I read Augustine's Confessions which convinced me to get a Bible (picrel) and I've been reading through the gospels and psalms and proverbs and have decided I want to get more serious about studying the Bible and the teachings of Jesus Christ. Can any anons recommend me a good study bible to get over winter break? I was considering getting the Ignatius catholic study bible or the Reformation Heritage KJV study bible but I'm open to any suggestions. I've attended catholic mass a couple times and also intend on trying out a Lutheran and a Presbyterian church nearby, but I was raised in a secular household so I have no idea what I'll end up choosing denomination-wise.There was a thread earlier this week about Machen where someone posted some /lit/ and I got some writings of the Church Fathers and Luther I intend on reading through as well, but aside from that and a few youtube videos from online personalities I'm pretty ignorant so I'd be grateful for any help
>>24952417>Ultimately I want a good study bible that won't be TOO biased in how it explains scripture, but obviously any good "study" bible is going to be done theolgians working within some tradition, with some bias. But I want something high quality despite that bias at least.Every study Bible will necessarily be heavily "biased", because the interpretation of the Bible itself depends on it.A Catholic or an Orthodox will interpret the Bible according to the guidance of the Church Fathers (the early Christian writers), a Protestant according to Calvin, Luther, etc. An Atheist professor with his own assumptions (some hidden, some not hidden).There is something called the "Historical Jesus Project" where they pretended to be "scientific" and "unbiased" but it ended up being crap with very strong assumptions and which many times end with the Historical Jesus becoming a clone of the Author. So, a socialist Hippie Boomer ends up with a "Historical Jesus" who is a Socialist Hippie who doesn't really care about spirituality but just wants to bring down the Empire.
>>24952951One example on how "Atheistic Scholars" aren't really as "unbiased and scientific " as they claim is that some of them try to twist Paul's words to claim he didn't oppose same sex acts.When this is one case where you don't even need a tradition of sorts to interpret the text.
Robert Alter's Hebrew Bible for the Old Testament.
>>24952423Also would you be willing to explain why you recommend Sproul as opposed to reading the Church Fathers or, since you're coming from a reformed angle, Calvin himself? Is it a bad idea to get too into the weeds of theology this early or is there some other reason
>trying out churcheslmao this is ridiculous
Article talking about what most of us already knew. DEI was designed to block out white millennial men from a range of institutions. Unfortunately the author bales Gen X men for the most part but it's important this stuff gets out there. https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-lost-generation/
>>24952980Won’t someone think of the straight white men? Oy vey..it’s anudda kalergi plan..
>>24953010>They're are
>>24952980 day of the pillow is evidently needed not only for boomers but also gen x’ers
>waah I only got to be a mid level hollywood writer rather than a top tier one so i had to settle on becoming a crypto billionaire with my wife and two kids waaahh Now imagine being a zoomer. Millennials don’t know suffering.
>>24952997It's more so that the majority of applicants are being winnowed down to just under 10 percent of new hires. If 70% of applicants are white men, then why are less than 10% hired? Think about what this implies. 30% of applicants were female or people of color, yet make of 90% of new hires. Why are they being hired at a rate of 300%
I've noticed that a lot of sophist philosophizing is based around this concept of "nonexistence". But it seems obvious that "nonexistence" just isn't a real thing right?How can something exist that by its own definition does not exist? It's just a nonsense idea made up of circular reasoning. There cannot exist a thing that doesn't exist. Everything that exists exists and there is nothing else. Existence by definition is an all encompassing concept. You can't logically accept that things exist and then turn around and say there are things that don't.And logically the concept of nonexistence is already nonsensical but if you believe in determinism the idea really just gets defeated many times over.
>>24951132heidegger shows why this doesnt work the way you want it to
>>24951231why should existence condition the concept of absence at all? it seems rather the opposite.
existence isn't the end-all be-all of philosophy, lol. existence and presence (what you're really after) arent even close to the same thing. empiricism would be incoherent if they were, for example.
>>24951231>must exist as a thought and a concept rightwhy should thoughts and concepts exist? why should something infinite be determined by something finite? why should an existence condition an idea? i think you'll find things are rather the other way around: it's in your thoughts that the finitude of existing things gets conditioned.
