Books are amazing. You should read some books. What are you currently reading and/or planning to read?Even some of the worst fiction is better than reading the same shitposts over and over again.
reading is for brainlets
>>523692368>What are you currently readingHistory of the spanish civil war.
What's the point of reading books? It's an inefficient way to get your information in the 21st century. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a 10 min video is worth 100k words. You can learn more by watching videos than reading books
>books>21th century authoritative top down meaning buildingAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGutenbergs meta has been dead for a good 20 years
>>523692368I put the LotR trilogy on the back of my toilet because I found that since I bought a smartphone (I purposely had a dumb flip phone for like a decade) I been spending too much time on the shitter just watching videos. The books are exciting enough to want to read, but not like doomscrolling where I end up watching for long time. I usually want to get back to what I was doing so I read until my crap is done, maybe finish the next page or 2 and then wipe and wash my ass.
Time enough for love by Heinlein. it was actually a pol recommend and now its my all time fav
I'm reading too many books at the same time:Henry Kissinger, DiplomacyRobert Chambers, The King in YellowNikolay Chernyshevsky, What Is to Be Done?Sir Walter Scott, Guy ManneringWilliam Faulkner, Collected Stories
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>>523692432unironicallymore like, books are for retards that need somebody else to tell them what to think and believe
>>523692600See even your brain is telling you doomscrolling is a superior way to satisfy your curiousity for new information than reading books. Now imagine if people doomscrolled through educational content instead of brainrot.
>>523692600paper books are nice but i end up mostly reading on a phone just because its easier to get new books>>523692623heinlein is good in small doses i find. his constant attempts at long witty conversations gets so fucking annoying after a while.
>>523692503Yeah just keep doom scrolling to youtube shorts and youll get the highest perspective and information one could get!
>>523692645Found that faulkner book Mwahaha I put an iron on itEvil fucking thing
>>523692665kek. I bet my post will still be referenced in a thousand years long after I'm gone.
>>523692759Look people say short attention spans are a bad thing but I actually think it could be a good thing if taken advantage of in the right way. Studies show that modern audiences can process visual information significantly faster than previous generations so imagine if your youtube shorts feed was educational instead of being brainrot
>>523692368I’m doing my monthly rereading of mein kampf.
>>523693094tldr
>>523693192KEK
>>523693192Short attention span > Faster information processing > You learn more for every unit of time
>>523692432>niggers need constant stimulation and can't concentrate on anything for more than 5 secondsNo shit
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I'm reading Stephen Kings IT. But I must admit I havent picked it up in a couple of weeks.
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>>523693584how long would you say that you can get away without reading a book and still say that you're reading it? does the book move into some other category once a certain length of time has passed since the last reading?
>>523693320Youre literally brown arnt you. Thinking of ways to try and actively use your brain less in a permanently debilitating way.
>>523692699Yea my brain TELLS me, but really even if it was educational content, I still would probably retain like 0 of it just like the youtube shots. I genuinely can't remember a single short I watched today, and I must have watched atleast a dozen
>>523692368the malazan book of the fallen. anons who dig fantasy, I highly recommend it
>>523693820People who think they're smart because they can't/ won't read is a classic example of Dunning Kruger
>>523693744Two weeks
>>523692368Anything and everything from Antelope Hill.https://antelopehillpublishing.com/
>>523693930true. i should have thought of that.
>>523693820>>523693744 poses a good question thoughbeit
I read travel memoirs all the time and Im a full time traveler
>>523693888You remember the abstract stuff subconsciously. Like I remember watching a short about how pissing on an electric fence won't shock you because the piss breaks into droplets and breaks the conductive stream but don't remember the exact contents of the video
>>523693820You are too dumb to understand my argument lmao
>>523694247no has time for you. now shut up and let me watch my youtube shorts.
>>523692503You can't get any good information out of videos. Not even a 5 hour video can teach you anything, because the information it delivers will by nature be shallow due to the format being shallow. Plus, you're entirely reliant on whoever is making the video, and there is nobody living today who's worth listening to or has any grasp on the truth. You need to go back several hundred years to come across information that's both true and worth studying.
>>523692368I'll read anything because you can always learn from anything if you pay attention. So now I'm reading some XCOM2 fanfic a fellow /pol/tard recommended. I hadn't tried reading amateurs and newbies before.
I feel that reading travel memoirs had opened up entire new world and new ways of life for me and had completely changed my worldview. From "serious" books I want to read Karl Marx
>>523693986I agree. They are a great publisher.
>>523694379Unlike good books, videos are low effort low quality slop, they are easier to make and publish than books too which at least require literacy
>>523694247You dont know what youre talking about, there are books that are banned that you cant get that information anywhere else except maybe here but even then youd only scratch the surface here. The youtube algorithims and jannies will shut down anything to troublesome for the masses to see. How could you compare the information in a book with tens of thousands of words to a youtube short with like 50 words being spoken? Are you fucking retarded? If you don't like to read then don't. But don't try and put it down below you like some insecure little faggot caveman nigger.
>>523694379Ok I admit that the information is more shallow but the information per unit time is better. You could take 20 hours to finish a book or watch 5 different video summaries about the topic of the book each about 15-20 mins and also read the comments under the videos. In which case do you think you will learn more?"A picture is worth a thousand words". Why do you think this phrase exists? Because the information density is better! By logical inference a video is a superior source of knowledge.
>>523694660See this>>523694665
>>523692368I'm currently reading some hard sf.Great book, recommended.
Reading The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane. Recommended if you like Conan.
>>523694665Everything you hear in those 5 videos will be wrong, because the people producing those videos are uneducated and don't understand the topic they're making videos on. They just skim Wikipedia and repeat whatever propaganda they saw there. This is the case for every single Youtuber, no exceptions. There are no experts on Youtube. There is nobody with a real education on Youtube. So not only will you not learn anything from the videos, but you'll accumulate misinformation that you've mistakenly taken for genuine. A far worse position than if you had simply stayed ignorant of the subject entirely.
>>523692432>>523692503>>523692541Spotted the Americans.>>523693584Stephen King is slop. Read the real classics.
>>523694953Ok how is that any different with a book? You just have to trust the author knows their stuff.At least with videos you can read the comments to verify.
>>523695161Name me some classics
>>523693986looks good
>>523695375Metamorphosis
>>523692368Reading this little book, it's very nice. Diogenes was cool
1/3 through this one. Kind of longwinded but he was a maby the last smart American in government.
>>523695310Theres well renowned highly respected and qualified authors and then there are scam / bad ones just like there are with youtube content creators. Can you put more thought than just 10 seconds into your replies or is that to hard for you now because of your chimp like attention span? This is all common sense stuff youre struggling with by the way.
