I judge books by their cover and therefore will definitely not be reading that.

>>24672809
based

>>24672801
Haven't read that one, yet. One Fat American, however: the same

>>24672801
the nyrb book covers are all so good

>>24672801
Say something more about it, OP. This thread doesn't have to be this gay.

Are you sure you don't mean perenium philosophy?

>>24674533
I don't get it, if it's a joke.

>>24674536
It's a tainted philosophy. I prefer the Bible.

>>24674543
It's not like the Bible and perennial philosophy are excluding each other.

>>24674560
No, they're mutually exclusive

>>24674925
>Before, I was a invisible loser, now people talk to me and are friendly to me (I had luck and was always very feminine/not masculinmized so it was easy to pass).
Lol, not surprised at all, ive heard this one so much before and even seen it reflected on twitter, trans people suddenly become way more confident, open, and outspoken. To be fair, you never get a sneak peek of their lives before so you can never really say how different it is, but the outcome is almost always so drastic that you have to figure that they were the opposite prior.

I dont know how to feel about this. I've always thought to myself that to be able to change that drastically, there had to have been nothing really there in the first place.
But one could call that cope because I know I could never and would never change as such. In a way Im even more broken than an autist, and barely mentally ill enough for therapy to really do anything.

Anyway, interesting that you were honest.

>>24674951
You can blend in with the scenery as a female and never be engaged in conversation and nobody will call you an autist unless you make noises

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>>24674897
bookmarking this for later

>>24674274
For me the key has been finding out that normalfags have abyssal self esteem and you can just gaslight them if you're notably eloquent. Instead of blaming you for your autism they will blame themselves, unironically "just be confident bro".

by 30 you shouldnt give a shit about that stuff anymore

>>24674824
better safe edgy than retard edgy

>>24674871
XD

>>24674599
Manually cataloging? Based and masochistic.

>>24674871
Killing more Germans for the cause of jews instead of the cause of preventing jews is pretty fucking retarded.

>>24671916
Lots of normies in hurrr. Programmed to Kill is a classic. The Anarchists Cookbook was widely circulated but overrated. Some old medical textbooks have pretty detailed instructions about poisons and real pictures of dead people in various states of malady. The Lesser Key of Solomon and Legemeton are pretty edgy and barely off the beaten path. The Naked Lunch is one of my favorites and anyone who doesnt find it controversial is jaded beyond comprehension.

>>24672555
Just Catholic cuckservative things.

>>24673968
Hitler was going to destroy the Church, Anon. The Reichskonkordat was not going to last, and both the Reich and the Church knew it.

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>>24672217
>raging against the divine order
The jewish god he worshipped literally commanded his murderous followers to dominate the earth lol. Pottery. Classic christcope.

>>24672555
The childlike naivete of indoctrinated christians

>>24674464
good

>>24672283
holy based

>go to a science fiction convention just to SEETHE
lmao what a fuckin goof

>>24650342
I almost turned the video off from pure cringe when she mentioned she has a berserk tattoo. This was genuinely bad

>>24652152
The latter books were falling off already, the last good one was Making Money

>>24656880
At this point I’d happily take a Dunk & Egg after all these years of Bloodraven blue balls

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>>24673238
>>24673249
>>24673263
Haven't you ever read the kind of literature that was prominent in Muslim societies?

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For pure speculative reason has this peculiarity, that, in choosing the various objects of thought, it is able to define the limits of its own faculties, and even to give a complete enumeration of the possible modes of proposing problems to itself, and thus to sketch out the entire system of metaphysics.

>>24674300

I break /LIT/ Down into 4 categories of posters
Philosophy
religion
Fiction
/His/Pol

I don't understand a fucking word mentioned here as a fiction anon, but I like you bros and hope you don't get your own board.

Might read Perpetual Peace today or continue my hopeless struggle wit COPR

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>>24674514
I'm getting already getting filtered by the Historical Retrospect section

>>24674359
yeah I saw RIP

>>24674372
thanks never heard of em before
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJndovurg6s

>>24670040
The Black Company by Glen Cook
>>24670095
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
>>24670343
Cat’s Cradle by Vonnegut (theme-wise, tone is different) or Gardens of the Moon by Steven erikson
>>24673958
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
>>24674348
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemen by Sterne

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>>24669140
I’d say something like Kallocain by Karin Boye or Old Barny, or November by Kivirahk

This thread has made me realize that most people here only listen to music of a post-beatnik style

>>24674768
What the hell is that even mean? Is that a fancy way of saying nobody posted any classical or jazz?

>>24672121
But what about Khazar milkers?

This book exposes how fragile and vulnerable is the state of Israel, mainly because it is relying on biblical myths to construct Zionist ideology and Jewish identity, rather than on actual history proven by archeological and biological research.

>>24673326
>>native language which gives them a historical claim to Rome

turning a once spoken but now liturgical language of a ethnic group back into their modern spoken language does in fact give them greater claim, to the land where they and the language originated from as it relies on their continuation into the present.

They dig up the land and read what their ancestors wrote thousands of years ago. A continuation.

>>24674939
the fundamental misunderstanding here is gauging the legitimacy of national language on it's historical form in this use case where the modern form is deliberately codified as being in fact modern and an expression of the new nation-ethno-religious state adopted as official and cultural purposes. as they've done.

>>24674945
The coping.
I’m sure all the learned people of the rabbinate agree with you, sure.

Israel still exists.

