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Recommend books that'd increase my IQ with every turning page

>> No.18455178

>>18455176
The Holy Bible

>> No.18455193

>>18455178
Human beings only progressed when they got less religious.over time. So I'd say no to that.

>> No.18455200

>>18455176
Phänomenologie des Geistes

>> No.18455205

>>18455176
my diary desu

>> No.18455212

>>18455193
I hate to break it to you, but that isn't even remotely true. Priests were some of the first scientists because they were the only one with the free time to study nature and space. People's devotion to the church enabled a class of people who were encouraged to study nature, and subsidized for it.

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>>18455176
picrel
>>18455193
t. pop sci fan

>> No.18455235

>>18455176
Call of the Cherokee

>> No.18455247

>>18455212
>only one with the free time to study nature and space
>still couldn't figure out god wasn't real

>> No.18455268

>>18455212
> Priests were some of the first scientists because they were the only one with the free time to study nature and space
Is that why they imprisoned Galileo?

>> No.18455301

>>18455268
They weren't perfect, but to pretend that without religion we would be light-years ahead of where we are is patently false.

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>>18455193
HAHAHAHAHA

>> No.18455312

>>18455176

math books i imagine

those patterns you have to solve on that mensa iq test are math related

>> No.18455321

i think asians get high iq scores is because they are good at math

>> No.18455337

you won't increase iq by reading philosophy books and fiction

you have to read books that engage your brain in pattern related math-related shit

>> No.18455344

>>18455268
>>18455301
Galileo was imprisoned for being a retarded. Religious causes are usually the pop sci take but the thing was that galileo used a telescope (which no one else had at the time near him) and presented his findings in a non-scientific way that made them look like digressions. Couple that with the fact that scientific writing at the time was already pretty rigid.

>> No.18455345

>>18455247
I didn't realize we solved that yet

>> No.18455369

>>18455301
if Christianity inherently inspired interest in progress and new ideas, no such thing would have happened in the first place. Examples of priests being scientists only mean they were scientists despite being religious not because of it.

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>>18455344
furthermore, the way he wrote his findings about the earth spinning around the sun (in the form of a dialogue) and not the way around made it look like it was HIS opinion, and not his findings.
Read picrel and then read another scientific book of the same period of time and you'll understand.
>>18455247
>he thinks he can prove the existence or non-existence of anything
fool
>>18455369
to add to that, most people were religious, even during the scientific revolution and the enlightenment. I don't believe there might be any significant link between being religious/atheist and being pro/anti science, although, of course, pop scientists and their followers "fucking love science, dude!"

>> No.18455397

>>18455389
not the other way around*

>> No.18455409

>>18455193
Jesus, we're really merging with reddit. The last time I've read something so ignorant and retarded, it was on YouTube, by a reddit poster.

>> No.18455424

>>18455247
>haven't realized yet that no lasting civilization can survive without faith

>> No.18455425

>>18455176
Hegel.

>> No.18455432

>>18455425
Yes. I recommended him a few posts earlier

>> No.18455569

>>18455369
> they were scientists despite being religious not because of it
That claim presupposes that religion inherently disenfranchises people to study science, which it doesn't. The majority of scientists today are religious, and the vast majority in the history of science have been religious. If the study of science inherently made people less religious, then the majority of engineers, doctors, mathematicians, etc would be atheist, which they clearly are not.

>> No.18455645

>>18455176
Turning pages does not increase iq

>> No.18455947

>>18455645
you know what he's saying

>> No.18456120

>>18455569
Not true. Scientists are far more irreligious compared to general population.
https://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/

>> No.18456824

>>18455212
Anon might believe that those priest got "less religious over time".

>> No.18456846

>>18455176
Handbook of Psychological Assessment, 6th edition

>> No.18456851

>>18455424
if the people of those civilization are insecure nationalistic religious cucks then sure yeah
it's bound to fail

>> No.18457021

>>18455193
>progressed

>> No.18457031

>>18455193
t.retard

>> No.18457033

a book that isn't in your native language, ideally in a nonlatin script

>> No.18457641

>>18456851
You are retarded

>> No.18457644

>>18455193
>>18455176
Fuck off! Dumb retard! Go somewhere else please!

>> No.18457660

>>18455193
The opposite is true

>> No.18457904

>>18455176
Aristotle's complete works.

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>>18455176

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>>18455176

>> No.18458930
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>>18455176
I love Ulysses and I love you guys.

>> No.18458934

>>18455176
The complete works of Taleb

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>>18458930
>reading people that died more than 2000 years ago

>> No.18458983

>>18457660
it really do be like that

>> No.18458996

>>18455176
Plato's Theaetetus

>> No.18459157

>>18455193
Uhh reddit???

>> No.18459191

>>18455193
You must be 18 to be here

>> No.18459210

>>18458937
based retard

>> No.18459238

>>18458930
I love you too anon.

>>18455193
Please read more. Get off the internet and read some serious books.

>> No.18459260

>>18455176
Literally just any philosophy.

Augustine, Aristotle, Buddha, the Vedas, Aquinas, Berkeley, Kant, Locke, Hume, Nietzsche, Marx, Liebniz, Spinoza, Pascal, etc.

Or contemporary Continental stuff. Look up some series in Continental philosophy by Fordham University Press, Indiana University Press, Stanford, Bloomsbury, Continuum, etc.

Really just like 90% of academic literature, in whatever field you have an interest in. Just start studying it.

>> No.18459264

>>18455193
(You)