/lit/ - Literature

>reading a book just because the author is a specific gender/race/ethnicity/orientation

Read something good instead

>>15623251
>getting filtered by the Existentialist

>>14574699
>>14575967
>>14576870

>>14025077
>a board of philosophers and thinkers

>>13856906
Sure believe as you choose

>>13799288
OOOOH FUCK

>>13780468
>4, 6 and 8
pfff, Impressive

>>13718917

>>12947108

>expects eng lit to be challenging and or insightful when it's a dead-end career for idiots

>>12452666
>/pol/ calling others newfags

>>12407125
I have no difficulty believing it.

>>12221385
What? Why would women be scared that men might kill them? Obviously wymyns are exactly as strong as men! Same upper body strenght, same build, same everything, as the recently influx of FIERCE MtF ladies in women sports demonstrated!!!

>>11706551
This shouldve been /thread but apparently angry koreans keep throwing replies.

>>11562554
> dancing spurdo demiurgs

>>11555464
>time to celebrate by fucking the MP's wife

>oops, meant to say have my wife fucked by other men time and time again

>>11555514
Pic related.

>>11552441
Weininger is that you

>>11548812
Best pasta

>>11546251

>>11280021
>intellectuals

Stoicism is literally "Cuck!: The Philosophy"

Living a simple life is poor people cope

/lit/ I have to say, some of the remarks I come across here really get me going! Never Change!

I was laughing at the bullshit spouted here where philosophaggots claimed that they had anything to contribute.

Forget about consciousness for a second and think back to 2000 years ago when astronomy was within the purview of philosophy (of course it still is, because physics is part of philosophy, but I mean philosophy as defined by academic departments). What did philosophers add? What did philosophers in 18 AD figure out about planets that hadn't been seen, like Neptune? Nothing. Hegel (of course living hundreds of years late) claimed to analytically prove that no more planets could be found, a week before another was. Philosophers simply had observations, from the observers and their unfalsifiable conjectures, which were worthless.

Now back to consciousness. Promoting their personal brand of unfalsifiable conjectures is all that philosophers have. They aren't going to suddenly figure out physical (or non-physical) processes from their armchairs. They simply wallow within the unfalsifiable.

Now back to astronomy. Where are all the philosophers in the field now? Why aren't they making grand conjectures about dark matter? The answer is that they'd look ridiculous. Not only do they wallow in their unfalsifiable conjectures, they can only do so in "mystical looking" or "unintuitive" fields. Otherwise they would look fucking ridiculous and their funding and book deals would dry up. They run from fields that are colonised by anyone who uses maths at a greater than high school level.

Now imagine some scientific miracle breakthrough occurs and scientists find the consciousness organ, as unlikely as that sounds. And they can do wacky stuff like switch the consciousness of someone on and off, or reprogram it, or anything. What will happen? All the previous false conjectures (i.e., all of them) of philosophers will be dismissed (as they should) and they'll take the new experimental data and widely accepted science in to account... and then spawn a whole new field of unfalsifiable conjectures judged solely on fashion.

I was laughing at the bullshit spouted in that consciousness topic, where philosophaggots claimed that they had anything to contribute.

Forget about consciousness for a second and think back to 2000 years ago when astronomy was within the purview of philosophy (of course it still is, because physics is part of philosophy, but I mean philosophy as defined by academic departments). What did philosophers add? What did philosophers in 18 AD figure out about planets that hadn't been seen, like Neptune? Nothing. Hegel (of course living hundreds of years late) claimed to analytically prove that no more planets could be found, a week before another was. Philosophers simply had observations, from the observers and their unfalsifiable conjectures, which were worthless.

Now back to consciousness. Promoting their personal brand of unfalsifiable conjectures is all that philosophers have. They aren't going to suddenly figure out physical (or non-physical) processes from their armchairs. They simply wallow within the unfalsifiable.

Now back to astronomy. Where are all the philosophers in the field now? Why aren't they making grand conjectures about dark matter? The answer is that they'd look ridiculous. Not only do they wallow in their unfalsifiable conjectures, they can only do so in "mystical looking" or "unintuitive" fields. Otherwise they would look fucking ridiculous and their funding and book deals would dry up. They run from fields that are colonised by anyone who uses maths at a greater than high school level.

Now imagine some scientific miracle breakthrough occurs and scientists find the consciousness organ, as unlikely as that sounds. And they can do wacky stuff like switch the consciousness of someone on and off, or reprogram it, or anything. What will happen? All the previous false conjectures (i.e., all of them) of philosophers will be dismissed (as they should) and they'll take the new experimental data and widely accepted science in to account... and then spawn a whole new field of unfalsifiable conjectures judged solely on fashion.