Unironically, what did it teach you?
>>24969483You absolutely have to have slave morality for the plebs cause they're awful. And you need to do it in a way that feels religiously organically developed. And it needs to have an element of blind faith to it. People will buy in to anything, but only if you tell them a silly story first.
>>24969483All women are evil
>>24969483Jesus is the greatest guy to have ever lived, died and live again :)
>>24969483That I really, really, really hate Abrahamism.
>>24971919>It taught me that 99.99999% of everyone that has ever lived or will live in the future is completely damnedYes. It is written that the road to hell is broad and the path to heaven is narrow.Matthew 7:13-14, Luke 13:23-24>including myself. We all have no hope of escaping hell. It is literally impossible to live in today's world and enter the gates of heaven.Do not despair. The fact the world still exists proves that salvation is still possible, because the day salvation becomes impossible is the day the world ends, as the world would have no remaining salvific purpose.>Every single thing that society programs you to pursue is in direct opposition to what Jesus specifically teaches.We can rejoice in the opportunity to develop the greater virtue required to overcome sin in an epoch of trial where temptation and deceit abound"But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved."Matthew 24:13
So what did everyone get for Christmas?picrel is the kindle book hauls I got, plus I got 125 dollars in Barnes & Noble credits, which I'm probably to use to get some Marx, Smith, Hegel, and Tocqueville and maybe others, possibly a history of China or something. I also got tons of coffee, some food items and a few articles of clothing. more to come.
Didn’t get anything for Christmas but I got my mom David Szalay’s Flesh and my dad a more recent edition of the Economist Pocket World in Figures :)))
A good year. I have a good wife.
>>24974861Ironically enough that was the only one I didn't ask for
coal
>>24975886>philosophy as a right of rebirth>war before civilization >days of rageBased
the fourth blackfyre rebellion editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24949686
>>24976237>I was lied to.Gurm would never lie.
>>24976165would Mance have fun discussions about the life of maesters and how they do their shit with the wildling chieftains?
>>24976299hate this fuck
I think this IP should just be let loose for every studio to pump out their own shows or animated series until eventually we get an ending that is so widely liked that its considered canon and then we can finally have a satisfying conclusion. Obviously it would be more satisfying to READ IT in the BOOKKKKKKKKKK but the most positive polly thing we can hope for in this regard is the fat man dying and then we can see what he has written so far and notes.
Vote for it here:https://forms.gle/LqHa5xS1q5CVikem6
>>249734995 books of Moses are most essential reading alongside the NT, the rest is just as good but not as essential. Understanding the Book of Mormon makes understanding the rest of the Bible as much easier as you put in to reading the Book of Mormon, and they compound in as interesting a way as possible.
>>24973953Does it comment on the NT? I'm interested in Matthew.
>>24976050Don't bother, it's all fanfiction and plagiarism. Interesting if you're interested in the history of 19th-century American religion, sure, but there'a no real wisdom or revelation to be found in it.
>>24976215>no real wisdom or revelation to be found in itJoseph Smith's story is that he literally prayed for wisdom from God, so to me the book is the purest wisdom, God doesn't give bad gifts, people just aren't able to wrap their heads around it, which is part of what makes it wise - it is like how the Bible NT filters Jews who are stuck on misreading the OT to contradict it when they are 100% compatible; NT says "judge not by appearance, judge righteously" and it takes a willingness to do away with faulty judgments against the BoM to be able to dig the true revelations that are in it, which are still game-changing even after the book has been out for so long because it takes a certain willingness to entertain it to get the true gold out of it.>if you're interested in the history of 19th-century American religionGo for Doctrine and Covenants for that, it is a better book than any other American religious sect, actually better than all other American developments put together.>plagiarismNot so, the Book of Mormon borrows accepted points from other scriptures to be sure, but it uses those to hang its completely fresh and new ideas, all of which are completely sound and worthy to be tested. It is actually completely unique.>fanfictionNot so. Mormon has a way of writing his narrative where he spins it to be a sort of bible-like book; it is important to note that it is retrospective from his point of view, looking back at Christian developments and telling a concise story of his people, and using that to hang his own discourses on. If it is fiction [which is harder to believe than fact once you've read it], not only for the quality of the discourses does it outlast all other literature for its true Gospel, it would have to be better at replicating an ancient author than even the best novelists could possibly try to forge.>>24976050Whole thing is a NT commentary and elaboration, in context of the whole Bible, as well as the rest of the world. It doesn't dip into the tropes of NT commentary though and offers a good fresh perspective that is mainly in service of fulfilling the depth of thought that can be derived from a Bible read; it is entirely meant to increase the Biblical witness and not usurp it by some word-of-man garbage with false commands.
>>24976050Have you read Luke & Acts?
What are some good books for someone dwelling into Zen Buddhism?I really like the aesthetic.
Sextus Empiricus
>>24976144Aint clickin dat, lil nigga
>>24976044I always got the vibe that osho was just a fairly well-read and intelligent guy that managed to con a bunch of retarded westerners. He's better than our homegrown cult leaders (joseph smith and l ron hubbard)
>>24975166How come?
>>24976144Huh, I always sort of wondered if there was a tibetan/mahayana equivalent to suttacentral.
Just read it. It sucked. What am I missing?
