What has Veeky Forums taught you?

Even smart people are insecure about who they are and they are particularly obsessed in trying to manipulate how other people perceive them.

That's me, though I am not even smart

My writing was much better when I wasn't pretending to be John Hawkes.

That i shouldn't gift books to a date, even if she seems a Veeky Forumsbuff.
Im so, so sorry.

tell the story

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That the literature board is just as bad as the video game, television, porn, political, and cooking boards

Seconded

Always buy Arden when it comes to Shakespeare.

Veeky Forums is probably the best way to introduce people to reading. Doing it through memes is pretty effective.

That if one gets into arguments with idiots they might win, thus proving that one was the idiot all along.

depression makes money

I too, want to hear this story. I already know how it's going to be, but I'll still be slightly amused. Gifting a book to a girl you barely know is always a terrible idea.

Veeky Forums has taught me that even people who read a ton can still have a horrible understanding of literature. I'm constantly appalled at most of the things I read on here. Sometimes I wonder if I read the same book as most of the posters on this board.

kek

If you are an avid reader but doesn't write, it means you're a faggot.
gee, thanks for insight failed writers.

Same.

this

>tfw i used to do this but eventually stopped

rell me more, tell me more user.

Women can't write.

literally taught me the opposite.

To ignore all pseudo-intellectual rhetoricians.

This
>pseudo intellectual- a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.

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No matter how good or great I am at the technical skills aspect of any language or writing in general, someone will shit on me, my ideas, my beliefs, my works, and anyone who associates with me "because."

Furthermore, no matter the medium, people hate admitting new things have literary merit.
>Films
>Movies
>Television Shows/Programs
>Comics
>Manga/Anime/etc.
>Now it's video games.
People who sneer and look down on others for not reading X or Y have inevitably not read something someone else has, and that someone else will act haughty toward the people who sneer by sneering.
>Also see: disparity in wealth

Most people online are both more outrageous in their lies and more forthcoming with their honesty. You learn sides of humanity continue to thrive, facets people in their daily lives pretend only exist in the monsters and myths of old.

Most of what we learn in school is shit and can be done in a quarter if not a thousandth the time on your own watch, at much less cost, should you have the drive. Most people have no drive, they sit in a vehicle in Park or Neutral and hang on "for their life" -- both for the entirety of their life, and mistakenly, as if their lives are only in danger in a vehicle; as if they won't die outside of the metaphorical vehicle.

People like patterns, but not if the patterns don't fit inside their limited consciousness and perspective. Very few adapt, and even fewer adapt to grow.

Intellectuals are anything but, and usually the easiest to fool. Academics are the worst of the bunch, probably because they've literally wasted years of their life studying generalist topics -- which is society's attempt at a cure-all for exceptionalism and the modern polymath. The systems we use for the average of the majority "generally" work, in that they're adequate enough to keep humanity working like a mid-functioning autistic child that hasn't yet banded together its own mental forces to improve itself.

Both STEMfags and Humanitiesfags are able to learn from one another. Same with Liberals and Conservatives, Republicans and Democrats, Socialists and Capitalists, ad infinitum.

The average IQ is higher now than ever, more people are literate now than ever, more people read literature now than ever, and yet humanity seems dimmer now than the first lightbulb produced several thousand years ago.

Smarts appear to have decreased, but then we're also seeing a massive spike in nontraditional displays of intelligence -- rap, no, all lyrics in music, for example, may be both the lowest and highest state of mass appeal and intellect in poetry in many years (Mos Def's Mathematics, Eyedea's First Born for surprises).

Everyone has ideas, few work on them, fewer work hard on them, and very few succeed.

There are people who have read in excess of 75 000 books over 20-25 years... and somehow know almost nothing about any of them, besides concepts. People who don't read can be more articulate than people who read all the time.

audiobooks are better than books

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>if you greentext you don't have to have a real argument
>you don't even have to read the book

That I will forever be a nobody will absolutely zero intelligence and talent.

That western culture isn't dying, it's already dead.

Start with the Greeks

underrated

Shitposting that has literary value.

that to always win on the internet, you must always be posting ironically so that if you get btfo, you can always tell yourself that you were being ironic

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Obviously it didn't teach you grammar

I disagree with the school part of what you said, a lot of the basics of physics and maths are difficult to learn on your own without being forced to apply it. Although for humanities this is probably true, I've learnt far more about history on my own than I have through school.

