/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21578980]

how to unpseud myself?

[Anonymous No.21579073]

>>21578980
Never discuss that which you don't understand, and never claim to understand anything you do not. If you want to discuss things, study them. I recommend you start with the Greeks.

[Anonymous No.21579076]

>>21578980
engage with things that will humble you

[Anonymous No.21579327]

>>21579073
>Start with Greeks
Troll. Rest of the "advice" is reddit tier. That's exactly how you BECOME pseud. Hyperspecialized brainlet who can't say shit unless professor permits him, while high on self produced ammonia methane from being such a domesticated tool.

[Anonymous No.21579350]

>>21579076
Nothing more humbling than having a large black penis in your mouth

[Anonymous No.21579352]

>>21578980
I believe you can't, unless you forfeit your desire for knowledge altogether. "Intellectuals" are pseuds by definition, some just less tame than others.

I'd say listen to others and never subscribe to any ideas yourself. Do not dismiss any attempt of discourse since this is where you start to become not only pseud, but hypocrite. You absolutely can speak about that which you don't know, just make sure you stress that you are saying something that you can't prove for sure, such as - I believe, since one of the base rules of reality is uncertainty.

[Anonymous No.21579378]

>All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two which they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no “facts” at this table. What! Because bread is good and wholesome and necessary and nourishing, shall you thrust a crumb into my windpipe while I am talking? Do not these muscles of mine represent a hundred loaves of bread? and is not my thought the abstract of ten thousand of these crumbs of truth with which you would choke off my speech?

>[The above remark must be conditioned and qualified for the vulgar mind. The reader will of course understand the precise amount of seasoning which must be added to it before he adopts it as one of the axioms of his life. The speaker disclaims all responsibility for its abuse in incompetent hands.]

[Anonymous No.21579397]

>>21578980
1. Stop using social media
2. Don't try to impress people with "knowledge"
3. Don't try to "win" any argument
4. Realize you know nothing and the devils are here.

[Anonymous No.21579488]

>>21579327
No it isn't lol. If you read Plato and "become a pseud" anyway, then that's on you, not on the reading material.

[Anonymous No.21579506]

>>21579327
No, keep learning so that you can discuss more. Pseuds talk about things they don't understand all the time- that's really the defining feature of the pseud.

[Anonymous No.21579546]

>>21579378
pseud post

[Anonymous No.21579561]

>>21578980
Pseud behavior stems from insecurity, you have a need to prove yourself and feel important. So address that root cause, find things you like for their own sake and get good at them. Some of the least pseud people I've met were IMO gold medalists, they understand the limits of the knowledge, whenever we had to tackle some difficult problem, I often felt the need to spew some shit out right away, while they were not rushing anywhere but managed to arrive to a solution much quicker. They never felt the need to show off in non-math related topics also, but rather approached them with a genuine curiosity.

[Anonymous No.21579565]

>>21579327
this
following "the canon" is exactly how one becomes a pseud

[Anonymous No.21579580]

>>21578980
Delete the frogs for starters

>>21579073
Discuss it, by asking about it.
>>21579076
Engage with people, starting from a humbled point.
>>21579397
Good, 1 through 3.
New #4. Don’t give a fuck what others call you.just learn, by books and by experience, as evenly as you can.
#5. Enjoy

[Anonymous No.21579864]

>>21578980
read books that make you think: "huh"?

[Anonymous No.21580997]

>>21578980
Thanks for activating my fight or flight reflex.

[Anonymous No.21582244]

>>21578980
Don't let the label "pseud" bother you. That's literally it.

[Anonymous No.21582253]

>>21579073
>Never discuss that which you don't understand,
Fuck that! Those are the funnest discussions.
>>21578980
There are known unknowns, and unknown unknowns. Consider and try to categorize/catalog what are the former, and what might be the latter.
And keep the pepes.