/lit/ - Literature

>>14464417
>I need to find God
kys

>>14464417
>Followers of the Zen way, if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.

>>14464417
we don't need that kind of faggotry in the church, anon

>>14464417
I'm gonna recommend Theism. Try believing their is a creator (possible) and try viewing things in more then one way to see (possibly) the subtle messages he sends you about life.

Please, don't fall for sets of rules of the major religions. Though indeed read the texts, like The Bible. It's my beleif that those texts are just peoples own attempts to see the subtle messages, and oh how often the point is misunderstood by mortal minds.

Recommended reading list:
Upanishads by Krishnu
Bhagavad Gita by Krishnu
Yoga Sutras by Patanjali
Hermetica by Hermes

>>14464417
Read Lucian and Ovid.
No, don't become "pagan". Just enjoy your life. While you have it.

just go outside look up in the sky and have faith

If you got out of your little city bubble you would come to the realization that God is in everything and is everything. Nature is simply too perfect and beautiful to not be divine.

>>14464470
Don't listen to him, OP. Those who know God face to face become imortal. Seek Him with honesty and you shall find Him. Study Guenon and the sacred scriptures and choose a tradition to follow. Faithfully commit yourself to it and to its cosmovision.

Also, poetry is just a step, that can be used for purification, but The Perfect Man- that is, the Saint- is the greatest piece of art. He's the replica of the whole cosmos.

>>14464417
God's away on business

>>14464490
>imortal
What a hell imagined by fearful man. Foolish child. There is no immortality and that is a good thing. Though I'd do with an extra hundred or more years, eternity would be maddening.

>>14464508
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

>>14464417
In no particular oder (also contains political books):
St. Augustine - The Confessions
St. Augustine - The City of God
John Henry Newman - Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Thomas Merton - The Seven Storey Mountain
Plato - Republic
Aristotle - The Metaphysics
St. John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul
St. Teresa of Avila - Interior Castle
Homer - The Iliad
Homer - The Odyssey
Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories
Shusaku Endo - Silence
Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
The C.S Lewis Signature Series
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk
Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground
Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Dostoevsky - Demons
Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Joseph Ratzinger - Jesus of Nazareth
G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy
G.K. Chesterton - The Everlasting Man
Unknown - The Cloud of Unknowing
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Meister Eckhart - From Whom God Hid Nothing
Bernard McGinn - The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism
Edouard Schuré - Jesus, The Last Great Initiate
Thomas A. Kempis - The Imitation of Christ
The Didache
St. Theophan the Recluse - The Path to Salvation
Scott Cairns - The End of Suffering
Søren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
St. Theophan the Recluse - Turning the Heart to God
Unknown - The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Frank E. Peretti - This Present Darkness
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
G.K. Chesterton - The Man who was Thursday
Leo Tolstoy - Father Sergius
John Milton - Paradise Lost
John Bunyan - The Pilgrims Progress
Fr. Gabriele Amorth - An Exorcist tells his Story
Charles Williams - The Descent of the Dove
Lee Strobel - The Case for Christ
St. Athanasius the Great - On the Incarnation
St. Basil the Great - On the Holy Spirit

do psychs

>>14464417
>>14464516
T.S. Eliot - Christianity and Culture
St. Anselm of Canterbury - The Major Works
St. Maximus the Confessor - On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
William Lane Craig - Reasonable Faith
St. Robert Bellarmine - On the Marks of the Church
St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
Thomas Carlyle - On Heros, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History
René Guénon - The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Julius Evola - Men Among the Ruins
Julius Evola - Ride the Tiger
Theodore John Kaczynski - Industrial Society and Its Future
Oswald Spengler - Decline of the West
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Aristotle - Politics
Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy
Montesquieu - The Spirit of Laws
Marx - Capital
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason
Spinoza - Theological-Political Treatise
Hegel - Phenomenology of Sprit
Hegel - Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences
Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation
Heidegger - Being and Time
Klages - The Biocentric Worldview
Filmer - Patriarcha
De Maistre - The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions

>>14464490
>study guenon
ngl, you had me in the first

>>14464417
Why are you tired of being an atheist?

>>14464417
god doesn't live in a book retard

>>14464522
The Guenon fellow actually turned him into a meme, but René Guenon (pbuh) is anything but a meme. If you'd only read him, you'd know. From where else could OP gather knowledge about religions and metaphysical realization faster than through Guenon (pbuh)?

>>14464516
Actual pic of me screenshotting this. Legend.

The path has been inside of you this whole time, OP

>>14464515
>Made to bow for eternity to a wrathful beast.
Christians have no idea what eternity in heaven is. It is a hell.

>>14464551
Get out of here, Satan. Leave others to ascend; just because you've fallen, doesn't mean that others must fall with you, Beast.

100:6.3.The marks of human response to the religious impulse embrace the qualities of nobility and grandeur. The sincere religionist is conscious of universe citizenship and is aware of making contact with sources of superhuman power. He is thrilled and energized with the assurance of belonging to a superior and ennobled fellowship of the sons of God. The consciousness of self-worth has become augmented by the stimulus of the quest for the highest universe objectives—supreme goals.