>>523695310Because you can go back thousands of years to gather information from times when humanity had real human beings with functioning, competent and capable minds. That is not the case for videos.
>>523695559>Theres well renowned highly respected and qualified authors and then there are scam / bad ones just like there are with youtube content creators.Exactly. Now who do you think you'll learn more if both the authors and youtube content creators are equally qualified? There's a reason students these days just watch youtube tutorials instead of reading books. Think about that.
>>523695375>Name me some classicsYour own cultural heritage, nigger. Start with Paradise Lost by Milton. Personally, I can't stand Shakespeare, but better men than I have sworn that he truly is a genius, so there must be something in it, right? If you want something much more modern, although all true wisdom is perennial and eternal, Philip K. Dick is certainly the best "SF" writer, much better than King who's like a parody of Lovecraft. Lovecraft is fun to read, too, but a bit too depressing if you understand all the implications.If you know French or Russian (so you don't have to rely on translations), there are more options.
>>523695310unless you're dealing with unknown authors self publishing stuff you can at least expect that there have been some standards of accuracy applied to the manuscript before it was published to the world. publishing houses usually try to not get caught lying about stuff.
>>523695747Cool man.
>>523695747>but better men than I have sworn that he truly is a genius, so there must be something in it, right?have you tried to listening to an audio version of some plays being performed? it really helps get whats going on and appreciate the language. Try King Lear with Alec Guiness as lear. you can find it easily online. a really great version. the Fool is brilliant.
>>523692432You heard it here. Learning is for stupid people.
It's happened once.
>>523695747>>523695375Addendum: it's sometimes easier to work backwards, as authors will cite their own favourite writers. E.g King frequently cites Lovecraft as a big inspiration, even though he's a fake while Lovecraft was real, Lovecraft himself cites Arthur Machen - a minor celebrity in London back in his time, all but forgotten today, Machen's autobiography you'll find nothing but praise for De Quincey's "Confessions", and he practically idolized Coleridge and Wordsworth, so following the chain backwards is easy, even if it means that sometimes you only understand what you've read a long time afterwards, but it certainly beats being an ignoramus.
>>523695854>have you tried to listening to an audio version of some plays being performed?I'm not a nigger who needs a babysitter to read a fairy tale to me.
>>523692368Yes, but shit posts that are derived from peoples readings is valuable.
Race or mongrel by Alfred Schultz
>>523696021no, its a full cast reading the play like it was supposed to be. but whatever makes you feel better. you're missing out though
>>523695161>I am stupid>i need somebody else to form my thoughts and conceptions of realityI am made of the same seam as you, read way too much "classics" over my life, fell for the first 25 years of my life hook line and sinker for the bait - I envy the ones who never fell for the bait and just lived. Its a torment to be a prophet of decay, but its better than a true believer in a death epistem
>>523692368Reading the sound and the fury, hard to follow at points but im enjoying it
>>523692368Currently reading Dante's Divine Comedy. Re-reading the bible again. Just starting Judges. After I finish Dante I may start Moby Dick or re-read Paradise Lost as it filtered me the last time. For /pol/ /lit/, pic related was my baby's-first-redpill.
>>523696140>leaf keeps making excuses for his illiteracy
>>523695983Thank you
Anyone know anything about this?
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>>523696235>doesn't think shakespeare is any good>refuses to listen to shakepeare performed properlyok genius have fun
>>523692503>If a picture is worth a thousand words, a 10 min video is worth 100k words.Only very few videos achieve this. Those in which the creator, narrator, editor, etc. pour their lives into creating a superb piece of educational art.The vast majority are utter slop and a book will be a better source of information most of the time.I absolutely abhor learning through courses that are hours of video.
>>523696388Curse Vishnu>>523696284You need some Rene Guenon in your life, bro. And others from Sophia Perennis, like Charles Upton or Wolfgang Smith.
>>523696550>advertising the thoughts of the dead that lived in a time long past with no relation to todayyou are a nigger
>>523696403>a picture is worth a thousand words
>>523692368Practically all the books I want to purchase are not availible not at the library nor at any barnes & noble within 100 miles nor seem to be at booksamillion.(thank you jannies for such an easy captcha)
>>523696611>time long past with no relation to todayLOL.ROFL.LMAO.Get a load of this nigger.
>>523696672What books are you looking for, also i too am getting silly easy captchas
>>523692678This But I like fiction on occasionIf the author is good you have enough room to form your own conclusions about the subject matter in interesting ways Not enough to waste half your life on it though
>>523696672Library Genesis has a lot. Some particularly obscure books might not be uploaded, but pretty much anything with >1000 copies in circulation is on there.They keep getting their domains banned, so keep track at https://librarygenesis.net/
>>523696683As said, a nigger, a dishonest advertiser, a prophet of a dead epistemology, a reality that hasnt existed for 60 years
>>523696857>As said, a niggerYou're looking at your reflection in the goyphone, nigger.
I'm reading Mein Kampf sporadically, usually a comic inbetween, I finished A History of Violence and quite liked it.
>>523693601hahaI was an Earl of Oxfordian until I listened to Bill Bryson's Shakespeare book, he does a good job in less than 200 pages standing up for the genius of the common man and against the snobbery of the Oxfordians. Hamnet - great movie too btw.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare:_The_World_as_Stage
>>523692368I finished Dracula recently and the boys from Brazil soon after that. Going into that one should disdain hardships. I use z library for my ebooks, have a few thousand now.
>>523692678>books tell you what to believeLol can you not decide whats valid or invalid or do you just take all text at face value and internalise it hahaha
>>523692368I am doing a reread and exercises of Functional Analysis by Walter Rudin.
I read the Kybalion the last time 4chan was down.Might read the Divine Pymander now that the new captcha broke KurobaExperimental.
I'm reading Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail.It has been republished. Eerily prophetic.
found the audiobook of Ron Chernow's 'Titan Life of John D Rockefeller' on PirateBay, listened to it twice so far, very interesting history of beginning of the oil industry. Fun fact - Rockefeller couldn't get loans from banks to build oil wells in Pennsylvania because everyone thought the oil would run out in a year hahahahhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan:_The_Life_of_John_D._Rockefeller,_Sr.
>>523697075Bryson also reads the audiobook version, he is one of the very best audiobook readers ever, and I have listened to 100s of audiobooks. I am on the 5th listen of his book 'One Summer 1927' that he also reads. About Lindbergh's flight and Babe Ruth. Some hilarious moments about all the wannabes before Lindbergh.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Summer:_America,_1927
>>523697361its a good book. funny too. you ever read Submission by that other frenchy? not as good but not bad either
>>523692368The only book you will ever need
>>523697553I listened to a chunk of it on audiobook and i wasnt impressed. Maybe it was the translation but everything is basically outright stated and theres no subtlety to it.
