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What's the most retarded post you've ever seen on /lit/?

>> No.13875279

Passive aggressive fag

>> No.13875282

Can someone screencap this thread and post it here? I'm too lazy to do it.

>> No.13875292

>>13875274
Take your truvada, OP

>> No.13875296

>>13875274
I was dating a girl studying archaeology and that's actually what they teach them.

>> No.13875305

>>13875279
I called you retarded knowing you'd see it, faggot

>> No.13875314

Can someone explain me why this statement is wrong?

>> No.13875320

>>13875305
I'm not even the dude, just think you're a faggot

>> No.13875334

>>13875314
OP doesn't understand what history is

>> No.13875335

>>13875320
mmm sure thing

>>13875314
Just because it wasn't written down doesn't mean humanity didn't exist before the Greeks.

>> No.13875336

>>13875314
No because it’s not wrong

>> No.13875342

>>13875314
Well it is the definition of 'history'. Obviously humans have been doing shit, even religious or at least belief based practices beyond survival for tens of thousands of years before we ever invented writing. So that is part of our history.

>> No.13875348

>>13875335
history can mean the past or accounts of the past. the anon in the screen cap very clearly had the latter in mind.

>> No.13875353

>>13875342
It's not part of history though. It's prehistory

>> No.13875368

>>13875353
in the field of "history", this time is referred to as pre-history. before the written word, "history" didn't exist since you couldn't write things down. however, humans haven been making "history" since they appeared on the globe.

you're fighting over words, not actually discussing.

>> No.13875378

>>13875368
Well of course, history is a word with a specific meaning. Just because you don't like or agree with the meaning, it doesn't change what history means

>> No.13875396

>>13875378
"(...) the meaning of a word is its use in the language." - wittgenstein
how you use "history" is what "history" means. confusion arises because we often have different implicit assumptions. not even the static definitions of a word are as restrictive as you make them out to be. if you want proof of that, open up any dictionary, and you'll see multiple meanings classified under the same word.

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>>13875368
>"history" didn't exist since you couldn't write things down.

>> No.13875421

>>13875335
>doesn't mean humanity didn't exist before the Greeks.
But nobody is saying this you absolute retard. History as history litteraly has to begin When people started writing things down it doesn't mean there was nobody before that. Fuvking incredible How much of a brainlet someone can be while believing himself to be smart.

>> No.13875424

>>13875421
>History as history litteraly has to begin When people started writing things down
No. History is anything that ever happened, not just what was written down.

>> No.13875440

>>13875421
>>13875424
https://www.wiktionary.org/wiki/history

is this some sort of high level collective trolling? look at the definitions 1 and 4. everyone in this thread is fighting over which one "history" really means when it's all up to what you want to discuss. in fact, every single person in this thread is right because they're talking about different things. they just happen to all be labeled history.

>> No.13875443

>>13875424
>No. History is anything that ever happened,
No It's not retard.
Fucking Webster's Definition of history
1 : TALE, STORY
2a : a chronological record of significant events (such as those affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causes
a history of Japan
b : a treatise presenting systematically related natural phenomena (as of geography, animals, or plants)
an illustrated history of North American birds
c : an account of a patient's medical background
reviewing her medical history
d : an established record
a prisoner with a history of violence
3 : a branch of knowledge that records and explains past events
medieval history
4a : events that form the subject matter of a history
the history of space exploration
b : events of the past
History has shown that such efforts rarely succeed.
c : one that is finished or done for
the winning streak was history
you're history
d : previous treatment, handling, or experience (as of a metal)
a history of repeated exposure to freezing temperatures

>> No.13875474

>>13875440
>>13875443
>muh dictionary
History is anything that ever happened, just because written language didn't exist doesn't mean humans didn't do anything.

>> No.13875494

>>13875474
your complete inability to understand how language works is frightening, especially for someone who browses the literature board.

>> No.13875499

>>13875474
Repeating your retardation again and again doesn't make It any less retarded. Now go die of leprosy or something.

>> No.13875501

>>13875474
Stuff happened in prehistory as well, but it wasn't written down so we need archaeology to explain it, as a historical record doesn't exist

>> No.13875516

statements this great thread has come up with
>humans existed before we wrote it down
>historical records didn't existed before we wrote them down
you're all legitimately retarded, aren't you?

>> No.13875517

>>13875274
That dude who said Crime and Punishment sucked and was boring. Total brainlet.

>> No.13875539

>>13875516
this entire threads the out come of a passive aggressive anti natialist fag who wont just do us a favor and off himself

>> No.13875547

Phew, that thread was extremely retarded but, OP, that anon still isn’t wrong, at least in the context of what you were speaking about. He was clearly speaking of history as the study of the past, which didn’t exist formally until then. Hence, pre-history.

History, as used colloquially for “everything ever”, obviously existed.

