/lit/ - Literature

Ohh thanks anon!

https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpostmodern

>Starts in 14 days

I didn't know this website existed!
Thanks

that is awesome. thanks anon.

>tfw lit delivers

amen to that brother!

captcha: aemen xb

>"oh god is that necessary?..."

Thanks for the share!

>>3377263
looks lame

Don't think I need an intro to philosophy at this point, but that Modern/Postmodern one looks interesting. Thanks.

>>3377288
shut up bitch

>>3377298
maybe it would be cool if he narrowed the scope of the course and more importantly didn't expect people to read popular contemporary crap, judith butler and rorty, but as it is, no thanks

Do you guys sign up with your real name?

Are those classes, do I really have to leave my house?
Can't I just download them and watch them at home?

>>3377320
They are for watching on the internet, duh. That's the fucking point.

>>3377263
>https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpostmodern
This one looks quite good. It lest you join courses that have already started too.

>>3377312
Well if you plan to use the certificates I guess you have to. If no, then it ain't necessary I guess.

>>3377320
They are free classes that you watch online. You don't have to participate in the group activities, or do the assignments if you don't want too. You can just watch the lectures. I think it's designed to give post-grads some kind of teaching experience.

>>3377303

>course on postmodern philosophy
>mad that he has to read postmodern philosophy

What are you doing

>>3377328
>>3377346
Thing is I might not be online when classes are going.

>>3377197

Hey man this website looks great, thanks for sharing.

So, what's everyone else signed up for?

>>3377358
Anyone logical would assume that people enrolled to a course would be able to view these lectures on demand, if, and when the pupil is available..

>>3377337
Why would I need the certificates? To put them on my resume?

>>3377379
I doubt the course will mean anything, other than an ability to hold a workload.

>>3377379
To frame them and keep them on the wall behind your mahogany desk.

https://www.coursera.org/course/ancientgreeks

I would read the modern and postmodern if it didn't contain the postmodern.

What is really real? Come on. Fuck that.

>>3377402
>What is really real? Come on. Fuck that.
>implying that question isn't present in every major philosophical period in history

are you deliberately being an idiot?

English composition for all writers:
https://www.coursera.org/course/composition

>>3377197
thanks anon. nice website.

this looks well interesting

>>3377413

0/10
>>>/sci/

>tfw the certificate will be an email that I have to print myself.

>>3377440
I'm serious. Probably gonna take this course.

>>3377440
>study of quantum reality
>science

do you even philosophy?

>>3377444
So what, do you learn to show off, or learn for yourself?

>>3377473
to americans the concept of education is inherently a thing to be shown off

>>3377478
this.

>>3377478
to canadians the concept of showing off is inherently bad because they have nothing of their own to show off and don't even like showing off anyway

>>3377473
>So what, do you learn to show off, or learn for yourself?
I engage in restrictive channels of 'formal' education for other people; to get a better job, more money, demonstrate to employers that I can learn to a high level, show the government that I am worthy of funding and can justify staying out of employment for a while longer. Yes, if I'm going to do a course, it's for other people.

If I choose to learn, it's for my own benefit. And I stay as far from the bias and fractalized subjects of mainstream academia as I can.

>>3377486
>implying i said showing off is inherently bad
>missing the point this hard
>implying im fucking canadian

butthurt amerifat detected

>>3377490
cry more, canada. we know it's always you and not the europeans who makes amerifat jokes because you're jealous (and more obese than us)

>>3377491
whatever quijote keep going at the windmills

>>3377488
pft lmao

>>3377492
As I sit here in my cowboy hat and red white and blue towel and consider the implications of being called quijote this early in the morning I think to myself it's going to be a great day.

>>3377494
>red white and blue towel
That's the spirit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgd9nYqVz2s#t=01m03s

>>3377512
Guess again, matey.

>>3377516
It looks more like a pair of curtains.
I'm surprised you fit in it.

>>3377516
Wow you actually have both of those things, I thought you were just making a joke

>>3377488
i lold
stay on auto-pilot bro

>>3377517
Haha yes American so fat ^_^

>>3377516

>>3377522
Are you kidding? I'm objecting to the 'auto-pilot,' the mindless floating through the education system, memorising answers, segregating related fields in to easy to digest pieces. I learn a lot more on my own than I do on my degree.

>>3377520

>>3377519
That would be an oddly specific and pointless joke.

>>3377531
Please stop it ok? I am really insecure enough already and I don't need this right now.

>>3377537
Why is one arm thinner than the other?

Would you two faggots just delete your posts.
Way to kill this thread.

