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For what purpose do you read? Anonymous Mon Jan 18 03:58:55 2021 No.17316674 [Reply] [Original]

What do you read and what is your goal in reading?

I read books on:
>existential philosophy
>aesthetics
>social history (usually niche topics)
>classical music
>some political theory and conspiracies

My main goal is to understand the purpose of art and what art does.

What are you looking for?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:36:20 2021 No.17316784 >>17316674 to win pseud points on a mongolian basket weaving board

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:41:30 2021 No.17316798 trying to attract a certain vibe of pussy. getting annoyed at how the only women who sleep with me are actual memes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:46:33 2021 No.17316811 >>17316674 I want to creampie that smooshed asiatic snout

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:48:55 2021 No.17316822 Mental escape from the misery that is my life

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:51:21 2021 No.17316831 >>17316674 you dont need to read that stuff for your goal. Just read art history, and maybe Kant 3

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:53:19 2021 No.17316842 >>17316831 already did, that's only a start

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:55:32 2021 No.17316849 File: 105 KB, 660x400, 156.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17316798 What vibe? And what memes?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 04:55:49 2021 No.17316851 >>17316842 then you probably didn't read hard enough

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 05:52:01 2021 No.17317067 >>17316674 I read to learn in shit I'm interested in. Simple as.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 05:53:18 2021 No.17317073 >>17316674 Entertainment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 05:56:03 2021 No.17317087 >>17316674 I read to find things to steal from better writers. Also because it's interesting, but mostly theft.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 06:04:06 2021 No.17317113 >>17316674 If you have a set goal, you're doing it wrong. Read to read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 06:28:59 2021 No.17317180 >>17316674 1: To get smarter. 2: To enjoy the throught and daydreaming ( fiction ) of others peoples.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 06:49:31 2021 No.17317256 >>17316849 NO AOC I WILL NOT HAVE SEX WITH YOU!!!! BEGONE IN THE NAME OF JESUS

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 07:04:28 2021 No.17317318 I have no end goal. Reading itself already is the goal. Because I like it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 07:21:22 2021 No.17317399

I read books on:
Philosophy
Classical fiction
Fiction from the 20th century
Third position politics

I just want to have something an ethical code that I actually believe in and would struggle for every day. I hate not really believing in anything and feel like I can’t apply myself fully in a world that seems arbitrary and meaningless. I crave structure.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 07:29:32 2021 No.17317454

>>17317113
>t. someone who wastes time reading shitty books
Read to read is a retarded mindset.
Life is short, so read for substance, to gain something, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Just because something is in a book, doesn't mean it's worth your time.
Keep your goals in mind anons, don't mindlessly consoom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 07:45:43 2021 No.17317539 Mostly programming books to up my skills.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 07:51:28 2021 No.17317567 >>17316674 I like books desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:00:18 2021 No.17317612 >>17316674 I don't

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:03:06 2021 No.17317626 >>17316674 I wasn't sure until now but now I know it's to achieve what that man did, now that I see it's possible

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:11:01 2021 No.17317649 >>17316674 To have fun and be entertained. If you aren't doing it for yourself then you're doing it wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:14:53 2021 No.17317665 >>17317539 What books do you read?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:15:56 2021 No.17317669 >>17316674 >the friend hug

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:28:07 2021 No.17317717 >>17316674 Video games and anime got boring and also i have no friends. Im also banking on the idea that I'll meet a /lit/ gf

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 08:33:53 2021 No.17317739 File: 1.56 MB, 1873x2354, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] To be superior to more. To not think about how much I despise human society and humanity, and how much I want to not exist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 09:11:51 2021 No.17317896 >>17316849 tight

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 10:36:24 2021 No.17318390 File: 55 KB, 598x467, 1357097133829.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have never had friends, I find vidya retarded, never enjoyed tv and have no hobbies so reading is the only thing I sort of enjoy doing

