So what exactly are you doing with all this philosophy shit you're reading?

Following Christ.

Alienating myself.

>>24519337 (OP)
why should I be doing anything with it?

>>24519360
bye bye Malkuth

>>24519337 (OP)

>>24519337 (OP)
lately I've just been developing a greater and greater seething hatred of humanity because of their utter stupidity, self righteousness, and lust for endless and unnecessary activity to the detriment of everyone and everything around them.

>>24519456
do you also spend your days seething at the sheep for forming a flock

>>24519457
mob behavior may amplify their stupidity but it's not what makes me so misanthropic.

>>24519340
fpbp

>>24519460
To be fair, sheep mind their own business

>>24519337 (OP)
Enjoying it

>>24519337 (OP)
Seeking the Good and aligning myself with the Logos.

>>24519340
>asceticism
lol cvck

>>24519337 (OP)
i intend to share it by distilling it and baking it into the narratives im weaving. what else?

>>24519337 (OP)
"Doing with?"
I think you're missing the point. You're looking at philosophy as an object in the wider system of utility, something which either is a tool meant for some practical purpose - bringing in money, or improving one's ability to bring in money - or is useless.
A better question to ask would be why anyone engages in philosophy at all. The world is what it is, regardless of what people think about it. In some ways, philosophy is like mountains. You climb it because it's there, or you don't climb it because it's there. To one with the philosophical spirit, the thirst for truth, philosophy is its own end. To one without, it's ridiculous navel-gazing and word games.

>>24519337 (OP)
looking cool on the internet

>>24519337 (OP)
Writing my own theory and attending university this fall for world history

get out mom it's called saving the west and it's not a phase

>>24519337 (OP)
Studying philosophy for me is more an end than a mean. I understand it might sound dumb since a lot of people see philosophy as life instructions. Oh, well.

I'm not doing anything with it. I'm learning about great people throughout history and getting their life philosophies. I don't give a FUCK if it leads to something tangible. It enriches my spirit and grounds me with people from the past.

>>24519337 (OP)
bitches dig it

becoming racist

>>24519337 (OP)
I think if I just keep reading philosophy in my local book store's cafe, one day a cute girl will approach me

>>24519360
spbp

>>24519337 (OP)
>hurrr, but what is it good foooor?
absolutely nothing!

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>>24520401
You should be reading romantasy slop for that

>>24519337 (OP)
It does turn you into a better thinker. Memorizing that stuff and lecturing people on some whatever philosophical school does seem a bit pointless.

>>24519337 (OP)
Nothing. That's the whole point; philosophy isn't a means to an end, it's the end itself. Using philosophy for something would be defeating its purpose.

>>24519337 (OP)
Philosophy itself calls reading a waste of time because Innatism and Anamnesis prove the actual answers were within you the entire time. You could really just boil it all down to "follow the golden rule" and you've got 2,000 years of literature downpat.

>>24519337 (OP)
Figuring out how to escape and destroy the satanic materialistic nihilistic modern worldview and forge a new way to connect to god.

>>24519337 (OP)
Freeing myself from utilitarianism

>>24519337 (OP)
Lecturing anyone in my orbit so I feel superior to them.

>>24522532
>try to free myself from western nonsense like utilitarianism by reading Tibetan religious writings
>>it’s the exact same thing

>>24519337 (OP)
I am thiis close to uncovering the truth about reality. Then I'm going to publish it and... profit!

>>24519337 (OP)
philosophy is fun to add into novels i write. i do it subtly with character dialogue, arguments between characters about relevant modern critiques.

>>24519337 (OP)
Larping as a marxist and running a local commie paper and employing questionably aged comradettes so I can fuck them.

>>24522149
I'm joking, I don't think anyone actually need philosophy to get a gf or a bf.

philosophy doesn't have to be utilitarian

>>24524386
i think its ironic how the unqie school of philosophy being "pragmatism"
which seems like a rebranding of the british utilitarianism.

>>24519337 (OP)
posting on /lit/ about shit nobody outside of /lit/ cares about

>>24524527
You aint lying nobody worth a shit is going to ask you about the latest monogram you read about the 68 movement.