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16259277 No.16259277 [Reply] [Original]

What does your mom think of your reading hobby?

>> No.16259307

Nothing now.
She was the big reader of my parents, and I’m sure she was glad to see me reading anything.

>> No.16259310

>>16259277
She proud

>> No.16259318

She thinks I'm smart because of it.

>> No.16259329

It's not a fucking hobby. The official intelligentsia is degenerate and incapable of meeting the greatest challenges of our species in the coming decades. We must form a vanguard counter-academy before it's too late.

>> No.16259332

Does Kanye read?

>> No.16259343

>>16259277
I hope she's dead.

>> No.16259350

>>16259307
true. She was also glade you accepted christ into your life.

>>16259277
she doesnt

>> No.16259527

She says philosophy is fairytales for people to profit from retards who believe in their shit. She has a point though

>> No.16259562

Mildly perplexed
>>16259332
>they throwin contracts at me
>they know that niggas can't read

>> No.16259569

>>16259277
My mom is most likely schizo and my dad has an IQ in the 80s.

>> No.16259577

>>16259277
She encouraged and was likely chiefly responsible for it.

>> No.16259586

>>16259277
Shes very supportive and buys me books of authors she thinks are classic writers. I have like 4 copies of Paradise Lost and the Art of War. I love my mom, guys.

>> No.16259598

>>16259277
she's very happy and regulary reccomends me books
she's librarian so it makes sense

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>>16259329
>t. pic related

>> No.16259610

she got me into it in the first place but sadly she doesn't read much nowadays so we don't talk about it

something about not having the "mental stamina" for it which I think is either bullshit or an early sign of dementia :(

>> No.16259618

>>16259603
Asshurt academic detected
Get back to your busywork, you scoundrel!

>> No.16259623

>>16259610
Most of the normal people I know over the age of 40 (aka. not university professors) stopped reading. It's probably not a sign of dementia.

>> No.16259635

My mom thinks I’m a fucking loser, and she’s right. I’m going to college to hopefully unfuck my life and be able to support my parents in the future. I genuinely wish I wasn’t alive, but I’m too cowardly to kill myself.

>> No.16259653

>>16259277
she fears me

>> No.16259654

>>16259277
As she is a very religious person she isn't too stoked at the idea that Ive been reading, but I think she prefers it to me watching movies as a way to pass time.

>> No.16259696

>>16259569
you to, huh?

a question to all madmen itt: do you ever wonder which one of your parents is insane? do you have to wonder at all?

>> No.16259795

>>16259277
She thinks I’m a genius and going to be a famous author one day.

>> No.16259808

>>16259610
tell her to read before she goes to work

>> No.16259881

>>16259795
You will be. And when you are, remember me.

>> No.16259891

>>16259696
I didn't mean that as some teenage "uh I hate my parents" thing. I meant that entirely literally.

>> No.16259906

>>16259891
well i didnt think you were joking
i love my dad dearly but hes a fuckin moron

>> No.16260256

>>16259635
It seems like you're using college as an escape from problems with your own life or relationships with your family. This is something I tried to do and it turned out really badly. Make sure whatever you do you are doing it for yourself not for other people.

>> No.16260306

>>16259277
My mom shuts the fuck up and gets bred

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>>16259329
Yes

>> No.16260363

>>16260256
You’re right, and this is good advice. I am going to college basically so I can find something to support myself and not have to rely on others.

>> No.16260755

>>16259277
She's happy I'm reading classics, wants me to check out more Nathaniel Hawthorne.

>> No.16260795

>>16259277
I dont have a reading hobby, sadly

>> No.16260800

She recently gifted me a lamp because she thinks my reading place is too dark

>> No.16261067

>>16259277
she thinks I'm a loser, she's right

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16261165

My mom only ever cares about me getting good grades and nothing else. All she does is read the bible again and again.
My dad appreciates it though, he's actually kinda happy I'm reading more than him now.

>> No.16261226

>>16261165
>All she does is read the bible again and again.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

>> No.16261230

>>16261226
It would be nice if she read something else once in a while, it's been 20 years of repeat reads.

>> No.16261241

I read on my phone so no one knows that I read all the time

>> No.16261649

>>16261226
>>16261230
Maybe she should read some theology.

>> No.16261655

>>16259277
Reading just for the sake of reading isn't worthwhile nor is it productive. Now, reading for the desire of better understanding things you're interested in, or want to better understand for a purpose? That's based. Reading text messages is reading, too, you know.

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My mother is convinced reading is a waste of time; she is uneducated and couldn't possibly understand the pleasures of a man of letters such as myself. I relish in the written word; she relishes in smoking weed and doing manual labor. A yokel birthed me, but I need not be a yokel myself. She can say my intellectual labor is not true labor (this is accurate enough), but she will never be able to gainsay my delight, my rapture, my bliss at the delicate intertwining of the words that makeup our lovely English idiom.

>> No.16262084

My mom mostly reads romance novels set in Scotland or Ireland. You know, the kinds you see with the beefy dudes in kilts on the cover, and sometimes they're embracing fair maidens in their massive arms? Those kinds. I can't really discuss my reading with her. Usually if I want to talk about a book I'm reading I go to my grandma or aunt, who are both fairly well read.