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>>523697553>Submission is a 2015 satirical novel by French author Michel HouellebecqI'll check it out, fren.
>>523693094>imagine if your youtube shorts feed was educational instead of being brainrotThe problem is that it isn't educational. You're coping hard about your phone-induced ADHD. The reality is that TPTB are created things like TikTok and Youtube Shorts because they want you to be addicted to your phone. You would be far more dangerous to them if you had the intellectual discipline to sit down and read a 200-page book about history or politics. Most people nowadays are simply incapable of doing that.
>>523692368Who is Esau-EdomErectus Walks Among UsThe Bible (Interlinear Greek ONLY, including Septuagint)The classicsLOTRAlastair Hazell - The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave TradeAllan G.B. Fisher & Humphrey J. Fisher - Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa: The Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan TradeBernard Lewis - Race and Slavery in the Middle EastDes Ekin - The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary PiratesJohn Wright - The Trans-Saharan Slave TradePaul Baepler - White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity NarrativesRonald Segal - Islam's Black SlavesToby Green - A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of RevolutionToby Green - The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589Charles Sumner - White Slavery in the Barbary StatesDes Ekin - The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary PiratesFrancis Brooks - Barbarian Cruelty: An Eye-Witness Account of White Slavery under the MoorsGiles Milton - White GoldColin Flaherty - White Girl Bleed a LotColin Flaherty - Don't Make the Black Kids AngryMichael William - The Genesis of Political Correctness: The Basis of a False MoralityPatrick J. Deneen - Why Liberalism Failed Patrick West - The Poverty of MulticulturalismRoger Scruton - Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New LeftMarie Carre - AA-1025: Memoirs of the Communist Infiltration Into the ChurchC. S. Lewis - Mere ChristianityC. S. Lewis - The Screwtape LettersE. Michael Jones - The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal As Ethnic Cleansing Ian Bremmer - Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism Christopher A. Ferrara - Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to ObamaDerek Hunter - Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and HollywoodEdward Bernays - Propaganda
>>523697786most cant see past the myths and fairy tales into the real lived experience, helps to have some background first, from a believer, like Bishop Spongcf: Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalismhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelby_Spong
>>523697807yeah its definitely a lesser book that Camp of the Saints, but its got that French starkness about it that can be interesting.
>>523697989>Bishop Spongmaybe getting insights on Christianity from a raving communist homosexual isnt the best idea but, like him, do as thou wilt i guess.
>>523697989>SpongAbsolutely not
>>523692678>i believe every word that i readnigger tier
For anyone itt who wishes to find a curriculum of traditional knowledge, I suggest pic related. It lays out the fundamental concepts the medieval person would learn about to be considered literate, including references to the books and authors each idea comes from. It’s available on libgen/zlib for download, here is the detailed table of contents:https://fonsvitae.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Medieval-Literacy-A-COMPENDIUM-OF-MEDIEVAL-KNOWLEDGE-WITH-THE-GUIDANCE-OF-C.-S.-LEWIS-By-James-Grote.pdf
>>523698012No im talking about camp of saints. Now i only listened to part of it but as i said its just too on the nose for me, everything is too laid out and in the open, it just feels like someone having a rant in the pub smoking area than an allegory for why immigration is bad
>>523697368Holy shit. What a cohencidence! I am actually in the process of reading this book.
>>523698090theocrats called him a heretic, he would have been burned at the stake 500 years ago. Amazingly, its still controversial to say the Virgin Birth is a myth hahaha.Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, described Spong's teaching as constituting the historic definition of heresy. Mohler asserted that Spong had "denied virtually every major Christian doctrine".[27]Personal life and deathIn 1955, Spong married Joan Lydia Ketner. She died in 1988. In 1990, Spong married Christine Mary Bridger. Spong had five children.[5]
>>523693584Just burn it and read something good.t read way too much Stephen King as a teenager
>>523698271oh ok. i dont mind it. still manages to pretty accurately demonstrate how the pro immigration people think and the absurdity of all.
>>523698356My collections better
I often wonder why Andrew Yang's 'War on Normal People' is not part of the /pol canon, we can see it happening just as he predicted, and everyone is still just as befuddled and bewilderedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_on_Normal_People
>>523696550Hello Guenonanon! I’ve been wanting to get into his books ever since learning about him on /lit/ and /his/, and my interest rekindled after meeting a fellow sperg at my school who studies Ibn Arabi and Suhrawardi. It seems that there’s a little community of Traditionalists/Perennialists who exchange ideas on 4chan (at least 4-5 years ago there were), do you happen to know about them, if they still post here?I remember the old political generals that began to go away during 2016, it’s a shame what /pol/ has become :/
>>523692368The average book is no more qualitative than the average /pol/ post, spam included, so do not forget to strongly emphasize quality over quantity.
>>523698348Spong was a heretic and it's unfair to even call him a Christian.
>>523694953If you aren’t a sub-120IQ, skimming past the wiki article rehash channels is quite easy.
>>523698598Fair im not trying to just shit on it for the sake of it i was just a bit disappointed by it personally. Which doesnt mean other people cant enjoy it
>>523698759true. he was one of those apostates that cant quite bring themselves to just leave and go their own way but has to stick around trying to corrupt everything instead. angry.
>>523696969I don't pretend to be anything but a prophet of decay lamenting the dead of Gutenbergs epistem, mocking salesman of a dead world you believe can be resurrected if only the unwashed masses read your dead authors brain rot you believe in. Guess what, the masses have a very rational reason to ignore and mock you, as they have to ignore me because, "we" speak a language that is not theirs and doesn't reflect their reality.I am just honest enough to admiot it, while you, out of stupidity or malice say everyone else is stupid because they refuse to follow your dogmas
>>523698834i get you anon no worries
>>523698602pictures in mine prettier
>>523698886Exactly. Very much the infiltrator type. He should've been defrocked early into his time as a priest.
>>523698649Well, it's impossible to have a community "here", as this place has been botted to high heaven since Trump's first campaign, and I don't use discord (banning it is like one good decision our awful kiked government did, not like it's not trivial to bypass). So, I have no contact with the group you mentioned whatsoever, but Traditionalists (Guenon himself quite disliked the term 'Perennialist', even if used the term Philosophia Perennis or Sophia Perennis to describe his doctrine sometimes) are pretty common in intellectual right-wing circles.
>>523698924its difficult to comprehend just how badly you're missing the point. but thats ok
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>>523698953i think there are still a bunch of videoed debates between him and various actual Chritsians still online where you can see how far gone the guy was. sad really.
