/lit/ - Literature

>>21357789
The Bible.

>>21357796
In hindsight I probably should have excluded religious texts. I mean. It's generic but understandable

kierkegaard rescued me from atheism

>>21357796
>>21357818
Thanks for responding anyway. 4chan is the only reliable source of social interaction for me and even then I'm used to my threads being swept away, even on slow boards like this one. Man I'm lonely :(

>>21357823
It’s going to be OK bro. Hang in there.

>>21357789
Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
i read it at a pretty young age and it influenced me a ton in terms of how i think about the world and how i write. i also think it got me into reading more philosophy even though there isn't really a strong correlation between the two

>>21357823
Do you have telegram? We can be friends

The Unique and his Property - Max Stirner

Although not in a totally straight forward way

>>21357789
the tartar steppe, the entire time spent reading this i knew the invertible ending for the protagonist and yet the ending still terrified me. made me think in terms of my own fate and what will happen if i just wait for something and clinging to false hope rather than have some own agency in my own life.
>>21357823
thanks for making this thread

>>21357789
I find most books equally uninspiring because i am incapable of feeling joy

Reading deep work by Cal Newport and implementing it helped me realize that I wasn't really retarded, just lazy.

>>21357851
I fear anhedonia has struck me too, anon. Keep reading and hope for the best, I guess.
>>21357825
>>21357842
Thank you both for being friendly and encouraging etc. Also thanks for mentioning the Tartar Steppe, hitherto I hadn't heard of it. Seems interesting.
>>21357826
Hadn't heard of this Vonnegut before either, so also thanks for that.
>>21357838
I don't, anon, but I wouldn't be opposed to getting it just so I had someone to chat with. You could drop your username, or tag, or whatever Telegram uses? Maybe?

>>21357944
@ManoDeDioss
Looking forward to chatting w u :D

>>21357823
Everyting gwan be Irie, mon.

> lifestyle
Justine & Juliette
> worldview
Inequality of the Human races

>>21357962
Thanks Jamaican anon. Nice patois.
>>21357960
Likewise. I might get cold feet but chances are you will receive some msg from me in the coming days. Maybe. Hopefully.
>>21358063
Anon how exactly did Mr. Sade change your life. I am even scared to ask (0_o)

>>21357789
>The subtle art of not giving a fuck

Introduced me to megadeth

>the Grand Design

Turned me borderline atheist

>>21358086
Anon I'm sorry but that is worryingly cringe. Also you strike me as a bit like an underage b&.

>>21357818
>It's generic but understandable
Never underestimate the sheer wisdom the ancient religious texts provide.

>>21357823
>Thanks for responding anyway.
You are welcome. You might be lonely now, but it doesn't have to be that way. Instead of going directly to the Bible, I exhort you to read Neville Goddard's works. Picrel is the 10 books he wrote in one volume.

>>21358071
> Anon how exactly did Mr. Sade change your life.
What? You think the book has shown you all surprises to surprise you again. He shows the face of atheists and scientists. He explains evolution. He explains society. De Sade was a genius, the sex parts is just topping.

>>21358106
>>21358103
Thanks anons :)

>>21357789
Hmmm..

As far as worldview goes (cant say anything about lifestyle, pretty stuck in my ways at 40) I would say either On The Basis Of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer or Revolt Of The Masses by Jose Ortega Y Gasset, the latter of which finally broke me out of the thinking that the ideas of the masses are worth considering. The former showed me that the best way to get through life is showing compassion to others, which I still struggle with having assburgers.

>>21358086
Based Megadeth fan. Sorry for your atheism, though

I would like every anon who has posted to know that I am very grateful for their contributions.
However, there's an awful lot of non-fiction recommendations. Interestin; I was expecting some more fictional novels. Hrrm.
Thanks again.

1) Two Arms and A Head: The Death of Paraplegic Philosopher by Clayton Atreus.

This book teaches me that being paraplegic is terrible—it gives a person painful experience and alienates his existence with other human being. However this book also teaches me to stop being naive. After reading this book, i have a tendency to see the world as it is, not the way i want it to be.

2) How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler.

What i find useful in this book is a realization that to understand a book, one needs to:

- Find the prominent words;
- Define each prominent word;
- Construct the author’s argument by finding the correlation or causation between each idea;
- Use other books in the same genre to enrich your understanding.

3) Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo

Pretty terrifying and worth reading. This book challenges my view on war, politics, law, and euthanasia.

