There WILL be robots progammed to think like Heidegger in our lifetimes.
They're called human beings.
>>9003771
humans aren't robots robots are cool
>>9003826
Humans are biological robots
He would want you to read Gertrude Stein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRODdXVI3Q
>>9003742
Gertrude (((Stein))) is fucking garbage
>>9003768
Why do you say that?
This is aimed at bi- or multilingual /lit/izens.
My uni is offering 10-week beginner intensive courses on the following languages:
>Italian
>Japanese
>Portugeuse
>Russian
My question is: which of these is the easiest/hardest to learn? In terms of preference I'm leaning towards Russian but mostly I just want to get off my arse and learn a language - ideally it would have been French (which I have a very basic GCSE-level understanding of) but unfortuntately it isn't on offer.
Depends. Do you only speak English?
>>9003698
Yup.
>>9003674
from hardest to least for you: japanese; russian; portuguese; italian.
if you will actually get off your ass and learn a language, go with italian or russian.
portguese is slightly harder to learn from knowing french than italian, but slightly easier than russian in that portguese only demands you pronounce spanish with a russian accent.
russian is more upfront learning, but if the course is genuinely intensive, you'll get the most out of this. and it makes learning greek a bit less daunting too. a good greek intensive course is usually slightly longer than that, but if you make it in russian, you can easily make it through greek.
japanese will be a long slog even with an intensive course. you're least likely to be able to read a book in a foreign language after this, and would likely take years to read a newspaper.
What is the tohou of literature
How is /jp/ doing?
>>9003619
>>9003619
Source?
>>9003584
I love it but it triggered me a bit because I wanted to know who wasn't a pseudointellectual
You should add Nassim Taleb for funs
>>9003584
A good bait for newfags desu.
>>9003584
I don't know why Sam Hyde is on there, he's just a comedian. I doubt anyone actually gets their ideology from him.
Bill Nye is 100% deserved, as is that Star Trek queer. Gavin McInnes has some pretty good views on some things, but he's super degenerate.
What would you recomend as literature with subtile and amusing dark Humor, just like Thomas Mann but a bit stronger?
>>9003532
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
Kafka
Joseph Conrad
I've been reading all my life but I've never experienced the same emotional catharsis or warmth in some cases thatanimeprovides. Why is this /lit/? I haven't watched anyanimefor like half a year now but I've finished a lot of series before that and still whenever I think back I miss those feelings even though I know most if it is trash and a waste of time.
I think it might be related to music but I'm not sure am I just a fucking pleb?
>>9003484
1/Read the Dao De Jing
2/Compare all available translations
3/????
4/Profit
>>9003503
nice meme
Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU, applied psychology, the education system, diversity, Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
I go to the city centre and see people shopping and the streets are busy, which is comforting compared to when they're empty, but walking through then brings no epiphanies.
I am so past watching movies or tv shows, even ones that pander to "edgy" young males. I just about read books but only because society tells me I should, though I don't derive much enjoyment
And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck. I fucking hate wagecucking. Seeing attractive young people is humiliating. I tell myself every day that I'll soon work intensely on one thing but I can't bear to do this. If you're really good at one thing then there are people lining up to call you a tard for not watching opera or being able to run a marathon or whatever shit. So I do nothing.
Every "thinker" is at their core an utter fucking fraud. Nietzche is a Tony Robbins tier Rorschach test. Science and mathematics provide non trivial insights but only in ultra specialised ways that probably require autism to appreciate. I listen to In Our Time podcasts and Bret Easton Ellis podcasts and I think at heart everyone cares about nothing more than social drama.
Apart from money, health, and time, there are very few non trivial concept.
>>9003466
1/Read the Dao De Jing
2/Compare all available translations
3/????
4/Profit
Should I go through the trouble to learn naval jargon and read the books?
>>9003452
Should you go through the trouble to ask 4chan, faggot?
>>9003452
You don't have to go to the trouble to learn it, you can get the gist of what they're saying, without having to understand precisely how they are tacking the sails to make a turn. O'brian also explains a lot of it within the book as characters explain to non naval personnel, there's also a companion book that you can get for references but its heavy on spoilers
Just read it
>>9003452
you should probably get a degree from the Merchant Mariners academy, and maybe a 2 year cruise before even attempting it
If you can exchange gunfire with Somalian pirates it will only enhance the pleasure of the reading experience
I just finished reading Aristotle's Metaphysics. Why did he spend half the book disputing other philosophies and misquoting Homer? The parts where he was developing his own philosophy were fantastic, and I enjoy his rigorous, deductive reasoning, but it became hard to follow when every other chapter was him contesting other ancient philosophies nobody but a Greek history major has bothered to read.
>Reads Aristotle but doesn't bother to read the people before him
rly mks u tink
Yeah a major flaw of aristole is that he didn't write for laymen living in the 21st century
>>9003420
>DUDE everything is made of fire, earth, water, and air
>DUDE everything is made of numbers
>DUDE everything is made of contraries
>DUDE everything is made of atoms
Yeah, no thanks. I'm not reading those retards.
>Amerifats trying to pronounce european names
>mfw they pronounce Shakespeare as Shakes - Peer
Any good examples?
>>9003347
>sock-ra-teas
>cam-ous
>and rand
>He is a big whale.
>You're a fucking white whale!
>how big is the whale? in comparison to you very much so
>>9003298
Everyone talks about books "changing their lives", but did a book ever impact you in weird little ways?
For example, I only wear rings on my left hand, because of a scene in The Wanderer I read when I was a kid.
I'm not sure why, I wasn't copying the character, it just stuck with me.
Any similar stories?
War and Peace started me down a long road of cracking Freemason jokes
>>9003229
share some will ya
>>9003233
They're really rudimentary. Often when I see their symbol on a number of local government buildings I'll comment that it's nice to know that they're watching us so intently.
I also tend to arbitrarily tie Masonic conspiracies and their ancient magics to any ailment or issue I feel is being excessively griped about. I often explore this absurd comment in a particularly targeted way to make it seem like the entirety of their extensive organization was made specifically to get Chili's plumbing messed up so that we were all forced to go to Denny's.
In retrospect it might sound like schizophrenia to anyone who doesn't see them as doddering old money with a kink for arranging buildings in certain old world shapes.
Should I read it in english or in my native language, which is croatian, since it's closer to russian?
If there's good translations in your native language I see no reason why you wouldn't read non-English literature in that.
Unless you're sure there's a great translation in Croatian, I'd suggest you go for English. It's the language of the world and it's only natural it would attract more attention from translators, thereby increasing quality of translation through.
Pročitaj ga na hrvatskom. Imaš Crnkovićev prijevod, a on je odličan prevoditelj. Nisam čitao baš Rat i mir, ali su mu Ljermontov i Gogolj bili vrhunski, pa bih mu vjerovao i u ovom slučaju.
I find Sartre's ideas very interesting but I'm not smart enough to read his complicated prose. How could I learn about him without having to read his actual books?
you already know enough to discuss him on /lit/
read camus
>>9003119
Existentialism is a humanism is easy to read as are his novels. Start small then work up to b&n