/lit/ - Literature

Soon as I saw Edit Marathons were a thing in 2014 arranged by idpol mods and users to fill Wikipedia with more sources, expansions etc.,the site was forever fucked in my eyes and I double check the sources through Google Scholar.

>>19534926
Numquam Rōmae aetātis aureae inter frātrem animō iam relictō cubantem et amīcās paene nūdās meās laetāns bacchābor.

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Faciēs mea cum nūllam explosiōnem liquōris vāgīnālis

>>19223339
>ywn enjoy the latest performance of a dramatic cycle that defines your Ethnos and its relation to the Gods while gazing down into the Mediterranean and across the infinite horizon, as if peering from Olympus itself.

Pretty sure if you weren't a -5th century Greek, you were never actually human.

>>17513062
Thanks m8 I appreciate it.

Meditations

So i have read the greeks. What now?

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>>12674783
Now I see why you don't like it. I work out in my homemade gym in my back yard and it's quite meditative. No stupid music blasting, no retarded gym rats and no trainers telling you what to do. It's just me and some iron. Also you don't have to follow some bullshit diet, just eat more healthy shit and less unhealthy shit. I'm not huge or aesthetic, but I do enjoy me a session every other day.

>>12661188
meditations helped me deal with death of loved ones.

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For heavens sake, leave this board alone you tripfag, I wish I can yell at you but my conscience wouldn't let me cause you're such a pitiable creature with little to no social contacts. I can only pity you, for your own sake leave us alone, everything you say is trash, I wish you were ironic but you aren't, for the love of God leave us alone. I beg you.

>>12437768
>be Aurelius
>everyone reads your diary desu in the future and thinks you were a cool stoic emperor bro
>in reality you were a literal cuck who fell for the hereditary succession meme, dooming the Roman Empire to the disastrous reign of your crazy despot son instead of choosing a capable officer of yours or letting the senate decide on a successor

>>12404764
Myself.

>being anxious about death in the first place
Based philosophy will save you from that btw

>>12208359
Same way my life has been going; fucking nowhere.

Yeah, it's cheesy and campy and all 'carpe diem,' but it's blunt and I like it.

>It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius)

I thought Aurelius and the Stoics were more worried about fortune, death, and fate than gaining the favour of the gods. For them, the gods and nature (universe) are indistinguishable. That's all they ever seem to talk about, anyway

For an actually based Aurelius quote:
>Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

Also
>How many who came into this world with me already left it!
This might give you the impression that Marcus was a pussy-bitch bemoaning the facts of life, but this one always seems to hit me in the feels; especially given how powerful yet humble he was

>>12032949
You need a healthy dose of this guy

What are good books / manuals to read if you would like to develop a similar physical and mental fortitude to a US navy seal without actually being in the military?

>>10939728
I found the stoics, and more specifically Aurelius, was a great way to get started on the route of some deeper thinking philosophy.
Will always be one of my favorites
>If it is not right, don't do it: if it is not true, don't say it

>>10834367
>Denying the existence of the divine in the first place
What are you some sort of heathen OP?