/lit/ - Literature

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>>8364027
>Smartest
I'd be willing to believe one of those mathematicians-turned-philosophers like Wittgenstein or Descartes had the highest IQ. You tend to find a lot of them have some vague tendencies towards believing in something like a God. Liebniz, Spinoza, Wittgenstein and Descartes for instance.

The greatest philosopher is Epicurus however, as he is the one of recognised that happiness is the undeniable and absolute Good in the world - and that all it takes is to look inside yourself to see it.

My sister cries every time she thinks about Dad. Then I tighten her choker.

>>7287624
Hila, if that is you, plz identify yourself.

>tfw I bought a Dunnie

Quite random, but there is a Philosophy prof. (who I believe is a Wittgenstein scholar), who got kicked out of Colorado St. for some comments he made once in a class, all this to say: I stumbled upon his blog this summer, called "Apophenia." Not a bad little thought space.

Turns out this prof., Dan Kaufman, is Jewish, and he's written some very intriguing posts about how if we understand the Jewish interpreatation of parts of the OT, then Christianity simply isn't necessary.

Give it a look, made me stop and think for a bit.

daniel-kaufman-rpur._______squarespace.______com/blog/2015/7/16/_________some-brief-thoughts-on-judaism-and-christianity

>>7232777
>Is it possible to understand _________

I don't know, is it?

Must a man suffer before he can write great works in any field?

>>7158042
It's almost as if that's a technique used to reflect the masturbatory nature of society; taken to the extreme one finds that it is no longer maintainable and we find ourselves unable to experience any meaningful stimuli...but hey, that wouldn't fun or exciting or entertaining. Be Mio!

>>6917349
By "power" I mean the feeling you get from looking into the eyes of a serial killer or something. For me, Black in Deep Red gives me the creepy-crawling feeling of looking into Wittgenstein's eyes.

always wanted to read Wittgenstein but figured i'd be completely clueless.

Is this video accurate, is this essentially what he was about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ33gAyhg2c

Last Penguin Freud Reader

Now The Castle by Kafka

Next I read a bunch of books at a time so I'll finish next either Nietzsche by Kaufman or the Portable Jung (trying to get an overview of psychology).

was he autistic?

>>5964750
ya