Your first statement is very true though, but I find the fact that anyone will disagree with you enjoyable, since it lets you understand how sound your views are. Far less enjoyable when it's your writing but that's why I don't post my writing on this board.

that Veeky Forums doesnt read books, doesnt know shit and nothing posted here should ever be taken as reasonable advice no matter the topic

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Just because a lot of people acknowledged its wittiness doesn't mean you're cool by being contrarian.

In fact, if no one had responded to it and you were here early in the thread, you almost definitely wouldn't have typed that.

uh. i have no idea what you're talking about. i know some people like to XD meme and try to be contrarian, but i actually type like that seriously.

but you don't know me, so.

i actually laughed my existence off from that poster's comment so fuck off, dumb kike.

you're so fucking annoying fuck the fuck off

i'm not one of those ironic posters or le reddit so i don't find humor in doing that pathetic shit. it was for real.

now KILL your fucking self you stupid autist. god. i was stream of consciousness typing and laughing my nonexistent ball soff as i was typing that so go dhelp you.

Veeky Forums taught me how to be myself. Thank you Veeky Forums. I'll never forget you.

since this is sort of a Veeky Forums appreciation thread, Veeky Forums is generally amazing at call outs compared to the rest of the internet. Not just in how but in what it calls out as well. Perfect example

>except when the callout is wrong but you've been conditioned by previous posters to think that way lmao

you're an idiot.

it's funny because i meant well, but you guys like to hurt yourself so

be misguided like xox

I am a literary genius, unironically. Sometimes I feel really bad for you guys when I see you trying to speak about literature and give your sad little shallow interpretations, or when I see the critique thread, because I recognize your aspirations and the insurmountable gulf between you and my overwhelming genius. I really do feel pity. Sometimes I wish I was less of a genius so that I didn't constantly make the people around me feel inferior, but I wonder how I could bear living such a barren and shallow existence. It is often quite lonely being at the top, because no one can keep up with my thought process, no one can truly fathom the depths of my thought -- and this is also a sadness I have.

I'm 19 years old.

I am handsome, smart, athletic and virile.

I have a novel that is in it's final editing stage, and a creative writing professor at my college has read the first draft and thinks it's saleable.

I have a girlfriend who is confident, articulate, playful and spontaneous.

I have a small group of interesting friends from different social and academic backgrounds, and I also have many other acquaintances who see me as a reliable source of humour and good company.

Both my parents are alive and in good health.

I have no regrets.

I have already experienced three existential crises, the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.

I am a passionate lover, a sharp thinker, and a trader of witty repartee.

I am not self-pitying, meek or needlessly humble.

I will live a good life at your expense.

that people will shit on you for liking literally anything, so who gives a shit.

Good for you user what sports do you play
Also ORM on deadlift squat and bench?

That this board is slightly more reflective than other boards

>start with the Greeks
>Infinite Jest blows
>only Kant is worth studying
>Hegel is patrician
>Vonnegut is Reddit
>poetry is patrician
>Joyce was Jesus incarnate
>communism is best
>capitalism is best
>Rand is a meme tho

This applies to Veeky Forums as a whole

The biggest lesson is that you can prove how much you like DFW by hating on him better than the next guy.

>There are people who have read in excess of 75 000 books over 20-25 years
That's 8 books a day.

>the latter of which was described as having the depth and profundity of a man twice my age.
Do you have people writing reviews of your personal life?

yeah, but Veeky Forumss where it was really hammered home.
/a/ was too long ago, /vp/ is just sperging over favorites, Veeky Forums is just SS vs Legday. Veeky Forums is the only place I've been where everyone is actually aggressively shilling their own "idea" of "proper literature" not even books they like- just "intellectual" books. Nobody's lying when they say Veeky Forums is the worst board. It's an autistic cesspool.

Honestly now: no thing will be good without good foundation. I didn't take the Greek meme seriously; now that I started from the beginning, I know that my experience and my thoughts have already been written about; and it's refreshing to find a hobby that I devote several silenced hours to think about myself.
Yeah, narcissistic etc, but hey, you're just a bunch-a spooks :^)

t. accelerationist fag

That most people are too lazy to read and that the few who aren't are very insecure about the effort they put into reading.

