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How is this? Any good?

>> No.11425503

>>11425498
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

>> No.11425544

>>11425503
What

>> No.11425617 [DELETED] 

Maybe I shouldn't trust one of god's chosen to accurately tell me about us gentiles

>> No.11425620

>>11425498
yeah it is alright. He doesn't really say much of anything new but i guess it is a decent encapsulation of some of the ideas emerging in the past few decades

>> No.11426138

>>11425498
Not super deep. I'd say its a good audiobook.

>> No.11426141

My Rabbi told me it was pretty swell!

>> No.11426220

>>11425498
Myeeh, I enjoyed it.

>> No.11426256

>>11425498
easy and enjoyable read, its very similar to Diamond's The World Before Yesterday (think thats what its called). he brings up some interesting stuff and its an accessible book.

>> No.11426365

>>11425498
Homo Deus is about the future and more interesting in my opinion.

>> No.11426384

>>11426138
This, just listen to it

>> No.11426413

>>11426365
Was about to ask about Homo Deus, got given it as a gift. Read the first 75 pages and it made me feel depressed. Should I continue?

>> No.11426418
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11426418

>wheat domesticated humans

>> No.11426427

>>11426413
Depression is the proper response. The truth is always more depressing than rosy illusions.

>> No.11426429

>>11425498
>Humankind
>not Peoplekind
Wow racist and sexist much

>> No.11426440

>>11426427
True. Change is depressing unless you're a Buddhist.

>> No.11426447

>>11425498
Fuck off (((Harari)))

>> No.11426448

That book got BTFO by E Michael Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBBF2o3LNE8

>> No.11426454

>>11425498
It's goodif you're interested in anthropology and the like but you don't know where to begin on the topic

>> No.11426457

>>11426427
you need some Epictetus, Seneca or Marcus Aurelius lad.

>> No.11426459

>>11426440
>unless you're a Buddhist
how come?

>> No.11426474

>>11426457
Can't see the light unless you've been through the darkness.

>> No.11426476

>>11426459
Buddhists 3 universal truths are constant change, unsatisfactory-ness of all things (apparently not a word but that's how I remember it) and lack of a soul or persistent self.

Full embrace of change, not just an intellectual agreement with the idea, is supposed to lead to nirvana.

>> No.11426481

>>11426476
unsatisfactoriness

>> No.11426484

>>11426481
thanks, autocorrect didn't like that one either so I didn't know what to do.

>> No.11426488

>>11426474
everyone goes through darkness, as you put it. arm yourself before or on the journey, not when its finished.

>> No.11426494

>>11426459
>>11426440
Any religion will help one understand why things happen the way they do and are the way they are. Still, Buddhism focuses on change in a way that other religions do not.

>> No.11426501

>>11426488
Sometimes you can't know that there is any light at all unless you've let your depression run through to its natural conclusion. I spent my entire childhood and teenage years, and even until today in a state of misery, but it was only because it got so bad that I couldn't bear it anymore that I turned to spirituality and philosophy for answers. Gotta wait for ripening on the soul before you get your redemption.

>> No.11426528

>>11426501
theres some truth in that, i waited until I was 45 before hitting philosophy, and i wished i had read this shit at 25 desu. though i will admit it I would have ignored a lot, there would have been enough additions to my mental substrate to prove useful later. The Stoics and Atomists blew my head off, this is coming from someone with 30 years of classical and ancient history study as a main hobby, i had read about and around philosophers for decades but never dived in. When i did it was glorious, reading 3 or 4 books a week in every spare moment - like pouring helium into your mind and feeling it get lighter but stronger.

>> No.11426534

>>11426476
I see, thank you
the more I read about Buddhism the more it seems to me as it fits my thoughts on life

>> No.11426556

>>11426501
With that kind of mentality, no doubt you are in a "state of misery".

>> No.11426559

>>11426501
This is why I don't regret how miserable my life has been, it lead to finding better ways to look at life. I wouldn't have bothered if things had been going 'OK'.

>>11426534
Same

>> No.11426581

>>11426418
Didn’t it?

>> No.11426701

The best thing about this book was that there were color pictures and colored chapter and section titles. Everything else was a waste of time. It reads like a bad essay an 8th grader might have written, provides a lot of extremely idiotic contrived stories that Harari pulls out of his ass to try to demonstrate some hyperbolic point that I hope no one else in anthropology is taking seriously. For example, early humans around that time when agriculture was developing lived in extreme misery, pain, and suffering because there were infant bones found around where folks lived. Then he'll go on and tell a story about a poor mother sitting around crying, emaciated, and disease ridden, lamenting how terrible life is growing food. (This isn't exactly what he said, but it reflects how his stories are.) Another good example is how he said something about humans evolving quickly, so they don't know how to respect the environment and other creatures, whereas big carnivorous predators have been around for a long time more or less the same as their ancestors, so they are majestic and don't go destroy things. And a juvenile understanding of evolutionary theory is used in a post hoc ergo propter hoc way all over the place. Unfortunately, I kept reading after that with the hope that it might have something interesting to say and actually argue for it instead of telling dumb stories. The latter part of the book was better, but still platitudinous.

TLDR; read something else.

>> No.11426706

>>11425544
I thought it was eh. I felt like I expressed that clearly

>> No.11426720

>>11426701
Came here to post this.

>> No.11426777

Pap; utterly pap