/lit/ - Literature

>>16751081
>>16751822
I love how you pseuds love praising sophists that do nothing but word play. You are unoriginal hacks with no real academic spine.

>>16751072
I'm not going for any kind of "style" really. I don't fetishize writing as a consumer product the way that most anons in this thread do. I believe words are meant to convey meaning and I do the best job that I can to convey the long thesis of this book. It might come out a little loose at times, but that's what the second run of editing is for. As I've stated before in this thread, the reason I posted this book is for the small number of oldfags left in this hellhole who aren't reddit tourists that actually care about philosophy, history, and the continued intellectual tradition of the human race. Anyone who reads this book and understands it's contents, will be among a small handful of people that actually have the correct interpretation of bronze age history. My goal is to expand those numbers over the coming years, this going to take a very long time and will require patience.

>>16751609
.... Well there are no Birch trees in the Levant, the Amanita's there grow under pine trees. It's not very accurate to say "mushroom in this place is bad", all mushrooms have their own properties, there is a persistent fear of mushrooms among a lot of different cultures because some of them are lethal, and others make you trip balls. European cultures in particular seem to struggle with psychedelic mushrooms, Wasson notes how this is actually what started his interest in mycology, because he was raised to be deathly afraid of mushrooms, but while on his honeymoon his Russian wife found some wild mushrooms and brought them home as a gift. Apparently this caused a small fight, and the event left a lasting impression on Wasson so he started studying these mushrooms and basically became the founder of ethnobotanical studies.

>>13500713
>>13500735
>tfw I arrived I arrived at the same bleak conclusion about human nature as Schopenhauer's during a mushroom trip

If you want to confirm Schopenhauer's views, take 5g of this thing and observe human nature in its purest form.