/lit/ - Literature

>>15104095
Prometheus Rising ironically enough

>>15104095
archetypes of the collective unconscious

>>15104095

The Bible

Catcher in the Rye

>>15104095
Atheism

>>15104095
Atheists. The idea of atheists burning in Hell for eternity makes you want to believe

Mostly how cringey fedora tips are. Id rather be part of a rich cultural tradition.

>>15104095

>>15104095
Oof.
these threads didn't age well.

>>15104095
if a book did it, you have not embraced God, you are merely a fly by night idolater

>>15104095
Tao Te Ching

>>15104095
both atheism and theism are for the minds of children, nihilism is the way

>>15104095
Phaedo (and other dialogues)
The Ethics
Those led me to embrace the God that is the truth of reality

>>15104095
No book did. It was my personal life experiences.

Holy Quran

>>15104095
a femenist book about masturbation being healthy,it made me cringe and i started praying more since then

>>15106625
yikes

Crime and Punishment affirmed my belief about conscience and good will

>>15104095
The fucking disingenuous larping faggots on this sub are genuinely making me more hostile to Christianity than I ever was before

>>15104095
Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

I was always agnostic but Jung’s Biography did it for me. He admits it’s a faith based argument and there’s no way to know for sure but if you look inside you can feel that your more one way than the other.

>>15104095
I came to the realization myself. Just need to read the Bible now to bring me closer to God.

>>15104095
It was over a year more or less, but it started with aristotle, then i read tolkien, then aristotle again (first politics, then ethics and metaphysics) then plato's republic, the ramayana. Then, a breakthrough on acid. After that i read aurelius' meditations, a book on astrology, and the bhagavad gita. And when reading the gita i had some serious flashbacks and ended up believing everything wholeheartedly. (After i quit doing acid i started having all these dreams with the devas) Shiva is particularly kind to me. But of Krsna i only dreamt once. Which was the day i first read the gita.
So...
I can even enjoy the bible again. Christ definitely went to india and thaught yoga to his apostles. (Walking on water, johns revelation)
Christ was a really cool dude. He probably knew a bunch of other secret magic stuff. The pharisees hated him because christ dared study their doctrine and share it with the unwashed masses
I really need to stop smoking weed. Anyway thanks for reading my blog

>>15104095
Whos this artist?

>>15104095
Law school textbooks and moving within politically active liberal circles.

>>15106660

>>15108424
this

Capitalism and schizophrenia, also DMT The spirit molecule

I became Catholic just by comparing the artistic output to other ideologies.

>>15104095
>What book made
>you
>your
>embrace
You don't get to embrace God, God embraces you

>>15104095
Learning about Orthodox Christianity
>>15106697
>*Tips fedora*

>>15104095
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant when I was 16 or 17 started me down the path.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>>15104095
What if I bring my cross through the other door and just throw it at that lizard beast

>worshipping a jew instead of the god of my ancestors

>>15108424
What about those of us who aren't larpers?

>>15111136
I look at it this way: God's gift is always available to us, but not everyone is willing to accept the gift. I think calling the acceptance of the grace that was always there "embracing God" makes sense. Again, that's just my opinion though.

actually it was psilocybic mushrooms

My gf left me because I had no job so I became angry and decided to visit Catholic Church like anons told me now I'm fighting for new traditionalist revolution.

>>15104095
I watched a McKenna interview and came to the conclusion that the world cannot be as simple as I thought of it, even the complete projection of our own minds would only make it a mind. Can't really think of it as anything else, especially lesser anymore.

Whats the point for God to create us?

>>15113038
Same reason humans create children and art.
To share the Love in the Holy Trinity to us.

>>15107018
>>15106642
I'd say experience led me to books that helped me interpret my experience of God.

I had a near death experience and from there turned to the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads, the Sutras, Saint Augustine, Aquinas, a summer at a monastery, and eventually the Bible and prayer and the esoteric and mystical writings of the Orthodox ascetics and hesychasts.

>>15112908
do mushrooms

>>15107076
based.

>>15111114
chad.

>>15106625
Can you actually follow this are you just impressed by words like "fundamental theory of physics." I for one can't derive much meaning from this low poly graph, but if I was an eternal being, I'd be more than willing to bet this model is not at all accurate when/if we do find a "fundamental theory of physics."

>>15108424
>sub
What is that?

>>15111114
Based as fuck

>>15108482
Fantastic book. Nasr needs more discussion here

>>15104095
>JBP got demolished by a homeless Russian and turned himself retarded, forever blowing the BTFO the fuck out of himself
>now christposting is back in style with LARPing anons genuinely or ironically wishing for a spiritual surrogate daddy
I almost want JBP back. At least he was easy to dismiss outright.

>>15114058
>LARPing anons
I went to church today and prayed to the One True God. How does that make you feel?

>>15114091
Churches are all closed down you LARP

>>15114091
completely indifferent bordering on just fine assuming it kept you from shitposting for the duration unless you phoneposted in the pews, in fact you were truly doing God's work for just a moment, but see >>15114107

>>15114016
Its probably bullshit. Quantum physics are not finished

>>15112748
but gods of your ancestors isnt your god.

