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How can one become an intellectual and not a pseud?

>> No.12385470

Do what the book of Wisdom tell you to do: stop talking

>> No.12385498

>>12385459
Even most philosophers are pseuds. You're probably not going to make it.

>> No.12385525

by actually starting with the greeks

>> No.12385619

i think unbecoming a pseud is impossible from a free will perspective. im in a great phd program and i feel retarded. most of my colleages are retarded. hell, even some professors are retarded and have no real insight, they just know how to play the publishing game. very few have reached the nirvana equivalent of knowledge and wisdom, and it is very discouraging. makes me feel like a super pseud tbqh.
im starting to believe that unbecoming a pseud is beyond one's actions, as in /god/ or the /representation of god/ assigns you that role from birth.

>> No.12385626

>>12385619
study, suffer, reflect, and contemplate the divine anon, knowledge is easy, wisdom is hard

>> No.12385630

>>12385459
By realizing the reality of nondualism. Meditate, anon. Learn of what you are.

>> No.12385637

1. Get off the internet
2. Read
3. Repeat over the course of a lifetime

It's not complicated, just difficult.

>> No.12385638

>>12385459
Never post here.

>> No.12385644

>>12385619

Sorry youre in that postion my friend. I knownwhat it’s like to be exploited by people below you. But sont kys. You just keep on tricking. Never give up and get a degree and make a real difference. You may not be special at all friend, but believe me you these 45 seconds that i get to shit out my fingers along with milliona of otger worthless weak empty sheep faggots are worth your life, because we fucking sheep get to bleep and bleep on the comment sections of every wevsite and write articles and pretwnd we’re better than anything that has come before us because of obama and trump. Bleeep bleeeep. Bleeeeeeewwwwpp good luck. Yikes. Wow. Omg. I finally mean something. Im finally important. Bleeep bleeeep bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

>> No.12385655

>>12385637
Fucking hell one of the truest posts you will read in all your time here

>> No.12385675

>>12385655
>>12385637
This is pseud advice.

>> No.12385702

>>12385675
Takes one to know one amarite LMAO AHHAHAAHA

>> No.12385827

the first step is to stop using big-boy words and to explain everything you say in layman terms, it forces you to actually think about what you're saying rather than just spouting out what you've heard other "smart" people say.

>> No.12386147

What if the intellectuals were the pseuds all along?

>> No.12386210

>>12385459
>How can one become an intellectual and not a pseud?
1. Study Mathematics.
2. Study Physics.
3. Study Analytic Philosophy.

In three simple steps you've become an intellectual.

>> No.12386255

how willingly and readily you destroy your own position, identity, and ego. when you argue the frustration shouldn't be they don't accept it but instead they can't say how it's wrong.

if you want actual knowledge then everything you think currently you should be willing to abandon like toilet paper. the biggest pseud are the smart people who are dug into their position because their identity, status, and other things so they will never attack their own position.

if you aren't willing to do this then you're at most going to be another "smart" person with a vague idea of things who argues with other "smart" people over their vague idea all while not even understanding you're simply trying to defend your ego.

>> No.12386342

>>12385525
Unironically this

>> No.12386364

>>12385459
Know that you know nothing

>> No.12386518

>>12386210
Of the pseud variety.

Read Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground unironically, it’s a helpful guide to intellectual life.

>> No.12386521

>>12386364
AKA start with Greeks and don’t log back on until you’ve finished all of them.

>> No.12386529

Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.

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>>12385459
>How can one become an intellectual and not a pseud?

>> No.12386570
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12386570

>>12386529
How Orwellian of you

>> No.12386580

>>12385459
You can start by leaving this board

>> No.12386589

>>12385459

I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I
should not call them 'well-read people'. Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but
their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have
gathered from books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is
useful and useless in a book; so that they may retain the former in their minds and if
possible skip over the latter while reading it, if that be not possible, then--when once
read--throw it overboard as useless ballast. Reading is not an end in itself, but a means
to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made
up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus each one procures
for himself the implements and materials necessary for the fulfillment of his calling in
life, no matter whether this be the elementary task of earning one's daily bread or a
calling that responds to higher human aspirations. Such is the first purpose of reading.

And the second purpose is to give a general knowledge of the world in which we live.
In both cases, however, the material which one has acquired through reading must not
be stored up in the memory on a plan that corresponds to the successive chapters of the
book; but each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little
stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other
pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader.
Otherwise only a confused jumble of chaotic notions will result from all this reading.
That jumble is not merely useless, but it also tends to make the unfortunate possessor of
it conceited. For he seriously considers himself a well-educated person and thinks that
he understands something of life. He believes that he has acquired knowledge, whereas
the truth is that every increase in such 'knowledge' draws him more and more away
from real life, until he finally ends up in some sanatorium or takes to politics and
becomes a parliamentary deputy.
Such a person never succeeds in turning his knowledge to practical account when the
opportune moment arrives; for his mental equipment is not ordered with a view to
meeting the demands of everyday life. His knowledge is stored in his brain as a literal
transcript of the books he has read and the order of succession in which he has read
them. And if Fate should one day call upon him to use some of his book-knowledge for
certain practical ends in life that very call will have to name the book and give the
number of the page; for the poor noodle himself would never be able to find the spot
where he gathered the information now called for. But if the page is not mentioned at
the critical moment the widely-read intellectual will find himself in a state of hopeless
embarrassment.

>> No.12386647

>>12386518
okay mr pseud purity spiral

>> No.12386657

>>12386589
U forgot catharsis, escapism, and mediated social interaction

>> No.12386668

>>12385470
fpbp. A pseud wont shut up