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Why don't you want to be a philosopher?

>> No.5487087

>>5487076

Frequent fapping has fundamentally warped my brain and it's impossible to concentrate.

>> No.5487090

>>5487076
holy shit that gif

>> No.5487119

because i'm a novelist and have spent years studying fiction and prose

>> No.5487134

>>5487076
Nobody believes that I am.

>> No.5487593

>>5487076

Because, you can't be one if you want to, and if you are one, you're bound to a certain set of behaviors, and ways of speaking.

>> No.5487608

>>5487593
you're a philosopher

>> No.5487611

I'm in it for breadth and the big picture. The professionalization of contemporary philosophy is repelling. Nevertheless, I'm still considering pursuing a double degree in Math and Philosophy in some distant future... We'll see how it goes.

>> No.5487614

Because I don't want to work at McDonald's

>> No.5487635

>>5487608
She is, but the is the /lit/ equivalent of Sam Harris.

>> No.5487638

I am a freelance philosopher. I'm looking for work too, so if anyone has any:

Martin Hurst-Stewart.
Meta-ontology services
e: martin_hurst_stewart@gmail.com

I also do epistemological paradoxes and qualia problems.

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>>5487638
>freelance philosopher

>> No.5487710

>>5487638
>I am a freelance philosopher. I'm looking for work too, so if anyone has any:

Hello, I wonder if you can help me. I bought a cosmogony last year, but it seems to have leaked and created something. If you're able to patch it with some crude emanationistic reasoning, could you give me a rough estimate for how much the job will cost?

Thank you.

>> No.5487721

>>5487638
solid. 4/10

>> No.5487736

>>5487635
how do you know it's a she?

>> No.5487737

>>5487736
I assume for that is what other anons told me.

>> No.5487750

>>5487737
so, how do you know who posts what?

>> No.5487755

>>5487750

It does not know, but acts as if it knew...

>> No.5487766

>>5487638
This is an excellent premise for a novella in the genre of hysterical realism.

>> No.5487809

⇒Why don't you want to be a philosopher?

Because I'm too intelligent for philosophy. I can think on my own and I don't need to worship some ancient moron's primitive ramblings only because his texts are old.

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5487841

>>5487076
It's not to be taken but the given. If it's not given, then you're just a glorified hobo.

>> No.5487907

⇒Why don't you want to be a mathematician?

Because I'm too intelligent for mathematics. I can think on my own and I don't need to worship some autistic moron's ridiculous formulas only because permavirgin nerds glorify them.

>> No.5487910

>>5487907
false-flagging arrowfag, really? Has it come to this?

>> No.5487912

>>5487907
Are atheists euphoric, not because of any phony god's blessing. But because they are enlightened by their intellect?

>> No.5487917

>>5487809
as a real, continental, philosopher you are supposed to force others to worship yours ramblings, not to worship somebody's else

>> No.5488040

>>5487076
Because I have read Hume.

>> No.5489214

>>5487593
>>5487593
>that feel when you were born a philosopher
>that feel when you speak with such precision other people think you're weird
>that feel when they dont know im a philosopher and wouldnt believe it if they did

im just the weirdo that stares off into space and mumbles to himself all the time while holding a pen

>> No.5489223

>>5487910
if the bitch would use a name or trip we could just filter her, now we have to channel our frustrations through shitposting

>> No.5489246

>>5488040
⇒Reading Hume
⇒Stopping there and not reading Kant
Why do you waste your time like that?

>> No.5489252

>>5489223
⇒Shitposting to challeneg the shitposter
Just abuse her meme while trying to have some quality. It has the same result but you don't shit the board even more

>> No.5489320

>>5487076
Because I'm tired of searching.

>> No.5489332

>>5489246
⇒reading Kant

Seriously? Everything he ever wrote has been disproved later.

>> No.5489340

>>5489332
i don't like the arrows

>> No.5489376

>>5489223
Get 4chan x and filter ⇒

>> No.5489403

>>5489332
⇒disproved
That's like saying that you won't read Newton. And if anything, kant showed how Hume's ideas could be upgraded.
Also, it's not about reading an author to know the truth and who beats who. It's about how the knowledge evolves and new ideas appear in certain contexts.

>> No.5489409

>>5489403
⇒That's like saying that you won't read Newton.

I don't. Nobody does except for historians. Did you ever take a physics class?

>> No.5489435

>>5489409
⇒⇒⇒
Exactly my point.
Historians don't do that, though. I mean, I don't know why they would particularly read him, but I doubt they have anything against him either

>> No.5489490

>>5487076

Because being unemployed is generally frowned upon by the surrounding society.

>> No.5489540

>>5489214
LOL

>> No.5489840

>>5489540
funny sad and true.

>> No.5490019

Everyone is their own personal philosophers. You even interpret what other philosophers have said in your own way so in that way as well its a personal thing.

>> No.5490061

>>5489214
>speak with such precision

And yet you use 'feel' as a noun.

>> No.5490078

>>5489214
Publish some interesting philosophy and you have justified yourself. Or fail and realise you have delusions of grandeur. Or go with the misunderstood genius shtick of course.

Do you have an education in philosophy or are you reinventing the wheel by thinking up things Plato's side characters already uttered a few millennia ago and considering them novel just because you lack knowledge of what has been said already?

Not trying to be a cunt, but most people aren't philosophers in any mentionable sense of the word.

>> No.5490086

>>5487076
B-Because /sci/ told me philosophy was dumb.

>> No.5490136

>>5487076
Because I want to become a Mathematician.

>> No.5490158

>>5490061
a feeling IS a noun. just because i speak with precision, doesnt mean i have to adhere to normal ways of speaking. thats why im weird. to some

>> No.5490408

>>5489490
Just be a modern day Diogenes

>> No.5490439

>>5489490
if you're a philosopher you don't mind being frowned upon by the rabble though.

>> No.5490443

I am an idiot who is barely in control of his life. Nobody needs to listen to my thoughts or opinions.

>> No.5490593

>>5490443
i wish more philosophers were self-aware like this

>> No.5490644

>>5490593
Why? I have my shit completly toghether. I even have a mission from god.

>> No.5490738

>>5487593
Pretty much this actually. I don't want to be talking about a monograph I wrote when I was thirty when I am seventy years old.

>> No.5490761

i like money

>> No.5491043

>>5490644
ill bite... whats your mission from god?

>> No.5491316

>>5491043
Not that guy, but can you believe it somehow involves posting on 4chan...

God is sooo based.