

How do I take the leap of faith?

>>9781149
Here's something on Stirner that I loved:
https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=BLCCGfcc_CQC&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&dq=%22artificial+barbarian%22&source=bl&ots=QjuGfLdQ4D&sig=CFJcFWSyVhRmqQk2iYthOjWHRkc&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVu8eBgJnVAhUCMSYKHR46D6IQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=%22artificial%20barbarian%22&f=false

It's missing a couple pages, but to me it manages to summarize why Stirner managed to do what Marx and Nietzsche couldn't. Sadly I haven't managed to find the book elsewhere on the net or read more by/on Calasso.

>a sort of holy lie
http://www.wussu.com/laotzu/laotzu17.html

See now, it's one thing to be clean cut and honest, if brutal, with people. To go "here's the golden rule, I live by it because otherwise we'd be ripping each other's throats off". But that has its limits and doesn't work with evil people, who don't work inside the law, but on the convenient places the law leaves out or creates; plain honesty also has the problem of creating cults, which no matter how correct the cult figure is, always end up devolving into making people less unique and less responsible (fuck you Amitabha), while at the same time encumbering them with morals, which was the opposite of what was intended.

So how do you go about solving this? Remember trying to make things more safe will create the demand for a larger thief (Zhuangzi). Instead you have to put the thief in a situation in which they end as the cop, not in the way they *wanted*, but in the way they *said* they wanted but only said to get power. Like a monkey's paw, but one that benefits everyone, and makes the wishmaker honest to others rather than themself. Rather than get rid of tragedy and crime, one uses them as a means; rather than keep evil at bay in perpetual cycles, you imprison evil in death drive.

>>9503677
Kierkeretard pretty much saved my life desu

>>9466077
>gonna marry qt
>be self-aware enough to know you're ugly as sin and will be a hell to live with
>cancel the marriage even though you know you'll regret it the rest of your life
>do everything you can to show yourself as an edgelord so she won't suffer because of it
>redefine a major world religion in the process
>take the "i'm a poet lol" position so the thing still make sense on its own
>troll hegelians
ya done good sören
ya done good

no

>>9401151
>empirical evidence is objective truth

why are pop-/sci/ redditor nu-atheists such brainlets

maybe INTJ spergs should do less math problems and read more books?

What's some essential literature on Catholicism and the Catholic church? I was raised in a Catholic family but was an atheist through most of my life, I recently rediscovered the church but I know very little about the structure, the mysteries, and such. A history of the church would be best too.

>>9277313
Dump your spiciest faith memes here

>>9261140
OH SHIT WADDUP SENPAI CHRISTIAN EXISTENTIALISM COMIN THRU J. PETERSON STYLE WADDUP

So free will is an illusion...

Name me any other illusion that we may doubt before the illusion subsides.

Free will is indubitable in good faith. You may rationalize away free will but you can never doubt free will similarly to how you can never authentically doubt you exist.

>>9244386
lol u diss kekregard but then you call for people to live authentically in good faith u r the doublethinker senpai

>>9104712
i cannot, it is indubitable how much radical free will overflows within me

mad?

>>9089284
its called existentialism

>humans cant access the Other through the veil of the Absurd
>humans have no idea what is real
>yet atheists/materialist/determinists/utilitarians/consequentialists/egoists still choose to pick the most boring, cold and dead presuppositions to have faith in

is it autism?

>>8487432

>implying we all shouldn't just read Kierkegaard and call it a day