>>3377537
I think you have lovely body. I would definitely lick maple syrup from it.

>>3377539
Because I masturbate a lot.

>>3377543
That's bad for you.
You'll get fur growing on your hands, and all the girls will laugh.

>>3377544
been doing it daily for 13 years. i shave the fur and i know it's a problem but i just can't stop

>>3377548
Have you seen a doctor?

>>3377549
I'm tackling one addiction at a time. Right now it's heroin. Next I plan to kick cigarettes. Then we'll look in to the batin.

>>3377551
You do understand that statistics show a positive correlation between chronic masturbation and the use of Heroin? Also, if you smoke you're 10 times more likely to commit crime.

I don't think you should be browsing this board.

>>3377553
I think maybe it's you who doesn't belong here. Citing statistics like we're sci or something.

>>3377553
>You do understand that statistics show a positive correlation between chronic masturbation and the use of Heroin?

This. I quit Masturbation with the help of group therapy and I immediately stopped using heroin. Now I just snort marijuana needles.

>>3377561
You guys do realize that everything I'm saying is true, right?

>>3377568
Why inject marijuana needles? You'll catch something nasty like that.

>>3377568
Yeah, right. I can't even find my dick when I have a serious 'nod' on.

>>3377572
We have exchanges here to help prevent the spread of nasty things you'd catch from needles. And anyway I told you I'm quitting. I got arrested about 2 weeks after that picture was taken and have been clean ever since.

>>3377576

What is the cotton swab for?

>>3377577
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism

>>3377576
Practice, grasshopper.

>>3377579
drop the cotton in the spoon after you cook the dope to filter out any large particles, make it easier to draw in to the syringe and save whatever's left for later

>>3377583

Ah, I see.

>>3377579
Put the cotton in the spoon with the junk and water. Then put the needle tip into the cotton to suck up the junk. It acts as a filter and takes out any big particles.

>>3377585
some people use cigarette filters, but i find that to be revolting and also notice those people getting cotton fever a lot more often than people who don't

>>3377582
I'm practising right now, Sensei.

/lit/ - Where further education threads turn into heroin consumption discussions in less than an hour.

>>3377595
Well good. Be safe, and try not to fuck over innocent people too much.

>>3377602
>/lit/ - Where further education threads turn into heroin consumption discussions in less than an hour.
I've been to lectures while on heroin. I can see the correlation.

>>3377602
If you wanna watch the same boring shit for five hours go to a baseball game.

>>3377608
>>3377609
No offense fellas. Short time lurker here from /pol/, good to see that I'm not the only intellectual on the gear. Stay safe brothers

>>3377614
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/14/high-iq-linked-to-drug-use/

>>3377624
Yes, if you do drugs, it mean you're smart.

>>3377674
No, silly. It means if you're smart, you're more likely to enjoy drugs.

>>3377197
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto&list=EC023BCE5134243987&index=1

Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205)

>For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with arms, meant to be used by intelligence and virtue, which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. - Aristotle

>>3377263
>taking a class in postmodernism

You can fuck right off.

this is what /lit/'s version of /v/-tier viral marketing looks like?

alrighty then

>>3377745
Hurr durr, marketing FREE courses for higher education.

Stop being a moron. Shit tier "memes" belong on other boards.

>>3377755
Don't engage him.

>>3377745
It's a collection of universities that have about 100,000 people on each course. If you think they're advertising on a slow 4chan board, you're delusional. They're not even trying to make any money.

>>3377740
The postmodernism course seems pretty good. >>3377336

>>3377777

I've got a better reading list for you insufferable pomo fags thinking of taking that course:

The Illusions of Postmodernism - Terry Eagleton
Logics of Disintegration: Post-Structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory - Peter Dews
French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism - Luc Ferry & Alain Renaut
Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism - Christopher Norris
Fashionable Nonsense - Alan Sokal
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology - Slavoj Zizek
Why We Are Not Nietzscheans - Luc Ferry
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism - Christopher Norris
Against Postmodernism - Alex Callinicos

Enjoy.

>>3377777
Cock.

>>3377774
I'm going to take the Pomo course anyway.

>>3377778
Enjoy getting indoctrinated in absolute bullshit.

>>3377779
Oh, they have a scientology course as well?

>>3377779
Nice try. But I'm taking the critical thinking course, the philosophy course, the general semantics course, and the construction of arguments course too.

>>3377781
They may as well. Postmodernism is just as fantastical as Scientology.

>>3377785
protip: Critical thinking is not what you think it is. It will be a very very boring course about scientific theory.

