Books that survey big brained mathematical concepts like spinors/matrices/topology (ideally physics math) but for retards but which do not oversimplify to the point of just being basically lies to make retards feel like they understand a thing they do not?Looking for intuitive understanding to borrow/steal ideas/thought-frameworks for use in other fields, but not going to actually spend 3 years become a stemfag.
>>25086805pretty rare to find a person having sex who didnt start out masturbating (but i guess one cant expect a good analogy from a mathematician)
>>25084651Gödel's Proof by Newman, Nagel, and Hofstadter. You can also try Roger Penrose's books pertaining to consciousness but honestly there's no real shortcut. If mathematical concepts could be explained in layman's terms that everyone could understand then they simply would but like my professor used to say "if everyone could do it so easily then it wouldn't be worth doing."
>>25086805I was forthright in my post my only interest in this is to apply it in other contexts.I was upfront that I understand most of it will be midwitted nonsense akin to a ND Tyson yt popsci video that uses so much metaphor that it’s not only completely wrong, that it’s actually worse than just not knowing anything.That being said recently I watched a 3 hour lecture on spinors after the idiots on Reddit failed to explain what spin 1/2 actually means for an electron and it did catch my interest, especially if there are real world implications for spinors (even if they probably don’t behave like that below the floor of what is observable).I do not actually care about the math, except to steal some concepts and use them elsewhere. If it isn’t useful elsewhere, I’m not interested in it. But I can see how spinors for example might be useful in finance or other probabilistic thinking.
>>25085009I think a lot of its numbers and I find numbers menial and trite.
>>25088978>numbersYou mean grade school arithmetic? Higher mathematics has more things in common with philosophy and theology than with number crunching (all done by computer nowadays)
>He has seen his father's penis only once. That was in 1945, when his father had just come back from the War and all the family was gathered on Voëlfontein. His father and two of his brothers went hunting, taking him along. It was a hot day; arriving at a dam, they decided to swim. When he saw that they were going to swim naked, he tried to withdraw, but they would not let him. They were gay and full of jokes; they wanted him to take off his clothes and swim too, but he would not. So he saw all three penises, his father's most vividly of all, pale and white. He remembers clearly how he resented having to look at it.ok man, that's an extremely normal thing to write
>>25089102You copied it. It's a somewhat fictional memoir, full of awkwardness and moments of great beauty. Later, the writer gets the Nobel Prize for other stuff which ain't extremely normal either.
>>25089102You're telling me you've never seen your father's penis and felt weird about it? Not even once?
boy sex
Why did all those writers lie when they wrote about so called "love"?
>>25086785You'd think a rage-fuelled retard soulmate would be easy to find around here.
>>25086588They were writing an ideal that could inspire people to be better. In the past they understood that even though ideals are inherently unrealistic, it was still worth depicting and striving to achieve them. Now everyone is dead inside so the modern man sees an ideal as nothing more than a lie, rather than something to continually work towards throughout his life.
Faulkner was the only one who didn't lie about it
YOU'VE BEEN STRUCK BY A SMOOTH CRIMINAL
>>25086588They were writing when women were still socialized by people that loved them and not by mass managerial organizations like the government and corporations, and before said organizations atomized society and eroded social norms.
I'll start with Salman Rushdie, the most evil author in the free world.
>>25086697His bodyguard pushed me off the sidewalk onceHe'll answer for this
>>25088049>"Moth goes into a doctor's office"
>>25086721foucault vs. chomsky has aged like a 1961 château cheval blanc
>>25086697Muslim larpers are the lowest caste on /lit/.I blame the Geunon cult.
>>25087648lmfao finally a great post on this forsaken board
Finished it. At page 600, I thought that, surely, this could have been a few hundred pages shorter. Then I thought of a conversation I had with a buddy a few weeks back. He was halfway through Moby Dick and asked why it was mostly cetology chapters. I told him that, among other reasons, the book forces you to search its information for meaning as a thematic reflection of the characters who do the same thing. Impose your ethos upon the impenetrable fog, see if it lifts. Ellmann does not hit the prosaic ecstasy of Melville, but I do not think that is her aim. Sure, we can draw the line from her family to Penelope, which gives credence to housewife rambling, but I think that it's structure is more akin to Moby Dick. It is a book of obfuscation. People talk of hypnotism or submerging themselves in the voice of it-- a kind of eyes-glazed analysis, really, especially when there's a few interesting plots to puzzle out of the book. For example, if you read this, and I were to ask you about the daughter, you better have an answer or I'll know you let the book pass you by. I still believe it could be trimmed, and I prefer DOT, but it is a fine book, and, at least, more daring than most. I enjoyed it.
