/lit/ - Literature

It requires effort.

I can sit at the computer and be bombarded by music, games, video, instantly. Or I can sit down and read a book.

Most people tend to be pretty instant gratification.

Why do you want everyone to be like you?

>>5106739
are you 12?

>>5106736
I agree on that
It does require effort and I'm still not perfect. I just work a bunch and bring a book everywhere for my free time which isn't all that much. Its also more socially acceptable than my 3ds. Some girls are fascinated with the book reader.

>>5106739
You missed the point completely

>he thinks everyone should like what he likes

You sound lonely.

>>5106739
>>5106766
>I missed the point but I can't help posting

i read voraciously, but not just books

i read portions, overviews, summaries, scripts, various interpretations of books... but it is hard to sit and read a book in its entirety, i lose interest

also, i am more into learning about things, opposed to experiencing them, i spend more time learning about all kinds of subjects without an agenda, than structured reading of books

>>5106772
I'm sorry, I don't agree with you.

>>5106758
Yeah but girls are fascinated by guys with abs, do you see every going out there and getting fit?

It doesn't help that I think a lot of people get turned off reading by the crap they're forced to read in school.

>>5106772
>he sees a shitpost but can't help replying

>>5106779
This is pointless and fat justification.

>>5106779
>It doesn't help that I think a lot of people get turned off reading by the crap they're forced to read in school.
Good god, this.

Also OP, what kind of a retarded and juvenile question is this, of course people are stupid, bread and circuses et cetera. It's like asking "why isn't everyone superior?", it's human nature.

Just to be clear, an ignorant life is a wasted life.

>>5106791
On the other hand, kids at school are crappy readers.
Give Musil, Euripides or Proust to high schoolers, and they'll be bored.

I think school should focus strongly on discussing what is good literature & what is bad literature with examples from poetry and short stories, instead of forcing people to swallow thick classics then "analyzing" them (like they were made for this purpose).

Do you think that if we all learned everyone's other languages that there would be world peace?

>>5106589
This is your conception of literature-based entertainment. I could say exactly the same about lifting weights, running, painting, or just about any other hobby. People respond differently to different stimuli.

>>5106589
Reading a book requires literacy.

Watching pewdepie yell at video games requires an internet shortcut and the ability to click something on a screen.

>>5106818
They should give 50 shades of grey to high schoolers. Erotic fiction is the only thing that's going to reach them

>>5106837
OP here
I also exercise pic related I went from a 3/10 to a SOLID 8.
But seriously though. Just because you can apply my situation to other things doesnt mean that what I said is invalid. So would you say reading, lifting, arts, technology, whatever your craft is and mastering it a sign of maturity?

>>5106956
no, no I would not. I'm saying that a lot of people simply won't respond as well to literature based entertainment as you.

>>5106956
>a 3/10 to a SOLID 8.

gr8 b8

>>5106589
>shoplifting because you're broke but desparately need to live the literary lifestyle

Because that time could also be used riding motorcycles and lifting weights.

>>5107006

lel

Not sure if bait on bait or if being this fucking new.

>>5107066
'n slaying puss, amright?

>>5107066
Literally lifting takes 6 hours a week tops

>>5107073
I'm from /fit/ full homo

>>5106739
There are lots of different kinds of books, but you can surrender yourself to ignorance passivity if you want, no pressure.

>>5106818
>kids at school are crappy readers.
>Give Musil, Euripides or Proust to high schoolers, and they'll be bored.

>>5107086
who said it was girlpussy?

>>5107078
fucking casual

>>5107066
Lifting should be for strength only though which takes a few hours a week at the most, so many musclebound aesthetic fags who are weak as fuck.
Motorcycles are for overweight dads.

>>5107115
Dat balding compensation.
>muh test
lel

>>5107115
> lifting for longer than 6 hours a week


Summerfag detected
That's 2 hours per session, if you take more than two hours a session youre doing it wrong.

