Has reading literature actually improved your live anon?

[Anonymous No.16761648]

If so how then? Just seems no different from every other distraction like movies tv or Youtube.

[Anonymous No.16761662]

>>16761648
Distraction is a completely valid psychiatric method of dealing with emotional stress.

[Anonymous No.16761902]

You will never be a woman.

[Anonymous No.16761907]

>>16761648
I am smarter and not as much as a pseud as before

[Anonymous No.16761915]

>>16761648
It either mediated or worsened a period of intermittent psychosis. I don't actually read now that I'm not psychotic. Don't know why.

[Anonymous No.16761922]

>>16761902
Shut up demiurge

[Anonymous No.16761937]

>>16761648
Not really, I just read because it's fun.

[Anonymous No.16761940]

>>16761648

literature makes you worldly and gives you zest for life, a desire to experience and enjoy it. movies and tv make me want to sink further into my couch and just experience it thru the teevee

[Anonymous No.16761961]

if we take what you say as objectively true then i would still say its still a huge improvement on those mediums because literature is a very old tradition and has a much more diverse array of perspectives to share, as television and film has been born and evolved entirely within some sort of liberal zeitgeist

[Pipi ? No.16761962]

Vidéo mise en pause.

[Anonymous No.16761963]

more fuel for daydreams and fertile soil for exercises in schizo world generation. i really only read to enhance my DROOMING.

[Pipi ? No.16761996]

J.D. Sallinger was my priest.
Poursuivre la lecture ?

[Anonymous No.16762195]

>>16761648
I couldn't organize my thoughts at all until I started writing. It was like a fountain just spewing water everywhere. Now I have a shitload of binders for different things that are kinda organized like how I use to organize my notes for school, but instead its my life. I actually really hate writing, but the process of doing it really lets me flesh my thoughts out a lot more and even pick up on things I noticed but didn't give much thought about. I think it's scientifically proven to boost your thoughts and memory if you write something down as well.

My perception of time is also really fucked. It feels like it's been 4-5 months already, but it's only been 1 and a half.

[Anonymous No.16762204]

i wish i was more creative bros. i want to be able to write characters like dickens but i always tend back to fight-club type alienated millenials and syd barrett types

[Anonymous No.16762213]

>>16761648
I'm literally a genius after reading the classics, and the breadth of my knowledge and action knows only human bounds, not piggish ones.

>“One should not study contemporaries and competitors, but the great men of antiquity, whose works have, for centuries, received equal homage and consideration. Indeed, a man of really superior endowments will feel the necessity of this, and it is just this need for an intercourse with great predecessors, which is the sign of a higher talent. Let us study Molière, let us study Shakspeare, but above all things, the old Greeks, and always the Greeks.”

>“For highly endowed natures,” remarked I, “the study of the authors of antiquity may be perfectly invaluable; but, in general, it appears to have little influence upon personal character. If this were the case, all philologists and theologians would be the most excellent of men. But this is by no means the case; and such connoisseurs of the ancient Greek and Latin authors are able people or pitiful creatures, according to the good or bad qualities which God has given them, or which they have inherited from their father and mother.”

>“There is nothing to be said against that,” returned Goethe; “but it must not, therefore, be said, that the study of the authors of antiquity is entirely without effect upon the formation of character. A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with the great minds of antiquity, become one inch greater. But a noble man, in whose soul God has placed the capability for future greatness of character, and elevation of mind, will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, the elevated natures of ancient Greeks and Romans, every day make a visible approximation to similar greatness.”

[Anonymous No.16762231]

>>16761963
based and spd pilled

[Anonymous No.16762232]

>>16762195
Honestly, writing has kinda become my substitute for posting on here. I very rarely do it anymore. My favorite board /vr/ went to shit recently and the 1/10 chance of finding something interesting, insightful or having a meaningful conversation is now more like 1/100. It feels pretty liberating since writing consistently will be at least decent, while lurking slow boards is like sitting at the shoreline that constantly has garbage washing up on it and hoping someone accidentally threw their gold watch out.

[Anonymous No.16762258]

>>16762213
I remember reading an anon say something similar to these quotes for creative writing. He effectively said something like "Don't read Tolkein, read what inspired him. The saga's, the bible, the greeks, etc". It made me actually go out and get a bunch of the Viking Saga's but I still haven't read them