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>be me
>from /fit/ & /biz/
What are /lit/'s definition of gains?

>> No.18733814

>>18733809
Number of books read (but only the good ones count).

>> No.18733818

>>18733809
Start with the Greeks.

>> No.18733823

>>18733818
/thread

>> No.18733830

>>18733809
Gains are a wordly illusion that do nothing but provide illusory fulfillment. Michael Phelps talked about how he went into a deep depression after every olympics - why? Because gains are bs.

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How do I measure these gains?

>> No.18733838

>>18733809
start with the greeks

>> No.18733842

>>18733809
You don't get much, if anything, out of it. DESU, it tends to get worse really. As I grow older, reading has become more and more disturbing (unsettling). But I do something that allows me to 'capture' other people inside my head. And after I'm done with them, I somewhat create a mental 'simulated mind' that I can use as I see fit. Those are my 'gains', but you can also just read things for fun.

>> No.18733846

>>18733842
you sound mentally ill, stop manifesting tulpas out of the books you read and maybe it won't unsettle you anymore retard

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>>18733830
Post body/portfolio. Pic is you.

>> No.18733852

>>18733849
sure

>> No.18733924

>>18733809
>Homer
>Hesiod
>The Pre-Socratics
>Aeschylus
>Euripides
>Sophocles
>Herodotus
>Thucydides
>Aristophanes
>Plato
>Xenophon
>Aristotle
Read all of this and then maybe you'll be ready for the Romans. This is what starting with the Greeks means. It's the equivalent of getting your bench to 1 pl8 or making your first Uniswap trade.
>B-B-B-BUT THAT'S A LOT
Yeah tough, you want gains you're going to have to work for it faggot.

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>>18733849
Post IQ test and book shelf. Pic is you.

>> No.18733931

>>18733924
everyone wanna be a philosopher, nobody wanna read the old ass books

>> No.18733979

>>18733809
500 books read on goodreads=2pl8 bench
1000=3pl8
1500=4pl8
2000=5pl8

>> No.18733991

>>18733929
this

>>18733849
you seek to measure yourself in ephemeral, worldly things. how empty you will feel when they have left you alone, without a single line of Kierkegaard or Nietzsche to comfort your ignorance.

>> No.18733996

>>18733979
100=1pl8
250=1.5pl8

>> No.18734002

>>18733846
How I'm supposed to do that? When I'm reading I get inside the book and experience it as all characters. At least, I try.

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>>18733929
And your point is?

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>>18733991
Only fat people think that a strong and capable body is a worldly waste of time.

>> No.18734059

>>18733814
the good ones being subjective to whoever has a bigger literary energy than you, and is able to back it up.
if two intelligent people meet one of them is either less/more intelligent that the other or they're on the same level, in general.
If you're an idiot you won't get this, but many a pride has been hurt by a better read and more intelligent person just existing, conversing, being around someone of less such gains.
It's pride, really, which is experience, knowledge, argumentation, charisma, guise, computative intellect - improvisation, lying -- stuff like that.

/lit/ gains is pride which is neither worldly nor bodily, neither biz nor lit, yet throughoutly just lit, as described above.
here you have the negative and positive definition.

>> No.18734072

>>18734024
>its okay if I have an iq of 70 because i still hate niggers lol
I dont think I need to make a point.

>>18734035
Soma Sema. So tell me anon, what do you achieve by lifting weights in the gym all day?

>> No.18734080

>>18733809
>/lit/'s definition of gains?
# of time Butterfly replied to you in a Neechum thread.

>> No.18734104

>>18734035
>God provided--
Should be on the low iq section.

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>>18734072
>Soma Sema. So tell me anon, what do you achieve by lifting weights in the gym all day?
First of all, you don't have to sit in the gym "all day" in order to have a strong, capable, and aesthetic body. An hour or so per day a few days per week with a balanced diet and some cardio will make you stronger and better than any dyel layman. Educating your mind without training your body is as inferior as training your body without educating your mind. Either way you are an incomplete man. Lifting and running allows you to more easily manipulate your environment, it gives you discipline, it makes you healthier and more likely to age gracefully, it makes you more attractive and more likely to find a superior mate, etc. You really can't argue against physical fitness and defend intellectual fitness simultaneously, the arguments for either are identical because they are both inherently linked.

>> No.18734124

>>18734104
>t. midwit posting on a literature board who doesn't read

>> No.18734128

>>18734080
> mfw butters is too busy licking her girlfriend's asshole to reply to me

>> No.18734130

>>18734119
>>18734072
And to add to this, physical fitness makes you more beautiful, which is a moral good. To purposefully neglect your body and choose to be uglier is immoral.

>> No.18734135

>>18734124
>t. I saw in a meme that god=high iq and it helped me cope
Faggot.

>> No.18734142

>>18734135
>literally hasn't read plato and defaults into a 2008-tier anti-christian screed the second he sees the word "God"

>> No.18734165

>>18734130
>>18734119
Well of course physical health is important. But theres a great difference between being fit and being a roiding gym rat.

>> No.18734222

>>18734165
Nobody in this thread has said anything about being a roided out gym rat until this post.

>> No.18734274
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The ONLY worthwhile gains are accomplished by READING and RUNNING

>> No.18734598

>>18734035
So is worldly knowledge. Only morality isn't vanity.

>> No.18734900

>>18734598
Making your body strong and beautiful is moral.

>> No.18734911

>>18733809
i pooped my pants

>> No.18734953

>>18733809
Have a strong body, make sure to do squats and OHP, read Russian literature while the primary market is closed.

>> No.18735022

>>18734274
running? seriously?
all running does is hurt your knees. incredibly unhealthy.
try weights

>> No.18735062

>>18733818
I’ve found that the Greeks are boring as fuck though.

>> No.18735072

Discussing the works of F. Gardner and R.C Waldun, of course.