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20153691 No.20153691 [Reply] [Original]

Imma just live in the woods now. Dude knew what was up.

>> No.20153776

>>20153691
I'm reading it right now and feeling like i'm being filtered hard. Maybe because english is not my first language?

>> No.20153793

>>20153691
Simplify, simplify, simplify!

>> No.20153835

>>20153776
Was hard at first. Decided I would only read a bit each time and let it sit in my brain. Dude wrote alot of substance in a few pages. Alot to dissect.

>> No.20153910

>>20153776
>>20153835
Try smoking some weed first. I find it helps.

>> No.20154326

>>20153691
see you on >>>/out/

>> No.20154424

>>20153691
It was a satire. Can’t believe readers take Thoreau seriously when he advocates sleeping in railroad boxes

>> No.20155990

>>20154424
too late already looking at land

>> No.20156058
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>>20153691
Enjoy, Thoreau is my favorite author

>> No.20156617
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>>20153691
Let’s go back friend
Read linkola, ted, Jensen, or Elull next

>> No.20156630

America unfortunately doesn't have much of a philosophical tradition despite it's 250 years of existence. I know there were European transcendentalists, but is transcendentalism the closest thing there is to a uniquely American philosophy? <img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/d3c674ba_monkaHmm.png"><img class="xae" data-xae width="32" height="32" src="https://s.4cdn.org/image/emotes/d3c674ba_monkaHmm.png">

>> No.20156645

>>20154424
he was making a point that you clearly missed. he doesn't even disavow living in luxury. read him again.

>> No.20156684

>>20153776
i'm a native english speaker and it's difficult even for me. if you want to actually understand what he's saying, do not read past a chapter that makes you ask yourself "what the fuck is he saying"; you may have to go back a paragraph or two to understand what he was saying, but everything he says can be understood and he makes some good points. for instance: you may be struggling to read along and come across the jumping arabs part and find that this metaphor doesn't make sense. you can reread this and the last paragraph to better furnish the context as meaning wealth cannot be enjoyed when you have it by debt, like 97 of 100 men.

>> No.20156875

>>20153691
>Imma just live in the woods now
gay
what u finna do in the woods? fuck a squirrel?

>> No.20157060

>>20156630
perhabsss....

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>> No.20157479

>>20156645
Other anon is "sorta" correct in that he wrote in an almost satirical way. It's a voice you don't see often and a lot of retards think "walden is like Plato or some shit" and think that Thoreau is written in a serious tone. It's a lot more like Alan Watts; filled with lots of light-hearted absurdities to make you laugh and then really think about what he's saying. The whole "why, you don't need a house, just poke some holes in box and crawl in when it rains" is absurd, but really does highlight that you don't actually *need* a crazy-expensive living place.
It's a wonderful book and it always makes me angry when people "don't get it" because they come to it, thinking they're about to read Heidegger.

>> No.20157697

>>20156875
Probably just read some more.

>> No.20157708

>>20157479
I mean its obviously written in a less serious tone but there's still meaning derived from it. Yelling "it's satire" is so obvious and meaningless. Animal Farm is also a satire, but there's still something to take from that book. If you take literally everything as gospel you're probably retarded. But the general sentiment is still there within the pages. I should also add I read his more serious books as well.

>> No.20157712

>>20156630
I guess. I think we have a lot of philosophies here they either don't catch on or aren't marketed as a philosophy. I'm sure with time there will be much more.

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>>20153691
Didn't he also have his mom wash his laundry and bring him food regularly?

Kek. What a neetchad.

>> No.20157813
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20157813

To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. - "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

>> No.20157816

>>20154326
No one goes outside on /out/

>> No.20157827

>>20156630
Ralph Waldo Emerson is the mind of America. He founded the American Religion.

>> No.20157852

>>20157813
Definitely got to read some of ol Ralph now.