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Anonymous Wed Oct 9 21:58:05 2019 No.13965641 [Reply] [Original]

>skipped the Greeks
>started with Augustine

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 21:58:44 2019 No.13965646 >>13965641 You should start with the Bible, you colossal faggywaggy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:06:13 2019 No.13965675 >>13965641 dumby dumb dumb

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:07:08 2019 No.13965681 Vanilla tier sin

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:10:28 2019 No.13965694 >>13965641 >skipped Augustine >started with John of Damascus

>>	Soren Kierkegaard Wed Oct 9 22:16:47 2019 No.13965721 >>13965641 you do realize that Augustine was heavily influenced by Platonic thought, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:18:02 2019 No.13965730 >>13965694 >skipped Augustine and John of Damascus >started with Joseph Smith

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:19:31 2019 No.13965737 >>13965694 This is actually a great take. Reading John of Damascus is a fantastic exercise. I don't see his stuff getting recommended here enough, especially his work on iconoclasm.

>>	Soren Kierkegaard Wed Oct 9 22:23:31 2019 No.13965750 >>13965737 what work of his should I start with?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:24:03 2019 No.13965753 >skipped the Greeks >started with Guenon

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:25:39 2019 No.13965756 >>13965721 Yeah but so was Jesus if you read the gospels or Paul

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:26:59 2019 No.13965771 File: 1.29 MB, 978x827, C5C1A715-55D6-48B9-A30E-E76CEE341CB8.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw already read the Greeks >tfw currently Resuming with the Romans^TM

>>	Soren Kierkegaard Wed Oct 9 22:27:21 2019 No.13965772 >>13965756 what does this mean exactly?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:29:32 2019 No.13965779 >>13965771 >finish reading Greeks >read Romans >have to go back to reading the Greek eastern fathers wtf

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:35:15 2019 No.13965805 >>13965772 The whole golden rule, law to surpass the Torah, is from Plato.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:41:33 2019 No.13965851 >>13965750 Try his main piece on Iconoclasm, not very understandable if you don't have a good grasp of history, but if you do it is pretty easy to read. His other work takes much more context.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 9 22:45:24 2019 No.13965878 File: 490 KB, 449x401, Girls.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13965771 >he thinks he finished the greeks

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 05:07:55 2019 No.13966988 >>13965805 Paul rebukes greek philosophers in his epistles, you obviously havent actually bothered to read them

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 06:12:29 2019 No.13967093 >>13965641 >skipped everything >started with guenon

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 06:29:34 2019 No.13967134 >>13965750 The Font of Knowledge

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 06:30:36 2019 No.13967138 >>13966988 Acts 17

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 08:01:34 2019 No.13967417 >skipped augustine >started with calvin

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 08:12:24 2019 No.13967460 >>13965641 >You should start with the Bible Which is partly written in Greek, so he skipped it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 08:13:42 2019 No.13967470 >>13967417 >>started with calvin kys

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 08:52:45 2019 No.13967599 >>13967417 That's a good idea actually. Calvin references all the good stuff from Augustine anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 10 09:06:43 2019 No.13967642 >>13965641 >skipped them all >Started with my diary desu