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Reccomend a book that will change someone's life
#23376102 - 06/24/16 05:11 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plektheplek]
#23378864 - 06/24/16 09:57 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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First and last freedom =j. Krishnamurti My awakening= david duke Autobiography of malcom x Native son= richard wright U nabomber manifesto The turner diaries Johnny got his gun The things they carried All quiet on the western front From here to eternity Shantaram
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: 5150]
#23378893 - 06/24/16 10:08 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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5150 said: First and last freedom =j. Krishnamurti My awakening= david duke Autobiography of malcom x Native son= richard wright U nabomber manifesto The turner diaries Johnny got his gun The things they carried All quiet on the western front From here to eternity Shantaram
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: ModestMouse]
#23378910 - 06/24/16 10:14 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Bible
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plektheplek]
#23378996 - 06/24/16 10:50 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Immense Journey - Loren Eiseley
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plektheplek]
#23379024 - 06/24/16 11:03 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Alan Watts
The Bhagavad Gita
The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley
Joy - Osho
All utterly fantastic...
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: ImSl8] 1
#23379038 - 06/24/16 11:09 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Everybody poops.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#23379047 - 06/24/16 11:13 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Latency Paradox of Barret Trufflehard
Warning: Induces reality breakdown
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: cinderblock] 1
#23379212 - 06/25/16 12:14 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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mind training - tibetan buddhist translation
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: thelanzii]
#23379425 - 06/25/16 02:09 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Edit: just for shits and gigs, havent read any "enlightening" books just some hunter s thompson books and a few others. posted here for the future reference
Edited by Plain (06/25/16 02:26 AM)
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Plain]
#23379437 - 06/25/16 02:16 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: 5150]
#23379448 - 06/25/16 02:22 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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5150 said: First and last freedom =j. Krishnamurti My awakening= david duke Autobiography of malcom x Native son= richard wright U nabomber manifesto The turner diaries Johnny got his gun The things they carried All quiet on the western front From here to eternity Shantaram
The Unabomber manifesto actually wasnt that bad a read, his opinion of course but years on, some of it came true.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Asante]
#23379453 - 06/25/16 02:25 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Technological Slavery is a lot more interesting than the manifesto, but far longer and more dense.
Reading Either/Or turned me into a champion.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Asante]
#23379454 - 06/25/16 02:26 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I recommend two classic drug books:
Confession of an English Opium Eater - Thomas DeQuincy Ancient book about a gentlemen getting caught up insidiously in a lifelong opium habit during the time Opium was legal patent medicine.
The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Short but beautiful account of a genius experiencing Mescaline and describing it very recognizably.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Asante]
#23379563 - 06/25/16 03:38 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: T-Rex] 1
#23379587 - 06/25/16 03:53 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plektheplek]
#23379665 - 06/25/16 04:41 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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"Shades of Earth" by Beth Revis.
It will change your whole outlook on the future of Humanity and what it means to be loyal to something.
I have thought of getting a tattoo that came from an image from the book. Not sure yet....
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23379892 - 06/25/16 07:03 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Fiber Menace by Konstantin Monastyrsky
Exposes the BS largely initiated by an anti-sex Christian nutbag( John Harvey Kellogg), and perpetuated by an ignorant medical community and trust-over-observance sheeple, that maintains dietary fiber is actually healthy. Besides pointing out the myriad ov ways high fiber consumption is unhealthy to one's colorectal health, it also exposes the heavy water consumption myth. Most people over-hydrate themselves and lose essential minerals through excessive urination.
He's rather dry and overly judgmental at times, but i really appreciate that he addresses this topic as it echoes my own experience in limiting fiber consumption.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: lavod]
#23379925 - 06/25/16 07:28 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: lavod]
#23379926 - 06/25/16 07:29 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: pmcast]
#23379934 - 06/25/16 07:34 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Where's Waldo 5-12th Editions
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plasma]
#23379959 - 06/25/16 07:53 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Siddhartha by Herman Hesse...it really makes you think about how you're living your life
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: plektheplek]
#23379962 - 06/25/16 07:55 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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New Self New World - by Philip Shepherd Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self - by Charles Eisenstein
those two are excellent imo
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: deff] 1
#23379975 - 06/25/16 08:06 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: pmcast]
#23380169 - 06/25/16 09:42 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
pmcast said: Ishmael
You mean moby dick? Unless i hadn't realized there's a book called ishmael. (Unrelated below)
We had to read great expectations in high school, that had to be hands down the worst piece of trash I've ever read. I just remember pissing my teacher off because there were so many stupid worthless details and the book was a weird pile of shit.
