Literature

What are you reading Sup Forums?

>inb4 go to /lit/

Knowledge is the foundation of good politics.

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cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics
truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/
youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ-ijNAFVM
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The Bible

I can't read.

>knowledge
>bs metashitics

Analytical Psychology is far from bullshit. It's a great book. Lot's of pictures so you just might like it.

jordanbpeterson.com/2016/11/maps-of-meaning-intro/

jordanbpeterson.com/2016/11/book-list/

Started reading Tolstoy The kingdom of God is Within you today. Seems like the foundation of Peterson's belief on the merit of lessons of Christ, but sees how the institution of Christianity as a whole has become corrupt.

>jordanbpeterson.com/2016/11/book-list/
I like pbj a lot. especially his lectures on personality psychology. havent got into maps of meaning or the bible lectures though

he should stop going on molyneux's show though. that dude is the ultimate mental manipulator.

i'm reading Sup Forums

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gulag archipelago

The Portable Jung, by Carl Jung, ed. Joseph Campbell
Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky
Confessions, by St. Augustine
Medea and Other Plays, by Euripedes, ed. Philip Vellacott
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, by Araki

yeah sorted bucko

The Portable Jung, by Carl Jung, ed. Joseph Campbell

Had no idea one of my favorites did a book on another one of my favorites

archive.org/details/TheGulagArchipelago-Threevolumes

>Democracy: The god that failed
>The Turner Diaries

Reading is for faggots, all I do all day everyday is shit post on Sup Forums, I don't even read the replies because I'm not a faggot.

Kek

I'd advise looking into philosophy too, especially the Spinoza-Nietzsche-Deleuze filiation, their metaphysics is very close to Jung. It's a beauty. I don't know any good book in English about it though (I'm sure there are though), but for those who understand French, there are very good refs to philosophy classes that I can give.

Also, Jung's BBC interviews can be found on the Djootube and are very interesting, especially since they were done at the end of his life when his ideas were the most mature.

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Yeah I started reading beyond good and evil but it was so dense I needed a companion book to go along with it. Not dense as in, verbose, but like, complex and deep. Pic related really helped me better understand what he was talking about.

eternal return is such an incredible concept, and really a great mental model to help you live properly.

>What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus?... Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

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I'm laying off a bit from all the turmoils of this world.

The Nicomacean Ethics by Aristotle
brettygud

what's it say?

This book is pretty good for any spanish, or native descendant, tell a lot of information against common belief and its pretty good written and with very good sources

Recomended to anyone who want to learn stories about the spanish empire

Yes Nietzsche is extremely profound and complex, but once you understand the gist of what he says, it all makes more sense. What helped me a lot (and maybe it can be of interest to you) was for me to understand that he was opposing a philosophy of eternal essences (à la Plato) with a philosophy of power, which is called an ethics, and which states that creatures, including us, are not fixed essences, like a soul with a given identity for example, but a force, a strength that affects and is affected by the world. This is why he is so much (and by his own account) a descendent of Spinoza. And also a predecessor of Deleuze.

>eternal return is such an incredible concept, and really a great mental model to help you live properly.

I agree so much. It's helped sort myself out, not surprisingly, very efficiently, durably and in the way I wanted.

>Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?

Beautiful prosaic truth bomb. I think the eternal return is in part a way to practically enhance one's life day to day : for all the choices you are confronted to in life, just ask yourself if you would like to live the consequences of this choice for eternity, again and again and again. It's so close the Spinoza's Ethics... I mean, that's when you realize that philosophy is nothing abstract but really something for yourself.

Oh by the way, I think Whitehead may be of interest to you - if he isn't already : he is one of the unsung geniuses of the 20th century. Alas, he was ignored because Wittgenstein became all the rage, but his books are a marvel of this world and I'd strongly advise any English reader to try and give it a shot. He also is within the Nietzsche nebula, with a slightly more pragmatic tone.

You should read it, but pic related is the summary.

Example: There is the subtext, which is a challenge, say danger. The responses range from deficient (cowardice) to excessive (foolhardy) with the ideal response being a mean (courage).

I'm just finishing my first quick read but what I got was that virtue is excellence, and excellence is attainable by all men.

Also that the perfect virtues lie in between excess and deficiency. So, courage is a median between cowardice and rashness. However, the virtues lie closer to one extreme than another. So rashness is closer to courage than cowardice is.
He talks about justice and responsibility for one's actions as well but it went over my head on the first read.

ahhhh okay so that is what he is referring to with "will to power." He can be so terse that I really have to ponder each sentence, each word really, to get the sentence to get the paragraph to get the idea. I have so much to learn and I really appreciate you taking the time to comment here. And thank you for spelling out that guiding undercurrent of his for me!

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>Capitalism
>National Socialism
>Communism

desu senpai.

This

Digits confirm. Natsoc is the most ethical political system from a Nicomachean perspective.

>armband on the wrong side

I hate it when someone does that. If you do that wrong on the cover of your fucking book then it's absolutely inexcusable.

have you considered that you're an idiot

>things are getting a little too prosperous for my liking, lets take it down a notch

I really found this paper fascinating. Especially the parts about the researchers views on the nature of consciousness.

It is a read but it I think is worth your time.

It's a declassified CIA doc about escaping the boundaries of space time with cognition synchronization and amplification with audio tapes and meditation. neat stuff.

cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R001700210016-5.pdf

thanks guys yeah I'll give it a read. I really like the practical stuff.

Cosmos.

Pic related book was one of the first grownup books I ever got into, was about ten at the time. It still fascinates me. The pic of a corridor receding into the distance still creeps me out for some reason.

I'm reading that book The Strange Death Of Europe now. And considering re-exploring some classic lit like Dickens, whom I love.

