/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14838282]

what have you learned after reading all those books /lit/?

[Anonymous No.14838295]

>>14838282
I read to avoid boredom. Anything else is vanity there is no self-improvement

[Anonymous No.14838322]

>>14838282
The white man is superior, only rivalled by east-asians on a cultural level. We're stuck in the Kali Yuga, but someday we'll enter an Age of Heroes and restore the world to its former glory.

[Anonymous No.14838331]

>>14838282
ignorance is bliss

[Anonymous No.14838349]

basically this post >>14828571 and also this >>14838331

[Not op No.14838377]

>>14838331
Oh my god, i sometimes wish my 18 year old ass would have never opened that book.

[Anonymous No.14838398]

>>14838377
Constant reading just leads to more and more questions and more and more uncertain knowledge, which then leads to more and more cope. At least being as ignorant as possible limits your cope.

[Anonymous No.14838404]

idk if ive really learned anything except some history but i like books that get me thinking and challenge my personal beliefs. i think if you actually read to understand some opposing view points it can "refine" your view and make yourself more confident in what you believe or even spark some change in a persons ideas

[Anonymous No.14838531]

>>14838322
>still reads old white men
>never opened a book by based black women

[tfwnointernet No.14838591]

>>14838282
helo. wow. how r you? where is the bathroom? have a nice day.

[Anonymous No.14838628]

>>14838282
over 4 hours avery day.
they made me not miss videogames

[Anonymous No.14838640]

>>14838349
reading this almost made me a cuck

[Anonymous No.14838644]

>>14838282
That bildung can be a goal in and of itself and genuinely made me a more clever and interesting person. It's an enrichment of the soul to read, both good fiction and non-fiction, such as philosophy and history. The more you know, the easier it is to make connections and see patterns; as you read books (of whatever sort, as long as they are good) you're not ticking off a finite list, but opening yourself up to even more interesting things that you might not have cared for, or even understood, before.

[Anonymous No.14838659]

>>14838640
lmaoooo look at this tough biological puppet over here

[Anonymous No.14838675]

>>14838659
keep redpilled my friend
just don't complain when you get older.
you think you are in a bad place now?
wait til you get 45

[Anonymous No.14838679]

>>14838282
Powers and principalities do in fact rule the world, and they do not conform to anything we might circumscribe on any map. After accumulation and compounding of error over generations, there is more confabulation in 'non-fiction' than in any literature.

[Anonymous No.14838718]

My anxiety and depression has been significantly lowered. My worldview has improved and overall I feel I have increased perspicacity. I'm able to expound my thoughts and feelings much easier and clearer. I appreciate things more. I have a closer relationship to the Creator

[Anonymous No.14838730]

>>14838531
I did, unfortunately.
It's all shit.

[Anonymous No.14838773]

>>14838675
regret, suffering, illness and death are all here to stay. human nature is self-contracting, so yes i will complain despite knowing the fact that whole life is a fall.

[Anonymous No.14838790]

>>14838718
>I have a closer relationship to the Creator
stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.14838794]

The world is dark and full of jews.
Most beautiful things were created out of delusion (religion, romance, valor etc).
Every conceivable thought can be refuted, making convictions and principles meaningless.
The only bearable way to approach life is through aesthetics.

[Anonymous No.14838804]

>>14838282

I learned how little I actually know and how much there is still to read. It's like a swamp which pulls me deeper and deeper.

[Anonymous No.14838827]

>>14838773
Cringe

[Not op No.14838857]

>>14838794
And aesthetic isn't to stay either if all it's even more fleeting like a breath of air. Aesthetics are merely a short term cope.

[Anonymous No.14838858]

>>14838790
Well it was the end of the post

[Anonymous No.14838878]

>>14838644
Based

[Anonymous No.14838884]

>>14838679
What’s the solution

[Anonymous No.14839148]

it added more dimensions to my finite human experience

[Anonymous No.14839341]

>>14838282
>It matters how you spend your time.

>It matters what you choose to pay attention to.

>You have only a limited amount of books you can read in life, so choose wisely.

>Beautiful speech is one of life's highest joys.

>Don't kill yourself. Life is worth living.

>The scientific worldview is not sufficient.

>This world is not a vale of tears, but a vale of soul-making.

>Language is deep.

