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14092057 No.14092057 [Reply] [Original]

Has reading improved your life?

>> No.14092072

A part of it, yes.

>> No.14092098

Drastically

>> No.14092102

Yeah sure, when I was young since it meant I wasn't one of the retards in the class who read at a rate of 10 words per minute and I'm sure it contributed to me getting into a good highschool and college.

Reading recently though? Not really.

>> No.14092103

>>14092057
I thought reading would give me reasons to stop feeling like shit but it only gave me more reasons to feel like shit.

>> No.14092106

>>14092057
I hate everything.

>> No.14092120

>>14092102
>he doesn't savor each word for at least 6 seconds
pleb

>> No.14092126

How sad to see you're all reading wrong.
Stop reading cynics and old theistic BS like Solomon there.

>> No.14092155

>>14092126
Yes tis absolutely dreadful

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>>14092126
you ought to be ashamed of yourself, trannyfly

>> No.14092201

>>14092189
What have you imagined me doing now, furry fag?

>> No.14092251

>>14092201
I hate you more than anyone else on any board on 4chan

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>>14092251
You want a medal?

>> No.14092275

>>14092126
how can you be so contemptible, insanely vile a person? you blind yourself with what satisfies you; you are complacent with your own misery. you act as meat, you think as meat, and as a pig you grin wallowing yourself in mud

>> No.14092305

>>14092303
I am anything but complacent. My misery was rather pronounced today, but I still remain a ... I've said this in another thread. I am a sort of happy that is the opposite of content.
But more to the point, I am doing better than a lot of you.
I'm not here to rub your noses in your own shit, but to help you out of it.
But, you enjoy being angry and sad, I suppose.

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>>14092305
What is that like a stupid happy?

>> No.14092631

It's all I have left.

>> No.14092632

>>14092057
No

>> No.14092700

>>14092057
I mean, i guess? It's one of the only things that I do that I don't feel like I ever waste time on. Reading helps me think. I could be reading a book and I'll start going off on a completely different thought out of nowhere.

>> No.14092851

>>14092536
You may assign such a quality to it. You may already have. But I’m happy with it.

...drive?

>> No.14094215

I realize most of literature is just escapism and escapism is not a good thing.

>> No.14094222

>>14092126
Read Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

>> No.14094227

>>14092057
I wouldn't know.
I don't read

>> No.14094243

>>14092057
I appreciate the beauty of the world much more. All I do is to read novels or poetry. I wouldn't say it improved my life, but it rather changed my perception of it.
I feel an urge to write my thoughts and feelings. I still have to work, to pay bills, to live under capitalism, and so on; but certainly the little (or lot) I have I see it with other eyes.

>> No.14094440

>>14092126
>I'm right and you are all wrong
Great post thank you.

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>>14094440
>Life is bad! And that is Right!

>> No.14094456

>>14094447
what is life then? can you even define it?
let's see

>> No.14094463

>>14094447
>Projections
Yes, carry on, you are doing great.

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>>14094447
Look who's talking

>> No.14094483

>>14092057
Yes, 'cause i feel the sensation of live in every book when i read
And no, 'cause i still haven't found any girl who also likes reading books

>> No.14095378

bump

>> No.14095464

I don't know, I haven't read yet. I should get started, my reading list is getting rather long.

>> No.14095494

>>14092057
no, it ruined it, i should have been running with fellas when i was 11 and not reading tacitus
now im walking dead with no interest but observation

>> No.14095679

As a teen it did saved me from videogames, bitterness, and boredom. Ten years on a self consciously "literary" life has done very little for me.

>> No.14095684

>>14095494
You read Tacitus at 11?

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>>14092057
Honestly so many assholes talked about "muh wisdom" and how it is the best a man can aquire but the longer I live the more I just crave to feel loved. I am a loner and it hurts so much. I would trade in my fucking philosophy knowledge if I could connect more deeply with humanity. Just today I was reading the theaitetos while my only close friend (and rival) is making out with a hot chick. I am mad jealous but HEY I now know some useless crap about ePISStemology!
...
I am so fucking lonely :(

>> No.14096923

>>14092057
Absolutely.

If anything, all parents should teach their kids how to read at a super early age just for the intelligence benefits alone.

Illiteracy breeds ignorance. Ignorance breeds hate.

>> No.14097179

>>14096888
lol just talk to people how are people even lonely just talk to people lol

>> No.14097187

>>14096888
>my only close friend (and rival)
You make life sound like a pokemon game lmao

>> No.14097241

>>14092057
my life has improved in spite of it

>> No.14097247

the first 100 books did, then it became a surrogate activity