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Why are so many young people on this board so obsessed with Buddhism/Advaita non-dualism, Hinduism, Esotericism, Gnosticism, Guenon and other idolatries?
/lit/erature on how to fight this impulse in the West and return the young people to a better state for their soul?

>For the worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil.
>For either they are mad when they are merry: or they prophesy lies, or they live unjustly, or easily forswear themselves.
>For whilst they trust in idols, which are without life, though they swear amiss, they look not to be hurt.
>But for two things they shall be justly punished, because they have thought not well of God, giving heed to idols, and have sworn unjustly, in guile despising justice.

(Wisdom 14:27-30)

>For of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste lands, and their countries.
>And they have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the works of men's hands, of wood and stone: and they broke them in pieces.
>And now, O Lord our God, save us out of his hand: and let all the kingdoms of the earth know, that thou only art the Lord.

(Isaiah 37:18-20)

>The idols of the Gentiles are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.
>They have a mouth, but they speak not: they have eyes, but they see not.
>They have ears, but they hear not: neither is there any breath in their mouths.
>Let them that make them be like to them: and every one that trusteth in them.

(Psalm 134:15-18)


>Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

(Colossians 2:18)

>Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. I speak to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say. Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.

(1 Corinthians 10:14-17)

>> No.18825307

no broo you must not listen to any other book than the magic book, the magic book says so!!!

>> No.18825472

>wants to refute non-dualism
>spams bible quotes daily that say I'll go to hell if I believe in non-dualism
what did he mean by this?

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>>18825307
>must not listen to any other book than the magic book, the magic book says so

>> No.18825978

>>18825225
Fucking hell, this guy again

>> No.18825986

No thanks.

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>>18825225
Take a chill pill. Read Campbell

>> No.18826108

>>18825989
Campbell is modern pseudo-bugman western stuff. He thinks he's the smart westerner who made sense of pereniallism when most practicioners of these religions who actually know them better than western modernmales would actually laugh at him.

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He was the most acute of philosophers. He was the most devoted of devotees. He preached the doctrine of the Self to a point he practically denied God any part in the regulation of our affairs. At the same time, he enunciated the seemingly contradictory doctrine that all our activities and its results depended on God and God alone.

His idea of renunciation was so high as to require us to throw off everything we call ours. He found nothing inconsistent in a king retaining his kingdom and attending to his duties, while being a renunciate in the heart. It is very difficult to understand, more so to appreciate, such a teacher. It was easy for him to descend to the level of others, place himself in their position and appreciate their attitude or conduct. However it is not so easy for others to rise to his level of supreme eminence. Before his breadth of vision, all things fade into insignificance.

Sri Shankaracharya as an intellectual phenomenon is as inscrutable as the Absolute, which he sought to explain to the sense-bound world in expressions of seeming limitation. As a devotee, he is equally elusive of any classification. He is a bhakta of Shiva, as much of Vishnu and in fact, of any other deity of the Hindu religion. He was a bhakta of the One who manifests in the all. His intellectual grasp was unrivalled. His emotional piety was unequalled. He was the severest of logicians. At the same time, he was the most uncompromising upholder of "authority". In short, he defies categorisation.

>> No.18826392

>>18826205
holy based (pbuh)

>> No.18826413

All religions are false and you will look upon your bickering and superstitious dogmatism with embarrassment when the veil finally lifts and the truth reveals itself to you
I refuse to elaborate and am now leaving

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>>18826205
>the most devoted of devotees
Blessed be he, help me please, O incarnation of Shiva !

>> No.18828028

>>18827376
>>18826205
Idolatry.

>> No.18828073

>>18828028
Why do you worship an individual anon then ?

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>when the bible says not to worship idols so you make an idol of the bible and pray to it to defeat the wicked youngsters
Westerners have been studying eastern philosophy for the last two hundred years. It's not going away. If you seek to fruitfully appeal to the authority of the bible in a debate you should head south for the greener pastures of Africa.

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>>18825225
>Esotericism

>10And the disciples came, and said unto him(Jesus), Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

>11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given

>13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Matthew 13:10,11,13

>33And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.
>34“But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.”
Mark 4:33, 34

>> No.18828534

>>18828144
Woah! This shows how Christ was totally a Buddha figure who preached homosexual love and dabbling in Eastern Advaitic Wisdom!

>> No.18828612

>>18828534
>Why are so many young people on this board so obsessed with Esotericism

es•o•ter•ic ĕs″ə-tĕr′ĭk►
adj. Intended for or understood by only a small group, especially one with specialized knowledge or interests: synonym: mysterious.
adj. Relating to or being a small group with specialized knowledge or interests.