Been meaning to read "cuckkoos nest" and "trainspotting" for a while now.
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: LuSiD enthusiast]
#23380274 - 06/25/16 10:11 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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pmcast said: Ishmael
You mean moby dick? Unless i hadn't realized there's a book called ishmael. (Unrelated below)
We had to read great expectations in high school, that had to be hands down the worst piece of trash I've ever read. I just remember pissing my teacher off because there were so many stupid worthless details and the book was a weird pile of shit.
Been meaning to read "cuckkoos nest" and "trainspotting" for a while now.
No. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: pmcast]
#23380295 - 06/25/16 10:18 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Excerpt from Ishmael by Quinn
"You remember how the Takers went about trying to achieve powered flight. They didn't begin with an understanding of the laws of aerodynamics. They didn't begin with a theory based on research and carefully planned experimentation. They just built contraptions, pushed them off the sides of cliffs, and hoped for the best." "True." "All right. I want to follow one of those early trials in detail. Let's suppose that this trial is being made in one of those wonderful pedal-driven contraptions with flapping wings, based on a mistaken understanding of avian flight." "Okay." "As the flight begins, all is well. Our would-be airman has been pushed off the edge of the cliff and is pedaling away, and the wings of his craft are flapping like crazy. He's feeling wonderful, ecstatic. He's experiencing the freedom of the air. What he doesn't realize, however, is that this craft is aerodynamically incapable of flight. It simply isn't in compliance with the laws that make flight possible-but he would laugh if you told him this. He's never heard of such laws, knows nothing about them. He would point at those flapping wings and say, `See? Just like a bird!' Nevertheless, whatever he thinks, he's not in flight. He's an unsupported object falling toward the center of the earth. He's not in flight, he's in free fall. Are you with me so far?" "Yes." "Fortunately-or, rather, unfortunately for our airman-he chose a very high cliff to launch his craft from. His disillusionment is a long way off in time and space. There he is in free fall, feeling wonderful and congratulating himself on his triumph. He's like the man in the joke who jumps out of a ninetieth-floor window on a bet. As he passes the tenth floor, he says to himself, `Well, so far so good!' "There he is in free fall, experiencing the exhilaration of what he takes to be flight. From his great height he can see for miles around, and one thing he sees puzzles him: The floor of the valley is dotted with craft just like his-not crashed, simply abandoned. `Why,' he wonders, `aren't these craft in the air instead of sitting on the ground? What sort of fools would abandon their aircraft when they could be enjoying the freedom of the air?' Ah well, the behavioral quirks of less talented, earthbound mortals are none of his concern. However, looking down into the valley has brought something else to his attention. He doesn't seem to be maintaining his altitude. In fact, the earth seems to be rising up toward him. Well, he's not very worried about that. After all, his flight has been a complete success up to now, and there's no reason why it shouldn't go on being a success. He just has to pedal a little harder, that's all. "So far so good. He thinks with amusement of those who predicted that his flight would end in disaster, broken bones, and death. Here he is, he's come all this way, and he hasn't even gotten a bruise, much less a broken bone. But then he looks down again, and what he sees really disturbs him. The law of gravity is catching up to him at the rate of thirty-two feet per second per second-at an accelerating rate. The ground is now rushing up toward him in an alarming way. He's disturbed but far from desperate. `My craft has brought me this far in safety,' he tells himself. `I just have to keep going.' And so he starts pedaling with all his might. Which of course does him no good at all, because his craft simply isn't in accord with the laws of aerodynamics. Even if he had the power of a thousand men in his legs-ten thousand, a million-that craft is not going to achieve flight. That craft is doomed-and so is he unless he abandons it." "Right. I see what you're saying, but I don't see the connection with what we're talking about here." Ishmael nodded. "Here is the connection. Ten thousand years ago, the people of your culture embarked on a similar flight: a civilizational flight. Their craft wasn't designed according to any theory at all. Like our imaginary airman, they were totally unaware that there is a law that must be complied with in order to achieve civilizational flight. They didn't even wonder about it. They wanted the freedom of the air, and so they pushed off in the first contraption that came to hand: the Taker Thunderbolt. "At first all was well. In fact, all was terrific. The Takers were pedaling away and the wings of their