Is anime mindless pap?

is anime mindless pap?

I hate people who say life is too short. They need to fuck off and do something instead of bitching about what people do with their free time. They wasting their own time when they do.

just go read some proverbs from the Bible

No, but this thread is

What a stupid paragraph.
>Does not say what makes entertainment is inferior, nor what type of entertainment should be held in high regard.
>Doesn't say how such pastimes exploit people's weaknesses.
>Avoid being one of the mob, hur dur only popular entertainment is bad, unpopular entertainment cannot possible be idiotic.
>Life is too short and you should do important things, distracting yourself and winding down is not important.
>Doesn't say how to discriminate which ideas to include.
>If I don't choose what to be exposed to "someone else will". How exactly someone else will do that to me, is unexplained.
>Not explaining what vulgarity is.

Is this some self-aware ironic text? I have wasted valuable minuted of life reading this and replying to a topic that will only get like 10 replies max. I fucking hate myself now, fuck.

What book is that?

>you have important things to do
No you don't.

Reverse image search, bumped into
>The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness by Epictetus
Apparently its about 2000 or so years old which had me surprised.

The wise Greek said just before going back to fucking little boys.

>you have important things to do
No.

This but unironically.

>not fucking little boys

Fucking little boys is a refined pasttime that only the most intelligent and sofisticated of individuals can truly comprehend.

Pretentious bullshit never went out of style, eh?

The "wise" user said just before going back to imagining fucking little girls. Each to their own, son.

Hating popular things is like,very very smart.

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>never do what other people do and instead ensure that you are alone because your interests are too obscure for anyone to care about
great advice

>You have important things to do.

>avoid being one of the mob who indulges in inferior entertainment

>Don't like what everyone else likes: The hipster creed

if he'd be able to enjoy popular things he wouldn't have time to write books about how much better than everyone else he is

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Checked.

Checked.

You're the stupid one, it's a long-winded way to say "don't just watch shit that's popular, make up your own mind" and you're complaining it doesn't tell you in great detail how to live your life.

Yes, but so is everything else, we're all just killing time until time kills us, do what thou wilt and so on.

I don't agree wholeheartedly, but there is some truth there.
People shouldn't really avoid most popular things without ever experiencing them, because this is a stupid thing to do. They should give them a try, and then, and only then should they criticise.
But on the other hand, you should not become a robotic, Heideggerian "Das Man" that lives an inauthentic mode of existence, that picks up something because "that's what people do", or "other people are doing it". You should pick things on your own volition, by your own choice, and then, and only then will you be a proper human being.

Whoever wrote this sounds like they were born into wealth.

You're literally projecting, pedoboi

I only like the fattest tiddies

>I only like the fattest tiddies
There is nothing that says oppai loli as much as the fattest tiddies.

>muh 2000 self help book

Why? Because he could afford to think about stuff like this? Because he couldn't understand the role socializing could have on becoming a rich person?
Epictetus grew up as a slave if I recall correctly.

>set yourself apart from the crowd and become somebody irreplaceable
>not great advice

If you ask me, life is too fucking long.

The infinite intelligence within you knows the answers
Its nature is to respond to your thoughts
Be careful of the thought-seeds you plant in the garden of your mind
For seeds grow after their kind

Diogenes the Cynic, it is related, was mighty of all people in regard to everything from self-control to endurance. He indulged in sexual lusts, not associating it with pleasure, an attractive good thing to some, but because of the harm that the retention of semen would cause if he avoided the habit of releasing it. When a prostitute who promised to visit him was delayed for some time, he rubbed his genitals with his hand, ejecting semen. After the whore arrived, he sent her away, saying: "my hand celebrated the wedding-hymn first." But it is clearly correct that, likewise, the disciplined man does not on account of pleasure indulge in lusts, but in order to relieve the hindrance acting as if this was not associated with pleasure.

When scolded for masturbating in public, he said "I wish it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing my belly."

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

why would he bother to working towards getting the money for a prostitute when he could have always rubbed himself off then?

gayreek maniac

It's a book, user. That shit will be explained elsewhere in it. Books are a physical thing that contains words and ideas. Shocking, I know. It's like the internet, but physical.

Post the one about looking for a wise man.

Alexander (the Great) found the philosopher looking attentively at a pile of human bones.
Diogenes explained, "I am searching for the bones of your father but cannot distinguish them from those of a slave."

Following the encouragement to strive to “go against the crowd” is within itself a conformation to a mob mentality.