Books that turned your life around.
No religious texts.
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No religious texts.
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Didn't turn my life around by Epitetus is a good tonic for stress and bad thinking habits. He's so straightforward and basically says to stop being a b***h and approach things rationally.
I can't tell if this anti-Semetic or anti-Nazi?
it's absurdist fiction. It is written to be completely meaningless nonsense as a statement. Basically Dada as a genre.
Neither. It's pro-assgoblin
probably qualifies as a "religious text" but idc, i's more like an affirmation of life in the face of irreligiosity
Notes from the underground. I saw future me if I had continued on downward the road I was on. Chose to actively be the opposite of the underground man.
"world as will and representation" is the only book that actually changed me
This. If modern americans and europeans werent such illiterate subhumans. That book would change more lives than the bible
Do i need to have read Kant to understand this one?
If you have to ask this question, no. Your understanding will be the same regardless if you have read Kant.
Does this mean i asked a stupid question? I'm simply uninformed, is all.
Explain.
I see. Just finished reading the first preface. I will get around to getting myself familiarized with the works he mentions and will go back to reading it.
Don't bother. People only like Schopey for his writing style and worldview; getting bogged down into epistemology and obscure Kantian metaphysics won't help much. He only wrote that to make himself feel like a proper philosopher anyway
That book is straight up mental poison you would be better off with a life without reading it. Trust me anon.
What do you mean by "turning around"? What's your expectation with that?
He means such as when you see a xbox 360
I did literally all my reading while I was prodromal, so books in general ruined my life
They often are a memed around here, but these books genuinely made a big impression on me when I was younger. Made me more open minded and since reading them, I always try to look more at a "bigger picture" when it comes to geopolitics, religion or life itself. Also got more interested in philosophy and foreign books in general (before that I used to read only in Polish).
Yes it's cliché, but I'm not even pretending to be someone special.
>They often are a memed
Sry, forgot to delete "a" after changing a sentence.
Too bad the author is an evil villain mini boss.
The only "self help" book worth a damn.
did it make you lose your virginity in a threesome?
Such a great book. I’ve been rereading it slowly over the last few months. The prison escape always gives me butterflies in my stomach. I wish I could have met Casanova. He was one of the writers I was debating to list here
. Another great autobiography is Cellini. There is no other book like it. Took me completely by surprise
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
What's that about?
Fantasy story about a man who is trying to become immortal.
The Idiot-Dostoevsky
In what way?
> no religious texts
> turn my life around
How can you turn around your life if you firmly cling to your materialist presuppositions?
I'm not OP, just wanted to ask what's materialist about that.
> you must cling to metaphysical presuppositions, not material ones!
Just read about Metaphysics
>all those books called "metaphysics"
>No Aristotle, no Proclus, no Spinoza, no Leibniz, no eastern texts, no Kant, no Whitehead, no Hegel
please don't tell me you think you actually know metaphysics
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It depends. That book is different for everyone and it must be read at the right time in your life with the right mindset. The most important thing is that you have to be ready yourself to turn your life around. A book is a small part of the equation. I would say the big 3 writers that helped me are Henry Miller, Emerson and Thoreau. Nietzsche, Whitman, Lao Tsu, the Bhagavad Gita, and Dhammapada deserve a shout out too
Plato, honest to God
Why Plato?
unironically
I thought I wanted to kill myself, then I read The Book of Disquiet and I knew.
THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE; I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I HAD NOT READ IT WHEN I DID; IT TURNED MY LIFE THREE HUNDRED SIXTY DEGREES (360°) ON THE Z AXIS.