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bugbuddy
4 months ago
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You are what you read, even if you don't always re...
What about people that don’t read at all? Are they nothing?
rramadass
4 months ago
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them."
- Mark Twain
Boogie_Man
4 months ago
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They're illiterate, which is a tragedy.
komali2
4 months ago
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Unless they grew up in a culture of oral history, in which case they may know a great many things.
0xDEADFED5
4 months ago
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i don't mean to alarm you, but i think you're failing the literacy test
forgotpwd16
4 months ago
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Although the common definition of
illiterate
is unable to read and write, at least one dictionary also defines it (
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/illiterate
) also being used as having very little or no education or/and showing lack of culture.
tombert
4 months ago
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I suppose we could abstract this to "you are your experiences, even if you don't always remember them."
mondobe
4 months ago
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The anecdote at the end of the post expands it to what we hear/learn in general.
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