/lit/ - Literature

Been reading Dostoyevsky and Kafka recently

>>17045909
The potent man's philosophy

>>17045909
... oddly my fitness journey started when I bought a cookbook and taught myself to cook.
Same with youtube videos.
Controlling my food was a supercharged method that got me on the path of /fitlit/.

Also walks, I would get audiobooks and walk until at least a few chapters were done... this was a bad idea for Crime and Punishment but overall it worked out.

Then setting up a fitness routine. Everyday for 10 minutes, then 15 minutes, then 30 minutes. Then once every 2 days for about 45 minutes, building upwards with 5 main exercises.
Deadlift, squats, pull ups, benchpress and dips.

>>17045909
I read philosophy, history, and I run GZCL

>>17046054
This

the most based quote I’ve read in a long time. Williams, Gass, Nabokov, Bolano btfo

>>17047673
I suppose that's true, but still quarrels amongst those of similar class should be settled with fists, not petty social maneuvering

>>17047339
Missed this, I'll check this out too, thanks

>>17047816
I sympathize. Social violence is a lot more insidious than physical, but its potential for abuse and general damage is lower. It does seem like two consenting parties should have every right to settle their differences by harming each other, but historically when that's been allowed it's been just another method of petty social maneuvering. Not much to be done about it, the world is just a sneaky-ass place.

>>17047893
Hence the abundance of sneaky-ass books like the infamous how to win friends and influence people. I will admit it's a bit interesting that repression of my urges for physical violence has led me to explore social/psychological violence

>>17046151
Maybe it should hurry the fuck up as I've been hearing that for decades?

>>17045981
I read Ogniem i Mieczem a few months ago, actually. Its great fun, even if Skrzetuski is as bland as a piece of cardboard.

Just wondered now yeh, do Shakespeare's histories count as historical fiction?

anyone else think historical fiction is morally irresponsible since it inevitably distorts history ?
lord knows how many people think the Jews built the pyramids because of Prince of Egypt

>>17046237
That's on the readers, not the authors. In fact, I've become more interested in actual history after reading things like Ivanhoe or The last of the Mohicans.

>>17046391
yes but we are people that strive to find the truth. your average person accepts whatever truth is given them

>>17046070
>proto-fascism
>left wing because women are also allowed to die for the state
Yeah, okay.

>>17046202
>all is either right or left
>the right are stuck with binary thinking
Don't be so hard on yourself.

>>17046670
They also weren't atheists.

>>17046670
In Platos utopia there were no slaves. Democracy was largely a meme in those days. Plato demanded rule by the wise.

Also those three came centuries after philosophy emerged, and presocratics were infamous for being atheists, shitting on homer and other poets, and propagating rational argumentation over traditional ways.

>>17046694
Plato DEFENDED slavery and his defense of Socrates was also an indictment of democracy.

High IQ bros....

>>17045757
/qa/

>tfw we were top of the list of "high IQ boards" in his mind
>tfw we instinctively come before /sci/
*spits on /sci/*

>>17045744
Fuck board culture, fuck iq and fuck you for posting it.

>>17045744
No

>>17047310
>supernatural
Not that anon but this is one of those words that never means what its opponents thinks it means. Everything is natural, almost trivially. The 'supernatural' is always defined in comparison to a restricted application of the predicate 'natural,' corresponding to a restricted domain. So it goes without saying that EVERYONE who believes in the so-called supernatural takes it as ultimately natural. Rather, if they accept the term at all, it's to contrast with some limited sense of 'natural' usually determined by the doubters on the other side.

>>17047326
>Everything is natural, almost trivially
Not according to Christianity or the general notion of a soul which is what OP was concerned with
>it goes without saying that EVERYONE who believes in the so-called supernatural takes it as ultimately natural
Read the Bible

>>17047366
I am a Christian. You're probably thinking I mean 'natural' in a restricted sense (like explaining away miracles or shit like that) when my post was to point out that there's an unrestricted trivial sense where everything is natural because nature is defined as WHAT EXISTS. So if God popped his head out of the clouds and seven billion people saw it at once, that would violate laws of science and whatever else, but it's trivially nature. Because it happened.

>>17045723
A more accurate understanding of consciousness? Naturalistic dualiism, which Chalmers defends, doesn't imply any supernatural interventions. Conscious states cannot be untied from the brain and they don't exist independent of it. Rather, something happens in the brain that creates conscious states that are not describable in a physical language. But these states are still caused by brain activity.

>>17047397
Nature is not defined as "what exists" from a Christian perspective because nature is simply a creation of God. There are things which exist outside of this creation (such as the Heavenly Kingdom, and God himself). God gave nature to man, but God still exists outside and above it (i.e. God is supernatural)

Bad taste

>>17045721
Was aiming for 50, got something like 25, but I read a lot more than last year so it's a win/win no matter how I look at it.

>>17047811
I guess I love you too anon. Stay safe

>>17049250
>bronze age pervert
>cant even understand S&S

the jokes write themselves lmao

>>17048609

So the answer is no. You aren't reading the right books.

>>17045647
pmub

>>17045647
Just get pic related and read through it. First section is the strongest imo. If you need to test the waters, Death Fugue is his most popular piece, though by no means totally representative.

Remember stories from my elders about being so poor that summertime they’d always be barefoot so wintertime they’d have a good pair of shoes to wear.

>>17045631
A book about the origin of the family and the state. Some interesting Indian history. Some boring Roman history. The knowledge that private property is the greatest evil man has known and corrupts everything it interacts with.

>>17045631
More or less outdated anthropology, I think this edition includes a refutation of some of erroneous views in the introduction

>>17045712
which views are erroneous? what is something more up to date?

>>17045712
(((deboonked)))

Maybe the troglodyte has a time machine, sent you the wrong book then waited to see how you would react on /lit/ to see if he should go back in time and send you the right book. He is probably reading this post right now and deciding not to go back in time since you called him a name.

>>17045565
If you aren't already extremely familiar with Christianity, then reading or re-reading the Bible sounds like it would be lower-hanging fruit, much better ROI.

"Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." (Matthew 8)

>>17045565
Jesus was fake so it'd be a waste of your time.

>>17045565
Haven't read the book, but I've seen Scorsese's adaptation, and judging from the general themes, you should totes brush up on the crucifixion story before getting into it.

bump it up

>>17045564
What did you think of Hadrian? I'm quite interested in reading it.
Perhaps Corvo's other books, such as Stories Toto Told Me, Don Tarquinio, or The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, are worth reading?

Bump

>>17045520
anything by Ted Kaczynski

The trouble with being born

>>17045516
>glass windows
Too refined

>>17045516
I mean, I'd kill for a walled deck, but those stools look uncomfy as fuck. Just lay a bunch of furs on the floor with cushions. Set up like that, it's agonizing to look at. How did you make such an inherently comfy place so uncomfy?
I'm actually getting mad.

>>17045508
American Journal of Political Science
Jacobin
The IRE Journal(investigative journalism)

>>17045641
Man this is just some obscure little service with an early 2000s website delivering magazines without profit motive. Warms my heart to see this.

>>17045695
dilate

Any lit magazines/periodicals that haven't been infected by the woke yet?

>>17045753
Cuck

>oh shi...

the actual answer

>not the learned disguise
dropped