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11947075 No.11947075 [Reply] [Original]

If non-fiction, textbooks, encyclopedias and academic journals don't make up at least 95% of your reading material, you're effectively wasting your limited time on earth.

>> No.11947413

>>11947075
book threads that I wish to see on reccomendations

>101 of various disciplines
>rare information books (like on race)
>rare manuals of rare jobs
>"cheat" books which may bypass or give you insight into a difficult topic which is part of an education (REALLY NEED THESE MAN)

>> No.11947428

To ‘waste’ would imply there would be something else more worthwhile to gain from it.

What makes reading non-fiction a more effective use of time than fiction?

>> No.11947431

>>11947428
what that anon is implying in a dickiish way is that we lack actual informative book threads, as I agree with as the second poster. I dont think that you are wasting time, but we could use more threads about modern, non fiction books.

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11948511

>>11947075
Based. Only thing is most people like that here tend to shit on philosophy and other "non-useful" things.

>> No.11949810

the life goal of a human being is to obtain long-term happiness
the biological goal of a human being is to spread your genetics through breeding

youre just another pseudo-intellectual, I bet you don't even read scientific books yourself.
even if you did, you wouldn't be reading them because of any goals you have made yourself.

>> No.11949827

the only knowledge that's worth gaining these days is how to get laid and which crypto to buy. all you need to know about life you will find on /r/theredpill and /biz/.