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Imagine you are given the opportunity to read only one book in your entire life. Which one you will choose?
Very hard choice, but atm would choose The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley.
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Such as sending immigrants to other countries?
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More than a person can imagine.
Just some stories to shed light on my claim:
Marius had to hide alone and without support, inside a swamp, while riders were looking for him, so the many times great Roman consul was without any help, defenseless, in what would seem as if total lost of hope. Not long afterwards, he took over Rome.
Sulla was with just his army, far away into ANOTHER WAR against Mithridates the Great , without provisions and war at front, war at back and another Roman mutiny. He crushed mithridates, crushed the mutiny and despite the countless resources of Rome, took the city for the awe of all.
Both of them were at the merge of extinction and reached the top of the known world in just a few months/years of span numerous times. First Sulla was driven out of Rome, then Marius, then Sulla [again], so that at last, Marius would die in the city out of old age (and delirium? He had dreams as if he was on the battlefield), so that on the next return Sulla would regain the city and punish the opposing faction, making a butchery out of his own house. And another astonishing thing - Sulla served under Marius in numerous wars and together they were actually undefeatable, so you can imagine the conflict between those gigantic rulers when they act oppose of eachother. What never happened, tho, was a direct battle between Sulla and Marius - that would have shattered the entire world.
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My sincere advice - leave any outside source for the second Punic war - they are incomparably weak and won't give you the pleasure of the read in comparison with the original sources. Instead, one of the best historical periods ever written in book (according to me) - with the lack of lacunas, is Livy on the Second Punic war. I felt insanely well, while reading it - it raises your spirit very high. Highly suggest.
But if you want a preface - Polybius wrote about the First Punic war [he wrote about the second as well, but Livy is much more detailed due to lack of lacunas, which are often found in Polybius)
Click on Book 21 - The covered period starts from there:
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Yeah I know Polybius because Patrick Hunt wrote this book based on sources from Polybius and Livius.
nationalgeographic.com/expeditions/exper..
I think he is trustable about "Hannibal" book.
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And for the Civil wars between Sulla and Marius - Plutarch's "Life of Marius" + "Life of Sulla" + Appian "The civil wars" ... there are quite too many lacunas in Sallust's cover of the Civil War period, but he gives an insanely well description of the war in Numidia (the Jugurthine War), in which first Marius served as a legate under the consul Metellus Numidicus, then Sulla had the same position under Marius in the same war.
id wait for hooxis autobiography about the 12 majors hes about to win and read that
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Most calculus textbooks are such trash it's unbelievable. You'll have to be more specific.
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War and Peace
Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa. It has it all
David Hume "A Treatise of Human Nature"
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Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann
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That's a collection,pick a book
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My favorite book is genesis
God tried to keep us mindless animals,but the snake saved us from slavery and elevated humanity to the next level,we became like God and we still are
The OT is truly fascinating
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Are you EO?
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bruh
eastern orthodox
Yes, I am Eastern Orthodox.
We weren't mindless, we made the bad choice, such as the Fallen Angels did... if you read other stories about the human creation (for example Sumerian), the human is made in order to serve the paganism gods [Fallen Angels, which had intercourse with humans (Majority of Hellenic pantheon; I remember one of the Mesopotamian deities, banished because of s3xual intercourse with humans - if you look for the specific story, I will try to dig it out)].
In the Bible, we aren't created just to be attraction to pagan deities - not as the slaves the Fallen angels want us to feel as, but as beings with conscious and right of choice - right of choice, which is ultimately strong.
If you follow the story, Lucifer was jealous for our creation, so the temptation of the snake arrived to test our right of choice - a test, which we failed.
And thereafter, in the stories we become servants to the /EDIT: Fallen Angels, not Fallen Agents/, while God never wanted us to be mere servants - which is obvious from the stories below.
There is destiny in every pagan-related thing, but not in the Bible. In Homer's "Illiad", the pagan deities admit, that faith is stronger than them, while according to the Bible by prayers the Lord's compassion can arise and save us from the damnation we casted onto ourselves - and this is the power of the human choice: to repent and pray for Lord's help (treating us as friends and not servants) or to admit ourselves under the pagan deities, which admit, that faith is stronger than them.
And faith is the factor, which holds all of the pagan deities, because if God wants something to happen, they must submit according to His Will. We aren't tied to that, because our spirits are granted return to Heaven, unlike the Fallen Angels, whose way back was cut from Jesus Christ (and they were forced to turn to secrecy).
Copy this comment for yourself, if you want.
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If we can return to God so can the fallen angels,period
It's pure myth that fallen beings cant or won't be restored
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They had their chance and they blew it. We have our and we shouldn't blew it :)
Temptation overcame them, they reproduced with humans, they did disastrous things towards humanity. The ancient Sumerians even believed, that behind every war there is a demon, that pushes it to happen; so how many wars have we waged between ourselves on the verge of those Fallen Angels? Take Homer's "Illiad" - for a sin and vengeful wrath of three pagan goddesses, the beloved city to Zeus - who is much more powerful than them, gets to be destroyed.
