what are some ancient philosophers you could call edgy? I want to LARP as a Sith and want to read some philosophy. not people like Nietzsche, I’m looking for more ancient philosophers. can be Greek, I...

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Now that the dust has settled, how did it become so successful?

Is he right

One of the main normie objections to Christianity is asking why would God make creation so full of evil and imperfections. Usually the reply of protestant or even catholic Christians is to say that ma...

Men in the 19th century already had everything completely figured out >pleasure: women (whores), alcohol, drugs, gambling >meaning: philosophy, classical music, literature, visual arts >spirituality: ...

>Learn 1000 things >Read 10 000 books >Work 100 000 hours >Speak 10 000 000 000 words >Die >Forget everything >Be reincarnated as a shrew Why should I learn anything at all? Fuck language and FUCK ...

I'm looking to bag an orthodox girl (she has a boyfriend), what should I read to give me the knowledge and know-how?

What is the end goal you try to reach by reading books?

Fill me in on Bergson.

>hate the sin, hate the sinners Any theological books that defend this position?

I remember hearing that there was a book by Immanuel Kant that libertarians often describe as being the start of the downfall of Western societies and I want to read it. Does anyone know what it might...

Post the last piece of writing that made you cry

Alphabetically by author? By genre? By read and unread? Need some advice. These aren’t all my books but this is a small shelf (I need a bigger one)

I don't know anything about that world except for Hugo Pratt stuff (which I love)

I've read enough desu. I'm only going to read my own work from now on.

I heard this was written by a 4channer so I picked it up but haven't started it yet. Did I make a good purchase?

>site is extremely uncensored like 4chan >userbase is still liberals and trannies

Since white men will never succeed in publishing novels any longer, do we need to shift our medium to someplace still dominated by white men, like screenplay?

How do I start with Heidegger?

Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs) https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb >Archive: https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subje...

Anon, which is the best philosopher for you and why?

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Is Jethro Tull /lit/?

Lawtonbros... is it over? https://www.futuristletters.com/p/the-assassination-of-literature-by

How does he want us to react to this book? What does he want us to do with the information he gives us?

Post and discussion about any type of history book. >American Colonies : The Settlement of North America to 1800 (The Penguin History of the United States Series) by Alan Taylor >Starts with the ear...

What does /lit/ think of /tg/ books, from a literary perspective?

Why do male authors feel the need to describe young women in such grusome, sexually explicit detail? Do they really believe we're all to stupid to realize they're just getting their rocks off? Can I r...

Hegelian Bros...

Would anyone be interested in an epic tomb about a former "gifted" child who realised too late in life he's nothing special and has wasted his youth?

Would anyone like to read a Plato dialogue a day with me? We can split longer dialogues into half a day or a book (chapter) a day. I would be reading chronologically in the conventional order, so el...

Any of Luther's stuff worth a read?

What's with the triads in Neoplatonism, Christianity, and Hinduism?

I give up. David is right.

What are some books about beautiful friendships?

"Chaos Gremlin" Edition Previous >>24571968 >What is Web Novel General? A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction...

You do own a copy of Dostoevsky's collected works, right?

"Seething schizo" edition Previous: >>24548341 /wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ RESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvC Please limit excerpts to one po...

Why doesn't /lit/ talk about this masterpiece?

I can't read Russian literature anymore. Not only does it proceed from a culture that has brought nothing but misery, death, destruction, ignorance, barbarism, mysticism, and autocracy to the world, b...

>Its a Nyaneve, Egwene and Elyane chapter They are the most fucking boring characters I have read in a long while. It took me a fucking month to read their 100 pages worth of chapters because I kept n...

Just admit you think it's funny.

ITT: worst thing you've ever read

The reason people aren't reading, save for smut, is not fundamentally because the content-equivalent of heroin has made them complacent and stupid, but because the universalizing of the internet to co...

Animal Farm Bible Communist Manifesto Dr. Zhivago Emma Finnegans Wake Giving Tree Henry VIII Iliad Jane Eyre King Lear Lady of the Lake Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Northanger Abbey One Hundred Year...

