Does reading books make you an intellectual?

My friend told this to me today. He was implying the name of an author but me and my friends were totally stumped and didn't know who he was talking about. Then he says "Oh, I'll just have to talk with (name of another friend) since he's an intellectual and knows this author" and yadda yadda. He's also black.

Bush says he reads 60 books per year. I guess that makes him a bigger intellectual than any of yuo.

>>41


Picture books don't count.

Certainly not. There are many, many stupid books written for even stupider people. Furthermore, how are you supposed to know every author, evar? I've read quite a bit, but that doesn't mean I know who the fuck Fran B. Shitqueef is.

Not reading books doesn't make you american, it makes you a nigger! Or a nigger-lover.

What is an intellectual?

Bush says he reads 60 books per year.
Unless he's on a permanent vacation, that's total horseshit. What are they, 100-page-long pieces of fiction?

>>46
Maybe he means reading the Gospels x60

The man finished both Harvard and Yale and is the president of the world's superpower, why are you questioning his reading habbits?

>>48
>>The man passed out of institutions where family background and money count more than academic credentials, why are you questioning his reading habits?

Fixed.

>>48
Sixty books per year.  In between all the exercise he does, in between sleeping and eating, in between presidential work.  And still he somehow screws up his english in every speech.

COME. ON.

Maybe he just screwed up his english AGAIN and meant to say sixteen?

Or six-ey? Like six-ish books per year?

Or maybe he started to say six, but changed it to sixty at the last moment to try and look intellectual.

I wanted to write something, but no matter how hard I try, >>50 summarized what I think perfectly.

"COME. ON." indeed.

Bush spends all or part of 54 days, including many weekends, roaming at his designated free range facility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_Chapel_Ranch

>>55
That's when he really digs into his Oprah book club collection.

If you read books while listening to Verdi's Requieum (or troll 4chan while listening to Verdi's Requieum) then you're an intellectual. 

>>40

Durka durka, jihad.

Does reading books make you an intellectual?

God i hope not!

Did you know that cheese comes in a bouqette of many different flavors?

Who doesn't know that?

Even smoked cheese?

Nyoro~n...

>>40
>>37
ARE RAGING HOMOSEXUALS

>>63
IS AMERIKKKAN

>>64
>>IS A RAGING ILLITERATE HOMOSEXUAL

Oh wait, same thing.

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>>1
Wait, niggers can read?

>>67
News to me

the real question is does being a intellectual even fucking matter? people are so concered about being one just to inflate their ego. fucking read is you want to read and no niggers cant read all the pages get stuck from bbq sauce

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>>69
Well, it's not about ego, really. Intellectuals are the refinement of humans into functional, rational, knowledgable and creative creatures.

That's what the Renaissance was all about, the rise of intellectuality, reason and rationality once more.

As a rule, if you read non-fiction, you're obviously considerably more intelligent than those that read fiction -- but not always. Some non-fiction is formed in that of an anecdotal essay to convey an unfamiliar idea to more people who don't have a high yield for imagination. Nineteen Eighty-Four or dystopian fiction are decent examples of that particular phenomon.

Most people, when they read non-fiction such as instruction manuals and how-to books don't immediately grasp the possible applications of that knowledge, from these occurances we grasp that they do not have a decent imagination since they can't formulate these things in their minds. Those who do read non-fiction, on the other hand, posess this uncommon gift.

>"people are so concered about being one just to inflate their ego. fucking read is you want to read and no niggers cant read all the pages get stuck from bbq sauce"

While a pitiful attempt at formulating a thought, this is very humorous for an example of why being not just an intellectual -- but being intelligent matters. A person who holds this property is indefinitely at an advantage at somebody who doesn't.

People who can't think straight, people like #69, are what we refer to as 'idiots'. While we use this word in so many innappropriate contexts, the context that I use it in is appropriate. Communication is important to the establishment of a functioning society, societies that communicate better accomplish more things since they can operate in a fluid, harmonious matter. Canada, for example, is a society that operates like this.

Reading books obviously does not make you an intellectual but reading makes up a good fraction of what intellectuality is all about, being an intellectual means adopting a different lifestyle with clear focused goals in life, ethical values, reading regularly and thinking critically about that subject matter, working on various projects, and most of all -- universal understanding of humanity and current events, something that's hard to attain, but valuable once it's gained.

I hope you feel a little less mental burden, now.

>>71

Wow, he explains it all. Of course being intelligent is a good thing, but when you start saying this sort of stuff in front of idiots there could be some dire consequences.

For example, you wouldn't tell Black people that AIDs is a cure for the sins they've commited? Or even tell Christians or Muslims to go fuck their God in an intellectual debate. Their primitive minds won't allow such reasoning, and fear of the unknown will drive them to acts of irrational violence.

>>72
I don't believe that 4channers are really primitive, I think it's really just a front they all put on for giggles.

Anyways, most of the stuff people discuss here is bestsellers. I found a book in my basement today called the "Handyman's Handbook", you won't find the same book on Google or Amazon -- I've tried. It's got over 800 neat little tidbits for handy little fix ups around the house.

Like a recipe book, almost. This of course, pre-dates the age of "For Dummies" books, the "Chicken Soup for Jackass's soul" era. As well as all that other modern rubbish literature, like "Atkins Diet" and other shit. Seriously, if you wanna know how to eat well, study the organs and biological insides of your body. You'll stop eating that McDonalds shit in an instant when you realize how much sodium one of their hamburgers has -- and actually know what Sodium does to the body.

5 grams a day is all you need, anything more on a regular basis and you're risking heart disease.

intellectuals enjoy reading books, not the other way around
you can usually tell which is which when the faggot pseudointellectual starts flaunting the stuff he's read

that's like saying if smart people listened to bach, listening to bach would make you smarter

intellectuals enjoy reading books, not the other way around
Books enjoy reading intellectuals?

>>71

i belive he was talking about the label? in witch case hes probly right, people are very concered about considering themselves a intellectual

Somone who is "intellectual" is well spoken. An intellectual person isn't stupid enough to say "Only Intellecutal's read books"

>>73


They have it At barnes and Nobles i saw it there a couple days ago
>>77
Lol