/lit/ - Literature

only if you're white and male, otherwise don't bother you'll never make it

>>17001500
It lets me read people’s comments and realize just how little they’ve actually thought about what they talk about, and instead of lecturing them I just ignore it and find a new thread

>>17001500
yes, it gives me an erection because i imagine people thinking i'm smart because i read philosophy

>>17001500
a lot of philosophy is interesting but is not fundamentally life-changing, but then you read the likes of Pascal, Weil, Girard, Kierkegaard, Baudrillard, Leopardi, Rilke, Rousseau, Montaigne, etc. These changed a lot the way I act towards other people, towards myself and towards the word. The authors I listed are just the ones who deeply touched me, they might be different for you. If you had to read just one, go for Pascal. I truly think he was one of the greatest genius to ever live.

>>17001540
I've never understood the high praise for Kierkegaard. I read Fear and Trembling and found nothing which seemed true or even useful

>>17001500
Not much, but psychologists and psychotherapists are much more useless.
At least with philosophy you get to learn about interesting concepts and see a larger picture than most people ever will.
Finding meaning and well-being in a therapy room is way more unlikely than finding it in a literary work. Unless you get incredibly lucky and your therapist happens to be a mature and well-read person himself

>>17001500
I think shit like stoicism, epicureanism, epistemology, ethics, etc can help but it depends on you. It's not like you will read it and instantly find the motivation to fix your life. You need to read it, study it, meditate on it for several hours on end. It's like a martial art but for the brain.

>>17001500
No it's just for fun, like reading fiction

>>17001500
It makes my pp hard

>>17001500
It makes you someone who has read philosophy

>>17001565
The main thing I got out of Fear and Trembling was his view of faith which helped me a lot. I was raised in a relatively liberal Catholic family but I was passioned by science as a kid. One day I told my father I didn't believe in God and he quoted Descartes to me and did a whole exposé about how "everyone believed in God". Obviously not very helpful for a kid who thinks that the greatest human alive is a potato in a wheelchair. As a teen, I slowly became disillusioned with science, basically realising that scientists are not the modern knights society made me think they were, and that what truly interested me in the world was not how one could apply models to it (and how it was) but rather that it was, thus slowly growing my interests in the various art forms and philosophy. But there was still this question of God I could not truly accept or reject. When I read Kierkegaard it gave me a very practical and psychological view of this question, a view which was also coherent with other problems I had in mind (ethics and so forth). I've still not made up my mind wether I believe in God or not, but it helped me build a basis for understanding others' faith and to discuss of their faith with them that goes beyond "huurrr how can you believe in God if children suffers".
Sorry for the blog post, but as I said, philosophy do something for you when it is idiosyncratic and thus I felt it was necessary to give a little background.

>>17001507
based

>>17001540
>If you had to read just one, go for Pascal. I truly think he was one of the greatest genius to ever live.
Tell us why anon

>>17001500
You can argue with other people who've read philosophy. ;)

>>17001500
Does reading do anything for you other than make you read some more?

>>17001500
It helps me speculate about realism

>>17001500
ya it lets me pretend that i'm better than other people and decieve me into a false sense of superiority to mask the fact that i am no more special then beggars on the streets.

>>17001507
Based department? We got another one!

>>17001720
Quality post.

>>17001500
reading some philosophy and history is important so you don't end up an unironic kekistani faggot or protestant "christian" boomer, or any of the other cringe ideologies that come from total ignorance. one reason western countries are so fucked right now is because we lost our intellectuals and are now lorded over largely by managerial YA karens and techbro faglords who don't read anything serious.

the value of actually going full chmess is pretty debatable for the individual, but a society without these assburgers is in danger of collapse.

>>17001507
>tfw white
We're ALL going to make it, whitebros

Practical stuff like stoicism, sure.
But the more far out stuff? Mental masturbation

>>17001500
Been reading it for the last 6 years. I can say with true conviction, no, not really. It's good to help you form you're own philosophy to see it from other bright minds. But does it help? We will never even how we came into existence, the most basic question we can't even answer.

>>17001507

>>17001500
No. Read fiction instead.

>>17001500
It makes me hate one specific person more

>>17003008
Me?
Is it me?
It's me isn't it?
Anon has got to be referring to me.