/lit/ - Literature

This it's the type of deranged and frantic malcontent which is peculiar to regular users of pornography. Your chronically online perverse lifestyle is destroying your mind, OP. Repent.

>>21363941
The simplest way is to add a premise which Aquinas seems to assume: If there is a first cause, then God exists.

>1. If something were the cause of itself, it would be prior to itself.
>2. Nothing is prior to itself.
>3. Nothing is the cause of itself. (1,2)
>4. A chain of causes cannot be infinite. >5. At least one thing has a cause.
>6. Every causal chain must be (i) circular, (ii) infinite, or (iii) have a first cause.
>7. There is a first cause. (3,4,5,6)
>8. If there is a first cause, then God exists.
>C. God exists. (7,8)

This is a valid argument, and seems to be a plausible interpretation of the piece of text with which we began.

>>21013431
(You) seem angry, friend. There is no reason to be upset.

>>20981282
Why would I fear the Antichrist? My soul belongs to God. Only the unsaved need fear the Antichrist.

>>20975669
Congratulations, Anon. I'm sure many good years lie ahead of you.

>>13922950
Body and soul are one. Your physical appearance is merely an mirror of your disfigured mind.

>>13098432
John 18:20
There is absolutely no need for esotericism. Christ taught everything openly. You are acting like Simon Magus in Acts 8:19, when he tries to buy 'occult power' from St. Peter. I've read Guenon myself and he is entirely wrong on the sacraments being originally esoteric in nature.

All this you want is what the orthodox call 'prelest'. You seek initiation without realizing you are already initiated through the sacraments. You ARE part of the true tradition. What else could you want? And don't think you'll be able to mix orthodoxy and traditionalism. The orthodox preach firmly that the only way to a mystical life is through ascetism and humility.

>>13105693
Rama's traditionalism is what got him expelled from Lefebvre's seminar.

Rites are important I know, but to depart from the Catholic Church to freemasonry or another (counter)initiatic order is plain delusion that will only condemn your soul.

According to Guénon salvation will come from the west, anyway. To be frank you are acting like a new age boomer that looks for oriental practices instead of focusing on christianity.

>>11701910
Jokes on you heeb, I'm a mother of two and can't wait to teach them about your crimes. The more you kvetch to more I want hubbie to make me another one.

God, smite my cowardly pride. God, pierce my ignominious delusions. Relieve me of my ambitions, and let me die, O Lord, let me die in the name of Christ. Let me be His follower. O God, deliver me unto Him, that I may be saved from the Malicious Fool that turns my fear from Thee to selfish things. Let me not love my own life. Let me not love my own life, O God. Let me lay my life down, and shed this Tattered Rag, and become nothing but a window through which the light of Christ may shine. I declare, in the name of the Lord, that I shall not covet my neighbor's house! I shall not covet my neighbors house! Let me let them be, O God, Mighty and Most High! Let me be delivered unto Thee! Let me die in the midst Thy Wondrous Light, and not in darkness in the pit of Hell. O gentle God, O sweet God, flatten my pride, scatter my delusions. I pledge myself to Thee, and to none other. Work in me Lord, that I may be excused from mine own vain workings. Work in me Lord! Give me courage! Give me grace!

Any good books on traditional femininity and gender roles?

Catholic/Orthodox or esoteric traditionalist perspectives preferred.