/lit/ - Literature

they got books on physics and math in there too, fag

>>1104884
Not the ones you need have an equivalent education in those majors.

>>1104886
>Thinks you only need to read Wordsworth Classics to fulfill a course in the humanities.
>Is also anti-intellectual

>>1104886

sure, those will cost you $200. each. and you probably won't use them.

>>1104895
>implying that there is something intellectual about humanities.
It's just common knowledge, nothing more.

>>1104905
>Is so debased as to forget that music and law (for instance) falls under the category of "humanities".

>>1104905
you are extraordinarily ignorant. enjoy life.

>>1104911
Not debased just all common knowledge.

>>1104881
humanities 2deep4u?!

>>1104912
>you are extraordinary mentally handicapped, enjoy your trisomy 21.

>>1104916

>>1104914

Your reply doesn't make any sense. You'd better visit a library.

>>1104924
>Learn to figure out typos
Not debased, just all common knowledge.

>>1104905
I'd like to know how you classify "common knowledge". If it's based on how accessible said knowledge is, then you've got a point since intricate scientific knowledge isn't readily accessible outside of universities.

However, if you're basing it on what is generally assumed as "common knowledge" (general facts and trivia that most of us have gained through the internet, television and primary/secondary education) then I have to disagree.

>>1104926

Hilarious I guess (?).

>>1104921
Image macro fight?!

>>1104930
Welcome to /lit/

A FAIR MAJORITY OF /LIT/TARDS AREN'T EVEN STUDYING A HUMANITARIAN MAJOR

>>1104934
You are retarded for NOT realizing that this is NOT directed at them!

>>1104935
>>SOMEONE HASN'T READ THE TEXT IN OP'S PICTURE.

>>1104936
>SOMEONE HASN'T READ THE TEXT IN OP'S PICTURE.
It says "Everything Humanities", you must have to have some serious cognitive disabilities to miss that.

History major here, and I prefer the University Library, to be honest. Our public library doesn't carry the same range of specialist literature for historical study. It carries enough for a basic understanding of much of history, but when you really want to get into the nitty-gritty details of a period/event/culture, then you really do need some very specific historical literature that you'll usually only find in a well-stocked University Library.

>>1104939
THE /SCI/FAGS HERE ARE SAYING THAT TO MAKE THE USERS OF /LIT/ FEEL LIKE SHIT.

I AM SAYING THAT THEY'RE RETARDED, BECAUSE A MAJORITY OF USERS HERE DON'T STUDY A HUMANITARIAN MAJOR.

SO, NO, I DON'T.

>>1104941
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I'd be interested to survey /lit/ to find out the most common University major.

>>1104941

>>1104945
As long as there are artsyfags there will be butthurt!

>>1104948
i never got the whole competition thingy. everyone does what s/he likes and thats cool. only insecure people need to make up some kind of hierarchy

>>1104946
HOW IS THAT EVEN BUTTHURT?

THE WHOLE HUMANITARIAN THING GOES RIGHT PAST ME, I MAJOR IN ACCOUNTING

did anyone save a copy of the epic epic /sci/ vs /lit/ thread from the other day?

i couldn't find it in the archives

>>1104955
Just know /lit/ got pwned.

>>1104956

oh i know, it was seven kinds of glorious

i just wanted to save it as a reminder, maybe frame it and hang it over my fireplace

science is really cool and stuff but literature and expressive arts in general (books, movies, music) is also fun. fat nerds throwing a hissy fit about which one is best like there is even a proper comparison possible are not fun *thumbs down*

>Looks at OP pic
Surely no one will...
>23 posts and 4 image replies omitted. Click Reply to view.
God damn it /lit/. God damn it.

>>1104958
Here's a card as reminder of our glorious victory. Use it well, brother in arms!

/sci/fags are so cool, their books are hard to find and some of them make more money.

>>1104960
I win again.

>>1104963

oh u mad cuz we stylin on u?

History fag here, don't mind me just reading my Historical Source documents and smoking a pipe

>>1104973
at the public library.

>>1104974
Nah, last time I checked Library's didn't carry historical documents. I mean I need to wear white gloves and shit. Archival Science ftw.

i'm a biology major going into pre-med, but i have a handful of signet classics lying around in my dorm somewhere

so technically it's like i'm double majoring amirite?

>>1104973
>>1104981
>reading historical documents
>claims to be smoking a pipe

>>1104971
oh u mad cuz art, music and literature make life worth living, whereas science and math do not?

>>1104984
Agreed.