>>21358180
But how do you read How To Read A Book... if you;re reading it to understand how to read a book... but you need its guidance... because you can't read? Hrrrmmmmmm....
Thanks, your first and third recs definitely strike me as interesting.

>>21358145
>there's an awful lot of non-fiction recommendations. Interesting; I was expecting some more fictional novels.
Any good book on mysticism/metaphysics/esotericism is vastly superior to any work of 'fiction'. You'll never improve yourself in a meaningful manner by reading such.

Here's a good list of books (albeit incomplete, I still need to add more):
https://pastebin.com/cZqQGeGb

>>21358193
Bit dogmatic, but thank you anon! Will obviously give your list a perusing.

Captain Underpants.

>>21358259
Absolutely respectable answer

>>21357818
They would have posted it anyway. They desperately need to pollute every thread in an effort to convince themselves.

>>21358330
Ooh boy. Conflict.
Atheism strikes me as the "right" answer, but I am very jealous of the comfort and hope so many can derive from their faith.

>>21357789
Ulysses since I related a lot to Bloom and Stephen...reading it made me feel like Joyce understood me more than people i knew in real life. It kind of changed my perception of reading desu, it made me realize reading can be very personal

Read this when I was 10 and its powerful lessons on being one's own man, and not kowtowing to authority and the pressure to conform have stuck with me ever since.

>>21358349
Awesome you reached that revelation, anon! Reading (and writing) has always been a very personal thing to me, and I've known that, but it's great you've found such solace in Joyce. Have you read his other stuff? It's also good, obviously.

>>21358355
>Bart Simpson is Stirner
>Bart Simpson is in fact the American Ubermensch.
>Bart Simpson is Nietzchean
Meaning in Post-Burger America

>>21358335
Instead of being jealous why don't you just start praying being specific with your intentions to come closer to God? Faith is a real skill that has real, tangible rewards which are observable by yourself as well as those closest to you.
Coming to God is not merely a shift in behavior to align with what the religious teach us to do, it is the completion of our mortal soul by uniting with the Holy Spirit and constructing cathedrals in our hearts and minds.

>>21357823
It can get better Anon, there is a light somewhere.

>>21358365
Okay. I will take this into mind
>>21358368
Thank you anon. You guys are being real nice to me in this thread

>>21358202
Why would it be dogmatic, it's the truth. Fiction is purely entertainment, like watching a show or a movie. You may absorb some lessons here or there, but not enough to change your mind, thought patterns, etc.

>>21358330
Sounds like a (you) problem.

>>21358330
Why do athecucks seethe so much at the existence of religious people? Must be because they’re unhappy

Why are you lonely bro? No gf? What about family? Remember nothing beats family ever they are the best always. Remember to tell your mum I love you

>>21358389
They seethe because there's a difference in opinion. People don't really like people who aren't like them. Or something

Being and Nothingness, found it at a thrift store where good cassette tapes were when I was 17ish. The Golden Bough was also a rare find there, was a good "time-passer"

Lonsome Doves did a lot for me too.

>>21358458
>No gf
What site do you think you're on? Obviously.
I have a family. I am beyond grateful for them.

>>21358655
Have never heard of any of those, or your picrel's Heinlein. Thank you

>>21358129
It's wonderful seeing someone recommend Ortega y Gasset here of all places. If you haven't read "Meditaciones del Quijote" (Meditations on Quixote) yet I wholeheartly say that you give it a read, it's my favourite book of all time and will definitely improve your conceptual understanding of some of the ideas found in Revolt of the Masses. It's also Ortega's first published book, if you're curious. If you speak Spanish I regard Catedra's edition prologued by Julian Marías to be the very best. Such a fascinating book I swear, have a nice day and a nice read.

>>21357842
Could point to any material changes you have made in your life as a result of your epiphany regarding the need for personal agency? I ask because I had the same thing happen to me when I read the book and but I gradually slipped back into old habits and nothing actually changed in my life

>>21357796
Same reply to this man if it has you. Give God the glory

>>21357789
Diaspora by Greg Egan

Against The Grain by James C Scott

Our Mathematical Universe by Mark Tegmark

>>21358356
I have flipped through some passages from Finnegans Wake and it's very lyrical...but I've never actually read Dubliners and Portrait, I really should get to those soon though.

>>21357823
Then go outside and talk to people, idiot.

