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I have one hundred pound that I have saved. Can anyone suggest some books to read that may change my life / enlighten me ? I want to change the way I think about things. I want to realise there are new ways in which to view the world and people. I hate capatalism. Thanks Teeth |
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American Psycho |
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Frannie and Zooey - J.D Salinger |
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Books of Marx maybe? Das kapital if I'm not mistaken is one of his most important works. |
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way of the peaceful warrior by Dan Millman, it's a fun read and you might learn something if you're at the bottom of the ladder. |
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the selfish gene and the pattern on the stone. Don't take other people's suggestions. These are better. |
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read "just a couple of days" for fiction "one river" for historical narrative, richard evans shultes in the amazon i really havn't read very many books |
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The Joke - Milan Kundera Truth and Method - Hans-Georg Gadamer for perhaps a more directly life changing book Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre |
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If you wnt to change the way you think by a book teaching you Chinese...then you can think in a whole new language. |
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Hermman Hesse - The Glass Bead Game (also published as Magister Ludi) |
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it has nothing to do with politics... except in the way that it has to do with, literally, EVERYTHING. |
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Fight Club |
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"Total Freedom" - Krishnamurti |
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The Bible |
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You can get the bible for free, he would be better spending his money on something more interesting. |
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The Bible |
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nothing interests me more than where i came from and where i am going, and the fine line in between the two. |
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he wanted a book to enlighten him, and no book do i finds more enlightening than the Bible. try it one time, alot of intense and deep stuff to think about in there. |
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The Qu'ran in pretty funky |
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Beyond Good and Evil (and/or) Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle - Pierre Klossowski |
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cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut is great, short read, makes you think of life differently |
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if you do decide to read the bible, you absolutely should also seek out a compendium of the complete gospels (which includes the existing texts that were excised by the political powers that shaped christian orthodoxy) and the nag hamaddi library, which is available in english translation. try "i am that" by sri nisargadatta maharaj, dialogues about self and reality "tao te ching" translated by stephen mitchell, the classic chinese metaphysical text by lao tzu "the lathe of heaven" by ursula leguin, science fiction about a man who discovers his dreams change the present, reordering history to conform with the changes, and another man who seeks to control his incredible power "valis" by philip k dick, a mix of autobiography and science fiction about an author whose model of reality is turned upside down "true hallucinations" by terence mckenna, about an autobiographical search for logos (and psychedelic plants) in the amazonian rainforest, very openminded and speculative with humor and intelligence and if you have immense patience and interest in neo-christian, gnostic ideas you might try "a course in miracles," but this last one is not for everyone, to say the least |
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beh, don't read something heavy if you just want to get a general feeling of difference. try something angry or driven by madness ;) do the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov, or notes from the underground or crime and punishment, both from fyodor dosteovky. ah, the russians ;) |
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non-fiction , in my opinion, even if it points to an opposite stance on something such as a specific political view or religious/spiritual view, is in the end - a dry specific political or religious view. it comes full circle, in most cases. lacks imagination of absurdity and has too much planned rhetoric. i know, im being an ass. on the other hand, i find fiction to be a little more uplifting and not steaming at the ends with pressure and rigidity. maybe on top of the suggestions i made above, enjoy reading about a drunk who fucks women and writes poems and loses jobs - the late charles bukowski ... |
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The bible is shit. Well, everything except for the Goldren Rule. |
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the bible seems like one very long and extravagant rpg |
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i wouldn't expect anything less from this message board. |
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bernard werber - the ants makes you view stuff from the other perspective also, naomi klein - no logo |
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people say bible is shit even though i doubt they even read it |
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weathered, you are close to the truth, but i think you meant toilet papyr. "he who spents too much time hanging out in his rectum always thinks he smells shit." -discordian pope pyrus the inflamed |
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Read the bible, but dont let it run your life. |
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you read it? cover to cover? then explain to me EXACTLY how it is toilet paper? if you can. |
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i suppose since humor can shroud one's true opinion, i should say that i think everyone should read the bible. i don't think anyone should uncritically believe any of it, but i think especially the gospels are very important to consider. |
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neetta: i know. not everyone is as reasonable and mature as you. :) |
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so then it's not exactly "toilet paper" huh? |
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tibbar, i was simply making light of weathered's dismissal of the book. i hope my irreverence did not offend. |
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I really don't understand how some people can be so disrepectful to certain religions... |
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if someone is searching for enlightenment with blind eyes, how cxan they see truth? so i agree with not blindly beliveing everything. besides, i think part of being a Christian for me has always been asking questions and NOT always understanding things. |
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after all, i had just recommended the complete gospels and the nag hamaddi library (some of which was unwittingly used as kindling by the family of the man who discovered the texts in 1945). to some, the bible is simply paper with words printed on it. i don't intend to cast judgement on them. |
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right... well, me personally, I'm in kind of a "transition" phase so to speak... not really sure what to believe... I've kind of strayed from the path, so to speak, because I've begun to question some things about the bible and stuff... I ain't letting any priest or pastor tell me what the bible means... I'm interpreting it for myself thank you very much... |
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I hate all religions equally. |
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*correction: all ORGANIZED religions. |
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why shouldn't they be disrespectful? what gives you the right to judge them? a child scolds his mother. let them learn. |
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no. but i have a healthy fear of my maker. and to offend him is something that i dread. in defense of what you said, the Bible has made it clear time and time again that man is not to be foolish or gullible... i agree, especially in a world where there are SO many people posing as one thing, only to turn out to be vicious wolves. |
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I am disrespectful to all religions. |
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funk: that is ALSO very dangerous... that is how things like jehova's witnesses, mormons, and catholicism got started. people decided they figured out their OWN interperetation of God's word and ran with that. VERY dangerous |
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i also hate the word "religion" being applied to Christianity. there is truth and their is lies. there is no "religion". |
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and so people who admittedly hate or disrespect all religions are fit to give someone suggestions on enlightening books? bah. |
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well, you have every right to be disrespectful... I just wonder why you would be... if someone chooses to believe in a certain thing, and they aren't bothering anyone else, why would someone feel the need to stamp all over their beliefs? Not saying that anyone is stamping all over my beliefs really... just, the comments about the bible being shit, and toilet paper were pretty disrespectful imo... |
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personally, i think it is a mistake to fear your maker. who gave you courage? would you be so rude, as to not accept that gift? you were given the gift to choose light or darkness, and if you call accepting the consequences of your choices punishment, so be it. your maker is too busy loving you to waste a second punishing you. |
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