>>25088383Joyce was a degenerate. I don't want to read that smut. Why would I read some alcoholic coprophiliac trying to make clever references to the Greeks, the Bible and Shakespeare when I could just read the Greeks, the Bible and Shakespeare?
>>25089032You started out with "I wonder," so either subrosa or rhetorical, I wasn't sure which but had intended to answer, so eventually did. My answers are more for me than you, that they are of use to you is a side effect of my using you, a win win sort of situation. We all have those authors in our past that we will never return to, some because we moved on and some because we learned our lesson after rereading one of those books that was important to us and discovered the memory was far better than the reality. The past is a risky place to visit, no telling how such a trip will affect the present.
Still writing like a pseud. Now with hints of faggotry. Must be british.
More like Sucks, Notveryshort kek.
>>25089070Kek, checking back in on the thread? What a dweeb
i underline words i need to look upand then i don't look them up
>>25088697>he doesn't read with Google open in front of him to Google words he doesn't know
>>25087279Of course, if you don't take notes yngmi
>>25087279Yes. >write a brief summary at the end of each chapter >underline words and description that strikes me as particularly beautiful >note whenever I find symbolism or sense foreshadowing or a theme >translate things that arent in English >occasionally call out the author or the characters for being a fucking idiot.
>>25088715>reading in front of a computer
I am once again asking for a book that explains why exorcism is almost entirely absent from the OT and is a central theme of the NT, clearly written to an audience familiar with it.I am once again asking for a book which goes in to the developments in scholarly Rabbinical & popular Jooish thought in the intertestimonial period that made writing Jesus & Co in the NT this way possible, and why the audience would have been familiar with an exorcism and not found it to be a strange or obscure concept.I am once again reminding you that this is not an attack on your religion which I have plenty of respect for or an opportunity for you to shill your sects supernatural explanation or your thoughts on whether or not God exists, this is a purely historical question which is more about the audience at the time and what they were familiar with than the Bible itself.I am once again reminding you that if you bring up one obscure example with Solomon and purposefully ignore this obviously interesting discontinuity you are a massive faggot.
Anyone ever read this or watch the lecture series? It was recommended to me by a seminary professor as an introduction to philosophy. It's pretty highly reviewed.
A very good layman's introduction to philosophy. It's basically the History of Western Philosophy, but from a Christian perspective.
>>25087666>666
Books about how usury conquered the world?
>>25088438Still here, you samefag. Quit doing that on my board. Usury is bad and I contributed a book to the discussion. All you’ve done is slide and same fag.
>>25088799>still doesn't know how to detect samefagsI mean, how long have you had by now?lrn24chan newfag.
>>25088702>the fed is politically independentLMAO
>>25088693>You just need to have the right people in charge using the tools in the right way.LOL, no shit, But politicians are in charge, so this never happens.
>>25088980trump appointed powell too dude, and just look at gold fall off a cliff after he announced warsh, it's a good pick.
This is quite possibly the worst thing i've read in the last five years and the amount of people i've seen carrying it around or displaying it on their "getting offline" youtube videos is concerning.
>>25081838If you take Rick Rubin seriously at all you should probably see a shrink
>>25081838I understand you're using hyperbole and I agree for anybody who's actually an artist already but complete beginners can **maybe** get something out of it.
>>25081838>Rick RubinWhy did you fall for it in the first place? What made you interested in this book?
>>25087508For me all I knew was that he was one of def jam founders. I'm not a creative person so I thought I could get some insight on how to improve in this front. I didn't know he was a fraud.
>>25081899>>25081980kek. /lit/ still has it
>And as we've established the greatest good is not pleasure.>Of course!>Let us then rank the five typologies of individual based on the amount of pleasure they enjoy.>I see no problem with this.>Based on my quick calculations, the philosopher sigma male enjoys pleasures around 729 times greater than the tyrant.>Incredible maths, and also very true.>Do you want to also rank the types of societies now?>We should do that!>The power-ranking goes as follows: 1. The realms where philosophers rule, 2. Sparta (based retards), 3. Oligarchies, 4. Democracies, 5. Tyrannies >In my opinion, this ranking is completely correct.
>>25088749>Spartai'm sorry but did plato really? i don't remember the socratic method being used to justify cunnilingus, even in "republic"
Quick maffs!
>>25088759Yes, the ideal society is literally just Sparta if the elite valued philosophy and ruled over the lower classes in the interest of common good rather than personal interest. He views timocracy a.k.a Sparta as a decayed form of his ideal society.
