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6456024 No.6456024 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most purest love in the history of literature?

>> No.6456025

Christ's love for humanity, obviously.

>> No.6456026

Jesus

>> No.6456030

>>6456025
>Father Father why have you forsaken me?
Seems pretty tsun.

>> No.6456031

>>6456025
>>6456026
This

Also Eloisa and Abelard

>> No.6456034
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6456034

Stirner's love for himself

>> No.6456039

>>6456025
*vomits*

Zarathustra's love for humanity, OP.

>> No.6456040
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6456040

>mfw christfags essentially raid threads with their faggotry and shitpost-tier responses to everything

>> No.6456046

>>6456040
it's literally the most correct possible response to the thread regardless of your religious position, though

>> No.6456059
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6456059

Cosette and Marius.

They kissed only once before marriage, and that was simply to consummate their love. They were content enough just to look at each other. Their souls merged into one almost instantly, they didn't know where the other one stopped, and their self began. They were virginal in every sense of the world. Innocent in the fact that all they knew was love for the other person. They didn't know about sex, or anything about love. They knew everything about the other person before even knowing their name.

Pretty much their entire character in the latter half of Les Miserables was for Hugo to write all these poems about love.

>> No.6456061

>>6456024
Basil's love for Dorian grey

>> No.6456074

>>6456030

He was quoting psalm 22

>> No.6456082

Oedipus and Jocasta

>> No.6456090

Master and Margarita

>> No.6456095

>>6456030
It's 'My God,' not Father.

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6456121

>>6456024

>> No.6456153

>>6456046
It's subjective as usual. We're talking about fictional characters. "The most pure love" can be applied to The dude and his rug, and be "the most correct possible response to the thread" just the same.

>> No.6456169

>>6456024
Severus Snape's love for Lily Potter

>> No.6456175

>>6456039
I don't really think Zarathustra's sacrifice was comparable to Christ's

>> No.6456183

>>6456024
My love of you OP

Will you marry me?

>> No.6456274
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>>6456183
>Will you marry me?
Yes. I'm alone as a hedgehog

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>>6456153
>We're talking about fictional characters.

>> No.6456295

>>6456274

Let's do this ...

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>>6456282
Have you ever heard of Roshomon? We have several accounts of the life of some guy that was executed for something. Your having faith that that was your god's son, and you're still monotheist, doesn't change the fact you have several accounts of some of it.

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>>6456304
Christ's historicity is a settled issue.

>> No.6456327

>>6456315
Yes, it is. No serious historian believes in a historical "Christ."

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>>6456327
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godlessindixie/2014/09/04/an-atheists-defense-of-the-historicity-of-jesus/

>> No.6456338

>>6456333
>I have atheist friends
>Le Ruse faec

Such a board.
Surely my love is purest. You think me a fiction anyway.

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>>6456338
m'lady

>> No.6456360

>>6456333
>.*/blogs/.*

>> No.6456363

>>6456024
Dante's love for Beatrice

>> No.6456364
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>>6456360
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus#Testimonium_Flavianum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ

>> No.6456385

>>6456364
>.*/wiki/.*

I've read both those sources. Josephus doesn't refer to Jesus, and Tacitus refers to a religious tradition.

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>>6456385
>Josephus doesn't refer to Jesus

>About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Christ. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Antiquities_of_the_Jews/Book_XVIII#Chapter_3

>> No.6456399

>>6456395
>citing the passage all scholars of Josephus consider an interpolation

Nice going genius.

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>>6456399

>> No.6456439

>>6456059
no, arelationship without living daily with the other one is not love at all

>> No.6456449

>>6456439

They eventually live together. Like most relationships, you don't move in with your partner day one.

>> No.6456465

>>6456395
Which is acclaimed an obvious insertion by copyists. Nice job fuckface.

>> No.6456493

Josephs love for Mary.

>> No.6456595

>>6456025
Correct.

>> No.6456607

>>6456025
Came to post this, was not disappointed by thread

>> No.6456612

>>6456024
>Not Kierkegaard and Regine

>> No.6456617

>>6456612
>not Kierkegaard and God

>> No.6456618

>>6456153
Has someone novelised The Dude?

>> No.6456619

>>6456493
Nah, he was just a proper beta.

>> No.6456621

>>6456095
Its neither
he would of said "eli eli lama sabachthani", not 17th centuary English

>> No.6456627

>>6456024
Apollo and the Cuckoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaK42SFjx_I

>> No.6456629

>>6456061
;_; I think I need to read de Profundis again today to feel okay about this

>> No.6456640

Iago > Othello

>> No.6456641

Holden and Phoebe

>> No.6456655

>>6456629
Is it any good?

>> No.6456665

>>6456304
You're well-read, you're an atheist, you like Pater, all of your posts demonstrate some degree of self-possession, and now I find out you have good taste in cinema. My God, if you weren't a lesbian I'd ask you out right here and now! Ah, what the hell... give me a chance, Butterfly! Please!

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6456666

Humbert and Lo

>> No.6456669

>>6456655
It take BTFO to a transcendental level

>> No.6458372

>>6456618
Naw. Doesn't matter really.

>>6456665
Nice post. Thank you.

>> No.6458400

>>6458372
Do you have a boyfriend? :3

>> No.6458405

Queequeg and Ishmael.

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6458441

>>6456666

Satanic quads. We clearly have an answer here

>> No.6458513

>>6456024
Twilight.

>> No.6458526

DFW and endnotes

>> No.6458598
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>>6456024
Casanova and his many lovers.

>> No.6458641

>>6456024

>not Achilles and Patroclus

>> No.6458663

>>6456121

Any other answer is pretty much shitpost.

>> No.6458669

>>6456095

the original says eloi eloi

elohim means Lord

>> No.6458680

>>6456024
>love
>pure
Oh how spooky!

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6458707

>not one mention of orpheus and eurodyce

>> No.6458738

>>6456315
god, how could anybody read that horfefhit

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>>6456612
But... the drought

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>>6456061
This.
Also Socrates and Phaedrus (foundational?)
Also Aschenbach and Tadzio.
Also William Lee and that twink fag.

>> No.6458776

>>6456025
/thread

>> No.6459020

Tatiana's love for Onegin

>> No.6459198

Sansa and Sandor.