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How can they blew their chances? lol
God gives 2 "chance tickets" and you need to use them?
If god's infinitely mercyful then the door cannot get shut
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There is difference between doing something evil and wanting to do evil specifically to cause damage.
Because we were temptated and fell into weakness - the Fallen angels didn't have that temptation - the war Lucifer started was deliberate, knowing, it is pure evil, because he wanted to... I pray this sentence is not heresy... to dethrone... you know what I mean. Hence the teaching of the masons - if you open their books, you will find, that a mason is obliged to follow the "New light" - what is this new light? Where did the old light go in their teachings?
You see, the Fallen Angels became a source of evil with their decision. One thing is Zeus to dethrone Cronus in myth, other to dethrone...
They asked for much more than mercy, they chose to leave the true light.
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If they didn't have temptation/ignorance and still did evil they were necessarily created to be evil by God
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God created the Fallen Angels (just Angels back then) and God created divine power [mentioning power, because war was made for the throne]. Why would divine power be evil?
It was the choice of the Fallen Angels to be evil, hence they were banished to evil - as I mentioned in #62 - they weren't temptated to be evil. It is the strength of choice - God gave us part of His Divine power in the form of choice.
Same as it is our choice to fall under destiny (like the Fallen angels are destined to never cross its line) or go over destiny by our choice to repent - we can choose with our Divine power to be destroyed or to be raised.
This huge power of choice lets our spirits create, as long as it doesn't try to overcome its source, from where comes the well-known "source of wisdom".
The source of Wisdom is to fear of God, as is stated many times in the Bible, including in the psalms (or is it some other types of text) of the wisest of kings - Solomon. Direct quote:
"7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." Proverbs 1:7
So you must choose to fear the Lord, acknowledging He is the Light and He is the Source and the One, that will judge your own soul.
The Fallen Angels tried to make their own source with the power the "old" source gave them. It is like you are given the right of everything and you want to give the right to everything - impossible, unless you become everything.
With them crossing the "source of wisdom" there wasn't evil, but begin of evil.
Or, otherwise said: it wasn't the apple tree, because of which Eva fell in temptation, but the snake. For the Fallen Angels there was no snake - just the Apple tree.
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Ain't no way you're copy pasting whole books
Also this paste does 0 justice to the fact that supposedly perfect beings can become evil without an outside influence. Pefection cannot choose to do imperfection
I'm gonna quit rn,maybe we can chat about this on some other day
PS: Origen of Alexandria is the greatest mind in Christian history,also the greatest theologian
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But it does! It is what I am stating - that they are perfect, because they have their own choice - God created them such and by the mere fact, that they choose evil (Apple tree without the snake) is the basic reason of them being denied return.
By that choice they decided to strive away from His ways (which we are warned not to do) WITHOUT the need of temptation. The root of evil.
Their crime was developing of crime itself from the perfection they were given, hence the punishment is such. We used the term "perfection", but the more accurate would be "completeness" - they reached outside of their completeness, for the power of choice allowed them to reach that far.
They choose evil, choose power over harmony - they were so strong, that they tried to lift their scales up - where they failed.
Because, as stated, the source of all wisdom is to fear God. They choose not to fear Him and created this filled with battles between good and evil place.
Sure - have a nice day.
EDIT: Not familiar with Origen, hope will get in near future.
Also they accepting blood, swearing in river Styx speaks enough of their connections and what they CHOOSE to be connected to.
There is this interesting claim by an exorcist, that hell is actually mercy for the Fallen Angels, because they feel tremendous pain in God's presence. How truth is that claim - I don't know, but it fits some gaps - as to why the strongest, unbreakable oath for (some of) them is to swear in the underworld river of Styx - because it became the place of their comfort, outside of which, once banished, they would feel eternal pain
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The lord of the rings
The good thing about reading is that you learn so much and ended up opening new horizons.
I am a right winger but the best book I have ever read was written by a far left winger called. Caco Barcellos. He is a journalist.
The book is called “Abusado - O dono do morro Santa Marta”.
Idk if there are translations for it. But the book is awesome.
Mortal Kombat 3 Fighter's Kompanion (it has all the fatalities)
Bible
Notes from the Underground
Das Kapital
"how to read faster"
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the bible, its very motivating and interesting book, i just dont see it as a holy scripture, i see it only as a fictional book. and its very interesting stories and quotes.
Bible
That's easy.
The Bhagavad Gita
Bible
Alphabet
Quran.
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984
Literature is so vast that only one book is a stupid question but if I had to choose then it would be the bible. A more fair question would be 3 books, 5 books or 10 books. I don't think you can even cover education properly with one book. Look at all the courses biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, poetry etc.
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