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>"I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw."
What did he mean by this?

>> No.11659025

He just foresaw 4chan

>> No.11659041

Some cheeky cunt told him what circular reasoning was.

>> No.11659050

he smonked acid and saw what God is really all about

>> No.11659064

He finally realised you can't define God in the words of man.

>> No.11659073

>>11659020
He saw the Beatific Vision and realized just how inadequate human expression is in relation to it.

>> No.11659080

>>11659073
Why do you have to reply to OP if everyone before you just posted an aesthetic blu rectangle? I hate people who do this.

>> No.11659089

>>11659080
Cringe and autism

>> No.11659092

>>11659089
I'm right tho

>> No.11659178

when will we finally smash the aristotelian/thomist axis?

>> No.11659204

>>11659020
he saw attack ships on fire off the shoulders of orion. c-beams glistening at the tannhauser gate. etc etc
or maybe he realised he'd wasted his whole fucking life believing a lie when he could have been out drinking and getting laid

>> No.11659207

>>11659020
See this thread:
>>11654617

>> No.11659731

>>11659204
>drinking and getting laid
oh come on, he's not some bloodless protestant

>> No.11659755

>>11659731
no you're right he was a catholic
he was probably fondling choirboys all the time

>> No.11659758

>>11659755
>he was probably fondling choirboys all the time
kekaroo

>> No.11660000

I have read theories that suggest Aquinas secretly became an atheist in the end.

>> No.11660006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mT2dle43GM

>> No.11660063

>>11660006
God, I love Alex Jones.

>> No.11660070

>>11660000
He wrote proofs of God so convincing that many atheists can't dispute them. If he became an atheist at the end, wouldn't that just prove that atheism is a belief no different than theism, and that logic and reason have nothing to do with it? If he became an atheist because he "felt" that God wasn't real?

>> No.11660152

>>11660000
Can you send some sources? I'm interested

>> No.11660187

Sophia told him Valentinus was right.

>> No.11660202

>>11660070
Yeah, the few who can refute his arguments are some new breed of man

>> No.11660206

>>11660070
His 'proofs' are extremely weak though. As all logic and reason of his ilk is. To be honest, they cheapened and perhaps even destroyed mainstream Christian faith. It certainly lead to secularisation, which is just a later form of a path that Christianity was long on. It's been atheistic for a long time.

>> No.11660233

>>11660206
>It's been atheistic for a long time.

Agnostic, you mean.

>> No.11660237

>>11660000
Nah.
(1) he was giving a commentary on the song of songs on his deathbed,
(2) arguing that Aquinas became a secret atheist would require a lot of proof to be plausible, seeing as it completely goes against his whole life's work.
(3) the "Aquinas became an Atheist!!!" interpretation is something which conveniently only arose in modern times, and it seems tailor made to suit the prevailing ideology that "atheism=most rational!!!" so I am inclined to heavily doubt that interpretation.

>> No.11660242

>>11660206
Nah. Ed Feser gives a good account of the proofs, and why most criticism of them is wrongheaded. They might be wrong, but they are certainly not "extremely weak"

>> No.11660574

>>11660206
Nobody denies the logic of his proofs, just the assumptions implicit in them. At least, nobody who's serious disputes that they are in fact logical arguments.

>> No.11660617

>>11660574
>nobody who's serious
I agree, but you're on /lit/, what do you expect?

>> No.11660689

>>11659020
He had a profound ecstatic experience which he realised couldn't be communicated by his theological works.

>> No.11660823

>>11660206
I can tell that you're lost and likely depressed by the absurdity of your bullshitting.
Actually read.

>> No.11660850

>>11659020
Did he really destroy Magnus' android? Can someone redpill me on what the fuck that was all about?

>> No.11660871

>>11660850
it spooked him so he broke it

>> No.11660936

>>11660070
>wouldn't that just prove that atheism is a belief no different than theism, and that logic and reason have nothing to do with it?

This is 100% true regardless of whether Aquinas became an atheist or not. Atheism is every bit as much about "muh feels" as theism. Christopher Hitchens is a perfect example of this.

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>> No.11661093

>>11660070
>He wrote proofs of God so convincing that many atheists can't dispute them
he really didn't though

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>>11659020
He saw >pic related's writings.

>> No.11661206

>>11660850
He was redpilled on the robotic menace in the 13th century. Who can even compete?

>> No.11661347

>>11661184
subtle outfit there, greg

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>>11660850

>> No.11661418

>>11660983
Jesus dick this must have been hard to make.

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>>11661347
Chasubles covered in crosses are fucking great.