/wiz/ - Wizardry

Good luck!

Only if you want to join monks because theism makes no sense

>>224780
>like a faithful religious hermit which gets more respect points
>They seem to genuinely respect Wizards and have a tradition of hermits
It seems from your post that you wish to convert to Catholicism purely because you think it would lend validity or respectability to your status as a celibate man. The issue is that your fellow Christians (or soon-to-be fellow Christians) will probably be normalfags and you probably won't get the sense of community you're expecting to get. Even if you have reason to believe otherwise, you'd still then have the issue of being forced to accept all the bullshit dogma for the sake of belonging to a community which sounds like a poor trade-off. It would be better to face reality and remain on your own in my opinion.
As for Pascal's wager, I find it completely absurd. Think about how the world was in the 17th century when Pascal was alive. Back then, you would be far less likely to come into contact with people of any faith aside from whatever the majority of your countrymen believed in. If you think of it that way, it would then seem like a binary choice, either to believe or to disbelieve and Pascal's wager would make sense to some extent. If you try to apply Pascal's wager now however, you would then have to practice several different religions at once just to be safe since Pascal's wager boils down to believing in God just in case he is actually real regardless of whether or not there is any substantial evidence supporting that idea.

Religion are dumb and for low IQ people, embrace philosophy

Only join them if you truly believe what they preach. Otherwise you will reach a point where you'll be profoundly unhappy with your life due to setting yourself rules in which you don't believe yourself. Even a very elaborate LARP, where you engage in your local Catholic community, visit Church, read the Bible, and consult your priest regularly, is still a LARP, and you should not fall in the trap of thinking that if you pretend your faith if genuine for long enough it will become at some actually genuine, as this is the blueprint to being unhappy. Faith shouldn't be something you rationalize to that degree that you wager how your life would be with or without it. If you truly believe in the Lord from the Bible, you should be tolerant of living whatever life with whatever circumstances, as long as it's what God wants from you. It could be a life of poverty, torment, and agony, as long as it's what God wants from you, you should be content with it. There is ought to be no contemplation in form of a pro/contra list. Either you truly and genuinely believe in this faith and take everything in account that a life with faith in God brings with, or not, but at the point where you start contemplating you're already on the wrong path.

grew up catholic, went to sunday school, did my confirmation. When i was done i never went back cause that shit is boring as fuck. zoomers who think religion will give them a purpose or identity are retards

Catholics only appear to have a lot of stock because they have been around so long and have had a major influence over the western world. Protestants are like Catholic anarchists who disregard centralized authority and encourage literacy and self teaching. But all these religions are built on the Earth being 10,000 years old and disregarding every form of scientific observation gathered since the big bang.

>>224812
Most educated Catholics do not believe that the earth is 10,000 years old. Pius XII during WWII believed the earth was at least millions of years old.

Most christians take the church as some kind of social club, and you WILL be looked down at if you are a male virgin/perpetually single. The ones that won't, are a minority.
Normalfags will norm everywhere, it's their onthology, faith alone can't change that.

You don't need a religion, no one does.

>>224780
>the Catholics are one of the original churches Jesus said was legit
It's unclear what you mean with this, but historically the catholic church is a creation of Tertullian (III century). He is an extremely underrated historical figure (even by the catholic church). His book "On chastity" is a good read for volcels.
Protestantism is a no-go for volcels. Orthodox churhces have much more related rules for chastity (ie some priests are married).
In any case, the modern catholic church (post 1958, after Pius XII) is just yet another protestant church. Sedevacantists are the only catholics that remain and there are very few of them. Good luck finding them.

If you're white, just join the religion of National Socialism. It's lonely, but true. The same impetus to improve your life you might have gotten from the church can easily be derived from your love of your race.

If you're not white, then by all means join the church, they're more and more non-white as it is anyway.

>>226195
>If you're white, just join the religion of National Socialism.
They lack the idea of gender separatism. Even worser than that, the NS movement is full of cucks.

>>226928
Based christ pilled parents

>>226929
Your mind is small and diseased.

>>226928
Ah, a good ol' fashioned shunning.

>>224780
Honestly? If you haven't by now, go to a few masses and see. Don't worry about the rules just yet.
Seeking God is the important part, and if you find Him there, you won't really have much of a choice but to look into the rest.
Try an Orthodox church too though before you dismiss the whole thing though if you find nothing.
I've never found much life in a Roman Catholic mass myself, just bits and pieces almost in spite of the rest of it, but I wouldn't have known that without going. But He speaks to people differently.

The rules are a complex topic. It's an attempt to use power/authority to force people to do things that are "good" for them by threatening punishment. But that defeats the purpose IMO. They are only good if you do them out of love of Christ and all the little christs around (those neighbors you're supposed to love as much as yourself), not out of fear of punishment.

I'm not sure how a Roman Catholic who is truly seeking Christ can internalize that. I guess if I could I would be one.

>>226011
For the Orthodox, priests are usually married because practically speaking the priests are the closest to the world and need to guide the laity through it. You're going to be a lot better at giving advice about rebellious kids or marriage problems or whatever if you've gone through that yourself.
Monks can also be priests though, and they would be unmarried. And bishops are traditionally picked from monks. So it's really only the parish priests and laity who deal with marriage.

>>224812
Literally no catholic thinks the earth is 10000 years old or whatever. The big bang theory was actually first proposed by a catholic priest

>>226945
The orthodox church is nothing but Putin's political proxy. In my country they asked the adherents to openly oppose NATO.

It has nothing to do with divinity, spirituality or gods.

>>226950
To be precise, Georges Lemaitre was an atheistic theoretical physicist whose day job was working as an ordained parish priest.

He solved the Einstein field equations and the Hubble-Lemaitre law is named after him
(with proof that the universe is isometric and rapidly & endlessly expanding, meaning eventually everything will cool down and die permanently).

>>226952
The Patriarch of Moscow does seem to be pretty fucked up lately.
But that doesn't really speak to the Orthodox church as a whole unless you're suggesting that the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople are all Russian plants somehow.