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Hello, c/lit/s. My friend recently moved away from his parents, who were essentially blindfolding him his entire life. Imagine the Pink Floyd song "Mother" come to life. I want to recommend him some books to help him gain some new knowledge and perspectives other than what his parents told him to believe. What are some great books for this? "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo will be on the list. Give me others, please.

>> No.2171086

The Joys Of Gay Sex.

>> No.2171101

Sato; The 120 Days of Sodom

>> No.2171109

Mein Kampf

>> No.2171115

>>2171109
>>2171101
>>2171086

Stay classy, 4chan.

>> No.2171116

>>2171115

Your sheltered little mind doesn't understand the bleak despair of tortured souls who see reality as it truly is

>> No.2171122

>>2171116

Deep & Edgy
Gayest fag
Keeps his testes
In a bag

Shitposts daily
On the /lit/
Never seen
A woman's clit

>> No.2171127

>>2171122
That isn't deep&edgy you illiterate fool

>> No.2171130

>>2171122

Great genius is always persecuted by the plebeian masses

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For some eye-opening shit, I always tell people to read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, it changed the way I think. He wrote it back when he was still a scientist and not such a censorious dick. I is a little bit depressing, though.

But this might not be what you're looking for. It would help to know, in what way did the parents "blindfold" him?

>> No.2171151

>>2171135

How could we forget the obvious. Obviously the New Atheism quartet would be an excellent start. Start with the God Delusion, OP.

>> No.2171158

>>2171151
No, seriously, don't. It sucks harder than you can imagine. And I'm an atheist myself.

>> No.2171157

>>2171130

Fucking ockam's razor. I dont know what you think you are trying to expatriate. Token perennial virility.

>> No.2171176

>>2171135
I'm lazy as shit, so can you give me a rundown on it? Is it anything like the God Delusion?

Essentially his parents were Christian religious fanatics who deprived him of contact with ideas and people who they deemed "bad" until he moved away. He basically has no knowledge of the world outside what his parents told him. He's aware of this and asked me for recommendations to expand his horizons, so I'm assembling a quality reading list.

Also, I'd like to make a point that nothing like the God Delusion should make it on to the list. Stuff that introduces new idealogies instead of mindlessly railing against already established ones would be preferable. Also, nothing excrutiatingly shit tier (i.e. LeVay).

>> No.2171184

>>2171176

How about a good entry-level book on comparative religion (say, Huston Smith's _The World's Religions_?) It'd give him a sense of the variety of religious expression and maybe keep him from becoming an obnoxious junior atheist once he rejects his parents' religion.

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this

>> No.2171193

>>2171184
Sounds good. I'll do some research and most likely add it to the list.

Also, doesn't necessarily need to be religious philosophy. Anything will do.

>> No.2171195

>>2171176

Critique is always better than cheerleading for a faith. If ideologies are what you're looking for, you're not doing him any favors.

>> No.2171202

he's fresh out of quarantine, and you're gonna recommend him some books?

sit him down to watch some fucking tv & michael bay films, so he can learn pop culture like a normal fucking person

>> No.2171214

Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Misquoting Jesus by Bart D. Ehrman
Reading the Bible Again For the First Time by Marcus J. Borg
Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton

>> No.2171218

>>2171202

Even better, take him to the ghetto and hang with some pimps and crack dealers. Nigga needs to learn the real streetlife, knawmsayin'?

>> No.2171224

>>2171218

No actually if he turned to tear open his sphincter with a raft plodding his own dead dick in it maybe.

>> No.2171533

>>2171176
It's an excellent explanation of how evolution works, and it argues for a newer interpretation of it, in which it's not organisms that fight to reproduce the most, but genes. So animals and plants and whatnot are vehicles for their genes in this interpretation. It makes more sense in the book and it's really quite radical, if you ask me.
There's nothing in there about god or religion at all, so you're safe there.

Otherwise, I'd tell him to read some history if he wants general world-knowledge, maybe start with something fun like A People's History of the United States.