>>523696271>Anyone know anything about this?nope. have it and 'Fabric of Reality', but have only read a chapter or two, so long ago I cant remember.Just watched 'The Thinking Game' about DeepMind AI and was interested to see Demis Hassabis reading 'The Fabric of Reality' on the train haha. The entire documentary is on the tube.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ
>>523698937>carvaggioThis whoite man gets it, very nice
>>523696271Demis Hassabis did mention in interview with Lex Fridman, that he agrees with physicist John Wheeler that information is primary to matter, i.e. 'It from Bit', but didnt mention David Deutschhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ
>>523698503Fuck I think I will. I don't have the strength for 800 more pages of this. I've got a book on Napoleon that I'll read after I watch the mummy.
>>523698968What else are your lot doing but advertising a top down epistem that was sold through authoritative means, in this case called "books".You really believe that somebody whose reality is defined by horizontal meaning building through fractured online sources, peers and a panache of whatever, that can effectively construct their own reality on the fly is going to suddenly resurrect your believe and follow you as authority of a dead trend.laughable.watching your lot larping as shepherds is like watching a bum on a street corner yelling at school children about reptiles and mkultra. https://voca.ro/17vUc25HAZcQ
>>523692368Currently reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin LiuDemocracy The God That Failed by HobbesAnd is planning to read Always The Horizon by Murdoch Murdoch
>>523699323i really think you have mental problems
>>523698937I don’t care how decadent you fags think modern art is, there’s something about European art in the late 19th century-pre WWI Europe that was so magical, it was the perfect mix between modern and pre-modern. I love Symbolism, Vienna Secession, and Decadent artI have a little present for you artanon. Here are the complete archives of the official magazine for the Vienna Secession, Ver Sacrum. https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?aid=vsaAnd here is the complete scans of Jugend, a German Art Nouveau magazinehttps://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jugend
>>523698759>Spong was a heretic and it's unfair to even call him a Christian.haha, fundies call everyone a heretic who doesnt worship the Bible as an Idol, Idolatry of the Bible is a sin, Jesus Himself would say most of it is bullshit.https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Bible-Fundamentalism-Rethinks-Scripture/dp/0060675187
>>523692432you have subtitles on your video therefore you are a brainlet.You have read this sentence therefore you are a brainlet.
>>523699499I think you have problems, you went all-in on a form of propaganda that doesn't work anymore
>>523698937looks like the bookshelf of a 1%er
>>523699612ok. have fun buddy
>>523692368Reading From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
>>523699499You're talking to a jeet or a bot. >>523699532Rather than reading your modernist idiot with his modern understanding of reality, quite unbecoming of a Christian, but that's 99% of "Christians" you're going to find today, you should read Rene Guenon.
>>523692368I have finished crime and punishment. While I enjoyed reading it, it left me empty at the end because I will never have Sofija as my wife>>523692503No you can’t. Reading and repeating are the best options for your brain to actually remember stuff
>>523699532>https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Bible-Fundamentalism-Rethinks-Scripture/dp/0060675187Bishop Spong maintains that "the average pew sitter in the average main line church, both Catholic and Protestant, is, to say it bluntly, biblically illiterate". Spong says his purpose is first to rescue the Bible from the exclusive hands of those who demand that it be literal truth and second to open that sacred story to levels of insight and beauty that, in my experience literalism has never produced.''Early in the book he explodes the idea that the mother of Jesus was a virgin, by pointing out that the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah" "Almah", which is used in the familiar text never means "virgin" in Hebrew.he definitely would have been burned at the stake haha
>>523692368i've been looking for more books on pic rel. you guys have any good ones?
>>523699467>Currently reading: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liualways in the top ten on the PirateBay listsinteresting to see a strong scifi trend in commie China
>>523699666>buddyGenX nigger detectedgo script somewhere else skiddythe internal 4chan bots suck ass and the external cant be kept at bayalso the new captchas suck assjust shut it down
>>523699889ok pal
>>523692432imagine following a nigger as an example
>>523699750>I will never have Sofija as my wifeSofia is Eternal Wisdom, everyone's (well, of those who bother to look for answers why this world appears to be so fake and so gay) sister, mother and wife. Dostoyevski was a good friend of Solovyov, one of three "Sophianist heretics", and the first one. The other two are Father Pavel Florenski, and Sergei Bulgakov, both ordained priests, although his martyr's death is probably the only reason why Florenski wasn't charged with formal heresy.
>>523699955>More GenX rotas said, went all-in on a behavioralism methodology that was built on data by a dead generation of analog niggers. Go script somewhere else, preferably the grave
>>523699955>>Red pill me on X. (with nokek
>>523699752>>https://www.amazon.com/Rescuing-Bible-Fundamentalism-Rethinks-Scripture/dp/0060675187>Bishop Spong maintains that "the average pew sitter in the average main line church, both Catholic and Protestant, is, to say it bluntly, biblically illiterate". Spong says his purpose is first to rescue the Bible from the exclusive hands of those who demand that it be literal truth and second to open that sacred story to levels of insight and beauty that, in my experience literalism has never produced.''>Early in the book he explodes the idea that the mother of Jesus was a virgin, by pointing out that the Hebrew word for virgin is "betulah" "Almah", which is used in the familiar text never means "virgin" in Hebrew.Bart Ehrman is another critic of Idolatry of the Bible, but he is not a Believer, whereas Spong is a Believer, Ehrman is a great lecturer and most of his audiobooks are on PirateBay and he reads themhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_D._Ehrman
>>523692368Today I finished The Persians: Age of the Great Kings, about the Achaemenid Empire, as my "low brain activity" book, basically the books I read before bed, or when I'm tired or high. Still undecided on what I'll pick up next, either Don Quixote or Ovid's Metamorfoses.The Enneads by Plotinus, Neoplatonic philosophy, is my current "high brain activity" book that demands my whole attention.
Fugue of a darkening island is a better Camp of Saints
>>523700058>Bart EhrmanLiterally a jew.
>>523699819If you need a book to tell you how to identify a jew, you ain't a real Portuguese.Hundreds of years of the Holy Office of the Inquisition have allowed the Iberian man to detect jews with great accuracy.
>>523692368Mein Kampf, a seasonal favorite.
>>523700108>>Bart Ehrman>Literally a jew.intredasting, might explain his lack of belief and obsessive focus on textual minutiae haha. Nevertheless a great champion of the historicity of Jesus in the face of all the wacko bullshit conspiracy theories
>>523700208>if you aren't a jew, you aren't a real portugueseftfy. i'm looking for stuff on cro-magnons vs neanderthals
>>523700036you're ranting and mind reading like a schizo, which is what you are. ok mate?
https://archive.org/details/TheStoryOfCivilizationcompleteWill Durant complete history, good shit.
