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>>8928112
baka senpai desu

kill all gaijin

>>8928112
hòuhuĭ: to regret or repent

Nietzsche

>>8927987
>Nietzsche

>>8927959
DUDE YOU CANT KNOW NUFFIN LMAO

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>>8927948
Please, just stop. You aren't convincing anyone, you're just shitting up the board.

>>8927948
I remember

>>8927956
No, this is like an actual /lit/ thing. Look it up in the archive.

Depends. Do you want to know what the book is about or do you want pretty sounding words that in no way can approach the original greek sound and rhyme?

>>8927893
>is the iliad good

it's probably the best work of fiction ever written.

>>8927926
A bit of both to be honest. Basically I want it to be as pleasing to read as possible whilst still retaining authenticity. I've heard pic related is the most accurate prose.

>>8927879
What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula for a proper introduction to the core beliefs from a perspective within the religion.

The Foundations of Buddhism by Rupert Gethin for a more historical overview written by a sympathetic western academic.

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante G if you're looking to begin a practice.

Or dig straight in the Dhammapada if you want to read directly what the Buddha purportedly said. Alternatively there's a nice anthology from Oxford called Saying of the Buddha translated by Rupert Gethin which has a more varied selection of teachings from the massive Pali Canon.

If you're more interested in, for example, Zen or Tibetan flavours of Buddhism I would reccommend the Rupert Gethin Foundations of Buddhism as a jumping off point as it briefly covers both the core doctrine and some sectarian beliefs.

>>8928248
definitely start with What The Buddha Taught but In the Buddha's Words is also a great beginner book to introduce you to Buddhism. Might want to read both

when interested in Zen I will also recommend reading the Daodejing since Chan/Zen has been influenced by it after all and then you might want to follow that up with Transmission of Light by Zen Master Keizan

>>8927879
read Imperial-way Zen

Hitler:
>the English are retarded lmao Americans are fags
American and British polacks:
>Hitler loved me

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• Finally, there is the notion of Hitler as a demonic 'artist of evil', who pursued the annihilation of the Jews not in spite fits evil character (this brings us back to the second level), but because of its evil character. The fundamental argument against the 'sincerity' of the Nazi belief is their treatment of the Jews before their physical annihilation: in a torturous process of physical and mental humiliation, they first deprived them of their human dignity, reducing them to a subhuman level, and only then killed them. In this way, they implicitly acknowledged the humanity of the Jews: while they claimed that the Jews were in fdct like rats or vermin, they first had to reduce them brutally to that status. This cynicism is supremely expressed in a Nazi documentary about the Jews , which shows as the proof of their subhuman status shots of the way they lived in dirt and decay in the Warsaw ghetto - that is to
say, in the very horror that the Nazis themselves had created. A further proof is provided by the multitude of practices which added the ironic insult to injury: the bands playing while the Jews marched to the gas chambers or to work, the notorious 'Arbeit macht frei!' inscription above the entrance to Auschwitz, and so on - unmistakable signs that the 'final solution' was carried out as a gigantic joke which submitted the victims to a supplementary act of gratuitous, cruel and ironic
humiliation. The awareness of some executioners that they were doing something horrible and shameful, which should be kept out of the public eye, also fits this level: the very awareness that what they were doing was an act of transgression of the minimal standards of decency not only established
between the perpetrators a secret bond of solidarity but provided the supplementary obscene jouissance - isn't it satisfying to do such horrible things under cover of sacrificing oneself for one's country?

The strange thing about these four answers is that although they are mutually exclusive, each of them is, in a way, utterly convincing. To resolve this deadlock, one should first qualify the second option: what if Hitler was a fake manipulator who none the less got caught up in his own game - who started to believe his own faked myth? Even a superficial reading of Mein Kampf leaves us perplexed when we try to answer a simple question: does Hitler believe himself or not? The only consistent answer is:
both yes and no. On the one hand, it is clear that Hitler consciously 'manipulates': sometimes - say, when he emphasizes how, in order to dominate the crowds and arouse their passions, one should present them with a simplified image of the one great Enemy on whom all the blame is put - he even directly shows his cards. On the other hand, it is no less clear that he gets passionately immersed in his own deception.

>>8927717
>reviewing books that might as well be subtitled "my art school years"
somehow i think you're more optimistic about where this is going than when other anons do the same thing and pretend to take the fault in the stars seriously as a sociological and literary set of phenomena. your prose style suggests that hope to be unfounded.

>>8927701
Your diary

>>8927710
I don't keep one because there's so little happening in my life that I stopped writing in it years ago.

>>8927752
Make something happen

i don't think orwell was trying to predict the future, i think he was satirising what was already happening in the soviet union at the time

i swear to fucking god i've read this exact amazing post with the same insightful reply at least twice a year since 2010

>>8927622
Why does it matter? A vast majority of people in all time periods were simply the stupid, passive herd. Only a few great men in each generation rise to become greater than mediocrity.

The same "egoism" your post talks about is the same one that makes people think that everyone can make a difference, but that's not true. What harm is it if the masses can have their bread and circus?

What's going on here?

>>8927499
What are you even asking? What's your question? You don't even fucking tell us what chapter you're on.

>>8927515
No, no, I'm talking about the whole book. He writes about many so to seem not necessary things, so I'm kinda confused what does he actually want to say.

>>8927426
Zizek. Bitches love coke.

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>>8927426
Nope.

>>8927426
Where should one start with Hegel?

>>8927350
Don't bother, these dweeby pseudo-intellectual cucks are too busy crying over poetry to get it

>>8927350
What is this?

>>8927350
Put some of the stock from chamonix antiques into storage tomorrow, some of those pieces are alright.

I promise

i became an avid reader three months ago...

>>8927306
I promise nothing, you lazy hack.

John Milton - Paradise Lost

>>8927756
Almost forgot:
Dante - The Divine Comed

Not old, but I've been meaning to read The Lusiads for a while now.

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>21 year old
>writing a book about politics

>>8927228
Good novel. Not as good as Mein Kampf but still

>>8927228
I read it and I regret having done so. Most of the alt-right 'celebrities' are just out to make a quick buck. They don't understand the ideology, let alone care about it.

>>8927171
No one reads him nowadays.

>>8927192
People hardly read anything nowadays.

>>8927192

Just order his Odes and Epodes