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We don't explicitly need sacrifice. Fuck dogmatically needing sacrifice.

>>8720500

You must serve yourself more than others then.

>>8720496
You're thinking of sacrifice as an appeasement to a God, or deity, when this sacrifice is one of natural order.

The rule of Nature is death. Predator consuming prey. Might is right, the weak fear the strong, etc...

I am mid-way through Yoga of Power, and it has really helped my meditation and orgasms.

True story.

He's de Maistre for larping plebieans.

>>8720409
I was an evolian for some months but it is just a sad, grumpy philosophic position.

Evola just needed to go to the beach for once in his lifetime, fall in love or something.

Don't waste your time with masturbatory esoterisms, just go full Catholic already.

>>8720278
Read the New King James instead, it's like the KJV but they hold your hand and pat your head

What could possibly be too hard about it?

>too hard
Try this http://lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

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Ego and his Own cures depression.

>>8720272
>do whatever you want bro it always works for me xP
How the fuck am I supposed to know what I want to do?

>>8720286
You already know you don't want to read the fucking book and understand what Stirner was actually all about, so that's a start.

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>>8720187
>too pleb to find the stylistic overuse of conjunctions agreeable

>>8720187

>Not striving for maximum linguistic efficiency

*Overuse of conjunctives in a sentence

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>>8720209

**Overuse of conjunctives in sentences

>>8720176
in my country etc.

Read Underground.

>Murakami
>Thoughts
I don't know what do tell you anon

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james gleick- the information

>>8720170
If you are interested in the philosophy of mathematics, read "Gödel's Proof", by Ernest Nagel and James R. Newman. A relatively non-technical book about one of the hardest subjects of maths.

If you want to really learn college maths with textbooks, I recommend the MIT OpenCourseWare courses as the simplest effective way to master entry-level maths (calculus/linear algebra), but you can use a lot of textbooks for side reading and exercises. Keisler, Meyer and Simmons (all pic related) are good; I recommend Stewart, Spivak and Strang as well.

When you master those, study Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis". After that, you'll have the knowledge of a junior maths student and be able to fully understand advanced books on topology, algebra, geometry etc.

I haven't studied biology after leaving high school and, for chemistry and physics, I used Halliday and Atkins; both are very good, but your pic related are probably good as well.

For "general reader science", you can't go wrong with the meme books, even though a lot of people in here disregard them. Dawkins's "The Selfish Gene", Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World", Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" are all very inspirational and cathartic.

If you're up for a challenge, I suggest trying high-school-level maths olympiads training. I know 2 of the 3 proofs books on your image (Polya and Hammack) and they're very good for that. I also suggest Velleman's "How to Prove It", Shklarsky et al.'s "The USSR Olympiad Problem Book" and Bradley's "Problems in Geometry".

Hope that helped. Ask if you have any questions, and I hope you become as amazed with maths as I am. Good luck!

I haven't read much of his oeuvre, only No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Schoolgirl and a few stories of Blue Bamboo.

Very melancholic and relatable to the average anon. Most of his book deal with dissociation and the inability to adapt to "normal life".

I could describe his style as "comfortably morose". Overall, he's very worth your time.

Drab, like most nip lit.

He's like an 8/10- not secret Jap Joyce, but maybe hipster Nipp Celine.

>>8719934
get the audiobook and listen to it while you sleep
your subconscious will absorb the words even while you're asleep, don't worry.

why the fuck do you care about how fast it takes to read it if you like the book

>>8719943
There are other books to read too.

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>>8719839
Personally I have a feeling he had a hand in Gary Johnson's campaign, myself...

He's an upper class intellectual from New York, so Democrat if he voted at all

>>8719839
where does he live

No, he isn't. Bad hair line!

>>8719843
so who is better?

>>8719837
Thinking radically is a spook, faggot.

Anything that will allow you to put memes aside for a while is worth it.

>>8719654
>Widely seen as one of the best books in the world
>is this worth the read
You tell me, dumbass. Nevermind that what you're asking is very subjective.

>>8719654
I have read it but I forgot what it was about.
There was war and some russian family life.
What I remember is that a cannot ball falls just beside the main characters and it spuns like a ball before stopping and exploding.
That was niiice.

No, there will be at least one guy writing an essay about how the Count of Monte Cristo literally changed his life and how it was the only book that could distract him from his 17th Skyrim playthrough

>>8719463
go to r/literature

>>8719476
But it was powerless against his 18th

>>8719133
Tell me about your book anon

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>>8719133
Shut the fuck up you entitled piss streak.
You're the one who chose to waste four years of your life on an ego project instead of doing anything productive.

>>8719133
>>8719137
please tell me

The shit it was based on was just as "edgy". There's tons of stuff like that in "real" mythology

someone post the 'im from /v/' starter pack

lord of the rings is harry potter from 1954. it's the standard everyone looks to just because it's popular. it's okay that it's the standard, and it's an okay work. has its merits. it's just like star trek. go ahead and enjoy it, but don't get caught up in making sense of every little thing. i've never understood how people can entertain themselves with the LOTR lore. you dig and dig for connections that inevitably hit dead ends, you dig a thousand feet to get to a 2x2 room. "now what?"