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Reading Augustine’s Confessions
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 1:28 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison I was turned off by its beginning which was just praising God’s goodness over and over again but I got past that and it’s a really good autobiography
The guy had massive mommy issues
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 1:29 PM Author: sable drunken cruise ship yjwgi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911243) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 2:35 PM Author: exhilarant ultramarine giraffe It's a 180 text. Pretty much every book begins with something like hymns or psalms to God, but they are fairly philosophical and interesting imo. He's a great, handful in a civilization great rhetorican (hence he had the equivalent of an HLS cum biglaw career that he gave up to follow christ). If you're looking for weird parent dynamics, he is much more interesting about his father than Monica imo. She was just a pious woman that wanted the best for him as she saw it. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 2:42 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison he doesn't discuss his hellenist father much, who i understand died when he was a teenager and had a deathbed conversion. the father basically just wanted him to biglaw it up
my psychological read of the text is that his early life was shaped by his dominating ultra-religious mom who continued to dominate it (she followed him around praying and wailing and drinking lots of alcohol lol) and he was looking for a pretext, a justification to give in so she would get off his ass |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 3:15 PM Author: exhilarant ultramarine giraffe If you read between the lines with his father (especially when he talks about how meek Monica was), he hated the guy. I think there's a lot more going on there. I take his story of intellectual journeying and uncomfortable seeking seriously. Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee, lord. That's been fairly true to my personal experience as well (even if it led me in the opposite direction, from Christianity to platonism in the end). |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison interesting that you picked up on that subtext, i guess i can kind of see it with the "heavy" youthful rebellion (he wails so much that he stole a bunch of fruit, lol)
what do you find in platonism that you don't have in christianity? both have the privatio boni as a core belief, no?
"I take his story of intellectual journeying and uncomfortable seeking seriously" that's cool, but i see it the opposite more or less at least w/r/t augustine - that we are shaped by our early childhood on a somatic level, and that for particular people the struggle is to get one's intellectual bearing in alignment with what was provided in that early childhood so the somatic discomfort decreases. augustine seems to me to be in such intense distress because his intellect and his body resonance are not in alignment, which is my case as well, just from a very different angle (early childhood double binds by my mother created impossible decisions and which led to a somatic feeling that no choice is intrinsically "right", leading to a god image of totality and not goodness)
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 5:56 PM Author: wine buck-toothed telephone doctorate LOL @ these two LITERAL IRL KIKES discussing Confessions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911584) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:02 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison if true, should "two LITERAL IRL KIKES" not be allowed to read or discuss Confessions?
what is your opinion on the work? |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:05 PM Author: wine buck-toothed telephone doctorate I don't think you heebs should be allowed to exist let alone read.
I haven't read it since college but discussing it with a kike who skims Wikipedia and Substack to LARP as an intellectual online is the last thing I'd do regardless of my level of familiarity. |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 8:30 PM Author: exhilarant ultramarine giraffe What about my interpretations seems kikey? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911984) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 3:20 PM Author: Costumed lime community account I read it years ago. It's odd how his reversion experience is bracketed by stealing a pear from a garden in Africa and his weeping in another garden in Milan; does he expect us to really believe this? That said, his meditation on time was funny, it reads like a Jerry Seinfeld routine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911356) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:00 PM Author: floppy sticky elastic band rigpig his recounting of, and reflection about, the pear tree incident was 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911591) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:07 PM Author: mentally impaired mad cow disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911606) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 8:26 PM Author: exhilarant ultramarine giraffe The allusions to the garden of eden and garden of gethsemane are too intense to be coincidental. I don't understand how people miss these. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911975) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 8:27 PM Author: mentally impaired mad cow disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911977) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Vivacious senate 1. I have read it, the recent TAN edition. 2. You are retarded |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:37 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison 1. i'm reading the chadwick translation and like it
2. you're a foreveralone mannish gookbot who geeks out at unread obscure academic journals |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:38 PM Author: Vivacious senate the mommy issues projection is the funniest thing about this thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911678) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:39 PM Author: wine buck-toothed telephone doctorate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911680) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Salmon charismatic garrison the confessions is meaty enough that i'll likely do an upcoming post on it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870618&forum_id=2#49911684) |