This is the first book i read in years, how'd i do?
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This is the first book i read in years, how'd i do?
Cameron Davis
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Leo Diaz
Irrelevant shit by an irrelevant slant. This is a coffee table book you namedrop for other business majors. Ditto book of five rings and 48 laws of power.
David Parker
>I read Common Fucking Sense: The Book
Well it's a start
Chase Clark
48 laws of power is waaaaaaaaayyy gayer than the art of war
Jason Torres
and the prince
Oh you're Machiavellian? How brave.
Andrew Nguyen
>i cant into nuance and cant apply this to my life so its bad!
Xavier Butler
It's like 30 pages long, so you did really bad
Evan Rodriguez
it's an okay book..
and 1pl8..
Charles Green
VIDEO GAM-
...FITNESS
Aiden Parker
Cringe at macchiavelianism. For brainlet rich mans sons and bitter weirdo non-thinkers
Kayden Edwards
ive never figured out the difference between macchiavelianism and regular pragmatism
Julian Hughes
James Jenkins
Machiavellian is the adjective used by Reddit tier commentators
Zachary Wood
Finished reading "Storm of Steel" by Ernst Junger. Solidified my viewpoint that WW1 was the worst war to be involved in (from an averaged point of view) all the history of mankind.
Jordan Turner
Elaborate on why, user. I'm curious.
Joshua Harris
You need to take the Art of War with a grain of salt. During that time period China went through a long series of military defeats and blunders. Just look at the rule explaining “don’t back your enemy into a corner, instead leave a way for them to properly retreat”. Imagine if fucking Hannibal followed this advice at Cannae.
My personal favorite is “The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer or “Gates of Fire” by Steven Pressfield.
Joseph Fisher
WW1 was just a bunch of nerds sitting in holes and complaining about how the loud artillery would interrupt their drinking and card games. Vietnam and the Pacific theater of WWII were objectively worse.
Levi Hughes
Culture of Critique
Adrian Allen
SoS is probably my favorite non-fiction novel.
but i can't say the narrator is a nerd lmao. dude was a fucking courageous man
>that part when he rescues his fallen bro
Luke Brown
Most of the fighting was with unseen enemies, you spammed nades and artillery at the enemy in hopes of killing him while hoping his nades and artillery didn't kill you.
Constant bombardment kept you awake while you guarded a hole in the dirt for weeks or sometime months at a time.
Trenches were infested with rats, corpses and rain water.
Plus most regiments were made-up from towns or villages, so you would probably be shipped off with your childhood friends and see many of them blown apart by a random shell or a sniper.
Add in survivor guilt, primitive surgery technique and tools, mutilation, lack of progress in the war etc. and you have WW1
Gavin Flores
>Just look at the rule explaining “don’t back your enemy into a corner, instead leave a way for them to properly retreat”. Imagine if fucking Hannibal followed this advice at Cannae.
This idea is to convince your enemy to rout, which saves the lives of your men by allowing them to safely chase the enemies instead of worrying about your enemy making a brave final stand.
Cannae is an exception because 1.The Romans were so packed together they couldn't hold up or swing their weapons 2.The Romans thought that they could break out by continuing the push into the weak center of Hannibal's forces. The illusion of retreat was given, but it didn't exist.
Austin Murphy
interpretation of a book and just reading are two completely different things. That shit separate the speedreaders of the true intellectuals.
Gabriel Adams
True, it reminds of the quote by Epictetus (Context: Halteres=Ancient dumbbells)
>Do you then show me your improvement in these things? If I were talking to an athlete, I should say, "Show me your shoulders"; and then he might say, "Here are my halteres." You and your halteres look to that. I should reply, "I wish to see the effect of the halteres." So, when you say: "Take the treatise on the active powers, and see how I have studied it." I reply, "Slave, I am not inquiring about this, but how you exercise pursuit and avoidance, desire and aversion, how your design and purpose and prepare yourself, whether conformably to nature or not. If conformably, give me evidence of it, and I will say that you are making progress: but if not conformably, be gone, and not only expound your books, but write such books yourself; and what will you gain by it? Do you not know that the whole book costs only five denarii? Does then the expounder seem to be worth more than five denarii? Never, then, look for the matter itself in one place, and progress toward it in another."
Leo Price
The objective of any army is to encircle and destroy. There are obviously exceptions to this, but imagine if the Russians at Stalingrad allowed the 6th army to escape. The reason Sun Tzu wrote this was he feared that a cornered enemy will fight back the hardest. This may have been true then but in modern times with all weapons being ranged you could just blow the fuck out of a encampment with artillery. Look at the Russians in Chechen as an example of this.
Chase Murphy
Well yeah, modern times call for different tactics and mindsets.
Nicholas Cook
Interesting. My vote was always for The Vietnam War as the worst to fight in but you may have convinced me.
Ryder Hill
For My Legionaries by Corneliu Codreanu is the only book you need for inspiration desu.
James Turner
why the fuck is everyone moving around so much? are they all just aping for the camera?
Adrian Howard
Most of Sun Tzu's art of war is useless in the modern era. Also your not a general leading an army, you are trying to discipline yourself to eat chicken and brocolli while going to the gym a few hours a week. Literally the most larp book that I see people brag about reading constantly.
Jordan Allen
this
Isaiah Bell
Vietnam had the big disadvantage of shunning of veterans in America, during WW1 men were mocked on the streets for not being enlisted.
Vietnam had the similar on edge feel during expeditions, but at least the troops were secure in knowing they had far superior technology and they got to shoot enemies that were way different from themselves (instead of ethnic brothers shooting each other).
Also, important to look at mortality rates. Ex:America was in WW1 for 1.5 years and it had double the dead vs Vietnam war during the 20 years USA soldiers were involved there.
