>Caesar tells of how they mocked the "pygmy Romans" and adds that the whole population of Gaul was disdainful of the smaller stature of the Italian Legionaires.
>>24954245People that say that hatred of manlets is a modern phenomena have not studied history, it has always been like this.
>>24954245And yet the same pygmy Romans killed a million lankoid gauls and enslaved another million lol
>>24954274manlet cope
What books should I read in public to attract women?
I read jane austin on the train, but with the dust jacket from this
>>24953260>shoe dogBro I’m like an entrepreneur I got dat dog in me frfr
>>24953426Usually I don't like Moslems doing fatwas and all of their evil, but that woman, even, knows she's asking for it.
>>24954062>doesn't even know what part of his post was blackftr I don't agree with the other anon but come on
>>24953260Only fat, ugly women read books
This book changed my life for the better
>>24954147if you bore or tire of cunnilingus you are straight up a lowtest faggot
>>24951000Not an argument >>24950869The truth hurts
>>24952040>A real manYawn
>>24953848They’re women, what do you think?
>>24954242Enjoy your throat cancer, fag
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Some options I would like to add:- Petersburg by Andrei Bely- I, Claudius and Claudius the God by Robert Graves- Julian by Gore Vidal
>>24951578Please add:Kafka–The Complete StoriesMcCarthy–The Passenger, Stella MarisC.S. Peirce–The Essential Peirce, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (Indiana University Pr.)Also, Hadji Murat is misspelt (Madji Murat), and The Stormlight Archives and The Way of Kings are listed seperately.
>Anonymous—The Holy Biblenice try satan
>>24954070>>24954118>>24954232Added>Also, Hadji Murat is misspelt (Madji Murat), and The Stormlight Archives and The Way of Kings are listed seperately.Thanks for the catch.
>>24953423Fair enough, that's a good reason.
Are similar, on the one hand, analytical error or synthesis and on the other, the error between the conclusions of a pair of reasonings that contain equivocity, or especially, that contain a false univocity. The fragmentation of reality into several particular “possible worlds” linked to each other from the outside, under the pretense of universality, is like starting from a whole and its parts, then enlarging the whole to contain itself when a part exceeds it, whereas the whole disintegrates at every moment when it is no longer itself. Aesthetically, what is lost is everything that is not the represented formalization. Ethically, it is aesthetics and in metaphysics, everything is lost.Possessing an absolute Spirit would allow analytical truth. But for us, the seduction of the analytic will remain similar to that of the religious, the latter still being the more desirable. — Even if one admits mathematics a priori, concepts need a posteriori object in order to be true - objects that are contingent to the point of being absolutely fortuitous - for is indeterminate what is possible false. Analytics have lost on their own ground.
Good histories of secret societies or social movements?
What social movements
>>24953963(1999) The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World
sansa 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: >>24922194
Sex with Visenya
>>24949705Aenys I whose ability to have sex and make kids caused Maegor seetheJaehaerys I who bested Gaegor and sired 13 children.
>>24953758How would you imagine it would be?
>>24954106>Aenys I whose ability to have sex and make kids caused Maegor seethe>literally all his children were Velaryon bastards>Jaehaerys I who bested Gaegor and sired 13 children.>sat and cried in hiding while Maegor was saving the realm>couldn't keep his bitch spawn in check>absolutely bitchmade by his wife>trusted tower niggers directly setting up the dance of the dragons
>>24954237> literally all his children were [headcanon]> sat and cried in hiding while Maegor was saving the realmEscape from Maegor at 10 years old only to literally do what Maegor couldn't with the might of Balerion before he killed himself due to his own impotence. Also created the longest and greatest period of peace of the Targaryen dynasty of Maegor's chimpout, including pacifying the Faith. Maegor was impotent in both his rule and his manhood.
On the genealogy of morals - the scarpitti/etc translation says this which is fucking GAY. I want to read in a similar structure to the original with his schizo newly created words not this gay "errmmm we made it accessible and made it flow better sweetie" bullshit.Is there a REAL translation you could recommend?
