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23183265 No.23183265 [Reply] [Original]

There's no way he actually believed in what's written in this, right anons?

>> No.23183270

>>23183265
I haven't read VALIS but he certainly believed some funky things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbYiXyRZjM

>> No.23183852

>>23183265
he was amphetamine addict that didnt sleep a lot. one time his radio was telling him what awful person he is and that he should kill himself.

>> No.23183857

>>23183265
Read the Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

>> No.23183869

>>23183857
entire trilogy is worth it

>> No.23183872

>>23183869
Exactly, but Transmigration resolves OP's problems. OP's problem with Timothy is for another thread.

Saul/Paul is alive btw.

>> No.23183877

>>23183869
I prefer this order:
A Scanner Darkly (hints at the water soluble vitamin overdose that triggered his de-realisation and venture into Gnosticism) , Radiofree Albemuth, the Transmigration of Timothy Archer, and then for his autofictional "confession" VALIS to end it.

>> No.23183924

>>23183877
you should put Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldrich somewhere there

>> No.23184137

>>23183265
>There's no way he actually believed in what's written in this, right anons?
Not exactly, but he did believe in most of it.

>> No.23184531

>>23183265
I've gotten into PKD recently and so far I've read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Ubik, and I'm about half way through The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I also have A Scanner Darkly which I'm planning to read after TTSOPE.

I want to read the Valis trilogy at some point, but I've heard it's better read at the end of his bibliography. Should I knock out more of his work first or do you think I'll have enough of a grasp of what he's about to go into the Valis trilogy after those four?

>> No.23184581
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23184581

>>23183270
She's not impressed

>> No.23184670

>>23183265
He said himself that he experienced a purple beam shoot into his head and filled him with a bunch of esoteric information. He says the beam told him his son was sick and he brought him to the doctor and it turned out he had an undiagnosed birth defect which could've killed him.
I for one think that most schizophrenics come into contact with something real but lose their minds because they can't handle it. People like PKD and Carl Jung, for instance, were able to maintain their sanity, or at least, exist within this realm and the "other" realm. Most schizos completely drift away into the other realm.

>> No.23185740

>>23184670
Oh thank goodness, the divine purple beam saved the offspring of the influential author. The beam however never seems to save the kids of the mother of four working two jobs when a grapefruit-sized tumor pops into their stupid little heads.
Ain't it peculiar how such intervention only serves to make the okay more okayer.

Its almost as though its narcissistic horseshit, no different from any of the one-timers set up by the lord for the already fortunate. Get raised catholic and you get used to it, and spare the "schizophrenic" nonsense. Schizophrenics are plagued, not benefited. It isn't schizophrenia when a meme like Jung or Dick "tap into le unknown," its just bait for useful retards. These assholes only published because social media had yet to be invented, otherwise Jung would be on Theories of Everything with Naseem Habujabi every week across from Christoper Langan and Bernard Kastrup.

Its no surprise this /x/ shit still has purchase in the age of people describing drug trips into a webcam while playing Rocket Knight Adventure is a popular form of entertainment. I shit on all of you.

>> No.23185771

>>23185740
All the old "Why would God exist if bad things happen to other people" argument. Not even going to waste my time with you.

>> No.23185777

>>23185771
Yep, that's all it was. Too bad, I'm sure you made a rousing intellectual challenge.

>> No.23185821

>>23185771
Why do people like you keep bringing up the problem of evil in a derogatory fashion, as if its not one of the more difficult theological issues historically? It's asinine to make fun of people who are struggling in the faith due to the existence of evil. Many, many great men have found themselves in the same spot. Get over yourself.

>> No.23185933

VALIS was pretty standard Gnosticism, actually. What other religions are obviously not to be believed, O Wise And Exalted One? Fscking troll.

>> No.23186114

>>23185740
You never hear of the times the beam does save the kids of the mother of four working two jobs. If it doesn't they're genetic garbage, little soulless drones here for yet other purposes that do not merit divine or supra-dimensional intervention.
Simple as.