>>3377789
>Postmodernism is just as fantastical as Scientology

Holy Jesus. What's the mater with you?

>>3377791
>very very boring
>scientific theory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc5JXbyw1C0

>>3377792
I'm not him, but I get mad at things when I don't understand them too.

>>3377794
>>3377794
I said scientific theory you idiot.

>>3377582
tar=garbage stepped on by disgusting mexican dealers

>>3377583
Good luck staying clean with that love affair you're having.
Captcha: habitually ogypewo

>>3377802
know where to get china white in colorado? i'm all ears
>>3377803
been clean six months. was more of a recreational user before that anyway

>>3377802
I don't think it's black tar. Most smack in the UK is brown, it's not white, chemically treated pharmaceutical smack like the US gets, it's extracted from opium and refined.

>>3377595
Clean your fingernails.

>>3377614
>intellectual on the gear
omg. You are all so deluded.

>>3377745
Marketing for heroin, you mean?

>>3377815
Watch out everybody, it's a one man war on drugs.

>>3377812
>Clean your fingernails.
Sorry, Dad.

>>3377795
>implying there's anything profoundly deep about postmodernism
>implying it isn't just the dark refuge of a frightened child

>>3377792
Postmodernism is literally stagnating progress and ruining the world. What's wrong with YOU?

>>3377822
>implying progress is good
Sorry we don't all want to be goose-stepped in to your efficient naziworld.

>>3377820
I hope you get an infection.

>>3377818
You're right, I should shut up and let these foolish children brag.

>>3377825
>equating progress with Nazism

Typical pomo retard.

>>3377834
>being unable to refute his nazism and calls me a retard
Typical nazi.

>>3377843
>2011+2
>using Reductio ad Hitlerum as a form of argumentation

Typical pomo retard.

>>3377849
>implying reductio ad hitlerum isn't a valid logical checkmate

>>3377849
I see you're still not denying your nazism. It seems we've reached an impasse.

>>3377825
Hitler was an incoherent postmodernist in the Nietzschean tradition. What in the actual fuck are you even doing.

>>3377858
He was a vegetarian too, but I eat meat so we're clearly different people.

>>3377858
>Hitler was a[...] postmodernist in the Nietzschean tradition

oh dear lol

>>3377863
Hitler hated the modern world. Go pick up a history book that wasn't written by a merchant.

>>3377867
pftta fvwifuvnf

i can't even

>>3377851
>Implying Godwin's law didn't invalidate reduction ad hitlerum as a logical checkmate.

So I can join the glasses, not do the required work, and still have access to the videos right?

>Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative
are there actual courses like this in universities?christ.

>>3377886
My sides.

>>3377877
Yeah. I have joined a few that started already and can watch all of their videos. The assignments and discussions aren't compulsory, but I think you need to do them if you want a certificate. Also, it treats it like a normal course, so you have to wait for the lectures to be posted; a 7 week course will take 7 weeks for the final lecture to be posted.

>>3377867
>Hitler hated the modern world.

Hitler was just a tryhard that wanted to be Mussolini.

>>3377914
Well i guess one could wait til that 7th week, join it and then download the whole stuff at once. Or, of course, do everything from the start and get the certificate.

>>3377916
Hitler was an edgy faggot.

>>3377336
>Week XII
>Blade Runner
I'm so doing this now.

I found the heroin discussion interesting.

>>3377849
>>3377851

Guise, guise, guise.
Srsly.
If you are going to act like the pompous arrogance which flows through your minds, at least be dignified enough to correctly formulate a "pun"

It would be Reductio ad Hitlerem.

As Hitler conjugates differently from absurdum.
Now continue with your degraded discussion.

nunc oblectandum est mihi a vobis

>>3378034
Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.

That is my favorite latin phrase.

>>3378034
LA LA LA EXCUSE ME EVERYONE! TEE - HEE

I KNOW LATIN AND I HAVE INFORMATION I NEED TO BE A PEDANTIC SHIT ABOUT. TEE-HEE, TEE - HEE.

Yeah, no, nobody cares. Go away. Go correct dead languages on Reddit.

>>3378038
Ah, exemplum bonus dicentis est;
quidquid in Latine dictum sit altum videtur

>>3378034
Latinfag, eh? Try watching this, it's hilarious. Make sure the captions are on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7SeXuOxhg0

"Karl Pilkington caput sicut arantium damnatum est."

>>3378052
Sorry I should have said this is my favorite and only latin phrase.

>>3378041
Hello nobody.

Honestly, I prefer physical, face-to-face classes.

>>3378090
i guess you also prefer paying thousands of dollars to attend said classes?

