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>>9552912
Christians are followers of Jesus Christ. The story of Jesus Christ can be found in the four books of the Gospels. Jesus did not write anything. Instead, He was written about by four of his disciples, who are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Paul, an apostle, which is a follower of Christ who never personally met Christ, also wrote heavily about Christ. The books written about Christ are collected in what is called the New Testament.

The Old Testament is a collection of Hebrew scriptures. The first part of the Old Testament focuses on the history of the Hebrews. The middle of the Old Testament is the songs and proverbs by the Hebrews. Lastly, the final part of the Old Testament is a collection of various prophecy books, which prophecy the coming of the Christ.

Christianity became the dominate religion of the Roman Empire. It rapidly spread throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle-East. It is still the dominate religion of Europe. During the colonial period, it became the dominate religion of the Americas.

>>9552912
The BBC have a good overview: http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/

>>9552933
>Instead, He was written about by four of his disciples
>various prophecy books, which prophecy the coming of the Christ.
Just as a note, this is the traditional Christian view, all secular (and religious jewish) scholars would disagree.

Just get a free Holy Bible, or read one online. The entire book is in chronological order. Genesis explains the beginning, continued on in Exodus. I think it was Numbers and Deutoronomy that were the most boring parts. After that, it's more history about the first rulers of the jews, AKA judges, then the story of Saul and David make up Samuel 1 and 2. I forget the rest. Psalms and Proverbs aren't really narratives but boulders of prayer etiquette and wisdom, respectively. The New Testament starts with the four gospels Matthew Mark Luke John. Acts is events that took place afterwards, and then the rest are letters sent from/to Timothy, Paul, John, James, Titus, mostly guidance for the young churches at the time. Revelations is the one focusing mainly on what is to come, which is a whole lot of bad things followed by good things.

China

You who would be the next idol of pseuds on /lit/ after this shitty memester croaks?

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I hate to meme him, but seriously, is there a better answer? If not him, then some perhaps yet-to-be-known grad student.

why did you feel necessary to post that pseud nonsense by someone who didnt have the self awareness to pick up a dictionary before being public with their stupidity?

>>9552291
Holy fuck that pic is rage-inducing. I thought I had seen some bad stuff from Reddit already, but that one is really as pseud as it gets. I definitely don't think that Bloom is a final authority on literature, but to disregard the notion that something can be a masterpiece is absolutely retarded and ignorant.

My vote goes for Hamlet. It's just really hard to beat.

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>>9552322
>2017
>being' 'triggered

Nietzsche was a Christian. Sorry that radical Christianity goes way over your head.

>>9552287
typical slave morality

>>9552287
done

>tfw that's my favorite pynchon

am i a pleb guys?

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Pynchon is a psyop, stop reading him.

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Systems, when scrutinized, do not adequately represent the sum of their parts. The post office conspiracy, for instance. Something as simple as the postal service, a system we take to be simple, unassuming, and whole, is actually a ghost of that which makes it up. An individual cannot take a system as such. Additionally, the more complex the system, the more hopeless the individual in seeing beyond its representation and understand its individual parts in relation to its whole. Hence the paranoia.

This is only my opinion. The dreadful sense that political, economic, philosophical, scientific systems are in essence representations, resting on nothing, is what I think makes pynchon so haunting. Basically, to understand the Postal Service fully is to understand that the Postal Service is not the Postal Service as represented, and the madness and deep-seated distrust stemming from that.

>>9551437
Some french faggots: deleuze, baudrillard

>>9551463
do they have to be gay?

>>9551803
Nah, just French

Dude you've gotta read the Greeks first

>>9551339
Daily reminder that the majority of senpais on here didn't start with the greeks.

just rewind time and then start with the greeks u dumbass

>>9551273
Joyce for his constant references to obscure writers and Irish history that only three people in Dublin know about.

Nassim Taleb, but he isn't actually smart or educated, he just constantly derails each train of thoughts with discussions where he tries to convince you he's the smartest man alive

complete garbage.

>>9551306
this

> seeing people's book collections and all they own is YA fiction hardbacks
> a torn page in the book, sometimes from holding the page too firmly
> "unputdownable" as a quote on the cover makes me put the book down
> when the printing on the page hasn't been done properly so half of the word is missing and you struggle to make out what it's meant to say
> supermarket book collections: nothing but trashy romance novels, YouTuber books, James Patterson and the original novel to a film or tv programme

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>dust jackets

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>a slightly above average work of cult artist with a small group of delusional rabid followers with no genuine taste in medium

>>9550686
>Twin Peaks is only slightly above average television
Please tell me what you're watching

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>>9550699
patrician kino of course

>>9550525
jung. it made me LARP for a few months.

>>9550527
And that's NO. JOKE.

>>9550527
Jung is great, just started to read him.

>>9550525
NEET-Chans works, of course. Literally changed my life.

>>9550469

Candide is a shit book. That's what it is.

Shit.

>>9550469
It's been a while since I read it, but I don't recall anything specifically Epicurean about it.

It's more of a general pessimistic book, honestly.

>>9550469
If i recall correctly, it's more stoic. And yes, shit

death gives no reason, so why should i
death has no season, so i know ill never die

>>9549965
I write this in good confidence and utmost respect as a part time contractor for the firm of life, yet I see it to be appropriate that I resign with an effective notice as of now. I thank my fellow employees, the manager, and the associates for whom I would not be in this position without and most of all I thank the janitors who have been so generous as to clean up my messes with utmost courtesy and befitting someone of my prominence or lack thereof.

it's your fault

goodbye

>>9549717
Milk and Honey

The Visisble Man

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Let us discuss the superior Williams instead.

>>9549705
>Is Stoner autistic?
no, but you seem to be

>>9549705
Also, seems like Stoner is just a wuss most of the time.

The saddest part was how Williams describes Stoner's "friends" as just acquaintances that meet up to talk about deep shit and never hang outside of that.