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How do I become closer to god?

>> No.18726037

>>18726030
Get baptized in an Orthodox Church, pray daily, read the Scriptures and the Fathers, and follow Christ's commandments

>> No.18726053

Backflip into rotating helicopter blades or listen and read the music of palestrina

>> No.18726059

>>18726030
celibacy so you're in luck

>> No.18726071

Find a god that isn’t within the boundaries of a text, a god unraped by the voices of grandstanding experts in the words of said god. Allow your god to lie, to slay you with temptation and redemption and finally, to choose you for his/her sole scion.

>> No.18726092

>>18726059
>celibacy so you're in luck
this but unironically; all the philosophers, all the great thinkers, all the geniuses knew that cooming was detrimental to one's mental capabilities; some of them were more lenient than others, but generally they all saw cooming as something that should either be done sparingly (usually within the bounds of marriage) or should be avoided all-together; take, for example, Issac Newton:
>Newton was rigorously puritanical: when one of his few friends told him “a loose story about a nun”, he ended their friendship. He is not known to have ever had a romantic relationship of any kind, and is believed to have died a virgin.

>> No.18726100

Become friends with me

>> No.18726172

>>18726092
I have ended more than one aquistance for the same reason. I guess I'm on a good track.

>> No.18726193

>>18726030
Find first the Demiurge

>> No.18726200

>>18726030
Read Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence.

He explains how easy it is; how it's just a matter of accepting the things you can't change anyway. There's more to it than that, of course, but that's the gist of it. Plus Jesus and the Catholic Church, of course.

>> No.18726213

>>18726037
>Orthodox church
Based.

>> No.18726220

>>18726092
>cooming was detrimental to one's mental capabilities

It is so obviously true that if science doesn't admit it, I'm going to become sceptical about science, rather than deny my direct experience.

>> No.18726222

>>18726092
wow i'm just like isaac newton!

>> No.18726254

>>18726030
Start praying / reading the Bible/ listening to hymns or gregorian chants for an hour per day. I've been doing this the past 2 months and it's helped a lot

>> No.18726272

>>18726092
Newton was an autist and most likely gay
>Although it was claimed that he was once engaged, Newton never married. The French writer and philosopher Voltaire, who was in London at the time of Newton's funeral, said that he "was never sensible to any passion, was not subject to the common frailties of mankind, nor had any commerce with women—a circumstance which was assured me by the physician and surgeon who attended him in his last moments."
>Newton had a close friendship with the Swiss mathematician Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, whom he met in London around 1689—some of their correspondence has survived. Their relationship came to an abrupt and unexplained end in 1693, and at the same time Newton suffered a nervous breakdown which included sending wild accusatory letters to his friends Samuel Pepys and John Locke—his note to the latter included the charge that Locke "endeavoured to embroil me with woemen."

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>Venerate God in love and in respect. Then He will answer thee in thy inward spiritual practice. Be gentle and humble of heart; then the Spirit of God rests in thy soul. Be friendly, zealous, and kind to everyone who needs thee. Be sober in food and drink and in everything thou needest; then thou wilt live without sorrow or anxiety for thyself. Watch thyself and all thy weaknesses, judge thyself inwardly and outwardly in the sight of Truth which is God, but judge no one else who has not been recommended to thee; then thou wilt live without thorns, wrath and vengeance in thy heart and find peace in thyself and grace in God.”

— Jan van Ruusbroeck

>> No.18726296

>>18726272
> nooooo you can't not coooome are you gay what is wrong with you just coooome female titsss stop inventing boring calculus and just coooooomeeeeee

>> No.18726322

>>18726092
>puritanical
the Puritans encouraged sex between married couples, just not public debauchery or adultery

>> No.18726331

>>18726322
And Newton wasn't married, so for him being puritan is just what was described.

>> No.18726506

>>18726030
which one?

>> No.18726593

>>18726030
change your posture towards the world from one of reaction to curiosity. most responses here are ways to do that, but if you bog yourself down with formulaic routines of spiritual practice, your wonder will diminish in the long term. prayer is good, journaling is good, reading scripture is good, but nothing will fundamentally change until you realize your interdependent place in God's creation. Duns Scotus concept of univocity was helpful for me in realizing this. Someway, somehow, the glory of God communicates through everything in the exact same way, not by analogy. Being curious helps that.

A good poem demonstrating univocity, 'God's Granduer' by Gerard Manley Hopkins https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur

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>>18726030
No one can give you an answer. You have to find out for yourself. For me its as simple as hiking or taking long solitary walks, particularly up mountains. No amount of philosophical reading and religious practice meant anything comparatively. But perhaps for you it will, there are probably millions of paths but only a few for you individually. Good luck brother, try to know yourself as best as possible.

>> No.18726756

The bigger question is, why would you *want* to get closer to god? What has gone done to earn your affection? What has he given you that warrants your admiration? How has god proven his worth or value to you?

>> No.18726759

>>18726756
t. prelest

please stop for your own sake anon

>> No.18726776

>>18726759
Why?

>> No.18726808

>>18726037
can someone explain the significance of baptism to me?

>> No.18726852

>>18726808
http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/Holy7Sacraments-Baptism.shtml

>> No.18727107

>>18726030
God isn't real so you shouldn't. Religion can have some benefits but it's a spook and you should seek to create your own values and morals you abide by through the process of self realization. Religion is far too restrictive, the herd mentality has the potential to be too destructive, and what's more religion becomes more and more irrelevant by the decade.

>> No.18727151

>>18726220
It's not a very easy theory to test accurately

>> No.18727179

>>18727107
Mah nigga!

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>>18727107

>Religion can have some benefits

If you think you live via is just a cost-benefit analysis, religion should 'benefit' you, and life is nothing more than a trip from the maternity ward to the crematorium and a bunch of spooks in between, then feel free to ignore any and all religion. :^)

>> No.18727208

>>18727107

>Religion can have some benefits

If you think you life is just a cost-benefit analysis process, religion should 'benefit' you, and reality is nothing more than a trip from the maternity ward to the crematorium and a bunch of spooks in between, then feel free to ignore any and all religion. :^)

>> No.18727223

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