>What happens to the world in the future always remains your choice.

[Anonymous No.14839458]

>>14838282
How to think, how to become still against life, that there are higher states of existence, that we are part of something bigger, that the human species is superior and almost of infinite capabilities, to love life and it's complexity.

[Anonymous No.14839483]

>>14839341
I'm giving you a metaphysical hug anon.

[Anonymous No.14839973]

>>14839341
kino

[Anonymous No.14840026]

>>14839341
BASED READERPOSTER

[Anonymous No.14840366]

>>14838282
i learned that repeating small and ultimately meaningless factoids and references will convince people that you are really smart, and they will expect you to make great changes in the world, despite the fact that you are actually unsure of literally everything, down to whether or not knowledge is even possible. i feel the eye of god in my back, and there are shadows all around me. nothing makes sense anymore. i want to die.

[Anonymous No.14840486]

>>14840366
based

[Anonymous No.14840527]

>>14838282
A lot. Dean Koontz novels helped shaped my life into what it is today. My writing has improved ten fold. I keep my muscles taught everyday and my mind is sharp. Reading is absolutely worth it.

[Anonymous No.14840886]

Not a damn thing

[Anonymous No.14842420]

>>14839341
wholesome and true

[Anonymous No.14842438]

I learned that I like to read :)

[Anonymous No.14842919]

>>14838282
>learned
Reading is for pleasure frogger

[Anonymous No.14843727]

>>14838282
I’ve learned that our Lord, Jesus Chirst, Son of God, truly is King

[Anonymous No.14843777]

>>14838282
After some years of extensive non-fiction reading I feel like I understand everything. I know it's not true but it's how I feel. I traveled across the entire line of pic related. I believe I have a very complete mental model of how everything works and have benefitted from it by taking what I believe are good decisions.
The best thing I take from this is an enormous confidence, which has as a side effect a gain in social respect from others. The second best thing is that, since my model of reality is so comprehensive, that I rarely daydream anymore: when a doubt arises, I can easily find a preliminary explanation in my model, while as a young person I'd start getting lost in my thoughts, disordered and nebulous, wasting time in my confusion and reaching conclusions that were clearly wrong.

[Anonymous No.14843836]

>>14838282
Nothing. If you're young (13-18, maybe 20 at most), some classical novelists and philosophers might spark your interest regarding some metaphysical/ethical questions (the books themselves usually provide no credible/valuable answers to such questions and if they do they're highly axiomatic and pre-thought concepts, i.e. the reader doesn't contribute in the slightest), but beyond that all art is (metaphysically) useless except the thoughts of some vegan authors with relatively deep ethical and existential insight (Tolstoy, for example).

[Anonymous No.14843997]

>>14838282
That everything is one big thing

[Anonymous No.14844020]

>>14838349
What a cucked and lazy philosophy

[Anonymous No.14844027]

>>14838790
>stopped reading there
Stopped reading there

[Anonymous No.14844057]

>>14838282
Typically I "learn" from textbooks, and non-fiction books because they explicitly provide knowledge. Novels on the other hand provide an experience, which you can also learn from, but in a different way.

[Anonymous No.14844085]

>>14838282
That you can create the most degenerate content and people will praise you for it

[Anonymous No.14844133]

That the industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

[Anonymous No.14844180]

>>14843777
I hate to be the news-breaking anon but the DK sometimes becomes a rollercoaster.

You'd feel complete now. That's great; expect something to come in the future to make you relive the whole path again though (which I feel is better).

[Anonymous No.14845133]

That most people are fucking retards

That reading good literature and philosophy doesn’t necessarily have an immediate, pragmatic value, but the idea that everything needs to have immediate, pragmatic value is itself propagated by fucking retards

Autotelism

[Anonymous No.14845152]

>>14838331
thread
>>14844133
Also this

[Anonymous No.14845665]

[Anonymous No.14845710]

>>14838282
That if humans have to perish no matter what, we might as well go with a bang, and leave the cosmos shaking.

[Anonymous No.14845769]

>>14838282
That the world has changed so much since the books of yesteryear that If someone living in 2020 would be transported back to 1910 it would essentially be like fantasy to them in manner is speaking, accent, clothing, ideology, how one carries oneself, what ones owns, where one works, what one talks about, etc. etc.