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Hi /lit/. What's a good place for a beginner to start with when it comes to Buddhism?Don't say the greeks
>>8183470
Start with the Hindus
>>8183470
Who put the stupid needless text above that hilarious picture? I hope they get shot.
Good an evil is a measurement, much like math. It's applied to whatever it's measured, the same as me saying "I have two apples, I add another apple and I have 3". I use math, the same way that people apply good and bad to other people. However, good and evil is just a concept, break a human down to a molecular level and it's not broken into good and evil, because good and evil only exists as a concept. Take away these arbitrary notions (which change from culture to culture and person to person) and we can start looking at why people behave the way they...
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Good and evil do in fact exist. *Raises left fist.* This is Good. *Punches you.*
*Raises right fist* And this is Evil. *Punches you with other fist.*
>>8183365
That picture is really weird.
That is all.
It blows my mind that It blows the minds of people who don't get that people don't get this
rate my bookshelf. am I on the path to being a true patrician?
>2000 + 20 - 4
>not owning a kindle
luddite/10
>>8183340
>patrician
>all those sci-fi books
yeah.. more like man child. should just get yourself a kindle and download 100000000 of books for free.
Jesus christ how long is battlefield earth?
What's your opinion on him?
One of the best writers post-war Japan has yet produced. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an undisputed masterpiece.
>>8183260
>>8183248
he should have killed himself sooner, the fag.
Thoughts?
Sometimes i dont think at all and it feels weird
>>8183206
Fun to read. I like his short stories a lot.
>>8183213
I actually like that
>nobody talks about Clive Barker but there are threads devoted to Stephen King unironically
I liked the Hellraiser movie. If I had to read one thing from him, what should it be?
I've read Mister B. Gone. Basically a Catcher in the Rye with demons and shiet. It was a fun read.
>>8183193
Books of Blood vol 1
Rate this awesome book
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0/0
What will be the third book to complete the Obscure trilogy?
Petersburg isn't obscure at all. It even has its own Wikipedia article.
>>8182909
Take 5 would fit in fine.
>>8182954
It's relatively unknown still but not mentioned a lot
> Depression, anxiety, existential crisis, pessimism, despair et al. weight heavily on my soul
> Decide to read a book about someone who's worse off then me
> No Longer Human sounds pretty promising
> mfw he's better off than me in any way possible and my life would be so much better if I was him
What am I supposed to do now?
Write about how you resent him.
Go on LiveLeak and watch some Colombian prisoners being burnt with melted plastic as they're forced to eat dead bodies
>>8182952
Is this a thing? I didn't know this was a thing.
Is this the most pretentious novel that has ever been written in the history of literature?
nowhere near
>>8182808
Lord Harry was certainly pretentious, the overall book, not so much
>>8182808
No. It's very quotable. Though I guess some pretentious works may seem like they're quotable too.
Prove me wrongyou may
>>8182781
It seems nobody can.
>>8182781
i cannot recognize all of these people give me list of names please
>>8182781
I don't recognize some of these people, but you're definitely right about female "writers" being shit.
Who are some other good red-pill philosophers?
>>8182663
Bump for interest. I don't think Rand falls into this camp fwiw.
>>8182663
Freud desu
>>8182779
this desu
It was all a mistake from Socrates onwards
>>8182603
>implying Socrates was not a mistake
>>8182603
Anti-materialism was a mistake
I don't understand how any normal human man fingers his own ass. It's impossible. It's not pleasurable. How do you relax while doing it?
I think gay men just have a Loves Butt Stuff gene, and I'm not gay so I don't have it. I tried it and it fucking hurt.
ITT: Books you don't have a high enough IQ to enjoy.
This one, that one, and sho on.
>>8182573
People just hype this because Chinese sci-fi is a novelty, right?
no its pretty good
books 2 and 3 are better though
>>8182436
To some extent yes, but it is actually pretty good.
>>8182447
how have you read 3 already? AFAIK the translation isn't out yet. Are you a chinaman?
