/lit/ - Literature

put a shirt on

Parmenides just flew over my house

What are some books that will help me have faith and return to God? Please don’t say the Bible, I already know that one.

I think it does, I mean before I started seriously reading, I could barely put together a coherent sentence. I like to think I've gotten better.

>>22925793
>As a DFW scholar

No.

Is it just me or does the Gospel of John have a certain darkness to it that is missing in the other gospels?

>>22697626
You should realize that Catholicism is a scam, bro. Many young men today are being swindled by the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church, but the fact of the matter is that anyone who seriously researches these sects will see that they are ahistorical and any claims to representing the ancient church or the church of the apostles are just absolute bunk. If you think Vatican II is bad, you should look at Nicaea II.

The ancient church didn’t venerate images, didn’t bind people to dogmas about Mary’s alleged immaculate nature or assumption, didn’t hold to papal infallibility, didn’t pray to saints, and didn’t believe in the whole purgatory / indulgence / treasury of merit matrix. Even the monarchical episcopate is a meme that isn’t found in the earliest days of the church, and thus does not exist jure divino. Catholicism is Hinduism basically, it’s centered around the worship of bread, a panoply of patron saints, pseudo-relics, works righteousness, etc.


The end-result of the Roman system is scrupulousity, neuroticism and despair.

>>22688791
>>22688731
>spanish being funny
You first need wits to be witty

>>22678068
Cervantes
Borges
Calvino
Kafka

What can I say? I know what I like.

>>22678254
I raise you basic freedom of speech

>>22674702
Conspiracy Against the Human Race

>>22659369
shut the fuck up

>>22442395
Change is illusory. Learn quantum field theory and group theory. We build the action in QFT negatively via group representations (which we call 'particles' or 'quantum fields'). What I mean is that we state the redundancies (symmetries) first and build everything from there. For instance, one can choose any reference frame (coordinate system) in physics. This defines the Poincare group, fundamental representations of which constitute what we observe as matter. But the Poincare symmetry is ultimately a redundancy of our own description. Part of this redundancy are time translations, which we commonly associate with change. Cayley's theorem in group theory tells us that such changes are permutations of group elements that are ultimately reversible (bijective) and thus not really meaningful.