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Is this the most objective best-ever list?
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200% mad
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I wish I could give out stars to the Goodreads community. Certain stars.
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What the fuck. I understand people like harry potter, but order of the Phoenix is literally the worst of the bunch. This list reads like self satire.
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I've progressively begun to embrace the beauty of suffering.
I have:
>donated the vast majority of my belongings
>deconstructed my bed (I'll sleep on the floor altogether if it doesn't fuck up my health)
>started taking cold showers and baths
>started eating much less and healthier
>etc.
A lot of that isn't really "suffering", but rather the abandonment of irrelevance. I'm trying to face the intrinsic value of life alone and to properly appreciate it for all that it can be.
Can you recommend any books, philosophers, etc. that touch this topic? I realize it plays heavily into Buddhism, so don't be shy to share some of that as well.
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>>8879365
>I've progressively begun to embrace the beauty of suffering.
Enjoy being a virgin for the rest of your life.
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>>8879365
Cuck
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In any case no doubt you would have failed had you sought to acquire worthwhile possessions. Don't kid yourself re. your true motives.
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What are some good intros to budism?
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a good understanding of the general cultural and religious background would be well, so the Vedas and other Hindu texts could serve to illuminate your perspective a bit more.
The only explicitly buddhist text I've read are the Tibetan Corpse Stories, which contain Tibetan stories with a Buddhist moral. Other than that, Edo period Haikus from Japan are also excellent.
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>>8879349
>tfw those beautiful streams are probably filled with poo and garbage now
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'In the Buddha's Words' published by Wisdom Publications is a thematically arranged anthology of passages from the Pali canon designed as an introduction and overview of buddhism. good place to start
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ITT: We write love letters in our best prose, in hopes of wooing our crushes
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I need a fat bitch
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>>8879283
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xqiu0ekahw
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>Hey want to date?
Girls don't like gushing ornateness or prosody.
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What are some things that are kafkaesque?
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>>8879116
My life desu
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>>8879116
MSM these days.
Don't let your family watch/read any of it. They are the fake news.
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>>8879116
Sometimes I poop then wipe but there is no poop on the toilet paper. I must look in the bowl to confirm my refuse. Despite knowing there is no more poop on my skin I still feel unclean all day. That is what it means to be Kafkaesque.
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ITT: We post hooks from our stories and decide if they actually draw any of you hesitant, suspicious fuckers in.
/lit/ snobs are hardest to engage with hooks, so lets see you work your magic on them.
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C R A S H
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After twenty years in the Army, Johnny is about to face his biggest challenge: getting a retirement job at a second-rate department store run by addicts, idiots, the mentally ill, and a whore.
query hook for my first book.
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(Note. The term aseasonal refers to the lack in the tropical zone of large differences in daylight hours and mean monthly (or daily) temperature throughout the year. Annual cyclic changes occur in the tropics, but not as predictably as those in the temperate zone, albeit unrelated to temperature, but to water availability whether as rain, mist, soil, or ground water. Plant response (e. g., phenology), animal (feeding, migration, reproduction, etc.), and human activities (plant sowing, harvesting, hunting, fishing, etc.) are tuned to this 'seasonality'. Indeed, in tropical South America and Central America, the 'rainy season' (and the 'high water season') is called invierno or inverno, though it could occur in the Northern Hemisphere summer; likewise, the 'dry season' (and 'low water season') is called verano or verão, and can occur in the Northern Hemisphere winter).
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does anyone have a pen pal?
does anyone want to be pen pals?
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>>8878995
i'll consider it desu
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>>8878995
Stop shitposting
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>>8878995
we all penpal here bro
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YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO LIST THE TEN GREATEST RUSSIAN NOVELS OF ALL TIME
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something like
1. anna karenina
2. the brothers karamazov
3. war and peace
4. crime and punishment
5. the idiot
6. notes from underground
7. dead souls
8. fathers and sons
9. a hero of our time
10. oblomov
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>>8878983
I was going to post this exact list.
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>>8878983
>no Master and Margarita
Faggit
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra:A book for All and None. 2016-12-24 12:52:13 Post No.8878800
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra:A book for All and None.
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/lit/ Thoughts.
Oh,and:
>Nietzsche wasn't a philosopher.
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how can one man be so intelligent is beyond me
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>>8878800
I'm going to be reading it soon. Anyone know if the Graham Parkes translation (Oxford edition) is any good?
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>>8878800
The book was kind of boring, but I think the eternal recurrence is the most profound idea anybody has ever had.
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I'm looking for novels that insist on characters walking, preferably without a clear direction, preferably in cities. I know it's one of the main point of Dostoyevsky, but I'm looking for a shorter (and, honestly, easier) read.
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Catcher in The Rye
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>>8878782
Auster
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>>8878782
kerouac desu
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ITT: we post the cover of a book and other anons try to guess what book it is
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>>8878725
Jackie Chan: A Biography?
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>>8878725
The 48 Laws of Power
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>>8878725
Perpetual Joke?
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to actual humanity students: what textbooks would you suggest to an autodidact?
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>>8878555
>autodidact
>textbooks
Pick one.
If you're an autodidact it's primary sources or bust.
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>>8878562
i'm an autodidact but i don't want to be a clueless pseud like 95% of this board
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>>8878555
>Sartre pic
>autodidact
Weren't you paying attention? You have to read alphabetically.
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I want to read some deeply disturbing/uncanny/creepy/unsettling lit. Recs?
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http://ideologylit.com/ice-cream-trucks/
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a squire's tale.
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>>8878527
The Hobbit.
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What would have Socrates said about abortions?
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"Let's drink it"
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>>8878426
'Why?'
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>>8878426
He was atheist scum. Subverter of tradition. The first cultural marxist
So /lit/ for 2017 my goal is to read some of the most important works ever created. Here's a list I made based on Bloom's one:
1.Gilgamesh
2.Mythology (Edith Hamilton)
3.The Iliad
4.The Odyssey
5.Introduction to the history of philosophy
6.Oedipus Rex
7.Oedipus at Colonus
8.Of The Nature Of Things
9.The Republic
10.Antigone
11.Letters from a Stoic
12.The Aeneid
13.The Prince
14.Montaigne Essays
15.The Divine Comedy
16.Metamorphoses
17.Popol Vuh
18.Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us
19.Hamlet
20.King Lear
21.Othello
22.Antony and Cleopatra
23.Julius Caesar
24.Macbeth
25.Romeo and Juliet
26.Don Quixote
27.Paradise Lost
28.The Sorrows of Young Werther
29.Faust
30.Don Juan
31.Rimbaud's Poems
32.Madame Bovary
33.The Count of Monte Cristo
34.Re Joyce (Burgess)
35.Dubliners
36.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
37.Ulysses
I didn't include any of the Russians because I've read most of them.
Anything you would add or remove? Any advice?
Help is greatly appreciated
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Are you NEET? If you're working or studying I don't see this happening but maybe you're a much better reader than I am.
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My goal is to read things i enjoy
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>>8878248
you forgot the bible