Could you date someone who doesn't read?

[Kilgore-trout]

hah now I feel like an idiot
I didn't even realize I used knowledge and intelligence as the same thing. Oh well, sleepy typing has it's drawbacks.
I see what you guys are saying and I agree that just because you read doesn't mean you don't act like an idiot. I guess that's not what I meant. I think everyone is an idiot at some point during the day, it's our nature as humans to make mistakes. I think I was just thinking of all the people at my school who don't read. I'm generalizing but it seems to me that most of them have their priorities and philosophies backwards. Reading allows you to sort through other people's beliefs and decide whether or not you agree rather than just blindly believing that you're right without considering other's people's past ideas.
You guy's here are very intelligent and knowledgeable

Let me ask you this, what are your opinions on people who instead of reading watch television. Are they likely to be the mold for the common idiot?

[StephenKingman]

Let me ask you this, what are your opinions on people who instead of reading watch television. Are they likely to be the mold for the common idiot?

Depends really on how much they watch, if you spent your whole day just slobbing out watching any old rubbish and content to spend all your free time i would see that as a bit of a waster, but if you watch decent movies, enjoy your face tv show then what harm? You can certainly learn a few things from tv just as you would from reading a wide variety of books.

[October_rains]

It may sound shallow but i don't think i could date someone that didn't read. I love nerds, i'm not calling readers nerds, but i don't know one nerd that doesn't read. If he were a non reading nerd i guess it would be okay as long as he was nerdy. Maybe that's a bad way to put that?

[Fran]

hah now I feel like an idiot
I didn't even realize I used knowledge and intelligence as the same thing. Oh well, sleepy typing has it's drawbacks.
I see what you guys are saying and I agree that just because you read doesn't mean you don't act like an idiot. I guess that's not what I meant. I think everyone is an idiot at some point during the day, it's our nature as humans to make mistakes. I think I was just thinking of all the people at my school who don't read. I'm generalizing but it seems to me that most of them have their priorities and philosophies backwards. Reading allows you to sort through other people's beliefs and decide whether or not you agree rather than just blindly believing that you're right without considering other's people's past ideas.
You guy's here are very intelligent and knowledgeable

Let me ask you this, what are your opinions on people who instead of reading watch television. Are they likely to be the mold for the common idiot?

I don't think there is such a thing as 'the common idiot' ... each idiot is unique in his/her own way.
As for television I would feel it all depends on what you are watching & whether you sit in front of the TV in a passive stupor or whether you actively engage with it .... as happens in my house where many a heated debates has been generated by something said on a TV prog.
A TV is just another piece of technology producing some good and some bad stuff.

[Mairin]

It may sound shallow but i don't think i could date someone that didn't read. I love nerds, i'm not calling readers nerds, but i don't know one nerd that doesn't read. If he were a non reading nerd i guess it would be okay as long as he was nerdy. Maybe that's a bad way to put that?

I'm a nerd and proud of it!!

[Kilgore-trout]

hah now I feel like an idiot
I didn't even realize I used knowledge and intelligence as the same thing. Oh well, sleepy typing has it's drawbacks.
I see what you guys are saying and I agree that just because you read doesn't mean you don't act like an idiot. I guess that's not what I meant. I think everyone is an idiot at some point during the day, it's our nature as humans to make mistakes. I think I was just thinking of all the people at my school who don't read. I'm generalizing but it seems to me that most of them have their priorities and philosophies backwards. Reading allows you to sort through other people's beliefs and decide whether or not you agree rather than just blindly believing that you're right without considering other's people's past ideas.
You guy's here are very intelligent and knowledgeable

Let me ask you this, what are your opinions on people who instead of reading watch television. Are they likely to be the mold for the common idiot?

I don't think there is such a thing as 'the common idiot' ... each idiot is unique in his/her own way.
As for television I would feel it all depends on what you are watching & whether you sit in front of the TV in a passive stupor or whether you actively engage with it .... as happens in my house where many a heated debates has been generated by something said on a TV prog.
A TV is just another piece of technology producing some good and some bad stuff.

haha true, there are exceptions to the idiotness of the idiot box. I don't know I guess it's just the enviorment I'm in. It seems readers are so rare where I live. I can't discuss philosophical things with people because they don't think about things, they simply let things tell them what to think. Television, and this only because I read Catcher in the Rye, just seems so phony and weak attempts entertainment. it's like television tells you how and what to do everything. I'm not saying I wouldn't date someone who doesn't read, but I would never date someone who spends their free time doing something as unproductive as watching mtv or reality television on any of those channels that puts out a show trying to dramatize stupidity. I'm not saying that's all that's on television, because I enjoy a select few shows, but around me that's what people are watching.
When it comes to relationships you need to create room to massage the person's beliefs that you yourself may not believe. But someone whose beliefs rest in not acknowledging how truly enlightening reading can really be, to me, is just someone i'll never understand. I guess it's just a different of opinion, but most of the time people don't watch tv because it has a good storyline, they watch it cause it's action packed our has a cute girl in it
I see what you're saying though. There's always exceptions to a majority.

[AmorA]

I am in a long term relationship with a guy who doesn't read. just because we have different interests doesn't mean we can't get along, he is a mechanic and i know nothing about cars, he teaches me about cars i teach him about books, its fun learning new things off each other, i even bought him a book not so long ago. fair enough it was a topgeaqr book but hey he is still reading it.

[Bellasz]

I don't know why people wouldn't dqte someone who doesn't read. I'm married to a guy who doesn't read for fun, and who does not have any kind interest in literature or in any kind of art, while I'm really into it, not just for fun, but also professionally. Even though we don't have the same interests it doesn't mean that we can't have deep discussions about other things... Maybe I'm not able to discuss the symbolism in "The Mirror" by Machado de Assis (great tale by the way) with him, not the hidden meanings in Alice in Wonderland, but we can discuss other stuff which are significant. And I think that the people who watch TV can be pictured as the common idiot just because they get entertained with reality TV or Gossip progs, specially when books can be as alienating as TV (see Emma Bovary in "Madam Bovary"). I think that becomeing a "common idiot" depends more on the judgement of the person who's getting entertained than on the means he/she is getting entertainement from

[Kam911]

so long as she looks good and loves you why would it matter if she reads books a bit rare that question

[That Book Nerd]

It wouldn't be a deal-breaker if she didn't read, but it would be a bonus... just for the simple fact that it would be something else we could talk about, I guess.

[Creepshow09]

I have to say that definitely yes, I can. My hubby is not a big reader at all - I love reading (I guess the fact that I am on this site kind of proves that point lol) and sometimes I miss being able to have those talks with him, but we find other stuff to talk about and do together. The way I see it is, I would love to be able to share stories and things with him almost as much as he would love it if I was interested in the things he does to his car. But since I could care less, I can't complain!

[Christina2]

No. I don't understand how anyone cannot enjoying reading books.

[Creepshow09]

No. I don't understand how anyone cannot enjoying reading books.

Some people are right brained, some left. It's a chemical thing. Usually the ones who enjoy reading also enjoy art, and the ones who don't read are awesome at math. Statistically speaking.

[Zekes]

Of course its a turn off but as long as they're funny and know how to make a good conversation then I would still consider to date them.

[Weetzie_britt]

i've never dated a "reader" so it's obviously not a deal breaker for me, but i have a tendancy to try to figure out books i think they would like and buy them for them. my exes all have at least one big shelf full of books from me :p