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[Anonymous No.50352726]

Why is everyone so autistic nowadays?

>at dinner
>cousin asks if im reading anything
>I say yeah I the death of ivan ilyich
>he asks if its fiction or non-fiction
>I honestly forget what the difference is so I just say it's a novel
>he says he doesn't read things that aren't real
>I say are you too good for Tolstoy or something
>he says he just prefers to learn while he reads
>I say there is plenty to learn from Tolstoy
>he says "things that have practical value"
>I just stop talking because at this point i'm actually uncomfortable

[Anonymous No.50352787]

You are based, he is a basedboi practicuck.

[Anonymous No.50352816]

>>50352726
I don’t like reading fiction either, it never compares with reality

[Anonymous No.50352822]

Your cousin is unironically a soulless prick.

[Anonymous No.50352835]

>>50352726
He wants to use his free time to slave away for mutt coins

[Anonymous No.50352930]

Sounds like your cousin is doing some strange flex in his head trying to act superior.

[Anonymous No.50353196]

>>50352726
autism on both sides of this conversation

[Anonymous No.50353418]

>>50353196
That doesn't look like a bird

[Anonymous No.50353460]

>>50352726
People who say there's nothing to learn from fictional stories are soulless

[Anonymous No.50353515]

>>50353196
you think that's autism?
THIS is autism

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[Anonymous No.50353518]

>>50352726
I dont care for fiction either especially since i day dream fictional stories often anyway.

[Anonymous No.50353544]

>>50353196
you spilled jelly under the H-orse you dumb C-unt

[Anonymous No.50353572]

>>50352726
>Why is everyone so autistic nowadays?
>I honestly forget the difference between fiction and non fiction.

[Anonymous No.50353578]

Based Tolstoy. Read the half mad lord.

[Anonymous No.50353597]

>>50352726
Every book I have read has had at least one line that made me think about something in a different way. I only read books that are at least 100 years old though, except LOTR and Dune.

[Anonymous No.50353599]

>>50352726
Funny since Death of Ivan Illyich does have practical value

[Anonymous No.50353607]

>>50353196
so they couldn't think of an Iguana huh.

[Anonymous No.50353638]

>>50353607
they already used iguana for G

[Anonymous No.50353680]

>>50352726
>hey anon what are you reading?
>oh it’s just “Brothers Karamazov”
>is it fiction or non fiction
>is there a difference?
Then you 360 and moonwalk away

[Anonymous No.50353708]

>>50353638
and Giraffe for L so they couldn't put Ladybug there

[Anonymous No.50354176]

>>50353597
The only metric of a book should be how long ago the author died. There's absolutely no reason to read something read from 1980+.

[Anonymous No.50355109]

>>50352726
i had a roommate that also didnt want to play any vidya or watch any movies that arent 'real'.
no fantasy of any kind, no sci fi, no supernatural elements, nothing. even historical shit wasnt 'real' enough most of the time.
he liked to watch shitty obscure horror movies about truckers instead.
what a fucking twat.

[Anonymous No.50357797]

>>50353597
Read enders shadow books and speaker for the dead/children of the mind. Noohh

[Anonymous No.50357963]

>>50353515
upvoted

[Anonymous No.50358114]

>>50352726

textbook npc conversation. Completely pointless, useless, just passing the time. Better be in oblivion.

[Anonymous No.50358178]

>>50352930
>Sounds like your cousin is doing some strange flex in his head trying to act superior.
this sounds accurate

[Anonymous No.50358241]

>>50357963
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[Anonymous No.50358261]

>>50358241
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[Anonymous No.50358725]

>>50353708
Ladybird*

[Anonymous No.50358952]

>>50355109
should of given him a video of you taking a shit.

[Anonymous No.50359148]

>>50352726
>>he says "things that have practical value"

Preparing mentally for the time you will probably spend on your own death bed is pretty practical, we all have to face death in the end and those who don't come to terms with it, and I mean actually mentally becoming at peace with your own mortality, will have a lot of catch up to do in the end.

Oh and also realizing that most people in your life is probably just like the people in Ivan's life is pretty useful. If you had realized that too OP, you would have ended the conversation after line 4 in your greentext.

[Anonymous No.50359249]

>>50359148
This.

[Anonymous No.50359342]

>>50352726
practical niggers are the worst. You don't read good books to gain low level ADviSE or KNAWLEDGE, but to build out your ability to conceptualize, imagine and build out empathy for people and settings that are foreign to you. you are building scaffolding for abstract ideas, so you when you encounter these patterns/abstractions irl you get it faster than monkey retards who only focus on their day to day lives. This was originally the goal of learning philosophy, logic or even going to college. YOU ARE not supposed to get ready made knowledge THAT IS SUPPOSED TO affect your immediate life. You don't need a fucking book for that.
Granted going all the way into theory and abstraction makes you a lefty soiboi s. Ideally you would need to have a mix of both, a balance of heaven and earth , abstraction and concreteness.

[Anonymous No.50359347]

>>50352726
I unironically read random PDFs I find. I remember delving like 45 pages into some 200 page Afghanistan war report. It just sucks you in.

[Anonymous No.50359424]

>>50352930
This. Kid is probably a youngster as well

[Anonymous No.50360018]

>>50352726
>he says he just prefers to learn while he reads
Does he not get that if the author is very good, not some women author who writes shitty stuff for women, that fiction is based on reality or has a lot of ideas and elements which are very close to real life people and events or predicts some of the future and one can learn a lot from it. He sounds like he doesn't have any worthwhile imagination, an N P C cuck.

[Anonymous No.50360029]

Unless you're reading statistics or some shit, all stories are "fiction" in your mind anyways, it's not like reading about ww1 is going to recreate the event in your mind 1 to 1, it's still an imagined movie in your mind

[Anonymous No.50361944]

>>50353680
Based and trigonometry-pilled

[Anonymous No.50362016]

>>50352726
If your cousin is female, that's just how women think in general. They are not too abstract, they mostly do things which are of actual use (like getting a job) in this clown society. Rarely you see a woman being a chess nerd because that won't give them any money nor will allow her to climb the social ladder by meeting people in positions of power (although chess nerd girls exist) If your cousin is a man, cut any relationships with that piece of shit now. He's an utter and complete retard

[Anonymous No.50362045]

>>50352726
>he asks if its fiction or non-fiction
>I honestly forget what the difference is so I just say it's a novel

[Anonymous No.50362053]

>>50362016
There are probably 10x the amount of female fiction readers than there are male, it’s like you’ve never met a woman ever.