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What's something you wish more people would know of? Whether it's a skill, a piece of knowledge, a book excerpt, advice, a genre of music, a game, or a website.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your opening post in future, as per the /hum/ sticky, The opening post for any thread must always be descriptive without exception; elaborate on intent and the why, rather than simply the what., As per the rules page 4. You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf.)

Philosophy as a whole.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your post in future, please state why you think people should learn philosophy as whole, and also provide any other relevant information )

I wish more people took psychedelics. Makes you more willing to think about things in different ways when your own experience becomes radicaly different.

I wish they taught formal mathematical reasoning and proofs in school. It makes helps you to get a grip on how good your arguments about something are, even outside of a formal setting.

>>1417 What's a good introduction you'd recommend?

>>1421 I'd recommend Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Louis Althusser, but that book hasn't been uploaded in PDF form in English on the Internet as far as I know, but you can find it in French and Spanish on libgen.io . There is another written by George Politzer: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=A6FE6A6176D1D07813DAF95C7CC16F0A It is good, but I don't find it as good at the first. Still, it is great as a primer.

Personal finance, basic economy, etc.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your post in future, please state why you think people should learn basic finance and economics, and also provide any other relevant information )

Communism(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your post in future, please state why you think people should learn Communism, and also provide any other relevant information )

>>1421 The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant is an excellent overall introduction to philosophy without the dryness that introductory textbooks often suffer.

>>1424 > basic economics

Mindfulness, empathy, anything that actually puts their lives in perspective with other human beings. >>1421 Honestly? Plato. Euthyphro -> Apology -> Crito -> Phaedo. The Phaedo makes me cry every time.

Non-primitive conception of religion, i.e. beyond animism (it refers to atheists and believers alike). Also, I wish more people were aware of the existence of 'ethics', so that we would have less people like >>1428, casually praising the ideology of genocide. >>1433 Actually, it's not that far from the truth. Unconditional worshippers of free market are (mostly) laymen who have comprehended the basic principles of economics and think that they have it all figured out. Communists are laymen attempting to solve the most complex problems without even the basic understanding of said problems or apparatus to understand them. Both are grave oversimplification and conceit.

everyone is just faking it till they make it, no one really knows what they're doing, and that's fine. >>1453 please do not attempt to derail this thread with politics.

Wild plants Most people just ignore the stuff that grows wild, even though its often nutritious, tasty, easy to grow and process. Economy and healthcare would be much relived if people would ask themselfs what is what instead of writing it off as a weed they have to fight to keep their little lawn. Also fuarrrk people with lawns!

90s music that isn't grunge.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your post in future, please state why you think people should learn 90's music that isn't grunge, and also provide any other relevant information )

>>1463 I kind of did contribute to that, sorry. To my defence, I was merely reacting.

I wish people knew that I was above them. They should leave me alone unless I need them.

>>1419 Agreed. Even if you have a "bad trip", you do learn a ton about yourself and the world around you. >>1424 this >>1464 Yes! But I imagine people want other people to rely on products rather than nature. That's just the stuff you gotta learn on your own through survival guidebooks though as I've been reading.

>>1464 like dandelions? God those things are great and they infest my lawnIn my defence, it's not my lawn, but my parents'

I wish people thought more about their child's future and prospects, plus the global situation of overpopulation before deciding to procreate and spawn yet another human being.

I wish everyone who uses a computer could use the command line and shell scripting. People have no idea how inefficient they are being and just how much of what they do could be automated easily. There is no need for everyone to learn programming but if everyone could, for example do bulk operations on a bunch of files in a folder without downloading special GUI programs for each specific task they would be much better off.

>>1453 I'm not praising the ideology of genocide. I'm praising the ideology that will release us from our ideologies of genocide.

Stoicism.(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, Please elaborate in your post in future, please state why you think people should learn Stoicism, and also provide any other relevant information )

>>1421 >>1429 Time to get the thread back on track with materials.

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Go (the board game, not the programming language). It's pretty big in the East, but I wish it were more well known in the West, as finding opponents can be pretty hard. For those who don't know, Go is a game of strategy dating back at least three millenia, where players aim to create more territory than their opponent. Because of the large board (19x19) and length of games, no two games are ever the same, and you can keep getting better your whole life.