Harold Bloom's word is gold.

that niggers and chinks can't write

/thread

avoid undergrads who don't have friends.

dont drink and mix benzos if you're living with homosexuals.

don't read DFW

William Vollmann deserves the nobel prize in literature.

the "alt-right" is illiterate apart from land-fags....who are suffering from skunk/amphetamine induced psychosis.

Inb4 eventual crisis of confidence and suicide.
Also get off my board.

Veeky Forums has taught me that if I'm gonna escape from my shitty life, escaping with dead people is better then wasting my time playing video games. I love the discussion even if it all ends in "fuck you you autistic cunt", its still better then upvote shilling on plebbit. And I actually like reading again.

no matter how much someone pretends they can read or write, they're still autists at the end of the day

>being this new

Essentially this.

Also, that a terrifying amount of people here honestly believe that reading in ANY form, whether it be philosophical or what have you, will ever get you laid.

It's fucking hilarious.

hey man, try out goethe, please. please. read his metamorphsis on plants, or something. science and literature really had a beautiful marriage with some authors 1600-1850. voltaire also v good.

I'm wrong to enjoy things. If I enjoy something, not only is it guaranteed to be objectively shit, it also indicates what a defective person I am. Honestly I prefer /b/ over Veeky Forums, where you can at least comfort yourself by saying "Oh, that guy's just an asshole exaggerating things to make me feel bad." Here, as with /mu/, these assholes generally believe their own bullshit about how superior they are to everyone else.

That online anonymous communities are thoroughly cancerous regardless of the harmlessness or worthiness of the topic being discussed.

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Taught me how to doogie.

To start my diary desu

underrated

The problem is reconciling this with how much people here hate themselves.

I've made the annoying new captcha into a kind of mini-game. I try to trick it by not selecting all of the squares with street signs, or selecting street signs when it wants cars, etc. It's surprisingly easy to fool. About half the time you can solve it by just clicking on a few random squares.

Of course, nothing beats typing racial slurs into the old text captcha. Somebody's digitized book is going to have some surprises in it :^D

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jej

You're missing the point. There are elitist asshole, yes, but it goes both ways. The real issue is the people who believe that just because they only enjoy pulp it must mean that anyone who doesn't is only pretending to enjoy the denser lit to look smart. Both sides have a point. There's nothing wrong with liking pulp, but you have to come to terms with the fact that there are, despite how much it triggers you, people who truly get more enjoyment out of reading Pynchon.

Fuck

Men harbour a deep hatred of women because they can't get laid; men spend their time analyzing ramblings of other untouchables to cope.

Get lost, clunge slave.

eyy a bong. No?

I think I've become worse after Veeky Forums. Other boards taught me how to lift, cook, sew, paint, git gud at board games, what classic movies to watch, what old video games are worth the time. I'm not sure what Veeky Forums has provided me. I feel more empty being here. Plato and nitzhche have just made me sad. Classic novels made me realize how I can never finish anything. Sci-fi makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. Self help books don't really help. I think I've become more disassociated with the world. Law school has become harder now, not because the reading is any worse, but the content of judge opinions and secondary text are so dull in comparison to other writing, before I started reading again opinions and textbooks weren't that bad, now it's a struggle.

I unno how to get over this empty feeling, I don't even like going out and drinking with my friends much anymore. I'm tired of blacking out. I'm tired of forgetting both when I drink and I'm tired of forgetting everything I read. I just don't know anymore. I used to lift. I used to have hobbies that would move me. I just don't find joy in much anymore. I'm not smart enough to join the high ranks, but I'm not normal enough to enjoy my friends or strangers.

try meditation and see how dispassion towards sensuality, including thoughts, is the way to stop being miserable

sounds to me like depression desu

men who get laid tend to have a pretty awful opinion of women as well

I've tried meditation a few times before finals. I sat down, set a timer for five minutes and just focused on deep breathing. 7 seconds for in, hold, and out. I was much more focused on whatever I was studying at hand, but maybe I'm going about it all wrong?I don't think so, I've had a lot of friends struggle with depression and this doesn't seem the same, but I wouldn't be able to afford a psych even if I thought it was.

Nothing. I come to Veeky Forums to shitpost and troll. Everyone here is either doing the exact same thing I am, or they're pretentious morons pretending to be "intellectuals."

Depression is a weird thing because it has different effects on different people. Reading is supposed to be about enhancing your life and not making it worse but honestly it makes me feel the same way as what you're feeling.

no matter what you post, there's always a better board for that.