Anyone read his Homer? After reading Pope's Iliad, and disliking Chapman's Odyssey, from what I saw from the first book, I'm debating to read Cowper's.

I just finished The Sorcerer's Stone for the first time. I absolutely adore the world-building and characters. I couldn't care less about the plot 'cos I was just enjoying the atmosphere. The centaurs...

Recommend a first time visitor some good books. I like to read.

This is the day! I-i'm going to do it!

Post any book or author you've got that's going to help niggas detect, capture, and understand Truth with a capital T, pointing them toward the right direction out of this maze. Don't even know which ...

Is it just me or has Roger Scruton been completely forgotten since his death?

How can I improve the legibility of my handwriting? I've got total chicken scratch, but I don't even know how to improve as an adult. I just hate writing things and I wanna improve at it.

When did you realise that literature peaked with the Puritans?

what are some that come to mind? Dino Buzzati isn't a horror author, but some his short stories play with the uncanny. Specifically from his collection Catastrophe; The Opening of a Road and Seven Fl...

Thoughts on these guys? Do we like or dislike?

In christianity, there is virtually no logical reason for some people to be worldly hedonists chasing after worldly wants and satisfying their worldly desires while a handful dedicate themselves fully...

Planetos vacation planner edition ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/ Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/ So Spake Martin (inte...

How do you read "the news"? My ususal cycle is skimming the most important news sites, falling down some rabbit hole, opening 4chan, start doom-scrolling et cetera. This is obviously not a very /lit/ ...

Why does "crossing the rubicon" mean something so immoral that you can never turn back?

I take the opposite position to McCarthy. I think moral choice is part of the fabric of reality and violence is merely a decision in this framework.

How did the Greeks reconcile with Zeus' conduct?

Did this nigga actually write good or is he overhyped by anglos?

>trannies good >jews good >whites bad >men bad What a swan song. Thanks, Cormac.

Demons, Angels, and Everything In-Between Edition FAQ: >What is worldbuilding? Worldbuilding is the process of creating entire fictional worlds from scratch, all while considering the logistics of th...

>btfo capitalists >btfo marx >btfo white people >btfo amerikkka How come no one has been able to refute him for over 50 years? The best they got is >he is a cia agent even though the cia is anticomm...

>Søren Kierkegaard broke off his engagement with Regine Olsen. He believed he was unfit for marriage due to his melancholic nature and a perceived "spectral" quality that he thought would make him a p...

Can anyone recommend books on psychoanalyzing? Are there any books on specifically recognizing and dealing with hostile behavior?

Does it live up to the hype?

Post your top ten favorite stories, talk about them, and then for a bit of dumb fun throw in your myers brigs type. It's hard to pick of course, for my list i made an effort to showcase many different...

Is it classic literature or more just high tier fantasy?

Authors of the New Testament - Antisemitic Shakespeare - Antisemitic Dostoyevsky - Antisemitic Céline - Antisemitic Voltaire - Antisemitic Wagner - Antisemitic Baudelaire - Antisemitic Dickens - Antis...

once again unto the breach: poems thread, wherein i teach. though i have before set sail, teachers, too, may also fail. it, this time, i swear to nail. io crush me if i quail. moon, be blest, and dog ...

Do chicks actually dig a guy with a bookshelf? I don't even read anymore so I was gonna chuck all my books in the trash but I'm keeping them up incase a girl ever comes to my room as you know like a t...

The heresy of dispensationalism was invented by a Catholic Jesuit priest named Manuel Lacunza. He was a part of the Papalist Counter-Reformation and he wanted to end Protestantism. Do you know what is...

Will one of you PLEASE just tell me my poetry sucks and that I should an hero so I can give up writing it for good. Please and thank you Silver knuckle debtors knock on broken doors. Sunshine face re...

Hey y'all, I'm going through different English translations of Faust at the moment, comparing them to the original German. I'm German myself and my field is somewhat related, so I thought this might h...

>capitalism is a race to the bottom that will sacrifice all human values and meaning for the increase of quarterly profits >any mitigating dynamics are systematically attenuated and violently destroy...

How come I read Hegel and Kant and am still not at peace with the world? What’s the next step?

Is it standard 20th century marxist drivel or something actually worthwhile?

which female authors definitely had a rape fetish?

