REMINDER: READING A LOT OF BOOKS DOESNT MAKE YOU SMART, OR WISE

Can we dispel this meme please? I am tired of retards thinking they are intelligent just because they memorize and vomit back the stupid bullshit of another retard in the past.

books are just information and if you are not careful and just read for the sake of reading, you might end up with a bunch of nonsense gibberish in your head, or worst, indoctrinated by shit like marxism

books are just words of some other moron, writing a book doesnt make you smart

if you are smart, you dont need to read everything, or brag about reading, because you can choose what is valuable information and what is not, and you know that the people who wrote stuff, where just people in the end

the source of knowledge for the books, is the world, if you pay attention to the world, there is no reason why you cant deduct for yourself, the knowledge

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This. Books are for idiots. You can learn everything you need to know about life from movies or tv duh.

I watch and morty im smart enouth

i mean the world as in reality, physical phenomenons, and also human behavior

if you pay attention you can rediscover science, and many times you can check with academia, and have reached many of the same conclusions are they did

this just in.
autist calls books dumb

I read train timetables and phone books.

how do you extricate what is and isn't valuable or useful without having accessed and analysed in depth a wide variety of material?

>on the contrary, reading no books makes you a fucking idiot.

kys op

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i know that in this age, the selfthough has become a meme, most are just posers, but if you honestly care about knowing, you can learn from the world and life, observation, as the people who wrote the books did

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>you can learn from the world and life, observation, as the people who wrote the books did

ALSO I DONT MEAN YOU DONT HAVE TO READ AT ALL, I MEAN, KNOW THAT BOOKS ARE JUST THE WORDS OF SOMEBODY ELSE, THE PRIMARY SOURCE IS LIFE, THE WORLD, OBSERVATION

those are trolls, i am serious

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you're not answering my question

also, prove that sense knowledge is a reliable source of knowledge and that there isn't an insurmountable epistemic gap between inner experience and reality (if there is reality at all)

if you don't read and take in the conflicts of past generations you have no actual knowledge on the modern world.

lol, kill yourself

>if you pay attention you can rediscover science, and many times you can check with academia, and have reached many of the same conclusions are they did
This. Let’s reinvent the wheel and spend our days studying light refractions.

They have books in Costa Rica? live and learn.

pol is better than books.

Almost all people are idiots. All books are written by people. Ergo an infinitesimal number of books is worth reading.

best advice i can give on reading to take WRITTEN NOTES on what you read and follow up on interesting quotes of references whether in fiction or non, and research the authors and where they get their ideas, their schools they attended, etc. WRITTEN NOTES. WRITTEN NOTES. WRITTEN NOTES. writing with your hands is powerful, typing is not so much.

>tfw to smart for books

Inb4
>Journalist creates their own thread pushing a stupid meme
>Next hour
>The Alt Right is too stupid to read books
>Clickbaits ensure

tfw able to read AND understand books

>to

Honestly I've never met someone that doesn't read that can also sustain a conversation beyond an 8th grade level.

Sorry, the only other people claiming books are memes are literally niggers.

Guess what that makes you?

Look at this booklet cry because he can't read very fast.

Yeah, reading a lot isn't in and of itself proof you're smart. It's your ability to synthesize the valuable bits and work them into your perspective on reality and events irl, as well as your capacity to form a working, coherent worldview out of the information.

I don't think anyone believes reading books will increase intellect. They're supposed to make you more knowledgeable.

You get much fitter with written speech and it's good for brain structures / training / development, you illiterate sad excuse of a pleb.

It depends on what your reading. Go read Jung

>You get much fitter with written speech and it's good for brain structures / training / development
Writing is good for this too.