>>21359218
Hey why aren't you being overly nice and coddling to my poor autistic online stranger self and instead forcing me to face realistic solutions to my equally real problems? That's so not on, anon >:(
>>21359204
Definitely read Dubliners and Portrait. Finnegan's Wake is for sure on the... like... "Hard" side (as much as I hate describing a book as such), but the other two are perfectly readable and much more easy to enjoy. The Dead is one of the best short stories of all time, and POAA is a great coming-of-age novel (or Bildungsroman if you're a fancypants), and it's surprisingly relatable, which is great since you said you felt Joyce could understand you from reading Ulysses!

Have a good day, both of you anons

>>21357789
Read Slaughterhouse 5 after a friend died at 20 and it changed how I look at death, time and humanity. Pretty cliche but I’ve loved Vonnegut ever since. Have read all but 1 or 2 of his titles.

>>21359527
Sorry for your loss, anon. I hope he was a good guy and you two enjoyed each other's company while you could

>>21359531
Thanks man. So it goes.

>>21357818
>a personal relationship with God and learning about Him is "generic"
Man, I really do not miss being spiritually dead.

>>21357789

I read Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche when I was 21, and it was a lifechanging experience for me on a personal level. It completely changed the way I viewed the world, and how I wanted to live my life.

In terms of understanding the world around me, Mein Kampf, Revolt Against the Modern World, Leviathan and its Enemies, The Ego and Its Own and the philosophical essays of Engels made me realise that my basic assumptions about morality, order and politics were historically conditioned and not absolutes. That ideas like human rights, democracy, tolerance and liberalism were not metaphysically grounded, but rather mere expression of the interests of a certain class, at a certain time in history. And that the appeals of authority to morality and normality in defending those values were absolutely groundless.

>>21359598
>>21359594
Okay cool thanks

>>21357789
The Quran.

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, particularly Vol. 2. I'm halfway through the series now and it hasn't changed my life or anything, but the second volume gave me some reassurance about getting older. You never really stop feeling lost, but if you can find a good support system you'll manage.

>>21359629
Surprising it took this long
>>21359670
Will check out, I'm rather spooked out by aging.

>>21359598
What did Mein Kampf have to offer you? An insight into pre-WW1 German values?

>>21357789
The tao of pooh, behold a pale horse and the hobbit.
>good thread

Mann's Doctor Faustus helped me in finally coming out of the closet to my parents :)

>>21359951
>>good thread
Thank you anon! I try my best :)
>>21359965
Good on you anon. Come out as what? What's Faustus got to do with modern day identity politics?

I read this years after I got out of the military and there was one part that has stuck with me since then. The main character goes home on leave after being on the front lines for so long and becomes so uncomfortable with his surrounding because it is all so surreal. People were just going about their day like there wasn't full-fledged devastation happening just 50 miles away. It really cemented the idea that you can never truly go home.

>>21360004
Finished that a while back, I loved how human and at times beautiful it was. That bit you're on about stuck with me too, the bit where the narrator's in his room? Brilliant. I don't know if you're the same anon but I remember seeing a post in the archives where an anon was talking about the bit you really liked too. Either you're him or Remarque just really gets a bunch of people.
My favourite scene is the one where Kat and Paul eat the Goose, the prose and tone in it is just beautiful and really moved and stuck with me. Great book.

>>21357789
last book that did so was Steppenwolf by Hesse

>>21360119
good taste anon

>>21360132
thank you. I have to add that I haven't fully retained the effect this book has had on me, but no book has been "life altering" for that matter. After a while life will smooth out any revelations I can grasp from literature, but I still carry them with me one way or another. Maybe I am not so recipient to gaining personally revolutionary insights, or perhaps I just haven't found the right book yet.

>>21359984
>Come out as what?
Gay.
>What's Faustus got to do with modern day identity politics?
Homoeroticism is a recurring theme in all of Thomas Mann's novels and almost saturates them, to a point. You most likely won't see it if you are straight, however.

>>21360200
Woah. I'm a non-straight person too. wow.
I have never read any Mann.
>>21360170
keep looking for that book anon :)

>>21360229
Death in Venice is the usual starting point, if you'd like to read him, since it is so short. As also him at his most overt, so be wary of that. His other works aren't all like that.
Homoeroticism is only one of his themes, also. He's not only le closeted gay writer. Mann is an all around phenomenal author. Buddenbrooks is my personal fav.

>>21360229
>keep looking for that book anon :)
I will, anon :) if you are planning to actually read the books mentioned here, then I could also recommend Siddharta by the same author. It taught me some very good life lessons and it is highly accessible (that's not to say it is "simple", just that its use of language isn't complex).

