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Are there any good fiction or nonfiction books about the crusades or the church and heresy? I love the time period and the concept of ignorance burning in cryptic language.
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>tfw no sexy witch to burn
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>>8948215
why live
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>>8948232
When the far right rises in the response to third world immigration the globalist economy will collapse because of ethno-nationalist isolationism which will usher in an age of poverty unseen in Europe for the last hundred years.
The Church will rise again, witches will burn again. Repent.
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Official Bible Discourse Thread 2017-01-08 11:23:50 Post No.8948168
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Official Bible Discourse Thread
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2017-01-08 11:23:50
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You start with the Greeks
You finish with the Bible
Debate me
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>>8948168
Which book is the best?
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>>8948193
>Read the bible last
>Not reading the the entire western canon after reading the bible so that basically all the idioms and allusions now make sense.
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Would you prefer your death to be unexpected and sudden or not? Personally, I would like to know I was going to die. It intrigues me, having death by you side. It would be the ultimate chance for true introspective reflexion, weighing what is really worth and what isn't. Plus that moment of supposedly absolute peace just before the curtains fall. It would be a shame not having the possibility to experience all of this.
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>>8948157
Literature.
Fuck off
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>>8948157
Knowing. I am bad at managing time so I think that'd help me.
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>>8948157
Saw this painting in Berlin. What was the name a again?
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Find a book, post the cover and the last sentence of the book.
>They fly toward grace.
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
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>>8948267
>not the last paragraph of the epilogue
Disgraceful.
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"A screaming comes across the sky."
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Hey /lit/ newfag here. Just got out of a relationship, so now i have some extra time on my hands. Any recommendations? I picked up Crime and Punishment to read for the second time around, but I'm always open to suggestions
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>>8948128
Take the redpill by reading Schopenhauer's 'On Women'. I have since disavowed women and lead a much better life
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>>8948137
But then how am I supposed to fullfill my sexual desires without being a faggot?
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>>8948361
I think the best way is to still have a gf, but to never forget that women are basically dogs that just look like humans. This realization also helps in relationships.
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>tell everyone I want to be a writer
>have manuscript of half finished, terrible book I haven't touched in four years.
>friends think I am a great writer
>never read the manuscript because "not finished"
>own over 300 books
>only read 100 in the past 6 years
>understood maybe 15
>smoke weed
>play vidya
>drink
>never write
>never read
>mfw I think I am going to be a success
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Fake it 'til you kill yourself
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>read 100 books
>understood 15 at best
you're a waste of space. The only good that'll come out of your delusional life is ending it
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>>8948134
How did you know my plan?
I'm reading through Beyond Good and Evil and having trouble understanding aphorism 40.
>There are actions of love and of extravagant generosity, after which there is nothing more advisable than to grab a stick and give an eyewitness a good thrashing: - in so doing we cloud his memory. Some people know how to befuddle or batter their own memories in order at least to take revenge on this single witness: - shame is resourceful. It is not the worst things that make people feel the worst shame. Behind a mask there is not only malice - there is so much goodness in cunning.
What did he mean by this?
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>>8948118
IN that passage he's basically saying that only white men can trust be rational, truly ethical, truly love, and truly be loyal
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>>8948129
>>/pol/
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>>8948170
Nietzsche would've been a regular on /pol/, cuck
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/wprg/ Day 17: War and Peace Reading Group 2017-01-08 11:10:01 Post No.8948080
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/wprg/ Day 17: War and Peace Reading Group
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The reading for day 17 is B3 Part 2 Chapter 32 through and including Part 3 Chapter 9, pp. 855-906.
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g
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Reading Schedule
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Battle of Borodino
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He's really gone, boys.
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Is there a really beautiful greatest of all time book that isn't tragic and depressing?
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>>8948017
How many of these threads do you need, homo?
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>>8948017
Life is inherently tragic
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>>8948017
Paradife Loft, unless you're a cuck.
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Does anyone actually read on here?
Even the most serious of discussions are all surface level insights with no individual opinion.
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Post your deepest insight from the latest book you've "read".
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sure
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>>8948011
No you are the only one you self-obsessed faggot.
