works that help with manhood

>>8436140
The Bible.

>>8436140
>look up philosophers that had their shit together
>read their works
it's not hard senpai

>>8436140
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is the GOAT for this purpose.

A lot of Jack London and Ernest Hemingway is good for this too.

>>8436167
Suggestions please?

>>8436184
Schopenhauer

>>8436140
Don't you have a father or something that was supposed to teach you this shit?

>>8436225
No

>>8436179
pseud

>>8436225
le father-figures-still-exist meme

it's 2016, patrician patriarchs are historical entities

>>8436236
easy with the edge lad

Now that the workforce is fully open to women, the entire concept of gender is obsolete in the West right now. The only reason it gets spoken of at all is to help people pantomime vestigial ideals for mating purposes.

So, you're better off asking women.

machiavelli

>>8436140
Marcus Aurelius comes to mid, but the best thing you can do to learn about being a man is going out in the real world and get some bruises.

>>8436292
Gender isn't obsolete for the exact reason you alluded to.

Women. Women are still by an large attracted to masculine men and they will never procreate with a man who acts like a woman.

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>>8436225
I had a some what strained relationship with my father as a teenager. As a result he taught me very little.

I once asked a coworker to show me how to use something and he says "Didn't your dad fucking teach you that?"

>my soul when

Confessions of a Mask

>>8436330
>and they will never procreate with a man who acts like a woman.
Holy shit the ignorance is off the charts.

Have you heard of dandyism? Or taken a cursory look at popular culture? It's full of lithe bishonen acting feminine, and women lap it up.

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>>8436373
dandyism isn't feminine

>>8436373
>and women lap it up

They really don't. They like having them orbiting around and giving them attention, and maybe even have sex with them from time to time, but they are not going to procreate with a wet noodle.

>>8436384
I'd fuck a peacock. Therefore it is feminine.

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>>8436164
FPBP

>>8436140
Marcus Aurelius and the stoics.

>>8436488

Great band name

>>8436535
I'm founding it, know how to play bass?

>>8436541
I know how to rub my fingers on catgut tied to the insides of trees, yes.

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Which board is smartest, /sci/ or /lit/?

>>8436651
You've had your fun.

>>8436184
plato

>>8436386
this.

>>8436184
>Suggestions please?
start with the greeks. Not a meme.

What do you mean by "a better man"? More moral? more educated?

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>>8436140
Dude just go read anything by Hemingway. If you aren't and alcoholic with a hairy chest and suicidal thoughts I don't think anything can help you.

>>8436140
Confucian analects

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>>8436373
>Dandyism
>Feminine
>

>>8436140
First the basics:
Aristotle - Ethics
Epictetus - Disourses

Then some flavor:
Soseki - Kokoro
Kazantzakis - Zorba the Greek

Aristotle basically tells you what a proper fucking man should do, and how men fall to vice. Epictetus will tell you how to not give a fuck about other people without becoming an edge lord. The other two have masculine characters who serve as role models for the effeminate, childish main characters.