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Legend
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: JesusIsLord]
#18936888 - 10/05/13 04:53 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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JesusIsLord said: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche was...ya 
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: Legend]
#18936986 - 10/05/13 05:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I prefer his other works
TSZ is just the nieTZSche doctrine in literary form
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JesusIsLord
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: morrowasted]
#18937330 - 10/05/13 06:32 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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are the capital letters supposed to signify something?
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And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: JesusIsLord]
#18937510 - 10/05/13 07:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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no i just thought it was cool that those three letters appeared in a row in both his name and the acronym for thus spake Zarathustra
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: morrowasted]
#18937821 - 10/05/13 08:35 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Dunno if it's been suggested yet but Ishmael(Daniel Quinn) is one of my favorites, when I first read it I found it very thought provoking, had never even thought about humanity in that light before and I can definitely say it changed how I see things permanently.
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: pirate-blues]
#18938037 - 10/05/13 09:31 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Conversations With God. The title says it all. After you read the first chapter you can't put it down. Really good for the soul.
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akira_akuma
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: mpd]
#18938077 - 10/05/13 09:40 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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please. more. more knowledge.
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: akira_akuma]
#18938169 - 10/05/13 10:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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akira_akuma said: ???
name some for the pub.
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
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Siddartha, what a great book!
I read Siddartha and Candide at the same time and they reflected similarly upon each other.
I would like to add 'A Country Doctor' by Sarah Orne Jewett
'Mainstreet' by Sinclair Lewis
'The House of Mirth' by Edith Warthon
This small collection presents issues on Gender roles and many other contexts of American life, from the 19th and early 20th century view.
Color writing.
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Re: what are some really awesome novels or insightful, or philosophical books? [Re: XUL]
#18938303 - 10/05/13 10:52 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I recommend The Way of Zen, it's pretty dense.
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