/lit/ - Literature

Does anyone know of any reputable secular translations of major religious texts? Specifically Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; though discussion and recommendation of secular translations of texts of other religions is welcome.

I guess this is a religious text general

The idea is that alot of people go together to create a fictional universe. Then after the universe is created we write stories set in this universe. The stories do not need to be connected though.
The way we can write together is through Google Drive

>>8274703

This.
Anybody not just posting pictures of books is doing it wrong. Every board is for pictures. The sticky, explicitly stating "/lit/ is for the discussion of literature" in the first sentence, is false and against the spirit of 4chan.
Pic related it's a book.

Any broke literary fag here? Let's team up on an ebook to make some money. I'll give you my email and vice-versa.

Hey /lit/, I’ve got a project I’m working on for myself and after having a few other people express an interest in it, I’d figure I’d extend the invitation to you guys. I’d especially love your input, as though I may be considered well-read by the general public, I’m pleb-tier compared to all of you.

The project is this: I’m trying to put together a “Bible” so to speak, comprised of literature from the Western tradition. When I say Bible, I don’t mean the texts must be Christian or anything explicitly religious, though being such would not exclude anything. I mean I wish to compile a large sized book with small print, in physical form, leather bound that I can take with me physically, as Christians do their Bibles. Essentially, a physical collection of spiritual wisdom I can keep away from the computer and other electronics.

I’m looking for ideas of what would be most essential to include in this home-made Bible of sorts. Ideally, I intend to cover a lot of ground (history, poetry, philosophy, proverbs, songs) and need to boil down just which works I’m going to include. I will mostly be limiting this to the Western canon, and mostly works of English, French, German, Latin, and Greek authors. However, exceptions are most certainly welcome.

One final caveat: since books of the Bible were necessarily shorter than novels, I cannot include many works of that length. As for my own ideas, I intend to include parts of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and Rhetoric, Plotinus’ Enneads, certain poems by William Blake, Excerpts from Nietzsche and Heidegger, Emerson’s Walden, and a few other lesser known essays from blogs that I’ve found particularly moving.

Well /lit/, what would you include?

hi /lit/

if you were to recommend me a book based on the statement "i want to kill myself", what book would it be?

interpret the question and statement in whatever way you like

Anon, you have been assigned by the United Nations to choose one document, in any language, to be preserved for eternity via education in schools, translation into other languages, and engraving into stone. Which document do you choose? Why?

Is the pursuit of happiness something that is worth as a driving decision maker in life? Is it overrated? Any works that you recommend on the subject?