>>21357823
You're in my prayers. For a year my only friend was 4chan.

>>21357789
>The Elementary Particles
Scared me badly enough that I changed my job and found a girlfriend. I now believe I am significantly less likely to end up checked out from life at 40

>>21357841
Someone on /sci/ recommended me stuff on measure theory awhile back

>>21360746
I am 40 myself

>>21358913
Ill try to find it but I'm a monolingual with FLLD so I dunno

>>21357789
I went on a massive Wodehouse binge a year ago and I still have occasional relapses into becoming an Edwardian character.

This book gave me the firmest ground for continued living I could have asked for, by laying out the premise that despair is detachment from god and the will to live is a mission of the most holy importance. It cured me of a lot of self-pity and my fatalistic worldview.

>>21357789
Too many to list but a few that have had a great impact on my life:
>On Contentment(essay) by Plutarch
>Emerson’s Essays
>Siddartha by Hesse
>most of Henry Miller
>Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
>Mysteries by Hamsun
>Van Gogh’s Letters
>Tao Te Ching
>Letters To A Young Poet by Rilke
>Bhagavad Gita
>Sentimental Education by Flaubert
>The Tartar Steppe by Buzzati
>most Thoreau
>Leaves Of Grass by Whitman

>>21361143
Forgot one more
>Cellini’s Autobiography

>>21357823
You're a sweet soul.

>>21357789
Love the thread OP. Gonna be a generic answer but Crime and Punishment. I read it when I was 15 but it fundamentally changed how I view redemption, crime, and weirdly enough prostitutes lol.

>>21357789
Orwell's non-fiction stuff set me down a road radically different to where i was as a dumb 15 year old, especially Down and out in paris and london, fantastic boks, the story about the frenchman bragging about raping a young woman, or the description of an old drunk being mocked while singing le marsaille as the night slowly dies and becomes sour.

In retrospect, some of the opinions i'd come around to after reading it were just as stupid as what i'd believed before, but hey, what can you do.

i read Hatchet when i was 12 and since then i derive an almost euphoric sense of pleasure from reading or watching anything adjacent or about survival in rural areas or the wilderness.

The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin helped me to simultaneously see the value in humility without viewing life or myself as unworthy of striving.

>>21357789
picrel. first book of contemporary poetry I ever read about... ten years ago. I've read poetry every day of my life since. ive learned not to talk about contemporary poetry because most readers don't care about contemporary poetry, or don't know what they're talking about, or think it's all shit (another way of saying they don't know what they're talking about) so I just enjoy it quietly. I don't read as much poetry as I used to anymore. anhedonia is a bitch. there was a period in my life where I read 2-4 books of contemp. every day, but I barely recognize that person now

>>21357789

>>21358655
Wanted to read Being And Nothingness but the new translation has all sorts of woketard nonsense self inserted into the prefaces and introductions. Shit on me for buying a book translated by a femoid.

>>21357789
Dune, Richest Man in Babylon, The Intelligent Investor, some books about leadership can't remember the titles, Blacklisted by History, None Dare Call it Treason, and Morrowind (I count it because although not a book it involves a lot of reading and it really did change my life quite a lot, in fact I think it should be assigned in schools).

The book that has affected me the most is reading Les miserables by Victor Hugo. When he's being ironic, when he's being naughty and, especially, when he's doing his 'I'm sorry' bit at the end, that's when I know I'm really falling in love with a book. I used to think that all literature was depressing and horrible and unfair and that I lived in hell and we were beyond the resurrection. I don't now! I was going to say I read feminist literature too, but then realised I have no idea what that means nowadays with all this woke crap, so I don't know what to say.

The book that is the most inspirational for me is really the Bible. I'm a very religious person and read the Bible a lot. I used to read it every night but now I don't because I don't want to get addicted to it! But one thing I like is the story of Jonah and the Whale. I didn't realise at the time but I think the fact that Jonah was swallowed by a whale is a reminder that life can be messy and random and full of suffering and can even be a bit scary. But Jonah was great and did what he was told. He was a really good person.

