/lit/ - Literature

>>21342117
I really enjoyed this one. I may be misinterpreting it, and pardon me for that, but it comes across as a view of Christians. I'm not sure if that's why you mentioned the shepherd was female - to do away with that notion (or perhaps that we may see Mary, the mother of Christ, as the shepherd - the face which leads the "sheep" to their slaughter), but even the line, "The Sun [read: Son] is shining upon the slope...Coming back," seems to point to the sheep [read: Church] waiting for the return of Christ even as they are slaughtered. I am Christian, and am therefore inclined, always, to orient things towards an interpretation in that regard, so if it is inaccurate that is my misunderstanding. If, contrariwise, it is so, then I find this a marvel of a poem. From a Christian-haters view, this would be a scathing rebuke against the Church - a downright mockery, and from a Christian's view, this is our grateful and holy allotment on this Earth. To be led, "harmlessly, in a line," sometimes to a life of comfort on the grass - shorn for wool only, sometimes to the slaughter, and all for the glory of the Lord. Praise to His name!

I think you've rendered a beautiful translation. I've never been exposed to anything Croatian in my life, as I can recall. I am happy to have been today, and that it was this poem. I hope you carry it with you in the love of the Lord, but even if you do not, I will bless you all the same, and I'll pray that one day soon you shall.

>>11106447
Wow yes, very YA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsGXWTJ-r_c

That spring I set sail
As the crowd waved from shore
And on board the crew waved their hats
But I never had family, just the Annabelle Lee
So, I'd never had cause to look back
I just set the course north and I studied the charts
And towards dark, I drifted toward sleep
And I dreamed of the fine, deep harbor I'd find
Past the ice for my Annabelle Lee

After that it got colder
And the world got quiet
It was never quite day or quite night
And the sea turned the color of sky
Turned the color of sea
Turned the color of ice
'Til at last all around us was vastness
One vast, glassy desert of arsenic white
And the waves that once lifted us
Sifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides

And the crew gathered closer
At first for the comfort
But each morning would bring a new set
Of the tracks in the snow leading over the edge
Of the world 'til I was the only one left
And after that it gets cloudy
But it feels like I laid there
For days and maybe for months
But Annabelle held me, the two of us happy
Just to think back on all we had done

We talked of the other worlds we'd discover
As she gave up her body to me
And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber
I told her of all that we still had to see
And as the frost turned her moorings to ninetail
And the wind lashed her sides in the cold
I burned her to keep me alive every night
In the lover's embrace of her hold

>>7806958
>Why does He put so much importance on faith?

another explanation is because it might be a too rational choice if it wasnt done on faith but by some sort of sacrament. by faith you really have to commit to God. This is the best I can explain, but the fact is that God require faith.

>>7806982
>A high school level understanding of science, and the ability to stick your fingers in your ears and shout "LIBERAL PROPOGANDA" at any actual science that contradicts you.

what rubbish. having even the most pragmatic standards easily leads to Crhistianity as a superior system compared to Postmodernism.

>>7806998
>help me with them programs is entirely consistent with nihilism. there's no nihilist honour code that prevents them from accepting handouts or something.

indeed, that is why so many passionate SJWs are so cinical and cold people that preach nihilism and follow post-Christianit... and dont have any questions about it, pretty worthless people desu

>>7807004
>How does that make any sense whatsoever? I guess my next question has to do with what exactly works and how does it work. Nevertheless, I feel like we are already knees deep in the realm of the supernatural. No, ``supernatural'' is not the right word, ``absurd'' is.

do you have a better explanation how you recive or reject the things God dod for you? not as you personal view but as a thological explanation of requirement of faith?

Commentarii de Bello Gallico.

>tfw find it hard to connect with visual art

Maybe it's because there's little imagination involved?

I can be awed by art and find it amazing, but it doesn't really make me feel too much like music and literature does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT36w50wr10

Which philosophers have the worst prose?
My vote goes for Aristotle and Plato

the Bible

>>5260924
>babby's first seascape