/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14848155]

How the fuck are you supposed to achieve knowledge? Theres too many books. It seems to have an understanding of every branch of philosophy, math, science, arts, and everything between would require many lifetimes of reading. How can I say anything true if I dont know it all?

[Anonymous No.14848188]

I was just thinking about this.

[Anonymous No.14848192]

>>14848155
You can become familiar enough with the main topics to be conversant on most subjects, and then you can gain more expertise in narrower fields. You will not master everything in your lifetime. That is OK.

[Anonymous No.14848205]

>>14848155
>>14848188
>>14848192
there's only one book you need to read

[Anonymous No.14848230]

>>14848155
know god, know the essence of things, not delimited by the strictures of biology.

[Anonymous No.14848237]

>>14848205
>there's only one book you need to read

[Anonymous No.14848253]

>>14848155
Most books repeat the same shit in slightly different ways just like the 10000 different sci-fi books and 1000000 fantasy books. Sure, reading them will probably not be any detriment and might even give you a little surplus of knowledge but really there are only a few books you should read for only a small amount of total information that you need to consume. It would also be unreasonable of you to want to have such a thing when it is most likely not realistic unless you look into life extension shit or remaining conscious after death. Like the others are saying, if you give yourself a good foundation then you can solve all the necessary problems yourself.

[Anonymous No.14848254]

>>14848253
>the 10000 different sci-fi books and 1000000 fantasy books. Sure, reading them will probably not be any detriment

It is indeed a detriment to read that much genre trash. It's one of the reasons that western society today is in such decline.

[Anonymous No.14848256]

>neo-nazi comic
cringe

[Anonymous No.14848288]

>>14848205
I've read the Bible several times and have even studied it. It hasn't helped and isn't a tome of infinite knowledge, unfortunately.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14848292]

>>14848237
Bad meme

[Anonymous No.14848295]

>>14848292
You're a bad meme butterbutt

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14848338]

>>14848295
No, Hitler is.

[Anonymous No.14848344]

>>14848338
(_)_)=====D' ~~~~~ ( {'} )

[Anonymous No.14848345]

>>14848338
Hitler is literally mai waifu, I'd appreciate it if you'd be respectful.

[Anonymous No.14848360]

>>14848338
Hitler was a very misunderstood man. Have some respect for the departed.

[Anonymous No.14848387]

>>14848237
Unironically this

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.14848426]

>>14848387
Peepee is also a bad meme.

[Anonymous No.14848475]

>>14848254
You're right, a pretty bad analogy on my part. I mean reading non-fiction produced in the way genre fiction pulp gets produced - which it does. To have the knowledge of those millions of books wouldn't be a detriment unless you are a retard, anyone would ask for complete knowledge which contains all, even the ugly, not just filtered aspects. I didn't mean actually literally reading genre trash which would be pointless and detriment in a limited lifespan.

[Anonymous No.14848491]

You can't fully know all because you are not a computer trying to collect all data. Knowledge is for your joy and should never be an ends. Only knowledge of the divine can be an ends due to the infinite nature, worth and oneness of the divine.

[Anonymous No.14848618]

>>14848256
You mean Moomin, the most wholesome book and comic series there is? Wow, you Americans are really something else.

[Anonymous No.14849901]

>>14848155
you could stop spending time on 4chan.