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I'm actually joining a Trappist monastery in November. I've visited twice this year, and the second time I asked if I could join. They explained that it involves a strict routine and hard work etc and I said that's fine. We'll see how it goes.

>>8347298
>Trappist
are you a sincere christian? Or just joining for the lifestyle?

becoming a Buddhist monk and going to live in seclusion while meditating all day is my backup plan in life.

>>8347238
Tried Lear?

>>8347238
Have you read 1984? I feel like it's a really good crossover from YA into adult lit. People on here talk shit about it but even now that I've moved into more dense and difficult works I still am really fond of that book.

>>8347238

Jonathan Swift
'literaly nonsense' is not a genre. Maybe satire is what you mean?

>>8347162
also - just to make sure i'm not retarded - aristotle on logic is often used as a synonym for the six books of the organon, no?

Why do you want to read him (his logic in particular)?

>aristotle on logic is often used as a synonym for the six books of the organon, no?

Presumably.

Anyway: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/

Categories: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/#Cat

>>8347230
interested in epistemology, and starting with the greeks - yeah im reading the SEP articles, thanks

Repugnant genre instruction manual for the untermensch

Dwarves sing, muh power corrupts, good triumphs over evil.

>>8347101
Mythology is pretty interesting desu.

Try the Malazan Book of the Fallen series - if you're the kind of person who was able to finish the WoT it should appeal to you, it's a very long series but incredibly well detailed and developed, to the extent it could very well be a history of a fantastical world more than just a fantasy series.

>>8347087

Mistborn

>>8347096
Tried gardens of the moon but didnt get into it (several years ago and didnt read too much of it). Does it get more interesting further in the book/serie?

>>8347050
They sound fuckig stupid. Take the red pill cuckold.

Moravia.

Giorgio Manganelli
Antonio Moresco
Giacomo Leopardi
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Antonio Gramsci
Carlo Michelstaedter
Umberto Eco
Zerocalcare

>>8347051
I'm curious to understand the reason behind this post

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I've read both. P&V is better IMO.

>>8347040
Isn't it about Jews?

Don't read it then. I only read redpilled books that make me feel happy about being white and a fat virgin.

>>8347045
I'm in the same position as OP.
Why do you think P&V is better?
Every lit review I've found online says otherwise

This desire to deceive yourself in relation to things you cherish may also affect your beliefs about the past which you previously had a strong, accurate perspective on but which is destroyed, twisted and replaced with spurious beliefs due to this desire to deceive yourself therefore causing you to lead your life drawing on false perspectives and interpretations to guide you and leading you to shit places.

Best I can do

>>8347002
What is this weird face I've been seeing a lot recently?

>>8347015
This just muddied the waters

Mein Kampf

>>8346985
take the redpill

I am better than women, blacks, Jews, Asians, vegetarians, liberals, socialists, homosexuals, trannies, skateboarders, and sexually active people because I'm a white heterosexual male of the conservative persuation.

I am literally superior to everyone else, and my friends on /r9k/ and /pol/ agree and validate me every day

Legit answers ITT.

Also
"spooks"

MFA programs were a mistake.

>>8348592
First post best post

>>8346972
I don't know. I read Freedom for the first time last week. I plowed through it in a few days and couldn't put it down but at the same time didn't enjoy any of it. Can someone explain this Franzenian discrepancy?

No books are any good. Therefore yes. Ahahahahahahahahahah XDXXXFXDXdXDXDXFCFXxxdxdxdxd

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>>8346904

>>8346935
BROOOTAL XDXDXDXD

>Considering virtually every 'great' thinker from the past would drastically change their opinions given what modern philosophy and science now knows
>implying

>given they are wrong about so much just by virtue of the lack of progress of their time?
>implying


thread over

This has to be bait

>>8346902
You seem upset. This is a legit question.

>>8346817
On Women by based Schopenhauer take the redpill

more alcohol

reaidng is for fags

On the Nature of Things - Lucretius (get the Hackett Edition)

>>8346846
Everybody knows you're false-flagging.

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you're a faggot

straight outta Compton
Is a brotha that'll smother yo' mother
And make ya sister think I love her
Dangerous motherfucker raises hell
And if I ever get caught I make bail
See, I don't give a fuck, that's the problem
I see a motherfuckin cop I don't dodge him
But I'm smart, lay low, creep a while
And when I see a punk pass, I smile
To me it's kinda funny, the attitude showin a nigga drivin
But don't know where the fuck he's going, just rollin
Lookin for the one they call Eazy
But here's a flash, they never seize me
Ruthless! Never seen like a shadow in the dark
Except when I unload, see I'll get over the hesitation
And hear the scream of the one who got the last penetration
Give a little gust of wind and I'm jettin
But leave a memory no one'll be forgettin
So what about the bitch who got shot? Fuck her!
You think I give a damn about a bitch? I ain't a sucker!
This is the autobiography of the E, and if you ever fuck with me
You'll get taken by a stupid dope brotha who will smother
Word to the motherfucker, straight outta Compton

>>8346777

waiting for godot + endgame if you want to try his plays first

molloy trilogy if you want to go straight to prose

>>8346777
You can start with this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wifcyo64n-w

i.e. an actual performance of his play and the only good filmed version that exists

>>8346772
> Show, don't tell

>>8346773
>tfw pseuds think they're above this

>>8346772
>I can't write concisely so I will pretend that I am above everyone who can