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23063523 No.23063523 [Reply] [Original]

If you think about it, fictional novels are essentially just some other dude's fantasy/imagination written down. I have the ability to fantisize myself. Why would I ever parttake in someone else's fantasy as opposed to just indulge in my own?

>> No.23063529

If you can't imagine and answer, there's your answer.

>> No.23063550
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>>23063523
Well, on the other hand, non-fiction is just some other dude's thoughts and reasonings. I have the ability to think and reason.

>> No.23063552

>>23063529
Very clever, so you're saying that other people might be able to fantasize things that I could not? But why should I consider that valuable? Might it not be the case that whatever only I can fantasize is of greatest value to me, and other people's fantasies just "muddy the waters" if you will.

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>>23063550
Indeed anon, but what about the information required to think and reason? I could not reason about history if I had no information about history.

>> No.23063726

>>23063552
In the vacuum of your isolated fantasies, you'll never attain certainty.

>> No.23063741

>>23063523
And nonfiction is someone else's (often shit) opinion written down.
Now you know.

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>>23063726
Certainty is tantamount to delusion.

>> No.23063872

>>23063523
A properly developed work of fiction is only "mere fantasy" insofar as a human body is only water plus some other stuff mixed together.

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Why have sex when I can just tug on my dick? Books help with that

>> No.23063897

>>23063797
You sound quite certain.

>> No.23063905

>>23063523
That's actually a very good quastion.

>> No.23063929

>>23063905
No, it isn't...

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>>23063555
It comes to me in my dreams

>> No.23064553

>>23063523
why would I consider your beliefs when I am assured of my own? what about that one, mister batman?

>> No.23064558

Bros I stopped being able to imagine things as vividly ever since I got sober and started taking Wellbutrin. I used to close my eyes at night and see random images flash before me but I pretty much see blackness now. Had a few beers last night and it came back to me. Not sure what this means.

>> No.23064609

>>23063523
your own chain of thought can strain only as much. by reading something noteworthy you engage in a chain of thought passed by and crafted anew for generations

>> No.23064627

Your Solipsism bores me frog man