/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17387663]

I just finished reading The Book of Revelations and...wow.
It's really relevant to all the stuff going on in the world right now.

[Anonymous No.17387669]

>wow this vaguely written text is 100% correct

You're like horoscope readers.

[Anonymous No.17387676]

It's not. It's explicitely presuming the end times will happen within a few years. It describes the fate of the seven churches. The imminent apocalypse is a major theme in the bible.

[Anonymous No.17387679]

>>17387676
Yes, sir. Any day now...

[Anonymous No.17387698]

It still boggles my mind that revelations was declared canon.

[Anonymous No.17387747]

>>17387698
Why? A couple of books of the Old Testament follow the same apocalyptic literary tradition.

[Anonymous No.17387751]

>>17387669
>>17387676
>>17387698
They say this as if 666 isn’t everywhere and on everything. They rub it in your faces

>>17387663
It’s “Revelation”

[Anonymous No.17387765]

>>17387751
It's everywhere because it's in the bible. The only place where it popped up naturally is the thing the bible refers to: Roman currency.

[Anonymous No.17387769]

>>17387663
>and...wow.
Okay Reddit

[Anonymous No.17387771]

Give 7 examples

[Anonymous No.17387782]

>>17387765
It’s everywhere because people who are morally evil are prideful and take it as a mark of pride. There’s nothing unnatural about it.

[Anonymous No.17387793]

>>17387747
Not him, but Revelation completely rejects the possibility of a gentile ever being a Christian. It's not bizarre in that it takes part in a tradition of apocalypticism and radical Jewish supremacy, but that it was included as canon by a group of gentiles. If John of Patmos had his way, Christianity would be radically different as to be unrecognizable to us today. His vision of Christianity is far closer to Sabbatean-Frankism than it is to Aquinas, as for John of Patmos and the people with whom he associated Christianity was essentially just a form of messianic antinomianism in the face of Rabbinical and priestly collaboration with a gentile polity.

It also opens up the persistent thorn in Christianity's side and that is the constant apocalypticism and splintering into bizarre end-times cults (Q being the latest).

[Anonymous No.17387795]

>>17387663
its pills o'clock my dear schizo

[Anonymous No.17387809]

>>17387793
>Not him, but Revelation completely rejects the possibility of a gentile ever being a Christian. It's not bizarre in that it takes part in a tradition of apocalypticism and radical Jewish supremacy, but that it was included as canon by a group of gentiles. If John of Patmos had his way, Christianity would be radically different as to be unrecognizable to us today. His vision of Christianity is far closer to Sabbatean-Frankism than it is to Aquinas, as for John of Patmos and the people with whom he associated Christianity was essentially just a form of messianic antinomianism in the face of Rabbinical and priestly collaboration with a gentile polity.
You need quotes for all of these claims, especially the first one.

[Anonymous No.17387887]

>>17387663
All books of prophecy are divinely inspired, the gift of prophecy is granted to all those old and wise enough to see the repeating patterns of society and history. (Which, these days, isn’t hard to achieve.)

Even if you're not there yet, try writing the story of your life, using the vague symbolism of gods, monsters, and dragons - you'll find anyone can read their own lives into it, as if they'd lived it themselves.

Thus the youth of every generation points to these works, and thinks the world is going to end. This has been the case for every generation, since well before Constantine surrounded his city at the apocalyptic sign of Haley's Comet.

It's exactly why they say, "Never trust anyone over 30". They already know how this shit is going to go down, and that it'll do so, in similar fashion, over and over again (even if sometimes the lesson is so traumatic, everyone under 30 loses a decade, as we saw in the 60’s).

Revelations has come to pass thousands of times, both before and since it was written. It’ll pass for you too.

[Anonymous No.17387910]

Revelation was about specific 1st century events but like any visionary prophecy you can make it fit the crap the took this morning. Nostradamus

[Anonymous No.17388048]

>>17387887
>The state of affairs is quite different in cases where there is a confusion of the psychic with the spiritual. This confusion moreover appears in two contrary forms: in the first, the spiritual is brought down to the level of the psychic, and this is what happens more particularly in the kind of psychological explanations already referred to; in the second, the psychic is on the other hand mistaken for the spiritual; of this is the most popular example is spiritualism, though the other more complex forms of ‘neo-spiritualism’ all proceed from the very same error. In either case it is clearly the spiritual that is misconceived; but the first case concerns those who simply deny it, at least in practice if not always explicitly, whereas the second concerns those who are subject to the delusion of a false spirituality; and it is this second case that is now more particularly in view. The reason why so many people allow themselves to be led astray by this delusion is fundamentally quite simple: some of them seek above all for imagined ‘powers’, or broadly speaking and in one form or another, for the production of more or less extraordinary ‘phenomena’; others constrain themselves to ‘centralize’ their consciousness on inferior ‘prolongations’ of the human individuality, mistaking them for superior states simply because they are outside the limits within which the activities of the ‘average’ man are generally enclosed, the limits in question being, in the state corresponding to the profane point of view of the present period, those of what is commonly called ‘ordinary life’, into which no possibility of an extra-corporeal order can enter.

[Anonymous No.17388203]

>>17387663
Said you and everyone else that's read it in the history of its publication