>>523700333>great champion of the historicity of Jesus in the face of all the wacko bullshit conspiracy theoriestrue enough he also, despite being assumed to say the opposite by many, happily admits that the text of the NT is exceptionally well attested and trustworthy. its just that he will only accept it as the word of God if there are no variants at all.
>>523700013Well her name itself does mean that in Greek, but her role in the book was about sacrifice, endurance and redemption. Not gonna lie at the end of the story when Rodion wept at her feet, that was some good stuff.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/robert-jordans-wheel-time-books-encore?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_robertjordanswheeltimeencore_bookbundlehttps://www.humblebundle.com/books/adrian-tchaikovskys-epic-fantasy-pan-macmillan-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_3_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_adriantchaikovskysepicfantasypanmacmillan_bookbundlehttps://www.humblebundle.com/books/getyourshttogether-growth-bundle-harpercollins-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_4_layout_type_threes_tile_index_3_c_getyourshttogethergrowthbundleharpercollins_bookbundleThere is some good deals on Humble right now. More are coming too as they are redoing all bundles as encoresWheel of time is really good.
>>523692557I have this one on my list. We had to read in high school but I didn’t appreciate the classics or give a shit back then. Definitely regret that mentality now. I always liked to read but didn’t appreciate the value of some of the books we were assigned. I loved catcher and the rye at the time…wish I would have paid more attention to Canterbury tales, the odyssey and Beowulf were some we read in school. I remember last two and know the stories but I didn’t have an appreciation for European culture and history regardless. I’ve been on a data hoarding spree downloading as many PDFs as possible and also creating a long list of books to read that’s already got like 100 books on it.I plan to go back and read some of the oldest known writings that survived since the Bronze Age like epic of Gilgamesh and some of the Greek philosophical texts and more and work my way through the western canon…..Pic related some of my favorite fiction right now: Travis McGee series are extremely based.
>>523700352your expressions are that of a GenX faggot skiddy, easy as. And the botting is so off the charts. Mods trying to advertise their shit with bots, externals trying to advertise with bots.
>>523700356>https://archive.org/details/TheStoryOfCivilizationcomplete>Will Durant complete history, good shit.yeah, I used to see his collections on the shelves as a kid, he deserves to be revivedhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
>>523699021Oh totallyDithering old man>>523699532>fundiesSmear word. Heretic.>Jesus would believe this ridiculous stuffNo>>523699747Based
>>523700667>Travis McGee series are extremely based.my Dad's favorite author, I never read him though, I should give it a try in his memory
>>523693986I’ve got like 4 books from them written on my list to read >>523694926I want to read the conan series looks based. >>523695310Just because you read a book doesn’t mean you have to believe everything it says. Your critique works for if it’s somthing like concrete scientific facts where you can be dogmatically right or wrong. Otherwise you should be able to read books and take away the parts that are meaningful to you and help you craft your own world view how you see fit, and discard the rest. You anons need to think for yourselves not let other people think for you. >>523698602Based man of culture I also want to read the Oera Linda and the eddas. Will add more when I get back to my computer
>>523699747>Rather than reading your modernist idiot with his modern understanding of reality, quite unbecoming of a Christian, but that's 99% of "Christians" you're going to find today, you should read Rene Guenon.oh please, your condescending attitude does not encourage me to follow your rabbit hole New Age neo Theosophist recommendations, give me some Rene Daumal instead, go ahead and spew a putdown or two in his memorycf 'A Night of Serious Drinking'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Daumal
>>523698963It’s the big reason I lean right, they are in that scene too. What do you think of Dugin’s ideas? I think they are interesting myself>>523700096> The Enneads by Plotinus, Neoplatonic philosophy, is my current "high brain activity" book that demands my whole attention.This was too big for me to read completely, I admit. I watched some of Pierre Grimes’ lectures on Plotinus, and my Islamic philosophy friend loaned me pic related, I think it gives me a pretty good idea of what Plotinus was getting at. The metaphor of the flame was really beautiful
>>523700949They were my grandpas favorite. He had the whole series so I read in and loved it. I’ve gotten through 5 of them so far. They are so good. That’s like the kind of book you can easily read in one weekend.
>>523692368just because a shitpost is printed on paper, it doesn't make it good
Also, I was planning on reading Italian Calvino’s Invisible Cities. I’ve been wanting to collect a list of short novels with interesting narrative structures like this one, do you guys have any suggestions? They would be very welcome
>>523700875>>Jesus would believe this ridiculous stuff>NoJesus would think most of the Bible is bullshitYesJesus would pity all the Biblical literalists as missing the entire pointYes
>>523701502Who taught you that? Your grandma?
>zero mention of the international jew, on the jews and their lies, etcslide thread, entirely full of bots.
>>523692368jews gatekeep books, you are just reading pretentious homosexual bullshit if you like books
>>523701502Of course the memeflag doesnt read lol
not endorsing epstein at all, but sometimes billionaires have interest reads that could be a window into topics the elite are interested in or ideas will become more popular in the future
>>523701270>New Age neo TheosophistGood thing that Guenon opposed New Age (or whatever germs of New Age were developing in his time, he didn't live to see its' explosion out of California and total bastardization of Buddhism and Hiduism by the jews) and one of his earliest books documents the crimes of so-called Theosophical Society, which, as usual with the occult movements, involve sodomy with young boys.
>>523701775any titles of interest? Lolita has got to be there at least.Epstein was a notorious midwit pseudo-intellectual evidently, unlike his best friend lowbrow Trump
>>523701762Jews make most movies and tv too does that make them the same?
>>523702053no, books are worse
>>523701276This is my list so far of writings that are basically 1500-2000+ years old. a few are more modern christian authors/books but I changed the theme of list to compile only old stuff and have not moved some of the newer stuff to my main list.Manetho (Egyptian priest and historian ptolmaic era 250 bc) : Aegyptiaca Epitome (surviving fragments)Apion (surviving fragments): Aegyptiaca, Etymologicum Gudianum, edited by Sturz in 1818 Androcles and the LionAulus Gellius: Attic NightsMenander of EphesusHermippus of SmyrnaOrigen of AlexandriaJosephus Flavius: Antiquity of the Jews, Against apronPhilo of AlexandriaVatican archives: Archivum Apostolicum Vaticanum,Gnostic Text: The gospel of judasBook of Roads and Kingdoms(al-Bakri)The Republic - PlatoIs Christianity True?1933 Arnold LunnThe Good Gorilla Arnold Lunn Meditations & The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus AureliusOn the Shortness of Life SenecaThe Epic of Gilgamesh: A New English VersionNicomachean Ethics - Aristotle,Martin Ostwald(translator)Plato's Dialogues#3Rhetorica ad Herennium Cicero, Marcus TulliusThe prince - Niccolò MachiavelliDon Quixote -Miguel de CervantesOf the Tree of Knowledge of Good and EvilbySebastian FranckCorpus HermeticumThe Illyad - HomerThe Odyssey - HomerGrimms Fairy TalesAndersens fairy talesThe RamayanaBhagavad GitaThe Pilgrim's Progress -John BunyanThe Enneads by Plotinus
>>523701775Bottom plank, 3rd book>DECEIT
>>523702176This just outs you as never reading a good book which is sad, go read blood meridian or of mice and men or something. Tv and movie is so incredibly jewed these days every instance needs a girlboss, a stupid white guy, an intellectual black and a funny gay and thats 99% of the current new releases summed up casting wise.
