Hellu /lit/ I've read some of the basic stoic philosophy books (Meditations, Discourses, Enchiridion and Letters from a Stoic)
Can anyone recommend some more? Cheers lads.
>>9952779
Don't read any Ryan Holiday books, he is a pseud
>>9952779
Read sum Cicero, nigga.
>>9952860
Any ones in particular?
>>9952768
like the cover suggests
he evolved into metapod
sad!
That he is literally a cuck.
>>9952768
No longer human is an edgier version of L'Étranger.
ITT: books that pulled you out of silly nihilism as a teenager
>>9952721
Plutarch's Lives, Dryden Translation
Explain how you can get around nihilism without God?
William lane craig believes that a logical and rational person in a godless universe would have to be a nihilist, is he wrong?
He's a very smart guy btw so you might want to think twice before you say some dumb shit.
>>9952721
I can't take Ben Carson seriously. He always looks like he's sleepy. DEFEND YOUR CHOICE OP.
/lit/ I think I wanna enlist maybe soon
Is there anything I should read to better inform that decision or better choose which branch to join
AND
If I could carry one book on me throughout all my deployments, what work of philosophy or literature should that be?plsno Meditations or Zarathustra
I'm thinking something pragmatic that can excite and prepare me to embrace the more rigorous hellish aspects of military life coupled with aesthetic beautiful artful prose stylings.
also if youve enlisted how much time do i get to read and write realistically.
You should go talk to real enlisted guys, they have military threads on /k/ and shit
If you want to be all gung-ho for the military read Starship Troopers and/or early uncensored versions of Junger's Storm of Steel or On Pain
But really, there's a good chance that you'll be wasting your life, or at least getting into something that isn't at all what you think it is. Different eras have different military experiences and different enlistment demographics. You might very well be joining an outfit of mainly retard rednecks that will feel more like a cliquey high school than like the camaraderie and "I'd die for you, my brothers!!!!" shit from Starship Troopers. Only way to find this out is to do a LOT of research.
Thus meditated Zarathustra
I fucking hate people who can read fast. Anyway, I just finished A Scanner Darkly after a few weeks. I want to try to get into reading fiction. How do I know what to read next?
I read fast and selective, it has its drawbacks
how are this guy's ideas compelling to anyone? how does a prestigious institute pay him to teach?
>>9952646
Peter "if she's a vegetable rape isn't morally questionable" Singer.
I honestly don't know. I think it is sort of hilarious that you have an entire ethical system which claims superiority to other ethical systems by being easily applicable, based on some sort of quantificational system that no one has bothered to put any thought into.
In thought experiments so constructed that they verge on parody, such as torture one guy and save millions from nuclear annihilation, utilitarianism is intuitive. In any real moral situation/dilemma, I haven't seen anyone give serious thought as to the method of quantification needed to act in a utilitarian way.
I walked past peter singer 3 years ago, I still remember it as if it happened yesterday.
I turned around, thinking, is that THE Peter Singer and lo and behold it was! I tried to listen to his conversation, presumably with a post grad student for about 5 minutes by walking quietly behind them but I had uni classes that I needed to attend to.
It was very interesting.
I wanted to say hello.
>>9952646
>how are this guy's ideas compelling to anyone
They aren't, the guy had a embarrassingly low attendance rate for his courses at one of the most liberal colleges in the world that half-way through the academic term he regularly goes travelling to foreign countries to interview with literally nobodies.
Friendly reminder that if you don't walk around your place naked and spend at least 50% of reading time in the nude then you aren't truly patrician.
>>9952627
Post pics for proof
>>9952627
jokes on you, I'm always naked.
also, there's a horror movie with the premise of pic. Fuckin' gross gross gross.
>>9952627
How naked is naked? Does walking around in your undies count? :-3
what do you think about this?, intellectualoid faggots, i broke the mensa test.
>>9952556
I'm white and into white nationalism
>>9952561
I am an ayyynunaki
>>9952556
some norwegian on /sci/ did that test and then got 30 points lower on the irl test
Wtf i hate women now
Soon to be ITT: identity politics.
>>9952473
why are women so stupid?
>>9952485
who fucking knows
Was out for my daily dose of cat videos and found this. Enjoy
>>9952439
communuaty
Beautiful
>>9952439
Thanks for shitting up the board
Hello, /lit/
I need a book to read. Any suggestions?
I'm a huge Orson Welles, 1985 is my favorite book ever.
>>9952416
lol so funny
>>9952417
i also remember when /lit/ was good
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Alkar by Dinko Šimunović is the most oddest book i have ever read. I think there are no english translations of the book.
>>9952361
Why don't you translate it pederu
>>9952515
Because jebi se
What is the funniest moments in The Brothers Karamazov?
rolling for skyrim roulette
This is P. and I must say that I'm quite disappointed in you, /lit/, you ever done the Kenosha Kid? no, you've never done it, have you? ... such a shame, wouldn't want you to - wouldn't want to let out a certain octopus... now, would you? no?
>>9952293
Thomas Pynchon is a shit author and a literary con artist.
>>9952368
nice one, thomas.
>>9952368
How good is he? I've never actually read anything by him before
If I read a book in train commutes that are 5 to 25 minutes long can I still get all the pseud cred from reading it? I read picrelated in this way, of course for the pseud cred because I thought it was boring and could easily have been summarised.
>>9952221
If the train commute is that short, I'd be surprised if you retain much of what you read.
I don't know what pseud-cred you're looking for. Barely anyone will recognise what you're reading or even be interested. One in a thousand people might be interested and even then, if the book is doing the job properly, you probably won't want to discuss it right then and there for too long.
I always bring a worn-out copy of IJ onto the train, make sure its dog-earred pages are visible, its bent spine held up high for all eyes to gander at