/lit/ - Literature

>>11708294
I wouldn't trust anyone on what is the best philosophy-book for you to get into stuff like that.
It also hasn't really much to do with being a brainlet or not, it's just a question of willpower.
Do you want to use your time reading through a lot of longwinded books? And do you want to use your time after a readingsession to see if you have truely understood what you read?

If you say yes, it's best to just start with something that interests you.

Me personally, I got started looking into more serious philosophy through my love for movies.
The two movies made by Zizek are a great jumping off point if you like movies.
Same as this YT-channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9infsKo33_2LUoiqXGgQWg

See, what I have found when I tried to interest my social circle in philosophy, is, that you need to excite them.
Because half of the fun of philosophy, is, to apply what you learned by trying to look through that lense onto your mundane life.

Just look through the more known philosophers and start reading those that catch your eye. You'll find that after you finished those, you'll have a thirst for more.

Have a good time and drop your insecurity. We're all brainlets here anyway

>>11141264

In laymans terms, I'd say he means this:

Materialism means that you derive your life's value from the material things that exist in your possesion.
But for you to asses if you have surrounded yourself with enough material things, you would need to stand outside of this material existence or believesystem.
Since for you to have a satisfication due to materialism, you need to be both, the one who accumulates and the one who assesses, you can't find satisfaction within this vicious circle.

The result is a neverending repetition of accumulation->failure to feel whole/satisfied->accumulation.

Think of it as a painter who wants to make stilllife-picture with himself at the center. But the same painter has no memory and can only asses the things infront of him/his eyes.
The moment he feels like the stillife has a good composition, he leaves the frame and goes to paint it. But now there is a huge gap in between all those items arranged that would be filled by him.
So he goes ahead to put more/other things into the ensamble.
And repeats the same at nauseum.
Never achieveing his "masterpiece"

At least that's my interpretation of what he means.

>>9594615
top chart

You might say the book is a little...loopy!

I'm trying to write a journal (mainly just to improve my writing, i dont want it to be dull and boring) but sometimes im not sure how to express my thoughts into words. I want it to be 'blogable' something interesting / enjoying to read for others. Any tips or idea?

here is an example of what i just wrote (ignore the spelling / punctuation mistakes, it was just a rough draft to try and get everything down before i forgot my train of thoughts). Also some sentences may not be complete but i wasnt sure on how to transition my thought from one to the next so its almost as if its a list

havent sleept in 40hrs, finished the final i was most worried about. its a great feeling to finish something you studied so mch for. i realized im really bad at time managment when i get stressed out on school work. i put everything aside and just ignore it all until finals are out of the way... because of that i actually used the google tasks and filled it up quicklu... really bad habit. well at least now its over i can catch up on some sleep and start working on the tasks list tomorrow. staying up for this long feels funny to