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Romans 2
God's Judgment and the Law

12 For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified. 14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them 16 on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

17 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God 18 and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19 and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 21 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

25 For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26 So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law. 28 For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29 But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God.

ITT: Post your top eight favorite books, other anons give you recommendations.

>Steppenwolf
>Grendel
>House of Leaves
>Pale Fire
>Demian
>At the Mountains of Madness
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Invisible Cities

List your top three favorite books. Then post what you're reading now and what you think of it. Recommendations and insults to follow.

>Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
>Grendel, John Gardner
>House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

>Narcissus and Goldmund, Hermann Hesse
So far it's pretty good, but nowhere near as great / nuanced as Demian or Steppenwolf. I feel like he writes best from the first person.

i for one know that assburgerites can't take offense
fuck these frauds
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Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, the Golden Age, the Breakdown
The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age
Fire in the Minds of Men
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
The Uniqueness Of Western Civilization
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Poverty of Historicism
Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
The Wealth of Ideas: A History of Economic Thought
The Man Versus the State: With Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom
Karl Marx and the Close of His System
The Young Hegelians
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Ethics of Redistribution
Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
The Socialist Phenomenon
Man Against Mass Society
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth
The Illusions of Egalitarianism
The Revolt of the Masses
Ideas Have Consequences
Slavery and Freedom
anything by Anne Applebaum
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
The Quest for Cosmic Justice

>>11484356
>tfw none can provide me epic journeys (fantasy)

Before I read any of Žižek's books.
Is he aware of his own ideology and the monomania ("ideology") of many Marxists, or of the "dialectic"? I've listened to a few of his most recent talks (which I enjoyed). I do not get an impression of much self-reflection, beyond superficial self-deprecation.

Is there a good way to into Zizek or is he just a meme?

>inb4 start with the greeks

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>>9550743
It becomes religious if your believe in equality equates it to something supernatural, divine, something that transcends human norms.

I think you can both agree that there are atheists which replace religion with some other ideology but follow the same principles as a religious believer.

>>9023206
>people don't realise that """""human nature"""""" is a capitalist invention devised to make us selfish

>>8947568
wew, this is some serious eating from the trashcan.