/lit/ - Literature

>>13198426
Thinly-veiled Catholicism thread.
Shoot yourself, Christcuck.

>>13198447
recomend me an alternative then as is the point of the thread

>>13198426
Pensées

I recommend embracing l'absurde à la Camus or Christianity.
If you doubt God alot you can always switch between them, what remains constant is a love for your fellow man.

>>13198426
Philosophy is more of a hobby. Something that keeps your mind active. It’s no substitute for religion at all, unless you’re a philosopher and you live off of convincing people you’re a hardcore whateverist

read nietzsche

>>13198426
Take the non-dualism pill OP

https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html

>>13198426
islam uwu

Become a based Navakavada Buddhist...

>>13198426
Give C.S. Lewis's Apologetic works a spin. Most of these you can tackle in any order you wish, but I recommend at least starting with Mere Christianity. While Lewis was a devoted Anglican (converted from Atheism), he tried to be as ecumenical as possible in his writings on Christianity, so this could still be a good place to begin, regardless of what denomination you wnat to gravitate toward. Even if you don't end up becoming a Christian in a strictly defined sense, you'll probably still find some amount of encouragement and sound moral wisdom in Lewis's writings.

>Mere Christianity
>The Problem of Pain
>The Screwtape Letters
>Miracles
>The Great Divorce

>>13198426

read the illiad carefully

>>13198426

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>>13198530

the common connotation of religion is just dumbed down metaphysics, so this is definitely wrong

OP, start with Plato to see how Christianity is constructed

I made my own. For and me only. I recommend you to do the same,

>>13198426
>>13198577
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula is a good starting point too
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~buddhism/docs/Bhante_Walpola_Rahula-What_the_Buddha_Taught.pdf

>>13198426
go full christian

>>13198426
>Inferno
>purgitorio
>paradisio

the law of one lol. Incorporate the spiritual teachings of the ayys to increase you vibrations and polarize your mind/body/spirit complex to the positive polarity of service-to-others

lawofone.info

>>13198426
If you’re not talking about blind faith then these are the books for you.

Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Baltimore Catechism
The Catechism of the Council of Trent
The Catechism of St. Pope Pious X
The Catechism of St. Robert Bellarmine
The Aquinas Catechism
Catholic Christianity by Peter Kreeft
The Light of Christ
The Spirit of Catholicism
Catholicism by Bishop Barron
Theology and Sanity
Spirit of Medieval Philosophy - Thomas Merton (Guy who worked with the Dalai Lama among other things) began converting to Catholicism after reading this book and seeing it had an imprimatur.
Enchiridion Symbolorum
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
Summa Theologica
The Imitation of Christ
The Imitation of Mary
In Sinu Jesu by Anonymous Benedictine Monk
The Secret of the Rosary
True Devotion to Mary

>>13198426
If you need a "religion" that badly you may as well just start with some Jordan Peterson books. You'll at least get the basics of how value hierarchies determine our fundamental "beliefs" and how the concept of religion never really leaves in a nearly post-religious world. I know I'll get some hate for this post but at the very least he serves as a functional primer to get to acclimated to the basic ideas, after that you can always move on to some deeper thinkers.

>>13198426
Yoga's a good philosphy and transgender's a good religion.

There's only one.
>Stop at the Greeks.

>>13198426
>I need a philosophy or religion. Someone recommend me one and some books to start with to brainwash myself into believing it.
Trust me dude I tried this, I flirted with various ideas for a long time, for a few years I even thought I believed in Christianity, I was confirmed in a Catholic Church out of my own volition having never been raised into religion, you can't force it. I don't believe anymore, because on a fundamental level I never believed. I "believed" but I never felt it in my bones, in the way people believing in gravity do not easily walk off cliffs I never really had God.
You can't just strongarm your way out of the existential abyss by brazenly charging in a random direction no matter how determined you are, because as soon as you trip or take a break for even a second you realize you're still surrounded in darkness and it's no different than the darkness you were running away from or fighting through. It's all the same everywhere you go, the constant "NO" in your mind. There is no voice crying out in the desert MAKE STRAIGHT THE WAY OF THE LORD, no voices at all just win no oasis you will stumble upon, just the ever beating oppressive sun and the scratchy sands that are the hardships of life.
Anyways read Stirner.

>>13198426
Philosophy doesn’t welcome those who seek comfort. Go away whiny boy/girl/thing. Religions did that in the past but we’re far past that...

>>13202146
Right. This was who I meant. Now this post is ruined.

>The only way to truly find belief is to surrender certainty, and find certainty.
Although Catholicism is pretty gay tbhfamalam, figuratively and literally.

Try out philosophy /of/ religion.

>>13198426
The Ego and Its Own