I remember school and university, where trying to get good grades and paying attention in class made teachers and other students think I'm a nerd, when I would actually just study, say, math on my own, with a tutor, in class, read about it online and still barely pass exams and testsI easily learned english as a child, but when it came to learning a third foreign language in school I was very below average, one of the worst students in my group, it was humiliatingI've now tried to learn a few languages (French, German, Latin, Spanish, Russian, probably a few others I've forgotten too) and I've struggled with them a lot, even studying every day for 3 hours (I did manage to keep up that pace) would generally not net me anything. it doesn't help that there are so many charlatans in the language learning "hobby space" that you don't even know what "method" to use while learning a language. probably the worst thing is that language learning communities are full of intelligent people who have many languages under their belts and this is their special interest and you can't compare yourself to themI like reading books and don't really like video games or TV, so I spend a large chunk of my free time reading. I know a bit about history, philosophy, things like this which automatically make other people think you're intelligent, but it's a bit of an illusion and I've disappointed pretty much every teacher I've had in my life. in general I am a pretentious failure who is well read enough, knows about history, philosophy and thinks he's intelligent, so I can discuss things with other people, but honestly, with the philosophy that I've read it's more that I memorized the logic but don't actually understand anything at all. it would take one actually intelligent person who's read enough as me to show that I'm just a complete fraud and retardI'm too stupid and lazy to ever learn another language
>>25181029Yes, that's the technical term for it, but I find that CI is a buzzword these days and people attach a lot of weird connotations to it.I'm talking specifically about reading and looking things up, as well as focusing on adapted material first to keep your cognitive load manageable and avoid frustration. You build vocab progressively and alongside it you also build an implicit understanding of grammar because you're going through a lot of sentences and noticing patterns. The nature method books are one example of adapted material, but there's also all kinds of graded readers, podcasts, videos, that are more engaging and less repetitive.This is an example of a reading ladder for German:https://rentry.org/german-readersBy the end of it, you would be able to read actual German literature.
>>25180947You are suffering from envy and you're trying to take on too much at once. You can't measure up against everyone at the same time. When you choose something new to study you are letting yourself enter a vulnerable trance state, When you fail and feel sad you are entering a vulnerable trance state, Every failure is chipping away at the protective barrier between the soul of you and the outside world. There was never an obligation for you to not disappoint your teachers or make the grade, and you are good enough because showing off intelligence isn't what makes a person capable of good, in fact you've witnessed that those who are exemplary at it mainly just cause envy or annoyance in others. Pull back and consider what's really important to you, and you've learned to identify missteps in your struggles. You are doing great.
>>25180947I will take you at your word, OPI will assume you're not just doing the normal demoralization thread.here, to convince smart people being smart is really being dumb.so, to that end...what do *you* feel, are the qualities that would show intelligence. I'll check back some other time. to see if you're a real person or just another demoralization shill.
There is nothing I hate more than a pretentious pseud. You can ALWAYS tell when some dipshit thinks parroted opinions they don't understand makes them smart or something. Unfortunately there will always be hordes of retards clamoring to be king of mount midwit. There are a lot in the language learning sphere because it's very easy to fake proficiency.A close second, however, is the self-hating pretentious pseud. If you have knowledge or ability, just say that you do. If you don't, just say that you don't. Doing the "I suck :(" routine isn't going to get you as much sympathy as you might have hoped. In many ways this self-deprecating act is even more deceitful than the above.In either case, the issue is placing your identity on what other people think you can do. That's retarded. If you don't know something, or don't have some ability, who cares? I can't draw or write for shit. I can't play chess for shit. I'm not going to pretend like I can. On the other hand, I'm not going to pretend like I'm a dumbass or don't know about things just to appease people or appear humble. If I were a genius on a planet of retards or a retard on a planet of geniuses, I would not think more or less of myself.Just be honest and straightforward. >t. 160iq+
>>25180947sounds like the impostor syndromedon't worry, many inteligent people suffer from it, the likes of physicians etc.
prev: >>25175015
>>25181125Good, read 4:48 Psychosis
I have a mental breakdown every three years, fortunately I have practice.
