Thread 24837217

Why do people read for any other reason than entertainment?

>>24837217 (OP)
>t. hylic

>>24837220
You can choose to stop suffering any time, friend!

>>24837217 (OP)
education, to pour over the words of the ancients and find meaning

>>24837236
>pour
hmm

>>24837220
sorry for being a pleb newfag but a Hylic is ?? I want to be able to inspeak insult others too.

>>24837528
hylic means you're onna them fags who trust in the demiurge's illusory realm, that is, you ain't onna them initiate fags who've had their prostate impaled by the spear of wisdom during ceremonial rites

>>24837531
I'm generally anti-catamite so maybe I'm not ready for Hylic, I'll just stick with Pseud.

>>24837536
>generally
mhm

>>24837217 (OP)
They say 'for knowledge' but they lie.

>>24837217 (OP)
You can choose to read philosophy, religious texts, mystics, textbooks from your field of expertise. All of these have value whether it's increasing your knowledge or enriching you spiritually, bringing you closer to God. But fiction is pure entertainment. High quality entertainment, Joyce and Pynchon require you to put in the work, but entertainment.

>>24837217 (OP)
It makes the bad thoughts go away

I read street signs for navigation

>>24837217 (OP)
To gain insights into history and thought to determine causes of the male sex crisis

>>24837217 (OP)
You can classify everything as "entertainment" if you want, it's a nebulous concept.

>>24840402
Or you can use words in their commonly understood manner and communicate like a human being instead of a sub-literate animal.

>>24837217 (OP)
I read to expand my mind which is now hhhhuuuuuuuuuuugeeeeeeeeeeeeee kek

>>24840445
I do that all the time. However you are being disingenuous or just silly to imply that it's a possibility in this context. OP's very question is loaded with semantic fuckoldry waiting to be dribbled and sputtered onto my innocent psyche.

>>24837217 (OP)
It's enjoyable. Not enjoyable in the way people usually use the word, like when they talk about playing vidya or watching anime, but a deeper form of enjoyment
I also feel like reading makes you wiser, even if it's just reading fiction. That's just a hunch doe

>>24837231
ok i did what now?

>>24840471
>chatgpt
>freespeech
>vaxxines
>t. 43-year-old "functional" alcoholic that was retarded enough to fall for the Q meme

to understand the human condition

>>24840486
>but a deeper form of enjoyment
it's just more noise, sure it has benefits like better literacy levels, but so does playing vidya, like better object tracking or hand/eye coordination. They're all just hobbies.

>>24841297
live

>>24843761
ok see you on the other side