/lit/ - Literature

>outrageous He should be cancelled for sexual discrimination

Fiction can be true, too.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

>>18829565
Fool! Fiction is all there is!

>>18829565
Listening to oasis is a waste of time

yeah we should listen to pop music instead

>>18829565
people like this don't understand our interpretation of life is fictitious

So does listen to music.

>>18829565
Damon Albarn was better anyway

>>18829565
unfathomably based la. incels seething.

>>18829565
>hating fiction
I honestly cannot imagine what being this soulless is like.

>I'd been unemployed all my life. It was a big deal for me when they (Labour) got in.
why would I care about what some pop musician who cannot do anything else in life thinks about?

>>18829665
Damon Albarn is chill as fuck, once had a beer with him at Roskilde festival. Just a genuinely great guy.

>>18829644
Hey! Don't say that.
Their five chords are really good together.

>>18829565
Fiction drives our every day life, and when we seek comfort from the pressures of the world we once again turn to it for solace. Anyone that denies its importance is a retard. That said, the ability for fictitious works to communicate complex themes is more roundabout and gradual, which may be unnecessary for the more philosophically inclined, but at least has an upperhand in necessarily involving interpretation and work on the part of the reader to synthesize the information given to them. Heidegger actually believed poetry to be the ultimate medium of philosophy, because when you read something written formal and deliberate, few reading are required until you 'get it' and move on. However, with poetry one can continue reading into the text and gain more out of it continuously. Fiction can do this, while non-fiction can't, and as a result suffers from less attention given the boredom of supplanting advanced information in a condensed manner.

>>18829565

Making sounds that don't occur naturally in a specific order is a waste of fucking time and very gay.

Oasis is gay but he's right about this.

>>18829718
Yeah but DUDE, it - didn’t - happen! Are you one of those religious crazies?

>>18829738
Hello Mohammed.
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Filtered

>>18829756
Our conscious experience of the world involves re-presentation through the combination of the faculty of sensibility and its pure a priori intuitions of space and time as well as the faculty of understanding with its a priori concepts and empirical concepts through the imagination. Then, after that is done with, one personally interprets their perception and its significance. So, everything involves narrative or story to it. Our conscious experience of the world is interpretive in nature, it would not make sense without this process. Given this, all we can ever have is conflicting perspectives of reality. To say of something that it doesn't matter because it doesn't correspond with your reality is absolutely foolish.

>>18829565
Who?

Oh yeah, a guy that sings.
Go back to the 90s where you were relevant.

>>18829783
Yes of course. Just teasing.

>>18829565
Watching a movie is a waste of time, binging some tv show is a waste of time. But it isn't, especially if you're actively paying attention to the themes, the characters, the style, and so on.

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>>18829565
Oasis is a terrible band

Life imitates art.

>>18829565
He's obviously talking shit. Of course fiction is worth reading.

>>18829565
For those who don't know how to read it definitely is. He is right.

>>18829565
>faggot seethes over people liking things he doesn't like

>>18830278
I don't care, but he has a point. It is pointless for certain people to read fiction, they would be better off reading wikipedia articles or non-fiction. Fiction requires some observation skills that some people maybe never end up developing. He is old and literate and if he doesn't sees the point, maybe some people just can't do it.

no he's not

>>18830278
>/lit/ asshurt because some has-been said something mean about my dearest interest.

>>18830289
>they would be better off reading wikipedia articles
this is the single gayest thing I've ever read in my life, and I read tons of MPREG

>>18830322
Some people don't learn or don't want to learn such things. Why bother them with such things?

>>18829565
But all his songs are fiction. Is he saying his songs are a waste of time?

>>18829565
why's he so mad about fiction

>>18830289
It cannot be more pointless than listening to shitty british pop music from decades ago or taking the opinions of washed out musicians seriously.

>>18830651
He was forced to read Shakespeare in school and he fookin' 'ated 't.

>>18829565
finnegans wake contains more truth than any history book.

>>18829565
Literally who? And why should I give a single solitary shit about what he says or thinks?

Non-fiction tells lies by pretending to be truth. That's a lot more insidious.

>>18829565
Fictionchads = Blurchads

>>18829644
FUCK YOU

>>18829565
I fucking hate cocky pseuds who say stuff like this and think they're deep. There are billions of STEM nerds like this at any community college. Rock musicians always have very obnoxious opinions though. If you're going to rag on fiction at least have an interesting argument against it

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>>18830812
cringe fictionlet cope. Fiction is pure escapism, nothing else. Grow up or read some non-fiction and you'll realize this.

>>18830962
I actually primarily read non-fiction given my philosophical passion, but denying its importance is utter retardation as specified here>>18829718
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>>18829644
5pbp

>>18830962
Non-fiction is boring and you know it. The very act of reading itself is a form of escapism in the first place, so you'd be an hypocritical idiot to not it to its highest extent.

>>18829565
>sci fi has predicted and inspired several crucial technological advances including dystopia
>books like 1984 regularly used for reflection
No surprise some system homo rent boy who was probably railed by Harvey Weinstein et. al. is spewing trash opinions

ALL YOUR DREAMS ARE MADE
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