Recently re-read my favorite novel of all time, Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. I highly recommend it--everything by him really, but that one's his masterpiece.

On a dare I read Eat Pray Love recently. Had to skim a lot of it because the author irritated me so hugely. She's not unintelligent and she has the occasional interesting thought, but still, what a can of worms. I can see how this book inspired a lot of women (of all ages) to do some really stupid shit. It seems like a midlife book but she was actually in her mid 30s. The part about Siddya Yoga was mildly interesting as I used to date a chick in the 90s who was into that; it actually was the only thing that ever made her act normal/sane so overall it's probably not that bad of an organization. I remember I told her that the old dead former-Guru looked like a perv and we argued about it; now, 20 years later, turns out he was. Ha.

Oh, read Yuri Bezmenov's short book online recently. Worthwhile, of course. I wish he were still around.

Nothing

>read 10 books in january
>havent been able to finish one since
>keep buying them though

tfw can't get sorted

>Medea and Other Plays, by Euripedes, ed. Philip Vellacott
Read these in high school, had a great lit/classics teacher plus my Dad was a retired drama teacher who loved the old Greek plays. He even took us to Greece in part to show us the old amphitheatres and stuff.

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I'm reading pic related right now, pretty interesting

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Just finished Homage to Catalonia, Bretty gud

Autism: The post

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the book starts on sept 1 1939 when germany invades poland. I'm about 150 pages in and it's still fall 1940. But damn does this book put things in perspective. my ignorance of that war is staggering.

Does anyone have the Red Book?

I saw this one on pbj's reading list. I saw it on my campus library today but picked up a book on epistemology

Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima.

I wish i knew his workout routine to emulate him further.

yeah that dude was shredded. thanks for the recommendation I will read it.

This

no but I want to get it

I borrowed her book from a friend on a bus ride. It took about an hour to read. It dances around the serious issues, has one sentence paragraphs, and tries to be cute. If you were totally bluepilled it might be okay, but if you know anything then it's sort of a waste.

why the fuck is her eyebrow so long

Fear and trembling, Either/or - Kierkegaard
The spiritual problem of modern man - Jung
Lectures on Rhetoric
Metalogicon
Metaethics (Fisher)
Explaining postmodernism
Soliloquies (st augustine)
Also got an essay from Edward Feser called Classical natural law theory

Liberal Fascism. Pretty good book so far.

Roll for Your Seppuku Ritual Suicide this Year.

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I'm disappointed in you Sup Forums.
This book is only readable in the way that Hitler would read books, pick chapters that interest you from the index and go about it that way.

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I really suck at making memes, but this was an obvious nobrainer.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

Just finished Ana Keranina
Avoid smart women at all cost

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Only when i'm at the top of my game. I will become the Chad Insurrection.

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Thanks Sup Forumsro

I kind of feel like I should have tried for something with multiple volumes, but I'm loaning from the library and it's a battle between being contemporary and having depth.

phenomenal read. really exciting.

I'm about to give The Foundation for Exploration a shot.

whats this?

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the book runaway horses by yukio mishima Xd

based buddhist on what to do after Christianity didn't work

same desu

Discord reading club is reading two things actually

>Book Club:
Becoming a Barbarian by Jack Donovan

we finished The Way of Men and are on a small list of tribalism texts to help lay out a foundation for future political books, being that tribalism is the groundwork of all things.

>History Club:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton

We're going through pic related and are reading the section on heroes and adventures good stuff.


For those Sup Forumsacks who want to get into reading, read/watch the following:

>Propaganda by Edward Bernay
>WATCH: The Century of The Self (it's on youtube)
>The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
>48 Laws of Power
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
>Rules for Radicals

that should help you better understand how the real world of politics works and what bounds to work within.

go make bait threads on /lit/, people are so illiterate here they might take you seriously

what do you mean? The Start With the Greeks pic is good stuff. I did my homework and it's a meme on /lit/ because it's actually a good starter guide.

Harvard Classics. If you read all 51 volumes you would literally be more educated than everyone you know. Also the collection was chosen pre Marxism taking over so it's white, male and based

>Harvard Classics
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics

The Prince and Douglas MacArthur the American Warrior.

Literally the perfect collection of literature and knowledge

I've posted this in other threads recently, but I found this book to be extremely interesting - if awkwardly written:
truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/
The author claims it's the first of its kind - it isn't, but it's certainly got its own spin on the concepts.
Similar to Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, Tao Te Ching, etc.
Nature of consciousness stuff, life death, heaven hell, that sort of thing.
Alan Watts is by far my favorite author on this topic though.

Mostly chaos theory and game theory stuff lately.

why?

I love carl jung. He's a genius. His personalities and symbols and how he compares civilized society to tribal society, and helps me realize that they really aren't that different after all.

You want to see how similar humans and tribal societies are? Visit a nightclub sober. It's like a fucking National Geographic documentary.

youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ-ijNAFVM

what I got out of that book is that the good life is to be devout Christian farmer

the problem is that most people confuse interesting ideas with scientific ideas

don't do the same mistake, most ideology-obsessed people have this problem, especialy leftists and fascists

Some fucking book where the Norks and Chinks invade South Korea. Was written right before Desert Storm it's almost like an alternate timeline. It's okay.

I have "On War" by von Clausewitz I'm going to start next.

The Black Swan. It is avaliable as a free, 11hour audiobook on YT.

At sea right now - shit satellite connection, can't load YouTube. What's the title?

This, tbqh

Cassetteboy vs David Attenborough

It's audio from Attenborough documentaries edited and played over footage of a debauched British night out. Basically what you said.

What are you shit posting from the ship's library?

An interesting glimpse into his psyche