>>3378094
you pay for the piece of paper that says you were there. most schools don't bother to check if you're supposed to be there and you can audit anything you like for free

>>3378101
are you the kind of person who doesn't participate in class discussion?

>>3378117
I don't participate in any discussion. Speaking out loud is absolutely terrifying to me.

"For many years I had loathed being called Alick, partly because of the unpleasant sound and sight of the word, partly because it was the name by which my mother called me. Edward did not seem to suit me and the diminutives Ted or Ned were even less appropriate. Alexander was too long and Sandy suggested tow hair and freckles. I had read in some book or other that the most favourable name for becoming famous was one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like Jeremy Taylor. Aleister Crowley fulfilled these conditions and Aleister is the Gaelic form of Alexander. To adopt it would satisfy my romantic ideals."

I've been getting literature advice from junkies.

>not being able to organize yourself a perfectly coherent reading schedule that covers a whole topic
>needing this kind of stuff to "learn"

you are just helping the teachers to add some experience to their CV.

>>3378179
Oh, it's you. Have you read Burroughs, Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey, John Keats, Oscar Wilde, or Byron yet?

>>3378179
When you think about it, are you really that surprised?

>>3378179
Also drunks, if that helps

>/lit/: heroin addicts and socially retarded aspies

>>3378179
>I've been getting literature advice from junkies.

What's wrong with Junkies? I bathe in the majestic bliss of opium, and I'm an English graduate. Your post seems to indicate that this wouldn't be the case.

>>3378219
opium is indeed a patrician tier drug

>>3378208
It should be fairly obvious to everyone here that the majority of /lit/ indulges in some substance or other. We have the drunks, the potheads, the space cadets, the junkies, and the full spectrum between them.

>>3378233
That's why I love you guys. The most dysfunctional elitists on the internet.

>>3378226
And also, pretty much literally the worst drug.

>2013
>doing heroin to fit into the 20th century "tortured artist/writer" mold

Full retard. You can get higher on Pranayama (if done right) than on heroin without turning into a fucking junkie in the process.

>>3378250
>Pranayama
>look it up
>Some kind of spiritual yoga bullshit.

>>3378255
Don't knock it before you try it, pleb.

Crowley used to get high as balls while doing it.

>>3378244
What measures are you using to determine the values for 'worst'?

Opium isn't really that bad. Smoked, it's actually a fairly mild high. Once heroin, morphine and the other opioids are extracted from it, then we see the addiction potential rocket, but even then, heroin –pure heroin– doesn't damage the body to the extent that excessive use of meth, crack or alcohol does.

>>3378208
Proud drunk here!

>>3378258
>junkietriestodefendhisawfulhabit.png

>>3378257
I'm pretty sure that had nothing to do with yoga meditation.

>>3378262
Pretty sure it did.

http://hermetic.com/crowley/eight-lectures-on-yoga/8yoga4.html

>>3378250
>You can get higher on Pranayama (if done right) than on heroin
"You're just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.” -Fear and Loathing

>>3378261
>Straightedgeprojectshisdogmaticviews.gif

>>3378257
>Crowley used to get high as balls while doing it.

He also used to get high as balls on heroin too.

>/lit/ - heroin

>>3378270
Agreed. I don't actually take drugs, but the concept of "getting high off of life" is a shit one, and I think you should be able to lawfully backhand anyone of this opinion.

Then again, I've actually had veteran users of just about everything tell me that talking to me is like being high. I'm not quite sure how I should take this.

>>3378302
It's not for me

I'm taking:
>Fundamentals of Financial Personal Planning
>The Modern World: Global History Since 1760
>Microeconomics for Managers
>Science from Superheroes to Global Warming
>Fundamentals of Human Nutrition
>An Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Perspectives from Public Health
>Algebra (need to brush up before I attempt any higher-level courses, the only math I've had since Algebra 2 junior year was Elementary Statistics)
>Introduction to Digital Sound Design
>Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Human Mind, Our Modern World
>The Language of Hollywood: Storytelling, Sound, and Color

>>3378395
Hello, other /lit/.

>>3378401
Wassup nigga? :)

>>3378401
Do you like how I'm insecure enough to justify taking Algebra both here and there?

>>3378395
So... what, instead of going to a real college you're taking a college workload's worth of courses online? Why? Taking similar courses at your local CC would at least net you credit towards a university degree.

>>3378409
What? I'm going to college. All of those classes are just interesting to me...

>>3378395
You obviously have no college experience. There is no way you'll be able to atend all those courses and learn anything of substance. Pick perhaps three max.