>>24954188they are both jewish so no
>>24954162Just go with Kaufman
I read Common for Zarathustra and liked it well enough. I hear Ludovici is also good. The important thing is that neither has infamously made efforts to retcon Nietzsche into a modern-friendly ideology, like Kaufmann.
Take the "in the original" pill. You will always be cucked when choosing to read what is essentially fanfiction.
>>24954201neetche said the jews are the master race though
Tolstoy's forgotten 3rd novel. Why does no one talk about it? It's kind of like his version of Crime and Punishment with a similar story about prison, crime and prostitution. It's heavy-handed yeah but very good.
>I don't have enough rice to eat therefore the physical world is both evil+unfixable and we should sit around in a circle pseudo-lobotomizing ourselves during every waking moment o algo.
>>24952656Or maybe like get off your ass and grow your own rice instead of being a beggar.
>>24954180Being health minded is anti-Buddhist and worldly-pilled.
>>24954211>>24952656The Buddha and his followers generally belonged to the upper classes so not having rice to eat wasn't their motivation for seeking enlightenment.As to why they don't grow their own rice, that would make them self-sufficient, which would deprive the community of the opportunity to earn good karma by supporting them on a daily basis. In Buddhist culture, supporting the monks is a privilege.
>>24954238>In Buddhist culture, supporting the monks is a privilege.Truly a slave religion
>>24954238>actually they don't support themselves and beg to help YOUYeah bro totally makes sense that's not definitely just a super convenient excuse to do nothing
>>24945827chud nonsense
>>24944446>christopher "pseud-hack" nolan it's a gay book for faggots, who cares if a dyke translated it?
>>24945827she should literally be arrested for this, it's a crime against literature and humanity
>>24945827JFC. Current century translation.
Joke's on midwit nolan because the leaked 5 minutes of footage is a fucking disaster.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24953472>more white personsargentina is barely white anymore if it ever was. get out of any train station in BA and you will be surrounded by brown latinos
>>24953891obviously. congrats on your world cup btw
>>24953891its still around 90 percent white if you take statistics into account iirc. Or 80 percent or some.
>>24954132if you've used a dating app down there, you would have noticed that all latinos who aren't actually 100% indians consider themselves white. they are white like maradona is white
Books on the topic?I find reading about organized crime fascinating. Too bad im too much of a pussy to join.
I'll post a few of my favorites and some more tomorrow if the thread is still up.This one is a classic. It reminds me so much of In Cold Blood. It feels like you're right there with them as this all happens. This is an expose of the Camorra which is the main organized crime group in the Naples area of Italy. The author lives with police protection till this day. I highly recommend this one!
One of my favorite mafia books. This is about Roy Demeo and his crew of serial killers. Demeo was a member of the Gambino crime family. These people killed for profit, killed for fun, killed for the sake of just doing something on a Friday night. Absolutely insane story.
>>24952862>homo criminalis
How this book hasn't been made into a movie is beyond me. Probably one of the most riveting organized crime/drug trafficking bios I have ever read.
Biography of Toto Riina, the Boss of Bosses of the Sicilian mafia. He killed judges, politicians, anyone that got in his way. He was a mafioso from the countryside of a small town called Corleone, you may have heard of it :)He literally exterminated the majority of the Palermo clans to take control of the whole mafia.
I am ignorant of the Eastern ways. What is the point to negating every point and entering complete dissolution from being? Why is annihilation the good if we can't even have a good? Or am I misunderstanding the Buddha.
