What is the purpose of writing fictional stories?
>>25222738To have sex with women
>>25222738Learning to write better, improving vocabulary, thought experiment, learning empathy and experiencing emotions or emotional or philisophical growth, new ideas, for the fun of it.Before writing humans taught each other tbrough stories passed down across a fire. Fiction, spoken word, fires, essential for human growth into what we are today and sort of started the collective human knowledge human draw frim today. But im rambling again
I just think they're neat
>>25222738Either for simple escapism and/or for symbolic investigation of an idea. The drive toward hyper-materialism and hyper-rationality instead of balancing reason with intuition and (lack of a better word) mysticism and being okay with sometimes not knowing, has stunted our ability to transfer ideas in full to others. Any information can be put into literal words, but sharing understanding can only be done through symbols built out of those words, more than the sum of its parts. We're (assuming you're not brown) no longer sitting in fields, slapping mud for a living and have increased our quality of life and factual (non-fiction) knowledge, but without the mystical component of life, everything in existence is reduced to information.
>>25222738to make something beautiful because it's unique, complex, detailed, subtle, funny, dramatic, bittersweet, satisfying, unsatisfying, makes you feel things. like music. but since you're using language, which we use to name everything, you have everything to work with, rather than a dozenish notes. you can take what you want from the whole world and make one of your own.
>>25222738What's the purpose of painting and drawing?
>>25222771To make money
>>25222775Lmao
>>25222771After the invention of cameras: none.
>>25222792>he doesn't feel compelled to create, to share>emotions are no longer evoked from paintings because photos exist
>>25222738To have sex with women, and because they're neat.
>>25222801I'm compelled to create and share a post calling you a faggot.
>>25222738Powertripping.The author gets to be the god of their little world.
>>25222841If the author is as evident in their story as God is evident in our reality, the author has written a shitty story.
>>25222738Escapism
>>25222738Historicism places limits on the examanation of themes and topics.
>>25222738To teach lessons and reinforce existing knowledge. When we engage with fiction we exorcise our minds and practice the virtues in the story internally.
>>25222999In that case there wouldn't be any story at all.
Read Tolkien's On Fairy Stories for the answer
>>25223218Are depressing, pessimistic stories inherently bad then?
>>25223500Fairy stories are probably like 0.001% of all the stories in print. What the fuck does that white faggot have to say that would matter for the 99.999% of stories?
One reason is to feel something.Neurochemically your brain doesn't differentiate sadness from real life events to fiction.Through fiction, you get a streamlined rollercoaster of emotional intense events.
>>25224915If you need fiction to feel something, when you already exist in a reality of continuous events, I’ve got bad news for you
>Le fiction BAD thread #6987544467537906431
>Le fiction GOOD thread #5234677754684215780
Look, we get it. You're a numbers-obsessed severe autistic who can't abide anything to exist other than the most mundane, technical trash conceivable.You don't need to make this thread a dozen times a day.
Bro got so png mogged he downloaded a new pic lmaoooo
>>25222738Judas was the HERO of the Bible ackchually
>>25225173Does the saving of humanity still happen if Judas isn’t there?
I've had these images in my folder for years.
>>25225175What does that have to do with the purpose of fiction?
>>25225174Don't care. Quit making these threads.
>>25225181I’m not OP, but I do believe people should pray for Judas.
>>25225187He's in hell. There's no point, lmao.
>>25225192You think you can’t pray for people in Hell?
>>25225197What? You think that somehow lessens their eternal agony? Are you retarded?
>>25225200I think prayer has a purpose beyond only just the betterment of the devotee.
>>25225206Praying for those who have been eternally separated from the presence of God doesn't make any fucking sense.
>>25224647Maybe you should read it
>Unable to be entertained by or enjoy or appreciate a fictional story set in a fictional setting >So utterly BTFO about it that you have to post a thread about it six times a day on a dead as fuck anonymous literature discussion forumSuicide is an option OP.
This place is worthless
>>25225135>If you need fiction to feel something...I immediately know you're too fucking stupid for this conversation.
>>25222738Powerfagging but using concepts and ideas instead of characters.
