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Anonymous Fri Apr 6 18:10:19 2018 No.10962116 [Reply] [Original]

Which book has had a positive or at least a profound effect on your life?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 22:26:48 2018 No.10963219 File: 315 KB, 1616x2560, how-to-win-friends-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10962116 The best birthday gift I have ever received.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 22:48:49 2018 No.10963285 >>10963219 >Lmao, just ask people things and act fake

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 22:49:26 2018 No.10963286 >>10963285 Fucking thank you

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 23:13:45 2018 No.10963401 Absalom, Absalom! As I Lay Dying Sound and the Fury

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 23:45:06 2018 No.10963515 >>10962116 The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton The Confessions of Saint Augustine The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton The Last Superstition by Edward Feser

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 23:52:38 2018 No.10963532 >>10963219 If you know nothing about human interaction or are autistic, this book is good. But it's an outdated collection of anecdotes delivered in what tries to sound objective.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 6 23:56:33 2018 No.10963545 File: 66 KB, 482x611, armour-contempt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I didn't read the book but the title pretty much became my main strategy in life.

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>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 00:00:03 2018 No.10963557 >>10962116 I read Proust at 19. He really opened my eyes.

Anonymous Sat Apr 7 00:32:50 2018 No.10963636

>>10962116
As a teenager, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. I know the book is a meme, but it instilled in me an attitude where I began to see beliefs as drugs or games, and this gave me with a willingness engage with all kinds of philosophies and and ideas with cheerful good-faith. I still find it strange when people have an almost reflexive superstitious fear of ideas they disagree with instead of an earnest curiosity.

Anonymous Sat Apr 7 01:26:49 2018 No.10963798

>>10963636
It's not all that strange. The ego is fragile. Change is almost always uncomfortable and it can be especially bad when things like one's own ethics, political beliefs and their very own identity become challenged by new information.
If someone spends years working on a scientific project, then finds their entire life's work becomes undone by some unprecedented factor, it can be soul-crushing. It takes an enormous strength of character to find the positive side of having everything you have worked for be completely undone in an instant of new information being introduced and become productive.
This of course isn't an excuse for anyone, but most people would rather put their head in the sand than face brutal truth--understandably so.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 01:52:51 2018 No.10963909 >>10963549 hahaha kek

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 01:54:24 2018 No.10963916 The Island by Aldous Huxley

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 01:58:47 2018 No.10963927 >>10962116 seneca's works Meditatios Enchiridion

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 01:58:57 2018 No.10963930 >>10963916 Is it really good? I have it but haven't started it. I loved The Perennial Philosophy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 02:00:52 2018 No.10963937 >>10963219 >>10963549 ah this was nice

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 02:14:49 2018 No.10963992 >>10963930 It’s really good. I read it during a miserable time of my life,and it made me handle my situation a little bit better, look on my problems with a different perspective, ya feel me?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 02:19:58 2018 No.10964010 >>10962116 Without Fear and Trembling I would never have grown out of wimp-hood

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 02:32:23 2018 No.10964037 >>10962116 Confessions by Augustine. God that book just makes you into a Catholic.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 03:56:04 2018 No.10964278 De Officiis

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 06:49:32 2018 No.10964805 The alchemist

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 07:10:24 2018 No.10964836 The Dune series. No really.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 07:13:10 2018 No.10964847 The Bible. Duh.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 07:21:34 2018 No.10964869 >>10962116 The Theban Plays, Antigone specifically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 07:27:46 2018 No.10964883 I seduced a girl with Borges, so Borges

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 12:37:38 2018 No.10965951 none, not a single one

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 15:55:41 2018 No.10966949 File: 265 KB, 1000x1333, man in glass.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This poem

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 16:12:35 2018 No.10967037 >>10962116 The Bible

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 16:13:02 2018 No.10967039 Harry Potter. In 4 years, I'm going to finally become a wizard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 16:15:22 2018 No.10967052 >>10966949 gay

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 20:27:45 2018 No.10968168 Awakening by Anthony de Mello. Started my long journey towards buddhism

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 20:38:26 2018 No.10968201 >>10967052 Is that what you say of the man in the glass?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 20:57:22 2018 No.10968276 The Little Prince and The Stranger unironically helped me better understand human relationships.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 7 21:12:12 2018 No.10968346 >>10966949 author???

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 8 01:37:02 2018 No.10969383 >>10968346 Dale Wimbrow Never heard of him either

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