Truth in religion/philosophy

[Anonymous No.15579514]

How do you narrow things down from perennialism?
It seems to me that quite a few religions and philosophies make points that ring true, but beyond that, to subscribe to any one of them in particular seems needlessly restrictive and assumptive.
To affirm the existence of abstract objects makes sense, but how do you go from that to suggesting something as specific as a particular cosmology (be it Christian, Buddhist, or whatever else)? It's quite the leap.

[Anonymous No.15579522]

So you wanna buy some coke

[Anonymous No.15579531]

If you happen to come to a religion, go with it. If not, do not.
That is all there is.
There is no use trying to gain faith or belief. Those are completely outside your power to attain.
If they come to you it is entirely incidental.

[Anonymous No.15579658]

>>15579514
I just went with the one that happened to match up perfectly with my entire set of values

[Anonymous No.15580073]

>>15579658
Which was?

[Anonymous No.15580121]

They are all right, also in the sense that to the others they are wrong.
The truth each hold is in the fact they hold it. Their knowledge is necessarily true.
All the people Socrates talked to didn't have false-knowledge, but had their parcel of truth. To deny that is to end into Aporia non stop.

So by studying perennialism you are really wasting your time desu.

[Anonymous No.15580127]

>>15579514
>If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.
Thomas Ligotti

[Anonymous No.15580495]

>>15580127
I'd rather be solitary anyway, win/win for me

[Anonymous No.15580567]

>>15579514
All I can tell you is of my own experience. I was a child and my teacher told me that Christ died for me, for my sin. And I cried hearing it. I accepted Christ as my savior that day, and I never looked back.

[Anonymous No.15580572]

>>15579522
I don't do drugs but I would buy some coke if I could watch her do it

[Anonymous No.15580611]

>>15580567
I never felt anything like that. I wish I could, though.

[Anonymous No.15581421]

bump

[Anonymous No.15581440]

>>15580567
You sound like a giant homo bitch

[Anonymous No.15581441]

>>15579514
have you read Guenon? he clears up a lot of the confusion about how perennialism makes sense in his works IMO

[Anonymous No.15582579]

>>15581441
I read the king of the world, didn't understand shit

[Anonymous No.15582955]

>>15579531

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Speaking from experience as well. If you are meant to be religious you will be guided and given faith. There is no other way to attain it, it's not our choice. That said, sincerity and humility don't hurt your chances!

[Anonymous No.15583629]

>>15582579
Guenon is a meme, don't bother

[Anonymous No.15585667]

>>15579514
Westerners are too wishy-washy for real religion, they've been spiritually castrated by 50 years of Frankfort Schooling...

https://thebahiyablog.blogspot.com/2014/02/children-of-mammon.html

[Anonymous No.15585720]

OP you're going to have to embrace the mystical, the miraculous, and the supernatural. You're going to have to embrace the fact that God makes Himself known in the world in ways that defy the natural order. If any religion were "purely natural" it wouldn't be worth following. What's the point in following a purely natural religion when you could just live your everyday life? The reason to follow a religion is to transcend the natural order of things. To take a step beyond the normal bounds of the Earth and commune with that which is above the world, and beyond the world.

You're going to have to embrace the fact that /x/ is more correct than you would like to admit.

[Anonymous No.15585865]

>>15579514
what exactly do you want to know, to understand?

[Anonymous No.15586737]

>>15579514
reada MahaPrajnaParamita-Sastra by Nagarjuna

[Anonymous No.15586795]

>>15579514
Unitarian Universalism just don't go their churches