>tfw IST and IST will never be at peace
>tfw the dream of an active, well read community will never be a reality
>tfw dreamt of Ancient Greece again last night
>tfw you will never go into the city for some pederasty with the boys after a long day of studying and sport at the agora
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Does anyone actually use /lit? I was a lit major and I’ve never even looked at it
Reading is the same as playing video games.
It's just a fun way to waste time.
Read Call of the Wild, excellent book.
kys israelite, are you actually autistic enough to believe reading is equivalent to playing videogames?
I read it in elementary school it was good from what I remember. I think smartphones have absolutely murdered the reading habits of the small minority that were still reading in like 2011 or so. I used to read every single night before sleeping now I can’t even remember the last book I read. The last piece of serious lit I read was middlemarch and that had to be like eight years ago
>Reading is the same as playing video games.
>It's just a fun way to waste time.
this
IST is full of improovers joylessly grinding their way through a list of meme books.
The point of literature is to expose Being to thought. Reading illuminates your worldview with the Truth that allows you to see with clarity.
That's certainly what happened when I read the Harry Potter series.
>The point of video games is to expose Being to thought. Reading illuminates your worldview with the Truth that allows you to see with clarity.
No, that's science you're thinking of there.
Kek. Zoomers
Science takes as its basis arithmetic, which involves representations of Being rather than Being itself.
???? All we study are abstractions. We can't understand nature all at once.
Science does deal only with representations (as it should) but literature does not. Read Homer and you will find that much of what is essential about reality can be disclosed through poetry.
>but literature does not
It does though.
>involves representations of Being rather than Being itself.
So does literature, what's your point morono.
Ok, I'll rephrase. Literature represents Being qua Being and has the ability to create and alter representations. Arithmetic (and thus science etc.) takes already given representations of Being for granted and then abstractly deals with these.
Ok, I'll rephrase. You're talking out your ass.
Fricking pseud.
This is literally just Plato. You're a pseud.
I've actually read Plato so saying 'This is literally just Plato' isn't going to work because I'm aware of all the bizarrely incorrect shit he believed.
You haven't explained why it's incorrect
>science takes already given representations of Being for granted
Really? I think scientists would strongly disagree with that statement.
>science
cringe as frick, holy shit
the only book you need to read ever is the bible, everything else is zoomershit
homosexual take ngl
Sure, some games even make you read a lot. But pure text books allow you to use your imagination, whereas games rarely do, except for building games I guess.
>Reading is the same as playing video games.
Literal moron take
>Reading is the same as playing video games
Lol, Lmao even.
Reading is way better for you than gayming in almost every way
t. gaymer who used to read books
lit is midwit central, you might as well go to reddit. Full of people reading modern fiction junk. I got more quality book recommendations from /misc/ than I ever got from lit.
I did two semesters of literature, never visited IST once. Majored in rhetoric, so read quite a bit from the old greek pederasts.
Trash thread. Obviously the extremes won't reconcile but you can do full body workout and cardio every day in an hour, drama queen.
Reading is for losers
IST is full of leftist trannies and namegays
however, you should indeed start with the greeks