>Solves history

>Tumult Was this his favourite word?

What's /lit/'s technique for watching this without cringing yourself to death?

How many books do you read in a month?

How do the Gospels illustrate the presence and work of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus, and what can we learn from these accounts about the Spirit's role in our own spiritual journeys?

Pericles' Funeral Oration is fucking kino, holy shit.

What kind of person reads Beckett, Bernhard, Cioran and Pessoa?

WEDNESDAY. The day you flumpty-foo! And you think boopty-bop and zippity-zoom but the truth is, razza frazza wuzza wooza. What I'm trying to say is, maybe your brain isn't working either, but that's o...

HOLY SHI...excuse me, ehem,... he is just too much of an intellectual monster, it scared a controontinal scam artist such as myself who uses vague language so hopefully nobody sees through me

>mommy is... LE BAD >hegel is... LE BAD AND LE CHARLATAN >noise... LE BAD >reason is... LE LIMITED >will to live is... LE BAD AND LE GOOD >socialization is... LED BAD >women is... LE STUPID AND C...

They make books for pussies, you know

Rogan>Spengler Shapiro>Schmitt Peterson>Jüng(er

I'd like to know the story behind each dynasty.Might be a single book, or a series of more detailed books.

Why does nobody clock this fool as the philosophical zombie he is? He is the human equivalent of answering the teleporter dilemma by saying "the one who entered the teleporter first is the original". ...

Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.

At the heart of Don Quixote lies the tragedy of a man caught between two worlds: the crumbling vestiges of a sacred, hierarchical, symbolically ordered cosmos and the emerging, disenchanted modern age...

Isn't 'The Lightning and the Sun' a book by Savitri Devi?

I've been thinking about writing a fantasy world for later short stories to take place in. Considering dragons are also big lizards, do dinosaurs fit in this genre? Have I been playing too much ARK? (...

when man will have a new dawn????? asking for a friend.

>When the farthest corner of the globe has been conquered technologically and can be exploited economically; when any incident you like, in any place you like, at any time you like, becomes accessible...

Itt: useless displays of erudition

50 pages in, I cannot stop fucking laughing at every paragraph, the endless rationalizations of Humbert, his fantasies like the shivering child that survives a shipwreck, and the ornamental prose is s...

we lost the best latin american novelist this year, what did we think of it /lit/?

In my adolescence I thought this book was a prescient look at liberalism's upcoming demise. As an adult I realize it's a defense of liberalism by method of critiquing it. People like Deneen are parano...

ITT: Judge each other's book titles. I'll start: Autonomy in the Azores

What are some books that are equally as disgusting as they are beautiful?

This month has flown by. Can’t wait to see what you've all got in store! The Character and Theme requirements of Lit’s writing competition will be released in this thread tomorrow Saturday 10am UTC ...

The book that needs writing in 2025: Most of the modern world rejected religion, so what higher purpose do they believe in now? It just feels like there is a massive vacuum on this subject, and socie...

>read people on /lit/ claim, argue, and defend that Shakespeare was an illiterate plebeian >read the first two acts of Titus Andronicus, one of his earliest plays >direct reference to Hecuba from Eur...

What's your favourite translation of the Iliad? I want to read it and I can't decide between Lattimore, Fagles and Lombardo.

Imagine being a talented composer, obsessed with a 5/10 fat little piggy whore, and you even write (steal) a musical as a love letter to your fat little piggy whore. And your fat little piggy whore re...

What happened to Intellectual Conservatism?

>you must do good for the sake of good itself because good is the highest good is this really all you had to say 5,000 years ago to become immortal?

Are there any books about a relationship between an intellectual and a bimbo?

I've lost all sense of direction, motivation, goals, desires and ambitions. What should I read to not Hemingway myself?

When you die, who's getting your books?

What is /lit/ best knowledge on the six perfections? Is it canon from the buddha (theravada) or is it made up from mahayanists?

What are some good books to get into theory? I don't even know what I mean by theory

I don't understand the message or theme of this book. Is it just "Please don't be an incel. Have sex, sweetie. Just go to Church and pick up a nice single mom." or am I missing something. Underground ...

I've decided to start learning Italian for Italian literature Who are the most important authors to read? I enjoy Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco especially the leftist elements since I'm a socialist/co...

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

just finished ''The Castle' by Kafka (pbuh). What did I think of the book, particularly the themes about futility of struggle against a large bureaucratic organism

Do you ever change your behavior after reading philosophy?

>The Freedom of a Christian >Book of Common Prayer 1662 >Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity >Institutes of the Christian Religion >The Bible >The Hammer of God >Donne's Holy Sonnets >Herbert's The Temple A...

