/lit/ - Literature

>>17951970
What video does he say this?

>>17951970
He's very well read but also quite obviously pretty nutty. Not saying he's wrong opn this one though

>>17951981
Birth of Tragedy series

>>17951970
Watch the video about his metaphysical views. He believs in spirits, afterlife and mediums. He even sais it has scientific evidence.
That's why for him atheism is dead wrong.

>>17951970
>>17952011
This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4eS1aR1FkI&t=278s

>>17952011
That’s retarded though.

>>17952022
kooky crazy, not gonna watch it, metaphysics is a spook

>>17952033
>>17952030
I'm just explaining why he is not an atheist.
He is still a great guy, even though this video is straight up schizo tier.

>>17952022
>Tons of smart men believed in spirituality.....like James Joyce
Is he right about him? I though James Joyce was an atheist.

>>17951970
He's a smart guy with some fringe beliefs that make fedora tippers seeth.

>>17952055
Sorry, no idea

Ebert is great. Very aggro with his fanbase but knows shit undoubtedly.

>>17951970
His Pynchon series is great.

>>17952030
Sure if you ignore the mountains of evidence from parapsychology and believe dogmatically in physicalism

>>17952107
>Parapsychology research almost never appears in mainstream science journals.[9] Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.[10][11]

>>17952107
>mountains of evidence from parapsychology
kek

>we've exhausted all modes of being because I can order ethopian takeout at any time of day
why are *m*r*c*ns like this?

>>17951970
He's an anthroposophist. spiritual movement started by Rudolf Steiner. But Steiner's first book is his epistemology where he basically says reality is a fabrication of the mind. Seems more likely that all this spiritualism nonsense is exactly that.

>>17952145
>the only thing that exists is what my banking overlords say exists
kek, do americanos truthfully?

>>17952107
show evidence please
not shitty studies, but the real thing

fucking retard

>>17952149
Th existence of something requires proof. Proof does not have to be physical evidence. Knowledge can be reached through inference, as Ebert says in the above video, but that inference has to survive Ockham's razor. Which the existence of some paranormal world of spirits and souls does not.

>>17952166
>occam's razor
>muh proof
feels like I'm in 2015 /lit/ all over again

>>17952107
>parapsychology

>>17951970
Nick Land aint lookin so good.

>>17952166
>Ockham's razor
I'm not your enemy, but I think you are wrong.
Now one is really using Ockham's razor right now as an argument, because it's hard to tell what exactly is [more complex explanation]

>>17952145
>anthropo-sophist
KEK

>>17952117
It doesn’t appear in mainstream journals because they don’t want it to you deboonker

>>17952224
That's not...a very convincing argument

>>17952160
I don’t believe in parapsychology but don’t you realize how stupid it is to demand natural “evidence” for the supernatural?

>>17952224
>it doesn’t appear in mainstream scientific journals because it isn’t supported by science
ftfy

>>17952231
>mountains of evidence

>believe something for no reason
WOOOOW I'm so wise

>>17952294
only believing things you have le proof for is midwit behavior

Ebert is a literal genius yet a complete retard. It's quite the combination, don't mention Mary.

>>17952321
>don't mention Mary
I missed the show. Was she his wife? Or a girlfriend? Such a pitty she became an hero. They would have been a great pair.

>>17952285
I realize what he said. I’m just saying your demands are also dumb.

>>17952385
What's the reality status of an object, If it has no natural evidence?

>>17952330
His ex gf. After she an heroed herself he read through her diaries and found out she was the biggest sl00t you could ever conceivably imagine and he had a full mental breakdown about it online

relentlessly tweeting about her and posting photos of her pu**y etc.

thankfully he seems like he got over it now

>>17952466
Holy shit.
I hope she apologizes to him during his next astral medium session, lol.
Thanks.

I didn't know she an heroed herself, just remember the cringe "Art of Mary" phase
Has he communicated with her spirit yet?

>>17952313
based knight of faith

>>17952294
that's literally all religious people, though

>>17952313
>only believing things you have le proof for is midwit behavior
I agree that only midwits need evidence to believe in philosophies/ideologies but an inherently scientific claim like parapsychology does need some empirical grounding to it

>>17952385
lmao
Okay, I'm going to be real with you. I didn't actually expect evidence.
I asked for evidence to make a point of him being retarded. Not because I was ready to open my 3rd eye and let in the chakaras.

>>17952313
okay~ notice how I didn't use the E-word, I said "no reason", not "without evidence" or "whiteout proof"
fucking retard
but the next line usually goes something like this: Read Kant or Hegel, how can anything be real if you can't trust your senses?! Praise Jesus Christ the Son of God(the Protestant one), amen

>>17952633
why are you mad though?

>>17952757
explain how being mad makes me wrong?

>>17952117
There really are people who uncritically accept as axiomatically true any statement which has numbers in brackets after it.

>>17953912
Are you claiming psychic powers are real?

>>17953222
stop filtering reality through your fallible limited sense-perceptions mad faggot

>>17954089
Well they are, fucking useless piece of shitty human garbage faggot, and explain how being mad makes me wrong.

>>17951970
Why does anyone pay any attention to him? The man is a retard.

>>17954089
No, that's not what I said. If you can't tell what the point of my post is than there is no need to waste time with each other. Having read this response, you are either bewildered (being an NPC) and thus intellectually incapable of meaningful discussion, or disappointed that you weren't able to drag me into the useless conversation you were trying to start. Either way, our discussion is finished.

>>17955085
can you show them to me?