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>> No.3857471 [View]

>>3857460
Actually, Ive seen quite a few traditional catholics on /lit/. Theres plenty to talk about. Chesteron, belloc, newman, gerard manley hopkins, adrian fortescue, ronald knox and evelyn waugh
Josef Pieper, étienne Gilson and jacques maritain.

>> No.3857388 [View]

>>3857360
Thats smart.
Lets see if we can add locations as well.
>Indianapolis

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THIS IS NOT A DEBATE

Dear /lit/,

Lets face it, most of the Internet is outspokenly Atheist / Agnostic. I was hoping to do a survey of /lit/ on what it's beliefs are in that regard. Note, this is what you actually believe, not what you are nominally.

>Age
>Religious, Agnostic, Spiritual, Atheist
>Denomination (if applicable)
>Anything else

17
Theist
Catholic Christian
Traditionalist

Please no trolls. /lit/ seems to be one of the most ideologically diverse places on the webs and I think it would be cool to see some demographics. If we get enough posts, I will post the results in a few days.

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I don't fancy that /lit/ could have worked out the principle that evolution is only negation, since there inheres in it the introduction of lacuna, which are an essential of differentiation. I mean, one could read all that up in Pinckwerts and the notion that involution functioned eugenically was shown long ago by Glumpe.

>> No.3851619 [View]

>>3851484
Does a Catholic Monarchist/Distributist count? It's weird to most others because I am an American.

>> No.3841528 [View]
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Sup /lit/,

I know we have a lot of Kierkegaard fans here. I was just wondering how Kierkegaard reconciled his philosophy of subjectivity with his love of (admittedly non-conformist) Christianity. It just seems that Christianity holds to objective truths about morality and philosophy that don't fit well with his "subjectivity is truth" concept. Thanks.

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Another pic from the side. (The face is not normally red, it's just the lighting)

>> No.3836672 [View]

>>3836638
.... You are not the OP, I am.

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I am trying to describe the face of the person in this picture to someone whom has never seen it. Are there any good writers on /lit/ who could give it a shot?

>> No.3819293 [View]

>>3819215
Yes,Quantum Physics shows us particles that come into existence on a quantum level in a void and become a Big Bang like thing. However nothing is the lack of a thing. Above is not "nothing." Think of no laws of nature, no void (not even a black emptiness, for "black" and "emptiness" are things), and certainly no complex series of equations that exist and make possible said particle coming into existence. If you could picture nothing, you couldn't. If "nothing" could be observable, it wouldn't.

As for your second point, it was that attitude amongst pagan cultures (The "chaos of the universe was simply warring gods) that stopped so much of the science that we see today. Catholic Christianity and a greater part of Islam have always said "The universe is the product of a supremely logical being. The universe thus is logical.

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After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
Opinions?

>>He is a boss's boss.

>> No.3806788 [View]

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem coeli et terrae.
Et in Jesum Christum, Filium ejus unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad coelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem et vitam aeternam.

>> No.3781123 [View]

Thoughts?

>> No.3781118 [View]

And he laughed as he breathed as he turned around slow
And walked away from that beauteous flow.
With a light wind in his face and sun warmed back
He went to the path and picked up his sack.

As he strode to where the rock met dirt
And he knew he was glad that he was not hurt.
He never looked back as he walked through the wood
And took the road less traveled as he knew he should.
And he told the Truth to his boss and his wife
The latter in tears at his attempt on his life.
And as he picked himself up and did what needed done
And never forgot the wind and the sun.

The gust from the west and light Orient
Should remind us all of gifts nevr’ spent.
And a better man said
And he said what he meant,

“Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”

>> No.3781112 [View]

But lo, in the West there came a strange thing
A crisp, sharp, clean, breeze like the birth of Bright Spring.
That passed to and fro through the Oak and the Ash
And rolled that old log off the cliff with a splash
And the current took the wood, far out to sea
Where it still now roams, endlessly.

And from now the East; gold in the sky!
The Sun was just up and flaming on high.
Bright colors and bold it seemed to yell
Today was a day not meant for Hell.

