Your Bible

[Anonymous No.7301797]

Do you guys have an alternative to the Bible? I mean to say in the way that christfags look for guidance/spiritual comfort/whatever in the bible do you have another book or books that you like to go to for the same sort of thing? often when I'm down I'll read one of pic related, not that I subscribe to either of them wholly, but just to inject some sense of that quasi-spiritual being-on-the-path-to-happiness feeling that I need to get motivated to do stuff. How bout you guys?

[Anonymous No.7301812]

>>7301797
Nietzsche's entire works. Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer."

[Anonymous No.7301873]

>>7301812
Cool man. Didn't have tropic of cancer pegged for that kind of a book, what is it about it that gives it that value for you?

[Anonymous No.7301888]

>>7301812
Second Tropic of Cancer.

[Anonymous No.7301895]

>>7301797

The culture series by Iain M. Banks. I know it's scifag, but it is one of the best utopias I have seen, and every time I read one of the books, I get this nice sense of the inevitable progress and success of humanity. Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.7301906]

>>7301812
Didn't Nietzsche state in Ecce Homo that he was worried that he may be perceived as a demigod figure?

[Anonymous No.7302024]

>>7301906
lmao, keeps up at night too tbqh fam

[Anonymous No.7302235]

>>7301895
The Culture is incredibly technologically advanced, and it pretty well realized, but the worldview is almost contemporary(no suffering, long lives, freedom, exportation of "democracy", etc). It doesn't represent progress for me anymore, just slave morality. I really like the setting too, it's certainly interesting.

[Anonymous No.7302248]

>>7301797
The Nicomachean Ethics

[Anonymous No.7302547]

>>7301797
Schopenhauer's essays counsel and maxims, and the wisdom of life.

[Anonymous No.7302690]

If you think you get as much out of something as Christians get out of the Bible, that only speaks to how little you've understood religion.

[Anonymous No.7302716]

Philosophical Investigations.

Wittgenstein is the true prophet, aiming to bring clear communication and self-understanding to all.

[Anonymous No.7302723]

Schopenhauer's "On Women"

[Anonymous No.7302728]

>>7302716
Fuck this neo-Wittgenstein wave of faggotry, I'll take Stirnerposting over it

[Anonymous No.7302730]

>>7302728
leave witty alone

[Anonymous No.7302733]

[Anonymous No.7302739]

>>7301797
-Tao Te Ching
-J Krishnamurti
-Zen Buddhist thinkers (or non-thinkers, I should say)

[Anonymous No.7302741]

In all earnestness, Hegel's PoS.

[Anonymous No.7302751]

>>7302741

But everything Hegel wrote was a PoS

[Anonymous No.7302790]

>>7302733
is this real life

>>7301797
I like just the book of John on its own but if I have to pick something outside like the actual Bible maybe Mason & Dixon or One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.7302821]

>>7302751
Heh.

[Anonymous No.7302847]

>>7301797
Leaves of Grass.

Seriously, it's quite incredible.

[Anonymous No.7303033]

>>7302739
ohohoho, very nice

[Anonymous No.7303045]

>>7302847
I wanna get more into walt whitman, all I've read is pic related but I enjoyed it hugely (fuckin love these little black classics, they're 80p and they're right next to the cafe at my local coffee shop so every day I buy one like a newspaper and read it with a coffee)

[Anonymous No.7303049]

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

[Anonymous No.7303053]

>>7302690
>preemptive insults
Christcucks are really feeling insecure these days.

[Anonymous No.7303055]

>>7302690
I wasn't claiming to get as much out of it as them (I even used quasi spiritual man), I'm just sayin these books can be a similar go-to or play a similar role in your life.

[The cats No.7303056]

>>7303049
dude
>weed
lmao

[Anonymous No.7303066]

I don't need guidance.

[Anonymous No.7303067]

>>7303049
I liked Seneca better, weirdly

[Rosalind Hursthouse !!IJ+t51r+x08 No.7303075]

>>7301797
Nichomachean Ethics.

[Anonymous No.7303087]

>>7302751
I actually laughed out loud at that, good one

[Anonymous No.7303099]

>>7303033
applies also to
>>7302751

[Anonymous No.7303104]

>>7301797
Epictetus' Discourses is so good, too bad only 4 books survived.

[Anonymous No.7303108]

>>7301797

[Anonymous No.7303115]

>>7303066

[Anonymous No.7303117]

>>7303045
That's what happens when works enter common grounds. They can be sold for fucking nothing. It breeds healthy culture.

Copyright strangles culture.

[Anonymous No.7303130]

>>7303117
agreed. Tbh I can deal with copyright, but I think copyright lasting for generations after the authors death is absurd

[Anonymous No.7303140]

>>7303130
Right, something like 20-30 years after the initial publication is rational

[Anonymous No.7303181]

>>7303140
I think older authors like McCarthy or Pynchon with relatively young children would beg to differ.

[Anonymous No.7303245]

>>7303181
Of course, but the world doesn't really need trust fund babies.

Not that authors earn alot

[Anonymous No.7303281]

You're looking for Ayn Rand OP.

[Anonymous No.7303286]

>>7303115
What are the odds the guy in the pic actually typed that, though? He's probably just some random wanker on a bus.

[Anonymous No.7303295]

[Anonymous No.7303320]

>>7303295
Fat man in hat pics incoming in 3... 2... 1...

[Anonymous No.7303323]

>>7303055
>similar

how could it ever be similar?

[Anonymous No.7303332]

>>7303320

[Anonymous No.7303362]

>>7302790
HYoS is mine as well. That book seems to sum up human existence too perfectly. Fucking blows my mind.

[Anonymous No.7303373]

I'd say the idea of having one important book is a mistake; that'll just lead to a narrow perspective. You need to synthesize a lot of different beliefs, cultures, ways of thought, etc and take the best bits from each.

For me the bible itself is a big one, although I don't believe there's a supernatural it's a beautiful piece of work and it influenced the world, broadly speaking, for good. I also love Eastern philosophers like Buddha, Confucius, more recently Gandhi and the Dalai Lama. The Qu'ran has some good bits too, though it's a little too authoritarian to really be taken at face value. And, trilby memes aside, there's something inspirational about science books - the universe is massive and weird and it keeps growing and changing, we're just this puny defenseless biped who decided to have a crack at something better.

[Anonymous No.7303580]

[Anonymous No.7303680]

my diary tbh

[Anonymous No.7303737]

>>7303373
no doubt that relying on one book for a whole worldview is wack. But what I'm going for is something one has a personal connection with, that acts as a go-to when in need of I guess wisdom. Its like how you have to surround yourself with a variety of different friends, but you'll have one best friend you go to for advice when in some kind of life crisis

[Anonymous No.7304117]

[Anonymous No.7304624]

>>7301812
>>7303373

[Anonymous No.7304645]

All you need to know is written in these pages.

[Anonymous No.7304648]

>>7302728
I'll bite, braindead faggot.

[Anonymous No.7304664]

The complete works of shakespeare
Montaigne's essays
Infinite jest

[Anonymous No.7305607]

>>7304117
Based uncle John

[Anonymous No.7305628]

>>7304645
This always induces depression in me desu.

[Anonymous No.7305827]

>>7302690

>NO NO MY BOOK IS BETTER THAN YOURS

[Anonymous No.7305832]

>>7303075
noone is as grounding as Aristotle