/lit/ - Literature

>>19051065
Temptation to sin. It's not the first invisibility ring in literature, either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Gyges

>>18400870
nah. Scruton was a popular media conservative figure; that ought to tell you he appeals to midwits. He's not a great thinker, but he looks and sounds like someone important.

If you want some good apologetics for western civilization, read some good Catholic philosophers. Gilson, maybe, or Pope John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

>>18397910
>Will I have enough time to read?
Yes.

>officer
Well... maybe not. Lower enlisted have a few hours to themselves after 1700 or 1800, assuming there's no mandatory function they need to attend after hours. I managed to read quite a bit when I was a private and specialist, usually in bed. Officers are held to higher standards and you may find making time for leisure reading difficult. Read and compare your different translations of Homer at the gym, that's what I did. Treadmill gang.

Tbh it really, really depends on the field you're in, your MOS, your boss, and the particular unit you're in. Even down to platoon level. E.g. first platoon may have a different mission with different-from-normal working hours and as a result less hands-on micromanagement from day-shift senior NCOs and officers.

>>18333596
>Wilken - Christians as the Romans Saw Them
a good intro on the title subject

>the Cappadocian Fathers
Basil the Great, Greg of Nyssa, etc. mostly concerned with early centuries of Christian theology.

>the Didache
letters between the next-to-earliest church fathers, in the generation after the apostles. shows that liturgy and form of the mass is extremely old, very similar to our own if not exactly the same in some ways.

>Euseubius' Ecclesiastical History
available from Loeb Classical Library. just what it sounds like, a history of the church from his day.

crusades and inquisition deserve whole books to themselves. start from the beginning.

>>18193038
read Jacque Pepin's La Technique, or look for the video version on youtube

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>>18152464
>Whether you think that adds any merit is up to you though

It's actually not. Relativism is cancer.

>>18152447
You are using an incorrect notion of 'self'.

>>18150075
you know how

>>17789486
Thoreau and Ed Abbey are based.

Sun Also Rises is a good rec. Would suggest anything from the Popular Patristics series (pref. a Cappadocian Father), the Loebs of Pausanias' Description of Greece, or Wasson/Hofmann/Ruck's The Road to Eleusis.

>>16883842
The Cold Equations

>>15496803
You won't learn about yourself from other people, OP.

you're invited anons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcaJztFa4Ac

>>14910020
No. It's a good argument, but it conflicts with the notion that the authors of the Bible were guided by the Holy Spirit.

It'd be better to argue that sola scriptura implies a particular (retarded) reading that is literalist and simplistic. Jesus spoke in parables for a reason: he was expressing to man something that is not easily understood literally. Choosing to be retarded like the Protestants have done for five hundred years is not helping anyone, least of all the sinners of the world who actually need help and guidance.

>>14688396
I'm currently swamped with homework, so I'm reading that. Romantic poets, Willy Shakes, Hebrew Bible, commentaries, etc.

Pic related, been excited to read Ur of the Chaldees since I heard Irving Finkel the Assyriologist talking about it and saw his reprodution of the board game described within. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I

>>14539345
Please don't. These are the days that must happen to you.

>>14536743
>Books for coping with the fact that we all already live in dystopia, and all signs say things are only going to get considerably worse with each passing year?
The founding documents of the United States, Plato, Aristotle, and the Holy Bible of course. And also:

>TC 7-22.7 - Non-commissioned Officers Guide
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN20340_TC%207-22x7%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf

>FM 3-22.9 - Rifle Marksmanship
https://usacac.army.mil/sites/default/files/misc/doctrine/CDG/cdg_resources/manuals/fm/fm3_22x9.pdf

>TC 3-21.76 - Ranger Handbook
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3039_TC%203-21x76%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf

>>14539223
uhh... uh...

>>14408018
>Any suggestions?
The Gunslinger if you want a western/more action.

The Talisman if you want more Americana epic.

Insomnia if you want to become a doomer.

>>14412224
fpbp

>>14412230
the devil sows division. Christ foments peace and solidarity. careful whose work you're doing my man.

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>>14390178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTmiFRvFXs

>>14352750
If you have to ask this question, the answer is no.

>>14343797
>If it was tackled more as a measure of human convienience
You unwittingly embody the notion of practical relativism described in Laudato Si, that unquenchable demand for convenience that drives pollution in the first place. Look it up.

>We have no humanistic (the only moral basis that hold any water are egoism and humanism) to care about biological nature.
I agree it is silly to give "rights" to things like biomes and mountains, especially if we know they're only going to be trampled on anyway. But you're mistaken thinking we are separate from "biological nature." We aren't. It is our food supply, our water supply, and our health.

>>14342956
Michael D Coe's MEXICO