/lit/ - Literature

True.

Start with german.

Just because it's a meme doesn't make it a bad idea. Starting with the Greeks gives you a good picture of the historical roots of philosophy.

Practice with the pragmatists kids.

>>12306650
What about the rite of the scapegoat?
The Greeks housed and fed a group of wild, ugly, deformed human beings solely for the purpose of sacrifice.
The most unattractive was chosen as scapegoat.
They struck him, his death spasm arriving only as the last in a series of blows brought on by a frenzied pounding of his penis with bulbous herbs.

>>12306672
This, and they're also actually really interesting and entertaining

>>12306686
hobbes says in leviathan

In the old Law (as we may read, Leviticus the 16.) the Lord required, that there should every year once, bee made an Atonement for the Sins of all Israel, both Priests, and others; for the doing whereof, Aaron alone was to sacrifice for himself and the Priests a young Bullock; and for the rest of the people, he was to receive from them two young Goates, of which he was to Sacrifice one; but as for the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities of the people. As the Sacrifice of the one Goat was a sufficient (because an acceptable) price for the Ransome of all Israel; so the death of the Messiah, is a sufficient price, for the Sins of all mankind, because there was no more required. Our Saviour Christs sufferings seem to be here figured, as cleerly, as in the oblation of Isaac, or in any other type of him in the Old Testament: He was both the sacrificed Goat, and the Scape Goat; "

ive never heard of this greek scapegoat,seems nifty that they kept thersites' just to whoop up on

>>12306686
What about it?

I have never followed meme advice until this and it has been great. I went to the sticky and bought Mythology by Edith Hamilton, which was the top recommendation. The stories have been wonderful to read. Their gods are incredibly interesting and dynamic.

I look forward into diving into the Iliad after this introduction. Plato and Socrates to follow.

>>12306650
But only if you can apply that understanding to our own world.