>>1586 I don't quite understand Go, and that's why I can't seem to get past 18 kyu. >>1583 I like the blue better than the red

>>1415 Rejuvenation technology Within 20-30 years it is VERY likely biotechnology will have reached a point wherein aging will be optional. Yet becase of people still seeing this as Sci fi this field of science is very badly founded which increases the risk of Rejuvenation technology taking up to 100 years to hit the market, meaning certain death for many of us. Look up Aubrey de grey on youtube, that man is the second comming for the lord.

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>>1635 I'm OP, and I thought that my warning was pretty fair. Just asking "What" without a "Why" makes the question a lot less open-ended, and can lead to some pretty simple posts.

>>1636 Sometimes simple posts are nicer. It can be comforting to just speak your mind quickly, if people want to know more they can ask for it. Obviously it's good to promote discussion in general, but this is /hum/. Not every post needs to be a thesis

>>1639 for instance I would have preferred to end that post at the first sentence

>>1639 I agree And now explaining why i agree would be pretty pointless and tiring

>>1635 >>1641 >>1642 I tried to say this same thing and have had my posts deleted. Even though I originally made a perfectly acceptable post on /q/. Was well thought out included what you guys were saying as well as many more reasons while the later ones included some personal attacks which im sorry about I was just pissed at how the moderation is being run here, the original was very much more of a suggestion with even me saying "Maybe other people don't feel this way on this site and i'm just out of touch but I felt I should voice my opinion just to see". Just straight up deleted.

>>1635 If you'd have asked me beforehand if making it blue was a good idea I'd have laughed but, honestly, it is a lot nicer. >>1641 You probably could have. It seems to be mostly OPs or very short replies that beg for elaboration like the one word replies in this thread. Even then, it's only some blue text. >>1647 Wait. How did you get from reasons for short posts to personal attacks? Who were you even attacking and why? You could always try again without the getting personal bit. In general you're going to have trouble convincing anyone of anything after you insult them. People just don't work like that, they get defensive. Also they're usually pretty reluctant to delete stuff, are you sure it wasn't just moved? He mentioned moving stuff before.

>>1649 maybe I didn't explain myself clear. my first post had zero personal attacks. and it was posted on /q/. there was no reason for it's deletion. Was several paragraphs, by no means was me "spewing soykaf", and was a very nice post with me giving a lot of room saying that maybe I was the idiot in the situation and just didn't understand. it was after that was deleted I mad a "passive agressive post" in this thread. By personal attack I meant I said appleman probably loves to hear the sound of his own voice, and that was pretty much the extent of it.

>>1653 Your post wasn't deleted. It was merged with the existing complaints / feedback in /q/ about warnings , see >>>/q/4381 . Because it was a merge (as opposed to a move) and it was on the same board, there is no shadow-merge functionality (because merge's keep the same post IDs) yet, so no notification of the move was available.

>>1671 thanks for the Dangerous Persuaders book - opened it because the name caught my eye and then have read the parts about multilevel marketing sales companies operating almost as cults - I have worked in one for a while and this book pointed out to me the possible consequences of their techniques....

>>1882 I wish I could get everybody to read it. It struck home for me because my father was an acid casualty who spent years trying to develop The Voice Of Command from Dune, using me as a guinea pig, and I recognised the hypnosis technique from that book as a variation of his method. Most cults use some version of that soykaf.

>>1419 Eh, a lot of people are against drugs in general, and for good reason. I wouldn't say drug use is something to be encouraged.

>>1885 what is this "good reason"? Most people drink alcohol, which is in many ways a more damaging drug than any psychedelic.

>>1478 I wish people did their research on "overpopulation" and how "overpopulation" is not real and how the myth of "overpopulation" is promoted by elite interests for their own profit and against all peoples and that these elites seek to impose a total global genocide and depopulation program For more details, refer to the following: https://lainchan.org/r/res/4065.html#4708

I wish everyone would have read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes 10 years ago and gave up sugars for any non-trans fats. It's been 50 fuarrrking years of sugar lobby money in diets recommended by government agencies. I wish people knew that many over-the-counter medications can be replaced with a proper diet and some berries, leaves and nuts. Active ingredients in most of those won't ever be in a "proper" pill produced by a big pharma corporation because they can't be patented (because of "exists in nature" criteria). I wish governments sponsored medical testing of unpatentable chemicals.

