I also grew up catholic (I was even an alter boy lol) but I am no longer practicing. I don't have any particular animosity to it, I just kinda stopped thinking about it. I'm planning on reading the bible for the first time sometime this year albeit from a mostly atheistic perspective. I'm mostly ...

One poem I really like "Lepanto" by G.K. Chesterton, which I have enjoyed ever since I memorized it for extra credit in high school.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47917/lepanto

This is the link to the poem (I refrain from quoting it in its entirety given its length). While I cannot recall ...

I am Roman Catholic. It is difficult to quickly summarize my reasons, but it has to do with a mixture of growing up with it, taking the Gospels at face value (i.e. It is written that "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have ...

On the topic of Mishima's plays, I have been wanting to get into them more. I read My Friend Hitler a few years ago, but other than that I really do not know where to begin. Do you have any suggestions for where to start? (for context, I have read some of his more famous novels (Confessions of a ...

Hello, everyone.

I first found out about this place through the youtube channel (either the Tractatus video or one of the Heidegger ones was the first one I saw appear in my recommended). Since then I have tuned into the youtube streams from time to time.

Academically my primary interests are ...