>>15106625
This guy doesn’t understand this stupid hypothesis probably

>>15113847
But God knows all the outcome unlike humans

Plato's Parmenides

Science just proved we all live in a simulation. Your move christcucks

>>15104095
Bhagavad-Gita and the Upanishads

>>15113038
The regular cycles of the creation and dissolution of the universes are roughly equivalent to God's breathing in and out, it just follows naturally from Him being there

This site
https://www.bible.ca/

>>15114107
No.

>>15113038
Literally the first page of the Bible. "He saw that it was good"

>>15104095
I don't claim my journey has come to any point of stability, like it were that easy, but William James, specifically Varieties of Religious Experience and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature were big helps in ditching immovable atheistic assertions. Humbled me greatly.
Other mentions would be some excepts of Kierkegaard and the Buddha. Oh, and Jesus, duh.

>>15114714
>Buddha
He was a cringe idol worshipper.

>>15108424
YES BROTHER, LET US CAST OUT THESE WORLD-EATERS

>>15108424
>sub
Nice, I wish you succesful fishing.

>>15112748
But I worship God of my ancestors.

>>15108424
>sub
You revealed yourself

>>15104095
Bhagavad Gita.

>>15104095
that man aint getting that cross through the door in without dragging it on the ground first

>>15113038
He's the Creator and desired to create us in His image to reflect His glory throughout Creation.

>fuck christcucks, i worship the gods of my ancestors!!!
>religion was crushed and crusaded out of existence hundreds of years ago
lel, larpers deserve the rope

>>15106625
>space big and nifty shapes dude science
trash

>>15114476
This literally looks like complete nonsense.

>>15108424
>sub
roflcopter

>>15117212
So might makes right? Hope that means you worship the Free Hand of the Market like as a proper enlightened neoliberal

>>15106625
Has anything since happened? I have a friend who is a physics Phd student who says this guy is a larp.

>>15108424
>sub
you all got baited

>>15104095
Master and Margerita is pretty good desu.

>>15104095

>>15106625
I read his blog post and followed most of it. Ironically, I just finished Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine, a lot of which was difficult gibberish. But then I got to wondering, isn't Wolfram, in a very bizarre way, saying the same thing as some of the ancient occultists? After all, esoteric teachings, especially Kabbalah, hold that above all is the Law. So maybe the ancients had it right, but just didn't know how to say it using math. I'm genuinely intrigued by this idea.

>>15117385
>roflcopter
kekerino...

>>15104095
I am Zarathustra the Godless!

>>15114476
that's a good thing right?

>>15106625
His blog post puts things in semi-laymans terms for those interested

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

>>15104095
you were never an atheist if you were able to go back. you were just an edgy christcuck rebelling against daddy.

>>15119565
What if both my parents are atheists.

>>15119470
obviously. just gotta figure out how to hack the matrix

>>15104095
The Upanishads

Fuck Yhvh tho, he's not God. Semitic desert demon at best

>>15119872
>he's not God
What makes you say that?

>>15111114
Based aesthetician.

>>15119872
based gnostic chad

>>15104095
The end of the affair and the screwtape letters tbqh

>>15104095
>get to have a rave with a giant dragon with all your buddies
>all the autistic hermit weebo types desperately try to fit their big dumb piece of wood through a small door only to get a fucking wreath as a gift
Thanks, Jesus, I mean I could have bought this at Walmart but its fine for all the hard work.

>>15104095
>the fat fuck to the right would not have fit through god's door anyway
Based

>>15111114
Dumbass

>>15107054
Based

The Silmarillion
>tfw you accidentally make a superior version of your own belief system

>>15120123
Is it based? Should I read it?

>>15120864
reads like the bible took acid, yes it is based.

>>15115478
>good
>light skin
>bad
>dark skin

>>15121209
Does it have a based theology behind it? Like sodomy is punishable by death, etc

>>15117963
Wolfram is looking for the Logos, or the foundational rule from which all things emerge

>>15108424
>on this sub
ok redditor

>>15104095
i have always been an atheist, but i had a "religious" period due to spengler, junger, and such garbage.

>>15108424
>sub
lol cringe Reddit atheist kys

>>15114476
This sounds like gnosticism with extra steps.

Me walking down the stairs and suddenly coming to the realisation of The One True God.

>>15108512
The best way to bring yourself closer to Him is through life experiences, your attempt at being pious, and reading what saints and what church fathers have to say about things. There are plenty of Christians who couldn't even read but are much closer to Him than any person in this world could ever hope to be. That's not to say to never read the Bible, but it's important to know the traditio of the Church. That includes the philosophy, customs, sacraments, and others which can enrich your reading of the Bible.

>>15114476
>second box near the top middle is a penis
Lmao

>>15106625
>I fucking love science!!!

>>15121718
That's not what theology means. It's the why on "sodomy is punishable by desth" kind of things.

Book of New Sun, Long Sun and Short Sun by Gene Wolfe. Didnt really make me embrace it straight away but rather showed me the path.

>>15121239
>not realizing Melkor is both brightest and darkest of the Ainur

>>15121718
Eru the creator would rather we be free, whereas Melkor desires endless control over thought and the Hroa (soul) of life. The laws of Eru are simply; be chill, acknowledge Him as the source of all, and don't be a dick like Melkor, who is the ultimate dick for purposefully doing everything wrong to spite Eru. Think of Eru as Moot and Melkor as the ultimate Jannie. He does it for free, and he does it wrong simply out of a twisted desire to control people and life.