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/lit/ what can I read to discover masculinity

>> No.17495202

>>17495188
What a horribly drawn face. It's like the side-angle of a face drawn front-on.

>> No.17495208

just do body weight exercises all day every day. reading can't make you not a pussy.

>> No.17495213
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>>17495188
Picrel is all you need, senpai.

>> No.17495222

>>17495208
why this instead of weightlifting a bit everyday?

>> No.17495234

>>17495188
Read biographies of great men

>> No.17495240

>>17495208
OP here, I got on the /fitlit/ train around three months ago. Finally starting to see some muscle definition, I feel great.

You're right but exercise is practice and I need a book to study as well. The philosopher kingdom awaits.

>> No.17495245

>>17495222
because i assume op is poor or he can't convince mom to let him have a weight set.

>> No.17495294

Read Last Exit to Brooklyn - taught me everything I needed to know about masculinity

>> No.17495334

>>17495188
>epic of gilgamesh
>iliad
>odyssey
>beowulf
>biography of some famous figures from your country e.g. the founding fathers if you're american
>biography of your favorite roman emperor
>biography of any famous european statesman
best of luck anon

>> No.17495351

>>17495188
Unironically, you shouldn't read about masculine men, because then you'll just be insecurely attempting to imitate someone else. You should read books about spineless losers and cone to your own conclusion about what they're doing wrong.

>> No.17495353

start with the greeks

>> No.17495456

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace Into the Sea by Mishima

>> No.17495474

>>17495208
Wrong. The Quran can get people to the point of killing and dieing for their beliefs. >>17495234
Yeah good answer.

Read the old testament as well.
Building muscle is pointless against a knife or gun and a sliver tongue can get you just as far as muscle. Dont listen to fitards

>> No.17495486

>>17495474
I'll caveat (fuck english) that by saying don't be a unhealthy person either though. The body is just a vessel or vehicle.

>> No.17495494

>>17495188
>The Iliad
>The Odyssey
>The Aeneid
>Plutarch's Lives
>Notes From Underground (to know what not to emulate)

>> No.17495522

Start lifting and read Nietzsche.

Start with Genealogy of Morals, its probably his most concise and brainlet friendly work

>> No.17495586

>>17495188
>read
>masculinity

Pick one, OP

>> No.17495758

>>17495188
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover
The Way of Men
Masculinity Amidst Madness
Sun and Steal
Nietzche
Bronze Age Mindset
Things Fall Apart

Also, if art inspires you, read a good history book more or less based on the Great Men theory of history like Barzun's From Dawn to Decadence. Read war diaries and biographies, too.

>> No.17495768

>>17495758
>Sun and Steal
I obv meant Steel, sorry anon for phoneposting

>> No.17495777

The key is semen retention and preserving your essence, your T, your force and vitality only for when you are actually sleeping with a woman. If you must ejaculate, make it a spare reward that is paced out and not a habit. Only jerk off if you get something constructive accomplished beforehand or are maintaining contact with women and leading a life of action. Otherwise, retain your semen and channel that force into your self actualization, channel it into life. Make life your canvas and use the retained virility to paint it. Masturbation saps force and sex drive. Men who fuck are much stronger than those who do not.

>> No.17495785

>>17495522
this is true

>> No.17495801

>>17495777
Trips of truth.

>> No.17495812

>>17495188
https://librivox.org/the-lives-of-the-ancient-philosophers-by-francois-fenelon/
https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-greece-by-john-h-haaren-and-ab-poland/
https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-rome-by-john-h-haaren-and-a-b-poland/
https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-the-middle-ages-by-john-h-haaren-and-a-b-poland/
https://librivox.org/famous-men-of-modern-times-by-john-h-haaren-and-ab-poland/

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>>17495188
Unironically this.

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17495846

>>inb4crystalmeth

>> No.17495944

>>17495188
Notes from the Underground.

>> No.17496000

iron john by robert bly
you're welcome

>> No.17496003

Is Testosterone Replacement Therapy Right for You? by WebMD

>> No.17496011

>>17495188
Fantômas

>> No.17497238

The Iliad is foundational western masculinity?

>> No.17497385

>>17495768
>Sun and Steal
By Bronze Nigger

>> No.17497433

>>17495188
Fuck your masculinity, read The Bible.

>> No.17497554

>>17495294
I hear this book is fucked up

>> No.17497654

>>17497554
It is. I read it once and never need to again sort of deal. Kinda drags on during the fourth story “Strike” but the ending of that part of the book still sticks in my head.

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17497665

>>17495188

>> No.17498396

>>17495351
this, see yourself in losers, realize how pathetic they/you are, then change that behavior

>> No.17498412
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>>17495351
There's something to this, you should learn to embrace and utilize hatred and disgust. They're not "bad" emotions when they lead to good.

>> No.17498431

>>17495777
Cum on a canvas, got it

>> No.17498458

>>17495777
Holy semenized trips don't lie

>> No.17498935

>>17495188
You should try to erase masculine aspects of your personality. Ego-driven competition and the pursuit of social dominance are the source of most of human suffering.

>> No.17498949

>>17498935
t. kike

>> No.17498979

>>17498949
t. ape-brained grug

>> No.17498988
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17498988

>>17498979

>> No.17498999

Proverbs

>> No.17499109

>>17497665
This, but unironically

>> No.17499344

>>17495188
Sun and Steel

>> No.17499624
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17499624

>reading to be masculine

laughable, however, here's something that might help

>> No.17499695

>>17495351
Felt this after reading Underground Man desu

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17501223

This is now thread for men.

Post shit some man shit that men like.

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17501232

Booba

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>> No.17501670

>>17495188
Michel Leiris - Manhood

>> No.17501675

>>17495188
lol just have sex incel

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17501701

>>17495188
Read some real sea shit

>> No.17501706

>>17501701
sopa de macaco, una delicia

>> No.17501867

>>17495351
first of all, this

second of all, the old man and the sea. great story about what it is like to achieve satisfaction in one's own life: the manliest of all manly traits

>> No.17502747

Can someone give me some recommendations on books to read about weak men?

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17502807

>>17495777
ma nigga

>> No.17502814

>>17495188
reading is for fags
go hit the gym

>> No.17502841
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17502841

>>17502814
Why not both?

>> No.17502959

>>17499624
>How To Grow Titties and Have a Fat Ass

>> No.17503900

>>17495351
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

>> No.17503945

/fit/ homos make me want to kill myself

>> No.17503991

>>17495777
Consider when you masturbate, on the most literal level, you are turning your life essence into waste unless you came in a woman or unless you ate your own cum (but not in a depraved way, and if its not depraved you just wouldn't cum in the first place). If you didn't want to waste the semen after M-O you might make compost out of it, but this would force you to turn masturbation into a non-sedentary activity. You would have to cum directly into a compost bin, or pile, and somehow have this action be both sexual (cum) and not sexual (making compost) You can't, and it is discordant and weird. All other methods create waste or show that you don't completely value yourself. Your semen goes down the drain, or into the landfill, or into a sock or something like its just this worthless expense. And, if you don't value yourself, you don't have any energy to really value others. And if others all do the same, they don't really value you. And when they make porn, they are making something that exploits everyone involved, and lowers them all.

>> No.17504016

>>17503945
Feel free to go ahead and do it anytime, faggot.

>> No.17504057

>>17495202
what?