/lit/ - Literature

New computer, this is the only pic that comes close.

>>4615917
tao's handwritting might be even more horrible than mine

>>4615907

this one

>>4616037
wtf

>>4616064

what nonsense.

>>4616092
>facts are nonsense
are you a Marxist?

This information could save your life.

>>4616119
are you retarded?

>>4615873

>>4616140
4004 weeks in a lifetime seems plenty. Zoom in on the pic and things look less bleak; time less short.

>>4616064
>164+ IQ = Genius
>Mozart
>1 in 30,000

By my calculation there's 200,000 Mozarts on the Earth today.

Why even bother /lit/?

>>4616064
>tfw your i.q. is only 125+ and most on /lit/ are Mozarts.

>>4616064
>bobby fisher

1/2

>>4616212
2/2

But if you're the kind of person that needs a fancy pep talk every time to get motivated to create you might be in the wrong line of work

This thread is so depressing. More so than others.

>>4616119
>facts
I don't recall Mozard ever doing an IQ test.

>100 IQ
>average score for most people
>70% of the population
The most used standardized test has a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 15. Taking that into account, 29% of the world population have an IQ between 95-105.

>>4616177
fucking Gene Wolfe

>>4616433
is that approval 'fucking' or 'author just lost his integrity for me' type of 'fucking'?

>>4616064

>Mozart
>Has picture of Beethoven

>>4616519
Hah hah, I can't believe I didn't notice that myself.

>>4616539
Maybe it's because you have sub-Mozart IQ

>>4616064
kek
to be 143+ you have to have glasses
Only elves can be 158+

>>4616519
>Could Mozart be alive???

>>4616212
>>4616215
It... it's like he's speaking directly to me.

Thanks, Anon.

>>4616064
> Average college graduate has an IQ of 121
yhh right

>>4616659
I.. is this /n/???!

>>4615900
>dolf ziggler boner.gif

my sides

>>4616519
>come to brazil

>>4616140
would it be totally autistic to colour this in as the weeks pass? probability suggest I'll need to add more after 77.

>>4616696
no, but i think it would run counter to the author's wishes

>>4616699
>author
>>4616696
Only if you colour it so that it is a penis.

>>4616712
the only thing worse than being pedantic is being pedantic and wrong.
from wiktionary (yeah, wiktionary):
"The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition."

>>4616659

Unrelated: that gif goes perfectly with the beat of Amanda by Michael Mayer.

>>4615873

>>4616758
But what if my dick wont fit?

>>4616064
I read in a New Yorker magazine profile of Pynchon that he has an IQ of 190.

>>4616751

you're such a fucking tool

>>4616796

>>4615917
soon we'll all be living in the imagination, just our heads, wired to imagination computers, where we will never have to experience the primitive physical world again.

>>4616785
then just cum into it

>>4616796
does it show in his books?

what was joyce's iq?

>>4616064
You don't NEED a huge IQ to be successful. JD Salinger had an iq "far from that of genius."

>>4616838
einstein's iq was only like 145

>>4616842
I wouls still consider that a huge IQ...

I think Salinger had like 104

>>4616846
of course it's huge but not huge like 190. and einstein is the baddest motherfucker of them all.

>>4616850
Yes. He was creative, that's what counts.

>>4616842
Feynman's is said to have only been 125.

>>4616850
reddit-tier posting. numbers are infinite, 190 isn't big at all.

>>4616850
If Einstein was so great, then why did 12 year old child prodigy Jacob Barnett find and correct errors in his general relativity theory?

>>4616842
>>4616855

the linguistic portions probably brought them down

>>4616866
Verbal intelligence is more fundamental and usually perceived as easier than spatial or logical reasoning. Feynman's problem was his autism. Outside of physics he was pretty much an idiot.

>>4616863
because einstein wasn't raised in the same way, viz., quite as horrifically

>>4616863
I just watched this Tedx talk and now i'm fucking furious.

>>4616863
If Jacob Barnett is so great, why didn't he conceptually revolutionize physics?

