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Anonymous Mon Sep 14 07:13:33 2020 No.16358951 [Reply] [Original]

Can you point to anything you've read that has had an actual impact on you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 07:17:49 2020 No.16358967 >>16358951 I changed my steam name to Zarathustra

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 07:20:45 2020 No.16358978 sydhartha basically helps you accept that life it the good and the bad, and you need to take it all in, all the suffering and all the joy, etc. budhism introduction, its a good read if you feel in the need for a new perspective

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 07:22:02 2020 No.16358981 File: 118 KB, 700x892, 1598056957447.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Everything impacts you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 07:34:36 2020 No.16359026 >>16358951 I read Pillars of the Earth when I was younger. Set me on the path of obsession with the Norman Conquest.

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:03:18 2020 No.16359377

>>16358951
I remember reading the last bit in the will to power after dealing with horrible mental anguish for almost a year and I was close to bittersweet tears. I wouldn't say it was the turning point - obviously maximizing impact works by you putting in more work with anything you read, or do, rather than waiting to read a book that will take you aback.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:05:38 2020 No.16359389 >>16358967 made me laff lmao haha

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:06:45 2020 No.16359393 No book has ever been the one that made a massive impact. But the collective influence of everything I've read has been quite meaningful

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:12:10 2020 No.16359415 >>16358951 The Lord of the Rings, The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity’s Rainbow and A Thousand Plateaus. Those four have each ushered in a new stage of my understanding and experience of the world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:43:35 2020 No.16359549 File: 426 KB, 1400x2093, iwtv.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16358951 pic related turned me into a smoking nightwalking vampire LARPer

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 09:50:37 2020 No.16359580 File: 89 KB, 446x688, images (12).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj Mon Sep 14 09:59:41 2020 No.16359635 >>16358951 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 10:49:42 2020 No.16359922 File: 128 KB, 1100x619, sq.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16359580 What is the best Quran to get? >inb4 the desert squiggles one

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 10:52:43 2020 No.16359945 >>16359922 It's trash. Get an Orthodox Study Bible, and bear your cross with Christ.

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 10:55:53 2020 No.16359970
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>>16359945
Real Christians do not belong to a church. The early church was a bastradization of the message of Christ, trying to turn it into laws and ceremonies instead of a message about peace and love and salvation. No schism or reform will fix this as that is still a church, which to Christianity is meaningless.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:06:31 2020 No.16360030 >>16359415 Okay but what about those works has influenced you?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:07:19 2020 No.16360032 Recently, A Portrait of the Artist ans a Young Man. Read if maybe 4-5 years later than what would be ideal but I'm a late bloomer so it evens out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:17:00 2020 No.16360074 >>16359970 Cringe

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:17:58 2020 No.16360078

>>16359970
You are lost because you have obviously not understood the OT and it's relation to the new, such as the passing down of the rites of the priesthood of Melchizedek (bread and wine) through St James the Just (first bishop of Jerusalem) , and that these rites have to be accomplished to honour the Lord and be a part of His people.
I would advise to strongly reconsider what you have just said, Christ brought us a Church so that we may follow his path.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:18:06 2020 No.16360080 >>16358951 My ex once hit me in the head with a copy of Infinite Jest

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:19:50 2020 No.16360086 >>16360080 SAS she ever arrested?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:22:10 2020 No.16360100 The Bible, of course, but also Cat's Cradle when I was a kid. It put the idea of magnanimous, unknowable powers behind God's works in my mind.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:24:04 2020 No.16360107 >>16358951 Bible obviously.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:26:14 2020 No.16360116 >>16360086 I died immediately so I never saw whether or not justice was served

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:29:26 2020 No.16360134 >>16360086 >>16360116 Courts and police are useless. We have God to serve us with justice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 11:31:52 2020 No.16360148 >>16359970 I'm convinced at this point, Christianity cannot exist with a material aesthetic/ritual culture. Any theology surrounding this is retarded, it should just be mandated with room for added complexity. It should be a Euro-centric as well.