>>3378418
Dude, I'm literally in college. The workload for these classes on Coursera is laughably low. You obviously have no Coursera experience.

I posted a link to coursera last week and got a seven day ban for "advertising". I appealed it successfully, but goddamn the /lit/ mod is slow.

>>3378409
>>3378418
not the same guy, but I picked a similar amount of classes.
most of them don't even start any time soon, plus I'm in the army so going to actual college isn't an actual option currently, unfortunately. so why not learn some shit meanwhile?

>>3378422
No I don't. I figured they would be real college courses?

>>3378417
But how can you possibly handle all those courses along with a college workload?

>>3378426
They're real online courses, which you've obviously never taken. You watch 1 - 4 hours worth of lectures, over the course of an entire wee, and do maybe 2 hours of work for the entire week in a class, usually less.

>>3378406
lol, I just read your post half an hour ago.

I wish it was faster over there because they're all so much friendlier than here.

>>3377197
Thanks for this link, anon. One of the most genuinely helpful things I've seen on 4chan.

>>3378427
Because I'm not a goddamn idiot?

>2009+5
>not using opiates

how does it feel straightedgefags?

>>3378434
I know, right? I feel like a pioneer when I'm over there, like from the 1800's, settling the Western U.S. and waiting on news from the civilized lands...

>>3377740
why?

>>3378450
But we do use opiates.

>>3378427
A college workload isn't that high.

I'm doing
>Computational Methods for Data Analysis
>Image and video processing: From Mars to Hollywood with a stop at the hospital
>Introduction to Computer Networks
>Cryptography I

and signed up for a few others not available yet

>>3378452
I started reading through this thread, saw all the drugs, went over to /psi/ and /pss/ then saw this on /lit/, and guessed why they're talking about dugs. I wonder how many of us use both boards?

I seem to make comments over there, then I'm stuck. Trapped in a month long cycle of checking back every day to see if anyone's responded. I can never leave.

>>3378474
That's my primary home. This is the only board on 4chan that I use at all, and only because of how much I need to talk about /lit/. Also, some dingus got my dorm's IP banned over there and I can't be assed to find a working proxy most of the time through the week, so I just come here through the week and then spend most of the weekend over there. It's a good system.

Are we being visited by 420?

Greetings brethren. You have a far superior board to ours.

>heroin enthusiasts everywhere on my /lit/

Pretty good. Always seemed like an honest drug to me. I've never tried it and am from the bottle tribe, but I've always found the opiate crowd more pleasant and less delusional than the 420 folks.

>>3378484
Greetings, fellow /lit/izen. We come in peace.

>>3378491
I meant militant stoners, not 420chan. That's an alright board.

>>3378494
For someone who see's himself as an equal, would you mind recommending me your best boards. I have been considering a full on switch for a long time now.

>>3378476
I just can't take the slowness over there. The drug boards are okay - I use all of them apart from jenk, del, and dis - but the academic ones feel like a graveyard. I get confused when having a conversation at 1 post a day. It's a shame too, as those boards have so much potential.

When I'm on a chan, I spend most of the time here. I tolerate the angry rage for a better posting speed, but I'll usually migrate back to 420 when the negative atmosphere gets too overbearing here.

>>3378513
The mere idea of a board to which /lit/ is fast in comparison baffles me.

>>3378501
>>3378501
Lol, I mean, best is kind of hard to quantify. Here's the boards I frequent:

>/b/
>/lit/
>/mtv/
>/616/
>/his/
>/pss/
>/n/
>/vg/

In that order, but those are just where my interests lie. The whole place has a pretty consistent atmosphere, so just go to the boards that correspond to your interests. I switched over there as my main imageboard like my freshman year of high school and never looked back.

>>3378501
Not that guy, but If you enjoy any drugs, visit your relevant board/s. Hist, lit, pss... Well there all quite good. Just, like here, stay away from /pol/, though there not as bad with the JIDF shit.

/pss/ is the philosophy board, though that gets the same 'objective morality,' 'existential crisis' threads as here:
http://boards.420chan.org/pss/

Also, if you click the settings in the top right you can change the background from that awful black. I prefer classic.

>>3377366
>AIDs course; 9 weeks long
>google AIDS and read; 1-2 hours

>>3378539
>http://boards.420chan.org/pss/
Fucking hell, that anarchism thread.
>"Like, we have laws right? But we don't have to follow those laws. [insert obligatory Alan Moore quote]. Anarchy man. Like you can't live with it, can't live without it."
I keep forgetting how bad that place is.