>>1934 The sources are all youtube videos. I don't really have time to watch them, but the minute someone starts rattling off about the global elite and how most people don't realize whats REALLY going on, it appears to me they are just someone whos entered their own little hugbox of conspiracy theories and is only delving deeoer and deeper in. Seeing everyone else as dumb idiots who just don't do their research, when actual real research points in other directions and only specifically searching for that which you want to hear will paint a picture of some global elite bent on world destruction.

>>1997 dude, you're responding to a troll. Stop it.

>>2000 He's not a troll, but maybe thats what its really come down to. I don't disagree maybe there is a global elite, hell there probably is the 1%. Yet the minute someone starts talking about it its always linked to some alt right soykaf and gets twisted into some weird alex jones plot where they are pure evil and want to destroy mankind. If there is one this was their goal all along, discussing things like that will eventually cause anyone to completely assume you are alt right and a troll. Making the right conspiracy theorists only push even harder as they feel the elite is winning, causing everyone else to further ignore anyone bringing up such ideas.

>>2001 no, I mean the specific person who always posts about overpopulation and/or peak oil. They engage in trolling tactics(ignoring real arguments, repetitive posts, etc.). There are many people on here who genuinely hold right-wing views but are not trolls. >>1934, however, is a textbook troll. Feeding him is pointless and stupid.

>>2002 I see trolling as something you have to do intentionally. I don't think he sees himself as trolling.

>>2004 I disagree

>>1994 >proper diet and some berries, leaves and nuts Do you think it's possible to eliminate the need for any and all opiod or pain pills (for example, if you just had a surgery and are in the recovery period) by simply eating a lot of greens and drinking berry almond milk smoothies instead? Or is there some other stand-alone "pain relief" edible natural product (besides cannabis, I know people use that) that can do this? I love researching into healthy diets and natural medicines.

>>2016 > pain relief For that humanity studied chemicals well enough and most of the drugs are of plant origin anyway (opium poppy, cannabis) so I would just take the well-measured doses (pills) if I could.

Forgive me appleman for getting upset you put a warning on this seemingly innocuous OP. Clearly you had some foresight I didn't judging by the posts.

This thread is off topic and will be restored to topic and warned appropriately. Please do not the let new BLUE warnings and suggestions confuse you. I wish that people would read the rules, and respect the rules. /hum/ is not /civ/, politics and left <insert blah> and right <insert gah> that is not framed with regards to its impact on the human condition or elaborated on is not appropriate for /hum/. If you want a /civ/ then ask for it on /q/.

>>2202 which is the /p0l/ board here? (polite sage for off-topic)

>>1415 I wish people would know more about psychanalysis and psychology in general. 90% of people are only puppets of their own uncounscious without even knowing it, and all of their arguments and rational theories are made for the sole purpose of supporting ideas, mental structures and ways of thinking they acquired as children. Most of intellectuals are the same, but they're better at justify those with (seemingly) logical statements. The unconscious' influence is absolutely destructive of every bite of rationality in particular when talking about sex-related topics, but it's not limited to them only. And it influences people's actions too, not only ideas. If someone wants to try to free itself from all of this i suggest as a first reading "games people play" by Eric Berne. It is a bit simplicistic on some things but it's a great start, short, interesting to read, and you surely will want more when you finish it. Then you can pass to other Berne books, Freud ones, and so on with heavier and heavier stuff. Even having read only Freud, you'll gain acces to A fuarrrkING TON of other philosophers' and thinkers' works which have his themes in them, in particular pratically all of the french ones who, i dunno why, seem to love the matter.

>>2209 There isn't one, because they invariably attract retards who then spread to the other boards.

>>2209 There is no /p0l/ board. Actual political discussion currently goes in /r/ (defined terms of engagement, OP that elaborates what and why and justifies an opinion or point of view, replies that actual discuss what and why from a political science perspective, etc), though soykaf shouldn't be posted at all.