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The Greeks.

the gita is a pretty good place to start.
easwaran for an easy translation, feuerstein for an academic edition (and you get to feel like a badass with the sanskrit en face)
don't try to go chronological and start with the rig veda or anything like that, enter with the gita and then read the upanishads.

>>10005954
Nice anon thanks, got any recommendation for what translation/version of the upanishads?

Moviebob mah nigga

>>10005905
Yes, yes, but what about his tax policy?

>>10005905
Do not post this fat nerd fuck on my literature board ever again.

>>10005861
Are you looking for more SF, or just anything YA that isn't shit?

>>10005894
either of those. I just want something to read.

>>10005861
He looks like the neighborhood coach who molested me.

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>>10005853
The Night Land, 1912. Also all of its metal fanfic and derivative works.

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>>10005839
This is how I usually write.

>>10006078
Recommend me some waffles. Let me in on your Beljonian secrets.

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>>10005728
http://explorer.opensyllabusproject.org/

Start with the greeks

>>10005738
>>10005741
ok so i realize the book i chose for my OP is a super obvious pick, but im mostly thinking about... not necessarily 1000 year old books. not necessarily the imdb top 250 equivalent of books. im looking for, among all the books people here have presumably read, which ones did you like the most?

for me, itd be, i suppose:

How An Economy Grows and Why it Crashes
Why Nations Fail
A Conflict of Vision

all more contemporary ones

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>>10005707
Write a story about my cute waifu killing everyone

This seems so self-evident but just ask yourself in what way is she too masculine and if so could there possibly be a way that justifies it in the story. Otherwise you can just start from scratch.

>>10005731
the protag is a member of law enforcement who thinks she killed her mother as a child.

I had my fiance proofread the chapter and she said the character seemed a little too masculine but couldn't really put into words why. I picked over the chapter and see it too, but I can't tell why. Maybe it's just the bug she put in my ear?

I mean, she's on the job in the first chapter. I'd expect her dialogue to be a bit "masculine/formal" at work.

normie self help meme book that doesn't actually help anyone

I read it and liked it. It has some good tips for keeping your stuff tidy. The main idea is that you should throw away all the useless stuff you own that has already served its purpose and that you should only do this purges once or twice and keep it that way (that's the tricky part). It has some ideas and customs specifically for Japan but overall I think it's helpful.

My sister is currently reading it. It's not working.

This whole argument of "which sex writes the other better" is the circlejerk of mediocres.

If you're a writer worth any kind of fuck you have no problem writing either male or female, hell even a fucking robot.

are they a porn reviewer?

also
>nubile balls
never thought about balls as marriageable

If female writers wrote tweets like robots would
>Please provide me with attention

If female tweeters read competently written books instead of half-cocked erotica
>(?)

If OPs posted threads like faggots do
>>10005592

What angle are you looking at, academic or practical?

>>10005500
Academic I guess, I want to understand it in its relation to western culture and history. I've read some Christian theology but I've never gone far with the whole occult stuff, only contemporary shit like Chaos magick when I was an edgy teen.

>>10005518
Cant go wrong here then:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0058C6FIQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Manly P Hall might also be up your alley. His works are considered classics.

>going from atheist to full blown born again fundie
What a meme
True patricians go from religious upbringing to years of atheism to eventual rediscovery of the truth and beauty of your religion

>>10005415

there is no beauty to Christianity

it is outdated philosophy mired in contradictions

>>10005451
If you've discovered a sound philosophy with no contradictions, please let us know.

The Will to Power is legit, deal with it.

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>>10005381
Would you trust a woman who sleeps with her mentally disabled brother?

For real tho, she wanted to cover up Nietzsche's edges so much she tried to claim The Antichrist had been altered. She was a christian who tried to ignore Nietzsche's attack on Christianity, which is the central motif of his entire philosophy. She also had to conceal the bits of his works where he outright praised the Jews, in order to sell it to the nazis. She did more harm to Nietzsche's legacy than any other historical person.

>>10005381
idk if it is available in english but Colli-Montinari is the best edition

>>10005359
Admiration of the male body falls into both categories fairly perfect.

>>10005359
He killed himself.

>>10005365
Depends on which tradition, doesn't it? Regardless, Mishima was obviously a self-loathing gay.

>>10005370
>Depends on which tradition, doesn't it?
Not really

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Not me lmao

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>>10005320
Accidental quote?

Hundreds of pages of fart puns from the mind of a dirty old man who was too intelligent for normal punctuation.

i meant to ask, is the translation i'm reading missing something here?

>>10005266
good meme upboated

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Why did Harold Bloom abandon his goodreads account?