If you are an American or English, why are you not reading the wealth of world-historic literature written in your own tongue for people of your own mind?Why are you reading translations of brown-people literature (viz. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian) instead of the WASP corpus?
>>24952424South being Norman is a LARPSoutherners cluster with englishmen and the majority of southerners, even the "southern aristocracy" don't descend from Normans but from lower class english and lowland scottish settlers
>>24952795It is a bit of a larp but to be fair cultural influences can appear where genetic ones don't.A cavalier and a roundhead were probably next to identical genetically, but their cultures were very different. So cavaliers lost the civil war (English) and move to the colonies. Even if a select few move there among the many lower class settlers they will probably have much more money and thus exert much more influence.
>>24953177The cavaliers of the 1640s who moved to the south universally became whigs in the 1680s anyway
>>24953180you must be the "historian" in the plato thread, you're not fooling anyone with your generalizations. "universally" jesus christ fuck off this board, i wont let you rest until you leave.
Wasps are the most soulless demonic race to ever walk the face of the earth. Any American author worth reading had non-Angloid blood in them.
Redpill me on Dr. William Pierce. Are his works worth reading?
>>24952109so is your entire "proof" that Pierce was supposedly gay that the fictional character he created didn't immediately impregnate a female character?not sure if you're dishonest or just really that stupid
>>24952223Is this real? Ngl this is something a 15 year old would write
>>24952886its by harold covington, heterosexual racist boomer
>>24952805difference betwen h. sapiens and h. sexualis Bible explains is h. sexualis is brute beasts i.e. lack souls, easiest way to determine that is the ability to recognize other souls, especially the heroism of our pally ally in the war forced on him by the Christ-killers, thus virtually all american pastors, who become pastor through acquisition of an outrageous master of divinity degree, and soulless vain light fellows who presumably would have been businessmen if they had any talent at all, like the pastor of salem at the time of the satanic witch trials. being an h. sexualis, pierce is incapable of understanding what its like to have a soul or write h. sapiens characters* pierce was known to his contemporaries in the rockwell group as a physical coward. to avoid being around men and have access to children instead, he ran the youth alliance* pierce wrote sex scenes in his novels for young adults, but he couldnt have expected Christ-killers to publish them, he simply wrote sex scenes for the thrill of teaching young adults what sex is like* pierces characters casually use contraceptives and engage in posslqdom, which at the time he wrote were both scandalous behavior that the actual right wing vehemently condemned* in the 90's, pierce explained in his podcast that marriage is an outmoded economic arrangement that is withering away, because piece was a pinko. in reality marriage is a spiritual arrangement that was under daemonic attack from pierce and his pinko friends
>>24945217the difference between lebanese shiites and maronites is maronites work with Christ-killer pm ariel sharon to murder pallies at sabra and shatila while shiites spend their blood and treasure defending the pallies. shiites are in many ways more Christian than peoples whomst call themselves Christian, starting with fighting His enemies and continuing with respecting His institutions of marriage and the family
>What makes you think you're good enough to write a book?
>>24948669I like writing notes I think are important down. I don't actually care if someone else reads them.It's like, a grocery store is better at providing food, but I like to garden.
>>24948669Because I've written six and I don't need the approval of other people
>>24951847Did you gain any readership?Would you consider yourself a graphomaniac?
>>24948669Because my ideas are actually kind of fire and I like writing. And I have a lot to say paired with an outlook that I think is a needed one.
I'm high IQ and have a lot of empathy and can intuitively understand how people think. Only real problem is being a shut-in with little life experience and while that definitely hinders me I don't think it's a fatal blow. It just means my work should lean heavily into expressing the pain of isolation and alienation.
What pace do you read at, /lit/?
>>24953091you don't get it, this slop website I vibecoded in 30 minutes is a huge breakthrough
>>24953013Why would I use this? Are people seriously this ADHD?
>>24953176Yes. This is what happens when kids who were raised on TV and video games try to get into reading later in life. They have to gamify it and employ tools to measure their progress or they can't focus on it.
>>24953182Thank god I was growing up in the late 90s and 2000s and often spent time in countryside.
1 page every 2 minutes
Penguin always seem to have the best covers but it seems gay to just have a shelf of Penguin stuff. What do?