Connor Morales
Old cameras used less frames so everything looks sped up
Nathaniel Watson
>Sun Tzu
Blake Williams
I'm unironically reading classic tales of heroes, brotherhood, and loyalty. Chinese literature is literally the best /fitlit/.
Joseph Nelson
Getting ready for the TW game?
Henry Moore
Getting ready to honor my ancestors. I am quite excited for the game though. I'm a Manchurian, so my region wasn't nearly as represented until later.
Jonathan Jackson
Read Peter Hart the great war next
Most areas on the western front were static by mid fall 1914. This lead to these areas being constantly bombarded by artillery. The earth was very loose and filled with craters due to being constantly turned over creating mud swamps when it rained. Now add in all the bodies that were buried in the battlefield. Humans and horse parts ere strewn all across no man's land, cooking all day in the sun. Imagine the smell.
Poison gas was another problem, which would leave a poisonous film in the flooded craters and trenches.
Soldiers on the front had to shit on the front
Levi Gonzalez
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Development as Freedom
One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
dl 1rm 180kg
Carter Flores
Nice. Similar to how I read "With Fire & Sword" and then ended up playing the Mount&Blade expansion about it
Jordan Jenkins
Some recommendations I like:
>inb4 people who want to feel smart on the internet shit on them
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Revolt Against The Modern World by Julius Evola
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson (not really /fitlit/ in the sense most people would look for, but it presents some interesting ideas about motivation and the story you give your life)
Kayden Anderson
Go read the communist manifesto so you'll have the urge to train harder to protect the world from reds
Benjamin Butler
miss the last year aprils fool man
Lincoln Reed
>Call it common sense
>"can't apply this to my life"
You stupid or something?
Justin Rogers
6'4" 180 lbs. 24.
Have (1) 50 lb dumbell, (1)15 lb db, (1) oly barbell w/ 180 lbs in plates, 1 wrist roller.
+ Indicates a superset. All final sets are AMRAP,except for the plyo. Shooting for 5 minutes rest or less between supersets
A. 2 X 10 Explosive Squats w/ 50 lbs
3 x 8 DB OHP w/ 50lbs + 3 x 12 SL Cross-body DB Deadlifts.
3 x 10 Pullups + 3 X 6 Hanging Leg Raises
2x Wrist rolls w/ 55 lbs.
B. (Warm -up wrists) 2 x 10 Clapping Push-ups
3 x 8 BB Rows (from floor) w/ 205 lbs + 3 x 8 Archer Push-ups
3 x 6 Chin-ups + 3 x 6 HLRs
3 x 15 Lateral Raises + 2x Wrist rolls w/ 55 lbs.
ON Fridays:
3 x 12 BB Deadlifts w/ 205 lbs) + 3 x 12 Shrugs
Neck Bridges.
Currently reading: General Patton: A Soldier's Life by Stanley P. Hirshon and Dayal Patterson's Black Metal: Evolution of a Cult.
Landon Powell
I just finished Book of Five Rings, just started Aurelius's Meditations. After that I'm probably gonna reread Beowulf or maybe Tacitus's Germania. Anything else I should read, bros?
Thomas Moore
fucking this
then go read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
thats a fucking horror story
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John Ortiz
12 rules for life, unironically. Just like meditations its alot of things you might already had thought about, but delves deeper and makes you understand your own values better.
Mason Sanders
John Cook
Not him, but I read it and I felt like sometimes Peterson beat the point to the death (order vs. chaos for example). I had to force myself through some parts. I think it would be a better book if it was 2x shorter.
Justin Scott
Is this actually worth even reading if I just want to fuck sloots?
Logan Cox
More doggo ww1 vids,or any war doggo vids.
I know you have more.
Parker Garcia
I get that. Some chapters just dont do much for you, but the ones that speaks to you are great i think.
Jackson Powell
Art of War, Clausewitz's On War, Enchiridion.
Lincoln Taylor
>This is the first book i read in years, how'd i do?
I hope you are 15 year old, else you never gonna make it, brainlet.
Jonathan Stewart
>48 laws of power
Written by a larping fag who never had any power.
Henry Turner
>>I read Common Fucking Sense: The Book
You mean JP rules for life???
Camden Wright
Congrats on your college freshman year. It gets worse before it gets better, assuming you govfotva teal degree and not a cop out like communications or businrss.
*Does not apply to Harvard where just the connections alone set you you for life assuming you are not a complete retard.
For everyone else, it's just a memoir by a rich guy you would be silly to try to copy.
Lincoln Fisher
>Listen to my advice my people never conquered shit with their military.
Alexander the Great conquered more lands that were very relevant to world antiquity than chinks ever did, avoid that book.
Joshua Ortiz
>first book i read in years
>how'd i do
Not very well.
Jacob Walker
Cunt looks like hitler.
Cameron Cruz
>implying modern times are any different than time “before” it.
Truly the most retarded of us believe this to be true.
Cameron Diaz
Have you read "Now it can be told"?
Its similar but from the British side.
Brody Butler
Has the human psyche changed? No
Have the weapons and thus the tactics needed to utilize them effectively, changed? Yes
2500 years ago, the phalanx was one of the strongest military formations. In modern times, it would be pure suicide to attempt to use the phalanx vs modern arms.
Samuel Cox
A random walk down wall street
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Juan Price
About to finish this big boy soon, I wish I had a life as exciting as based Chateaubriand
200 kg deadlift for the 1rm
Benjamin Perez
>forgot pic
Evan Sullivan
Halfway through this, so far it's been great. These past few months I read a lot of Austrian economists and goddamn I don't understand why they don't teach this shit in school
Parker Morales
Started reading pic related 2 days ago.
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