>american education

Reading is not just about storytelling, it is about comprehension, focus and cognitive functioning.You don't have to believe or be convinced by the readings, just elucidated. I read that people who think books are "lame" are lazy and retarded. Thanks for proving it. Faggot

i'm with you OP
don't fall for the literary jew

The smartest and most interesting people I've talked to have read a lot of books and have lived a full life where they are full of responsibility.
The people who read books the least, aka niggers, have never once piqued my interest in their existence. Not once.
This can further be shortformed into:
Whites read.
Niggers do not read.
Where are they now?

>2 good threads on Sup Forums in a row
pinch me I must be dreaming

TAKE WRITTEN NOTES. I WILL FUCKING SPAM THIS I DONT GIVE A FUCK IT IS SO IMPORTANT. WRITING WITH YOUR HANDS IS POWER. TYPING IS NOT THE SAME AS WRITING. WRITTEN NOTES. WRITTEN NOTES. TAKE WRITTEN NOTES. TAKE WRITTEN NOTES. TAKE! WRITTEN! NOTES!

It's an intuitive thing, something brainlets wouldn't understand.

Something about an ass peering into a book...

All you're proving is that smart people read books, not that books make you smart. This should be obvious.

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>tfw fell for the literary jew

OP is right. we should ban all (((words))) and just grunt to communicate to mitigate the merchant's tricky lingo

reading is dumb

>base everything in your life on anecdotal accounts you experience in your one little two block radius of the world

OP makes a good point, but insecure brainlets on either side of the topic make it impossible to discuss.

Either way, it's good to promote literature/propaganda that agrees with your position, and call people brainlets for not having read it.

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some person in the past.
news flash, every piece of media is in the past. if you want something from the future, by the time you get it, it will be the past.
someone who reads books would know that.

Too much magical hocus-pocus for my taste. Seems more like spirituality than psychology. Maybe that's the point, and I missed it.

>OPs Lexile score 56%.

>OP firmly believes "Archie Comics" has more to offer than "Wealth of Nations."

I completely agree with you. We don't need books to gain knowledge and wisdom, because we can gain knowledge and wisdom directly from the akashic records. All information exists eternally in the ether (which is also known as 'the akashic records'). So-called 'copyright' is copyWRONG. Copyright is an EVIL CONCEPT. The base state of EVERYTHING in existence is ENERGETIC WAVE-FORM INFORMATION. You can call this 'the akashic records', if you want. This is how psychometry works - you pick up an object and can learn about that object's history by accessing the base state of that object (which is an energetic wave-form information field). Everything is made of energetic wave-form information fields. EVERYTHING. This is why when you realise any fundamental truth, it seems so familiar - it's because you have simply REMEMBERED the innate wisdom of your TRUE IDENTITY as an ETERNAL SOUL. In this sense, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be truly creative. 'Our' thoughts are NOT our own, we have simply tuned into thoughts that ETERNALLY EXIST in the ether. George Lucas did NOT create Star Wars, because the IDEA for Star Wars ETERNALLY EXISTS in the ether.

OP, your spelling and grammar is evidence enough that you've never read a book.

If you think that was my argument you are dumber than most niggers by far. No books would help you anyways.

I like you, you seem to be a pretty sharp fella. The people that need to know that, will not, however, accept it— Because of ego. Those people simply go through mental gymnastics until they've justified whatever they believe, regardless of what is said or done.

Chapter II of Mein Kampf:
>I know people who 'read' enormously, book for book, letter for letter, yet whom I would not describe as 'well-read.' True they possess a mass of 'knowledge,' but their brain is unable to organize and register the material they have taken in.
>They lack the art of sifting what is valuable for them in a book from that which is without value, of retaining the one forever, and, if possible, not even seeing the rest, but in any case not dragging it around with them as useless ballast.
>For reading is no end in itself, but a means to an end.

Reading a lot of books doesn't mean you're smart, but if you're smart, you've almost certainly read a lot of books. Books give you access to information from people you do not have direct access to and can not observe. At best, without books, you can become a specialist in a few narrow fields that you are able to get direct contact with knowledgeable people.

