/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16338588]

>Roger Scruton remained a Christian all of his life and often read to his family from the Bible. One story about his religion during his stay in Coventry involved the atheistic philosopher Nick Land. Land had been invited to the University of Warwick by Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, but then annoyed her by trying to convert everyone to atheism. The Baroness asked Scruton for help, and he informed Land, who was ignorant of mathematics, that he would present in the auditorium an algebraic proof of the existence of God, if Land wanted to hear it. Land was interested, and, according to Sadie Plant, Scruton advanced toward Land, and said gravely, and in a tone of perfect conviction: “Sir, (a + bn) / n = x , hence God exists; reply! ” Land had no reply, and the students and faculty broke into laughter. Land immediately retired to Hong Kong after a final amphetamine binge and nonsensical 400 paragraph blogpost.

[Anonymous No.16338607]

Accelerationists btfo

[Anonymous No.16338695]

>>16338588
>Nick Land
Into the garbage it goes

[Anonymous No.16338702]

e^(i*π)=-1

[Anonymous No.16338783]

i see what you did there OP

[Anonymous No.16339237]

>>16338588
dark enlightenment to schizofroid libertarian boomer pipeline

[Anonymous No.16339242]

>>16338588
why does nick land look like ted bundy. he... scares me

[Anonymous No.16339315]

>>16338588
Well, the only way for Scruton to maintain that mathematics leads to the existence of God is if he held to some sort of a theistic emanationism about abstracta like Leibniz. Easy, Land should have pointed out that this sort of theistic emanationism leads to the bootstrapping problem where God has to also cause his own haecceity.

[Anonymous No.16339352]

>>16338588
That wouldn't intimidate Land, he's solved all the millenial problems but is afraid of revealing his power level because he doesn't want things to accelerate too quickly

[Anonymous No.16339371]

>>16339242
He looks like the actor who played Lee Harvey Oswald in 11.22.63.

[Anonymous No.16339421]

Bullshit. Thirst for Annihilation is full of mathematics.

[Anonymous No.16339448]

>>16339421
Lmao.

[Anonymous No.16339483]

>>16338588
Holy based traditionalist Scruton btfo'd accelerationism retardation.

>And the music of redemption and forgivenss, "Parsifal", was played once again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COxXBN09IBE to signal the conservation of traditional Christian values

[Anonymous No.16339564]

>>16339315
Ahh, but you see, life is not but a dream, no visage is it! But real solid being.

[Anonymous No.16339582]

accelerationism sounds like a cope for engaging in all the benefits of capitalism while being philosophically against it

[Anonymous No.16339758]

>>16338588
>all the pseuds ITT who don’t recognise the story
It should be obvious by the opening sentence given that Scruton’s relationship with Christianity was one of growth from cultural appreciation rather than true continuous faith.

[Anonymous No.16339844]

>>16339483
I was trying to remember what this song was called the other day but forgot. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.16339990]

>>16339237
>scruton
>libertarian
he was a high tory

[Anonymous No.16340200]

>>Roger Scruton remained

Never even heard he was dead until right now

[Anonymous No.16340228]

>>16340200
he's really that unimportant

[Anonymous No.16340521]

>>16339371
He looks like Winters from Band of Brothers

[Anonymous No.16340603]

>i'm a right winger mommy
>it's based!

[Anonymous No.16340640]

>>16340521
I feel like he's just trying to look edgy and cool

[Anonymous No.16341294]

>>16340200
Are you new or just don't browse /lit/ all that often?

[Anonymous No.16341907]

>>16339844
Did you happen to see it in the Wagner movie video with prince Ludwig?

[Anonymous No.16343389]

>>16341294
the latter