>>24951034>dissolution from being?Because being Is just a conceptual framework, you have to go beyond that
>>24954003Because it requires initiation from a teacher. The teacher quite literally transmits the experience to the student, "raising" them, and once the student has a feel for it, they then go off on their own and figures out how to get there by themselves. They do this repeatedly till they reach nirvana.these lineages still exist, and are very alive. There's teachers in the west. Many. I've heard anecdotally that South America has many teachers. You can find them.Fundamentally though, buddhism starts with a requirement of high spiritual XP. A lot of the sutras are nonsensical to the average person, and for even seekers, it is a paradoxical mess.This is why its better to start off in a western path, which is incidentally suited more towards the western lifestyleafaik, franz bardon's path is the best available in the West, and many people start with bardon then switch to buddhism later on. i personally was online friends with a guy who moved to China to become a boddhisattva, having begun on Bardon's pathBut yeah, i totally get how you feel. If it's any solace, ive come to believe that because our age is one of decay and dissolution, there is potential for great growth and acceleration in a way that wasnt in previous ages. take full opportunity of it. I wish you well on your travels friend
>>24954018It's undeniable there are plenty of spiritual paths in the modern world. What is harder to gauge is the actual power of these spiritual paths, and how they compare to what was available to people many centuries ago. When I study the ancient cultures in this respect, it's like looking back on some ancient lost civilization that was infinitely more advanced than our own. We might still have some of their icons, their scriptures, and some of their tools, but we have minimal reckoning of the real context in which they were used, so the real meaning behind these pieces is forever lost to us. And I don't take the claims of "unbroken lineage" to be proof that the real meaning has been preserved. For analogy, you could say the Western higher education system of universities has an "unbroken lineage" of about 1000 years, but what universities have actually signified and meant in the cultures that have them has changed entirely throughout these years, and I feel the same happens with all human institutions and traditions, including the religious. And I feel nearly all religious institutions have fully decayed in this way.
>>24954018>>24954079 (Cont.) Also, I should give you specifics so that you know what I'm talking about.Up until the age of around 18, I used to have rare encounters with things from Asia which filled me with emotions deeply profound and mystical. Generally these came from architecture, but there was one instance where as a teenager I clicked on a random stream of a young Japanese man sitting on the floor of his room, and although he was doing nothing out of the ordinary, a light flashed on in my head and I felt I understood something very ancient and profound about the Asian perspective -- and not just the Asian perspective, but the lost Asian perspective, the perspective that is fading away and almost entirely lost in the present age. What perspective was it? I can't say. Perhaps on paper, some of the emotions that I felt may be linked back to "Taoism", and some to "Buddhism", but I think that is doing a total disservice to the actual emotions that I felt, because "Taoism" and "Buddhism" are for us dry and desiccated intellectual concepts to be written about in books, burdened by history, law, and so many preconceived notions, whereas whatever I felt was as fresh, immediate, and real as the air we breathe. It does not make sense to call what I felt an "-ism" or a creed or anything, in much the same way it would be absurd to call love or anger a belief. It was just something I felt, and I have no idea how to get into contact with it again.
>>24954018(NTA) But it feels cringe to require anything like that before atleast reaching a high enough attainment on one's own from whence you are not affected by anything and have no doubts with regards the right action. Not to mention it doesn't even seem like an actual recourse in reality, the possibility of finding someone like that, not to be a doubtfag but you know. However desu, I too am consumed by trying to recreate the experience I've had, "it's" authority seems to lie completely on the outside of the rest of all of my memory and reality; for this reason I also think I can do shit on my own the possibility of which I would not otherwise have been able to conceive of.>I have no idea how to get into contact with it againSame, and it feels maddening in my case.
I think reading activates the brain. thoughts?
reminder if you don't regularly study math, you are willingly having you brain degenerate and your intelligence plummet
>HIS BRAIN DEACTIVATES.YOU ARE BEYOND HELP ALREADY.
I think getting out of the house, leaving the city, and interacting with nature activates the brain. You're suffering a malady of modern times, called "neural net model collapse". Rediscovered with the advent of generative AI, researchers realized that AI models trained on AI-generated output experienced model collapse. Devoid of the outliers and long tails of real-world data, the model's parameters clipped to zero or one, rendering it all useless. A similar phenomenon happens in human neural-networks if they're trained on human-made and other artificial data, instead of natural data. The pathetic shutin stunts his development with anime, vidya, pr0n, Star Trek, virtual human contact, and the confines of his little room, stunting his neural development beyond all repair. The inevitable result is all too common—seething, sexual perversion, and increasing suicidal ideation. Sadly, there is no known cure. The misery simply multiplies until the sad little anon can't take it anymore.
>>24954161Extremely cursed image.
>>24954161(2,10%), (3,10%), (2,25%), (4,25%), (5,25%), and (3,50%) have some artistic merit.
