/lit/ - Literature

Anons please be honest. How many of you can read in a Classical language at least semi comfortably? Is learning really worth the trouble when you have so many translations at hand?
I'm contemplating starting the LLPSI once I get my C1 in Italian.

>>19815089
kek it's the epistemological weight poster

How long before christers show up and start arguing for the "epistemological weight" of various hobo witnesses to miracles?

Shit blog. Read Spinoza, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Bataille. You've only read up to a thousand year-old Christianity breaking its hip and going to the hospital. There is more to come.

>>18519995
The most interesting were a pair of books by Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality, and Metamorphosis and Identity. Underappreciated elements of medieval culture (people are too fixated on feudalism and warfare and cathedrals).

>>18287494
Sola scriptura is literally the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Word of God... etc. If that is not sufficient to be a Christian, what other element are you introdu— oh right the trappings of the Roman empire since once the inmates have taken over the compound you need wardens and clubs and physical representations of strength and power to convey that the scripture is authoritative to those who are unable to read it. And apparently that's what you actually like about the religion since you are so hostile to the idea of relying on the revelatory canon for supreme authority. You are medieval and heretical. Joel Olsteen is closer to Jesus, even his megachurch setting appeals to the tastes of early Christianity to be as vast and flat as possible. Sorry it's true I'll let you work that out for yourself as heresy is a very grave matter indeed. My understanding courtesy of the learned Tertullian that is your eternal roasting may however please the faithful, so rest assured your vanity, while an error, still serves a purpose as an aesthetic parable.

>>17797469
>please provide evidence that the non-evident creator of the universe is non-evident
You are a pretty good inductive proof for unintelligent design yourself

The "stinky Asian catholicism" bit is from an argument against palifags in Buddhist threads, since some of them use hyperprotestant argumentation against Mahayana, complaining about its devotional and ornamental features which postdate the historical Buddha. In other words, their case against Mahayana amounts to calling it extra-scriptural and therefore false, since someone apparently made them masters of exegesis. It's worth noting as well that real Theravadins are not sola scriptura; Theravada is literally "way of the elders." So when they effectively complain that Mahayana is catholic without saying so, they are being referential to protestantized conditioning without saying so. I am not sure this really carries over to Taoism but you definitely see it in the Indian philosophy and religion threads where people assume the oldest material is the most correct even though they themselves are interpreting it just as much as anyone else has throughout history.

On this valentines day, assuming you are alone, does that make you bitter? Is bitterness a condition of loneliness?

>Beware that person on the path!
>Beware or face corona's wrath,
>Because that stupid smiling stranger
>Is a coofer, and a danger.