>>4616863
What's the deal with this little wiener? Is he going to build me a better starship or what? Is it a fake thing that got internet attention? Is he actually a real savant, let alone a super super interesting one that will travel through time to kill Einstein and make the USSR develop gravity tanks?

>>4616945
>Is he going to build me a better starship or what
>implying you already have a starship
anon can i pls come play in your starship? i'll be your best friend.

>>4616064
average for novel prize winners is like 130

>>4616119

if you know anything about 'facts' you'd know iq is nonsense.

>>4615908
Filipinos are living proof that the Chinese had sex with monkeys

>>4616994
This just made me laugh in the library and annoy everyone. Thanks, asshole.

>>4616863
inventing something>improving something

>>4616799
Why?

Jacob Barnett could have had potential. The thing with these young prodigies is that they are discovered at a young age, and then become "prodigies" and are given so much attention with the media and stuff that they don't grow up normally.

If you want to make a creative mind, give the child a normal upbringing so they can find their passions and be as well developed as possible. Einstein came from a patent office

>>4617029

You should teach developmental psychology or something, amazing for a neckbeard to have all that knowledge.

>>4616064
> mozart
guy in the pic is clearly Beethoven

Proof that Proust invented air guitar

>>4617075
is that his family?

>>4617075

Ladies dressed like such shit back then.

>>4617106
ur mom dresed like shit LOL #rekt

>>4617089
The only info I can find is that one of the girls (probably the one standing on the chair) is Jeanne Pouquet, the woman who inspired Gilberte in Search of Lost Time.

>>4616163

>most on /lit/ are Mozarts

HAHAHAHA

WHAT?

>>4617029
he'd hardly have a normal upbringing with autism. pretty sure Einstein didn't have autism.

>There are people in this thread who actually think "IQ scores" are an accurate representation of a person's intellectual ability.

It's like you're all undergrads.

>>4617139
jelly mid-range iq detected

>>4616842
Bob Dylan apparently has average IQ.

>>4616842
164 here and I'm dumb as fuck. It's a useless metric

>tfw poston /lit/ and have IQ of 105
On any other board this wouldn't be bad.

>>4616850
If the scores could be seperated into linguistic ability and mathematical type ability that'd probably be more useful, my IQ average is definitely skewed by the fact that I'm mostly useless at all the mathematics but am not likely to drop the verbal questions.

>>4617669
As opposed to newspapers and books.

>>4616121
i don't believe it

>>4617681

Would Le Shiggy Donatello lead you wrong?

>>4617709
would you a k-on?

>>4616863
at least he's not a jew

>>4616644
seriously, the average college graduate presently speaking is essentially the average middle-class citizen (although this is coming from an Australian)

>>4616064

Why does it switch from percentages to fractions at the end? Just to taunt the non-geniuses by forcing them to try and do the math?

>>4615917
>the big bong

>>4615873
>Keynes and Marx
>No Mises or Hayek

Get the fuck oudda hereeeeeeeee

>>4617075
>Air guitar
>Has object in hand
>air
>Guitar

Is this where were posting our autistic charts?

>>4618212
Well that wasn't quite right.

>>4616842
Well, IQ is more of an efficiency-scale, and generally pretty useless when it comes to measuring genius. There's something other than 'being able to make connections more easily and thinking a couples steps ahead' that you need to have to be one: All great discoveries lay beyond some kind of barrier that most people aren't aware of, and almost everyone else isn't willing or able to go or think beyond.

>>4616064

>implying Mozart took an IQ test
>implying 10% of the population has the same IQ as the average college graduate...

>>4616863
>Barnett was diagnosed at the age of 2 with autism and was educated and taught privately by his parents.[1

>>4615873
>Nietzsche
>Nihilism

Otherwise informative though.

>>4618083
>tarkovsky and ray below jodorowsky

>>4618373
>implying Nietzsche wasn't very influential regarding everything to do with nihilism

>>4616842
>einstein's iq was only like 145
Einstein never did a IQ test, how can you know what was his IQ?