Is this worth reading in 2025 or is it outdated now?

Which girls do they talk about?

The filthy infant lay screaming upon the moist floor of the forest as her mother, her cries almost as shrill as that of her child, stood several paces away, pinned against a tree by two uniformed, ano...

Read one of these publicly whilst at one of the many backpackers in Bali. Be sure to have a profound expression on your face. To compound the effect smoke a cloves cigarette and slowly stir a matcha t...

What distinguishes the Socratic method from other pedagogical approaches, and how does its emphasis on questioning and critical thinking contribute to deeper learning?

John Stuart Mill started being educated on the Greeks by his father when he was 3. At what age should you start your kids down this path?

>no i don't read philosophy because i have my own philosophy haha

is the bible made for reading it straight through? if not then what would be a "correct" order or an order where you confuse yourself the least. anyone else wanna or have read the bible secularly? is ...

>My cock, not surprisingly, is rock hard

Are the real big-brained philosophers the ones that are able to simply explain their ideas?

>Check the list of the best selling books of all time >It's all English ones >Barely any French, Russian or German ones How the fuck do you explain this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-se...

>start with the Jews >then the goyim how did he get away with it?

What do I do if I'm too ADHD to even finish <100 page books? I've had a copy of the Old Man and the Sea sitting here for weeks

Books that capture this feeling?

>reading non-fiction book or article >"These men (and it's always men)" >stop reading >close book and throw it away or close internet tab >make mental note to never again read anything by author

Reading up up deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning will save your damn life. If used correctly it may even clear up delusions.

>start desktop to add new words to anki >make notes on obsidian >see Leon Battista Alberti's quote:' “Ieri passò, domani non ha certezza. Vivi tu adonque oggi.”' >google him >doombrowse wikipedia >end...

What am I missing?

Music theory books? Books on learning production? Books on what makes popular music?

Faith is a state of desperation, coherence with rationale is lost and the reverberation is faith, to put the weight of truth into something beyond your grasp and leave it there. Doubt grew into faith....

Favorite Book of Steve Jobs: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda Synopsis: This spiritual classic follows the life of Paramahansa Yogananda, a yogi from India who brought Kriya Yoga and ...

Were you only able to read one philosopher, who would you read?

Look at their poems. Half of them read like the works of Rupi Kaur, and the other half are again lacking rhythm. Almost every poem of the modernists, if you took out tbe line breaks, reads like bad pr...

Is the Nous the result of the One self-contemplating like in the Unmoved Mover?

>buy a book at least 5 times older than me >manage to be the first one to dirty and damage it Every time.

Write a poem >Long ago I walked the halls >Beyond the woodland pyre >All to be what lost had come >In search of lonesome fire >Fret not to thee who might entail >What's lost cannot be found again >I ...

do you agree with plato there?

>spurned by his oneitis >leaves >returns a wealthy man >spends his remaining years ensuring that everyone else is as miserable as he was made to be How is Heathcliff not utterly based? Is he not the ...

Ben Jonson (playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare) entered into a duel with an actor named Gabriel Spenser in 1598—resulting in Jonson mortally stabbing Spenser with a sword. Dueling was illegal ...

I am an (former?) addict on Methadone for about a year after a year long addiction to Heroin, and prior to that a three year addiction to pharmaceutical opiates/oids (codeine, dihydrocodeine, morphine...

I just stumbled across an upload of a reading of Will Durant’s entire story of civilization book series that’s from the 90’s. It’s like 400 hours long. I’m thinking of listening to it at 2x speed for ...

What are some books about 8-15 year old boys? Preferably books with no women in them. I have read Tom Brown's Schooldays and Oliver Twist, and I enjoyed them both, except I didn't like the parts of Ol...

Just got done marathoning this. Some thoughts: >Mostly useless stupid bullshit like geneaologies. >The Hebrews were awful people, even by the standards of the time. And Yahweh was just as evil as the ...

What does /lit/ think of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion?

Just finished this book. I didnt like it very much.

Are the Bond books worth reading? I'm in the mood for some fun pulp.

Saw this from another thread: >It's also worth pointing out that there is no such thing as Pure Otherness, at least if you accept a univocity of Being on some level (and acknowledge that the so-called...

>is unironically one of the greatest inventions of all time

Any books about manipulating people for my personal gain?

I signed my fifth writing contract today. Feels good to be productive. Do you guys get a lawyer to check it first? I just sign it and hope for the best.

Good psychology books about autism/asperger?

