Bros who/what should I read if I don't believe God exists, but I also don't believe the world and life is just random stuff happening, I think there is a purpose and meaning to at least most of it.
Bros who/what should I read if I don't believe God exists, but I also don't believe the world and life is just random stuff happening, I thi...
>inb4 I don't believe God exists
point stands
If you want to build OP's faith, why do you suggest the Roman Zohar rather than Scripture?
>Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
>Aquinas
>Roman Zohar
Are you just being dismissively polemical or is that actually an apt comparison?
If the latter, what would you recommend in terms of a thinker who understands Christianity?
Protestant detected. Be on watch for any heresies.
Like St. Paul apparently (Acts 24:14, KJB)
Thomas Carlyle often talks about God, but it’s not even clear whether he was religious, strictly speaking, or whether God was a metaphor for the kind of deeper meaning you’re talking about, which Carlyle also refers to as truth or fact. But it’s a ‘living’, mystical fact, as opposed to empty mechanical processes of sceptical science - it’s the Norse world-tree instead of a clockwork universe. I’d recommend his On Heroes and Hero-Worship for more on this. Be warned that his style is not for everyone.
This path usually leads to God. Did for me anyway (and for CS Lewis too I think) , but took about 8 years of agnosticism until I became a Christian. Start with Buddhism and Taoism and go on from there to Christian mystics and then you might see the Bible in a new light and "get it". You might go an occult or perennialist route in your searching, but beware of them, none of them have the answer, and many of their teachings will endanger your soul.
> You might go an occult or perennialist route in your searching, but beware of them, none of them have the answer,
Except for Rene Guenon, he is the final red-pill
I don't know, whomever
Why do you want to read stuff confirming your beliefs? Just read anyone half smart, challenge your views
We've heard the same old christgay tirade a hundred times, been challenged enough, you have no idea how refreshing it is to hear from out elders who have thought about the reality of our world longer than us and can bring new answers instead of holding us back debating debunked bullshit again and again.
It’s been a while since I read it but I’m pretty sure this is the central thesis of Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre
>dude if you were locked in a room with 3 complete c**ts, otherwise known as the nicest french "people", it would actually suck
No shit Sartre you fricking moron
>even if god’s not real we should still be… heckin good to one another?
Some of you could take on this message unironically
I thought the message was that you should avoid all interactions with the french
Have you read the unholy texts?
(The internet archive has got it openly available)
The world is in fact random stuff happening, and what you call meaning is really just expectation, which is the origin of suffering. If you want their to be a geniune substance in your life, go help and lift up others from their sorrow, so there can be more peace and solace in our world. That could as simple as not pushing your own sorrows onto others, and letting it cloud your thoughts.
Humans are designed to worship things, and their worship of a God is how a human seeks to lose an attachment. Once they sucessfully lose the attachment, they don’t need their God anymore, but retain it just in case, for attachments that they might be forced to abandon later.
I recommend studying the philosophy of Buddhism. Maybe read try reading the baghavad gita, or some zen koans.
>Humans are designed to worship things
Almost like they were made in the image of God
what does god worship? himself?
*hits joint*
bro god like
*inhales dank kush*
he worships us bro and we worship him
You're not the first person to seek out the Original Shape. Begin with Patterns in Comparative Religion by Eliade, then The Forgotten Language by Fromm, then read The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Campbell, and then picrel is a good guide to getting into Jung.
What books of Jung talk about the shadow and shit?
I feel like I'm a brainlet with philosophy shit, the most high IQ philosophy thing I've read was Atlas Shrugged and it was some shit, there's like 40 pages where this guy lays out his entire worldview.
But I digress, is there a babbies guide to getting into stuff like Jung?
You're not a brainlet, anon. Philosophy is just something you gradually understand more and more over time with some effort and materials.
If you want a shorter guide to Jung, I recommend The Portable Jung edited by Joseph Campbell.
Krasznahorkai Laszlo. Look up my several threads about him in the archive.
Unironically, read about Buddhism.
I love how i made this Pepe years ago and it has become canon
mind and cosmos by nagel
Considering you’re just looking for confirmation of your own bias, nobody. Don’t bother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza
can't believe no one posted this
You should just read whatever, and rest easy knowing there was purpose and meaning to your reading it.