>>523702448>these daysalso in the past, but still better than books. books train you to think like a faggot
>>523699529thank you anon(that's me on different equipment)
>>523702548>i consumed this media and let it influence me because i have no constitution and am incredibly susceptible to propogandaLol, lmao even this is a kill issue on your part
>>523701276>What do you think of Dugin’s ideas?Dugin is a fraud. He's good at portraying what ignorant people think smart person is, which, unfortunately, is a lot of our government. That's also why he can hold contradictory positions, because it's all just a grift, unfortunately.
>>523701971>Epstein was a notorious midwit pseudo-intellectual evidentlyyea ive heard that too lol, but he did have his hands into some top of the line research at MIT for example. Im not saying he was smart, but he funded some smart people. Ill have to go back and look into this again, I remember hearing about this like 10 years ago and before I learned about Jews but supposedly aaron schwartz was involved in some project at MIT that Epstein funded and was active with. Im trying to find some threads on twitter and reddit where people had compiled the list of what they could make out. Mycelium Running is actual are REALLY interesting read.
>>523702731the more complex your mind becomes, the more you become a homo. not kidding. why did the highly """"enlightened"""" greeks who sat around on their ass all day end up having gay sex and developing women attributes like gossiping?
>>523692368"The Strength of the Few" by James Islingtonsecond book in a newish series about a people who live in a Roman-esque hierarchy system that must cede "Will" to higher ups. this gives people more power and influence based on how many people cede to them. very good series so far.it's a shame so many people don't like reading here in the USA
>>523702984>reads lonesome dove>turns into a homosexualHahaha what?
>>523702984>hy did the highly """"enlightened"""" greeks who sat around on their ass all day end up having gay sexThis is cope and not true at all. homosexuality was not common.
>>523692368I’m reading Crossroads of Ravens by Sapkowski. I love the Witcher. Just finished Agamben’s Where Do We Go From Here about right wing thought post pandemic
>>523703331ask yourself, why is reddit full of homosexuals
>>523703391How would you know? Have you been there? If so would reading their posts not turn you into a faggot like reading books would.
sharing a few book collections ive saved from /pol/
>>523703391Read a book nigga
>>523692368Lolita is a great book. Read the book many times.
>>523692368just finished lolita, currently reading the old testament, and for some lighter reading, starship troopers
>>523692368game design books and the thrawn trilogy. hopefully i will branch out into real literature someday and not genre fiction with a low reading level. >>523695161i have read a lot of king and found it very engrossing and it provided excellent escapism during high school when my peers only cared about faceberg memes and texting in class
>>523694379>You need to go back several hundred years to come across information that's both true and worth studying.You're a pseud.
>>523692368Before getting swamped in final exams for college I was reading Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit.
>>523705105You're a nigger.
>>523692368Someone posted picrel and it's just so far out I decided to look it up.>Chrome by George NaderFun fact: Chrome is the guy in the front. Dildohands has some other unpronounceable name.The book is surprisingly comfy and well written.It's also gay, but a weird, wholesome kind of gay so far. No cock action as yet.
>>523694379>You need to go back several hundred years to come across information that's both true and worth studying.this is actually true af. So many books today have been edited to shit you must always strive to get 1st editions whenever possible because publishing companies always go back in newer editions to update them with woke political correctness that the author often never approved. this is true for so many books. Any book after world war 2 in particular is trash in some respects. Anything theology related needs to be from the early 1800s or older, modern schools of theological thought have been so subverted from their origins
Here's what I've read since september.Had a couple of bad picks: Abnett and Wieland were snorefest and, as a result, took too much time to read.
>>523706669Somerset Maugham is a great writerinb4 yes, he's gay as fuck, duh, obviously
>>523702948>Epstein read Paul Stametslmfao
>>523702948wait... could Epstein read hindi? wtf?
>>523707387Surprisingly, he's indeed pretty great. I've enjoyed several collections of his short stories over the past years.Feel free to recommend some his works that you enjoyed, I'll purchase them later.
>>523702225no Upanishads, ngmi, Schopenhauer would not approve
>>523707631>Feel free to recommend some his works that you enjoyed, I'll purchase them later.I only read two novels and the short stories, it was back in high school so a dim memory, The Razor's Edge Of Human Bondageboth in your list if my rusty French servesRene Daumal is a favorite, a tragic life of a real seeker, one of the first Europeans to translate Sanskrit, if not the first, self-taught
>>523708127>both in your list if my rusty French servesOnly Of Human Bondage, so I'll read up The Razor's Edge later this year, thank you.>René DaumalNever heard of him, I'm afraid; once again suggestions are welcome.
>>523708398>>both in your list if my rusty French serves>Only Of Human Bondage, so I'll read up The Razor's Edge later this year, thank you.La Passe Dangereuse is not 'The Razor's Edge'?
>>523692678So when I read a book about nature it's for the author to tell me what to think and believeI've not the time to "do my own research" this timeYes I'm pureblooded and so is everyone that's important to me and it's because of me
>>523708398>>René Daumal>Never heard of him, I'm afraid; once again suggestions are welcome.Daumal and Guenon - By the late 1920s, Daumal shifted away from Guénon's purely intellectual, traditionalist approach—finding it too theoretical—toward more experiential paths (first intense experiments with his Le Grand Jeu circle, then Gurdjieff's practical teachings from 1930 onward). Yet Guénon's early influence endured: it validated direct source study and instilled a metaphysical framework evident in Daumal's essays on rasa (aesthetic essence) and works like Mount Analogue.Mount Analogue is quite moving and profound, Jodorowsky made it into a movie 'Holy Mountain'
>>523708738It's The Painted Veil ;)Another great thing for french readers is that most of his works were translated a few years after the original edition by the same lady.
