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13452531 No.13452531 [Reply] [Original]

Reading non-fiction is a million times better than reading fiction. Prove me wrong.

>> No.13452536

>>13452531
get fucked

>> No.13452582

>>13452531
"It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe in it" - John Steinbeck. Fiction supplements your knowledge by dramatising it so that it's not something that you merely articulate to yourself and others, but can enacted without conscious deliberation.

>> No.13452589

>>13452582
Very nice, I've been trying to put this into words for years.

>> No.13452632

>>13452531
I can't tell if you're more annoying here or on r9k.

That being said, hell naw mang I enjoy PUSSY. But if you play me some vyolin music I get real sad for real and then I'm into more exquisitely tasting stuff, ya feel me my brochacho muchacho?

>> No.13452639
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13452639

Non-fiction is useless because you can just go on wikipedia or look up youtube videos if you want to learn something.

>b-but you can do the same for fiction

Not if you read for entertainment purposes, as all fiction readers do. No one reads non-fiction to be entertained, and so they're usually boring people and are incels too.

>> No.13452641

Fiction is fucking useless. I mean, if you just want to entertain yourself, then go watch a movie or even anime.

>> No.13453019

>>13452531
Paradise Lost

>> No.13453683

>>13452641
Kek imagine thinking Japanese cartoons are on the same level as the classics

>> No.13453687

>>13452639
fucking what

>> No.13453689

>>13452531
>posting this while posting a painting instead of a photograph

>> No.13453691

>>13453683
This. /Thread

>> No.13454057

>>13452531
i mean, in a way, everything you read is a fiction.

>> No.13454070

>>13453683
Yeah, they aren't. They're better. The classics are boring and gay. Imagine reading shit like Tolstoy and plowing through countless pages of soap opera.

>> No.13454072 [DELETED] 

>>13452531
look at a wheat field painted by van gogh excites us more than looking at a wheat field.

>> No.13454080

>>13452531
looking at a wheat field painted by van gogh excites us more than looking at a wheat field.

>> No.13454081

>>13452531
I didn't know you were gay, Kierkedraab! Not the post, by the way (it's retarded), just the pic related. Maybe I don't quite grasp you yet.

>> No.13454096

>>13452639
>being an incel is bad

>> No.13454132

>>13454096
It is, if you are going to claim that abstinence from sex is a positive for whatever reason you choose then it wouldn't change much since a voluntary celibate may be virtuous but an incel would just be a pathetic man that lacks the ability to partake in the activity that is wrong but he wishes desperately to participate in.

>> No.13454147

>>13454096
it is. true art centres on the celebration of human sexuality

>> No.13454230

>>13454147
>You need to have sex to read about it

>> No.13454372

>>13454230
that wasn't the point i was making. just that it is bad (or "bad") to be an incel

>> No.13454382

Do you count mythology as fiction or non-fiction? I know some systems are explicit about categorizing it as non-fiction because of its real bases and nearly universal anthropological significance (insofar as the given culture).

>> No.13454447

>>13454382
a book that is just a myth told with no sort of commentary is fiction

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13454675

>>13454147
>this
I strongly believe this to be true, have you some sources on this statement?

>> No.13454679

You can't perfectly represent reality through words. Everything is fiction.