how does /lit/ feel about this guy?

[Anonymous No.14440970]

[Anonymous No.14440974]

Murdered by jesuits because he read guenon

[Anonymous No.14440982]

He is a papist and I don't like him

[Anonymous No.14441704]

In the closet atheist. He probably would have left the church completely if he wasn't murdered by that fan

[Anonymous No.14441721]

I heard he was getting into Guenon at the time of his death

[Anonymous No.14441742]

>>14440970
trappistpilled, also his augobiography is wonderful

[Anonymous No.14442763]

I watched a video about a Coptic monk who said he was inspired by Merton to go into monasticism. Now he is an actual hermit in the desert, perhaps even considered a saint by some, at least he gets a lot of attention, so I think he has gone back to his solitude. In many ways he is more of a hermit than Merton himself was. So it is profound that he had such an influence on many interesting people.

[Anonymous No.14442784]

>>14440982
He disliked the pope

[Anonymous No.14442871]

The Seven Storey Mountain and The Sign of Jonas are both great. Eventually he started fucking a nurse and getting into, may Allah forgive me, "Eastern philosophy." He had to be killed.

[Anonymous No.14442885]

>>14440982
stockholmian can't be thick, it can only be more or less annoying

[Anonymous No.14442940]

Thomas Merton unironically read Guenon and Schuon and it sort of shows. He is good, but a lot of his ideas became pop-tier religion and subsequently became watered down. If you want pure Catholic doctrine and spirituality there are literally hundreds if not thousands of better authors. One always has to be careful with monks who achieve fame like Merton did.

[Anonymous No.14443059]

>>14440974

ha ha but so true

Still find some inspiration when I read him.

[Anonymous No.14443892]

>>14440970
His diaries are sublime, though I'm not sure how into the eastern philosophy he was when Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander was published.

[Anonymous No.14443905]

>>14442871
based

[Anonymous No.14443911]

>>14440970
very based and extremely redpilled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X8fp2CvQmA

[Anonymous No.14443930]

>>14442871
and incidentally

>>14443059
>>14440970
looking at these old B&W photos from half a century ago or more i wonder at how much life has changed. at the turn of the 20th century less than 3% of home had electricity. 1 out of 10 had a flushing toilet. now those things are taken for granted, and an internet encyclopedia that introduces us to ideas it took these mystics decades of prayer and study to encounter.

what the fuck is in store for us, i wonder. the Church has been completely disrupted by the free availability of knowledge, and not just the Church but also its theology is questioned and theorized by advaitaists and buddhist and guenonfags and airchair thinkers on 4chan. i really wonder what good can come of all this, and how the trajectory of philosophy and theology is affected in these decades of ours.

[Anonymous No.14444105]

>>14443930
It is a spectacle society. Few people read theology in any depth, they just interact with an easily-consumable spectacle of it that is a syncretic amalgamation of secular thought and pop philosophy. All world religions are destined to become more profane as the days pass. The doctrine will never go away, but certainly its adherants will dwindle in number.