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>>24674047
>The period from September 1939 to early 1942 was crucial for Soviet foreign policy and coincided with the early stages of the Second World War, including the Great Patriotic War. In Stalin’s Great Game, Michael Jabara Carley unpacks the complexities of Soviet diplomacy during this time, addressing key issues such as the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Soviet views on the fall of France and the Battle of Britain, efforts to remain neutral in Europe, Soviet relations with both Britain and Nazi Germany, and the formation of the Grand Alliance against the Axis powers.
>Drawing on extensive research from multilingual archives in France, Britain, the United States, and the USSR, Carley offers a comprehensive narrative that explores Soviet intelligence activities, especially of the “Cambridge Five” spy ring and Nazi Germany’s preparations for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The book also re-evaluates historiographical debates on Stalin’s interpretation of Soviet intelligence and Hitler’s intentions towards the USSR. The third volume in Carley’s trilogy on the origins and early conduct of the Second World War, Stalin’s Great Game provides a fresh re-examination of key events and interpretations by both Western and Soviet historians, introducing new ideas and perspectives on this critical period.
third book is also out

>>24673620
Looks interesting
>>24673929
never mind

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>>24673620
>As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods.
>French leaders, favoring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts around the periphery of the German, Austrian, and Ottoman empires and eventually break the enemy's defenses. But France did not have sufficient resources to push the Germans back from the Western Front and attack elsewhere. The offensives they launched proved costly, and their tactical and operational methods ranged from remarkably effective to disastrously ineffective.
>Using extensive archival research, Doughty explains why France pursued a multi-front strategy and why it launched numerous operations as part of that strategy. He also casts new light on France's efforts to develop successful weapons and methods and the attempts to use them in operations.

I need rip-roaring great books about red-blooded mercenaries. The best of the best. Preferably focused on Africa during the 60s-90s. Elsewhere in the world is acceptable if the narrative hops from location to location. Memoirs and really detailed accounts preferred, I'm not looking for a run-of-the-mill boring recitation of economics and politics.

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>>24674441
These covers are absolutely godawful.

>>24674934
>there can't have been energy from literal nothingness
the "nothing" you are talking about always had energy in it

>>24674961
steady state theory isn't proven at all

>>24674961
Yeah, yeah quantum vacuums and all that, which loosely violates thermodynamics. We know physicists don't consider "nothing" to be truly "nothing" (convenient retooling of the word lmao) but there was a state prior to said vacuum which supposedly created the big bang.

Energy doesn't come from true nothingness, not the vacuum theory, which basically leaves us with Hawking's literal headcanon no-boundaries idea. Even the "not empty" vacuum theory is headcanon as well.

>>24674961
Proof?

>/lit/ - Literature

>>24670991
Genuinely yes. Hitler clearly had some kind of spectrum issue.

>>24674538
Based

>>24674526
I was just joking, but it's always funny to see someone get all worked up at the mere suggestion that their goat had homosex. Yes, he and his roommate Kubizek kissed a lot and even planned to live together in a large villa, one would be an orchestra conductor and the other a painter, they liked opera and had a lot of unprotected sex

>>24668483
his awkward and stilted relationships with women are well known

>>24673659
Provide source? I have only heard of the council or the round table, but months ago.

Get some John Muir and Wendell Berry

>>24673856
Post book cover

>>24673866
>resident islam spammer on the no-fly list
holy based. i just wish your posts were more interesting.

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>>24673827
warning: you may become an enlightened poet by the end of this, aware of and connected to the latent divinity and endless beauty of the world around you

>>24673827
>Picrel is where I'll be for 10 days.

You have two narratives, you need something that you can read a page of, then chew on for an hour while you wash dishes or watch a stream in the evening. Could it be Marcus Aurelus Meditations?

“Like seeing roasted meat and other dishes in front of you and suddenly realizing: This is a dead fish. A dead bird. A dead pig. Or that this noble vintage is grape juice, and the purple robes are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood. Or making love—something rubbing against your penis, a brief seizure and a little cloudy liquid.

“Perceptions like that—latching onto things and piercing through them, so we see what they really are. That’s what we need to do all the time—all through our lives when things lay claim to our trust—to lay them bare and see how pointless they are, to strip away the legend that encrusts them.”

“Treat what you don’t have as nonexistent. Look at what you have, the things you value most, and think of how much you’d crave them if you didn’t have them. But be careful. Don’t feel such satisfaction that you start to overvalue them—that it would upset you to lose them.”

“To see them from above: the thousands of animal herds, the rituals, the voyages on calm or stormy seas, the different ways we come into the word, share it with one another, and leave it. Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. How many people don’t even know your name. How many will soon have forgotten it. How many offer you praise now—and tomorrow, perhaps, contempt.

“That to be remembered is worthless. Like fame. Like everything.”


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>>24674380
I‘m gonna need to see that sourced as Pierce then went on to record it himself which I don‘t think was pointedly in demand. If nothing else that Cosmotheism chapter seems to be taking its work pretty seriously.

>>24674301
Like italians. Or Irish.

>>24673495
>Any to add to this?

Nope. You've got it pretty well figured out.

boring basedright garbage. go talk to your friends or something. they miss you.

>>24674848
It's a lot of things but boring isn't one.

>>24668651
Thanks for the business idea bro

>>24673739
I read all Plato in pdf, maybe I buy the dialogs in the future because the online translation was too old. However, I haven't read Hesiod, maybe I should as you say.

>>24673851
lol

>>24673935
Then you didn't actually read it. You stared at a screen. It's not the same thing.

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Just moved across the country. Restarting my library from scratch basically.