Serious question

Serious question
What's the point of reading someone else's ideas when I can go into the world and practice my own and draw my own observations and wisdom?
What's the point of worshiping a book simply because it has the name of a guy who wrote other stuff on it?

I like books
There are more to it than philosophy.

>this is how stupid people think

STEMfag please go. You'll never get it. Go build widgets and watch Doctor Who. The economy needs you, or something.

also you can recognize your own thoughts in the works of others

You don't read to adopt other people's ideas, you read to pit your ideas against other people's ideas. You don't develop your reason by walking down the street thinking you're Aristotle, you do it by challenging them against the ideas of others.

Well.
I came to a place about books to be sold on the concept of books.
Yeah, how about I just take this thread over to /v/ and have them explain the importance of literature to me?

How about you take it to ?

Serious answer:
Reading exposes you to different viewpoints in a way that's difficult to impossible to experience any way else. The communication between an author and a reader is one of trying to get the reader to see through the author's eyes. This can help one grow as a person by better understanding people as well as different times and places. Every other field of study is about data, while literature and other arts are about qualia.

/trash/ is actually just for off-topic threads.