>>3379221
>entire material of course can be summed up in 2 hours

yeah, why bother reading novels, when you could just read the sparknotes

>>3379266
It's called 420chan.

That's 105 4chans.

And that's terrible.

>>3379340
I laughed pretty hard.

>>3377366
All of those, baby.

>>3378395
I'm with you in Fundamentals of FPP, have you started week 2 yet?

>>3379266
That's not what he's saying at all.

"I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much how I see contemporary society. We live in a badly developed anarchist situation in which the biggest gang has taken over and have declared that it is not an anarchist situation – that it is a capitalist or a communist situation. But I tend to think that anarchy is the most natural form of politics for a human being to actually practice."

>>3379652
Not yet, probably gonna' watch the lectures tomorrow.

>>3380580
Thanks for reposting the Alan Moore quote there, and here's the guy's view:
>We have laws and governments, but in reality, there's very little difference between a government and any other group of people that put themselves in charge, on whatever scale that may be. Whether it be a group of high school bullies, the mafia, or the US government, the only thing keeping them in power is force and the people's willingness to follow their rules. At any time, we have the choice to follow or not follow the laws in place if we're willing to face the consequences if caught by those in power.
Like we don't have to follow laws...
>I suppose in some way this is also sort of self-defeating, in that it shows that "true" anarchy never exists, because someone will always take a position of power and some will always fall in line. However, at the same time, it brings to light the fact that, stretching the definition a little, anarchism is always present.
...that's like anarchy right?

There's even a "Anarchism is "without rulers" -- not "without rules."" post in there, and it's one of the more intelligent posts. Dildos man. That whole thing is.

>>3380602
He's trying to make the argument that anarchy is a 'default state,' and show the government to be on the same level as a gang of thugs who have seized command.

And this bit:
>At any time, we have the choice to follow or not follow the laws...
He's unsure how to reinforce his argument, but is suspicious of the states authority. There's nothing wrong with his line of reasoning.

But using this as an argument for why 420 is bad is absurd. We have posts like this one (just below the anarchy one) which are far better than anything we get here:
http://boards.420chan.org/pss/res/180815.php#180841

>>3380585
>>3379652
I just joined FPP today. Will watch lectures tonight.

>>3380627
Wow, I totally didn't notice the conflation with the state of nature, you're right it's incredibly deep and not dumb laughinggirls.jpg

>There's nothing wrong with his line of reasoning.
Apart from that we're now not talking about anarchy? Anarchy doesn't even necessarily disallow authority in some senses, which is what the "Anarchism is "without rulers" -- not "without rules."" guy nearly touches upon with his talk about democracy. It's a state of lawfulness or order without an attached system of coercion/force. So no, we obviously don't live in a state of anarchy by any stretch if you think "the government to be on the same level as a gang of thugs who have seized command", or even if you think that the justice system is coercive. So any laws or penalties that, for example, are meant to deter people (like people like to argue for the death penalty), those laws go against the spirit of anarchism.

The state of nature fundamentally lacks any order, which is why it's supposedly ended up as things like feudalism and capitalism. It just means that, way back when, no one had any advantage, but it obviously wasn't stable.

Hey if anyone is interested, the game theory course is fucking great. The lecturers are really good. Not a lot of previous math is required and there‘s a lot of online resources and exercises, if you are interested I recommend it 100%

>>3380835
>game theory

Sheeit, nigga. We be pickin' up bitches in no time.

>>3380667
>Apart from that we're now not talking about anarchy? Anarchy doesn't even necessarily disallow authority in some senses, which is what the "Anarchism is "without rulers" -- not "without rules."" guy nearly touches upon with his talk about democracy. It's a state of lawfulness or order without an attached system of coercion/force. So no, we obviously don't live in a state of anarchy by any stretch if you think "the government to be on the same level as a gang of thugs who have seized command", or even if you think that the justice system is coercive. So any laws or penalties that, for example, are meant to deter people (like people like to argue for the death penalty), those laws go against the spirit of anarchism.

This can be deduced to
>my opinion is not the same as yours

>>3380835
What would the practical use be for game theory.

I'm currently taking the introduction to ancient greek history while reading the odyssey and iliad, shit is awesome.

It's like the book makes sense.

>>3380935
>What would the practical use be for game theory.
You can apply game theory to biology, computer science, politics, philosophy, economics.. Anything really.

Knowledge is more of a cohesive spectrum than segregated groups of subjects. Knowledge in one area will usually benefit other areas.

>>3380952
Oh, I didn't mean to offend you. I was curiously wondering.

