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What book most dramatically changed your perspective of the world?

>> No.9343057

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

>> No.9343060
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>>9343007
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

>> No.9343068
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9343068

The Ego and His Own

Though I wouldn't say it "changed" my perspective: it helped me find my own perspective again.

Unironically

>> No.9343208

>>9343060
nice

>> No.9343272

the bible

>> No.9343286

Virtually everything I read impacts my understanding of the world on some level, but it's never quite 'dramatic.' I guess the two works that had the most noticeable influence on my thinking would be Understanding Media by McLuhan and Man and His Symbols by Jung, but it's not like either fundamentally altered my view of the world.

>> No.9343294

>>9343007
Don Quixote

I hope some of you guys make it to the end of Book 2. It's a wild ride but it pays off.

>> No.9343309

>>9343007
Écrits by Jacques Lacan

>> No.9343483

>>9343007
Gödel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter

>> No.9343490

A Confession by Tolstoy
On the Death of Rebellion by Kierkegaard
Ecclesiastes by Solomon

>> No.9343600

>>9343007
the doors of perception

>> No.9343635

The Ego and Its Own.

>> No.9343637
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Mein Kampf

>> No.9343670

The Power of Myth by Campbell & Moyers. It kicked off a really healthy spiritual period in my life that lasted through all of my undergrad and really shaped who I was as a young person and thinker.

Of course that was before life just throttled all the passion and joy out of my life but. That's not the book's fault it was just chance. And women.

>> No.9343855

>>9343670
srry about that

what kind of books do you read now

>> No.9343892

>>9343007
My diary desu. When I reread it I was shocked

>> No.9343918

>>9343007
1984.

>> No.9343937

>>9343007
you understand the world by being in it you goddamn shut-in.

>> No.9345399

>>9343937
only true sometimes

>> No.9345556

>>9345399
only true all the times

>> No.9345565
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>>9343007
just finished The Divine Comedy, not really a book but it changed my life permanently, highly recommend

>> No.9347026

>>9345399
>>9345556
Only true half the times.
Satisfied?

>> No.9347038

>>9343937
Reading is a way to engage with the world

>> No.9347060

>>9343937
Define "the world."

>> No.9347068

>>9343937
I'm sorry about your small dick, anon

>> No.9347077

Probably Sabato's novels and Beckett's drama.

If I had to choose on work of each, I'd say Abaddon el exterminador and Endgame.

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>>9343007
This

>> No.9347176

>>9343937
Yeah, but that's entry-level understanding

>> No.9347412
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9347412

Nineteen Eighty Four

That shit changed me. I think it's kind of a gateway book into the great big world of political thought. I heard that some highschool students have to read it for school in some countries. I think they should have to read it everywhere.

>> No.9347429

>>9343286
I read man and his symbols when i was a kid. That stuff about dying in your dreams really scared me.

For people who havent read it: Jung noticed throughout his career that when people died in their dream and the dream kept going - those people all died for real shortly afterward

creepy af

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>>9347412

Islam is Peace
Diversity is Strength
Speech is Hate

>> No.9347443

>>9343007
The Motley Fool UK Investment Guide

basically set me on the path of getting financially stable

>> No.9347479
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Accidentally walked into it during a school project on Russia and it blew my 16 year old mind. I went from there to Tolstoy/Dostoyevsky and then the Greeks, so I had the fortunate experience of getting to most of the classics before I knew what lit was and got them all memed to death for me.

I read nothing but Stephen King and other similar stuff before it, and hadn't read a book in about a year when I started. So I think it is possible I might have ended up as a bookless normie had it not opened my eyes that there could be more to reading.

>> No.9347497

Probably the Lord of the Rings. It is what set me down the path to becoming a Christian because I started to read more about Tolkien, his beliefs, and the mythological underpinnings of his work. Because I grew up in an agnostic house that never went to church or talked about religion it wasn't until I read the Silmarillion that I had a sort of epiphany and began to really understand the Christian creation story, and it sparked an interest that just hasn't died. The entire conversion process was very gradual with me starting out studying the classical philosophical arguments for theism and then moving on to more theological texts.

>> No.9347596

>>9347497
cool anon, have you read the other inklings? like charles williams and barfield ?

>> No.9347605

Probably the bible oddly, but only over time and in conjunction with other reading and lived experience.

