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allowing non-clergy to read the bible ended civilization so stop

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Some parts are obviously literal, some parts are obviously figurtive, some parts are obviously mystical. And some aren't obvious in which they are, but we have plenty of ancient saints to explain them to us.

>>9931932
Non clergy were always allowed and urged to read Scripture in the east.

Do you take the library literally?

>>9931702
Poetry is for faggots anyway

>>9931702
of course, poetry is literally held to a higher standard

I've had an argument about a single punctuation mark before

>>9931714
>of course, poetry is literally held to a higher standard

Hardly, its way waaaay easier to get away with being a mediocre poet than a mediocre writer especially these days.
>I've had an argument about a single punctuation mark before
Oh never mind I'm talking with one

Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus, The Recognitions

>>9931598

Just read Mein Kampf

>>9931598

Start with the bible

>>9931183
For some, sure.

There's bad literature, too, though. I find that women read more than anyone I know, and they all read trash.

>>9931192
>not having a girlfriend who's a Proust scholar

kek

That's one of the best chapters.
I'd be happy if he stretched it twice as long.

I think the entire purpose of the book is to drag on.

Shut the fuck up

dislike, it's a distraction and i don't understand the appeal
are they trying to make the book appear less mass-produced then it is?

Some spergs on this board complain about how they can't grip the pages well or something. I don't have an issue with it besides it being completely unnecessary.

I don't like it. I like clean, smooth edges.

based

>>9930767
Anyone who thinks Post-Modernism is degeneracy and Modernism was more respectful to Western Civilization needs to read Beckett

>>9930783
Challenge accepted, which book?

But these are the worst white males of the lot

>king of homos releases a fat poo
>it has OP's sperm on it

>>9930594
>Sappho
>male
Pick one

In Cold Blood

>>9930457
La Bas!

Sort of.

I'm a fan of this type of writing, but I get freaked out easily. Makes me start thinking everyone is a serial killer. Good thing I keep my phone handy.

huey lewis and the news

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>>9930260
When the mainstream discourse is completely dominated by one perspective then people will find other outlets to complain. Academia and media are so heavily leftwing that people go to anime forums to blow off steam.

>>9930268
Please don't post trash.

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Abolish Bill C-16, PLEASE!

Because Stirner exposed the ideas of religion, tradition and morality Peterson desperately struggles to find justification for as the meaningless spooks they are.

Stiner BTFO'd that spooked out hack Peterson a hundred years before he was even born.

>>9929741
Because Stirner falls into the category of games which are easy to play, according to Peterson. Just call everything a spook and you suddenly don't have to justify anything you do. You are good to go. You don't need excuses and you are letting yourself stay unsorted because lmao dude spook who cares. It's not healthy to think of fundamental things as meaningless.

If this isn't a fucking joke, then congratulations on taking babby's first step to understanding how history was once written and how it's progressed since then. How do you think you even got to the point of believing that history should be factual and useful and backed up by evidence? Because these guys stumbled around in the dark for your sorry ass 2400 years ago and invented a genre of writing just so you could whine about some of the greatest writers of all time not catering exactly to your expectations thousands of years later.

>>9929739

Oh come on. You're telling me these schizophrenic freaks wrote about monsters and gods as an actual depiction of life back then? Like they genuinely believed a minotaur guarded their buildings? No way, either the Greeks were a buncha liars hyping their own bullshit or people found some fiction and somehow interpreted it as fact. Like how people from the future are gonna discover books like 1984 and believe that's how it really was.

>>9929724
Maybe finish Herodotus and move on to Thucydides.

do not fall off cliffs

Aww sage that's really sage rough sage I hope sage that everything sage works out :(

>>9929536
>its pretty much devastated me
Haha faggot.
Learn to not be emotionally dependent on others.

>22
>Washington D.C.
>The Sea is My Brother-Kerouac

Actually really like this. Big fan of On the Road and Big Sur so I was interested in this "lost novel." It was a pretty early work so I didn't expect it to be great. It's not on the level of his other stuff, but better than expected, and interesting to see a sort of beginning level of his style.

>>9929472
>age
23
>location
Pakistan
>current book you're reading and how do you like it
Gulag Archipelago. It's just my type of lit.

>>9929488
Also I forgot to add; I love stories set at sea/on ships etc. If any recommendations let me know, though I have read Moby Dick

1. Not as good as We
2. Box of spiders was lame
3. Not as edgy or relevant as BNW
4. Orwell was a pseud

It's popular

>>9929407
Orwell fought in the international brigades against Franco. He insisted that he disagreed with totalitarians yet still clung to marxism as if there was a chance it could create a benevolent, fair society. Therefore, he was a naive dingus.