>>4617709
well if George's on board, I guess I can't argue

>>4618598
that zany website that also claims he had ADHD and that we're all beautiful in our own unique way

>>4615917

Yo if you're one of those artists that doesn't pay much attention in school then you're probably not gonna do well on an IQ test because those are the kinds of problems that you practice at school

>>4617029
Regarding the "Einstein was a clerk in the patent office" fact fuckwits routinely bring up, you need to understand just what the title "clerk" meant in Switzerland at the time and just what sort of work Einstein actually did.

"Clerk" to the 21st Century, millennial, Ritalin Rangers on this board implies someone who does little more than feed the copy machine, make coffee, and hang around the water cooler. That title, however, wasn't always limited to the menial, time filling tasks you assume.

Einstein was a patent application clerk, specifically for electromagnetic technologies. He examined patent applications from a technical viewpoint to ascertain whether the patents were original or feasible. He was not some office drone working for Acounttemps and the title of "clerk" isn't an accurate description of his work anymore than the Wright Brothers being "bicycle mechanics" meant they were pimple-faced slackers working a Kmart.

>>4619778
God that's fucking horrible. It's like watching a 19 year old type up his first FYAD post, in person.

>>4616140
This might be the most depressing picture I have ever seen. Fuck someone for creating this. And fuck you for posting it.

>>4619785
OK, that was a biased assumption I made. I still believe too much media attention at a young age can be harmful though

>>4619786
Weird Twitter is seriously the worst incarnation of FYAD-lite to date.

>>4619791
>>4619795

What's so horrednous about it, honestly

>>4619778
""weird twitter"" is unfunny garbage give this shit a favstar trophy if you like it but don't shit up this board with this trash

>>4619778

>>4619803
Well in the first place it's just not a good joke, the punchline is just not clever.

But what really pushes it over the edge for me is that it's extremely derivative of the style all the best FYADs innovated (people like Haomo, Dinosaur Jerk, Wet Butt, dril, and so on) without any of the substance: the intelligence, the wit, the pointed satire, etc. it's just telling shit jokes in an affected style. GBS in lower case letters is still GBS.

>>4619803
Too many weeks, fuck living that long.

>>4619803
Our lives don't need that level of scrutiny. It's like seeing someone with their skin torn off and their muscles and shit showing. We know its there, we just don't need to see it.

>>4619819

>>4619822
sq and satin666 are the best fyad posters

>>4616696
You're gonna be pissed when you turn 78, bro.

>>4619919
yeah they're definitely top tier. I don't think sq has posted in a long while
http://i.imgur.com/pKm4L.gif

>>4618577
Nietzsche wasn't exactly a nihilist though. He was a moral nihilist, for that broad definition, but his philosophy went so much more than to just eschew societal objective norms, he sought to legitimize his norms by illegitimatizing the foundations of morality and how it was formed. He was beyond good and evil, but so is everything natural.

>>4616064

And here I am with my meager 99 IQ

>>4618577
here we go...

>>4620007
Still, he put nihilism on the map properly as a problem.

>>4617029
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkOlgJhXxY
He sounds like that one really nerd from the simpsons.

>>4615873
Sageru

>>4616751
You keep posting the same shit in other threads. Please stop

>inb4 wasn't me
Filename is the same.

>>4619803
Bacause you can get addicted to things more easily when you're a kid, and fame is a powerful drug. It does things to your brain if you let it go to your head.

>>4616064
>Amadeus W. Mozart
>Amadeus W.
>Amadeus as his first name
>picture of Beethoven

>>4615917
I don't know if I am retarded, but this follows no coherent flow. Its not easy to interpret.

>>4617041
who is this girl i feel like licking her nipples

>>4617669
>this photo was taken with a smartphone

>>4616064

>A woman with a PHD in Gender Studies is smarter than an Econ major with a Bachelors degree

>sensible_chuckle.gif

>>4616420
IQ tests have been skewed since their inception.