>>5107122
compensation? for what? He's professional weightlifter you moron

>>5107116
you don't know shit about lifting though

>>5107123
>lifting for longer than 6 hours a week
>summerfag
The irony of this post satisfies me greatly.

>>5107124
>you don't know shit about lifting though
I work my arms and chest and nothing else, my muscle is subtle and for my own fitness, I refuse to make it a way of life and surrender to insecurity, luckily I am not a homosexual so I do not spend all my time checking out muscle bound men at my local gym.

>>5107108
>not the one about Kant
Back to /mu/

>>5107140
your own fitness? shouldn't you rather work your legs, core and back then? as in, squats, deads? the most functional lifts?

>luckily I am not a homosexual so I do not spend all my time checking out muscle bound men at my local gym.
I only need a mirror for that

>>5107156
I swim and ride bikes as well. Let's not be childish anymore, sorry.

>>5107167
I just wondered why you would work your arms and chest for "your own fitness". The're well known to be only for show, and have pretty much no functionality compared to a strong PC.

>>5107175
To be strong, it's silly, but whatever.

>>5107116
stay beta

>>5107182
With no irony I know that I could beat you up easily.

>>5107175
Arms and chest are pretty important in a fight, m8
If you get behind a guy and you can hold his arms in place and joke him out that's pretty much the best dang stuff in the world, and if a guy gets behind you and your arms are strong enough to push his off, that's a godsend

>>5107178
but arms and chest won't make you strong anon.. it will just make you look strong to uneducated eyes. but yeah, whatever.

>>5107189
You know you can work arms, chest, core, back, and legs, and don't have to choose just one, right?

>>5107185
>only works his arms and chest
>this this makes him a badass

>>5106758
>I just work a bunch and bring a book everywhere for my free time
This is so fucking stupid. When did we start to try to cheat to find time to read? We used to have reading as the main event of the day and try to manage to do the rest of the stuff quickly on the side.
Reading a good book requires you to have your mind in the world for hours straight with complete concentration. Every bit of you needs to be engulfed by the book. Only then can you see what wasn't written and why.
If you just read a bit on the toilet and a little before you go to sleep and a few pages on your lunch break you might as well put the book away to wait till someone can give it the proper respect it deserves.

>>5107186
a strong core, powerful legs and explosiveness from cleans/snatches will be vastly more useful in a fight (for the majority of people) than a pair of swole arms and pecs.

>>5107195
>assumptions
Call me beta and I'll slap your shit.

>>5107194
did you even read the line of posts? the trip suits you well.

>>5107204
im not assuming anything you daft cunt.
you just told us all you do is >>5107140

>>5107204
No, but in all seriousness I have always defended myself easily. I mainly grapple and pummel when faced with attackers.

>>5107207
You think I'm just some fuckin nerd that's gonna sit around reading all day, m8?

>>5107211
I mean as far as weights are concerned. I bike about 8 miles every morning and swim 3 times a week.

>>5107217
oh im sorry man, i didnt know that you rode your bike and swam also. you're defiantly just a sanctioned fight away from breaking into the UFC

>>5107217
>swimming and biking will give me the raw strength and explosiveness to help me dominate a fight
fucking lol m8

>>5107226
My older brother is :DD

>>5106589
> the images in your head brighter and realistic compared to movies and videogames
>realism
>in art
You missed the whole point you fucking pleb.

>>5107225
>>5107226
You're bullys.

>>5106736
>music
>not the highest art
>film
>not an art
Fucking plebs on MY /lit/

>>5107239
>doesn't know what realism is
fag

I want /fit/ to leave.

>>5107252
but i came here to expand my mind!

>>5106774
Yeah I tend to do a similar thing.
I just like to learn things so I do a lot of research on all kinds of unrelated random subjects. But some things (such as philosophy or politics) you cant just read some articles and a wiki to aquire sufficient knowledge (unlike, for example, distillation or farming). So Ive learned to read books to fill in those spaces. Sadly, its hard for me to pick them up and afterwords to stay concentrated for long periods of time, so I have to fix these problems.