>>3380835
>>3380889
There's also an OYC course on game theory.

is https://www.coursera.org/course/algo

supposed to be as hard as it looks in the preview videos or am i just stupid... how much math are you supposed to know for that one...

>>3381008
Recommended Background:
How to program in at least one programming language (like C, Java, or Python); and familiarity with proofs, including proofs by induction and by contradiction.

>>3381011
yeah i saw that but it seemed like it needed more...

>>3381016
Have you started any of the courses yet? they're all really easy.

-Each week is split into about an hour of lectures, and this hour is split into numerous mini-lectures that are roughly 5 - 15 mins long.
-They have multiple choice questions each week to make sure you understood everything, and a forum with thousands of active posters discussing every little detail.

Pic related is a weeks worth of lectures.

>>3381034
Yeah I've been doing Introduction to Genetics and Evolution.

But just look at the Big-Oh Notation video:

https://class.coursera.org/algo-2012-002/lecture/preview

I have no idea what he's talking about lol... i think the prerequisites are more than just a programming language and proof familiarity

i'm thinking of doing the course anyway because easy courses are boring anyway

>>3380962
do you also laughingly chuckle?

Think any of the courses are easy enough to squeeze into my 5-course uni schedule?

>end up signing up for 11 courses
fuck.
what makes me think I'm smart enough for any of these.

>>3381102
Set up two email accounts. One to get the answers for the quizzes, one to answer them properly. When you get all of your certificates you can lean back and reflect on how intelligent you are for beating the system.

>>3381240
Genius.

>RESIST OCD ANON RESIST OCD ANON RESIST OCD ANON RESIST OCD ANON
welp, ended up signing up for 6 courses

>>3381240
noice, now you can impress the bitches about your irrelevant internet gold medals

>This thread
-So, my darling child, what have you learned today?

-Well, Dad. Today I learned that heroin users fucking love free online courses.

>>3381240
1. whats the point of getting the certificates if you don't even learn? it's not like you'll get a job because you took one of these
2. not all the answers are provided, and if you are doing something like an essay or a programming assignment, you get auto-graded or peer-reviewed.

dumdum

>>3381867
I think his 'reflect on how intelligent you are for beating the system' was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Are you American?

Also 'peer-reviewed'. I doubt that. One of the courses I signed up to has 120,000 people.

out of curiousity, what are some courses you guys signed up to?

>>3381909
most of them

>>3381909
-Human-Computer Interaction
-Neural Networks for Machine Learning
-Programming Languages
-Artificial Intelligence Planning
-Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

>>3377197
Did first week in FPP. Some useful stuff I guess, most of them I knew.

Shit is not 3-4 work hours. It took me 20 minutes and then I aced first week quiz.

Maybe it'll get harder.

>>3381909
this is me
>>3378471

>>3381760
Yeah, I know. I wonder how much time I'll have to dedicate to classes like "Startup Engineering" during my already busy school workload.

>>3381950
the key is to do it in the middle of the night and never sleep

that's what I did last semester

>>3381960
Hmmm, the whole semester again? Right, I'll need an amphetamine mountain and a shovel... I still ache like from last semester.

>>3381938
>judges an entire course based off of the first week

People like you always made me laugh in uni.

>>3381973
well, to be honest, I also looked at that course and it was a lot simpler than most other courses' first weeks

>>3381973
>Paying thousands for a course when you could invest in a business start-up and do the courses online for free.
People like you always made me laugh.

>>3381960
isn't it dangerous for your body if you don't sleep

>>3382000
Usually. And keeping people awake has often been used as a form of torture. But there are a few insomniacs who haven't slept in years and somehow manage to survive.

>>3381999
>invest in a business start up
>paying thousands

>implying i have money and am not lowering myself steadily into a grave of debt

>>3382015
Many of them practice meditation

>>3382015
actually insomniacs do sleep, just not restfully. It becomes physically impossible to stay awake for an extended period (like, a week) without going insane

>>3382015
>. But there are a few insomniacs who haven't slept in years and somehow manage to survive

Is that right?

>>3382015
They eventually fall asleep and get microsleep. They just don't get good sleep. There is a genetic condition where people can no longer fall asleep at all, not even microsleep, but those people go mad and die after a couple of years. It's called fatal familial sleep syndrome or something like that.

>>3382035
Did you know that if you were to eat the brain of a person with fatal familial sleep syndrome, you would also contract the condition?

>>3382044
Didn't know that, no. That'd be because of its similarity to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease presumably?

>>3382027
>>3382028
>>3382035
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Herpin

>>3382035
God, I'd love to hear or read the ramblings of somebody that sleep-deprived. I turn into a brilliant absurdist comedian after only ~36 hours of deprivation.