>>4616846
I have an iq of 145, don't mean shit

Daily reminder that pessimists should stop being pessimistic.

>>4618083
>jarmush twice
>kaurismaki above him
>greenaway way deeper than von Trier

This infographic sucks cocks

>>4616064
when i was 14 they measured my IQ through 8 hours of testing

said i tested 99th percentile for everything except spatial awareness and planning which were shit (my head is usually in the clouds)

I had an IQ of 158 but being that "smart" didn't stop me doing severely brain damaging drugs (dissociatives such as dxm, ketamine, mxe,which literally put holes in the brain)

While I thought being intelligent was meaningless, I now severely regret the path i've chosen.

I keep bumping my head on some invisible wall where i can't learn new things any more, which is in large part due to the NDMA toxicity I endured.

don't do drugs kids

>>4624336
But it makes me happier than optimism.

>>4624413
i-i thought dxm and ket didn't hurt

>>4615900
Why does he have a boner?

>>4616751
Fucking pretentious abstract bullshit. This is all fluff and no substance.

>>4616064
This image is misleading, there's no correlation between brain size and intelligence.

>>4624413
I suppose you're thinking of Olney's lesions, but the fact is, there's no conclusive evidence that dissociative drugs actually do that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney%27s_Lesions#Controversy

It's possible for MXE but unlikely for DXM and very unlikely for ketamine, unless you take high doses frequently and for a long time.

>>4624641
Ketamine is very safe at normal doses and frequencies of use, it's used in medicine for that reason. I'm guessing the guy you're replying to either mentioned it as part of a group of drugs which collectively damaged his brain but, whether he knows it or not, its own contribution was minimal if not non-existent; or else he took a lot of ketamine, very frequently for a long period of time. DXM may cause Olney's lesions when used intravenously (and possibly via other methods); it's controversial.

>>4624666
>i don't understand thing le emperor clothes

>>4616140
I had to scale it down to make it smaller than 3 MB.

>>4618121
Because 1/30,000 is 3.(3)x10^-5.

>>4624683
Next time save it as png, works better for this type of stuff.

>>4624689

Ah. Of course. Silly me. Now it makes perfect sense.

>>4616140
Shit this is depressing

>>4616064
>caring about IQ

shit lit, ive been a gone long time and forget how funny you can be compared to the fucks i know IRL, this is my favourite thread thanks

>>4624698
I know that, but it was larger (5.4 MB at the original size). I figure it's because the original was a JPEG and the lossy compression fucked it up.

>>4619814
It's easy to picture someone who has no value or taste in arts that actually puts time into making strange tweets, but it only shows your naivety to label it downright garbage. But then again defending "weird twitter" is pretty fucking lame in its self; i still love it though.

This is the most interesting "weird twitter" account i've seen: http://favstar.fm/users/utilitylimb

>>4616680
mysides/10

>>4616064
Great post. Cool to see dummie jimmies rustle.

>>4616064
>how_2_troll_leftist_forums.jpg

>>4616680
How I've waited for this.

>>4617669
These people would rather interact with their little group of texting friends and ignore the world than have to pay attention to their immediate surroundings. It's kind of sad really, but I get it.

>>4625330
What's so sad about it? It's a subway station.

>>4625357
Well, I just feel like these people should be interacting a little more, instead of just acting like mindless drones in their own little world

>>4625378
Why do you think that? And why do you think they're mindless? They're probably doing reading the news/doing important shit, not schmoozing with strangers they have nothing more than a commute in common with.

it's the most personally meaningful for me

>>4625408
Bitch should be burned at the stake.

>>4624671
i IV cough syrup every day and I'm just fine

>>4625408
hey I'm getting some holden caulfield feels right now looking at that picture man,i really am

>>4624790
case in point, ulimb is a former fyad poster. i agree, his points are great but this is exactly why he shouldn't be lumped in with the teenagers with anime avatars that make up "weird twitter"

>>4625408
>personally meaningful
are you like an older cousin to hannah and mary. Are they nice?

