/lit/ - Literature

What are the best books to learn Old English?

I'm an ESL who knows both English and German. How hard do you think learning Old English might be for me?

>>16963755
>It's slavery because you would be subjugating yourself to the morality of God.
You are not subjugating yourself to His morality but rather following His morality because it is a practical instruction as to how to return to Him. If you do not will to return to God, then you have chosen death.

>True will to power would be to strive to ascend to Heaven, usurp him, and go beyond him towards new heights
There is no greater height than God, who transcends all heights and breadths. He is the beginning and the end; if you could possibly conceive of anything higher than God, God is that. True will to power is to unite with the power that exists, which is God.

>You're saying it is impossible, but that is an assertion, not a truth
If God is omnipotent and omniscient it is a cold fact. And this is only sensible, because our creator should not be bound by the laws we are bound by; namely, those of time, logic, possibility.

>Why would Satan attempt it if it is not possible
Satan, who you do not believe exists. Satan did so because he was a deluded, proud fool, just like you. If you would fight against a God who you know you cannot defeat, so would Satan; it is called ignoring the facts.

Tell me first how you are going to usurp God. Thus far it is only your assertion, that you can usurp God; but tell me how you plan to do it, and I will not laugh at you anymore. It seems all you have so far is "hope and struggle," but you are not a master.

>>16828057
Damn right , anon

>>16690601
Such a stupid mischaracterization, when nothing of what you said is necessarily applicable to Christianity, it is only how Christianity falls within your Procrustean bed. The Bible is the beginning of your journey, we are not sola scripturaists, works are needed, a spiritual life and relationship are also necessary. Christianity caused atheism, Marxism, and Egalitarianism? Anything could have caused the aforementioned. Christianity also caused Imperialism and a load of other shit; in short, it caused everything because we need to blame all of the world's ills on a contemporaneous religion when any other religion could've taken its place, even a pagan abstraction that's still just a religion at its core

>>16686466
Silence

>>16674284
Ignore Gnostic faggots. The journey was always closer than you thought, it's just that no one opens the door and embarks on it because we are either complacent or waiting in our sunrooms for spaceships to beam us up and administer an idiosyncratic "gnosis."

>>13831419
>>13831945
Was always one of my favorite Shakespeare monologues.

WESTMORLAND: O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

KING: What's he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmorland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark'd to die, we are enough
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say "To-morrow is Saint Crispian."
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day."
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words—
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester—
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Oldfags of /lit/, what do you miss about /lit/?
Do you think nu-/lit/ is worse than old-/lit/?
What was /lit/ obsessed with back then?

For all the cosmopolitans on here, I just don't understand, why do you think this change is inevitable? All of these niggers becoming an ever increasing population on this once great isle and all you can do is scoff at anyone that sees an issue. You'll say:
>you're just a weak man pretending to be strong
>you're too afraid to let change happen
as if that acting smug about getting their own country cucked makes them intelligent. As if me wanting to display any amount of masculine virtues is something to laugh at as a westerner. You realize how easy it would be to stop this right? Its just all to easy. The decay of our nations, the rapes, the weekly terrorist attacks, the national humiliation. We could avoid islam taking any kind of foothold in our country if we wanted. All of this ugly blackness invading English lands, invading the entirety of Europe in fact. Its not that complicated either. All this talk about how change is inevitable is the only thing making it inevitable. Lets do a thought experiment. What would happen if Europeans collectively regained the same mindset they had in the late 19th century just all of a sudden. If we decided to go back to Bismarck's old diplomacy system we could easily reconquer all of Africa in less then a decade. Russia certainly wouldn't look a shadow of its current menace. The American Jewish yoke would be broken against a mighty European neck. Muslims a problem? They would cower back in fear in their sand dunes. After a single other rape of an English girl the entire community would throw the lot out, as they should've a while back. I'm not saying we ought to go back completely to the 19th century mindset as we've clearly learned a lot. Just displaying the absurdity of the situation that the only people that have defeated us is ourselves. That also means though, that we have the ability and and its completely fixable in fact if you're willing to humble yourself to any kind of human feel for your ancestors.

But no go be smug about this rant. Tell me to go back to /pol/. You're only dooming yourselves as well in the end.

>>6681784
ANGLO
PRIDE
WORLD
WIDE

>>6624479
Keep spreading the good news and I will be praying for you!

>>6260793
Of course, but the Anglo-Saxons also spread to England and eventually the New World.