/lit/ - Literature

>>23046123
The epicureans agreed with modern science in a surprising number of ways. Their ethics doesn't seem that bad either.

Complete works of Plato
Complete works of Shakespeare
The Bible and apocrypha
The Vedas, Upanishads and Yoga compendium
An empty large format 10,000 page journal.

No point in learning science when you're stuck in a hole that will be your grave.

>>18761088
Yes, you've tried hard to narrow down the group that might converse to only those few devotees willing to discuss how many angels might dance on the head of a pin, but the argument is just as insoluble and, to those not fanatically blinded, just as dumb. The real problem is you already have the answer you want to hear in mind and you are just waiting for someone smarter to explain it. However they can never come, because it isn't intelligence that will make 1+1=85. The Christian God cannot exist and thinking really hard won't change that.

What is the /lit/ teaching concerning reading anthologies? Im a history and philosophy student and I don't have time to "Start with Greeks" in the autistic sense of reading everything they wrote and further more I am most interested in reading 19th and early 20th century literature. Is it ok for me to read only an anthology of the pre-19th century literature?

Thoughts? I'm sure there are a billion problems, but please tell me and I'll change it. Will make it prettier post-corrections.