I don't know

>>4625728
no, I just love her more than anything

>>4618378

>implying anyone watches the film of Satyajit Ray

The only reason people watch Stalker is because of the videogame, no one else watches anything of his beyond that and Ivan's childhood.

>>4619819

Fucking McNulty.

>>4624336
At least when the dude at the bottom falls off his pile of books he wont badly injure himself. It's gotta be so windy up above the clouds, that pile would not be stable at all

>>4626059
/pol/ please go
>>>/pol/

>>4626093
>being this autistic

>>4626093
Looks like the joke flew over your head. And it wasn't very subtle.

>>4616033
That pic is stupid

>>4626142
>le machavel prince is satire

have troubel porking

>>4616064
When I was tested about 8 years ago my IQ was only 163, always coming short...=(

>>4616751
This is a misrepresentation of Buddhism. You should feel bad.

Buddhism rejects nihilism over and over and over and over.

>>4616842
Other estimates place his iq around 162.

>>4616863
Because Einstein wasn't privy to decades worth of technological advances, breakthroughs in physics, and large portions of data to utilize.

>>4617673
Yeah, most of these people would really read books or newspapers.

>being that naive.

>>4624413
Care to source the claim that MXE causes "holes in the brain". How much where you doing to supposedly cause this?

I had read a decent portion about MXE about 1.5 years ago and never saw anything whatsoever about such things.

>>4616064
>>4616842
I'll give the whole IQ thing a lot more credit once it stops being a field of psychology (aka soft science) and starts being a field of neuroscience.

CANT CONTRIBUTE, don't post. NOBODY GAF ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS. NOW...

>>4626267
Protip: IQ is not really science.

IQ is actually made up of a series of sub-scores. My IQ is "undefined" because on one sub-score I got a 149, but on another I got a fucking 79.

>>4626285
why.......

why am i on 4chan

>>4625330
>>4625378
Hows 10th grade? Is it like this?

>>4626348
I have a feeling that most of 4chan is living is some countryside basement and hates big cities with a passion. I've been to many, many capitals in Europe and thoroughly enjoyed the vibrant life they offer yet I keep hearing how "Paris/London/Prague/Berlin is a shithole". I guess it's to be expected when most people are more antisocial than average.

4chan's heaven is probably some 100% homogenous (homogeneously white for people into /pol/ stuff) remote fishing village in Norway or Iceland.

>>4626369
>typing up this bizarre projection of your childlike brain

>>4626375
Admittedly this impression is biased by the boards I frequent

>>4624121
There are PhD's in Gender Studies?

>>4624336
Effective rhetoric, that.
>The reason you are miserable is because you are also stupid.

>>4626438
I think the meaning is that the average person goes through blissful ignorance (childhood), then realizes what the world is really like and becomes pessimistic (adolescence/adulthood), but in time will reach a more balanced viewpoint in which they appreciate the beauty and potential of life (maturity).

It's not saying you're stupid, more that you're not as experienced (?, not sure what word to use) as your future self will be.

>>4626369
I think a lot of people on 4chan live in cities, but aren't very social (if at all). When you are a failure by mainstream standards, the automatic response is to reject those standards.

>>4617669

>>4615873

>>4624413
>I have an IQ of 158, but I ruined my brain with Urban Lesions

>>4627010
what is this chart about?

>>4625208
i have no idea what'a happening in that image, care to explain?

>>4627217
i think it has something to do with occultism.

i'd ask /x/ about it.

But actually i'm talking from my ass, so i wouldn't trust me.

>>4627164
cool

>>4627217
you need to vibrate higher

>>4627010
british aristocrat master race

>>4627010
>beat movement
>at the centre
confirmed greatest artists of all time

>>4626287
>sociology in one pic

>>4627243
are you talking about finding the clitoris?

>>4625766
but she is old

>>4627266
no anon
and yes
http://lightworkers.org/channeling/104613/channeling-group-we-are-light-action-ashtar-sheran-and-intergalactic-fleet

>>4627266

>>4627272
why did you use my name. it's expositional and redundant so obviously there is a reason. You are trying to demean or condescend, aren't you?