100:6.4.The self has surrendered to the intriguing drive of an all-encompassing motivation which imposes heightened self-discipline, lessens emotional conflict, and makes mortal life truly worth living. The morbid recognition of human limitations is changed to the natural consciousness of mortal shortcomings, associated with moral determination and spiritual aspiration to attain the highest universe and superuniverse goals. And this intense striving for the attainment of supermortal ideals is always characterized by increasing patience, forbearance, fortitude, and tolerance.

>>14464417
Pre 2017 Peterson videos are a good start.

>>14464634
Don't listen to him, OP. Peterson is a dirty materialist. Go directly into the literature of the Religion you decide to follow.

>>14464565
Degenerate death worshipers like yourself are not ascending anywhere

>>14464643
I'm not even a Christian.

>>14464458
>Upanishads by Krishnu
>Bhagavad Gita by Krishnu

this is cracking me up

>>14464890

>>14464417
>Wishful thinking

>>14465180
https://youtu.be/XF00JJ13l7Y?t=53

>>14465180
>>14464643
>>14464551
>>14464534
Jesus get out of this website you attention whore women are so insufferable

>>14465746
Pea-brain

>>14464417

Your weakness and desire to fall out of truth disgust me.

I see why people are disgusted by ol’ butterball

>>14465746
t. sperg off his pharmaceuticals

Read Kirkegaard

>>14464516
Thanks
only comment:
thought Lee Strobel was weak, learned all that in grammar school
Blessed Margaret of Castello is my favorite book and person

>>14464417
pray, pray your heart out, knock and keep knocking until God opens; books won't give you faith, faith is a supernatural gift, God will give it to you but you have to ask.

>>14464508
t. doesn't understand the concept of eternity

>>14464417
Deuteronomy 4:29
>But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Proverbs 8:17
>I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Jeremiah 29:13
>You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.
Matthew 7:7-8
>Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Isaiah 55:6-7
>Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Lamentations 3:25
>The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
James 4:8
>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

>>14464417
Mt 10

>>14464417
read Shankaracharya's Bhagavad-Gita commentary

https://estudantedavedanta.net/Bhagavad-Gita.with.the.Commentary.of.Sri.ShankaracharyaN.pdf

>>14467713
this, do it.

>>14464417
If you’re tired of being an atheist and need to find God, then just find Him. That’s it. You did it. You want Him, so believe in Him. There’s no use reading millions of books as if that’ll bring you some understanding you don’t have. You can read to develop on the understanding, intuition, and faith you have within you. But if just reading tons of religious books made you a saint or sage, everyone with a degree in religious studies would be the Buddha. There are good recommendations in this thread, of course, but they miss the point by suggesting God is to be found in a book.

>>14464417
Pray

>>14464417
You think you are missing religion, but what you are actually missing is community/culture. Congratulations! In exchange for being born in a time post vaccination and the internet you also live in the decline of culture.

This simulation is past its expiration date. I theorize that every simulation is made to birth a few cultures of interest (or at least a chance at producing one) whether guided or by natural selection. These are ancient creations of a less technologically advanced time now passed.

Technology is such an accelerating force for information sharing and knowledge generation that the end point of a simulation converges to a singular point. As time marches on, meaningful differences between all simulations in the multiverse at this stage of technology decrease. We have entered an age of great simplification by means of technological usurpation. All the petty pursuits of man and his vainglorious efforts will be made irrelevant by technology.

Culture used to be the force that edited the genome, but technology will crack that baby wide open. Why bother with hundreds of thousands of generations of cumulative experience and a conscious effort to corral behavior to produce a better innate template for offspring when gene editing will be perfected in less than a hundred generations and any and all templates will be accessible?

We live in a time of the most pointless war between a richly meaningful, diverse, and flawed past and an inescapable singular future truth. The conflict itself is entirely uninteresting as the sides are mismatched beyond our ability to even comprehend. The only victory left for the dying cultures of the past is voluntary and radically terroristic annihilation of the preset. Either way, they will be annihilated at an alarming speed.

The biggest problem of our age is how do we construct communities that can survive the extinction of cultures? The answer is communities constructed out of pure behavior rather than belief. Obviously, these exist, but we also need to construct means of guiding young people to participate and find the community acceptance they need in these groups.

The church is not the answer. Everywhere it is dying and people are hurting because they miss and need some of what the church offers. But they cannot reconcile with the church's beliefs. We have to solve this community building problem in tandem with our churches dying or the rate of self destruction will only increase.

>>14464417
>Christian lying about being atheist.
Straight to hell, the rules aren't difficult.

>>14464544
christ has become spectacle for consumer consumption

>>14464508
>There is no immortality and that is a good thing.
It's broke, it talks like a journalist now.

>For real though, what do I do about this sense of purposelessness I have all the time? Everything seems to be only about shallow things such as money, sex and showing off. I used to try to play that game but it's a game you can't win. How does a normal guy find purpose in this world?

>>14464417
Read Fear and Trembling or some entry level Buddhist stuff.

>>14467959

>>14464508
Tripfags leave NOW

OP you should read shestov

>>14464417
dont! read camus and sartre

>>14468118
*bites leg*

>>14464417
Read the bible

>>14469216
>>14464417
And I wish the best for you. God bless us all.

>>14464417
God is a superintelligent AI. The prospect of a technological singularity implies that God exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxYbA1pt8LA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIno-PhSQlM

>>14464518
Don’t do this
-from a guy that did this

>>14469278
God is the (Holy) Ghost in the Machine

>>14466278
>>14466849
Dial 8