forced reading

[chrisd]

what good can there possibly be in forcing oneself to read?

[Guy Incognito]

you might learn something for a start.

[chrisd]

can you really learn anything more from the book than from the sensation of hating it?

[Guy Incognito]

can you really learn anything more from the book than from the sensation of hating it?

I just learnt something from reading this thread.. I'll let you work it out.

[chrisd]

so much for philosophical dialogue

[Bob]

so much for philosophical dialogue

oh, that's what you think you're doing

i see

wait

no, i still don't

[chrisd]

sometimes the irony is overriding, sometimes it's dumb but yes; the meaning of all my posts is to gain wisdom. spreading love is one way of gaining wisdom but if i started spreading love, you'd all be soaked, especially the ladies

[Guy Incognito]

sometimes the irony is overriding, sometimes it's dumb but yes; the meaning of all my posts is to gain wisdom. spreading love is one way of gaining wisdom but if i started spreading love, you'd all be soaked, especially the ladies

I suggest you force yourself to read some books on irony, wisdom and love. You need help

[Pres Zount]

I suggest you force yourself to read your suicide note. Just after you write it, and you know, just before you kill yourself. Or something.

[chrisd]

you're right, i gotta start keepin it real again

[Guy Incognito]

you're right, i gotta start keepin it real again

whaddya mean...again?

[Otis Driftwood]

You will not be forced to whack your weasel...:eek:

[Echewta]

I disliked most of my english classes at school because we were required to read things that I didn't have the slightest interest in. I appreciate the classics but it doesn't mean I want or have to enjoy reading them. I think one or two books that i was required to read, i actually liked.
Its not like the teacher is going to give me an "A" for my book report about how much I disliked the read and that I took more joy starting a lawn mower than finishing the book.

[chrisd]

i guess the question boils down to: is the intellectual really a free mind. i would argue that no, intellectuals process the work of free minds at best, but the free mind itself should stay away from all but a two or three books so as not to contaminate his world, that's the problem: contamination

[beastiegirrl101]

I never absorbed anything I was forced to read in HS.

[Guy Incognito]

i guess the question boils down to: is the intellectual really a free mind. i would argue that no, intellectuals process the work of free minds at best, but the free mind itself should stay away from all but a two or three books so as not to contaminate his world, that's the problem: contamination

Ok but how do you develop a free mind or ideas without absorbing them from outside influences. Sure, some of the stuff you are forced to read will be irrelevant but some you can knowledge, inspiration, hope whatever.

[chrisd]

you can't. free mind is a relative term. all the books in the world can't free your mind completely. precisely this; the relationship between a free mind and a mind body of texts is the topic of contemporary philosophy. classic philosophy was interested in the relationship of a free mind to the eternal. books nowadays won't venture into that higher relationship because it would mean admitting in form that they fall short, thus implicating that the author must write on two levels; a superficial and a substantial one. When achieved, literature tickling both levels is a delight, it's ironic. but that's what no authors these days that i know of have mastered, thus they are servants to the reading masses not to the free mind