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What books would you consider essential for any human being to read?

>> No.11949652
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>>11949638
Matthew 4:4 King James Version (KJV)
>But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

>> No.11949653

>anime pic
>generic and uninteresting question that's only meant to foster shit posting (ex: My diary hurr hurr)

>> No.11949656

I wouldn't. We're entering the post-literature stage of humanity

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>>11949638
Start with this

>> No.11949683

>>11949665
My diary hurr hurr

>> No.11949715

>>11949638
None, honestly. Reading books is no longer an important activity for learning. Plenty of smart people today don't give a shit about books and learn everything they need from the internet.

Personally, I think that by the end of this century we'll be well on our way towards becoming a post-literate society, where knowing how to read and write is no longer necessary.

>> No.11949730

>>11949715
>learn everything they need from the internet

except for how to sustain focus on one subject for more than two seconds and flesh out large concepts or ideas in a drawn out elucidated manner, making connections between things and the bigger picture

the internet has destroyed everyones attention spans. the practice of reading helps to increase that skill. because really, you need attention span to do anything that Actually matters - and especially to THINK for yourself and work things out instead of just sucking in tiny facts and opinions and adopting them as your own

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>>11949638
The Virtue of Selfishness

>> No.11949750

>>11949715
yeah man virtual reality! woo! based!

>> No.11949751

>>11949653
Why are people that post anime girl faces so subhuman?

>> No.11949765

Poor Richard's Almanac
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Aesop's Fables
Ecclesiastes
Basic Mathematics by Lang
Euclid's Elements
How To Eat To Live (revised edition)
Basic Household Mechanics

>> No.11949771

>>11949638
a textbook on evolution

>> No.11950088

>>11949740
>Contemplating egoism
>Written by a jew-russo woman

Not even surprised after all.

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>>11949638

>> No.11951040

>>11950088
>Written by a jew-russo woman
Given that a prime distinction of her philosophy is the historically powerful rejection of the tribalism/religion of the former and the culture and politics of the latter, this is important why?

>> No.11951057

>>11949638
I don't care anymore

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>>11949638

>> No.11951089

>>11950097
What is this even about? I'm okay with people shilling but give a fucking description or something.

>> No.11951110

>>11951083
I particularly enjoyed the audiobook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9fEA1fC_cc

>> No.11951119

>>11949765
>Aesop's Fables

Definitely recommend the Oxford World Classic's compilation, a lot of based stories. 500+ in all.

>> No.11951124

>>11951057
New favorite namefag. Also first

>> No.11951131

gay

>> No.11951625

>>11949715

The fuck are you on about? I read six hours a fucking day for college.

>> No.11951634

>>11949638
The Origin of Species and Genealogy of Morals, all other books should be burned
>>11949751
sign of bad inuitive sense for objects, visual processing impairment. this taken to an extreme leads to lolicon and hentai induced psychosexual addictive behaviors

>> No.11951651

Gulag Archipelago

>> No.11952163

>>11949638
Fuck off weeb

>> No.11952218

>>11951040
It was just a shitpost
Im just messing with you
Have a good day anon.

>> No.11952993

>>11951651
Gulag Archipelago is just Anne Frank for communism and it's boring as shit.

>> No.11953010

>>11949638
The books with more words than pictures.

>> No.11953027

>>11951634
>bad intuitive sense for objects
Yet architects, engineers, and 3d modellers have been into anime, lolis, and hentai? Ehm.

>visual processing
All of the above + oil painters (osamu obi comes to mind), illustrators, and digital painters/graphic designers.

I'd buy it if none of the above produced anything interesting, but that's not the case.

>> No.11953948

>>11952218
Yeah ok.

>> No.11955347

>>11949730
this