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what is this

Will get to this in the next few hours.

Will read after work

>>8988760
bad translations

>>8988764
Why does everyone hate me?

>not getting the penguin classics
neck yourself my dude

>>8988299
Leviathan began the foundation of liberal, democratic thought.

Very puzzled why you didn't just start with Leviathan, Locke and Rousseau and whoever are impossible to fully understand without Hobbes. Actually, read the Prince before you do anything else.

>>8988313
>Very puzzled why you didn't just start with Leviathan, Locke and Rousseau and whoever are impossible to fully understand without Hobbes. Actually, read the Prince before you do anything else.

Thank you anon , i already read the prince, i will go for Hobbes next then. Any other essential books about the subject?

>>8988299
Leviathan is more about power adapting to social change. Get a background in these guys, particularly Rousseau, then study the French Revolution in depth. Everything has been a derivative of it as an event.

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>>8987320

>>8987360
lol

infowars

>>8987263
Isn't that a /pol/ website

>>8987232
Islands in the net

>>8987226
Siddharta by Herman Hesse is a good way to put Western readers into a more Eastern mindset, or for inspiration, but is not very accurate. I suggest starting with for for inspiration.

Also, if you are familiar with Greek Philosophy there is a great book out there called "21st Century, the age of Sophia : the Wisdom of Greek philosophy and the Wisdom of the Buddha," another way to compare and contrast the Western tradition with the Eastern.

Beyond those two, there are many great books out there that summarize such ideas, such as The Religions Book by DK, or the Dummies series.

For more in depth and advanced reading, the Sutras are essential.

>>8987323
Thanks :)

>>8988888
>wasting quints on a bump
You will die by Kek's slimy hand.

first for robert anton wilson

>>8982809

Currently reading Ciaphas Cain and the black company too. I really like both desu. But does Dreams of Steel ever get good? im about half way through and its pretty bad/dull and are the later books as good as the first 4? I just find Lady's chapters boring as she builds her army. But at least Croker isnt dead like i thought he was at the end of Book 3


Although from its reputation i really expected some dark shit but it seems rather tame to me apart from the child rape in Book 1 (but the rapers get killed instantly). Hell Lady isnt evil really.

Croaker is just great though

>>8983124

The Lady and soul catcher are always described as attractive but everyone is too spooked to make a move

i'm trying my hand at a fantasy novel, what do you guys think

>Taking my hand in hers, I turned towards the Death Magician. Glancing backwards, I saw Crimson’s eyes begin to water, her tears like golden sapphires against her ivory cheek. Gritting my teeth, I placed the back of my hand across her face and cradled her beautiful flesh. I wasn’t about to let a demon ruin everything. Everything I had worked so hard to protect. Ever since the death of my parents I’ve always felt this outrageous and tempestuous urge to protect the living, and I wasn’t about to let some freak ruin it all. Originias curse pulsed on the back of my neck as I took out my sword. A pain in the neck. Literally.
>“Hey, asshole”, I say defiantly.
>“Are you ready?” he smirked cruelly as he interrupts me. Taken aback, I ask in a tentative way,
>“ready to what?” I barked back, my fists clenching.
>“Ready to die!”
>He rushed forward and yanked my arm out of it’s socket, but at this point I could no longer feel pain. I laugh. And then plunge my hand straight through his chest. Startled, he howled in trepidation and his dragon tattoos convulsed, as the creatures below us hissed in a penurious attitude. But then, something happened. Something that I would never forget. Not even on my deathbed would I ever forget this. Even that moment when Chrysalis raped and tortured my mother, paled in comparison to this. Stuck inside this anfractuous maze, with my hand stuck inside the demon's chest, Crimson took a step forward and

Also might the new atheists by some strange twist have impelled more people toward faith?

Man and his symbols

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>>8984343
Pic related is a good read if you want a competent defense of the other side's point of view. He responds to some points his brother made in God Is Not Great and responds to Dawkins too.

Just sit criss cross apple sauce and breathe, you dont need a book

Practical Meditations for Busy Souls, the Headspace app (not a book but great for beginners), and Wherever You Are, There You are.

>>8984245
zen mind beginners mind

It ruined my life for a couple of years, friend.

It puts you in that never ending cycle of "I should be living more in the in the Now - Am I doing it now? - How about Now?". It's like protestant self-flagellation.

Wouldn't recommend it.

The Power of Now is very roughly a scheme marketed towards gullible people, providing them with sentimental agitation and a reductionist pseudo-philosophy.

Books that portray themselfes as "self-help" usually cater to the lower denominator for the sake of increased business revenue -- it's a huge market after all, both in terms of money and prestige.

This is true of most New Age spirituality anyhow. Sometimes these asshats try to be sneaky and throw the word "ancient" in somewhere, quoting selectively and carrying interpretations out of context, but I have studied enough traditional sources to have a well founded reason for my contempt of the pop-spiritual scene.

Fuck these hacks, you're better off studying the mystic oldtimers and brilliant philosophers through first hand sources.

>>8984307
But the concept of the self-help genre doesn't seem inherently flawed. It may be oversaturated with new age, but I feel like the primary purpose of these books is to inspire. Are there any reputable inspirational books? Obviously there are plenty of books that could inspire, but I'm thinking of more directly communicative inspiration / motivation.

Ideally, a good self-help book would provide a practical framework that's sound in its methodology while also providing inspiration.

Am I best off reading books on ethics?

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Literally shit on a canvas

>>8983721
it's a telling sign, to be sure

How can Tolstoy trash something that didn't exist until well after he died?

>>8980652
"For a long time I used to go to bed early."

Call me Ishmael.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen has god tier irony that many Ameriplebs just dont get

>>8979171
I sort them by authors first name

Mine are sorted by date published

>>8979171
I alphabatize mine according to the author's country of origin

Game of thrones a feast for crows

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>>8976649
I'd prefer real work stuff, WW1 and 2 would be perfect

>>8976647
All Quiet on the Western Front
Catch-22
WWI poetry

This triggers the /lit/

>>8972840
We don't care about postmodernism today but this argument was stupid. There are lots of ways of critiquing continental thought but this is not one of them.

This essay was basically the equivalent of Pissgate. Write a hoax article, watch people freak out. It doesn't mean they are freaking out over nothing. It means that shit is complicated. But a total fucking assbag could seriously believe that the hoax of something they didn't understand and did not want to understand is actually a hoax at all. It is LOL i trolled u memetier silliness by grown adults who really should have known better.

Don't get it twisted. Hysterical postmodernism is retarded. But if S&B wanted to actually further the philosophical project they could have engaged in the arguments like grown-ass men instead of teenagers.

Truth actually is relative. The fact that their experiment 'worked' is actually a pretty clear indication of that. But this is why S&B are such cunts. Because they didn't give a fuck about philosophy: all they wanted was to be right, which is exactly what the poststructuralists were looking into with a great deal more care and circumspection.

If you sneak into a church and take a shit on the altar, does that prove anything? Not really. You weren't struck by any lightning bolts. All it shows is that you couldn't be bothered to raise your head above the ground and look at the stained-glass windows or the masonry or the illuminated texts. Nah. Who cares about that, right?

This is all those retards accomplished.

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>>8972871
>>8972840
Positivist detected