>>34222017
It’s a good hobby but don’t let it become your sole interest as you’ll isolate yourself from the normies

>>34222017
I won't read invasive species threads.
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>>34222017
I've never had any complaints.

>>34222017
>I am now going through pic rel.
Then it depends. Do you have money? can you make money? do you have family? firends/connections? I guess these are the most important things. If you feel like you have money or can get money and you have connections then it really doesn't matter if you fancy getting more knowledge. If you're at a point in life where it's difficult to figure out what you want out of it and you're spending most your time alone at home (a bit like me to be honest) then spending so much time on such things won't do you any good really. I mean I know what I'm talking about and I'm sure there's a lot of people like us on 4chan who spend a lot of time accumulating knowledge. But what's the point if you're struggling everywhere else in life right? I mean that's just my conclusion at 27 yo and jobless and friendless.

>>34222017
It’s a fine hobby as long as you don’t drink the koolaide. Remember that any perspective has inherent biases and develop critical thinking skills (the real ones, not the conspiracy theorist types) Those are more valuable than information hoarding. Wisdom comes from knowing what kind of knowledge/experience to internalise into your identity/self

>>34222829
Imagine taking advice from a closeted troon who died in prison lmao
Go find better right wing personalities to simp to please

>>34222017
The map should be pacific centred

>>34224624
>muh social status is all that matters
Go back to plebbit normie

>>34224624
He didn't troon out
Just like Ted, you will never be a woman.

>>34224682
Ok, take life advice from the degenerate loser then, your life not mine
>>34224716
>n-no u
Hilarious! Your idol went to a psychiatrist and ALMOST trooned out which should set off several alarms lmao. You worship a closeted troon
>Just like Ted, you will never be a woman.
Thank God!

>>34224807
>closeted troon
No such thing, tranny. You either cross dress or you don't.
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>>34222017
Knowledge is a means, not an end. If you're only studying out of curiosity or the desire to impress, it will just puff you up and turn you into a pedant. But if you're using it to make yourself more compassionate, more humble, more capable of serving others and more eager to life virtuously, then it's a good usage of your time.

>>34222034
this lol. keep using your brain and your penchant for learning because it fulfills you and gives you purpose, but remember that it's not everything and you still have to deal with the outside world. even Hegel wrote his phenomenology of spirit because he was a tenured professor being paid a pittance that he could barely live on, it wasn't something that was purely motivated by his love of knowledge.

>>34224810
Ok, keep coping so you can keep idolizing your favorite mentally unstable troon

>>34222017
I have done that. It's a waste of time.

Your value as a member of society is calculated from how much money you amass or how much money you save to your employer.

Your quality as a person depends on how happy you can make others through being funny, cool-headed. Unless your study has tangibly increased your wit, you will just amass facts to yourself.

Your level of wonder and surprise diminishes as you understand how things work, how they relate, how they are similar. You see the gaps and faults in things, but you can't change them because the world already works as best as it can, bound by the wills of those with the money to change them and not their reason or advice from experts. By the time you're 30 you're gonna be posting philosophy memes but you will be sick that you can't find any line of thought that makes compatible your pursuit and lack of function in society (because pursuing knowledge is fucking costly and produces nothing).

If you want, you could become a history teacher or philosophy professor, the vacants are low. That's the only path that makes sense for that sort of thing.

>>34222819
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>>34222017
Would it be pointless for me to engage in this hobby? I'm pretty low IQ so I have a hard time understanging abstract concepts but I'm interested in increasing my knowledge

>>34226048
I don't know about how smart you are, but if you want to just try reading an ancient text Xenophon's Anabasis is a good one to start with. It's a story written by an Athenian general about fighting as a mercenary in a Persian civil war, and all the stuff they do getting there and back to Greece. It's an interesting story and he's a good writer. You'll probably need to have Wikipedia and a map handy to keep track of what he's talking about at certain points though.

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>>34222017
>I am 26 and I am now going through pic rel. I am working on improving my native language grasp and reading high level history and literature, as well as refining my English proficiency to be native-like. I also plan to read ancient and contemporary history and acquire as much information of the world as I can by the time I become 30.
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>Is this a meme/a waste of time or is it a good hobby?
it's a good hobby
>>34222034
that's not so bad

you might consider going into academia?
i think it could be interesting if ur doing history/humanities stuff, depending on the school and programs