*continues browsing 4chan on a computer*

>>1104984

>shouts at the top of his lungs that his subjective value judgment on how we should enjoy life is better than mine

hey sci/

get back to me when anything thought up this century actually helped anyone

>>1104985
It's true man, got my M.A. in Public History just doing some early morning work for the US Forest Service at Ft.Vancouver in Washington. The pay isn't the greatest (40kish) but I get too read documents and shoot the breeze about 19th Century America all day.

>>1104987
>Berate poster for shouting at the top of their lungs
>Invade other 4chan board and spam it to prove the superiority of science

>>1104992
There was that bone marrow transplant in 2007 that cured a man of HIV. And that's just one example . You must be really busy reading ancient bullshit philosophies and doing book reports to be this out of the loop when it comes to human progress.

>>1104996
/sci/>/lit/

>>1104992
>Answers opposing op are obviously him samefagging for easy strawmen
>Claim victory over something nobody but you cares about in the first place
Yeah, have fun there; good thing this little 4chan firefox extension made by Science allows for a thread to be hidden forever in a click.

>>1104982

If you have Grant's Personal Memoirs around, you can add military strategy and supply-chain management to your accreditations.

ITT: /sci/ pretends that it isn't a Liberal Art

>>1105005

if science is a liberal arts program what ISN'T a liberal arts program?

gotta draw the line somewhere c/lit/s

>>1105009
everythign is art. stay stuck in your paradigm doing meaningless stuff for nobody. we're the thinkers here. you're the numb slaves of society's wave washing into nothing but fake truths. suck my cock faggots

>>1105005
Typical artsy /lit/iot doesn't know squat.

>>1105016
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses and/or emotions.
Sure doesn't sound like everything to me.

>>1105016

Trolling from /sci/. Pretty obvious.

>implying degrees mean shit when the Chinese will conquor the western world and put us all to work as serfs in twenty years

>>1105020
art doesn't have to be an active process. art is what we say it is when we find value or beauty in things and therefor everythign can be art.

>>1105017
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts
The contemporary liberal arts comprise studying literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.

/sci/ fags are just bitter that for all their much vaunted degrees they are just as unemployable as the rest of us.

>>1105022

awww. art sounds nice

>>1105016

enjoy mocking your betters over the internet using a computer created by science

>>1105022
Nature doesn't give two shits about your art, it's a made-up concept. Art is nothing but a petty attempt to emulate the beauty that nature already has.

I really don't understand this thread. To say that all knowledge contained within a humanities major is available at a public library is obviously wrong, so why are we sitting here being trolled into oblivion by a child that is either so starved of attention he feels he needs to deliberately annoy people on the internet or so insecure he can't fathom for a second that anyone would want to study in a different faculty?

Scientific literature being harder to access is hardly indicative of its worth to society. The truth is scientific research (among many other things, such as economics) gives us the standard of living we enjoy today, as well as the means through which we can study not only more science, but also literature/history/philosophy/political science, etc. Scientific research should not be discounted, but concurrently neither should humanities.

>>1105036
lol at the implication of an objective observation of art. ofcourse art is a made up concept just like everythign else we perceive (science as well) but the fact its a human interpretation of the world around us doesn't mean it can't have value. the human interpretation of the world is art and is what makes art beautiful

>>1105036

Nature-worshipping fascist/faggot.

>>1105037
because /sci/ fags like to just throwaway those pesky things like Philosophy or Historical research, it's just juvenile freshman dick waving over there college major. by the time they hit there junior or senior year they'll snap out of it.

/sci/ doesn't understand that every single research and discovery done in the history of time was a subject to the cultural/social/geographical and economical at that moment and therefor it can be placed in the same box as literature and art in general

>>1105053
*context after economical, sorry guys, im sorry

yeah, well you daisy sniffing art major faggots play nice over there in the corner while the rest of us grown ups put our bitch kicking boots back on and get to work on bringing home the bacon for all of humanity

>>1105047

shut up hippie, the adults are talking

>>1105065
>Trolling an internet board
>"adults"
Rofl, good one kid, now piss off home.

>>1105057
the bacon that is causing our supply of antibiotics to run out fast all the while creating immune superdiseases that can whipe out humankind in one swipe thanks to globalisation. good job science!

>>1105057
The importance of Medical Science cannot be denied. However, I have a small request from all of humanity: Science, we love you, we really do; we love our internet, our television, our modern medicines and our cars, but please.. please.. stop making new ways for us to kill each other.

Where are all the /lit/ Tripfags?

I know we have some masters lurking around /lit/. I'm thinking DeepandEdgy could single handedly outfag all these /sci/ trolls. Fucking tripfags, never around when you need them for the one thing they're good at.