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>tfw reading hasn't made you smarter or wiser
>tfw reading hasn't improved your life in anyway

>> No.5785758

>tfw only read for 8 hours today

>> No.5785759

>Not reading for enjoyment.

>> No.5785764
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5785764

so you've noticed it too, friend?
if reading has changed something about my life is that it has made me a neet

>> No.5785766

>witnessing the aesthetic beauty of the sublime hasn't improved your life

Wow you really fucked up somewhere.

>> No.5785768

>>5785764
>tfw divide your day between reading and shitposting

>> No.5785769
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5785769

>tfw reading teaches you a bunch of fancy words that you can throw into peoples faces and make them feel intellectually inferior

>> No.5785771

>>5785769
>tfw you quote from the classics during arguments to baffle your opponent

put the plebs in their place

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5785773

>tfw reading has made you gayer

>> No.5785775

>>5785773
how come?

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>tfw reading has given you delusions of grandeur and optimism

>tfw no gf will soon disappear
>tfw things will turn out for the best

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>>5785753
bruh
listen to Marcus Aurelius
don't waste too much time read, for although it is entertaining, you'll be none the wiser

>> No.5785783

>>5785771
i'm always suprised how easy it is to make regular people feel like they are idiots.

>> No.5785785

>tfw main character gets laid
>treats it like an everyday occurrence

>> No.5785789

>>5785781
Reading makes you more knowledgeable, which, when applied appropriately, is more useful than wisdom.

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>>5785771
>they dont get the quote

>> No.5785801

>>5785789
then by that logic it's useless to read books when you're going to be cooped up in your room the whole time anyway

everything is for normalfags
everything

>publishing books, essays, comics, illustrations
>political movements, activists
>attending weeb & gaymen conventions, sports, runways, concerts, clubs
>photography, dating, travelling, outdoor activties
>etc

>> No.5785803

>>5785789
fucking normalfags

i'm sick of everyone and everything. it's all useless and pointless. nothing but tiring

>> No.5785805

>>5785790
it's not your fault they're stupid plebs

tip your fedora, turn around and walk away victorious

>> No.5785818

>>5785775

In butt.

>> No.5785821

>>5785801
>>5785803
Heartache has no merit. Cry harder, you'll feel better.

>> No.5785824

>>5785805
>tip your fedora
Man, I love this epic meme. It's just dripping with wit and intellectualism. I watch Dawkins and Hitchens debates on youtube just on the off chance on the of the priests or audience members will say it. Can you imagine? " ahem, asterisk tips fedora asterisk, Dawkins," and then Dawkins physically melts into a manifestation of the cosmological argument.

>> No.5785836

>>5785766
>beauty of the sublime
Beauty and the sublime are two different things. See: Burke, Kant, Schopenhauer

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>>5785824

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>>5785821
?

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>reading made you genius
>you can now see in perfect clarity everything that's wrong with the modern civilization, which you couldn't put in words or cared about before before

>> No.5785873

>>5785753
What are you reading OP? I have been working through Kierkkegaard and have learnt so much about myself. Reading has been fantastic. Also, Tolstoy.

>> No.5785876

>>5785873
Kekkekgaard a shit

>> No.5785877

>>5785876
Hegel pls

>> No.5785878

>reading only fiction
Found your problem

>> No.5785884

>>5785836
>recognising words for their philosophical terminology meaning instead of their english language meaning

derrida pls go

>> No.5785892

>>5785878
But i don't just read fiction

>> No.5785961

>>5785878
>reading fiction at all

>> No.5785974

Rememebr that literature is just guys writing nonsense and is a poor substitute for religion.

>> No.5785977

>>5785779
hehe sly frog you naughty dog

>> No.5785988

>>5785753
>>5785764

Are you me?

I averaged ~350 titles/year for 4 years of my miserable neet life. Am none the wiser plus lost the hope there is something worth striving for out there.

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>>5785769
>Everyone assumes I'm highly intelligent because I'm well read and articulate
>I'm actually above average at best -- probably lucky to be above average

>> No.5786012

>>5786005
I'm incredibly intelligent, but socially inept and have both a stutter and a lisp.

>> No.5786014

>>5786012
th-th-th-thad frog dot j-j-aypegth.

>> No.5786016

>>5785766
>witnessing the buzzwords buzzwords of the buzzwords

Wow you really fucked up somewhere.

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>>5786012
>I'm incredibly intelligent

>> No.5786029

>>5786025
back 2 reddit kid :)

>> No.5786040

>>5786012
ive found that most people who call themselves intelligent are actually quite the opposite

>> No.5786045

>>5786025
gif soup dot com le all-new 2009 maymay central for all your shitposting needs

>> No.5786060

>>5786012
intelligence and social ability usually go hand in hand I'm afraid. At least with other intellectual people

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>>5786029
>>5786045
Euphoric 500 IQ intellectuals detected, wow you're so intelligent.

>> No.5786074

Literature saved my life. I'm an entirely different, better person now than I was before I got into it.

>> No.5786076

Maybe you should try to actually read and have fun and not discuss like a parrot on this board full of elitist community college students who have never even opened a single book.

>> No.5786082

>tfw I wasted the whole day reading

>> No.5786095

>>5786082
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time, boii

>> No.5786098

>>5786062
yep tip that fedora mr redditor

>> No.5786100

>>5786095
Yeah, good point.

>> No.5786118

>>5786095
Go to bed, Bertrand, or go anthologize platitudes someplace else.

>> No.5786136

>>5785753
>tfw reading has made you smarter and wiser
>tfw reading has improved your life

>> No.5786156

After struggling through some books, nevertheless enjoying them, I got to replace old habits, which are music listening vidia playing, movie watching, and find reading even more pleasant than them. As for the knowledge, I can't say whether I am smarter or not. Definitely changed in terms of thoughts, though.

>> No.5786195

>>5786156
How can reading be more fun than Vidya? You literally sit there and stare at the screen and you're magically entertained.

What are you reading?

>> No.5786199

>>5786136
This. You're reading the wrong books, OP.

>> No.5786201

>>5786199
I never used to read, but I can certainly say that it has deepened the level of my thoughts.

>> No.5786228

>TFW you've always lived to read
>TFW reading has changed your life in infinitely many ways

>> No.5786229

>>5785753
What kinds of books are you reading? Because I've read a lot of books that really made me feel more valuable in the long run.

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>>5785974
>he doesn't realise religions are defined by their doctrines, which are subsequently defined as literature
>mfw he doesn't realise he's just replacing one writer of nonsense with another

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>>5785753
>desiring self-improvement

>> No.5786998

>>5785974

And religion is a poor substitute for philosophy and science

>> No.5787021

>>5785753
If that's the case, you're reading it wrong.