>>24953044Are you reading everything you own hundreds of times through? That's some commitment.
>>24953044I like my books worn
>>24952993Show me a better cover for that book
>>24952906The answer is to thrift old books or buy them off eBay. >>24953118pic rel
>>24953049It only takes four or five readings
I'm looking for clever illustrations of what a leftist utopia/dystopia could look like, with special attention to the rough edges. It would probably be scifi.I'm not asking for chudslop written by poltards and their likes, nor a time-wasting apologetic wet dream, but rather a sincere exploration of the good and bad sides.For example, "The Compass Rose" by Le Guin showed interesting ideas about what an anarchist society could look like, sad things included.
Just read We
What's the funniest book you've read?
>>24951462I actually don't recommend reading it as you will come to see just how many modern authors and even comedians are completely derivative hacks. (Vonnegut in particular who deserve exhumation and crucifixion upside down for his kleptocratic writings)
>>24951738Love this lil book like you wouldn't believe. Also, for any posters bemoaning the lack of romance in novels for men, Lucky Jim has a great one.
probably American Psycho
Only book that has made me laugh out loud
For me it's American Psycho
I know it sounds corny but the consolation of philosophy has now saved me multiple times. It saved me from sadness and confusion and it invigorated my faith. It’s the most important book besides the holy scripture.
I read it and got nothing out of it. I found it mostly incomprehensible.
>>24953087I get that the poetic parts are quite difficult, with or without knowledge on Greek mythology. But the prose sections are pretty straightforward imo.Also the whole concept of the book is beautiful.
>>24953057I love it, although for me the Commedia has played this role more often. Excellent taste Anon. That book is crammed with wisdom.
Give me some good 20th century French Romantic 100-150 page novels
I found it quite hard to read I could follow along with the plot easily but the discussions were very hard for me
>>24952398I dont know what you mean by cartoonish. TEP's sci-fi aspects? i thought Serotonin was pretty trivial in its narration and some of its story. the dog sex.
>>24952049My favourite book is his first and it makes me not want to read any of his other works as I strongly imagine he peaked in the first go...
I understand what Houellebecq was trying to get across, but all the pseudo scientific passages are lame.>>24952081Agreed. A much better depiction of rotten contemporary life than showing the life of a public masturbator and an incel nerd.
>>24952049It is barely a novel. The closest Houellebecq has gotten to literature is La possibilité d’une île.
Could you beat Nabokov at chess?
>>24952366what was his elo?
>10 replies in>nobody has said they would play the Luzhin Defense/lit/ is truly il/lit/erate.
>>24952366If you think about it, chess mimics quite well the act of pedophilic grooming and rape of a child. It's like Lolita in ludic form.
Nabakov is the guy who waxes lycra about incest and pedo shit? ofc he was a chessist too, with all the child prodigies in that Sport
>>24952707I bet I could trap your nuts in my fucking mouth, homo
How do I get into James Joyce if I'm not Irish and I got filtered by Finnegans Wake?
>>24952808>having moved to Ireland in late Middle AgesDescribes almost the entire population of Ireland. There's been enough admixture, both ways and over a long enough period, that Irish and English are genetically indistinguishable, and this has been the case since at least the 1850s when most of the primarily Gaelic stock either died or migrated.
>I am made in such a way that I do not care much for the output from your Wholesale Safety Pun Factory nor for the darknesses and unintelligibilities of your deliberately entangled language system. It seems to me you are wasting your genius.
>>24952593Sadly an Irish visa is needed to read James Joyce. Any illegal alien caught reading James Joyce without his papers in order shall be sent to work as a menial Airbnb servant in Lisbon or as a barista eunuch in Barcelona.
>>24952858t. a woke feminist heiress whose one contribution to the world was bankrolling Joyce. Pound saw the genius of FW.>>24952593If you haven't read his previous works, do that, in published order. Also read Pound's ABC of reading while working your way through Dubliners/Portrait. Then when you get to FW pick up the McHugh annotations book and also start reading Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress. You can burden yourself with more secondary resources but I think thats a good bare minimum for you to go into the work with enough knowledge to interpret some of it while not having too much already formed in your mind.
>>24953157Joyce was woke
