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11241466 No.11241466 [Reply] [Original]

Do you ever wonder what's the point of reading and being educated, when you'll eventually forget what you've read, and will enact little if any good in the world due to what you've read?

What's the point of it all? If it's just for pleasure, how is it any less base than watching Rick and Morty?

>> No.11241842
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11241842

>how is bathing in a porcelain tub with the finest soaps, shampoos, and products ANY different from rubbing pig shit in your eyeballs as you flop around in the piss-trough at the Ravens stadium men's bathroom?

>> No.11241862

>>11241466
Pic related more or less answered your question. The information you consume shapes how you act and who you become.

>> No.11241961

>>11241466
>will enact little if any good in the world due to what you've read?

Just because you feel this way doesn’t mean everyone does.

>> No.11241986

>>11241466
Speak for yourself OP. Not everyone sleepwalks through life.

>> No.11242021

>>11241842
>blatant classism
>commodity fetishism
>tucker "glumpfs dick is so good" clarkson
>>>/pol/ you little incel virgin basedboy

>> No.11242024

>>11241986
How do I walk my own path in life? Please edify me.

>> No.11242026

>>11242024
wait for a family gathering like christ mass and tie them all up and then kill them in order of youngest to oldest so the oldest can see their line end

>> No.11242029

>>11242026
nigga im not trying to activate the sharingan, i wanna read shit

>> No.11242043

>>11242029
>YOU tell ME how I can walk MY own path
>wait I dont like what YOU told ME to do
well which is it

>> No.11242044

>>11241466
so you can feign erudition at dinner tables, impress people as vacuous as you are, and get laid.

>> No.11242046

>>11242024
Find some problem that needs solving in the world. Can be anything. Read up on the literature of it, study it, learn everything you can. Do your own research when needed. Finally, develop a plan and actually get it solved.

>> No.11242047

>>11242043
You know what? Fuck off, you insensitive prick. I don't like you anymore.

>> No.11242059

>>11242047
I never liked you and started to dislike you as soon as I read the title of the OP (I certainly didn't read anymore than that). But hey ask stupid questions, expect stupid answers.

>> No.11242077

>>11242059
You're a sad person. I can only wonder what made you so inconsiderate of others' feelings. Fuck and leave me alone, please.

>> No.11242083

OP = brainlet

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>>11241466
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3oO8yz2RJk

>> No.11242112

>>11242077
Sad? Anon, if anything I'm the only person here who really cares about you. Nobody else took the time out of there day to teach out a valuable life lesson. What the fuck kind of question is "How do I walk my own path in life?" What do you expect? The answer is in the fucking question fuckhead. It's YOUR path, nobody can answer that question for you.

>> No.11242116

>>11242089
That wasn't bad, actually.

>> No.11242139

>>11242112
If you cared about me, you wouldn't talk like this to me. I looked up to you, you know? And this is what I get? This SHIT? This is how you treat me?

>> No.11242152

>>11242139
You can complain how I talk to you all you want, but at the end of the day you won't ask such stupid questions anymore. You don't have to like me anon, but you will respect me and you will learn from me.

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>>11242077

>> No.11242170

>>11242152
No, I won't, you mean nothing to me; you are dead to me, and you never existed. You are dust in the wind.

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>>11242170
It hurts when you say things like that to me, but I know you don't mean it

>> No.11242314

what i do is i keep a list of everything i read, and every now and again i read over it and remember all the books i've read and how neat they were. solidifies them in my memory

>> No.11242323

>>11242314
this, i keep a text file of books i've read ordered by date of completion

>> No.11242333

>>11242314
>>11242323
You guys read books?

>> No.11242339

>>11241466
If you only consume intelligent media you'll likely become intelligent.. if you watch cartoons/play videogames all day, youll stay stupid.

Which one do you think is more likely to 'enact good'?

>> No.11242363

>>11241466
You might forget most of the details but you’ll remember some of them too.

>> No.11242370

Everything we do molds our (sub)conscious experience. Literature can mold and influence it in fun and interesting ways.