He saw the ocean evenly full
Dancing and waving like a feisty old bull.
For light hit each of those rising crescents
And filled them up like Christmas presents.

With hue upon hue and light upon light,
He honestly doubted the existence of night.

>> No.3781105 [View]

The trees now thin and the wind does blow
The sound of waves comes crashing slow
The cliff is near and he has found
He cares not more for light and sound
To end this pain is all he asks
But, as he rounds the bend he gasps--

A deep blue ocean, dark and free
That goes in forever, endlessly
With mountains of waves and crashing foam
And sunken ships with ghosts that groan
And bleached white birds flying o’ the sea
And a field of Heaven, eternally.
The man, now recovered, sits rest on a log
And fixes his mind on this impossible job.
The wood, white as bone, showed him just how
He was natural, organic, like pigs, chicks, and cow.
And what’s natural does die, and die it will must
For Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust.

He stood and he walked to the ocean’s Great Gate
Where the Sea and the Sky meet in colors of slate.
And cursed the God he did not believe,
As he passed back and forth at the end of the eve.

>> No.3781102 [View]

He knows not what will come of him now
His life, a ship, is hit on the bow
A wife, a child, the American Dream
Yet with this loss of a job, things change unseen.

He reaches a fork in the road up ahead
One offers escape, the other deep dread.
What did the Poet, say upon this?
That the road less traveled did lead to bliss?
But that is hard and he cannot kiss
His wife after what he had done,
In that motel hid far away from the sun.

What lies did he say to the one he loved?
On that wedding day with rice and dove?
He has broken vow with hate and spite,
And must face himself now in this darkest night.

The path goes on through darkened wood
Hidden eyes watch to see what would
Transpire on this, this empire Dark
That destroys the soul and hides the heart.

>> No.3781097 [View]

A young red squirrel risks a chance,
But sees but one little man, lost in trance.
He walks without reason, rhyme or way
Toward the far cliff on the side of the bay.

His hair is dark and as are his eyes,
Hard in the dark as expansive night skies.
As if thinking of such, the man looks high,
Past trees, past clouds, to the gourd in the sky.
As it points North, shining as bright
As it did helping slaves fight the good fight.

A cloud passed and covered the night
Darkness upon darkness, death of all sight
His footsteps stop, the silence grows
As all things halt and time now slows.
And, as a shift, the moon returns
The birds start song, the clouds have turned
The man starts again, now quicker in pace
His mind is torn ‘O the demons he face
The things in his past, now let free
Will face the light of scrutiny.

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Hey, e/lit/es

This is my first swing at poetry, can you guys take a look?

-Anodos-
The light now fades, a sad night falls,
And expanding shades grow thin and tall.
A young man knows what must be done
As all light leaves and dark has won.

He starts to walk through hill and dale
To do what he must or else he fail.
The oak leaves crunch with fallen stem
As his dark black boot walks over them.

All dark now, but in light of day,
Those crunched up leaves were gold in fey.
These colours by noon in crimson hue
Show by dark a deep black blue

A dead wind from the South carries the sound,
All birds hide or batter down.
All things hide, or fear the wrath,
The waste of man; his prideful laugh.
But this one differs, his silence stays,
To hurt not land nor trees nor bays.

>> No.3780536 [View]

If you knew the first thing about The Confessions, you would know that Augustine led an EXTREMELY worldly youth.

>> No.3780518 [View]

I was taught the Multiplication Table as well, that does not mean the principals of multiplication could have been any different if I was taught them incorrectly/not at all.

>> No.3771391 [View]

>>3771384
While GRRM is pretty cool, this guy wrote almost 150 years before GRRM started and basically founded modern fantasy.

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All right e/lit/es.

This mo-fo on the left was the grad pappy of modern fantasy. Any of you read "Phantastes?" What did you think of it?

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To the e/lit/e gentry of /lit/.

I am trying to find archives of the early 20th century newspaper, "The American Review." If anyone has PDF's, you can email me here: acthev@outlook.com, or if you have any links that would be helpful as well.

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