Books I'd recommend for the depressed
- Waiting For Godot
- The Book Thief
- Fanny Hill
- The Divine Comedy
- Oliver Twist
- the world according to Amy
- Paradise Lost
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Wuthering Heights
- Suicide of the West
- The Little Prince
- Les Misérables
- A Suitable Boy
- The Great Gatsby
- Of Mice and Men
- Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man [and deep diving into Finnegans Wake simultaneously]
- Edna And Ibsen's Peer Gynt
- Everything by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Threepenny Opera
- Ellen Kennedy and Tao Lin's Hikikomori
- ... Studying the National Anthem

>>21362720
What would a depressed person get from Wuthering Heights anon

>>21362720
Also anon I just read all of Ellen Kennedy and Tao Lin's Hikikomori. That was weird, how do you find things like this

>>21357823
The Sound and the Fury has changed my life more than any other non-religious text. Both on a personal and interpersonal level, it has provided profound lessons to me that are more clearly shown by Faulkner than anywhere else that I've come across them, though the themes they touch on are everywhere and in everything. Basically, the values that people live by and hold dear come from their parents, their culture, their place in history. There will be all sorts of people (retarded, normal, intelligent) that are taught these values. Some will exploit them out of selfishness, some will hold them genuinely and plainly, and some will hold them so strongly that even harm associated with holding them and knowledge of their fundamental contingency will not shake their attachment. And in those cases, as in Quentin's, the level of despair that comes with that knowledge and the external abandonment of or opposition to those values can be soul-crushing. This is the case that has become all the more frequent with the rapid modernization of the planet. Is that pain not valid?

Another great place that this comes up, predictably, is in post-war Japanese literature.

>>21357789
Brothers Karamazov
East of Eden
Runaway Horses

>>21357789
Little Boy.

>>21357789
Slaughterhouse Five had a pretty big impact on me when I was a teenager. It taught me how to not fear death.

>>21357789
Besides the Bible, it’s a three-way tie between Kristin Lavransdatter, Don Quixote, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.

>>21363681
Were you much scared of death as a teenager, anon?

>>21357789
Weininger, SEX AND CHARACTER

>>21363707
ok wittgentstein

>>21358382
>Fiction is purely entertainment, like watching a show or a movie

You are studying mysticism but haven't learned that language is literally magic? Your mind and your thought patterns ARE stories. Your mind is ONLY changed through stories, because the path to knowledge is through emotion and presence and there is no other path to understanding beyond this.

'the idiot' by dostoevsky inspired me to be a more simple and sincere person.

>>21363788
I like this

>>21357789
DFW's this is water speech

>>21363630
I don't remember. Probably on /lit/. I hope you had a good time with it.

"City of God" by St Augustine totally changed the way I think about religion and life. How he connects Greek, Roman, and Egyptian mythology and philosophy with history and Christianity is masterful. The book inspired me to forgive everyone in my life that turned around and backstabbed me after I wouldn't get the vaccine. I know that sounds cringy as all hell but I grew up in Seattle and was preached the virtues of bodily autonomy, eg. "my body, my choice", since childhood. So having almost everyone I know expose themselves as hypocrites when I wouldn't get the vaccine was pretty world view shattering. I guess that Bible too since it is what inspired St Augustine.
I loved the Redwall books as a kid as well and I think that's why I'm so interested in dreams and the concept of virtue.

The Bible.
Democracy in America
Abolition of Man
The Possessed
The crisis of the modern world
The Gateless Gate

Probably others I imagine.

>>21359015
I was working a retail job and was in the third year of said job. It was monotonous, the same place for seemingly endless weeks. I decided to leave and applied for university, this however though may have led me to further cling to hope of the elusive 'better' which I can see as ironic. but I try my best.

>>21365305
It's all the same anon. Everyman is a Giovanni

>>21357789
Honestly pretty nice thread so far. People seem to be genuine in their answers and reasons. Personally, Byron's poetry has completely changed my life. Byron is a role model for the ages. He laughed, he loved, he fought against the norms of his age, he defined an entire artistic movement. Byron's poetry is just a reflection of his greatness. Admittedly, I have yet to live up to the Byronic ideal but it is still a beautiful ideal to want to reach. I've read Byron since I was young and became obsessed with him as a result. I am a romantic through and through, my beliefs and values a result of reading the romantics and their predecessors as well as successors. I am a product of Weltschmerz/Mal du siècle feeling. I am among the last of a dying breed it seems.

>>21358193
Fiction is the superior mode of literature. Life is all about empathy, and fiction is empathy: putting yourself in another person's black skin.

>>21364944
good luck to you, anon. I wish good virtue like what matthias had in redwall was easier to come by these days, in myself and in the crowd

>>21357823
Oof. This one hurts, lads.

>>21357789
Literally nothing, desu, and I've read 99% of the canon.

