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13038996 No.13038996 [Reply] [Original]

Does reading books affect the purity of a persons own thoughts?
If I read a book, it will affect my thinking, no matter how minute that effect may be. So does a person who reads huge amounts of books nothing more than a second-hand collage of all the material he has read, with no original, independent thoughts of his own? Is the ideal pursuit not pursuing anything but a single philosophy and not reading any other authors, for they might taint the purity of your mind?

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>>13038996
Living affects the purity of your own thoughts, anon. Conversation affects the purity of your own thoughts. Television affects the purity of your own thoughts. There's no such thing as the inviolate blank slate. Leave yourself open to influence and thought, but not so open that your mind falls out of your skull.

>> No.13039007

There is no purity of mind on this planet.
All ideas you come into contact with shape you no matter the format, even top 40 country music.
Take your meds

>> No.13039015

>>13038996
Yes. But after you’ve been tainted you learn better. And you try to help those who don’t know any better. I am very very selective about what I read. Sensitivity is a gift from God. The enemy is trying to make you insensitive. Send that nigger back to the flames

>> No.13039017

No one has ever had a completely original thought. Even the first thoughts ever made were influenced by natural instinct.