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11371561 No.11371561 [Reply] [Original]

Why are books so important to you?

>> No.11371564

They're not.

>> No.11371597

>>11371564
Hey that’s what i was going to say

>> No.11371612

They let me take part of another person’s thoughts, feelings, ideas, and so on, something I struggle to do through socializing. Other mediums feel less intimate and/or are not as good at conveying more complex ideas. They can also be very fun and educative.

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>>11371561
Economic collapse, nuclear annihilation, or super plague will arrive in our lifetimes and with it the fall of the internet and digital archives and the cloud. Preserving the knowledge of the ancients and rebuilding a peaceful self-sustaining community under a democratic republic would be my mission. If I don't survive to implement it myself, my will books serve another as a guide.

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>>11371642
>Economic collapse, nuclear annihilation, or super plague will arrive in our lifetimes
No not within "our" lifetimes.
>>11371561
well Books have more depth than a person inherently because they are the result of hundreds if not thousands of hours of a person's writings and they never get off track while they talk to me.

>> No.11371886

>>11371564
Fpbp tbqh

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11371892

How can someone read so many books and still be socially inept and stupid? do they not take in anything they read?

>> No.11372007

I don't have any friends or a Netflix account so I need something to pass the time between shifts at work. As John Ridley wrote in, "The Drift," reading is the intelligent way to kill time.

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>>11371561
Because I love them.

>> No.11372342

>>11371561
When I was younger, books helped me "escape" from my awful life. The same can be said for my life now.

>> No.11372344

>>11371564
Eksss DEEEEE

>> No.11372346

>>11371892
No, I don't

>> No.11372355

Because i learned a ton of cool shit from reading and it solved the existential dread my generation loves to meme about

>> No.11372402

What do you mean by "books"?

>> No.11372414

>>11372355
>solved
Doubt it

>> No.11372432

>>11371564
>>11371597
>>11371886
>>11372402
This is like mu's attitude to music. It's pretty funny.

>> No.11372439

>>11372414
I meant personally, obviously. Im not afraid of death anymore, so yeah I'd say it's solved.

>> No.11372444

>>11372439
Good for you. My Dad dying is what made me on longer fear death.

>> No.11372722

I don't really have much else going for me.
I like the escapism, even with non-fiction

>> No.11372726

>>11371564
Seconding

>> No.11372870

>>11371561
Seeing bookstagrams and all this stuff where people like the book aesthetic and talk about reading books but never actually bringing up the content and what it made them think about specifically pisses me off so much. Now just liking books puts you in that assumed pleb category so I hide my power level most of the time.

tldr books are important to me in a very specific, autistic way reeeeeee

>> No.11372899

>>11371561
I need to compensate for and escape my friendlessness, inceldom and bleak future.

Thinking I’m engaging some esoteric experience or knowledge that is beyond the reach normies helps me cope, striving to become unlike “them” gives my life meaning.

>> No.11373320

Because I'm desperately searching for some kind of hidden meaning or solution to life that I know I'm not going to find.

>> No.11373359

>>11372899
>I need to compensate for and escape my friendlessness, inceldom and bleak future.
This.

>> No.11373391

Because they make me feel good

>> No.11373394

Because my actual life is shit

>> No.11373395

>>11371561
It's one of the only portable entertainment mediums that you can pick up and put down when the situation calls for it. Movies, tv, video games, and even music are all entertainment mediums that you have to stay engaged in for a specific duration and requires you to put down time specifically for it with no disturbances, else you miss something and have to start over. With a book you just reread the last sentence or two and get back to it when you can, and it's still enjoyable to set aside time to do nothing but read like you would anything else.

>> No.11373398

>>11372432
Yeah man that's hilarious

>> No.11374009

>>11372432
this is every board's attitude to their respective medium

>> No.11374067

they make people think im smart

>> No.11374071

>>11372432
I have seriously only ever browsed /lit/ and /mu/ so yep

>> No.11374081

>>11374067
Bingo

>> No.11374214

I like to know things, and even the worst fiction can teach.