>The Western Canon peaked in 400 ADwelp
>>24884982Dumb Goy. The western canon peaked with Homer and has been falling ever since. Only Wagner came close.
>>24884982I love how for 1000 years the brightest philosophical minds of the west were all roped into untangling the bundle of nonsense left over by Christianity (whose staying power is an unfortunate consequence of the inertia of its prestige following the collapse of the Roman Empire (the collapse being catalysed by its adoption))The highlights of the canon from that period (King Arthur, Nibelungenlied, Eddas, Beowulf, Chaucer etc) are all secular or originally pagan.Christcucks/tradcaths are all brown.
>>24885107>The highlights of the canon from that period (King Arthur, Nibelungenlied, Eddas, Beowulf, Chaucer etc) are all secular or originally pagan.Couldn't help but notice that you left out the Divine Comedy...
>I-is that a pear?>aaaaaaarrrgghhhgh im going insane please help me jesus
>>24885137>Noooo! You can't just stop sinning. What about the funnerino! How could contemplation and union with the divine and absolute hesychasm and beatitude and the illumination of the gnosis compare with rutting like a beast in fornication or gluttonizing le hecking tasty treats. You need to keep hecking sinning or you'll miss out.
>>24885085>>24885107>>24885137Seek freedom through the Logos, reject slavery to the passions and appetites and to ignorance.
>>24884982Come home to the puritan board.Sola Fide Sola Gratia Solus Christus Sola Scriptura Soli Deo GloriaThe Puritan Board provides Christian discussion in a Confessionally Reformed Evangelical context. We are Evangelical because we protest the authority, truth claims and idolatry of the Roman Catholic Church. We are Reformed because we believe that men and women are dead in trespasses and it requires the power of God in salvation through Christ. Christ has broken the power of sin to enslave us and has purchased our faith so that, in Him, we rise to newness of life. We are Confessional because we believe that the Scriptures are clear regarding matters of life and salvation. Confessions are not the Scriptures, but they faithfully represent the core truths of the Scriptures and provide a unifying body of teaching that has stood the test of centuries.https://puritanboard.com/
>>24885168Wow, this is based. More based than TradCathery.
>>24885150Right, I'm sure you're a mystic who has visited the seventh heaven innumerable times, a wise man and a contemplative saint. You guys are absolute self-parody at this point.
>>24885150>rutting like a beast in fornicationyou mean the ultimate power of life replicating itself that we are born into? I am convinced every catholic priest/nun is asexual and autistic. There is no way they have lust like a human and just suppress it for decades.
>>24885196NTA, and I don't even agree with him, but if you can't conceive of someone dedicating their life to asceticism then you're a fucking moron severely lacking an education. It's like you people haven't even heard of Michelangelo.
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>>24885185>You have to be a saint to recognize sin as sin. If you aren't yet perfect you need to wallow in your sins and fornicate, gluttonize, and give in to vainglory and wrath!Not fooling me today Satan.
>>24885196>Have ultimate power to replicate the divine image>Be gifted rationality and a nous>Rut like an irrational beast instead, become enslaved to the passions, and give into the total degeneracy of self abuse and watching strangers fornicate through screens.
>>24885455So why did God send a wife to Josef Fritzl? Simple mistake?
>>24885122>>The highlights of the canon from that period (King Arthur, Nibelungenlied, Eddas, Beowulf, Chaucer etc) are all secular or originally paganwhat is this tranny pagan revisionism. I know modern pagans are spiritual niggers, but this level of we wuzzery is ridiculous.There is no pre-christian King Arthur. The most pagan echo you are going to get is Merlin and he is just an archtype. He was invented by christians.Nibelungenlied was also written by christians and historical heroes of the poem were christians themselves, like Theoderic the great.>Beowulfalso written by a christian nothing more more people are doubting it's pagan original's existence.>Chaucer wtf are you even talking about here. His best known work is about pilgrimage and whatever pagan story he adapted, like troilus he christianized heavily.I love how dishonestly you ommited Divine comedy, el cid or Roland and bunch of other chivalric romances.
>>24885486The otherwise heretically magical world of King Arthur (sword, grail, fate) is clearly only given a thin Christian sheen. King Arthur is a semi-historical imagined figurehead of British resistance against the Anglo Saxons. This places it before the age of mass Celtic conversion to Christianity.Chaucer IS secular, with secular metaphysics, and clear subverise themes. He just happens to belong in a Christian timeline.The fact you even try to dispute the pagan world of Beowulf shows how much of an ugly jew you are.If you are looking for your hallowed Christian works to read, you stick to your Divine Comedy (dull) and Pilgrim's Progress (duller).Paradise Lost remains the ONLY thing that redeems 2000 years of christcuckery. Not surpising, as you guys thought smashing the nose off of Greco-roman statues stopped them from breathing. It took a sober, enlightened and 150IQ+ Anglo to make a compelling tale from that pile of piety. And that work is borderline satanic.