>>3382052
Bingo. Both caused by prions. The differences being CJD arises randomly, while FFI can be inherited.

Maybe you've heard of Kuru (another prion disease) that spread around native populations of Papau New Guinea because they were cannibals and kept eating the brains of the infected

>>3382056
Interesting, though I'd guess he was getting microsleep. It happens when you're tired and sit down and sort of stare into space, times like that, you're not even aware of it most of the time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsleep

I also vaguely remember some condition where people don't sleep but end up having seizures instead.

>>3382071
Kuru gave me nightmares when I first heard about it (as a kid).

Also, this is a pretty awesome thread

>>3377404
thoughts on this?

>tfw listen at x2.0 speed so much for all these psuedo-university websites and YouTube lectures that you can't focus during class because it's too slow for you

>>3382146
your sentence is confusing to me, but if you mean that you enjoy listening to courses at x2.0 speed, especially because real-life lectures are distractingly slow, I agree. I reall wish I could fastforward and pause my professors at whim.

>Attn:whoring by edgy drug-addled teenagers left and right, the thread

/lit/ = /shit/

>>3377197

Aww shit OP 10 star post.

>>3382233
are you upset

>>3382246
On the contrary, I find it hilarious

>>3382233
Lick it. Lick the poppy.

>>3382233
I transformed my penis into a sponge cake while a little female anteater was fucking it and started to menstruate... needless to say I wasn't able to soak up all the menses; my penis couldn't hold out any longer as it laid limp and heavy like an old 50 inch CRT monitor, and I had to ingest orally the rest of the menses until she couldn't do it anymore and actually became dehydrated from the whole thing... I didn't know that could happen or something...

>>3382015
they enter REM while being awake
no, its not a superpower
yes, it makes you practically a retard

>>3382251
reddit is strong in this one

>>3377366
>https://www.coursera.org/course/modernpostmodern
I lol'd at AIDS, sorry

After the course is over, does the information still stay on the site?

>>3377537
I love your body don't worry come on give us nudes

>>3377595
>>3377582
>>3377576
>>3377568
And I thought I was cool for making "sniffing nail polish" jokes. You guys are like Trainspotting live.

>/lit/ is full of junkies

No wonder this place is so incoherent.

>>3382697
Great stereotyping there. Not all heroin enthusiasts are the uneducated burglars that sensationalist documentaries like to depict us as.

>>3382697
>h-h-here i go

troll harder

>>3382697
>yfw your favourite modern writer was probably using opium

>>3382746
I bet GRRM does. Every couple of pages has someone drinking 'milk of the poppy.'

>>3382752
>Every couple of pages has someone drinking 'milk of the poppy.'

Eh'up Jon, drink t' milk o' poppy. Ah fancy a nice spiced wine meself. Ah'll nip up t' shop for cloves.

>>3382725
ahahahaha

Anyone doing these?

I'm listening to one right now for microeconomics. Don't judge me.

>>3383140
I never realised Yorkshire folk were so into opium.

>>3383522
I'm doing the one about the history of the world.
Or something like that, I don't remember the exact name.

>>3383609
cool

I recommend checking out some of the computer science ones just to see what they are talking about. pretty enlightening stuff

>>3384475
I'm just downloading the videos and saving them for future references.
How to Argue is a pretty good one too.
I can't care less about the certificate.

>>3383609
>I'm doing the one about the history of the world.

I tried doing that one, but the lecturer's voice and mannerisms irritated me too much.

bump for more edjewk8tin

>>3377197

Very interesting. Anyone actually finish one of these? What happens?

>>3387873
You get a certificate.

>>3387888
>>3387873

pic related

I'm in "Introduction to Philosophy" and "Disaster Preparedness", I don't have time for more anyway.

>>3387873

A big clown jumps out from below the table

I finished 3 with 0%

>not singing up for shit and months later crash through the lectures in 2 days

That internet history, technology, security shit just blew my fucking mind

now rolling

>Fundamentals of human nutrition
>Fantasy and sci-fi (2nd try, they fucking closed the old class archive as they made a new one)
>Astrobiology and the Search of Extraterrestial Life
>Intro to Phi
>Modern and the Postmodern
>Know Thyself
>Ancient Greeks
>Genes and the human condition
>Greek and Roman mythology
>Planet earth

lel

oh shit guyz, imma bring an apple the first day. hope i get to stay for some xtracaricculars if u know what i'm sayin.

bumping a real thread

>>3377197
bump?

>>3388484
I don't think this thread will bump anymore.

>>3388765
yes it will