If you had a spiritual guide like Virgil to Dante, who would you choose?
I'd pick Ludwig
>>7655567
Chingiz Khan.
Fuck you all, I'm getting bitches and material goods.
WB Yeats. I have a recurring dream where he is my father.
Kierkegaard.
I doubt I would fully understand him though
>>7655567
aristippus
Alcibiades
>>7655567
>yfw Pynchon sits next to Wittgenstein and wears a wig to disguise himself
Ludwig too.
Marcus A. maybe
>>7655611
kek
>>7655581
>not choosing the Seducer
Step it up knight of the faith.
Nabokov
>>7655567
Definitely William Gass.
Borges
>mfw instead of behaving like a spiritual guide he will just ramble about literature, mazes, the Irish and the jews
>>7655567
Why is he sitting next to Pynchon and Kafka?
>>7655567
Montaigne
Dōgen
>>7655567
Everyone in this pic looks autistic as fuck
>>7655567
Icycalm
>>7655567
A modern epic where the protagonist descends through three levels of the psychoanalytic metapsychological model with Freud as their guide.
I'm torn between Rabelais, Ariosto and Pushkin.
Anyway, I'd want one who can help me appreciate and smile at the smallness and absurdity of things.
Plus a trip with Rabelais would be a fucking laugh:
>The commonplace "Rabelais's quarter of an hour" can be interpreted as "having a rough patch". According to various accounts, Rabelais, not having enough money to go back to Paris from Rome, disguised himself as to not be recognized and conveyed an assistance in a tavern. There, he declared he was bringing back poison from Italy to kill the king and the queen. He was then arrested and brought back to Paris to be tried and sentenced before revealing his identity and the trickery. King Francis the First, upon seeing Rabelais, smiled and mocked the magistrates who had brought him back for having been tricked, and pardoned the fake criminal
What a man
>>7655567
Diogenes
Aristotle.
>>7655831
This
>>7655567
probably montesquie or perhaps tolstoy though I think someone like JFK would be good aswell
>>7655567
cicero mofos
>>7655567
Arthur Schopenhauer
Herman Hesse
RAW or PKD because they would both be able to recontextualise it brilliantly. PKD more effectively (what happens when a paranoid schizophrenic finds himself in the afterlife? He's not going to stop coming up with theories that incorporate the new context) but RAW would be a far more agreeable companion with a sense of humour.
this absolute madman
Schopenhauer or Hitler
Ruskin
>>7656217
You have a hard on for losers?
>>7655567
Socrates or Maimonides
>>7656220
I'm redpilled
>>7656220
>I'm only pretending to be blue pilled!
>>7656220
>independently wealthy playboy philosopher with great influence who is still read and studied centuries later by academics and laymen alike and has firmly established himself into the canon
>loser
>>7656232
He's also the king of /r9k/. He will never be forgotten as long as there are dissatisfied males who have been screwed over by feminism
>>7656225
>>7656226
>>7656232
I'd rather have as a guide someone who has lived a full, happy and interesting life rather than an influential philosopher
>>7656265
happy lives are for libcucks
>>7656265
>implying Hitler wasn't happy when he was living
>>7656278
he was a paranoid just like stalin
>>7656292
he was redpilled, idiot. he saw the truth and followed it. unfortunately the world was too brainwashed by liberalism
>>7655567
>I'd pick Ludwig
Go fuck yourself you dumb bitch.
I'd pick a very pretty and lean 14 year old girl to guide me.
>>7655621
Get gassed, faggot.
>>7655567
Friedrich Engels.
Witty would fuck me too hard whenever he tries to explain something.
>>7655567
Chekhov
>>7656298
Why does /pol/ exist when they come here?
Fucking Camus.
He would tell me that there's nothing to learn and then we would go to the beach to play volley and fuck bitches and be bros. I would drive tho
>>7656308
thanks for the (you)
take one yourself
>>7656426
> I would drive tho
Kekkek
I used to hear questions like this posed once in a while. Once I figured "Plato would be interesting to talk to." Then I realized I'd never read a single word of Plato in my life.
>>7655567
>Ludwig
Excellent choice anon. To strive as he did late in life, in the face of such obstacles, and to succeed in such an exultant and life-affirming way truly is inspiring and a tremendous achievement.
>>7656563
Except he was for the most part a difficult man that alienated most people in his life and drove his nephew to suicide by his tyrannical domineering. He was quite a nasty person, especially when you look into his legal cases. The kind of man best admired from afar, not as a some spirit guide.
>>7656596
Someone who might assault a colleague with a fireplace poker, even.
>>7656614
Huh I just realised he probably meant Wittgenstein. I was talking about Beethoven.
>>7656426
>then we would go to the beach to play volley and fuck bitches and be bros.
Until he sees an Arab, that is.
imma bout to troll the fuck out
end game Joyce
Arkhilokhos.
Though he would probably rape me and make fun of it in a lyric afterwards.
Ludwig van Beethoven. If I had his ghost appearing to me I could get him to collaborate on compositions and become the greatest neoclassical composer ever.
Diogenes
Dude never gave a single fuck in his whole life
>>7655878
My first instinct was to say Aristotle -- but I find he fixates on the pragmatic too much; I go for the abstract, so I'd have to opt for Socrates
My grandfather was a poet of minor celebrity, he gave me everything and I sort of look to him as a "spirit guide".
Alternatively, Liebniz, I love that nigga.
P.s. Mozart, if any of you are interested in him in any way, there's a great book that gives us a biography through his letters called Mozarts letters, Mozart's life by Robert Spaethling you should look at.
Seneca
>>7655832
He couldn't help you find a pound of flax.
>>7655567
Aquinas, Wolfe or maybe Chesterton. Aquinas would be a sperg, but an interesting one, and Wolfe and Chesterton are cool old guys.
John Green
Byron.
Rilke or Borges, if someone contemporary, then Eco
>>7657573
He'd tell you to be your own guide and fuck off.
>>7656225
you're an idiot, is what you are.
>>7657642
Heraclitus.
my waifu
>>7657649
I really like Borges as an answer.
>>7655567
spiritually? kierkegaard no questions asked.
however, if I could chat with any one single individual, it would be Hegel. Either him or schopendaddiolioli-o
>>7656257
>"i havent actually read schopenhauer"
Count saint Germaine is the only correct answer
>>7655567
>The limits of my language are the limits of my
mind.
What is the attraction with this guy. Do we just choose our influences based on their looks and edgyness, and not the sagacity of their work?
>>7658102
Kleolk
>>7658102
do you disagree with the claim you've quoted? if so, why?
>>7655567
whitman or rilke
>instead of guiding you through the levels of the afterlife, witty just guides you into a cinema theatre and tells you to shut up while he watches his western
>he only brought only doughnuts for him
Heraclitus, obviously. He would teach to be real edgy.
>>7657439
>ywn get your ass beaten in defending Joyce from the other drunks he has insulted while James looks on, raving drunk, and yells incoherently about Nora's farts
:(
<this dude
Saint Max
Jesus of Nazareth
>>7658755
dubs speak the word of god
>ywf he just speaks in parables all the time and gets side tracked feeding multitudes
Lafcadio Hearn
A beautiful worldly man
>>7655598
direly underrated post
>>7658102
>Do we just choose our influences based on their looks and edginess,
If this is the case then I choose Louise Brooks
>>7658132
>Wecancommunicateeverythingwecan experience.jpg