>>24885150>Noooo you cannot be good and have a union with the divine without the church, Jesus invented being a good person, you have to blindly believe what we say to go to the good boy place, the rest are filthy pagans!!
>>24885107>Pagan Roman Empire lasted ~407 years>Christian Roman Empire lasted ~1,073 years
>>24885531Odd statement since the Patristics generally acknowledge the Platonists, Stoics, Peripatetics, and Pythagoreans as possessing partial but flawed grasps of truth. All truth is a fruit of the same Logos (who is Christ) but Christ is the fullness of revelation.And the Platonists, as admirable as parts of their philosophy are, very much do seem to have a defective notion of morality and suffer from pride and vainglory.
>>24885482Whoa, you mean like, Fritlz was evil. Hmm, how exactly do you justify that position within the confines of athiesm and its mechanistic universe? Maybe he was just overcoming the absurd in his own way. Maybe he was an Ubermensch transvaluing all values. Why wouldn't he simply be based?
>>24885524> heretically magical world of King Arthur nothing heretical there. Christians are allowed to use fiction. Also most important king arthur works are derived from christian courts of France and Germany.> before the age of mass Celtic conversion to Christianity.celts were christianized in roman times if anything they were paganized by the retreat of romans. If anything arthuriana is fundamentally anti-pagan work which demonizes pagan saxons.>Chaucer IS secularhe was christian with christian moral framework. secular metaphysicsno such thing.>even try to dispute the pagan world of Beowulf there is nothing even about it. there are no scandinavian or germanic analogues of beowulf .Beowulf is christian brainchild. You pagans usually get uppity that's why historically your kind got christian boot on your subhuman neck.>Divine Comedy (dull) and Pilgrim's Progress (duller)Divine comedy is best poetic work ever produced. Nothing comparable was made by low IQ pagan hands. Especially norse nigger hands.> nose off of Greco-roman statues stopped them from breathingit was pagan superstition who believed their statues to be alive, unfortunately recent converts still had pagan retardation in them.>And that work is borderline satanic.for reddit troons such as yourself pagancuck.
>>24885455>>24885214>>24885209>> give into the total degeneracy of self abuse and watching strangers fornicate through screens.You fool! I am fucking multiple women throughout the week, trading off which one every couple of days, (no they don't know about each other, yes it is not right). I have NEVER felt alive, except in the brief moments of swelling blood and lust where I rise to my rightful place of patriarchal power to enjoin with another. You are suggesting this experience is possible to be replicated through reading religious texts and meditation? IMPOSSIBLE.
>>24885562>norse niggerBrown confirmed. Mexican or Indian?
>>24885572lmao imagine thinking that mexicans or indians will have problems with vikings.all three of them are spiritual nigger whocontribute nothing but rape, destruction and stealth. Try again streetshitter.
>>24885548From a Platonic perspective, why would you need Christianity? For the Platonist, giving up reason for faith is a failing, and philosophically what Augustine is doing is just adding some extra unreasoned dogmas to neo-Platonic framework. Whatever might be rationally critiqued in Platonism can be done so with reason and without faith, and whatever cannot is not worthy of being called Truth.
>>24884982I hope everybody who memes about the Confessions actually reads it all the way through. It's a fun little book.I really enjoy Augustine's musings on time at the end. His question "What is time?" is so interesting because, as he points out, we don't really think about it too much.
>>24885455I jerk off with my left hand like anyone living in the internet age, now gibs me dem dottirs
>>24885085the more I encounter online pagans who use jewish words as insults the less of a distinction I see between something like nordicism and zionism. there's really no difference.
>>24884982By papal decree ye are to relinquish your studies of books and return to consooooming. This is what your beloved authorities are saying. Your petty differences still show up in these shared experiences regardless but at least they are honest about how they view all of you. Descartes, PBUH, ended all of this and yet you still cling to them, clinging to your beloved slop. Even the dosto neet is still trying for a novel of some sort, noble winged creature that he is, get back to reading or embrace your beloved authority and consooom the slop.
>>24885731I'm sure most people who read Confessions have a hard time putting it down. It's such a joy to read.
>>24885150>>24885442>>24885455I'm not sure if there's anything more cringe than christcuck larpers unironically using basedjaks and tranime to try and evangelize people
>>24887150Yea we know christcuck. You hate everything, just like your jewish god. Go cry somewhere else.
>>24885153This is straightforwardly said in the gospels in the allegory/parable of the rich man. Did you really need Saint Agustine to teach you this?