>>523708738>La Passe Dangereuse is not 'The Razor's Edge'?Correct, "La Passe dangereuse" (originally "The Painted Veil") and "The Razor's Edge" are two different novels by W. Somerset Maugham. "La Passe dangereuse" was published in 1925, while "The Razor's Edge" was published later in 1944.
>>523699575this but unironically
>>523709162wow, nice collection!
>>523709122Very interesting. Guénon is indeed extremely theorical and often hard to follow since he explains that he doesn't care to post his sources and refuses to elaborate. You just have to go along and hope to understand.>Jodorowsky made it into a movie 'Holy Mountain'I have very vague memories (~20 years ago or something) of a weird and depressing movie in the desert about a blind man hermit or something.
>>523703688This should be in the sticky
>>523707818I’m still creating the list. I just started making it last week. Will add
Pretty interesting and important to know
>>523709414>Very interesting. Guénon is indeed extremely theorical and often hard to follow since he explains that he doesn't care to post his sources and refuses to elaborate. You just have to go along and hope to understand.another Western post-Theosophist who succeeded in the Quest is Franklin Merrell-Wolf, cf 'Experience and Philosophy' and 'Pathways through to Space''His breakthrough came in 1936, at age 49, after decades of disciplined meditation and discrimination (neti-neti: "not this, not that"). He described two fundamental Realizations: first, the insight "I am Atman" (pure transcendental Subject), then a deeper plunge into "Consciousness Without an Object"—a boundless, objectless awareness he called Nirvana or the "High Indifference." These were followed by further recognitions, all without a living guru, relying on self-inquiry blending Western philosophy (Kant, Pythagoras) with Shankara.'
>>523709630>I’m still creating the list. I just started making it last week. Will addSchopenhauer thanks you :)
>>523709716Much interesting, I'll give it a try. I've been reading too many novels and too few essays lately.>>523709379Thanks, there must be ~5000 books at home, scattered in pretty much every rooms.
>>523692368>>523692432The only book anyone needs to read is the Holy Bible. The rest is filler at best, and a waste of time in most cases.
>>523707818Judging by the image filename, 1A, I'm assuming you have more on the Upanishads. Can you post some more?
>>523710172>only Jews produce worthwhile literatureSoso.
>>523710540u know chatgpt and wikipedia are free, saar?
>>523692503I'm always astonished to be reminded that there are retards who read so slowly that they find video narration a higher bandwidth medium.
>>523692368READING: financial/stick stuffEvery man or woman should read this :Suzuki, D.T. - An Introduction to Zen Buddhism download it from google, lingen or annasarchivethere should be a free pdf on google
>>523692432Only jeets like Andrew Tate. But then again, he is scamming them by saying they can get any woman they want and have a Bugatti by signing up to Hustler's University. so maybe I like him.
>>523710540>Judging by the image filename, 1A, I'm assuming you have more on the Upanishads. Can you post some more?just a short Grok thread about Upanishads, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. I just have the ancient 1957 Mentor paperback edition of the Upanishads, short and sweet hahahttps://www.amazon.com/Upanishads-Breath-Eternal-Principal-Mentor/dp/B0018FS184
Also this 2 books:Jerry Kuhnhausen - The Colt .45 Automatic - A Shop Manual (1989 (VOL I)Jerry Kuhnhausen - The U.S. M1911 M1911A1 Pistols and Commercial M1911 Type Pistols_ A Shop Manual (VOL II)
>>523694953you are being trolled
>>523710903> Suzuki, D.T. - An Introduction to Zen Buddhism While we’re on the subject of Buddhism, have any of you looked into the Chinese Huayan and Tiantai schools, which focus more on metaphysical doctrine? Zen, Tibetan, and Theravada are what have become popular in the West, but Huayan and Tiantai are not, and relatively fewer works exist about them in English. I especially find Tiantai fascinating, I would love to your your thoughts on thesehttps://jeelooliu.net/Tian-tai%20vs.%20Hua-yan.htm
>>523710872depends whether you pay attention or not. i've never heard anyone explicitly make the case that videos are higher bandwidth. However, since they are audio-visual, the bandwidth is (arguably) more multimodal. More importantly, and to your point: From my experience, you can put videos on 3.2x times speed without sacrificing understanding. Even up to 4.4x, depending on the articulation of the speaker and quality of audio. While I am sure this is no match for prolific speedreaders such as yourself, it matches the reading speed of us regular plebians and might thereby amount to the same bandwidth, depending on your definition thereof. I have consumed textbook format in video format at 4.4x speed for prolonged periods of time across multiple days with little trouble; admittedly, this is merely anecdotal.
>>523711362I havent read them, but from what understand is that Zen Buddhism refined chinese buddhism and focused more on metaphysics rather than religion. Will check them out. Satori is also an amazing topic to read upon.
>>523711436>watching sped up videosAccording to France Info (mdr) you're a bad goy and should NOT be doing that.https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/le-choix-franceinfo/mon-cerveau-est-maintenant-programme-a-la-rapidite-temoignent-des-jeunes-adeptes-du-speed-watching_7623524.html
>>523698963That’s a shame :/>>523702686Don’t mention it!>>523702859I can see what you mean with his ideas of Orthodoxy, but I do think he’s captured an aspect of the Russian mindset, and I think the dichotomy between the Atlanticist and Eurasian worlds has some reality. I thought this interview was interestinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0pC3s--qLM
>>523692368Anyone else read picrelated?
>>523711700Dammit forgot pic
>>523710623>typing jews with a capital letterFuck off kike
>>523692368Italians can read?Italian-Americans can't.
>>523692678>anon agreeing with the video where somebody tells them what to think and believe
This book is a must read for anyone on here.To sum it up, it goes into.>The history of the white race and the orgins.>how jews got into power>the truth about Hitler>how jews are destroying the west>How Christianity was a Jewish psyop in order to destroy whites by making them into pacifists and kill the aryan warrior spirit.>How to handle the modern decay.One of the best books I've read.
>>523711700>>523711754I always stop after a few dozen pages because the french translation is famous for being a cryptic butchery.
>>523710172Based>>523710623SAAR
>>523711362>I especially find Tiantai fascinating, I would love to your your thoughts on thesei.e. 'Pure Land' / Lotus Sutra?iirc Pure Land is the most popular sect in Japanhave been reading of Yogacara and XuanZhang's visit to Nalanda recently, quite fascinating record of the world's first University, I would love to visit Nalanda as a pilgrimage site, as it is being restored after the muzzies razed itYogacara has a lot in common with Bishop Berkeley's Idealism, despite Samuel Johnson's 'I refute it thus!' riposte
>>523692368I liked crime and punishment, nice and cheerful and full of colour.