>>25181144Same kinda, but it’s a little more disordered than that. 2009, 2012, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2025
>>25181131>Female depression
Crazy how true this is.
Literarily speaking how did these books gain so much popularity among a certain type of white woman?
>>25180237And what slop does OP read? Since you seem to know what it is, otherwise you wouldn’t have made such a comment.
>>25179561If these books were as popular among women as you'd like me to believe the world would be a better place
>>25180221C’était un jeu de mots.
Rooney not being on there is surprising
>>25181166Why would he be?
Post books about dinosaurs, fiction and non-fiction. This is a thread for the discussion of our dinosaurian ancestors.
>>25177998I haven't read it but I have been really enjoying Tarzan and Barsoom so I plan to get to it as soon as I finish those. There's also his Pellucidar series for a hollow earth with dinosaurs.
James Gurney's Dinotopiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia
>>25178138The prose is fine and Jurassic Park is an excellent book
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
>>25177998Journey to the Centre of the Earth
>The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her faceWhat did literature Nobel laureate Robert Allen Zimmerman mean by this?
He's using AI now apparently lol
>>25176388Those people are gonna hate regardless. Your comment testifies to that.
>>25170706What about Nick Drake
>>25174260>Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup>Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop>Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead>Wiggle, you can raise the deadI honestly never had much issue with it.
>>25166213Scaruffi believes the greatest lyrics ever written to be:Are we supposed to be or not to be?said the angel to the QueenI lift up my skirt and Voltaire turnsas he speaks, his mouth full of garlicwhite, yes, whitemisfortune of us twohe told you to be freeand you obeyedwe have to decide which is importanta war we never seeor a street so black babies die?a system and a theoryComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
are there any pop-science books you've enjoyed?
>>25180851You're having an episode. Nowhere did I frame it as some occult hex. This is you creating a strawman.I don't frame is in the most nefarious way possible. I describe just exactly what they are doing. What is it you're in disagreement with? Do they not spend millions of dollars into researching how to manipulate their users? You frame it as if they're an ice cream store selling a new flavour. Just what the customer wants! In reality it's 100% provably using psychological methods to manipulate their users emotions. You cannot dispute this and will dodge it in your next reply.It's less like any other consumer product and more akin to a casino. And we have special rules for gambling (or at least we had) for good reasons.I bet you see nothing wrong with the explosion in betting apps either right?
>>25180880>You're having an episode. Nowhere did I frame it as some occult hex. This is you creating a strawman.It's called hyperbole and figurative language.>I don't frame is in the most nefarious way possible.Let's look at the type language you were using to describe the design of social media...>Hooked>Manipulate>CasinoAll these things have a negative connotation. You aren't objectively describing the services that social media companies provide, you're baking in your own subjective assessments of those "manipulative strategies" and presenting them as objective.>Just what the customer wants!How do you think the social media companies keep their userbase? By using their algorithms to present things that their users don't want? Maybe by sending armed thugs to force people to use their services perhaps? The fact is, the reason people are "hooked" on social media, is because they want to use social media.>In reality it's 100% provably using psychological methods to manipulate their users emotions.Which is what you're trying to do right now with your hysterical descriptions of basic product design. Pot meet kettle.>You cannot dispute this and will dodge it in your next reply.I can and I will. The problem isn't social media companies acting as "pushers", it's irresponsible people acting irresponsibly with social media and blaming everyone else for their own irresponsible actions. And now everyone else has to suffer because of these retards.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25177905>le phone is the problem VS>Neo-liberal self exploitation is the problemwell /lit/, whos right?