Why wouldn't Voldemort kill Snape as soon as he got all the information from him after he didn't return when he called. He'd been working with the enemy for a decade. All the other death eaters have r...

>"All health, beauty, intelligence, and social grace has been teased from a vast butcher’s yard of unbounded carnage, requiring incalculable eons of massacre to draw forth even the subtlest of advanta...

Are John Lennon's books worth reading?

Why do Eastern (Dharmic) religions engage the intellect and philosophy, while Western (Abrahamic) religions are content with dogma and doctrine?

The whole book has the prose of a smug reddit post that never ends, full of epic one liners to make the family appear sharp and witty The author is a complete cunt who could have solved half his probl...

What non normalfag podcasts are out there?

George R.R. Martin Finally Delivers Good News About 'The Winds of Winter' : Martin confirmed that he’s roughly 75% finished with the long-anticipated sixth installment. At the moment, he’s penned abou...

Seriously, what the actual FUCK did Baudrillard mean by this?

Why does Western philosophy treat the mind and body like they're two different things?

Was does /lit/ think about Peter Sloterdijk? I'm thinking about starting his Spheres trilogy, what am I in for?

I am immensely struggling with processing and retaining information, and have been considering that my issue might be a matter of blood flow and overabundance of toxins in my body instead of by-defaul...

I'll start

Book 1>3&4>6>2>5>Mutability Cantos But it’s all kino

I read his Mythology book and thought what the hey, give this a try. What the fuck am I reading? I'm about 100 pages in and this feels like one long schizo post about how everyone is descended from th...

I ordered this book because of you guys. What am I in for ?

>Listening to a pitiless Golden man speak between great marble pillars. How tf do I read a book that can't even get the prologue right? And it's not just my copy this shit is quoted all over like it's...

/lit/bros... what's our response? Are books obsolete now that we've summarized all literature that has ever been written?

Does anyone know what the best books are for getting started in the occult and/or black magic? I've wanted to get into this world for a while but haven't had the courage to do it and this is the momen...

What did we think of it?

Steve is a snob, a fraud, and completely full of shit. His videos anger me. Hate thread. If you ride his dick, just fuck off back to his hoarding channel and do it there

>most of /lit/ nothing ever changes

What do you think generates better fight scenes: prose, or verse? Or, perhaps to ask a better question: for dynamic action, do you prefer a novel, or a narrative/epic poem?

I went in for my court-ordered psychiatric screening today. The female therapist offered me a sugar-free Hershey's chocolate bar. I turned it down. I told her I don't have a sweet tooth. I have a rape...

What was your favorite Aesop/fable growing up? Stories wthin a story (Canterbury Tales for example) may count.

Hello all. I wrote this and in hoping to get some feedback if possible. https://archiveofourown.org/works/67261513

Does anyone remember that YouTube video with a 20something John Green describing how he used to be an IRC mod when he was a teenager? He tells a story about entrapping faggots into cybersex just so he...

Anymore books or writers like James Ellroy? Not just more crime/detective novels, but noir books with elements of conspiracy thrillers. Also weird explicit sexual stuff in the book (Ellroy is known f...

Ok /lit/, I attempted to open a dialogue thread using a negative dialectical argument to no avail before this one. So, that leaves me being blunt and forward. I have two choices regarding Hegel: 1) ...

If you could only read one philosopher in your lifetime, it has to be this guy. Do yourself a favor and start with Nietzsche. It's never too late.

Are people born with it?

Is this shit worth reading? Its a trilogy >hurrr fantasy by women durr I know, i know

Rate my Bible Study setup?

What is the theological significance of Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection in terms of atonement for sin, and why did Jesus have to die for humanity’s sins?

What do we mean by a ‘Form’ in Plato’s philosophy, and how does it differ from the physical objects we encounter in everyday life?

I don't think I've ever read something so technically correct yet profoundly stupid in my life To even interpret it most favorably concedes the premise that this animal's metabolism and muscle structu...

Surah Al Fatiha is the first Surah, chapter, of the Holy Koran. It is brief and easy to learn and memorize, recited during prayer. Listen along and read the transliteration and you will learn how to r...

Where should I upload my book for anons to read

How does Plato’s Theory of Forms challenge our understanding of reality, and to what extent do you think it holds up in light of modern philosophy?

Do you enjoy this book or have you read it just to say you've read it?

>you can only experience the world through sense impressions so therefore the outside world is not real Why did anyone ever believe this?

Does anyone know of any exegesis of the Song of Songs that puts the Christian individual, the reader, as the masculine part. The always make humanity, Israel, the Church (us), as the bride, and God, ...