>>523711647Perhaps. But Zoomer brain vs watching textbook content at 4.4x speed while fully concentrated are two distinct things. If I want a background podcast, I put it at 0.6x speed. so that makes me a 1.67x gooder goy, by that logic. And it contradicts the idea that my brain might be primed for speed. Either way, since there are no videos on higher level topics, textbook content in video format can only get you so far. So I don't do it anymore.
>>523711924That's a shame. Is your English good enough for the English? That translation is very good.
>>523711836I stopped reading when it started summarizing all of human history. I was only there for the "we wuz ancient aryans n shieet" bit, which was much shorter than I would have hoped.
>>523712236My english is probably good enough. It's worth a try anyway, and a way to improve.
>>523711362>>523711993Any other recommendations on Buddhism (or Shintoism, since you mentioned Japan)? Been looking for more resources on both.
>>523692368to be a rightoid you have to be illiterate,it why right wing political theory dosent exist.
>>523711436>>523711647Might be a bit off topic but I've found one of the best ways to absorb info is background audio (podcast, audiobook) while playing some kind of not-too-focus-heavy games. Things like survivor type games or stick shooters. Definitely can get into a "flow state" or whatever the term is and continue that far longer than I'd be able to do either one alone without getting bored or restless.
>>523692368I listened to this on audiobook, was very good.
>>523696792Their telegram bot was pretty neat but now I can't find it anymore ;_;
>>523712829ajahn punnadhamo insights into buddhist cosmology have been enjoyable to me.>>523713035i tend to not remember much and do it for fun. I find that multi-tasking severely decreases the value I get out of listening to audio, even if it is a simple game and even if I get in a flow state. taking notes on physical paper helps me more than playing games. but i mostly don't care anymore about absorbing ever more information into my brain, so I stopped doing that.
>>523696792>>523713598use welib.org
>>523711436No disdain here. 4.4x is still slower but not by much, and I have similar experience with video lectures anyway, so I don't doubt the efficacy. The majority of people saying things like in anon's bait are a different story from you though. Digital formats have many advantages and tend to be a victim of their own target audience more than anything else. It's really quite possible to exceed the usefulness of books with some rather straightforward improvements to the usual presentation methods, but nobody does it. At least automatic transcripts exist now.
>>523706669>>523707387>>523702448>>523702225>>523701276>>523698963The only answer for now is to make your own bugout groups for actual humans not bots. I am building mine now if you want to join. I want discussions to be at least above average but still welcoming for retards or shitpost. I goal is to build a chill community for discussing actual geopolitics, philosophy and history for a few anons. No glowie shit, just sub high-iq chitchat when catalog goes to complete shitTelegram group:https://t.me/+vnSBXepyb0U5ZGRlSimpleX group:https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FZKe4uxF4Z_aLJJOEsC-Y6hSkXgQS5-oc442JQGkyP8M%3D%40smp17.simplex.im%2FsnIpZeOCPnGcXp76-BSWGduRqDoaDElg%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAYupPpSwckT9h_uJYswGs_oeCCDQNR5xR6uCWiPD-GSI%253D%26srv%3Dogtwfxyi3h2h5weftjjpjmxclhb5ugufa5rcyrmg7j4xlch7qsr5nuqd.onion&data=%7B%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22lwOk5aD6oY1W6MbtwoGYCw%3D%3D%22%7D
>>523713035yeah or hell, even do shit like cleaning or light exercise.>>523712957>memeflagOpinion discarded
>>523692368But you can't fire back a "nigger" or "kike" at the book, that's why i read on /pol/
Friendly reminder to all history enjoyers that the half negro scam artist is ironically totally correct here. History is a scam. it takes one to see one, I guess
>>523697540Thanks anon, I need more audio books that I can actually stand listening to for the long drives this holiday. I'm running out of Hardcore History episodes.
platos republic atm
>>523693986I never knew that only Apollo missions have sent men on the moon till date. From 11 to 17 except the kaboom Apollo 13. Wow. How come Russia never attempted? This never gets mentioned in Moon Landing Hoax threads that show Apollo 11 images and videos which are obviously faked. The point being, even if the first was faked, the 5 subsequent ones could not all have been faked, so at least some Americans have walked on the moon for sure.
>>523716913that was the whole point of the moon landings. the russians were far ahead of the americans in the space race. but only for orbits around the earth. in terms of landing on the moon, neither side had made any progress whatsoever. so the americans decided that was how they could show their superiority in the space race and went for it.the fact that russians never attempted to land on the moon was the whole reason why the americans did it in the first place.
>>523692368Someone left a bunch of old Urania (a collection of sci-fi novels/short stories printed in Italy) books in one of those "take a book, leave a book" public bookshelves around my town so I got them on a whim, since I didn't read much sci-fi before aside from the normie classics.I started with pic rel since I already heard that writer's name and just began reading it, it's an interesting story so far.Also I'm reading book 3 of Angelo Del Boca's series about the Italian colonialism in East Africa.
>>523700667based JDMac enjoyer
>>523717319Now I regret sending you my invite code. Nobody ever stepped foot on the moon. "Muh the Ruzzians would have called it out" is the lowest IQ filter.>Sputnik was fake tooSo Americans thought oh well, if they can't backtrack from that why don't we even lie bigger lmao
>>523692432You are obviously a hybrid nigger zoomer
>>523692368>>523692432Niggers can't read
>>523717329Funny, we had the exact same kind of sci-fi/horror short stories books.
I've been reading Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad books, pretty good stuff. I feel like even on /lit/ you just see a bunch of pseudo intellectuals talking about the books they had to read for high school or their gen eds in college, you don't actually get a lot of people who enjoy reading and branch out.
>>523692368"Oblomov" by Ivan Goncharov. About a 19th century, lazy aristocratic fuck, who spends his day doing jack shit, cannot even get out of his bed for the first 100 pages or so, and represents the quintessential bored bourgeois decadence, always looking for excuses to do nothing. Just like us browsing this site, putting off actual productive contribution to society.
>>523717585You never did share the link to me specifically, and I was simply explaining the reasoning to Anon from the point of view of the narrative, rather than expressing my own beliefs. But be not troubled, I assure you that I shan't join your group, that ye might rest peacefully.
>>523717968zakhar is the absolute limit
>>523717790Nice, I really like those covers.
>>523718047bUMP
>>523717319Considering that at least aome of the y Apollo missions landed real men on the real moon, even though i hate to say it, USA won the space race against Russia.>>523717585Uou're the one who is low IQ if you think even Sputnik orbit is impossible and that USA was able to hoodwink the entire world 6 consecutive times in 3 years. Think about it, Apollo 11 qas fake, but not ALL of the 5 next ones could have been faked, that's just impossible.