>>25180950>All these things have a negative connotationAll of them are literally, 100% true.Users describe themselves as using it more than they would like to (hooked).The companies use manipulation to increase time used. And those techniques are the same as used in the casino business. All fact.>the reason people are "hooked" on social media, is because they want to use social media.Yeah and the people gambling just want to do it. Same with drug users.You however are trying to dumb down what is happening. The point of you trying to group what the social media companies are doing with just regular commerce is to make it less clear. Your entire goal is to blur the distinctions, when in reality there are massive differences.>your hysterical descriptions Coming from the guy who put words in my mouth about 'an occult hex'. You're projecting is clear for everyone to see. You're the hysterical one.>it could be applied to virtually all behaviorNo it actually can't. Try to make the comparison between a man selling ice cream on the side of the road and what social media companies are doing. Go ahead and show how the same can be applied.From what I gather you're a Libertarian. Complete joke of an ideology. Betting apps have added nothing to society besides debt. Society was better off before it was legalized. What you're advocating for is to have society be a free for all where you as an atomized individual gets to have a 'fair fight' against companies so big they dwarf most countries. Your advice is to just not engage. Forgetting that many children are targeted by these companies.But your side is already losing this fight thankfully. Social media with these algorithms add nothing, and they will be done away with. And guess what? Nothing of value will be lost.
>>25179097>>25180729It was just okay. Nothing in it was really groundbreaking or eye-opening. You may think it's the biggest redpill in modern social science if you are a boomer but if you are familiar with the internet at all you'll immediately see that everything the author has to say is basically common knowledge about how social media can affect your emotionsI dropped it halfway through and just checked "finished it" and a rating of 5/5 on the staff survey they made us fill out
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25180728first fragment suck donkey dongs
>>25180735is there any rationale behind this or are you just not a fan of bleep bloop-arpeggios
>>25180425Not sure why but The Tempest is the fist thing I thought of>>25180457Samuel Shem - The House of God>>25180739Something on AO3
Is there a quintessential Napoleon biography?
>>25175833Ridley Scott's movie doesn't hold a candle to Bondarchuk's Waterloo.
>>25169460What about Patrice Gueniffey's book?
>>25169540I'm currently reading this and it's great
>>25169460
The Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
Thoughts? Im up to chapter 12 and so far its been fairly compelling.
>>25180120Gutting ≠ permutation. It was fucking gutted. Islam is more of a permutation
>>25180035Book is great. But most only need the documentary desuhttps://odysee com/@MonsieurDePhocas:0/E.-Michael-Jones---A-Goy-Guide-To-World-History----Full-Version:2
E. Michael Jones thinks conversion makes you a gentile. Read K-Mac instead
>>25180035>Thoughts? Im up to chapter 12 and so far its been HEBREW NONSENSE.fixed it for you, OP.
put anyone, fiction, politics, philosophy, math ect.accepting putting two in same grid if they are similar and important enough to you as each other
>>25180147I think you may be confusing Carl Jung on the chart with Ernst Junger who is not on the chart
>>25179037kek
>>25180134Nigga this is some entry level /lit/core. If you've been here 5+ years you should've read most of them already.For reference, I read:>Iliad (once), Odyssey (twice) I liked the Iliad more though>some of his greatest (Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth) and started my way through his early plays chronologically (up next is Julius Caesar)>Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained>V., 49, GR>Moby-Dick, Pierre, Confidence-Man, Piazza Tales>Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses, the first page of FW before dropping it>Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness (yet to read any actual novel)>Crime & Punishment, Demons, TBK (didn't like Demons)>Buddenbrooks, Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus
>>25180225huh. youre right. nevermind, my bad, sorry man
>>25180267If you weren't a newfag you'd know /lit/ likes the Iliad more.Shoehorning pynchon in there is just proof you've only heard of these other Classical greats. Unless you're literally 18 or something
Thrice greatest edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>25103936>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>25179670For me it's ἐϋπλόκαμος
>>25179135https://voca.ro/18KvD4LRXnOt
>editio princepsWho can write an entire book or at least a well written essay completely in Latin?
>>25180450it's not doing it the problem, is finding a reason to
>>25180893I see people sometimes claim to be able to do stuff like this and even to have better latin than a given Roman that isn’t Cicero. I take the position that if you haven’t done it, you can’t say you can, because you haven’t proven you can, and you’re just being a braggart like many classicists.
