What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
Did you become more articulate and sociable?
Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
Why? Why do you read?
What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books? Did you become more articulate and sociable?
Do zoomers really?
>Why? Why do you read?
I want my brain to get bigger. I want to know everything. I want to know everything. I want to feel everything. It's like the muscles of the body, if you don't use it, it gets dumber.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
Escape
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
No
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
No
>Why? Why do you read?
Escape
i'd say i'm more good at words
I read to laugh at everyone that's dumber than me. The sense of satisfaction when you get to laugh at incopetance is better than anything in the world.
*incompetence
How poetic.
frick you I haven't slept in the last 30 hours or so
You're only digging yourself further into your hole.
You can spell, right? Take this "L." This is IQfy. You're anonymous. Embrace that.
Could you please show your desktop, i.e, kino writing/ reading station?
It is one of those activities that gives me a sense of satisfaction. I guess reading makes me feel good, so I do it. It is a high that few other activities provide.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
General enjoyment and a greater appreciation for the world around me. Also a greater understanding of culture as a whole.
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
More articulate, less sociable. The latter development had nothing to do with reading.
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
No. I am afraid of other people, especially women.
>Why? Why do you read?
Largely because I enjoy it. With specific regard to poetry, I read it because it is beautiful. But that perception stems my enjoyment of it.
>General enjoyment
>But that perception stems my enjoyment of it
This stuff is actually good and profound.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
Insight into the great tradition of human creation through language from Homer through to Joyce and beyond. For me this scratches my sense of religion better than anything else (as we have sense of sight, sense of taste, touch, etc, sense of balance, sense of humor, we also have sense of religion). Indeed I fancy myself a reading monk
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
Perhaps articulate. Promptly, inexplicably, with amicability, gratefully no I have not become more sociable
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
Sometimes
>Why? Why do you read?
Love it. I remember reading things when I Was younger that I didn't understand. I read them now and I can understand. THe process, the work, the overcoming, the growth, the plateaus and ascending to new ones
i read to live many lives in the comfort of my bed. its amazing how im transported into all sorts of adventures, scientific truths. i honestly dont understand how come more people dont read tbh
I don't think I've gained anything from reading. If anything, I've lost time to it.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
Entertainment
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
No
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
Not from knowledge gained, but from being well read, altought that wasn't obviously the only factor at play
>Why? Why do you read?
Entertainment
I read because I like it not to gain something. Having said that Reading has got me laid with some artistic and easy to impress b***hes so there's that.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
A valuable hobby and pasttime.
> Did you become more articulate and sociable?
Maybe so. My vocabulary and diction is better than most people I speak with.
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
Yes but it wasn't necessary, I was destined to be a lady killer in my youth.
>Why? Why do you read?
Because it's a valuable hobby and pasttime. Reading is thinking is writing is reading.
>I was destined to be a lady killer in my youth.
ooof, hot.
Biggest thing I gained was that it passed the hours painlessly. When I stop reading, the existential dread returns. It's fricking horrible.
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
Knowledge of different ways of thinking with regards to morality, virtue and values.
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
Yes, i understand many more references and enjoy catching college toffs off guard with my blue collar manner.
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
My now-wife encouraged me to get my GED, now we're expecting our first child.
>Why? Why do you read?
I enjoy it, i am able to establish a connection with history.
nazis shouldnt be allowed to raise children. frick off to your cesspit, nazi punk
National Socialism raises children, the proof is in the baby boom in late 1930s Germany.
Liberal Democracy preclude them being born, the proof is the West-wide declining birth rates.
Communsim kills their own children, the proof is the millions of their starved children.
nazi anti-Charlemagne seethe is great
himmler and co. were such chuds on this topic
at least hitler didn't share such sentiments
It was not religious objection, but a lament about the loss of the native Germanic method of kingship. Charles The Great destroyed it in both style and organisatiom
How does one retain the knowledge gained from reading? I can only do it after several readings. Is this normal?
>What is the biggest thing you have gained reading books?
I believe that the two most satisfying things I've gained from literature are the possibility of getting to know various perspectives through the characters and the other would be the fact that you can participate in a story that you like or find interesting at your own pace.
>Did you become more articulate and sociable?
In the beginning, when I used to read philosophy, I felt more articulate than I am today, even though I'm several years older now.
>Did you charm a woman with knowledge gained from reading?
Nope.
>Why? Why do you read?
Why not? Even a busy person with a family to take care of can find time to read. It may not be as easy as just turning on the TV and watching the news or the new Ryan Gosling movie, but literature provides the possibility of expanding your horizon of awareness about human life.
Of course, this takes time
We can never see beyond our horizon of consciousness. If that horizon is limited, it's very likely that, at some point, the individual will feel bad about not understanding themselves, what's happening around them, or not understanding people beyond what they appear to them. Therefore, seeking to broaden our imagination by absorbing good literature is to increase our ability to perceive, express and communicate the human experience.