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I'm Orthodox, and I'm baffled.
>"All-male images of God are hierarchical images rooted in the unequal relation between women and men," she writes. "Once women no longer relate to men as patriarchal fathers, lords, and kings in society, these images become religiously inadequate. Instead of evoking the reality of God, they block it."[8]
>She is a Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, a Jesuit institution in New York City. She is a member of the Sisters of St....
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Yeah, she holds no sway over the Vatican. Don't worry.
>I'm Orthodox
Are you a convert from Protestantism who couldn't get over your anti-Catholic bias, or are you the real deal?
>>7794275
I'm a convert from Catholicism.
Pretty soon /r9k/ will be the Catholic board.
post god-tier books to help sharpen your skills
posting more
>>7794199
kek
why would you study unarmed tactics? just carry a gun.
or are you some kind of canadian or something?
Who /Magicians/ here?
you clicked the board one too far to the right senpai
get outta here
>>7793976
>>7793967
>blonde
>with glasses
hhhhhnnnnngggggggg, insta-waifu'd.
What was in room 101 for Julia?
>>7793935
reddit general?
>>7793935
A glass of milk and some warm chocolate chip cookies. Room 101 was only bad for Winston.
>>7793935
benis in bajina
>Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank, the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew, and her thirst sent her crawling to the stream to suck up more water.
Pynchon gets dark, doesn't he?
start with the greeks
Is the series worthit, ignoring this quote? Watching the series rn and Im enjoying it.
What are some of the best short stories out there?
>>7793753
they're short
borges & joyce are the best
cosmicomics
Meme aside, should one really start with the greeks?
>>7793594
You have a finite time on this Earth. I only intend to read the mythology and not touch the rest.
Read what you find interesting.
>>7793603
That's because you're stupid. It amazes me that people like you cannot find, at the very least, some strong entertainment value in many works of Plato.
there's usually a thread for questions that don't deserve their own thread but I don't see any in the catalog so I guess this is it
i'm asking for help understanding one of Francis Bacon's aphorisms. I'm doing a commentary on a selection of them for a final paper and I just can't decifer this one at all, hopefully someone more literate than me can tell me what the big idea is so I can break it down
it's number 47 in Book 1, and it goes a little something like this
"The human understanding is most affected by things...
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Are there any philosophical works on consciousness after death, preferably ones that do not delve into metaphysics.
As in I can not imagine what it's like not to exist, think nothing at all and I'm interested if there any attempts to bring light onto the after"life"
>>7793525
there's Descartes' theory of Dualism, which he goes over in Meditations on First Philosophy. most of his rationalist stuff has been fairly btfo by critical philosophy but it's obviously an essential text in understanding the development of modern philosophy
I reading Ulysses and I'm enjoying the beautiful imagery/prose and the dialog, especially all the jokes between characters.
I'm like 150 pages in and I'm not catching any references. If I stretch my imagination I can make some parallels to other stories, but I feel like someone seeing faces in fallen leaves.
Am I a super pleb? Should I just keep going even if I'm not "getting" it?
Have you ever read a book just so you can have an opinion on it?
>>7793243
Wow, that's the book that redpilled me to the truth when I was 16.
Thanks for posting this on /lit/. More people need to know
I've wanted to read this for a laugh, but I'm not even kidding, I really am paranoid of buying a copy. I've no doubt buying one online would place me immediately on some kind of racist watch list.
>>7793264
More likely, you didn't buy it because you are afraid to face the truth within it.
You subconsciously know that reading it will bring you to the the true racial understanding of history and society and impel you to political action.
So you made up this pitiful excuse so that you may continue your meaningless naïve existence undisturbed.
Quick question, is this a /lit/ approved e-reader? Kindle 4th gen
Also general e-reader thread i guess
>>7792918
>e-readers
/lit/ doesn't have a preferred e-reader, so long as it has light.
I personally recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. I have the previous gen one and it has paid itself and more.
>>7792953
seconding the PW
still using the PW 1. shame about the buggy software though
Does this make any sense at all or am I too dumb to read The Myth of Sisyphus?
yes
yes
>>7792821
It does make sense. It's quite simple, actually
Back to /r9k/. I think anime and 'vidya' is more your speed, la.
>>7792821
Isn't it just saying how humans need to relate things to thought (therefore put things on a human level) to understand them? Also that humans crave the absolute but it isn't always achievable.
I haven't read The Myth of Sisyphus nor am I well versed in Existentialism so correct me if Im wrong (I probably am)
>Today there are two sins, pedophilia and smoking, and I don't smoke.
What did he mean by this?
Feeling guilty for what you haven't done and having an abiding sense of fear instilled for no real reason.
>smearing someone anonymously on the internet by attributing barely-intelligible quotes under their name
ishygddt
>>7792337
Hi Slavoj.
Is Russian literature's 'poshlost' equivalent to Japanese anime's 'kawaii'?
>>7792319
No, but it's a term that does not deserve a Wikipedia page of it's own
Almost the opposite, sir. In Japan, and especially in the Japanese animes, kawaii is a "magic term" that encompasses everything acceptable and desirable. It is an ideal, THE ideal, a hyperscopic examination of the contemporary Japanese's deepest and dearest values. It could be compared to the Platonic ideal of the Beautiful. If you were to ask the average Japanese person what occurred to them upon hearing the word "kanzen" (perfect), most would likely envision a smiling Reimu Hakurei or Rei Ayanami. This is true even for intellectuals.
>>7792348
>sir
Please be bait.
What's the final boss of literature?
Finnegans Wake? Varney the Vampire?
>>7792115
Infinite Jest
Unendlicher Spaß
the Holy Bible
What do you think of pic related, /lit/?
I always liked their book selection and how kind the place felt. Maybe that's just the location by me though.
>>7792112
Overpriced books. Just go to a used book shop and get the same thing for half the price. Or even better, go to a thrift shop and get it for a dollar. Even Amazon and Abe Books are cheaper than big book stores.
>>7792119
agreed anon
>>7792119
new book smell is GOAT though
