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I'm drinking beer every day and loving it

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>>9689651
getting stoned and writing science fiction.

>>9689651
>relates in sensitive and finely tuned prose the inner conflict and questions about one’s identity that immigration, homosexuality, and the past might stir.

woah so oppressed

But the occult doesn't real

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>>9689636
>mfw

I kept trying to summon a demon and told them to take possession of me if demons were real ut nothing happpened....

or did it?

>>9689307
SIRACH
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fucking protestants

Does it matter?

The differences are negligible and when are you realistically ever going to speak Latin?

How do pronounce Caesar?
Kai-sar?

>>9689202
based novalis poster

>tfw 99% of /lit/ including OP has never read a word by Novalis

>>9689202
The genre fiction of today are the classics of tomorrow.

>>9688826
>P & V

LOL

>>9688833
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>not one cracked spine

NYPA

>>9688676
Apologetics are an established part of Christianity and I'm looking for recommendations from the users here, as there are many (seemingly) well-read Catholics on this board. I'm not sure I understand what you mean.

I don't know of any books defending the church when it comes to sex abuse because in some cases there simply isn't a defense. Sometimes they fucked up, but generally speaking the "defense" is to provide the context behind the churches decisions. Most of the cases regarding sexual abuse or cover-ups comes down to church leaders following doctors orders. In the 60's, 70's, 80's, and even up to the 90's it was a common belief that pedophiles could be cured through psychiatry and be allowed to return to work, so when an incident occurred the priest would be sent off for treatment and when they finished they would return to work. The accusations of cover-ups are generally a misunderstanding. The church would move the "treated" priest from the diocese that the crime took place to a new one ironically to spare the victim from having to see him every Sunday.

It's just a tragedy. There are some cases where the church did fuck up and they did some shady shit, but for the most part how can you really blame them? If the top minds of the psychiatric profession tell them that a person can be completely cured and that's okay for them to return to work how can they be faulted for believing them?

That doesn't mean the rest of the book does not contribute to it being a good or a bad book, though.

>>9688262
That's an optimistic claim. It supposes that the reader is of the intended target audience and that all readers are equal and valuable, or their opinions are.

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what THE fuck is his problem

>>9687777
Good Catholic girl who wrote the same story over and over.

flanflan is /ourgirl/

GRRRRR ANGERY

lit is about humanity.
Much does politics influence humanity?

politics have always been the driving force behind revolutionary artistic expression. That's how you get things like Howl.

good art is rarely influenced by politics.

>The mind is a sponge; but to wring every drop of inspiration from its folds will only wither one's soul.

>Language is like the footprints of two lovers walking a beach at low tide.

>Weed has never killed anyone, but it's made them okay with dying.

Too Like the Lightning came close for me. Other than that Hyperion is still my top Opera

Depends on what you mean by "come close". I've only read the series' first book so far, but compared to The Book of the New Sun, the writing is (imho) just pulp.
Otoh I can see how Hyperion's plot is a lot more enjoyable / engaging with its grand scale and heaps of fun + imaginative details. (And I feel that New Sun should maybe have gone without the fifth book, where eventually its plot does reach a larger scale.)

my friend has this book in his house next to the toilet. probably covered in years of poo particles

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oh ho ho i always tell people to read the bible, and if you liked the game of thrones show the books are good too

Hölderlin, anything else is useless.

>>9686366
Start with the greeks

>>9685841
use two or three at once.
i went out and bought a shit load of those driveway solar lights from a dollar store, just a small led that charges during the day, works far better than a candle in a pinch.

you need multiple candles in high vantage points, and they need to have hardened over years to slowly burn while you ruin your eyes reading by candlelight.

>>9685841
I laugh in her face. That ho deserves that sentence. Not just for being a shitty GF, but for repeatedly telling her BF to do it, and then using it for sympathy from her friends. That's legit sociopathic behaviour. I cannot feel bad for her from any perspective.

>>9685579
I mean is it really this book and it's teachings or the human fetish for ideology?

>>9685579
>bag fruit
These modern translations are such shit.

[Press F to Praise Him]

>>9685118
Reminder she accepted social security.

Her shortcomings were her own fault.

Why is it there is a disproportionate amount of leftist thinkers, philosophers, and intellectuals while libertarians, liberals, and conservatives are stuck with Fox News pundits?

really gets the gears turning

>>9685118
it's because she made me read 300 pages before a rape scene and there is no decency in that. put it in the first chapter, ayn.