Books you'd give to a young you

[Anonymous No.15897167]

and why?

[Anonymous No.15897172]

>>15897167
Nietzsche so I can get filtered and believe I am an overman so I can bully other people and have lots of sex thanks to my new confidence

[Anonymous No.15897177]

>>15897167
Starting Strength

[Anonymous No.15897185]

Doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t have read it anyways. I was too sad as a kid.

[Anonymous No.15897193]

>>15897172
Reading your book doesn't change your bone structure.

[Anonymous No.15897234]

>>15897185
dam I can still feel it

[Anonymous No.15897243]

>>15897167
Milton PL
Goethe Faust 1&2
Dante inferno
All of Chesterton
All of Augustine
Wilde's play folio
Parfum
Tom Sharpe

[Anonymous No.15897246]

I'd give myself MDMA, because after getting ego death I lost most of my anxiety that was induced from always being considered different by my peers and learned how capable the human mind is in transforming the perception of oneself, and in turn, the perception of life entirely.

[Anonymous No.15897251]

>>15897185
>>15897234
But what if you could somehow make the young you read it, or somehow absorb the messages?
Which book would it be?

[Anonymous No.15897255]

>>15897167
Bachelor Pad Economics. Only book that would be useful a youth in this time.

[Anonymous No.15897256]

>>15897167
To be honest? My diary

[Anonymous No.15897266]

>>15897243
Lmao retard. How old are you?
You don't want same thing happening to your younger generation, now do you? Those books will only make him antisocial sociopath, even worse a narcissist pyschopath.

[Anonymous No.15897277]

>>15897243
>Wilde
>Milton
To get an oratorial range.

>Sharpe
For his fukken word games

>Faust
To realise early the possibilities of narrative range.

>Chesty and Augs
A suitable defense against fedoras until i can think without seething.

[Anonymous No.15897280]

>>15897167
The technological society and ISAIF. I wish I knew about the dangers of technology sooner

[Anonymous No.15897283]

>>15897256
>my diary
...because? what's in there?

[Anonymous No.15897288]

I believe I read every book at the right time. Younger me might have not appreciated some of what are now my favourite books and dismissed them entirely.

[Anonymous No.15897302]

>>15897266
Throwing powerwords at me dont work.

I am not a vain person, nor uncarring of people's feelings.

I am not social, but that has always been true. It is not owed to the books.

Explain yourself please.

[Anonymous No.15897312]

>>15897266
No sir, it sounds like you, are the retard.

[Anonymous No.15897319]

>>15897288
Maybe you read them at the right time because your older self placed them in your path at the appropriate moments

[Anonymous No.15897329]

>>15897167
The only correct answer.
>>15897256

My diary. Only myself know the fuck I will need. I put books and skills that could be handful knowing it at earlier stages of my life.

Also prob keep a copy of some pseud literature by my bedside in college to impress dumb whores.

[Anonymous No.15897348]

>>15897266
A book can't make you a psychopath you dimwit.

[Anonymous No.15897372]

>>15897319

[Anonymous No.15897376]

>>15897348
>>15897312
He's a fedora sperging out because
>Christfag detected

[Anonymous No.15897387]

>>15897167
The Fight Club

[Anonymous No.15897403]

>>15897167
what nice nymphets!

[Anonymous No.15897412]

>>15897280
This. I wish I had spent less time with technology.

[Anonymous No.15897488]

>>15897302
>Spacing
I know you are liberal, poor, victim of evil capatilism, physically weak and reading philosophy gives you a coat of defense against the fact that you are complete loser who is mentality not capable of accepting; accepting truth.

[Anonymous No.15897608]

>>15897246
No way MDMA gave you ego death.
You probably mean the feeling of selfless unconditional love it gives you.
Or do you actually know what's commonly called ego death and experienced it via molly?
>t mdma changed my life to the better too

[Anonymous No.15897971]

>>15897608

What basically happened was that I went to a club as a beta loser who had kissed one girl total accidentally before to groping two stranger hot chicks on molly without breaking a sweat... Took them home later, unfortunately didn't score, but just the sheer realization how I had come over my shyness and gained confidence out of nowhere in this altered mental state was a huge game changer. The thing I realized as well was that substances don't change you as a person, but rather are like an opening of a floodgate - a key of some sort to unlocking this different perspective of perception that you can easily get even if you are sober, just need to know how to find that internalized state. I don't do anything anymore as it is a health risk, but I have generally found that me experiences with substances have given me a deeper understanding of mental mechanisms and heightened my senses of empathy.

And that's ignoring something like frying on acid and seeing, in full clarity, melting images and alphabet soup like effects while reading text. It's no surprise to me people can start believing in alternate realities while clearly seeing images like that.

I wonder how much of an experience can a book, coupled with your imagination, give compared.

[Anonymous No.15898332]

>>15897193
"incel" and "chad" are states of mind. You don't need bone structure to be a chad.

[Anonymous No.15898728]

>>15897243
Based, one of the best things my HS freshman English teacher did for me was rec Paradise Lost.

[Anonymous No.15898740]

>>15897488
>Liberal
Nah. Closer to trad. Look at my list; which part of it looks liberal?

>Poor
Lower middle class. Home owner, married, no debt.

>Victim of evil capitalism
Capitalism is the reason i get to eat. I should be starving.

>Physically weak
I'm out of shape, but i carry a keg just fine.

>Reading philosophy gives a coat of defense
How much philosophy do you think i read? I just put Augustine and Chesterton; the rest is fiction.

>Etc etc
I don't know who you're projecting, and it might not be you, but it's certainly not me.

[Anonymous No.15898920]

>>15897488
>Profile based on spacing
The feces of /pol/

[Anonymous No.15898924]

>>15897167

>Robinson Crusoe
>Sea Wolf
>Treasure Island

Stop whining like a little girl and become a Man. A strong, independent and wise Man.

[Anonymous No.15898929]

>>15897167
I would leave everything exactly the way it was. Things have progressed as they should.

[Anonymous No.15899469]

So I can could fuck more

[Anonymous No.15899486]

>>15897167
Mythology by Edith Hamilton so I could start with the Greeks

[Sage No.15899575]

>>15897167
This, also Culture of Critique, so I would not have wasted so many years of my life serving an alien race.

[Anonymous No.15900704]

On the flip side id take atlas shrugged away from the younger me. I was too young to stick with it properly and shelved it for years.

[Anonymous No.15901482]

>>15897167
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung

[Anonymous No.15901616]

>>15897167
Sophie's World, Being and Time, and that math book that my friend lent me that actually made math fun.

[Anonymous No.15901777]

>>15897167
The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi.

Teenage me absolutely needed to read that book.