Why do zoomers read 12 Rules For Life instead of this?Are they fucking retarded?
>>25085710How is it kike behavior to be reasonably critical of some of them?
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>>25086296generational warfare, conquer and divide and they won't revolt
>>25085684what an odd thing to say. Obviously they don't read Works and Days because they haven't heard of it. Nothing to do with being retarded. This just reads like a very awkward way of saying you've just read Hesiod for the first time and want to have a conversation about it
>>25085684Why is everyone on this board obsessed with zoomers right now? Their time is nearly up. It's all about Gen Alpha now.
When Nietzsche said “God is dead” he meant that God is not necessary for our morality anymore. He meant that we had been lying to ourselves about God, using him to create an artificial system of morality that is no longer viable.When he says we killed God, he means that our science, skepticism, education, and technology have pushed us past the point where believing in miracles is possible; but as a consequence of this murder we are lost, have no goals, no aspirations, no values. Christianity was a made up morality, but it served a kind of purpose.The resulting nihilism results in despair, or requires us to look deeper within us and find a new source of human values.That’s what Nietzsche hoped would happen, but that is not what happened.The modern twist to Nietzsche is that we didn’t kill God after all: we enslaved him. Instead of completely abandoning God and embracing a will to power, or taking a leap of faith back towards the “mystery” of God because the angst was too great to bear; instead of those opposite choices, God has been kept around as a paid-for judge. They accept the “morality” but secretly retain the right of exception: “yes, but God knows that in this case…”Atheists do this just as much but pretend they also don’t believe in “God.” “Murder is wrong, but in this case….” But of course they’re not referring to the penal code, but to an abstract wrongness that they rationalize as coming from shared collective values or humanist principles or economics or energy or whatever. It’s a “God” behind the God, not a Christian God but something bigger, something that preserves the individual’s ability to appeal to the abstract, the symbolic.“…but in this case…” Those words presuppose an even higher law than the one that says, “thou shalt not.” That God, the one that examines things on a case by case basis, always rules in favor of the individual, which is why he was kept around.But the crucial mistake is to assume that the retention of this enslaved God is for the purpose of justifying one’s behavior, to assuage the superego. That same absolution could have been obtained from a traditional Christianity, “God, I’m sorry I committed adultery, I really enjoyed it and can’t undo that, but I am sorry and I’ll try not to do it again.” Clearly, Christianity hasn’t prevented people from acting on their impulses; nor have atheists seized their freedom and become hedonists.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25088562I think he was just admitting to a crime, but smooth talking his way out in tandem.
But why no guilt?The reason there is no guilt is because there is no longer a shared Symbolic order. The "God" that has been kept around isn't a judge at all; he's a mirror. When you look at him for a ruling, he doesn't look at the Law; he looks at you, and since he is you, he sees that your intentions were good, or your stress was high, or your childhood was bad.We have moved from a culture of Guilt (violating a law) to a culture of Anxiety (failing to be who we think we are). In the movie The Science of Sleep, the main character Stephane isn't "bad," he's just unable to distinguish between his internal desires and the external reality. That is the modern condition: we aren't immoral, we are just dreaming that we are moral, and we've rigged the dream so the phone never actually wakes us up.
>>25088562Majority of humans are assholes by nature that need religion as a moral compass or else they'd be savages just look at the modern world.
I just spend most of my time with my face in a book. Top is some chess stuff. Then my nonfiction (usually history or philosophy). Then a nice relaxing Dan Brown thriller. I usually try to read higher calibre fiction, but I do enjoy a Dan Brown novel every now and then. Think of it like this: I enjoy steak (high calibre), but I also enjoy McDonald's (Dan Brown, Stephen King, etc.). On the bottom is my french language learning. Do you think I'm spreading myself too thin?
>>25087478If it works for you, it works for you. I personally do 2 books at most, usually only 1, but as long as it's still entertaining and edifying for you, I don't see the issue.
>>25087529>>25087678>>25087705Besides the pleasure of it all, what gains do I stand to see in my life? I'd like to make some erudite friends or create something of meaning and value. Or could I be catapulted into some profession and excel in it?
>>25087478>nice relaxing Dan Brown thrillerGr8 b8 m8
>>25088291i r8 it an 8
This is the most healthy thread I've seen
>my favorite book of all time is Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric NylundWhat type of person do you imagine?
>>25085997why are you posting action figures on a literature board
>>25086133This thread is about Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund, which is literature.
>>25082033Skylar Popcollar
>>25086939and how many action figures are in that book
>>25086967a lot
