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no Bible?
Re AoW : just wanted to add that it should be taken into context. As people mentioned it is from around -500 BC. And if I am not mistaken it is the first book in China that mentioned the idea of going war to win the war at all costs, as war was done in set of codes of honour and rituals, etc.
That being said, if you compare the AoW with Greek texts of the exact same period, it literally makes the AoW seem like an essay from a 14 year old.
no way have you read ‘ancient’ greek texts and the greatest literary piece of work ever -‘Art of War’. You aint fooling nobody cuz…
LOL, the Greeks? Don’t get me started on those dummies.
They were sort of blunt one-dimensional logic guys, but with lots of flaws in their logic.
Actually I have.
I don’t read philosophy, if that’s what you are referring to.
Greek history I find gives an interesting perspective on recent history and politics.
For example it is jaw-dropping how many parallels there are between the cold-war in the post-WWII context and the Peloponesian war in the post-Persian wars context.
There are so many lessons in politics to be learned of the rise and fall of Athens and the surrounding context.
Ah okay, that’s true.
There are parallels from all periods of history to current day events, simply because people are people.
Perhaps but no nation even approached Greece at around 5 B.C. And if they did, we don’t know about it because they didn’t leave much in writing.
Also, your statement is a bit too simplistic for my taste. The context makes it fascinating. Sparta vs Athens, oligarchy vs democracy, isolationism vs hegemony, control of the land vs control of the sea, Persia’s role, the role of economics, military strategy, etc.
I doubt that anything approaching these things came out of the Celts or germanic tribes of the time, which were mostly savages.
No written records exist therefore savages. That’s a big simplification itself no?
Greece was quite obviously ahead of it’s time, there’s no doubt about that. What they have done of note since would be a more interesting discussion IMO.
It would decidedly not be as interesting, lol
I don’t have anything to offer WRT ancient Greek literature or French poetry or what not.
But the one personal finance book that I have read cover to cover multiple times was “Rich Dad Poor Dad”.
The first time I read it, I thought it was garbage. But I was still young and didn’t know much about anything.
A few years later, after a little experience in the industry, I read it again to see if my mind had changed. It hadn’t.
After a few more years (including a master’s degree, a CPA certificate, a CFA program, and being in a CPA firm), I read it again to see if my mind had changed. It hadn’t.
After reading it three times, I can honestly say that I can’t recall one single good piece of advice in that book. Not one. If I may borrow from John T. Reed, there is some illegal advice, some wrong advice, a little dangerous advice, and a whole lot of bad advice, but virtually no good advice.
I may read it again, just to see if there’s one small gem in the entire 300 pages that I missed.
^ Is that author a scam? I heard he is part of some pyramid scheme, therefore I have no interest in reading his book.
^Depends on who you ask.
He was part of the Quixstar/Amway garbage once upon a time. He also went bankrupt three times before launching “Rich Dad Industries” (or whatever it’s called). AFAIK, there’s absolutely no evidence whatsoever of him being successful at anything. That is, until he started writing books about how to be successful.
No thanks I’ll stick with their ancient stuff 