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What are the best books about militant christanity and/or crimes against humanity commited in the name of Christianity?
>>7745735
just do some research into european history. finding abuse in the name of the church, unless you mean specifically Christianity, is not hard at all.
I suggest you look into Islam to be honest family.
>crimes against humanity
People didn't think this way until very recently.
Hey guys it's my first time posting here and I have a question. What do you guys think about Tom Clancy's novels? Are they worth reading, where should I start, your favorites etc.
Also general political thriller thread
>>7745698
If a mild thriller bogged down with pages upon pages of technical descriptions that border on autistic appeals to you then go for it. Otherwise Clancy's not an excellent use of time.
Packaged fantasy of working for the CIA and being an American James Bond. Basic propaganda sold to fat drooling underachievers to convince them that their spy agencies and war industry is somehow helping keep them safe and not imperial expansionism to ballast a failing economy.
Harder to swallow given modern understanding of that landscape, even for the most basic of plebs. Shut your brain off books, like any other escapist trash.
>>7745698
I enjoyed a lot of them, but leave ample space in between, the technicality can become too dry too often. If you like reading about operators operating in operational environments you will have a pretty okay time.
>Reading Greek and Roman classics
>Not reading them in the original
>Being this uneducated
How do you live with yourself, /lit/?
>>7745609
fortes fortuna adiuvat
>Obama
>Being liberal
>Being this uneducated
How do you live with yourself, cuck?
I have OP, can you say the same?
So I was just reading some of Jefferson and Hamilton's steamy love letters.
Hamilton actually wrote love letters to his wife's sister for a long time.
Wouldn't our founding fathers be mortified if they knew we knew all about their private lives?
Which got me thinking, with the advent of the internet and companies like Google storing everything we do, whether 300 years from now people are just going to have unmitigated access to all our e-mails and search history.
Do you want future generations to know about all that weird porn you torrented and all...
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if Joyce's reputation could survive fart-fucking mine can survive my internet history
only my vanity objects. It is a good thing that our descendants should know how that we carried also the taint of original sin.
there was some scandal attending the release of the private letters of Philip Larkin, when it was found that in secret he was somewhat of a sour bugger and a racist. But undoubtedly it has done us good to know this, and we can notice something new about his poetry (pointed out by Martin Amis): he was always striving, in his poetry, to raise his mind out of that mire. We have a much better understanding now of the whole man, and the nobility to...
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I've never read any of his books, but I love reading his essays and hunt them down online in my free time.
What's wrong with me, /lit/?
>>7745536
I guess you Kant help yourself
>>7745540
Lately, i've just been running on humes. I haven't the time.
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How much company do you get from books and the internet /lit/?
How viable is the literary lifestyle if you aren't going all out on it?
I'm about to start my 9 to 5 job.
I have no friends, but until now I have enjoyed reading philosophy and discussing it online (here and a couple other places).
I know some social interaction is indispensable and normallessness/solitude usually cause depression. Will the internet be enough for the amount of "company" I need or should I preemptively an hero given the crushing loneliness coming my way?
Anyone...
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>>7745501
are experiences in virtual reality and fantasy just as fulfilling and real as IRL?
I think so. fellow NEET here who thinks my fellow vietnamese basket weavers are my only real friends. oh god that feels sad to write but I think its just the societal pressure of >tfw no gf
I am happiest shitposting here. IRL people make me sad. saw a horse float accident today. the horse was fucked. I felt better than I have all week.
I have the republic by Plato and it's 400+ pages. 160 analysis alone. When will I possibly find the time to read it all? The analysis is not in form of a dialogue
>>7745533
Bruh, if the Republic has got you worked up Kant will straight up rape you.
As /lit/'s standard analytic I'd recommend you don't give the Greeks undue emphasis.
