/lit/ - Literature

>>10795905
>Jordan Peterson is the next in a line of people developing a thorough understanding of human psychology

>>10793474
"Philosophy" as we know it is a distinctly Grecocentric phenomenon and so it will disappear from the world stage together with the culture that produced it.

Let's get straight to the fucking heart of the matter here. How do we come across as high IQ to other people with preferably minimal effort? What steps can somebody immediately take to seem high IQ? And it has to be time efficient. Of course you could spend 1000 hours learning Latin and Ancient Greek but nobody here will do that. I have a few ideas.

High IQ brilliant types never ever talk about hard work or any of that. You work hard but only in secret. You downplay all hard work and pretend you do things last minute and without preparation.

A through knowledge of the Greeks and Romans, maybe only about 20 books are necessary to know more than almost anyone.

Never ever be the first to comment or bring up the topic of current events. Pretend you don't know what Game of thrones is or what Slytherin is, and so on. If politics is brought up, try to maintain a haughty and amused demeanour if mainstream topics or parties are talked about and a slightly more interested but still neutral tone if non mainstream stuff is talked about.

>when my day was quite good and I have lots of free time now and in the near future but there is still something fundamentally missing from life
>London is currently a frosty hellscape
>currently drinking coffee in central London after going to the Victoria and Albert museum which stays open late on Fridays

>>10765509
and the idiocy has now morphed into complete brainletism. pic related.

Why is it that University of Oxford considers philosophy to be so worthless as an undergraduate degree they only offer it as paired up with other stuff?

Why do Philosophy, Politics, and Economics graduates come across as so fucking vacuous when they did Philosophy?

How can you take your non Oxbridge humanities degree seriously when they have tutorials with world class people in small groups and 2 essays a week while other UK universities make you do 4 essays a term and with impersonal tutorials?

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>>10680652
i can tell you haven't thought about the topic enough.

>>10641154
>I'm arguing that you can learn the same material, more effectively, simply by reading.

>>10626661
yeah, but 4chan is a lot better right?

>>10625825
not sure why you're mocking that guy. It's not hard to understand. Reading more allows you to pick up the nuances of the written word, expands your vocabulary, and exercises conceptualization over time.

Writing allows you to put the former items into practice using your own voice.

>>10624168
>I'm 21 and "sorted out"
Yeah, def reads like a 21-year-old that has "life figured out."

>Religion was created with the purpose of teaching civilizations and tribes about effective, honorable and productive ways of living your live

It was created to explain the unknown.

>>10616207

>>10603983
But I don't know how. I hate starving.

>>10584229
For the love of it and because it has something to offer. You can get a job with an English major--much more easily if you are thinking about where you want to be once you're out of school; learning a side skill while you're in school makes it much easier.

You don't need to take up a vocational degree in order to land a decent job.

Don't be an anti-intellectual retard. We already have enough of those in the world.

>>10583268
Yes, usually along the lines of "YOU wrote this??"

I get the feeling people think im a dumbass because I'm slightly socially weird and I don't articulate myself well while speaking.

>presently

>communism

>>10327547
>implying Western culture is good

>>10324707
>Humans are bound by biological impulses
You know that niggers aren't the only species in the homo genus, right?

>Hume didn't believe in morality

>>10240501
>This is what brainlet materialists actually believe

>>10235193
>all philosophers are skeptics

>>10222380
>all of ethics is really utilitarian!
>yeah, utilitarianism is just the most rational moral theory
>wait, youre a deontologist? why do you want less happiness and more pain??
>haha this guy Kant thinks we shouldn't lie to murderers, what an idiot amirite?
>why yes, I do have both my kidneys. Why are you asking?