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>>9652724
>reading books to be entertained

Get a life

>>9652689
house on the pooh's corner

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are you retarded? only talk about verifiable facts. keep silent about everything else.

>>9652328
He is actually the only comprehensible philosopher to have come out of the 20th century.

WItty is the clearest and most understandable philosopher of the 20th century, what are you about man.

this is not a board where you "redpill me on x"

Camus pretty cool guy though

I bet he never have sex lmao

>>9652205
is life worth living?
should i kill myself?

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Supernatural_Is_All_but_Fake

Moby Dick tackles some of those themes I think

>>9651959

But that's mainly because it tackles damn near everything

>>9651932
I'm just going to ignore the "pre 1900" part and recommend Look Homeward, Angel; which was heavily inspired by Portrait.

I'm sure you're probably looking for some "updated" study that only people on /pol/ cite saying that sex is evil and women should kill themselves but in the off chance you're entirely serious-

1- I wouldn't say they've been "debunked". People still have sex and it's retarded to assume otherwise. I mean you're here aren't you?
So your proposition is "is there new data that says all the old data is false?"
No. Again, people still have sex. The data of that time reflects the society in which it was recorded.

If you do want something:

2- Try an old text book from 2014. Basically the same as a recent one but it's $14 instead of $140 or whatever the fuck they're charging these days. I have several and it's basically the same shit- even try 2016 because the textbook industry is retarded.

3- Try emailing the Kinsey Institute for resources. Also just check general Amazon related books on the topic. I have a shitpost of various books and by all means don't mistake shit like "Sex at Dawn" for actual legitimate sexology data. Or "A Billion Wicked Thoughts" because godDAMN did that piss me off.

>>9651540
>no Latin

>onay Tinlay.

>>9650997
Depends. Have you read A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, with Stanley M. Burstein, Walter Donlan and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts

I actually read that recently

It's not very long and somewhat interesting, so why wouldn't you
But you should subsidize with some other material on Bronze Age Greece, in parts it sort of feels like Berry really wants to believe Homer knew what he was talking about

For example I saw some talks by Donald Kegan on YouTube where he points out that Homer was aware of the existence of chariots, but had no fucking clue how they would be used in battle and instead has everyone in the Iliad use them like taxi cabs
Berry on the other hand is of the opinion that the ground around Troy was too marshy for chariot charges and that they would in fact be used like taxi cabs
There was another thing like that I can't remember

He has short comments here and there where he compares events in the Iliad to historical events of the Bronze Age to show that such and such a thing may very well have occurred and whatnot and that's pretty good

I also got kind of annoyed with the book towards the end for some reason but I can't recall why

Okay, I will read it.

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