How the fuck does this get published?
>>25180847Was this traditionally published? What even is this? Where is this from? If my eyes get cancer, I will hold you responsible.
>>25180847cuz that's the modern standard qwuakekekekek
>>25181032It's from the new York times best seller written by Andy Weir.
>>25181039Well, I don't want to dump on someone's work, but this is not of a style that I could cope with, I think.
>>25181039>It's from the new York times best seller written by Andy Weir.It's from the JEW York times best seller written by SOME JEW.fixed it for you, so now you can see the underlying issue/problem.Pro tip: "the most important book of the year!" (it almost certainly is not)pro tip: "the most important book of the decade!" (it definitely isn't)
>greatest writer at the time of his death>had a vast library containing tens of thousands of books on every subject under the sun>reached advanced proficiency in math and physics for fun (a member of SFI said he matched most professors in those subjects)>had a large circle of friends from every discipline; his best friend was the inventor of the quark>didn't own a computer, use a smartphone, or have any internet presence whatsoever, not even an email addressCan we just admit that computers are the bane of creativity?
>>25180807>inventor of the quarkAnyway, it just so happened that he lived in a period where computer/internet usage was not so integrated and needed for proper functioning in urban society. You shouldn't mistake this correleation for the very reason that he was good at writing obscurantist non-canonical novels for midwits.
>>25180807>inventor of the quark>greatest writer at the time of his deathPynchon is still kicking, I don’t think he’s as good as what other people think, but he’s better than McCarthy. Not a fierce competition in the 2020s regardless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrUy1Vn2KdI theres a mac in the background of this interview visible at 0:26 lolif you know how to parse the overwhelming knowledge online computers are actually an incredible asset. a few decades ago all of the knowledge we have wouldve been paywalled behind college tuition, but now the only wall to understanding this stuff is time and discipline. cheer up. the potential for personal development is higher than ever
>>25180953>pynchon>better than CormacLol
>>25180953Pynchon is garbage. Much-ado-about-nothing writer
Why are women so obsessed with Harry Potter?
>>25174411I don't care about harry potter, who is the girl?
>>25174411despite that women no longer marry in their late teens and early 20's, women will never stop obsessing over school twice as hard as when they made the most important decision of their life at that age. they still make the most important decision, only its not between chad and brad, its between mammon, satan, or hecate
>>25180032She's a Russian nanoceleb.@begi_krolik_begiWouldn't get your hopes up, she disappeared from everything a few years ago.
>>25179228Yeah we need to have it more often
>>25180144>Wouldn't get your hopes up, she disappeared from everything a few years ago.Unfortunate, she cuteLooked better with the harry potter glasses desu, they suit her face. >>25174478 >>25177336 >>25180838 look kinda mid
There is nothing after death.
>>25180813>and the sense of a unified individual persists.We wake up different people each day based on experiences (of the previous day)
>>25180813If there is no continuity of the brain, why is there a continuity of the soul-brain connection? Why is my soul always attached to my ever changing brain?
>>25178252Memory is in the brain. Personality how it is shaped.Even if identity, a particular awareness perspective, survives it would be like a Alzheimer's victim but unbound by spacetime. You won't remember ever having lived.
>>25175226If the Universe is a computer, it either goes in cycles or it gets stuck in some state. If it doesn't get stuck, everything that is happening now will repeat after some (potentially very large) period of time. Point being, even on pure materialism, you cannot make that claim.
>>25181091Quantum reduction is likely the fundamental proof against a computational world, a computer will ALWAYS halt at some point. It is literally impossible—because it doesn't have actual understanding or awareness or will or calculation; it doesn't 'grasp' that 2+2=4 that's just somewhere in its memory represented by an arbitrary logic gate sequence. (Otherwise there wouldn't be infinite possible CPU architectures.)So reduction proves there must be intentionality essential to the very substrate of spacetime.There are no gaps.