>>21357789
Lolita

The Language of Creation and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning for really shaking up how I see reality and how ancient people thought. Emotionally, I remember The Karamazov Brothers leaving a lasting impression even though I didn't bother to specificially articulate why to myself at the time. As a kid the first Edge Chronicles book and the first Bartimaeus book were the two books that made me find a lot of joy in reading and it was like my mind was visually lit up to max. I still think the Bartimaeus books are underrated for how efficient they are in how they manage to bring out settings and action scenes with an impressive amount of clarity and detail for how many words are used

>>21357789
Frankenstein made me appreciate English as a language, rather than just a means of telling stories

>>21363707
Go outside rn. Go have sex and get character by interacting with people. It's a good book to feel better about women, which ive never felt bad because im extremely beloved by women(not really). No, but seriously, go outside. Juxtapose seemingly contradictory characteristics and adapt yourself to thrived in modern society. Seriously. You can't survive otherwise.

>>21367741
You're a loser.

>>21364944
Why didn't you get the vaccine. Was there really any benefit to basically throwing away all those relationships away? Besides, im not particularly informes on this matter, but don't you have other vaccines too? Why did you decixe not to get this vaccine anon?
>t. curious anon

P.S. ill try the book out it seems interesting*

>>21358063
>Justine & Juliette
I will have to concurr with this one. Juliette is a fantastic piece of fiction, but I have yet to finish Justine. Sade is like Kant's shadow half, as incestuous sister to their dark God of a father.

>>21357789
As others have said, probably Joyce's Portrait, though The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Lolita are definitely contenders for that position. Also, if we're including poetry, Lunch Poems and Questions of Travel really spoke to me when I was younger.

>>21365699
I love you, anon <3

>>21367770
t. WHO

>>21365699
>Fiction is the superior mode of literature. Life is all about empathy, and fiction is empathy: putting yourself in another person's black skin.
Fiction is a way for people who are impotent to live vicariously through others instead of actualizing their own potential. That's the reality of this "empathy" of yours.

>>21357789
The collected works of F.T Marinetti.

I have moved beyond his worldview, but I think that this was extremely important in reorienting myself as a boy within modernity. Before this, I tried very hard to understand people and was extremely neurotic and depressive. I was effeminate as well, but not in a good way. I admire his technofetishism and eroticization of industrialism. The mad and frenetic young Futurists in his works provide a theatre of war which mockingly sneers at moralists. I don't like his populist tendencies, however.

>>21363643
I could never really get into The Sound and Fury the same way I have other novels. It's a wonderful read and makes some very intelligent observations on the nature of history and how we understand ourselves, but I always felt like these sweeping theories that we're all just the dust of our fathers repackaged in a different cloth don't really hold up to scrutiny in the modern world. These days it seems we're defined more by a placelessness than anything else, every one of us little Adams without a God, outside of time or history or whatever else. Kind of like Benjy, I guess. I liked Quentin's section the most but Benjy was definitely the most interesting character in the book. I wish we could've seen more of him.

>>21367770
Originally, I didn't get it because I wanted to test how people would react when I chose to do an unpopular thing with my own body but now that the data is out i'm pretty sure it is the mark of the beast.
All of my relationships that mattered remain intact it simply separated the wheat from the chaff. I even met my girlfriend because I didn't get vaxxed since we were both searching for a partner who didn't take it.
I am old enough that I was not forced to take the 20+ vaccines they give newborns now. Before the pandemic RNA vaccines were only approved for use in animals so it in unlike any of the ones I do have. The whole thing is sketchy, you don't need 24/7 propaganda to get people to take it if it is as advertised.

>>21357823
wagmi, brother

>>21357789
The Bible.

>>21359598
>In terms of understanding the world around me, Mein Kampf, Revolt Against the Modern World, Leviathan and its Enemies, The Ego and Its Own and the philosophical essays of Engels made me realise that my basic assumptions about morality, order and politics were historically conditioned and not absolutes
do you seriously not see the irony in this?

>>21367770
not him, but the vaccines he got were actual vaccines, as defined by the WHO before Covid, not "vaccines". Furthermore the ones he got are very well researched, established and went through the normal process of approval.

I wouldn't really consider the two the same.

>>21359031
what a great list anon. Guess i'll have to read Diaspora now , i trust you

>>21357796
retard

While not a particularly good book, it was the impetus for me to stop drinking

>Captcha: WANKAT
kek

>>21357823
I met my wife on 4chan. Hoping for our second kid within the next year