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Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:27:15 2019 No.12744073 [Reply] [Original]

dumb and potentially foolish question, but I figured I'd ask anyway, what do i need to read to become an intellectual?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:28:47 2019 No.12744083 You've already failed, brother

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:29:41 2019 No.12744087 good books, and bad books

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:29:44 2019 No.12744088 nothing in particular. Just read a broad range of different things. An intellectual is someone who can think about things from many different angles.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:38:11 2019 No.12744151 The Trivium

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:38:35 2019 No.12744155 King James Bible

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:47:48 2019 No.12744217 File: 2.66 MB, 2948x5020, 07-44-27-1497637945304.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Philosophy is always a good start

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 15:52:39 2019 No.12744250 >>12744217 Is there a chart like this but for fiction?

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 17:40:10 2019 No.12744915
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Wow, that second chapter was a slog. All these references to the Garden of Eden left me wondering what the fuck everything has got to do with the second "rule" that served as the chapter name.
It feels like rambling - so many concepts, generalizations and theology.

Am I too dumb for this book?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 17:42:04 2019 No.12744928 >>12744088 This.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 17:45:53 2019 No.12744948 >>12744250 seconded

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 17:50:30 2019 No.12744976 >>12744915 Ah yes, this is the new edition to our Sixth form library. I was quite surprised to find it actually

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 18:27:59 2019 No.12745197 >>12744915 I'm scared to read stuff like that, i don't want to get sucked into his cult of personality.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 18:32:24 2019 No.12745219 >>12745197 how weak is your mind that you're afraid to read something lel. If it's retarded then you will know it's retarded, just think about it

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 18:47:23 2019 No.12745302 >>12744083 Agreed

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 18:50:46 2019 No.12745317
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Won't necessarily "make you an intellectual," but I find that /lit/'s yearly top 100 is always a good bet. Read up on popular and classic philosophy and politics too, stuff like Mein Kampf, Das Kapital, The Nichomachean Ethics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 18:54:19 2019 No.12745336 Read Plato, Aristotle, The King James Bible, Aquinas, Dante, Shakespeare, Racine, Moliere, and Goethe and you will be an intellectual.

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 19:04:26 2019 No.12745398

>>12744083
hilariously based
>>12744087
cringe — don't read bad books
>>12744088
It's been well proven that severely autistic children can think about things from a million different angles, but they're hardly intellectuals
>>12744151
nope
>>12744155
cringe
>>12744217
>philosophy chart
t. zoomer pleb
>>12744250
It's 2019 and you're on the internet — what do u think? Jesus
>>12744915
:^)
>>12744928
not this
>>12744948
dated
>>12744976
Were you quite surprised? Quite? Is it the new edition? To your library? Quite.
>>12745197
>scared to read
literally the worst type of person
>>12745219
based
>>12745302
well done for agreeing
>prescribing a 4chan chart to the intellectually ambitious
kys
>>12745336
unironically based

Anonymous Mon Mar 11 20:01:38 2019 No.12745684
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>>12744073
offtop. How do i know if i am realy am intellectual or just stupid fag who knows many things?
How do i escape from the white lies because i want people to tell me the true instead of being nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 20:03:56 2019 No.12745696 >>12745684 lol the fact that you're posting on 4chan + are concerned about knowing whether or not you are intellectual JUST PROVES you are not and never will be an intellectual lmaaooo dumb fucking zoomer

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 11 20:06:31 2019 No.12745704 >>12744083 This

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 00:16:11 2019 No.12746880 >>12745398 OP, As long as you don't act like this, you're on the right track

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 06:37:31 2019 No.12748118 >>12745696 FUck 4chan posting. Concerning About you being right and correcting is the most intellectual thing one can do

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 06:39:41 2019 No.12748121 Pussy ass tits

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 12 06:48:15 2019 No.12748142 >>12745398 read bad books to get a proper idea of what constitutes a good book, brainlet

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