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> Start reading Bible
> After a couple pages remember, that billions of people take it literally and actually believe this crap to be the absolute truth.
> Billions of people think they know all about natural and supernatural entities.
> Dropped

It's definitely worth reading. It's easy to be put off by a shitty edition. Get the NRSV bible. It's the academic standard.

Each book is prefaced by a historical introduction. They're typically really well done, and the entire thing is assembled by top-shelf scholars. All that aside, the translation is fluid, and it's actually a pleasure to read.

I was raised an atheist, so the first time I ever read any of the bible was through my classical Greek classes in undergrad. It was really fun stuff to read in Greek, so that's when I read it in English. I got started with the King James edition, which besides being full of translation errors is just written in the most laborious prose, before I picked up the NRSV.

If you still find it chewy it might be helpful to get the oxford companion to the bible. Used copies are cheap on amazon. The prefaces and footnotes of the NRSV should be enough to make sense of everything though.

>>8582471
I just looked at my actual edition - it's the New Oxford Annotated Bible (College Edition), which is a more academic (highly footnoted) version of the NRSV translation.

>>8588084
That's not Kant

>>8588084
Paperweight is nice.

>>8588084
disgusting degenerate

>>8587652
>/biz/ in academia
Kek

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To be perfectly honest, this is what you get when you let a STEMfag make it through his education without exposure to the liberal arts.

how the fuck would merging boards save bandwidth? You're all retarded

>>8582649
>Every time I read about a 24 / 25 year old getting their debut published I seethe with anger and resentment.

Why don't you write about it?

Maybe you should be less worried about getting published and more focused on writing something worth reading. Literature isn't like acting; you can get published at any age as long as the writing is good. If you're looking to get published young so you can "slay mad pussy" acting like a pretentious douche at parties telling all the girls you're a "published author" then maybe the reason you're not getting published is because you're a phoney, vapid, narcissist with nothing to actually say.

>>8582670
>so you can "slay mad pussy" acting like a pretentious douche at parties telling all the girls you're a "published author"

Literally nothing wrong with this. Why do you think most musicians join a band in their youth? Why do most men do anything?

>>8575375
because he can't turn left

Is this like hitch 2.0?

he wants me to punch him in the face

>>8565061
Greek.

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Start with the Egyptians and Pythagoreans

>>8565063

As someone who actually reads Greek fairly well this is nonsense. Plato is a beautiful writer and you will lose lots of the beauty in English but the ideas are not such that they can't be translated to English as long as you have a good edition.

OP I'd dive in, you should know something about the history of the times but even wikipedia would suffice.

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>>8588450
I write volumes of fake John Green prose and quotes across boards to try to discredit and humiliate him.

It works 90% of the time.

>>8588450
I think Hemingway is painfully overrated. I can't get through anything he's written without becoming bored out of my mind.

Rarely are there profound female writers. Most of the ones of note aren't really good writers.

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Mrs. Dalloway is better than To the Lighthouse

B E I D A O
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>>8587391
nice

my type is Algerian writer, Boualem Sansal, the author of "2084"

Why do they snub Gene Wolfe? Damn Swedes

she looks like my ex

Thursday:

Me: Hey, did you talk to rick?
Her: Yeah...he had some stories to tell.
Me: Yeah, he talk to me too, basically he didn't do anything wrong and everyone is coming down on him hard.
Her: Yeah, he had one of those bracelet things on now.
Me: Yeah....
Her: Well see you next week.
Me: Later

>hi
>hi
>anything more?
>no
>here's the receipt
>thanks

i guess

>>8583331
Parochial has always been common, and always described bad things. You're probably just a culturally insulated flyover and never noticed

>>8583331
so tight I can make out the change in her back pocket

Isn't that weird

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>>8583177

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>Highest average IQ in the world
>Can't write for shit

Japanese is basically an untranslatable language

This is going to be a bad thread full of insecure teenagers. I am going to hide this thread.

I'm an authoritarian nationalist

>>8582327
I am a dumb fucking faggot

fucked up the ass
and I'm in pain
Darlin'
you give love...
A bad name!

There, i contributed.

From hospital she remarked on the nostalgic nature of the experience, as she hadn't been anally penetrated since college.

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>>8582146
Fuck you, I hate puns. Do something else instead.


>He was aiming for the hole that was open most the time

>she didn't notice due to her the size of her fat fucking ass

>"well that takes care of the crabs"

>she thinks the blood is from her period/miscarriage. Cue feminist bitching about free bleeding. She dies of an infection

>while she's getting fudged in the factory the stitched rip and the guy comments she smells like she did last week and she says she has a headache suddenly

Can you tell I hate women because I hate women.

>>8581258
Why not Hobbes and Rousseau? or Aristotle's politics

>>8581258
Foucault is not really entry tier.

>>8581258
If you want easy to go and actual political/social theory

Read Giddens, Habermas

If you wanna go deep into and just fuck up your whole perception of society

Read Foucault, Horkheimer, Lukacs.

If you wanna go with the classics
Read Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

Or the more actual Classics
Marx, Weber, Durkheim

>Ikkabod
>clam

S m h m8

>>8534624
>>clam
Goddamnit, I had caught that in an earlier revision on my hard drive, didn't realize I hadn't updated.

>>Ikkabod
Mind elaborating? I realize that's not how it's usually spelled, if that's what you're getting at.

Wrote this in 5 minutes. Don't know what I'm doing. Pls no bully.

The many express ideals
The few live them real
Can talkers truly hold blame
for men naturally falter
Before the onslaught of life

Living real, you know above all
Men cannot be Socrates
He is one man long dead
Yet his spirit, like the man in life
Confronts the sordid nature of man

Yes! Men falter, for it is our nature
Do no fret, revel in this instead
Once fallen, there is only to rise
Rise like the Roman
Find the true road;
And March
For Rome awaits