Did he have a correct interpretation of Nietzsche?

Angloid literature is for niggers. Anglos write for niggers. Half the half decent english writers aren't even of anglo saxxon origin! Except Melville... Melville gets a pass...

the only author/poet you need

How many of them have you read to completion? How many have you started and not finished? Red is finished Yellow is unfinished

My Shakespeare collection is missing the following three >The Winter's Tale >Two Noble Kinsmen >Pericles, Prince of Tyre Are there worth seeking out or were they excluded for a good reason? A brief l...

Money doesn't make the world turn, violence does.

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My life has become so much better since I asked AI to mimic Jordan Peterson and be my personal psychiatrist

What a jolly looking old chap, I wonder what his views are…

that feel when after years of self studying poetry i finally realized that you could just read the dictionary to look up unstressed and stressed syllables, and now i understand the concept of poetic m...

Never refuted.

What are some good books that are compendiums of european myths and folklore? Bonus points if they are italian

>so uhm, you should work really, really hard and never question the system >people that work really hard get fairly compensated for that, at least that is my experience >and when you work hard and fol...

What's a good book by Carl Jung?

have we stopped pretending this was any good

WTF? i was told this dude is the ultimate edgelord >will to power, destroy your enemies, cruelty is fun and now that i'm finally reading him, here he is bitching about fighting and revenge and having...

i think that, regardless of your political opinions, the only two real options are zizek and jordan peterson

>Robert Adler's Hebrew Bible has zero theological explanations in the sense that it tries to lecture you in a religious dogma/background >it's mostly literary and barebones historical context explana...

They used to be good in the 19th and 20th centuries. Is it because they aren't majority Anglo anymore? I think that's related somehow. The majority of good American writers have an English ethnic back...

Has anyone actually ever read this book?

Why didn't he write a novel?

How can I justify learning German and French? It seems like such a waste of time... Realistically it'd take 1+ hour a day for 2-3 years to be able to, let's say, read Goethe in German? Then for fluen...

Whos care?

When you prompt a puffed-up chatbot to write romantic fanfiction about calculus it results in the most profound message about spirituality and love you have ever read by just blindly seeking to mirror...

I kind of want to retell the history of Syria from the fall of the Seleucid Empire to the rise of Islam but substituting an alternate North America where Europe was obliterated by an asteroid in 1750....

Infinite Jest.

When will /lit/ finally take the "The Business Guide" pill?

>nation of slaves and bandits create a religion to push on white people >"forgive thieves" >"the rich and powerful go to hell >"if you get pussy you're evil" pic unrelated

>dies and shits pants nothing personnel kid

What (good) books are you reading this summer?

Not as bad as people say. Nice nordic noir.

What is the deepest, most impactful statement that you have ever read? For me: e^(pi*i)+1=0 - I have no idea what it means, and I’m pretty sure that no one else does, either, but it is the most prof...

I like Michael Crichton. I'm reading Jurassic Park for the third time.

Hey so how come americans and british were the ones who dominated the adventure genre? It even dried up (in literature at least) when they came up with fantasy and sci-fi, which is also dominated by t...

Any books about the world losing its sense of mystery and wonder? It was a theme in many of CS Lewis' books.

Is this any good? Any other Chinese novels I should read?

Politics aside, was she a good writer?

How can we encourage women to read more books so men who are into literature would have easier time finding partners who share their hobbies?

I want to read about Atalanta. Is pic related accurate? How does it compare from the actual Greek texts?

It is so obvious that Yarvin’s project is steeped in deep, dark undertones of noncery. It’s no secret that the libertarian/ancap wet dream climaxes in the utopia of freely available pederasty and sex ...

Can't believe you faggots thought he was intelligent.

>this book isn't good because it doesn't follow the random convention set 200 years ago by pretentious faggot writers Why are ALL /lit/ posters like this?

How can I tell the difference between a stressed determiner and non-stressed but quantitatively larger noun when placed side by side in poetry?

Is it good?

Is this not the most disappointing book in existence? All the things you thought were out there, in the past, in deep places, in the cosmos, are actually in your mind. It's all a projection and none o...