>> No.9347667

>>9347429
>Jung noticed throughout his career that when people died in their dream and the dream kept going - those people all died for real shortly afterward

FUG :-DDDDDDDDDDDDD

>> No.9348024

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

>> No.9348088

>>9343007
>>9348024

My first dip into the existentialist pool made things feel wonky for a while.

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you wouldn't understand

>> No.9348148

>>9345565
Did you read it in English? If so, which translation?

>> No.9348462

Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

Anarcho Primitivism is a shit-tier ideology, and frankly, huge parts of the book are just nonsense. However, it does a good job at depicting humanity from an "outside" perspective, and ultimately, showing that civilization doesn't have to be this way. In contrasting our current lifestyle to that of hunter gatherer societies, it shows some very clear downfalls of civilization as it exists, as well as shining some light on the root causes of these problems.

>> No.9348495

The Foundation for Exploration by Sean Goonan

>> No.9348516

Industrial Society and its future-- Uncle Ted
Storm of Steel-- Juenger

Light through an Eastern Window by. Bishop Kallai helped me discover Orthodoxy, despite the author being part of the Oriental Orthodox (he was Indian Orthodox)

>> No.9348644

>>9343007
Quantum Field Theory by Ryder

>> No.9348827

>>9343937
>it's possible to not be in the world

>> No.9348829

Cosmic Trigger by RAW.

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>>9347429

>Jung noticed throughout his career that when people died in their dream and the dream kept going - those people all died for real shortly afterward

If only. I've died in my dreams dozens of times without waking up, and I'm still very much alive unfortunately.

>> No.9348840

>>9348839
sounds like you want to kill yourself, so you're half dead

>> No.9348845

>>9347596

Aside from CS Lewis I've neglected them for the most part. I did buy Witchcraft a few weeks ago but I never got around to reading it.

>> No.9348848

>>9348840

I don't want to kill myself, I just want to die in an accident or at the end of a swift and relatively painless illness.

It's ironic because I did so many stupid things when I was younger and survived unscathed, whereas some of my peers succumbed to cancer after leading exemplary lives.

>> No.9348853

Hume's Enquiry (not fucking Treatise).

>> No.9348899

>>9343007
Moby Dick

>> No.9348905

>>9343007
The book of Revelations.

>> No.9348911

>>9348905

Revelation. There's no "s."

>> No.9348936

>>9348911
Ah, my bad. I've only read the Finnish one. The word used is such that can't have plural form (think 'water', 'air'), so I always associate it with plural for the reason that there are exceedingly many. Some are not even revealed to the reader aside from their existence.

>> No.9348938

Demian by Hesse

>> No.9348944

>>9348936

I forgive you.

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>>9348839
If you think so

>> No.9349911

Montaigne

>> No.9349976

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

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M O B Y

D I C K

>> No.9350810

>67. Ill done is that action of doing which one repents later, and the fruit of which one, weeping, reaps with tears.

>68. Well done is that action of doing which one repents not later, and the fruit of which one reaps with delight and happiness.

>325. When a man is sluggish and gluttonous, sleeping and rolling around in bed like a fat domestic pig, that sluggard undergoes rebirth again and again.

>326. Formerly this mind wandered about as it liked, where it wished and according to its pleasure, but now I shall thoroughly master it with wisdom as a mahout controls with his ankus an elephant in rut.

>327. Delight in heedfulness! Guard well your thoughts! Draw yourself out of this bog of evil, even as an elephant draws himself out of the mud.

>218. One who is intent upon the Ineffable (Nibbana), dwells with mind inspired (by supramundane wisdom), and is no more bound by sense pleasures — such a man is called "One Bound Upstream." [18]

>> No.9351038

>>9343007
Karamazov, I was 16 tough and don't remember shit. I think it's the only classic I have ever read

>> No.9352500

>>9351038
>16
>don't remember shit
that's great

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>>9343057
What would i need to read first before starting this?

>> No.9353330

>>9343483
expand on this, I have seen it mentioned a lot but never actually heard the opinion of someone who has read it.

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>>9349890

Spoopy

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Geneaology of moral, especially the section about ascetism, made me reevaluate my entire life and values, which, although I felt as mine, were mostly unexamined.

>> No.9353392

Mein Kampf

>> No.9353415

Parmenides

>> No.9353439

Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi

>> No.9353522

>>9353252
Hegel's lectures.

>> No.9353532

>>9347155
>the material world is redeemable

NO

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>>9353361
All discussion of asceticism on the internet is necessarily phony.

Discuss.

>> No.9353544

>>9343483
Dude loops lmao