The only way you can get enough contact with intelligent people to learn from to match what you an achieve with books is if you are rich as fuck.

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thats the joke

Most books are just 300 pages that can be condensed into 3 paragraphs. Most books should just be in the format of a scientific paper so I can read the abstract.

Would also require books to have actual conclusions. So many books are great at laying out problems and then give no possible solutions or historical examples of how others have approached these problems. Then you get to the end and it’s just “up to the future people to find a solution” shit. Lazy garbage.

It certainly helps though. I think it can make you wise if you aren't stupid to begin with.

>picture of him flipping through the book and not reading anything
>proceeds to fight a three front war and destroy his entire nation due to poor planning and strategy

shit tier leader. retard tier advice.

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Nigger, I have read every single Dora the explorer book that there is. I'm getting an honorary degree from Brown next week.

true. Writing stuff down is also good for remembering things because of the transfer the brain has to do.
I unironically believe I had a massive advantage in german speech throughout all my time in school because I was reading that much when I was young.
When I hear a german word I always see it written before my eyes.

>The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. - Mark Twain

Normal people actually believe this. They believe a resume from your favorite youtuber is enough.

I have you know I'm 11 years old and I watch Rick and Morty, audiobooked 1984 By Orwell and my political ideology is AnCap.

Recently I stoped browsing r/the_donald because i think they are up to no good.

i.e The Bible

There is this special thing humans accomplish called not reinventing the wheel because it's impossible to anticipate all the retarded and fortunate mistakes we've learned lessons from. Also Vocabulary is 1 of the main tests for IQ because context-resolution is the most difficult task possible.

Jesus christ u people are dumb

you literally sound like an uneducated retard

>You can learn everything you need to know about life from movies or tv duh.
Nigga it's u?

>books contain data
>a large amount of data is good
>data must be processed
If you're making the argument that data is useless without some sort of processing, then I agree.
>youtube.com/watch?v=2fJ-HO1dY7Q

>Most books are just 300 pages that can be condensed into 3 paragraphs
Books can be long to set a tone or create an atmosphere and to retain it.
There are reading techniques for parsing large amount of text in a short time period.

>should just be in the format of a scientific paper so I can read the abstract
What I mentioned previously can not be condensed in such a way.
Reading is like living, it is an experience. If it is condensed, then you get only facts, no experience, and do miss out on learning important things from it.

>books to have actual conclusions
Did you consider that the point of some books is to not have such conclusions? And Why ?

>great at laying out problems and then give no possible solutions
Many 'problems' don't have a single solution. A solution may be only temporar (such as with social problems) and does not fit when parameters change.

>historical examples of how others have approached these problems
Some knowledge is guarded (deliberate or by non-deliberate barriers). For example books may be used to lay fundamental knowledge but applied knowledgy is only taught verbally.

>up to the future people to find a solution” shit
Many books have a scope of what is discussed and what's left out. If the scope does not fit what you want to read/learn, then you have to figure out how to identify the books which adress the scope of your interest.
Also, one of my previous points applies here as well. Some problems have only solutions in a certain context and require different solutions in a different context (=different parameters).

they started making trouble in my neighborhood

>I's ignant
>You's don need know sheeeit neether
>I's lernt t'all jus by lookin n ponderin
>Jus like them men who what discovered that firmament in days o yore

>be a Dutchie
>be educated in the most diversity-positive culture in Europe, first real book is Anne fucking Frank
>Call Americans dumb
>propagate 'reading' as if all reading is good

Opgerot you smug Dutch cuck, you;re an embarassment. Go read the Volkskrant and die of soul hemorrhage.

Well at least with books you're required to actually remember something. I hate the folks that just use Google to debate. Like you're in a text debate with someone, and you can tell by the length of time it takes them to respond that they're using Google to try to get you on some technicalities. When you're just going by memory. So you say something, and overall it's true, but maybe you didn't quite have the exact numbers right, or you were off by a year or so. And they look it up, and see that, then suddenly your entire point in invalid.