What do i read to get into analytical Thomism? what's a good introduction?
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>>8947949
How did your date go, pathetic virgin loser?
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>>8947984
something got you down bud?
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>>8947986
Feeling a bit lonely tonight, lad. Have a bump
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>Let me explain why I'd recommend this book to everyone: Plato is stupid.
>Seriously.
>And it's important that you all understand that Western society is based on the fallacy-ridden ramblings of an idiot. Read this, understand that he is not joking, and understand that Plato is well and truly fucked in the head.
>Every single one of his works goes like this:
>SOCRATES: "Hello, I will now prove this theory!"
>STRAWMAN: "Surely you are wrong!"
>SOCRATES: "Nonsense. Listen, Strawman: can we agree to the following wildly presumptive statement that is at the core of my argument?" {Insert wildly presumptive statement here— this time, it's "There is such a thing as Perfect Justice" and "There is such a thing as Perfect Beauty", among others.}
>STRAWMAN: "Yes, of course, that is obvious."
>SOCRATES: "Good! Now that we have conveniently skipped over all of the logically-necessary debate, because my off-the-wall crazy ideas surely wouldn't stand up to any real scrutiny, let me tell you an intolerably long hypothetical story."
{Insert intolerably long hypothetical story.}
>STRAWMAN: "My God, Socrates! You have completely won me over! That is brilliant! Your woefully simplistic theories should become the basis for future Western civilization! That would be great!"
>SOCRATES: "Ha ha! My simple rhetorical device has duped them all! I will now go celebrate by drinking hemlock and scoring a cameo in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!"
>The moral of the story is: Plato is stupid.
Did Plato just get BTFO by this Goodreads review of The Republic?
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>>8947948
Plato is to philosophy what Catcher in the Rye is to fiction. It's the ultimate pleb filter. If you fall for the deceptive simplicity of the dialogues then philosophy is not for you
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>>8947948
Its almost like hundreds of other philosophers have used percieved flaws in Plato's arguments as the launching points for their own theories, and that Plato created the basis of Western thought not because he was unquestionably correct but because he opened the way for these topics to be discussed, or something.
It's almost like Aristotle came along and directly contradicted Plato's philosophical model as his contemporary, too
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>>8948518
Aristotle was a reaction to Platos thought. He was out to undo everything put down in the dialogues. Pretty much most of western philosophy is an attack on Plato. Nigga was right (or at least genuine in his reasoning) all along and these plebs still trying to say he's wrong.
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I want to get into philosophy but without delving too deep too early. I just want to get a taste of philosophy first then dive when I am "ready". Help me find enlightenment, fellow Anons.
Anons who did it before me, share your experience with those in need of it.
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>>8947941
Bumping this in hopes for a decent answer.
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>>8947941
What sort of questions interest you?
How to live a moral life? Why we exist? How to structure an argument? The future? The origin of being? What "being" really means?
Philosophy isn't like an anime series where you can start and stop before it gets too dense with plot development, dilettante!
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>>8948030
>How to structure an argument?
I never knew this is part of philosophy but now that you mentioned I am really interested.
Also:
How to live a moral life?
This sounds more interesting than the other choices.
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What's the worst cover art you've seen for an otherwise good book/story?
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>>8947900
I am Magyar and this triggers me
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>>8947911
hello magyar
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>>8947911
No one cares.
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Hey /lit/ I am looking to compile a list of books which can be considered a cultures 'roots' or quintessential to a certain culture. Generally relating to the creating of the universe, and the specific cultures creation myths.
At the moment if have -
>Journey to the West
>An English translation of Atra Hasis and other Mesopotamian myths
>Shahnameh
>Lord of the Rings
>The Iliad
>Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
I am looking for a good copy of Mahabharata and Ramayana, are there any other cultures whom have written huge poetic epics? I know of the Poetic Eddas but I haven't been too interested in them yet. I am also particularly interested in anything related to African culture.
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>Lord of the Rings
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>>8947888
>he doesn't know
Lord of the rings is quintessential modern fantasy.
Don't bother arguing senpai.
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>Epic of Gilgamesh
>The Bible
>Beowulf
>Theogony
>Egyptian Book of the Dead