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>"Hey anon I heard you like philosophy! Can you explain (complex philosophical concept) for me?"
>*Tries to explain it to the best of my ability for the person to understand without sacrificing the general meaning*
>"Wow anon, you don't need to use all of those words just to prove you're smarter than everyone else. That's so pretentious."
This shit sets me off, I haven't picked up my readings in four days because It's just so tiresome spending hours reading giant books of complex ideas just to have normies and wikiphilosophers slap "pretentious" on anything they are too lazy to understand.

>> No.11901436

>>11901411
Which philosophical concept did you try to explain?

>> No.11901442

>>11901436
Utilitarianism

>> No.11901455

>talking to dumb people

>> No.11901456
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>>11901442
Try explaining spinoza's "god" and "ideas" to normalfags

>> No.11901479

>>11901411
Why would you explain something to someone?

>> No.11901486

>>11901479
Because we're autistic and when normalfags ask we think they actually care instead of pretending to show interest for the sake of bonding and camaraderie

>> No.11901488

>>11901442
nigger that's not me

>>11901436
I tried explaining The transcendental aesthetic and how it influenced me from moving away form empiricism, and after that the Noumea.