>>5107252
>>5107241
Whatever man, I'll smack your fucking ass if I ever see you in tha club

>>5107241
Shut up, nerd

>>5107140
Beauty is the highest intellect.

>>5107267
Literally makes no sense.

>>5107247
The point of art is to escape the vulgarity of life you fucking retard.
>>5107270
Tell that to Wilde.
It doesn't require explanation an reveals itself automatically.

>>5107280
>I read Wilde's essays and now know everything.
Get fucked kid.

>>5106589
>the images in your head brighter and realistic compared to movies and videogames

I need to work on this. All of the main characters in my head are Tobey Maguire but in varying degrees of affluence.

It's... disappointing.

>>5107280

>The point of art is to escape the vulgarity of life you fucking retard.

I love this. When young posters on this board begin to form their own sensibilities toward art they scream them at others as though they're doctrine.

Bless their little hearts. They try so hard.

>>5107280

>escape the vulgarity of life

because all artists try to do this, right?
fuck off moron

>>5106589
You went from Hot Pie to Arya Stark.

>>5107132
> no actual response
>"BETTER CALL HIM A SUMMERFAG"

>>5107217
> bikes
> implying they help with strength

>>5107116
> he thinks lifting for aesthetics doesn't make you stronger and vice versa

>>5107140
>i know stuff about lifting
>I train only upper body
Yall plebs need to read the sticky

>>5107280
> the point of art is to escape the vulgarity of life

Edgy High Schooler detected

>>5107333

>BETTER CALL HIM A SUMMERFAG

You're catching feelings over four posts at once. You are a summerfag.

>>5107333
Those posts were all mine, you got bamboozled.

>>5107347

ZIMBABWE

>>5107344
> still no ACTUAL response

Le summerfag detected

>>5107333
>"BETTER CALL HIM A SUMMERFAG"
BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT THE IRON GAME KID

>>5107101
>oh noes

>>5107351

>who cares if i was r-raging at f-f-our posts at once
>i was m-m-mad, okay?
>please, just l-l-leave m-me alone

> colorful covers make it fun to collect

The fuck?

They're books, not PokéMon.

>>5107246
That's not what he said at all you moron.
When's the last time you went to an opera house or a cinema?

Exactly.

>>5107381
>>5107359
All these DYEL summerfags. Look up DYEL on know your meme kids

> getting annoyed when I see people lift like plebs

Sounds like a healthy response

>>5107145
also someone post the Kant one

>>5107392
u got tricked m8

>>5107392

>my annoyance is h-h-h-ealthy

Damn your ass just got prolapsed the fuck out lol. Keep catching them feelings, killer.

>>5107392
you get annoyed when you see people lift like they know what the fuck they're doing? as in, people that actually compete at PL/WL meets? sure thing, brah.
Come back when you're past your first 6 months of SS and "I know all about lifting XD" phase.

The education system. By assigning boring as fuck books to students, it gives the idea to them that books are serious and boring and not fun. There are books out there which are as easy to get into as any movie.

>>5107196
Chill, dude. Sometimes I just want to read a pop novel.

>>5108202
>Sometimes I just want to read a pop novel.

then you are not a true intellectual

>>5107506
Yes, but /lit/ will be happy to inform you that those books are worthless trash and you should feel bad for not burning them.

>>5108208
>He only reads to feel smart.
How's it feel to be full pleb?

>>5108212
not feel but be

you're the real pleb

>>5108215
If you treat intellectualism as an end in itself, and not just a means, then you are beyond help.

>>5107280
>The point of art is...
Please. Does everything have to have a clearly defined purpose? Is this what autism feels like?

>>5107196
>We
>We
What are you blabbering on about, Grandad? Honestly, now.

>>5106589
I know this feel OP.

>hated reading in english lessons
>lel this is boring, fuck books
>grow up
>want to experience the world
>start to want to read literature
>cheap
>learn things
>develop vocabulary
>great stories

Never looking back