/lit/ - Literature

If you don't know how to argue for this, then the answer is kinda obvious. You know everyone dies in the end anyway, right?

you /sci/ fuckers are getting a little better at hiding your trolling

i still hate you though

if it entertains thats his problem

>>3056464

Yes he is right.

You read 'Literature' because you want too, not because it's noble (or highbrow, or whatever other terms that ignoblize ones interests)- if you value the 'Canon' of Literature that's cool.

I don't and niether does your doctor.

I liked both Twilight and the Hunger games.

Does that knowledge take away from your pleasure of reading what you consider literature?

If so why?

>>3056467 Care to explain?

>>3056464
I don't understand your question. Argue against what? That people read crap for their own pleasure?

It would be stupid to waste your free-time on something that doesn't interest you. You gain so much more from doing the things you enjoy doing. Life is too short.

>>3056464

Your doctor is a dullard with no imagination.

>I know deep down that I've gained some wisdom from literature, but is it really useful?

...

>>3056772

Why is this a bad thing?

>>3056787
Is it such a bad thing though?

>>3056778

well said

/lit/ -- we know everything about literature except how to enjoy it

>>3056778
thats the animal ideal, "be happy, enjoy life, be happy"

humans are better than animals, so they need a more complex philosophy

>>3056815

no. no. no.

>>3056502
>>3056778
this

>>3056815
and so human ceased being an animal and turned into a ceaseless talking slop of an organ. brains brains brains

>>3056815
Tell me, would you be saying this if you weren't interested in complex philosophies or whatever? All I'm saying is that it's not for everyone. And I don't think you should blame people for liking the things they like or not liking the things they don't like.

>>3056848
yes
usually these "be happy, life is too short"-people have large tv-dinner guts and live without dignity.

>>3056870

incorrect

Do you like music? Think about how many of the greats lived colorfully and spontatneously, focusing on intuition and aesthetic rather than ideas.

>>3056464
>Is he right? I know deep down that I've gained some wisdom from literature, but is it really useful?
To some people it is and to others it isn't. I'm a person who enjoys to read for it's own sake but others might not feel the same way and that's fine with me. People will do what they like, doesn't mean you can't promote reading but don't be a snob.

>>3056464
>Is he right?
Sure, to some extent.

>I know deep down that I've gained some wisdom from literature, but is it really useful?
We all do. Do you use what you learn?

>Does everybody need it?
That should be pretty obvious, no.

>Should people be interested?
If they want to, yes. If no, it's their choice.

>How can I argue agains this?
Why do you need to? One, you don't need to disprove every person you meet that says something you disagree with, two, he is right. Some people read for enjoyment, some read for reasons like what you stated.

>>3056872
every good artist is also a sadist
mozart wouldnt have been mozart without painful training and long travels across europe (which basically killed him at young age)
happiness is a byproduct that comes later

Doctors are stupid as fuck but think they're intellectuals because of the way society treats them.

All a doctor does is memorize a bunch of definitions and work hard.

There isn't much creative thinking or any thinking outside the box going on.

>>3056880
I meant *masochist

>>3056872
disregard that I suck dicks

>>3056903

you do?

>>3056912
yea i do

i think this is related to the phenomenon when anorexic people or supermodels brag that they gorged on fastfood for a whole day. they want people to think "omg, he/she won the DNA lottery"

>>3056921

oh.

How big? How often? Can you get it deep down?

>>3056953
disregard this also, coincidentally, I also suck dicks. Big black ones, too.

>>3056955

So many men enjoy sucking penis on /lit/...

fascinating

>>3056958
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Why is it fascinating?

>>3056971

I cannot prove to you it is fascinating...

only believe me when I say is stimulates some dank and neglected place in the backrooms of the apartment that constitute my sense of aesthetic.

Useful is subjective

>>3056464
Reading is for helping you to relax, if you want to seriously learn something then you take notes and use reference material.
You need a pretty tight butt hole if you want to get through something from a hundred years ago and not consider it a punishment. That's my opinion. But I have a pretty tight one.

>>3057025

You also need to pull yourself out of your comfort zone to challenge your conventions to learn new things.

But I guess intellectual growth is just elitist bullshit, right?