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Why do you read?

>> No.10715816

To temporally stop my own existential suffering

>> No.10715822

>>10715816
hurr durr le i have depression face XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>> No.10715832

>>10715822
>hurr durr le I have ironic face XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>> No.10715838

>>10715832
;^)

>> No.10715842

>>10715838
(^;

>> No.10716013

>>10715816
This but neurotically

>> No.10716035

>>10715807
Escapism.

>> No.10716051

>>10716013
This but ironically

>> No.10716090

>>10715807
I don't. I just shitpost on /lit/ because you're all so easily triggered. You also have some of the wittiest comebacks and posts.

I have also pieced together from reading threads the history of philosophy from the ancient greeks to post-modernism to pass as a pseudointellect[\spoiler]

>> No.10716167

>>10715807
Because if I don't my mind turns to porridge and I lose my perspective on things.

>> No.10716187

>>10716167
yeah it's pretty much "use it or lose it" with everything, including both physical and mental fitness. sucks desu. why can't we just keep our peak levels :(

>> No.10716331

>>10715807
because i'm circumcised, basically

>> No.10716404

For stories of getting cuckolded to masturbate to.

>> No.10716539

I can't afford shit but I do have access to books.

>> No.10716552

>>10715807
Because I have always enjoyed reading and its a healthy and beneficial past time, so long as you don't exclusively read mind-clogging garbage.

>> No.10716577

>>10716539
I am also a poor man with access to a University's library

>> No.10716582

>>10715807
because i can't imagine not doing it. i didnt have cable tv or vidya growing up so i was left with Eragon.

>> No.10716590

Frankly it's something to keep me from staring at my ceiling at night when I can't sleep that doesn't cost much money and doesn't make my crotch hurt if I do it too much.

Besides that I enjoy it.

>>10716090
You don't try pass as a pseud, you stooge. If anything you ARE a pseudo intellectual who passes as an intellectual.

That being said you don't have to have read the greeks, or the greats, or the classics, or anything like that to be a real intellectual. All it takes to be considered an intellectual by most people is that you try to gain critical understanding of and try to really engage with various intellectual topics.

For example, I spend more time talking about shit than reading about it. It doesn't nessarily mean that I'm less of an intellectual that someone who spends all their times reading about various articles of shit and by the same rite they wouldn't nessarily be less of an intellectual than I would be. The important thing would be that we're both genuinely intrested in the things we're trying to learn about and we're reaching both within ourselves and beyond ourselves in order to ensure that we have as full an understanding of it as we possibly can.

>>10716582
>not having cable, vidya AND Eragon growing up
Pleb detected [ironic spoiler]kidding lad[/ironic spoiler]

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>>10716590

>> No.10716602

>>10716594
Can I ask what part of your my post made you want to give me that particular (You)?

Not mad, I'm just always curious when people accuse me of being something I'm not. Especially since I get called a lot of weird shit these days.

>> No.10716605

>>10716590

jeeesus mate do you carry on like that in real life?

>> No.10716607

>>10716602

jeeeeeeesuss! mate im sorry I hate to say but you are reddit

>> No.10716611

>>10716607
Ok

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>>10715822
Hurrr durr le depression doesn't exist face

>> No.10716897

>>10715807
To watch movies that don't suck in my head.

>> No.10717286

for enjoyment and betterment

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>>10715822
>2018
>not having crippling depression

>> No.10717328

>>10716611
fucking fag.

>> No.10717336

SHORT TERM GRATIFICATION

>> No.10717337

1: Because most videogames now are either CoDshit or just skinnerbox simulators
2: No good anime has come out in years
3: I pretty much just cared about the story for either of those and books are that distilled to its purest sense

>> No.10717342

>>10715832
>>hurr durr le I have post-ironic criticism of irony face xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

>> No.10717348

>>10717342
me knows humor dur

>> No.10717543

I think it’s good for me, also considering I’m not a creative person I think it’s probably the best way to spend my time when I’m not exercising.

>> No.10717651

to know more.

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>>10716590
>For example, I spend more time talking about shit than reading about it. It doesn't nessarily mean that I'm less of an intellectual that someone who spends all their times reading about various articles of shit and by the same rite they wouldn't nessarily be less of an intellectual than I would be. The important thing would be that we're both genuinely intrested in the things we're trying to learn about and we're reaching both within ourselves and beyond ourselves in order to ensure that we have as full an understanding of it as we possibly can.

>> No.10717888

>>10715807
Because I can.

>> No.10718476

>>10717328
Just leave me alone man, my anxiety been giving me hell the past few days. Wouldn’t wish this shit on my fucking worst fucking nemesis.

>> No.10718849

>>10718476
Why are you pretending to me, lad?

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>>10716590

>> No.10718920

>>10717671
As long as the reader and talker can share and retain the information, both are intellectuals

>> No.10718930

>>10718920
This is some elaborate (you)-fishing. Have one on me.

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>>10715807
So i don't end up as a fucking waffle waitress.