Have you read Confessions, /lit/? It's something I think all Christians should read.
>>25162630Nah, I’m not Christian but I am interested in theology. I’ll pick it up sometime.
>>25162638Hope you enjoy it, and God bless.
I'm not Christian, I read it, and it's amazingI'm a philosophy type so my favorite books were the last three
Baudelaire did it far better
>>25162630No, but I'm getting baptized into the Catholic Church soon, so I'll probably get it to develop my understanding of the church and its teachings. And also just because it sounds like a fascinating book.
>>25162630Yea, just finished it actually
Couldn't bear it.He's a spiritual bottom.A proto muslim in every sense."Look at me I'm so humble and pitiful, truly, no one could ever be so self-defacing."
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>>25162630I read it and found it very endearing. It’s amazing to read something so vulnerable from so far away. I found a lot of myself in St. Augustine and much to consider about the way we live in our own time. It’s the kind of experience that makes reading books like this one of my favorite activities.
>>25163543Mary is infinitely more worthy of veneration than any man who has ever lived. And many men have been revered and had adoring and kneeling subjects. Yet Christ is infinitely more worthy of worship than the Blessed Mother. It is not possible to love Mary too much. The Protestant mind could never comprehend
>>25164428>Mary is infinitely more worthy of veneration than any man who has ever livedfunny. the Lord said that about john the baptist
Not yet, I have it on my to-read list. I will read this someday... i hope
>>25163540>"a spiritual bottom"why does your mind immediately go to homosexuality there, anon? aside from you being gay.
>>25165824NTA, but it's fairly normal for people who think in terms of strength and are used to intellectual environments where strength, agency, virility, etc are venerated to use sexual language when discussing power. It usually doesn't even carry direct sexual connotations in the mind of the speaker.E.g. if someone says "I'm fucked", it does not mean that they have had intercourse, but it does mean that something has been done to them against their will. If someone (male) is called "a faggot" it does not mean that they are homosexual, it means that they are weak. (Notice that men often do not have issues with lesbians, and usually also do not have issues with active homosexuals - the derided one is the passive, effeminate, emasculated one, because that implies lack of virility, and lack of virility implies lack of strength and power.) If you observe "hood culture" in the US, or for an even clearer example Russian "prison culture" and their "rooster caste" you will see it immediately.
>>25166187cope. "bottom" has very specific connotations, you're citing more general figures of speech. and yes, it does say something about someone's intellect of lack thereof if they default to vulgarity and depravity as their frame of reference.getting/keeping your mind out of the gutter is intellectual common sense. it's what separates intellectual children from adults.
It's amazing, the Chadwick translation with the notes is an essential read
>>25166954> "bottom" has very specific connotations, which? This is a good faith question, far as I can tell a "bottom" is just a passive homosexual.> and yes, it does say something about someone's intellect of lack thereof if they default to vulgarity and depravity as their frame of reference.> getting/keeping your mind out of the gutter is intellectual common sense. it's what separates intellectual children from adults.I won't argue with you there, I'm not a fan of overusing obscene language myself. My point was not to say that "it's OK to speak this way, actually" but to explain what people mean when they do it.
