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>>8171560
Does it contain info about the goddess Kali?
I know this will sound silly, but I saw her during meditation once despite not knowing anything about her (not even her name) at the time. She had bigger boobs in my vision, but that was probably my imagination working overtime. In any case, she's far more interesting than I expected (>muh silly animal gods), she sits on a dude, is topless, holds swords and skulls and decapitated heads. You may spin it any way you want (personification of becoming and the falsehood of identity, etc.), she'll always be the goddess of fucking and killing to me, even when it's destruction of self-identities or narcissistic enjoyment.
>>8171560
"Through the study of the scriptures alone or with erudition one can not realize the Atman, and even through the intellectualism and the debates in the classroom"
(Katha Upanishad, I, II, 23)
"The wise man, having studied the treaties of religious and secular knowledge, completely abandon these treaties, as one who looking for the seed leaves the rind"
(Brahmabindù Upanishads, 18)
"All that you have studied is but a set of words" (Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3)
"In a frightening darkness enter those who live in ignorance, and in an even worse darkness those who have only a theoretical knowledge" (Svetasvara Upanishad, IV, IV, 10).
Why even read, /lit/? Don't you realise reading is useless?
>>8171591
>I know this will sound silly, but I saw her during meditation once despite not knowing anything about her (not even her name) at the time. She had bigger boobs in my vision
it reminds me...
>In June 2012, some Hindu leaders became upset at the inclusion of several Hindu gods in Smite and the fact that they are player-controlled. The deities that were in question were Kali, Agni, and Vamana, and there was particular opposition to how Kali was dressed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smite_(video_game)#Depiction_of_Hindu_gods_controversy
Should I read Nietzsche in any particular order?
I'm aware that Nietzsche can easily be misinterpreted and I don't want to fall into the usual pitfalls people make when reading his works directly.
Are there any other philosophers I need to know to read him? I've read the Greeks (pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle), Spinoza and Schopenhauer so far.
My former philosophy professor told me that Beyond Good and Evil is the best place to start, while Thus Spoke Zarathustra can be rather vague.
https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Nietzsche-Library/dp/0140150625
BGE full text when you get to it
Geneology full text too
>>8171553
Nietzs he recommended reading all his texts in order. BGE isn't his best work despite being well known. Maybe, if you don't want to take the chronological route, start with Twilight of the Idols? It's an older text, but it's like a summary of his ideas and it's short and rather accessible if you have the right mindset (not screaming "muh arguments, p > q motherfucker!" every sentence for instance).
>>8171630
Anyone who obsesses over muh arguments will never make it into any of his books, when reading the N-God you must understand that he thought that whether something was true or not wasn't the key thing to be concerned with.
Which version of the bible would you recommend me to read and why?
>>8171398
KJV unless you happen to know how to read Hebrew and Greek and are allowed access to the original texts.
the Koran.
>>8171398
KJV with a good critical apparatus, unless you have Latin/Greek/Hebrew, in which case the Vulgate/original NT/original OT respectively
>that that
>had had
There's nothing wrong with had had. I can't remember seeing a that that anywhere though.
>>8171392
James and John, who are required by an English test to describe a man who, in the past, had suffered from a cold. John writes "The man had a cold," which the teacher marks as being incorrect.
James, while John had had "had"; had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.
English truly is the best.
>>8171397
You don't think that "that that" ever occurs? I don't quite agree that that is the case.
>Started reading Gravity's Rainbow
>About 200 pages in
>Have to pretty much just power through a lot of the time and accept that I don't fully grasp everything that's going on. I usually figure things out after a few pages, though.
>Lately feel like I don't grasp any of the things I read the way I used to.
>Feel like my focus is leaving me and I'm getting stupider
Anyone else have the same thing happen?
What do?
Once you get to Part 3, it gets easier and he actually sticks to somewhat coherent storytelling. Also remember it's all a meme :^)
>>8171379
It's good to take notes as you go along, it makes it a lot easier avoiding the red herrings later on in the book
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
Can you recommend me some books that speak of language and the collective unconscious, and how are they tied?
Like we humans have language inheritly tied to our nature do to our subconscious togetherness? I need more information on this.
Jung is a good place to start. Don't Mary-Louise Von Franz. Comparative Mythology is good too, Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade.
>>8171372
Completely wrong. I could recommend at my own expense, so I obviously won't do that. You are not on the right track, I'll tell you that much.
watch lain
Eyes
Every moment I look into your eyes
All I see are lies.
Every moment I stare into the blue of your eyes.
I see another person caring for you when it should be I.
Every moment I reminisce of your purity.
I think of the lies that have tainted the beauty of your eyes.
>>8171318
>cuck poetry
>>8171318
>Every moment I reminisce of your purity.
On*
It's pretty bland OP. Try harder.
>>8171348
cuck is a meme and everytime you post it you quicken it's staleness so use it well
I bought this from the used book store a few months ago, mostly because I own pet rats (whom I really love). Is it any good? Is it even an appropriate starting point for Gunter Grass? Help me out /lit/.
JUST READ
READ THE BOOK
READ READ
STOP POSTING
>>8171493
this, you fucking autist.
>>8171493
this desu senpai
Post them.
>>8171220
>>8171238
Good choices.
Are these the two most hated authors on /lit/?
>>8171196
I'm still more interested in who that third guy from what I'm assuming is the same set of pictures was.
>>8171196
Not even close. I like Georg RR Martine.
>>8171196
I love King, TBQH.
So I'm wanting to read Being and Nothingness. What do I need to read to understand it or can I dive right in. I have basic-tier philosophy under my belt (Greeks, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche for the most part).
>>8171105
I haven't yet read it but if it's like any other Sartre work he'll spoonfeed you before introducing anything heavy. He wrote for common man.
>>8171105
Sartre = pseudo-intellectual wankery.
Whats your favorite short story /lit/? For me, its a tie between Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
"Ugly," Joyce Carol Oates
>>8171082
probably The Immortal by Borges or The River by Flannery O'Connor
How Much Land Does A Man Need?
A Painful Case
/lit/, I have an unusual request.
Which of these books are the most likely to be insufferable shit? Which of these books are the absolute worst, who someone with taste will almost undoubtedly hate? Which are the least /lit/? If you think they're all shit, which are the most shit?
I'm moving soon, and I've packed up most of my books, the ones I've read and books that I'm fairly sure I'll enjoy or think worthwhile. I'm planning to read 50 or so pages of each of these to decide if they're worth keeping, or if I should sell them before I leave. I'm just looking for a starting point, because I doubt I'll have time to read 50 pages of each and every one.
>>8171043
Second shelf
>>8171043
All of them. Novels are ideological parasites. This is a Marxist cultural theory board.
>>8171052
Third and final shelf.
I bought 5 books and want to start a book collection. I go off to college next year, so this probably won't be the case. Should I just start transitioning to using the library and cut that shit out now?
Do whatever you want.
Buy a Kindle.
Physical books are awesome. Start whenever you can, you can build that shit over time even if they just chill in a box
Someday, you'll have room to buy a book case
My free college printing credits expire in a week. I have $48.40 left on my account and I don't want it to go down to drain. It's $0.10 per sheet for black and white, $0.50 for color.
what do y'all use the extra credit for?
>>8171011
Do you buy textbooks?
My cousin used to make a pretty decent racket selling photocopies of those $200 doorstoppers they make freshmen use
Other than that just send a print order for like 500 pictures of a dick and leave
484 sheets of full paper black rectangles. Be the one asshole that ruins it for everyone.
i understand sunk cost fallacy and don't waste my time trying to 'get my money's worth' and am therefore not poor / retarded / stupid / a shit thread maker.
