/lit/ - Literature

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

my momma always sed that if i waz a gud boy and ate my vegetabuls i cud grow up to be as smart as this man.
but gee i still aint as smart as he is and i still look up to him as a modul for intelektuall

>looking up to a pretentious (c)rapper with anger issues

Go to bed, OP.

>looking up to anyone
>not being the person to whom many other people look up
Ensure that this does not happen in the year 2011.

>>2147731
do you even see how comical it is to call someone pretentious? also what do you know about anger?

>>2147746
So you look up to people that are looked up to? way to be a sheep bro

>>2147754
my momma always sed to me jim dont be angry with me cuz im ur momma only bad men get angry and i dun wan you ta grow up a bad man like your dear ol pa. an i listen to her cuz she was my ma and from then on i new that bein angry was a bad thing and i think you culd learn a lot from what my momma said

>>2147731
>(c)rapper

sick burn m8

I really enjoy Immortal Technique. Rap is not really my thing, but he has excellent lyrics. He's clearly well read and smart, and a humanitarian.

Don't know about looking up to intellectually though.

>>2147754
>2011
>saging your own thread
ISHYetc.

>>2147777
I do not look up to anyone. My apologies for the greentext ambiguity.

>>2147805
not thinking you look up to anyone just means you're unaware of what you do look up to. thus less in control and more blind. I suggest you really meditate on this.

>>2147797
Seems I could afford is huh with lovely posters such as yourself

Timothy Leary, Robert A.Wilson, Grant Morrison

>ctrl+f "deep"
>0 results found
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I'M IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, I'M OBNOXIOUS

no but seriously immortal technique is a joke. no one takes this guy seriously or thinks he's good except 13 year old white kids

OP is obviously trolling

>>2147812
>you're unaware of what you do look up to
Your interpretation is incorrect. I am sorry that my posts are unclear.

teenagers gonna teenage.

>>2147812
>thus less in control and more blind. I suggest you really meditate on this.

who the fuck invited this indian guru ass nigga to the party

fuck off lol

Guy's stop bullying OP. So he like's a tasteless rapper? Who are we to say he can't do that? It would be silly, like trying to explain to a Nickleback fan that their favorite band is hated by everyone with the slightest bit of taste; they just wouldn't understand. They don't think on that level. They just live their pleb lives and don't give one care about if they like bad music made and marketed to stupid people. You might even say they live a purer existence. They are unburdened by any intellectual issues concerning the culture they choose to consume.

Harlan Ellison
Bill Hicks
Frank Zappa
Voltaire
Nick Cave
David Foster Wallace


...yup.

Noam Chomsky
Descartes
Baudrillard
Scott Bakker
.
.
Oh yeah, and Kanye West. Rap is not really my thing, but he has excellent lyrics. He's clearly well read and smart, and a humanitarian.

Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins
Romeo Dallaire

Richard Dawkins, the most important philosopher of our time.

>>2147794
>I raped this boys mum with him
>I dance with the devil
>then I killed the bitch and watched her son kill himself
HUMANITARIAN MUCH?

Romeo Dallaire (for standing up for what he believes in)

Noam Chomsky
Richard Dawkins (both of whom not for their politics, but for their adherence to the scientific and logical method)

RZA.

He knows a lot of things!

Richard Feynman.
Christopher Hitchens.
Noam Chomsky.
Carl Sagan.
Bertrand Russell.

I like Immortal Technique. I like the idea of having intellectuals to look up to. But looking up to Immortal Technique as an intellectual? Why not Cornel West instead?

>>2148249
>>2148249

No serious student of philosophy would ever make such a ludicrous observation. Dawkins is a scientist who fancies himself a philosopher. He has NO formal training in the field. He's a great evolutionary biologist, no one questions that, I personally think The Selfish Gene put forth some fascinating ideas. But everyone please stop naming him a great philosopher. He has contributed nothing to the field. All he does is reiterate the arguments of the great atheists of years gone by. If one compares Dawkins to Wittgenstein, Heidegger, or even a man like Allan Bloom, one notices how pitiful Dawkin's understanding of philosophy really is.

>>2148285

He did a lot of quasi-filosofy tho, e.g. memetics. Prety cool idea. He also did a fine job at pointing out varius problems with beleeving stuf for no reeson (i.e. faith).

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I like:
Pyrrho (seudo-name, not a famous filosofer)
Norman Swartz
Richard Dawkins
Aubrey de Grey

Like a second father.

>>2148250
Please, please, please tell me you're not being serious.