libgen has already made it so i have more books than i could read if i started reading now and only stopped to eat and sleep, what a load of horse shit
5 months ago
Anonymous
it's not a race and most, like 99% most, are garbage
5 months ago
Anonymous
Seeing as I just made a thread on Martial, I leave this here:
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
so true french gay
5 months ago
Anonymous
i agree, but ive just realized how much time ive been squandering recently... You can always go further in realizing the preciousness of each day (unless you have a full-time job, that is).
Ive devoted hours, maybe 100+ hours over the past few months to watching that stupid grifter Nick Fuentes, watching him react to discussions between other mediocre ecelebs like alex jones and tucker carlson, watching him rant his mean-spirited, judgmental ideology. He's funny, but man, what a waste of time, what a waste of energy. Almost wake up with a kind of hangover, a kind of bitter taste in your mouth, after throwing away a precious evening like that.
Anyway, i'm gonna go read now, but I just wanted to post this to encourage other anons to try and discover how they're wasting time, and to realize the preciousness of each day by devoting more time and energy to reading and other passions.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I can't figure out what's a waste of time and whats not, everything is so complex and so stupid at the same time.
5 months ago
Anonymous
What sorts of things are you thinking of when you say this?
5 months ago
Anonymous
Like how philosphy is this deep body of work that supposedly takes people years to penetrate but when we get down to it many of the ideas become reduced to semantic arguing between nerds or little interesting truisms and quotes. I can't tell if it's meaningful or not. Like how physics and math are these endless fields of deep exploration that no one ever seems to fully understand but then it seems like the more you learn and the more you put into them the more you just become an old guy writing papers no one understands or uses.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Ah yes I see what you mean. Tbh this kind of thing is why I've generally turned away from "knowledge" and "truth" and more towards beauty in one form or another as I've gone on in literature. I can't really feel like I've wasted my time reading classical poetry, as opposed to philosophy, because the value is so immediate, so undeniably real. But I understand that probably isn't a satisfying solution for everyone.
5 months ago
Anonymous
I wish /misc/ would just get deleted.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Why, so they can flood every other board?
5 months ago
Anonymous
Yes. And then ban them. Containment boards don't work. As it painfully obvious.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Reproach to science: this world is not worth knowing.
5 months ago
Anonymous
No way, just went to browse GR and I saw this
5 months ago
Anonymous
Listen to your synchronicities, you know what you must do: learn about the myriad ways in which Frank Zappa was a useful idiot of dark powers
5 months ago
Anonymous
anyone else ever feel like there aren't actually that many good books? you never really run out of good things to read sure but I feel like after you are done with the main masterpieces, which there aren't that many of, you pretty much get the very large portion of what literature has to offer. from there on out it's diminishing returns.
5 months ago
Anonymous
This is why I’m interested in the literature of all major cultures. There’s a limited amount of “space” in a given culture/language for masterpieces and foundational works, but once you look at the broader picture you see that each little world is complete unto itself.
5 months ago
Anonymous
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Arthur Schopenhauer >Telling others to avoid bad books
Ironic
libgen has already made it so i have more books than i could read if i started reading now and only stopped to eat and sleep, what a load of horse shit
it's not a race and most, like 99% most, are garbage
Seeing as I just made a thread on Martial, I leave this here:
Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
>Quisquis ubique habitat, Maxime, nusquam habitat.
so true french gay
i agree, but ive just realized how much time ive been squandering recently... You can always go further in realizing the preciousness of each day (unless you have a full-time job, that is).
Ive devoted hours, maybe 100+ hours over the past few months to watching that stupid grifter Nick Fuentes, watching him react to discussions between other mediocre ecelebs like alex jones and tucker carlson, watching him rant his mean-spirited, judgmental ideology. He's funny, but man, what a waste of time, what a waste of energy. Almost wake up with a kind of hangover, a kind of bitter taste in your mouth, after throwing away a precious evening like that.
Anyway, i'm gonna go read now, but I just wanted to post this to encourage other anons to try and discover how they're wasting time, and to realize the preciousness of each day by devoting more time and energy to reading and other passions.
I can't figure out what's a waste of time and whats not, everything is so complex and so stupid at the same time.
What sorts of things are you thinking of when you say this?
Like how philosphy is this deep body of work that supposedly takes people years to penetrate but when we get down to it many of the ideas become reduced to semantic arguing between nerds or little interesting truisms and quotes. I can't tell if it's meaningful or not. Like how physics and math are these endless fields of deep exploration that no one ever seems to fully understand but then it seems like the more you learn and the more you put into them the more you just become an old guy writing papers no one understands or uses.
Ah yes I see what you mean. Tbh this kind of thing is why I've generally turned away from "knowledge" and "truth" and more towards beauty in one form or another as I've gone on in literature. I can't really feel like I've wasted my time reading classical poetry, as opposed to philosophy, because the value is so immediate, so undeniably real. But I understand that probably isn't a satisfying solution for everyone.
I wish /misc/ would just get deleted.
Why, so they can flood every other board?
Yes. And then ban them. Containment boards don't work. As it painfully obvious.
Reproach to science: this world is not worth knowing.
No way, just went to browse GR and I saw this
Listen to your synchronicities, you know what you must do: learn about the myriad ways in which Frank Zappa was a useful idiot of dark powers
anyone else ever feel like there aren't actually that many good books? you never really run out of good things to read sure but I feel like after you are done with the main masterpieces, which there aren't that many of, you pretty much get the very large portion of what literature has to offer. from there on out it's diminishing returns.
This is why I’m interested in the literature of all major cultures. There’s a limited amount of “space” in a given culture/language for masterpieces and foundational works, but once you look at the broader picture you see that each little world is complete unto itself.
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.
In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
Arthur Schopenhauer
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Telling others to avoid bad books
Ironic