/fitlit/

roadside picnic is overrated

Becoming a Some Supple Leopard got mentioned on LTT The WAN Show, lotta nerds going to be making it soon.

Halfway through
>jack reacher # 1
Almost done with
>A guide to the good life
its a must if you seriously want to get into stoicism

Post shelves

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heres the bookshelf in my room
have another one downstairs filled to the brim with young adult novels though lel

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Neat. How do you rate Rights of Man? I might grab a copy if you think it's worth a read.

/lit/ is filled with legitimate communists and effeminate boys. Not a place for anyone here

havent read it :^)
I prefer novels so I haven't got round to it yet

Want to reread Plato. Got Dubliners, War & Peace and The Idiot for Christmas though so it's on the backburner.

read all of Chesterton's stuff and I'm like halfway wanting to turn into a tradcatholic, that guy can write

>90kg squat
>60kg bench
>40kg ohp
>90kg deadlift lul
@65kg

i'm an absolute shitter but i can't workout for more than a few weeks without something going wrong, sick atm so no lifting again. i'm reading anna karenina but i'll probably leave it for when i have free time. kissed a girl a week ago but i won't be seeing her for months so the gf dream is as good as dead too.

i reread notes from underground too, made me feel bad because the guy is literally me

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>effeminate boys
>not a place for anyone here

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The intentional dumbing down of America, I'm up to the 1950s.

All good books
Tolstoy is so comfy

That's hot, user.

120 squat
70 ohp
150 diddy
110 bench
My bench and squat confuse the fuck out of me.
Anyway, been getting into genre fiction a lot more recently. Just about done with Watt's Rifters. Also finished Malazan recently and been thinking of picking up The Second Apocalypse.

>getting mad over meditations
Not gonna make it

With those stats you can easily up your deadlift to something like 120. Try it.

>110 bench
Jesus fuck

Talking about kg here. Forgot to add before.

ohp 110lbs
bench 160lbs
squat 200lbs
diddle 260lbs
Currently reading Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Feeling good man. We're all gonna make it.

>two chapters into the Paleo Manifesto
>getting really close to 1/2/3/4
>got a gf the last week of finals last semester

A-am I gonna make it?

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Goggins is a sad, broken person

Currently reading "The Fourth Political Theory" by Alexander Dugin.

I'm not a "Duginist" but find it interesting nonetheless.

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YOU CAN'T HURT BOAT CREW TWO

I've been reading Neuromancer

fuck I love cyberpunk

[spoiler]I also have a weakness for the 40k Horus Heresy series[/spoiler]

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He was a horrible seal who would train himself so hard that he was useless or absent during missions and he had no leadership skills

I admire his commitment to fitness but I hope the dude finds peace one day

>Plato
>entry level
lmao

Literally philosophy 101

Plato is where philosophy babbies start but its by no means entry-level. You need to re-read Plato after reading each of his contemporaries.

Just finishing up Job now, with only 4 more books left before I finish the Old Testament completely.

Body and mind cover only 2 of the 3 domains of experience. Don't neglect your soul.

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Squat 120kg
DL 140kg
Bench 70kg

Currently reading some of DFW’s essays, as well as some Wyndham Lewis. Also reading Bloom’s The Western Canon just for improving my general knowledge.

What I want to discuss: I fucked my hot co-worker before Christmas but haven’t had to see her in work since mid-December. Reflecting on it I think I actually like her a lot more than I originally thought I did and want to make her my gf, should I?

>can't buy a scholarly bible translation for less than $100
Religious teachers don't want people to be educated

Have you tried the New Oxford Annotated Bible? I've been using the 4th edition and just bought a used one for a friend a couple days ago for about $30 off Amazon. I think new copies of the 5th edition are about the same price too.

My lifts are shit, but I've finally started a proper PPL routine after doing a 5day bro split on and off and getting shit all done. Feeling much better about it and making progress.
I'm reading Walden. Thought it was appropriate since I'm moving off into the woods with my gf this spring and am building a cabin on my 5 acres of land. Gotta get strong so I can lift lumber

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PhD in/professor of mathematics here. Behold the Jow Forumssci/lit/ master race.

Here are a few of my books.

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>151 lbs
>squat: 5x285
>ohp: 5x105
>bench: 5x165
>rows: 5x145
>deadlift: 5x315
Currently reading the Bible (2 Samuel) and the Odyssey

Just bought gravity rainbow and infinite jest. Which do I read first for max gains?

Will cop when I have fewer books in the backlog

Neither, both are memes. Could probably use them as makeshift weights for DYEL-tier gains though.

>trying to gf a girl who confirmed fucks around
Lele

On third read through of Silmarillion. Figured I'd try to pick up elvish if only because I've never been able to make a language "click" in my head that wasn't English and I have an intense hatred for just about all other ro antic countries

Just learn German you sperg. English isn't a Romance language, what the fuck are you even on about?

Everyone fucks around, user

>English isn’t a Romance language

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Yeah, but if it was that easy for a loser like you to get in her pants, imagine how easy she is for everyone else.
Have some standards man.

I'm just fucking with you user go get some ass.

It's literally not. It's not etymologically derived from Latin. It's predominantly Germanic with only Latin influences. Read a book.
For someone obsessed with Tolkien you'd think you'd know a bit more about the history of language.

Journal articles on the Oresteia and seven against Thebes. Reading a book on Aeschylus and another on Greeks in Egypt during the archaic period.

Also the republic is shit. Get Xenophon. Plato was a cunt.