craft were flapping beautifully. They felt wonderful, exhilarated. They were experiencing the freedom of the air: freedom from restraints that bind and limit the rest of the biological community. And with that freedom came marvels-all the things you mentioned the other day: urbanization, technology, literacy, mathematics, science. "Their flight could never end, it could only go on becoming more and more exciting. They couldn't know, couldn't even have guessed that, like our hapless airman, they were in the air but not in flight. They were in free fall, because their craft was simply not in compliance with the law that makes flight possible. But their disillusionment is far away in the future, and so they're pedaling away and having a wonderful time. Like our airman, they see strange sights in the course of their fall. They see the remains of craft very like their own-not destroyed, merely abandoned-by the Maya, by the Hohokam, by the Anasazi, by the peoples of the Hopewell cult, to mention only a few of those found here in the New World. `Why,' they wonder, `are these craft on the ground instead of in the air? Why would any people prefer to be earthbound when they could have the freedom of the air, as we do?' It's beyond comprehension, an unfathomable mystery. "Ah well, the vagaries of such foolish people are nothing to the Takers. They're pedaling away and having a wonderful time. They're not going to abandon their craft. They're going to enjoy the freedom of the air forever. But alas, a law is catching up to them. They don't know such a law even exists, but this ignorance affords them no protection from its effects. This is a law as unforgiving as the law of gravity, and it's catching up to them in exactly the same way the law of gravity caught up to our airman: at an accelerating rate. "Some gloomy nineteenth-century thinkers, like Robert Wallace and Thomas Robert Malthus, look down. A thousand years before, even five hundred years before, they would probably have noticed nothing. But now what they see alarms them. It's as though the ground is rushing up to meet them-as though they are going to crash. They do some figuring and say, `If we go on this way, we're going to be in big trouble in the not-too-distant future.' The other Takers shrug their predictions off. `We've come all this enormous way and haven't even received so much as a scratch. It's true the ground seems to be rising up to meet us, but that just means we'll have to pedal a little harder. Not to worry.' Nevertheless, just as was predicted, famine soon becomes a routine condition of life in many parts of the Taker Thunderbolt-and the Takers have to pedal even harder and more efficiently than before. But oddly enough, the harder and more efficiently they pedal, the worse conditions become. Very strange. Peter Farb calls it a paradox: `Intensification of production to feed an increased population, leads to a still greater increase in population.' `Never mind,' the Takers said. `We'll just have to put some people pedaling away on a reliable method of birth control. Then the Taker Thunderbolt will fly forever.' "But such simple answers aren't enough to reassure the people of your culture nowadays. Everyone is looking down, and it's obvious that the ground is rushing up toward you-and rushing up faster every year. Basic ecological and planetary systems are being impacted by the Taker Thunderbolt, and that impact increases in intensity every year. Basic, irreplaceable resources are being devoured every year-and they're being devoured more greedily every year. Pessimists-or it may be that they're realists-look down and say, `Well, the crash may be twenty years off or maybe as much as fifty years off. Actually it could happen anytime. There's no way to be sure.' But of course there are optimists as well, who say, `We must have faith in our craft. After all, it has brought us this far in safety. What's ahead isn't doom, it's just a little hump that we can clear if we all just pedal a little harder. Then we'll soar into a glorious, endless future, and the Taker Thunderbolt will take us to the stars and we'll conquer the universe itself.' But your craft isn't going to save you. Quite the contrary, it's your craft that's carrying you toward catastrophe. Five billion of you pedaling away-or ten billion or twenty billion-can't make it fly. It's been in free fall from the beginning, and that fall is about to end."
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: SoloTrip]
#23380300 - 06/25/16 10:20 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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The 48 laws of power. Kind of a fucked up book tho
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Easyriding123]
#23380380 - 06/25/16 10:41 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Easyriding123 said: The 48 laws of power. Kind of a fucked up book tho
How so?
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Re: Reccomend a book that will change someone's life [Re: Patlal]
#23380491 - 06/25/16 11:22 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Read it.
Teaches manipulation...head games...it's the laws of Power
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