>>24974473>>24974497This is why /lit/ is dead. Pride and Prejudice is far from a "deep" work of literature (in fact, it was rightly considered light literature at the time), but it does a great job at depicting societal norms around courtship at the time. It's really not that serious and you sound absolutely unhinged to be seething at a slice of life book
>>24975722>you sound absolutely unhinged to be seething at a slice of life bookYou sounds like reddit faggots that defend modern h*lywood smearing their wilful subhuman mugs with corporate capeshit on an annual basis "because it's just entertainment bro chillax it's fun". Eat shit and kill yourself, soulless subhuman golem.
>>24976034Ah, makes sense now. You're a /pol/tard.back to your containment board lil pup >>>/pol/
>>24976034Ah, makes sense now. You're a butthurt capeshit subhuman.Back to your containment paddock, pig twat: reddit.com
>>24976034
It's the most beautiful love story I've ever read.
>>24976689Reading anti-slavery positions into NT verses like you are John Brown doesn't count, by the way. If those statements can only be identified in hindsight they are worthless.
>>24975300Why did they re-legalize alcohol but not take the women's right to vote away or put niggers back in the field?
>>249754144chan has some smart mother fuckers, if you didnt know that, you would not be here now would you.
What did i say here
>>24975476based off the clock ready for cock chart>>24975812of course 18 and 21 year olds cant be brainwashed into chopping off their genitals, if we're waiting until people are actually super fully for realsies adult before they can consent to anything we're talking 28-31 years old, also trannyism should be outlawed
>has a song about romeo and juliet>has a song about hamletdo you think she browses here? do you think she doubts shakespeares authorship?
TayTay has been an Anon for a long-ass time. /b/ figured this out back in the day. There's no reason to assume she ever left, why would she? It's not like she's been outed as a 4channer.
JH = Judenhass
>>24976696I miss the old Taylor so fucking much!
A nine volume series originally written for Catholic students, the fairness, scholarship and objectivity of the work made it popular far beyond its intended audience. The author believes that understanding the context of philosophers, whom they were responding to, and what influenced their views, is vital to engaging with their work in good faith. The history stretches from the pre-Socratics to Sartre.Next week we begin the first volume; giving a few days of grace in case you plan to read from physical copiesIf you wish to keep track of threads or look for other resources, they will be posted on the Criterion Club server on the philosophy and math channelhttps://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24976196Fuck off with your discord spam.
Here is an excerpt from the series
>>24976196Why don't they release this shit on kindle?
>>24976502The PDF's are on Anna's Archive and the clean ones work great on kindle. There are also fan-made epubs which work pretty well on it
>>24976502Do kindle users who read stuff this dense even buy it? Don't they just pirate?
What's a truly original idea for a book?
>>24976711if /lit/slop was a genre, it would be something like that
>>24976674The girls it deceitfully lured and locked behind it in a small room through out the years
>>24976667>>24976674niggers
>>24976674>>24976737Nope. No. That doesn't happen.
>>24976686Don't steal my idea anon. I'm 100 pages in and it's an absolute masterpiece.
Odysseus and Diomedes murdered Dolon in cold blood despite his surrender and the promise they made to spare his life in exchange for information on the Trojan encampments. The Greeks were the villains of the Trojan War, just like the British during WWII
>>24975448If any part of you really believes either of those were the "good guys" you are a golem.
>>24975573I am literally saying that there is gray area between the Greeks and Trojans.
>>24975252Have you ever heard the theory that Helen was taken from a different (older) myth about the daughter of the sun being kidnapped? Apparently the name Helene is related to "Helios" (the sun), and Menelaos is related to the "Mene" (the older name of Selene, the moon), and there are parallels between Minos (whose name may be related to "Mene") and his wife Pasiphae (who was also the daughter of the sun).
>>24974798>there are no "villains" in the Iliad aside from the godsYou don't consider Agamemnon to be villainous?
>>24975573Between the dudes who carried out holocausts the UK are the "good guys". But the UK did commit heinous acts in their colonial nations like India.
what was the best book you read this year?
I finally read pic related after sitting on it for over 20 years. I really enjoyed it. After watching every version of Blade Runner a handful of times each, this was a nice change of pace. I've always been told about how different Blade Runner is from its source material but after reading it, I was very surprised at how similar they are. The basic skeleton of the plot is the same. If anything, the film made some very wise cuts to the plot.
>>24971322I want to rape them
>>24972624So is it a real travelogue or a shitpost? Sounds pretty funny
John Grisham's The Firm
>>24971290and quiet flows the don. (I'm reading it rn)
LOTR The Fellowship of the Ring - Chapter 6https://youtu.be/KXMW-OkqicA?si=XYK6YbQzMxMSNQvbMerry Christmas!
>>24971657okaybut why the old forest, of all things
>>24971657She's faking it
>>24971657I love women
>>24976342gayyyyyy
>video flaggedNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
Was thinking of reading some labor history. Which one of these should I pick and why?
>>24976545do you deal with cases involving workplace injury?
>>24976566I'm just saying, the whole discipline of labor history seems like an explicitly Marxist ideological project.
>>24976545I interned at one of these labor law firms. Shit was repetitive and uninteresting as fuck
>>24976488My employment record desu
>>24976488Volume 1 of the penguin classics translation of Das Kapital covers the working conditions of post-industrial revolution English poorfags quite extensively.
