/lit/ - Literature

>>3763972
pls leave /lit/

We're Insomniacs, there is no where you can go to escape from us, Eurofags.

>>3763977

Isn't it too late for you to be awake, mouth breather?

Delayed sleep phase disorder American night owl reporting in to fuck up your shit.

>>3763979

Indeed. I am betting on you being tired though.

>>3763981
I bet you're this moron >>3762019

listen buddy, you post on 4chan

now dwell on that

>>3763979
how do you stay awake with such awful coffee?

>>3763989

Go to sleep, Timmy. Adults are talking.

>>3763991

Americunts import it from Colombia, which is god tier coffee.

They also import coke, meth and weed. Hell, now that I think of it, all their addictive substances are imported.

how do you think I manage to read so much? (When I'm not on the internet of course), Insomnia

I love how there is not one response to OP's ACTUAL question.
Just
>Amerifags rage

>>3763998
>>>/pol/ pls go

>>3763998
Everything is fair game for philosophers even 9 to 5 stuff

>>3763994
>tobacco

Any sort of insults stemming from nationalism will be redirected to /pol/

thx

>>3764009
Bullshit.

Name one.

>>3764006
Not every nation has killed for the land it now lives on.

>>3764010
israel

>>3764010
Greenland

>>3764013
Viking killed eskimos to settle it. And each other.

>>3764016
Also seeing as Greenland is more of a land mass and not really a country, I call bullshit again.

>>3764010
the native americans

huehuehuehuehuehue

>>3764018
>No centralized government
>Raided and warred on neighbors for resources and territory.
>Clovis and Asiatic peoples fought for territory.

Nope.

>>3764021
Just tell yourself that, americunt. How many died for the city you live in now? Do you even know what they were called?

Can some of you, trailer park dwellers, watch the fucking video instead of being your usual fags?

Even if OP is mildly trolling, the vid and the discussion are worthwhile.

>>3764028
Yeah, main city is named for them.

They just moved north. Didn't even go to war over it. Signed a treaty, looked at all the stupid white people moving in, laughed and moved north.

Also I'm half indian.

>>3764031
Half-breed traitor, why didn't you fight?

>>3763991
Nigger I take an eca stack.

>Drinking coffee
>Anno Domini MMXIII

Pick one

Fuckers. Watch the fucking video.

>>3764035
Government gives me free money. Free schooling. Tribe was never aggressive due to weather being biggest enemy. Large majority of state is still uninhabited.

Fight? What for?

>>3764048

Eskimo?

>>3763972

They will wake up soon, have their Doritos breakfast washed down with a Big Gulp, and start roaming this maze like an obese, chest-bumping Minotaur sporting a mullet.

Your thread is interesting but in the wrong place. This is /lit/, the bastard child of /pol/ and /b/

>>3763972

OP shot himself in the foot with his inflammatory idiocy in his first post.

There are generally two rules when making a new thread: 1) Don't post an image more interesting than post content, 2) Don't start with an inflammatory post that could be very easily subverted and derail the thread instantly.

>>3763972

Alain de Botton is a joke. He basically writes self-help books.

>>3764210

An intelligent response, finally.

That is what I fear, too, that he is not a philosopher properly but a producer of washed down self-help stuff.

>>3764260

Here, have an article to help confirm that suspicion.

http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?type=&id=1657&fulltext=1&media=#article-text

I enjoyed his 6 episodes series on philosophy to help live a better life. It's on Youtube, check it out.

>>3764197
what a shitty advice
you don't know shit about trollin', son

>>3764283

>>3764036
> Still using Anno Domini
> Nato Republicae CCXI

Still not 2^(1/2)edgy4 /lit/

>>3764012

bullshit they had to kill the canaanites

>>3764036

>2013
>paying for placebo effect

>>3763972
>What do you make out of this talk by Alain de Botton?
Not much actually. He barely even scraped the surface of problems; for example his criticism of meritocracy is naive and harmful, for the only downsides of meritocracy for him are the random factors like "something falling on your head". He doesn't even mention social background as a factor. His advice to embrace our own ideas of success is such hypocritical bullshit. This speech is bad. This is certainly not philosophy. And yes, philosophy has everything to do with everyday matters. OP, if you are interested, I suggest you read Umberto Galimberti's The myths of our time (I'm not sure that's the correct translation, but it's something along those lines). His philosophy is thorough, piercing yet therapeutic.

>>3764349

OP here.

I appreciate the recommendation. I will search for Galimberti right now.

>>3764349
>>3764379
lol wtf are you pansy faggots even talking about?

Who here saw storage wars last night? Fucking great episode man, great episode.

>>3764417

Ever since Dave left SW is not fun anymore. Only Barry can lift the show again.

>>3764430

Ultraman is the ultimate man.

Nightshift, insomniac beaner reporting

>>3764747

It's fucking noon in Mexico.

>>3764775
I thought this would happen... "nightshift beaner" as in "a beaner who works night shifts but is an insomniac. therefore, is awake right now"

>>3764786

What do you do for a living? Care after Alain de Botton's garden?

>>3764788
who does gardens at night? are you kidding me?

>>3764792

http://www.smashinglists.com/10-lovely-flowers-which-bloom-only-at-night/

>>3764820
as the title says, those are flowers that bloom at night. doesn't mean you do the gardening at night, smartass

>>3764831

I imagine that a successful man like Alain can afford paying a couple of Mexicans to look after his night-blooming flowers.

Anyhoo, what do you do for a living, then?

>>3764844
In short, teaching adults who for one reason or another could not finish their degree earlier in their lives and want to do so in their adulthood. I worked for a company before that, but it a more frustrating that satisfying for someone of my character, I guess. What about you?

>>3764856

At night? I thought night classes for adults where on the late afternoon. Anyway, it's very cool what you do.

I am actually a beaner as well, but I work on the other side of the world. Sweden, to be precise. A boring, dull, bespectacled bookkeeper.

>>3764866
>A boring, dull, bespectacled bookkeeper.
I sometimes dream of being one. Don't know if I would find it boring once there but I would like to try. How did you get that job?

>>3764866
>I thought night classes for adults where on the late afternoon
There are two shifts were I work one that stretches from afternoon to night and one with lesser hours (for those that hold a work that demands more hours) that is just during nights.

>>3764882
>>There are two shifts

That sounds tough, both for you and for them.

>>How did you get that job?
There is an incredible shortage of bookkeepers in Europe, at least, and managing well in IFRS makes you surprisingly craved by employers all over the world.

If you would like to give it a try, check the ACCA website. It is worth to get certified.

>>3764909
>check the ACCA website
I really appreciate this. I will. Nice talking to you

>>3764922

Likewise, hermano.

>>3763972
I think Alain is a likable sort. You should watch his video about Socrates.

>>3764940

I just did and I actually liked it. It is TV so I agree with the easy going approach used, well tailored for media.

And, indeed, he's likable. I'd not mind having a coffee with him.