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 12:21:02 2020 No.16360456

In my youth mostly Sarte, Camus and Dostojewski I guess, then Nietzsche, Hesse, Stirner, Milton, Miller, Musil
You should take life with humor, neither hate it nor love it and integrate important experiences into becoming who you are. Also trusting your intuition and differentiating between the advices of your gut, your heart and your head

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 12:22:31 2020 No.16360463 >>16358967 This. My discord pfp is heroditus

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 12:43:13 2020 No.16360568

>>16360030
I read LOTR when I was very young, and I think it’s always inspired a love of nature and mysticism/fantasy. Brothers Karamazov came at a time when I was questioning the world around me and looking for something substantive from a book for the first time, beyond just my enjoyment of the read. It showed me Christianity in a new light, and flipped on its head any preconceptions I had of religion. Gravity’s Rainbow showed me how to embrace the world in its infinite complexity, to immerse myself in my environment. A Thousand Plateaus changed the way I read everything, and showed me a new world of ideas waiting to be formed. It was one of the most hopeful and optimistic books I have ever read.

These aren’t intended to be accurate representations of what these books are supposed to do or be about, but more the effect and the feeling they have given me as I read them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 12:44:51 2020 No.16360582 >>16359922 Arthur John Arberry's version is known to be the most beautiful and direct. If you are going into it as a literature work, then this version is the best..

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:29:09 2020 No.16360872 Nothing I have ever read has made as much an impact on me and my worldview as having a 100 lb. pallet of pizza boxes land on me and dislocate my hip.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:30:11 2020 No.16360888 >>16358951 Everything I've ever read to some extent.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:31:23 2020 No.16360902 >>16360872 If such a comical accident didn't have a profound impact on you then I'd be worried

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:34:12 2020 No.16360924 >>16358951 No if I am being honest, yes if I am being dishonest

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:35:53 2020 No.16360945 >>16358951 Reading the Bell Jar made me decide to be less of a faggot

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 13:47:52 2020 No.16361058
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>>16358951
Read this book when I was a kid, just some obscure expanded universe bullshit. But it was written by what I'd assume to be a very unhappy author and it fucked with my head. The story follows a chimp in a colony. The chimp girl he likes marries someone else and then he gets his balls chewed off by leeches as he's crossing a river, and he forges onward because he's on a mission (to fight Alien dinosaurs or something).

Somehow I came to expect this to be my life, and it feels that way. I am a castrated cuck chimpanzee marching towards my death. It's a feel

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:12:56 2020 No.16362257 >>16358967 Kek

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:22:31 2020 No.16362354

>>16358951
Of course, every book I enjoy inspires my imagination and sharpens my mind in the short-term. Nothing as concrete as making me turn my life around or something, like I've installed a personality software update, but I don't think that's fair to expect from a work of art.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:27:26 2020 No.16362413 I read this when i was young and it became the basis for my political worldview

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:29:06 2020 No.16362431 File: 191 KB, 1298x2000, 71UIIF2RteL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16362413 forgot pic

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:36:21 2020 No.16362500 File: 19 KB, 261x400, mwej.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16358951 >inb4 pop psychology gonzo journalism it's entertaining for the most part, and introduced me to memory techniques I still use today

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 16:49:43 2020 No.16362621 File: 968 KB, 1136x2000, 1582997276447.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Aurelius' Meditations started it all for me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:11:04 2020 No.16362795 >>16358951 Moby Dick Brothers Karamazov Woodcutters

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:15:20 2020 No.16362829 File: 1.06 MB, 1366x768, Screenshot (83).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16358951 Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides, as well as Heraclitus' fragments and the New Testament.

Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:18:22 2020 No.16362850

>>16358951
moby dick, Discourses, The things they carried, sirens of titan, blood meridian, count of monte Cristo, brothers Karamazov, james stewart calculus, oddessy, for whom the bell tolls, on killing, the ranger handbook, animal farm, lolita, east of eden, do androids dream of electric sheep, franeknstein... to name a few. thats off the top of my head.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:19:30 2020 No.16362859 >>16362621 Many such cases.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:23:25 2020 No.16362885 >>16358951 yes, a book about personal investing that basically helped me to get financial independence it means i never have to rely on a job, or worry about money, or be indebted to anyone, ever again

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:24:53 2020 No.16362900 Philosophy has left me a deranged husk.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:28:12 2020 No.16362929 >>16362900 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 14 17:32:49 2020 No.16362960 In different ways: Stainless Steel Rat, War and Peace, Dune series, Starship Troopers, Brothers Karamazov, Les Miserables.

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