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 10:51:23 2021 No.17318508

>>17316674
Look at my asian wife.
Here at the mall with my asian wife.
At the park with my asian wife.
After dark with my asian wife.
Reading literature with my asian wife.
Making threads with my asian wife.
Making gaming vlogs with my asian wife.
Doing the dishes with my asian wife.
Watering the flowers with my asian wife.
Playing dominoes with my asian wife.
Ordering pizza with my asian wife.
Taking a nap with my asian wife.
Training hard with my asian wife.
Going to Hawaii with my asian wife.
Joking around with my asian wife.
Burying my cock and directly sowing my seed in her uterus due to her having a shallow cervix with my asian wife.
Having mutant children with my asian wife.
Watching my son get bullied by the other kids with my asian wife.
Watching my son spend hours a day at the computer screen with my asian wife.
Hearing my son scream about BBC in his sleep with my asian wife.
Watching my son grow up having never been with a girl for 20 years with my asian wife.
Witnessing on the news my mutant son going on a rampage with guns bought off of the internet with my asian wife.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:04:44 2021 No.17318588

>>17316674
To broaden my understanding of the world and inform my place in it. To try and figure out what it is I'm meant to be doing.
The notion that life is meaningless and that the universe is an accident is completely alien to me, as though if I were to accept such a position I would cease to exist.
I practically never read for the pleasure of reading, for the enjoyment of artistically penned prose. I can appreciate good writing, but I care more about the meaning behind words than the artfulness of the words themselves.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:09:36 2021 No.17318622 >>17316674 who's hapas

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:10:27 2021 No.17318627
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>>17316674
The idea that the purpose of literature is to teach us something is a meme. Writers have been asking themselves the same navel-gazing questions for millennia and they're no closer to answers because there aren't any. Stories have always just been a kind of escapism - they allow for a parallel, vicarious existence in which the world operates according to anthropomorphic logic, and things happen for reasons. That's why biographical narratives have always been the staple fare of world literature - you get a human life packaged as a neatly self-contained episode with causality and closure.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:22:40 2021 No.17318740

frens I am new to reading but my goal is to become a writer. I feel like writing is the only thing besides my family and monetary goals that makes me wake up. As I said I am new to reading, I read fiction, but soon getting into philosophy, psychology history, religious texts and poetry. All of that attracts me.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:26:43 2021 No.17318769
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>>17316674
I want to better understand existence, people, and the world around me. Also reading is a better waste of time than anything else, so I make sure to get a few hours in daily.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 11:27:17 2021 No.17318773 >>17316674 >social history (usually niche topics) gimmie some recs. I love social history.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:18:38 2021 No.17319543 >>17318508 that's why you date hapas, anon. Your children will only be 1/4 so they'll just look tan. They might even have blonde hair and blue eyes if you pick well

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:24:56 2021 No.17319585 >>17316784 same

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:27:57 2021 No.17319608

>>17317399
>I just want to have something an ethical code that I actually believe in and would struggle for every day. I hate not really believing in anything and feel like I can’t apply myself fully in a world that seems arbitrary and meaningless. I crave structure.
This is why I started reading philosophy. I also have an irrationally strong hatred towards what I perceive to be injustice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:35:38 2021 No.17319658 >>17316674 To increase my knowledge and challenge myself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:37:14 2021 No.17319671 >>17316798 You sound incredibly underage...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:38:37 2021 No.17319680 >>17319671 I'm not, but I've been using this strategy since I was

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:56:10 2021 No.17319834 >>17319680 Has it worked?

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 14:00:41 2021 No.17319872

>>17319834
unbearable lightness of being got me laid once. So did notes from underground (it's in one of my dating profiles and she was super excited). if you can connect with a woman on an emotional level, it drops the attractiveness barrier-to-entry by 2 points. They don't even notice you're less attractive, they legitimately think you're just as attractive, and both liking the same book (assuming it's an emotional book, not a flick) can serve that function. I don't think reading Nietzsche is going to get you very far but idk, it might, I haven't tried.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 14:22:56 2021 No.17320023 >>17316674 To win imaginary debates with imaginary antagonists..and push away the absolute certainty that no one wants to talk to me about the Praralells between Nietzsche and Foucault.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 15:06:12 2021 No.17320360 >>17319834 different anon but back in my okcupid days i would occasionally get girls messaging me about my book list and i got to sleep with every single one of them

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 15:27:07 2021 No.17320573 >>17316674 I fucked that girl once she was terrible but wild I miss her loud screams

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