/lit/ - Literature

>>3916567
>intellectual*
Sorry.

squats and oats

>>3916567
Read?

Though you will never appear intellectual if you try to force it.

>>3916581
Read what?

>>3916567
Uh... think about stuff.

>>3916567

What kind of intellectual you wish to be? In what particular field? What talents and interests do you have? What is your goal in life?

/lit/ needs more sås.

step one: purchase fedora

>>3916582
>What kind of intellectual you wish to be?
I don't know.
In what particular field?
I like cinema (well, arts in general), history and a bit of politics.
>What talents and interests do you have?
Talents?None that I know about... Interests? Already said.
>What is your goal in life?
I would like to make movies.

>>3916586
step two: make atheism your favorite subject

>>3916594
Trying to be something you're not only makes you pretentious.
If you can't make deep films, don't make deep films because it will be terrible. Make trashy urban fantasy movies and work your way up.

Also, I'm pretty sure you have to have inherent talent to be intellectual in the way I'm assuming you want to be. It's just something you see, but I don't doubt you can learn it.

>>3916586
>step one: purchase fedora
Check

>>3916595
>step two: make atheism your favourite subject
Check

What's next?

>>3916594

O.k., so first step is to watch a lot of documentaries and read a lot of books on film theory. Needless to say, the natural progression would be to apply to film school. If you cannot afford it or you're too old for that, try www coursera org

Next step, and this is serious, try to pick a very, very obscure and exotic filmmaker who few know about and read the shit out of his life and works, and then become the authority in that particular filmmaker, so you can publish in journals or film magazines and there would be nobody who could refute you, because you've be THE knowledgeable one in that filmmaker. That will become your niche, and your path towards being considered an intellectual.

Make sure that when you write or speak about that obscure, marginal, and unknown filmmaker, you draw all kind of outlandish parallels between his or her work and exotic theories and fields, and search for really complicated references with other fields of knowledge or theories like behavioral economics, gender theory, psychoanalysis, and the like.

You're welcome.

>>3916604
>periodic table of irrational nonsense
10/10 would bang.

>>3916604
step three: grow any form of a beard, it's important to let it grow wildly.

>>3916604
Become tangentially interested in science. You don't actually have to know anything in particular, just that as an institution it exists and you like what it does. Try liking the God Delusion or The Origin of the Species on Facebook.

>>3916616
>Origin of the Species
It's not 'of THE species', It's just 'of species'. Why does everyone do this?

>>3916604

Jesus, who the hell is that girl? She's like a much-improved Taylor Swift.

>>3916608
Thanks bro.

>>3916610
I'm drinking from a mug with a periodic table on it that has a very similar colour scheme to that right now. It feels good. Thanks for making me feel good anon.

>>3916628
It is Taylor Swift.

>>3916625
See, that was good! That kind of nit-picky pretension is exactly what you need to give the brim of your fedora that extra boost.

>>3916636

My pleasure, anon. Good luck in your journey.

>>3916645
Maybe if you tried reading the books you namedrop for belittling, you wouldn't have this problem.

>>3916610

og god so much edgy ateism

so out-of-body experiences are nonsense, right? how can an experience be nonsense, if it was experienced? saying this from experience.

>>3916666
I experienced fucking your ass in my dream last night. Are you saying I really fucked your ass?

>>3916656
That's a perfect closer, now just work on your doff and the impending retreat into the sunset and you'll be ready for the internet.

>>3916610
>Periodic table of irrational nonsense
It's much better as a venn diagram.

>>3916685
>Not believing in acupuncture
Lame.

>>3916696
>>>/x/

>>3916673
Dreams and religious drama are famously structured in a similar manner, so it probably tells a deep inner truth about you, yeah.

>>3916699
SO LAME

>>3916586

>>3916699
>not believing in the power of placebo
double lame