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>>22197192

1. Augustine of Hippo
2. Thomas Aquinas
3. Anselm of Canterbury
4. Gregory of Nyssa
5. Gregory Palamas
6. Maximus the Confessor
7. Origen of Alexandria
8. John of Damascus
9. Basil the Great
10. Jesus

Not in any particular order

>>21481988
Based.

Bakker is king and truth shines

>>21481814
They could, if they wanted to. But like the trannies in reddit and discord, it is not enough that they enjoy their medium in the privacy in their life; not enough that people merely tolerate their existence; not enough that what they deem it acceptable — others must relish in it, praise it, and worst of all, join it. Like pigs who revel in shit, others must join the party. Shitty-dipping, by their definition, is for everyone. They, and only they, have found the meaning of life, it being the never ending consumption of sub par smut written by kiss less virgins whose only reason to keep on living is to expound their malignant thoughts on others. They have a deep hatred of women, the only other sex on the face of the Earth, who have, in their combined efforts decided to strike down all beta males but at the same time, it is women themselves, who are in the very center of their plays; harems being the ultimate locus of their secular desires. The progression fantasy reader is thus, by his definition, fighting a social oppression and their life's orkis to preach their evangelium to other men, who have not yet found the truth of women. In short, in their love and hate for women, they have forsook real women in their lives and have settled for crude caricatures mimicking their ideal woman; a creature of no autonomous thought, a being of a singular desire — to please the litRPG man. Like a dog worship's its owner, the anime-man demands the respect of women non-existent.

The Darkness That Comes Before

>>21331735
>reads litrpg
Anything you say from this point on (or rather, after you posted a loli) is meaningless. Your taste in books is so skewed the damage you've cause yourself is beyond repair.

>>21285848
The choice of scale is arbitrary. It might as well have been A B C D E, or 1 2 3 4 5, or one of those in reverse order, or something else even. It could have been even as vague as having two arrows pointing at opposite directions "having more literary merit" and "having less literary merit". The point is that there is a clear and obvious scale of things that are perceived as relatively good versus other things. To complain about an arbitrary symbols used to convey subjective, qualitative information is simply you looking for a fight. Anyone is able, after looking at the chart for 5 seconds, to distinguish what is the meaning of SABCD, as it is implied from the context. That you need to know what exactly is the meaning behind the letters speaks of one of two things or both; you can't google, and you are lying.

>>21044895
The top Hegel scholar, by orders if magnitude, is Bakker.

He literally shows the progression of man from Hegel's early theological writings (sole focus on the Logos), to the recognition of Spirit (the Circumfixion), to the attainment of Absolute Knowing (the Thousandfold Thought), onward into the role of inverse prophet, man speaking to the Absolute and bringing it into being.

He has given us a mold through which to live our lives as Hegelian unfolding of truth, the endless reification of Parmenides'"what is, is" into the total understanding that the truth is the whole. We ask ourselves, "what would Kellhus do?" and strive towards perfection so that we too can look the gods in the eyes, see them as but movements of the whole, and declare "I am master here! I am the Absolute!" as the most powerful sorcerers of all time, advanced, nuclear armed spacefaring interstellar aliens, and even the gods themselves rage impotently at their inability to measure up to our power.

>>20883197
The Place is a somewhat relatable character in the original series who at this point is more akin to a hurricane or an earthquake in terms of his moral goodness or evil.

Said character doesn't even seem invested in the core plot trajectory anymore. Based on clues in the book he is battling with the world's vicious gods and attempting to defeat them, attempting to wake a greater Solitary God, or attempting to become a god himself.

My reading is that, after BTFOing everyone, he has essentially sacrificed the entire world and humanity to whatever his plan was. Maybe we'll get more books that explain it some day.

No one should have trusted this shit bird in the first place since he was clearly the villain, but the beauty of the books is that retards still fall for his "lesser of two evils," bullshit, even when it's been shown he is the greater of the evils time and again.

>>20815028
You've been repeatedly told that Bakker is one of the greatest authors of the modern era and you didn't believe anonymous posters in 4chan?

https://youtu.be/u8pVZ5hTGJQ

It was an early morning yesterday
I was up before the dawn
And I really have enjoyed Ishuäl
But I must be moving on

Like Prince that comes from nothing
Like a Prophet no one knows
I'm an early mornin' Dûnyain
And I must be movin' on

Now you believe in what I say
To me you're exactly as you seem
But I have to have things my own way
To keep me in my Dreams

Like a Sranc without its black seed
Like a Cish without his Fane
Just the thought of that bad Consult
Sends a shiver through my veins

And I will go on shining
Shining halos oh so gold
I'll never look behind me
‘Cause there’s a head upon a pole

Goodbye Leweth, it's been nice
Sad to leave you in the ice
Easy to grasp your point of view
Now it's time my Dreams come true

Goodbye Serwë, goodbye Babe
Wish I could tell you that you’re saved

Feel no sorrow, feel no shame
Come tomorrow, feel no pain
Sweet devotion (Goodbye Cnaiür)
It's not for me (Goodbye Dad)
Just give me Gnosis (Think I’m goin’)
To set me free (Goin’ mad)
Towards the gold Horns (Feel no sorrow)
Far away (Feel no shame)
It's the life I've chosen (Come tomorrow)
Every day (Feel no pain)