>> No.13875560

OP BTFO hahahaha what a moron
Looks like someone didn't graduate

>> No.13875673

>>13875274
OP you're the retarded one.

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>>13875274

>> No.13875712

>>13875684
just give up OP

>> No.13875756

>>13875274
this one

>> No.13875763

>>13875274
>muh semantics
never forget: /lit/ will ruin it's day over this pointless pedantry instead of actually reading every time

>> No.13875858

>>13875274
This whole thread is now the most retarded post I have seen in the history of /lit/.

>> No.13875872

>>13875348
But there's oral history...

>> No.13875884

>>13875274
>Creating meaningful neologisms is the most important development of any philosophy.
Some Landfag.

>> No.13875939

>>13875335
do you mind naming any pre-historical historical figure ?

>> No.13876078

Retarded posts are the baseline for /lit/, including your post, OP.

>> No.13876159

>>13875274
Hey hey, that's me!

>> No.13876176

A thread went away forever for this petty garbage.

>> No.13876290

>>13875314
>it's an "OP thinks he's a mad cunt because he can into semantics" episode

>> No.13876342

>>13875884
kek thought this was a meme

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13876531

>>13875274

>> No.13876546

>>13875274
imagine being so butthurt that you made a whole new thread to whine about it

and you're still wrong lol

>> No.13876566
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13876566

History is only written record, before is pre-history.

>> No.13876578

>If God why bad things happen

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>>13876531
I'm on some next level weeb shit, but that definitely belongs in this thread.

>> No.13876610

>>13875314
It isn't. There are delusional retards who think there was industrial civilizations hitherto recorded history that simply have become inaccessible by means of progession of time and forces of nature. The muh before recorded history specatlive retards have no proof or even innate logic for their claims. Just a wishful fantasy of wanting there to be more than there is. Often Neo-Jungian and new age bullshitters.

>> No.13877363

>>13875443
AFAIK English has a gap in this regard. We need a word that encompasses "all true things that have come to pass" in order to distinguish between subjective/flawed recorded history and the truth of the totality of what has been in order to drag the concept out of abstractness.

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>>13875335
>the Greeks invented writing

>> No.13877424

>>13877390
>Start with the Sumerians!

>> No.13877496

>>13876610
>there was industrial civilizations hitherto recorded history
I believe this. Not industrial like our version of it, but rather advanced ones in the ice age. Never seen a convincing explanation for things like the Serapeum boxes, the pyramids of giza, especially the construction of the king's chamber, the colossi of Memnon, the huge ornate granite obelisks and columns, the thousands of diorite vases, the polygonal megaliths in south america, etc.

If it wasn't ice age times it was at least before the Dynastic egyptians or Inca, some civilizations we have no record of, because these civilizations simply didn't have the ability to create these things, and all of the other stuff they built attests to that, it's all incredibly inferior in comparison.

>> No.13877643

>>13875474
literally just kill yourself

>> No.13877647

>>13877496
>the pyramids of giza, especially the construction of the king's chamber
Are any of your questions not solved by allowing Egyptians use of limestone cement in the explanation?

>> No.13877662

>>13877647
yeah, the king's chamber has 70 ton granite beams in its roof that come from a quarry 500 miles away and are perfectly cut to interlock without mortar.

>> No.13877687

>>13875274

whoever started spreading that IQ of each board infograph and brought the bulk of normies post summer

meta

>> No.13877691

>>13877687
anon don't make me post it and derail this even further

>> No.13877726

>>13876531
lmao fucking accs.

>> No.13877745

So now that OP's request has been fulfilled, lets talk about why we love Nick Land.
I think that Nick Land is the only philosopher for people who, like me, are a radical misanthropist. Nick Land wants to eradicate humanity, and so do I. 95 % of people I've come to meet online or from the media or real life are either absolutes assholes and I get the urge to physicall hurt them, or they are vapid, uninteresting degenerates. Even on /lit/ I'd likely hate most people.
Who gives me the moral and philosophical permission to have this thoughts which would be considered "evil" in christianity? None better than Nick Land.

>> No.13877752

I really doubt you guys read ALL the required reading to finally reach the point of understanding of near all philosophy to the time of Nick Land.
Many esteemed university professors wouldn't qualify since they skipped parts by not understanding them or focused to much on one area by narrowing doen on it to achieve their goal of becoming established.
Sure you could also jsut pick up Nick Land after a couple wikipedia articles, but frankly if you didn't dwell on many 19-20th century philosophers and on all the previous philosophers necessary to understand them, you probably aren't to far removed from the dude who read couple major works, school of life and then picked up Fanged Noumena.

>> No.13877995

>>13877726
>accs
Explain pls

>> No.13878016

>>13877995
Accelerationists. G/acc or l/acc or w/e

>> No.13878022

>>13877995
It was written by an accelerationist and they have one of the other posts in this thread