/lit/ - Literature

>>13670112
pascal's wager presupposes that god would punish you for nonbelief.

But personally I believe god spares nonbelievers and punishes the weasels who only believe because of things like pascal's wager and a cowardly fear of hell.

enjoy dwelling in the asthenosphere, punk

>>13624713
Early Christianity had a lot of oral traditions because it was a diasporic culture occupied by an empire, not because they didn't have a written tradition in the first place. The Pentateuch had existed for centuries by that point and I believe there is even a canonical instance of Jesus reading from it in the Bible.

>>13459650
http COLON SLASH SLASH DUBYA DUBYA DUBYA DOT g4er DOT tk SLASH booksSLASH sayings-of-the-desert-fathers DOT pdf

>>10989677
I bet you imagine that this word salad you've sputtered is some kinda "gotcha" that refutes my initial point.

It isn't.

>>10988010
>jews are bad for being merchants and moneylenders but merchants and moneylenders are ok if they're not jewish

antisemitism is a political charade
attack the root of evil: exploitation and power asymmetry, you fucking coward

>>10895385
You merge in heaven.

You don't get to keep your arbitrary personality. You don't get to put your jean shorts on and go on a stroll with the patriarchs.

You will be marked by God, and will worship him forever. There will be no tears.

When a retarded man dies and goes to heaven he does not walk around as a retarded man among clouds and columns. When a baptized babe dies and goes to heaven it does not crawl around going "goo-goo, ga-ga." Likewise when you die you will not keep your arbitrary material form.

This Dane Cook understanding of heaven as everyone getting a halo and reuniting with their bros and getting to do what they want forever has got to go

>>10818128
IF YOU TAKE AWAY ONE THING FROM PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT, LET IT BE THIS:

The very attempt to determine the relationship of a philosophical work to other efforts concerning the same subject, introduces an alien and irrelevant interest which obscures precisely that which matters for the recognition of the truth. Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other. It does not comprehend the difference of the philosophical systems in terms of the progressive development of the truth, but sees only the contradiction in this difference. The bud disappears as the blossom bursts forth, and one could say that the former is refuted by the latter. In the same way, the fruit declares the blossom to be a false existence of the plant. These forms do not only differ, they also displace each other because they are incompatible. Their fluid nature, however, makes them, at the same time, elements of an organic unity in which they not only do not conflict, but in which one is as necessary as the other; and it is only this equal necessity that constitutes the life of the whole.

>>10760246
legalists are dumb cunts
>the legal is the good
go suck satan's cock some more

pic related, it's legal

>>10678698
Start a commune. Make up your own language. Create a series of rituals so weird and so esoteric government organizations spying on you will be unable to penetrate them. Accumulate weapons and cash. Rob banks. Start your own proto-nation. Make many babies with many women. Teach your children only your language you created.

This is how we will save the world from balkanization! WARLORDS HOOOOOOOO

>>10537517
He held it down. Did not shake under pressure. Good for him. Here they are trying to destroy the first amendment, even then.

If Tupac telling you a story in iambic pentameter about poverty and crime inspires you to commit crimes, then you do not know the definition of a cautionary tale. It is that simple.

I've a feeling it was an alphabet soup agency that might've taken him out, even if it was through paying off black gangsters.

>>10477642
47:00
so much salt

>>10345027
Maybe it's meant to be St. Simon. cba to crop and reverse search.