Plato was a filthy fucking Communist, read Aristotle's Politics and Ethics to have a hearty chuckle at Collectivist fags

You’re making the assumption that a language can only either be Germanic or Romantic. You’ve admitted yourself that English has Latin influences. It’s not a stretch to say that you can class it as either Romantic or Germanic. There is no firm answer to the question.

kek, will get some ass, thanks user

Former citizens of the Roman Republic did not form the English language, it has no etymological history in common with Roman until 1066 via the Normans. English isn't Romance.

Hadn't heard of A Guide to the Good Life before. Is it still worth it if I've already read Meditations, Enchiridion, and Seneca's Letters? I like stoicism but it seems that most reading on it is just a lot of the same thoughts written over and over again.

Take the Pythagorean pill and contemplate the beautiful perfections of mathematics until you come to understand true Determinism.

evolvetowin.com/books/100-books-men-should-read/

If I’m not mistaken, the cut-off point for when the etymological nature of a language is decided isn’t 1066. English has changed monumentally since 1066. Not entirely sure why you feel that a whole millennia of change to the language can be disregarded for no apparent reason beyond your own vague definitions and opinions.

>english has changed over the past millennia
>latin has been a dead language for the past millennia
>surely this dead language has influenced the core of the English language
Hurrrrrrrr
Durrrrrrrr

If the nignogs in subsaharan Africa speak a bit of French that they picked up by cross-contact during French colonialism, does that make their language Romance?

>the Odyssey
You better have read the Illead first, nigger.

I'm not lifting pages, but I am listening to "The Story of Civilization" on audiobook. Currently half way through volume 3.

Counterpoint: Odyssey is best read before the Illiad as an introduction to the ideal state of a Greek Hero in isolation, so that the various Heroes of the Illiad can be better understood in their context.

Also the Odyssey is boring as shit compared to the Illiad and if you read the Illiad first you'll spend most of your time with the Odyssey waiting for Odysseus to Get in the Fucking Boat.

Deadlift 100kg
Squat 90kg
Bench 75kg
OHP 40kg

Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men raises the eternal question of whether tard strength is considered /fraud/ or natty

If there’s sufficient representation of it in their language, I’d say you could make an argument for it, yeah

Congratulations, you've entered the deepest pits of the Dunning-Kruger valley.

In other words, you’re a dumb prescriptivist with no argument

If you dont consider yourself a beginner in stoicism i guess not. its a meant as a practical straightforward guide for modern stoicism. Meditations was just too scattered for me to get anything from it. A guide to the good life is a explanation of the underlying concepts.

>prescriptivist
Oh look the relativist brainlet is trying to use big words to make up for his lack of basic education! Keep playing make-believe with your Elves and Gnomes, sweety.

Meditations is literally just a day journal, why would you read that and expect a foundation for Stoicism? Read Epictetus, the Enchiridion and Discourses (notes gathered by Arrian, one of his students and an accomplished biographer).

kek, still no argument beyond ‘hurrr language can’t be that way because I DONT LIKE IT!’

Per side or total including bar?

Reading pic related right now, it's just a collection of Podcasts on recent developments in biology and their ethical implications.
It's interesting and boring at the same time

Also
Deadlift 90kg
Squat 100kg
Bench 85kg
OHP 60kg

Of course I forget the fucking pic

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>words mean whatever I want them to mean
>entire languages mean whatever I want them to mean
This is your brain on relativism

My original argument was that it’s not clear cut whether English is a Romantic or Germanic language, a view held by most linguists in the world today. You’re just too retarded to understand that not every question has a binary answer.

>, a view held by most linguists in the world today.
[Citation needed]

Yeah, it’s much more likely that everyone agrees with you and your backwards view that language is fixed and can’t change beyond its original roots. The entire linguistic world is prescriptivist now, get with the times, old man.

>reading philosophy

what the actual fuck

Gonna need that source bud.

Look at this actual pleb not reading philosophy

>Malazan
That series killed my mother and raped my mother.

I usually do one book and one audiobook at a time, one of them fiction and the other non-fiction. Right now I'm reading The Revolt of the Angels and listening to Richard Feynman's autobiography. They're both really good, but Feynman has a chapter about when he was a PUA for like a week and it was cringy as fuck.

Kino, which are your favorites?

philosophers dont know how to write
they will be eternally btfo by poets, novelists and dramatists

I’ll get back to you when I finish my academic survey asking ‘is user retarded?’

5'10" 150lb

150lb Bench
200lb squat
130lb OHP
275lb Dead
All One Rep Max

I got a copy of Kitchen Confidential for Christmas that I'm halfway through right now. After that I'll probably continue to read a biography on John A. McDonald

>not matching your physical gains with gains of virtue

lmao philosophy is literally rebbit: the hobby.
its a way too pass time for people with no actual interests

How about you read literally anything in pre-Shakespearian english you sperg?

I heard from some Russians Dugin is considered a joke in Russia and is mostly directed for outsiders. a sort of propaganda device. Thoughts?
I tried giving HH a read but it was complete shovelware, how can you stomach it?
Currently reading some LISP books (Brave Clojure and SICP)
Also stats I guess
>squat: 130kg
>dead: 140kg
>ohp: 62.5 kg
>bench: 105 kg
>power clean: 62.5 kg

Squat 330 lbs
DL 425 lbs
Bench 265 lbs
Reading something i forgot the name of. Something something reaper? Just something mindless to enjoy. Had to take a break from serious stuff

you should be reading novels, tales and poetry bro