What is with the /lit/ obsession with philosophy? I refuse to read philosophy because I don't need some old jerk off to tell me how to think. I can form my own values and views.

No one on this board knows what philosophy is.

>>21925459 (OP)

>I can form my own values and views

All of those have probably been written down before by a philosopher, aalewis.

>iphone thread

>horrible off topic shit

>very twitter 'just be gay, like me' opinions

spot the signs

Gee Louise, I am so sorry for wanting to lay down in bed with my phone at midnight while my pc is 3 meters away from me

This

>>21925459 (OP)

We're a bunch of shut-in losers trying to justify to ourselves, and anyone passing by, eating our lives reading books and talking shit online.

25% of waking hours reading.

75% bullshitting on this shit board.

It's too depressing to really look at head on so most resort to gibbering like a gibbon about philosophy to make themselves immune from the true terror of facing death knowing you wasted your life... reading about other people doing shit instead of doing anything yourself.

See: Terror Management Theory.

Sure, if you want to make the same mistakes others have been making since time immemorial.

I mean, if you feel that way, then why learn anything?

It's OK with me if you want to be a failure.

It makes you easier to dominate.

>>21925459 (OP)

>I don't need some old jerk off to tell me how to think.

Do you know how to think?

it's fulfilling to have a hobby

>>21925459 (OP)

that's such a childish and oversimplified way of looking at it. maybe because it's interesting to hear different perspectives on the world you would have never thought of yourself. it's interesting to discuss different views on the world.

>>21925459 (OP)

The Greeks address retards like you. You either get it or you don’t.

based

not op but yes

Not OP but I have read a lot of classic philosophy books and I really, really do not think I have gained anything from them. Don't want to be controlled? Study science. not philosophy

>Study science, not philosophy.

Oh so you can point out enzymes in a bio lab and have your career destroyed if you don't publish enough? Or do you mean sell your soul to work at some big tech/arms manufacturing company?

Science is philosophy.

>>21925459 (OP) 

>I can form my own values and views.

All your views and values are from others, though. Your parents, role models, peers and various other people live lifes that you, to varying degrees, try to emulate, whether consciously or not. Reading philosophy would merely be expanding the pool and drawing from more sources. 

Wouldn't your best option for a good life be checking various schools of thought, so you can try to apply them to your life and piece together your own unique view that has a bit of each (or might even largely follow one) school of thought? Why deprive yourself of others' insights and knowledge? You can read philosophy and still discard the parts you don't like. Seems foolish to me to discard it altogether.

>>21925459 (OP)

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