/lit/ - Literature

Song of Songs

Stop being pretentious. Give me a good novel to read to after flexing my brain all day.

>>21236747
Opinions on what read this year?

The Idiot
Industrial society and it's future
Notes of the underground
Anna karenina
The Brothers Karamazov
Meditations
War and Peace
Crime and Punishment (up to part 5)

I hadn't read a book in nearly a decade and just charged my kindle seeing if it still worked to sell. Just saw some books and randomly decided to read The Idiot and for some reason really got into it, it genuinely left me feeling really bummed out at the end. I then got into reading more books. I think Anna Karenina might be the favourite book I've ever read so far. Im in my 30 and never even heard of it til this year lol

After im done with C+P I'm not sure what I should get into. I thoroughly enjoyed Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and don't know why never attempted to read them even though I've heard of the names. When I started The Idiot I didn't even know who wrote it lol.

But yeah a lot of the books felt like it spoke of shit or had opinions I felt inside for some years now, it was weird. Think that's a good thing or a bad thing?

>>20610239
Youre right. Get back to work so you can pay your mortgage or rent or whatever so you can rest comfortably in your home as you consume Netflix and instagram for an hour and wake up and go back to work again.

>>20331125
Those who call themselves Jews nowadays are not the Israelites of the Bible, anon.

"Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you." (Revelation 3:9)

>>20164396
you are like martha in the gospel worried about the things of the world instead of sitting at the Lord's feet and listening to Him

pic is me with you on the background

Besides St. Teresa of Avila, does anyone know which mystics in particular influenced Bataille?

>>19599628
It's ok anon. If you don't like to participate in society then you won't be able to get "successful", not for long anyway, you won't get big or rich or anything (because you clearly aren't interested in this) so you'll be forced to wageslave forever.
However since you want to move innawoods I suggest you first buy a small plot of land in the countryside and start a small, easy to keep farm. Just because you aren't innawoods right now doesn't mean that you can't start preparing.

>>19580724
good luck anon. i'll keep an eye on this thread

>>19553020
Read Augustine, then Aquinas
>I am really not interested in medieval christian philosophy
Because you have no idea what it is and you've been raised in a culture that brainwashed you into thinking those guys were ignorant pigfuckers wallowing in the mud all day, lol

Are there any good pro-feudalism books?

>>19453970
Only Christ can make you a Christian

But whether you're a Christian or not, Aquinas is comfy as fuuuuck

>>18953649
26
feelin good, man!
Conan the Cimmerian (gonna read Shadow of the Torturer next)

>>18171135
Currently reading his book, he's extremely based wtf. Where do I go after that ? Seems like he solved philosophy

>>17824602
Now this is what I call based

>>17278114
The specific location where He was born falls under "random trivia" and isn't that important. You should meditate upon trivia like that but none of it is critical.

>>17278115
See above. Random trivia.

>Profound truth which will get you high as fuck and save your eternal soul if you contemplate it and accept Christ as your savior
>Get all hung up on pedantic details

"As I urged you on my departure to Macedonia, you should stay on at Ephesus to instruct certain men not to teach false doctrines or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith." (1 Timothy 1:3-4)

>>17167470
To gain Knowledge I can use to save humanity without funneling resources to that demon, Capital.

>>16930936
Wisdom, nuanced perspective, empathy, logical rigor, humility, the list just goes on my friend.

>>16923830
>>16923842
Even the penis-chopping shit, there's more to it than meets the eye. Does that ritual help the Israelites evolve to be stronger somehow, because it forces the men to be more selective of where they stick their dicks?

You can see an interesting application of it in the book of Samuel when Saul makes David go fetch a hundred enemy foreskins in order to win his daughter's hand. Without the dick-chopping business, David could have simply taken the foreskins of one hundred of his own soldiers. The circumcision ritual guaranteed there would be a way for warriors to prove definitively that the person they had killed was really an enemy