I come from a time where people didn't have a PC in their pocket. So when you had a discussion with someone you and them were required to rely on your own thoughts, memories, experiences to have a debate. Now people don't know or care about anything, they just Google it. Sure, in a lot of cases it can be a useful tool, but it can also be annoying as fuck.

And don't get me started on people that listen to books on tape, and then talk about how many books they read this month.

Sure as a retarded person reading can only do so much. You will maybe be book smart, but not really smart. However already smart people do gain from reading the right books, often quite a lot.

Seriously OP, what is your problem? at least hide your flag when posting such threads.

>tfw even if the book on tape was done by one of those radio add fine print fast talkers, it would still be slow as fuck compared to visual snapshot speed reading

>visual snapshot speed reading

no one cares you fucking autist. go back to your job making $10/hr as a night shift stocker

Many normalfags believe they are specially intelligent/cultural for reading rubbish (instead of being focused in the phone). The only good thing is that your vocabulary will improve but that's it.

Or the people that use Google to debate a subject that they know nothing about. What's wrong with saying
>I don't really know anything about that subject matter
? Instead they have a topic brought up they know nothing about, then run directly to Google, read the wiki page, suddenly they're a master. I've had text debates with people, and they made a point, and I can go on the wiki page, and find they just copy pasta'd it directly to me, without using quotation marks. I guess I would just like to be able to have a discussion with another person, and not a discussion with Google every once in a while.

here you go op, you are welcome

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>books are just information and if you are not careful and just read for the sake of reading, you might end up with a bunch of nonsense gibberish in your head, or worst, indoctrinated by shit like marxism
That is a good reason why reading - reading comprehension - is important. Because you learn to inspect view points in a way where your own view point can remain separate. Also encourages thinkink which information you want to integrate into your own life/view and how to adapt the knowledge to your self.

>if you pay attention to the world, there is no reason why you cant deduct for yourself, the knowledge
- with historic knowledge you can't
- Sure many things can be detucted yourself, but this is inefficient. Like walking to the next city - because you can walk yourself - instead of using the car. This is prioritizing: more time spend with meaningful things instead of wasting time walking.

The best advice is to get red pilled AND THEN start reading. Lurking Sup Forums can only do such much for you and the diminishing returns kick in pretty hard after being fully redpilled

its... ok... if... you... can't... read... very... well... or... fast...
just... keep... training... maybe... someday... you'll... get... there...

>American mental gymnastics his way out of reading
>the thread
>the movie
>the game

he hadnt perfect his technique yet, he rushed, i am not making the same mistake

>i sound

yeah, i am uneducated

thanks!

to the whole thread:
i dont think you tards got the point, read again!

Yes. You won’t know what you don’t know unless you read books. I think OP has a bit of dunning Kruger going on or something

>the source of knowledge for the books, is the world

sure but i don't have centuries worth of life to rediscover everything

Striped candy is fucking illiterate.

the problem with booknerds is that then you get this pseudointellectual marxists building their whole identity on the books of a few morons

logic is a double edged sort, just because you read something that "makes sense", doesnt mean that is "the truth"

what i mean, is that misplaced logic can lead to shit like cults, and marxism

>i dont think you tards got the point, read again!
I'll bite - can you elaborate what the point is ?

>dont even have time to invent toilets that flush toilet paper
>just throw the paper in the trash can

degenerate

typing is much faster than writing

Learn truth before you start reading and that way you pass things through your filter. What books have you read?

most of those faggots dont even read the books. they just keep them on a bookcase in their (apartment) living room beside the che guevara flag and their collection of dirty nirvana tshirts, blunt roaches and some half empty triple IPA growler they didnt finish because it tastes like pennies

we use water you disgusting fuck

Intelligence is given at birth

Knowledge is acquired through study

Wisdom is understood by time

>just have to scoop it out of a bucket with a ladle and throw it in the toilet