>We cannot, of course, here analyze the mythology of the modem elites in all its manifestations. We shall confine ourselves to a few remarks. First of all, we may note the redeeming function of "difficulty," especially as found in works of modern art. If the elite revel in Finnegans Wake, or in atonal music, or in tachisme, it is also because such works represent closed worlds, hermetic universes that cannot be entered except by overcoming immense difficulties, like the initiatory ordeals of the archaic and traditional societies. On the one hand,...
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Pretty interesting OP. What's the source? (Google not leading to anything)
>>7745486
>cherry picks the most significantly abrasive or nonsensical Moderns
>uses it to create a mythical unfalsifiable thesis of bougie gnosis
Its like Eliade was too pleb to understand the shit that was going on, picked the worst targets, and then tried to say "oh look how much i can seeeeeeeeee into your yearning for mythological backing".
Read Gellner's The Cunning of Unreason for how to deal with shit biscuits like him and psychoanalytics
>>7746181
Mircea Eliade - Myth and Reality
How the fuck can critical theory be taken seriously AT ALL??? What hope do normal people have if Schopenhauer and Chomsky don't have a fucking clue and freely admit so?
Critical Theory is just a load of attempted proof by analogies, over extrapolating, unfalsifiable statements melded together in to a really fucking overintellectualised mush which allows you to sprinkle in bits of your cultural capital ("*sniff* Theesh sheen een Fool Metal Jackeet perfectly parallels Father Zhosheema een Ze Brothers Karamazov...") for maximum pseudo-intellectuality.
Kill yourself academic faggot, i dont care about pretentious bullshit you spewed
>>7745472
The objet petit a of the shit post is the jouissance, or the surplus inanity of its content, rendering its obscene incomprehension to the average poster in to a perverse symbol of the phallic super-ego desire of the shitposter.
>>7745458
>unfalsifiable
Fuck off STEMpleb.
Hey /lit/ is there a book that confirms all my biased and stupid political views? I want a book that tells me that what I think is right and that doesn't criticise my shallow and narrow worldview.
Thanks in advance
Yes there are plenty of those types of books out there you filthy liberal!
>>7745456
Can you recommend me one?
How well done are the Garnett translations of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's works? thinking of buying his complete collection for a buck and it would seem the majority are done by Garnett while a couple are done by Hogarth
Outdated
I would go with p and v. Im reading the garnett translation for brothers right now and while its passable its outdated and hard to understand at times.
>>7745400
they are completely fine. ignore shitposters
Hey /lit/, so I'm pretty interested in reading 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', but before I make a purchase, I'd like to ask a few questions about it.
So first off, what kind of book is it? Google says it's non-fiction, but I just wanted to make sure that it's not an essay-type book, because I don't like reading those kinds of books. Does it have a narrative of any sort? With characters and stuff?
Second, I'm going to be buying the Everyman's Library edition from bookdepository, but there's a bunch...
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Autism
>>7745391
start with mommsen
>tfw someone took heed of your post
>>7745375
Has anyone on here read this book? Is it any good?
>>7745384
Michael Punke graduated high school in my hometown. When the movie came out it became a big deal. Shit was crazy.
But anyways, yeah I read it and it was alright. The movie is definitely better. It's extremely simple to read and you can probably crank it out in a day. Nothing overally special though.
>>7745584
you're wrong.
book is better
Michael Punke's work was raped
>>7745623
Please. The book was nothing more than Punke excessively masturbating over how much trapper history he knew.
Poems are meant to have rhyme and rhythm. "Slam poetry" and "Experimental poetry" are rarely poetry.
Discuss.
What about blank verse?
Insert quote about jangling like endings.
Largely agree. Edgy experimental poetry just distinguishes poetry lovers from posers and fashion readers
>>7745380
Poetry.
Rhythm is the final qualification for what is poetry and "ayy sentences that make you go hmmmmm XD"
Anyone read these? What's the verdict?
>>7745305
I liked the gay, rape and implied incest in the first one
I like the gay--
>>7745498
Fuck.
Which of the Greeks do you consider most relevant to read to improve one's life as a contemporary person?
My guess is pic related.
>>7745173
I agree with you
>>7745181
On a serious note
