>>15017
You need practice.
Practice, practice, practice.

The main issue is that you need to fully comprehend and understand the grammar of it, when to use what. thank you captain obvious that was fun.

Tools like Duolingo and Rosetta Stone may be great, but certainly not enough alone. Pick up a book about the language in Danish (and not one of those LERN TCHERMAN IN FIFE MINUT HIHI) so it would better provide you with an explanation about it.

What I would do, is watch German media intensively so I would get the feel of the language - ofcourse, Germans here would be a better judge of what to watch.

Or, if you're really serious about it (need it for work or something), go to a Goethe-Institut (or anything similar), learn the traditional way and interact with your teacher.

I learned German back in school for eight years and it went to rust. I used Duolingo to unrust it but found out it was not enough.

Later on I tried to pick up Greek and found out that the best method for me to learn a language on my own was a combination of Rosetta Stone + Duolingo + a book + online dictionary + some websites that broke down grammar for me. What I did miss was watching Greek media and practicing with someone. I figure it's the same for German as well.

>>15420

>you'd be a good philosopher or mathematician (if you aren't one).

Heh, I'd like to imagine that I'd do well as a philosopher in ancient greece or something, but that's more because ancient philosophy is about the level at which my expertise ends. The modern philosophical frontier in the subject of the mind as related to neuroscience and the mind body problem are beyond my level of intelligence. Hell, I'm struggling to figure out dialectics, even.

Besides, I feel that in order to be a philosopher / mathematician, one has to have an academic career in the field, which is impossible for me because >academia on the kazakhstan. So I'll have to be content with writing down my ramblings into a personal diary.

Also, interesting thought I had regarding language that I had while writing yesterday's posts. I am becoming acutely aware of the fact that I am limited by my language. The English language played a trick on me that I noticed while formulating my argument regarding the nature of art: there is a difference in meaning between "What is art" and "What art is", that can slip under one's awareness.

The question "What is art" and the statement "This is art" concerns itself with listing a set of objects that are art. It is a linguistic definition, a way by which we define words. So, when we ask "What is a sun" or "what is a rock", we simply point to the sun or the rock, and establish an understanding of the intended meaning.

But the answer to the question of "What art is", and the statement "Art is this", are categorically different to the above. Those are concerned with the logical definition: formulating a concept of the word in question. Pointing at a rock to explain what "rock" is only makes sense if both parties have a CONCEPTUAL understanding of "rockness". In fact, such an explanation only serves as a translation, not a definition: it establishes that the sequence of letters / sounds that are written as "rock" pertain to (or reference) the concept of rock. In order to discover the IDEA that those words are referencing, we need to formulate a logical definition of "rockness". After all, if someone who has never seen a rock is given a rock, and the word "rock", the only information they can extract is that the object is referenced by the name "rock", and absolutely nothing about what the object IS, conceptually.

I hope I'm making sense.

This discovery has made me question just how much my metaphysical world is being limited by language, limiting me to "seeing" only the concepts which I know words for. It is a strong argument for learning more languages, both natural and artificial.

>>15746
I have actually ordered chloroform from Amazon before. I've actually still got that huge bottle of it in storage too somewhere afaik. Yes I was completely amazed at well anybody simply allowing me to buy something like a liter of it with no checks whatsoever and to then ship it through the mail (which I had thought was also illegal, or at least everything from toxins to bullets to butane lighters to radioactive and car batteries etc aren't supposed to be shipped but everyone does it anyway?). Which if I ever locate it I may have to at least air out if not dispose of because apparently the shit can release phosgene as it decomposes.

To be fair, I had actually gotten it for use as a solvent and largely just ended up using it when acetone or ethanol or whatever couldn't strip something like glue off. Or to try and use in making tinctures and extracts since I heard you can with butane didn't want to use that or alcohol until realizing I didn't trust myself with trying to extract herbal remedies with it.

I have no idea if you can still buy all these sorts of things on there though.

But as for the gas, I have discovered that apparently some North Americans get high from air horns in this way. As in, they blow the air horn in their face and huff it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BmrJeEv8E4
I would actually highly recommend against this. There are a lot less retarded and extremely dangerous ways to get high. Hell you could even just smoke some coleus blumens leaves if they dont have pesticides. Just don't get brain damaged from huffing compressed gases.