>>4627282

you need

to vibrate

higher

>>4627287
to find aliens

>>4626369
You sound like a middle aged female tourist, friend. Try living and working in such a place for a few decades. Try walking through it with a hangover. Try raising children there. Have a good look at the people who were born and raised there.

>>4626369
only in the 21st century would someone pay to visit a dirty human farm, and enjoy the visit
it is like going to a slaughter house and saying that the cows look very well fed and that you wish you were one of them

>>4626369
Sheeeeit, I'd kill everyone in Paris with a machete to be able to NEET it up in a Nordic coastal village.

>>4626369
I despise cities because they serve the corporate globalist cancer that sucks the life from our communities and I equally despise the vague resignation and optimism we get from academics that can be summarized as 'cities are bad but necessary so we can, we have to, make them work for us'. I don't compromise. I would flatten London/Paris/New York if I had nuclear launch codes.

>cities are social
LOL
Cities are for networking manipulative egoists, petty squabbling among paupers and for YUPPIES who want to distract themselves from our problems in a haze of traffic sounds and 'eclectic' 'vibrant' 'urbanity'.

>synthetic approach to value
Sounds like a spineless faggot's approach

>>4626369
I've lived in London all my life, and while the peace of the pastoral scene and fresh air is a nice change of pace, I don't really think I could get used to the casual racism, awful public transport and sheer lack of things to do. London is one scummy city, but it's interesting as fuck to experience it.

>>4624671
>there's no conclusive evidence that dissociative drugs actually do that.
hahahahahahahahaha

http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnana.2013.00023/abstract

>>4616119
are you retarded?

>>4627966
Please elaborate on "things to do".

>>4624671
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_and_intelligence#Brain_size

>>4617616
It's not skewed you idiot it's accurately depicting your mathematical deficiency

This, definitely.
Profound words.

What is image attaching.

>>4616082
That's some heavy shit.

>>4616064
>>4616064

>143

>average IQ over physics PhD's

>132

>average for all PhD holders

That's factually incorrect.

>read the rest

JESUS FUCK THIS IMAGE

>>4626369
hey bro im gonna go traveling soon what cities u recommend
if the food is nice its better

>>4629442
I really, really like this image.

>>4630398
haha! Save it. It's all yours.

>>4630433
Thanks! I will.

>>4627287

not him

where do i start

>>4627752
I've lived in big cities for years and nearly all my friends come from big cities.

>our communities
lel are you Amish or some other kind of weirdo

>>4629809
Nearly every capital in Europe is awesome-to-god tier. Even irrelevant cities like Pristina or Podgorica are somewhat cool if not as vibrant as Prague or Paris. The only exceptions are some Eastern Europe cities like Bucharest or Sofia but even then they can be enjoyable if you can deal with the commieblocks. Don't go to Athens though, go to Thessaloniki instead.

>>4627937
You sound like an awfully boring person.

>>4626649
schop would like a word

>>4624336
you need to post one with another pile of books that rises up to the void of space

>>4624336
Can someone draw a man looking at this image on his computer and another behin reading a book?

>>4626369
I grew up and have lived most of my life in the city, but I've also lived in the countryside periodically and all I can say that cities are cancer. Seriously, I'm certain this is giving me cancer.

>>4630629

>>4626649
Then why are most mature people vacant miserable cunts who live lives of jaded desperation?

This one, OP.

>>4631343
It ain't easy being green

>>4625330
Have you ever been to a public transport station in a place where people generally can't afford gadgets? There's just as little "interaction" as in this pic. At least here they have found something to do.
>WHAT HAS SOCIETY COME TO, IT ISN'T THE SAME AS WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD

LIFE.

>>4631440
>because differences with other people is what makes the world such an interesting and wonderful place

>>4631519
>war is a preference similar to liking different books or steaks

>>4631543
War is fought over liking different books.

>>4631547
boom

>>4631519
sayitagainyo.jpg

War is beautiful