Books that turned your life around. No religious texts.

Books that turned your life around.
No religious texts.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
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    Anonymous
  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Didn't turn my life around by Epitetus is a good tonic for stress and bad thinking habits. He's so straightforward and basically says to stop being a b***h and approach things rationally.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I can't tell if this anti-Semetic or anti-Nazi?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        it's absurdist fiction. It is written to be completely meaningless nonsense as a statement. Basically Dada as a genre.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Neither. It's pro-assgoblin

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    probably qualifies as a "religious text" but idc, i's more like an affirmation of life in the face of irreligiosity

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Notes from the underground. I saw future me if I had continued on downward the road I was on. Chose to actively be the opposite of the underground man.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    "world as will and representation" is the only book that actually changed me

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This. If modern americans and europeans werent such illiterate subhumans. That book would change more lives than the bible

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do i need to have read Kant to understand this one?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you have to ask this question, no. Your understanding will be the same regardless if you have read Kant.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Does this mean i asked a stupid question? I'm simply uninformed, is all.

          That book is straight up mental poison you would be better off with a life without reading it. Trust me anon.

          Explain.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            If you have to ask this question, no. Your understanding will be the same regardless if you have read Kant.

            I see. Just finished reading the first preface. I will get around to getting myself familiarized with the works he mentions and will go back to reading it.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Don't bother. People only like Schopey for his writing style and worldview; getting bogged down into epistemology and obscure Kantian metaphysics won't help much. He only wrote that to make himself feel like a proper philosopher anyway

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That book is straight up mental poison you would be better off with a life without reading it. Trust me anon.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What do you mean by "turning around"? What's your expectation with that?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      He means such as when you see a xbox 360

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I did literally all my reading while I was prodromal, so books in general ruined my life

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They often are a memed around here, but these books genuinely made a big impression on me when I was younger. Made me more open minded and since reading them, I always try to look more at a "bigger picture" when it comes to geopolitics, religion or life itself. Also got more interested in philosophy and foreign books in general (before that I used to read only in Polish).

    Yes it's cliché, but I'm not even pretending to be someone special.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >They often are a memed
      Sry, forgot to delete "a" after changing a sentence.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Too bad the author is an evil villain mini boss.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only "self help" book worth a damn.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      did it make you lose your virginity in a threesome?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Such a great book. I’ve been rereading it slowly over the last few months. The prison escape always gives me butterflies in my stomach. I wish I could have met Casanova. He was one of the writers I was debating to list here

      It depends. That book is different for everyone and it must be read at the right time in your life with the right mindset. The most important thing is that you have to be ready yourself to turn your life around. A book is a small part of the equation. I would say the big 3 writers that helped me are Henry Miller, Emerson and Thoreau. Nietzsche, Whitman, Lao Tsu, the Bhagavad Gita, and Dhammapada deserve a shout out too

      . Another great autobiography is Cellini. There is no other book like it. Took me completely by surprise

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's that about?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Fantasy story about a man who is trying to become immortal.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Idiot-Dostoevsky

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      In what way?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    > no religious texts
    > turn my life around

    How can you turn around your life if you firmly cling to your materialist presuppositions?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not OP, just wanted to ask what's materialist about that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      > you must cling to metaphysical presuppositions, not material ones!

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just read about Metaphysics

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >all those books called "metaphysics"
      >No Aristotle, no Proclus, no Spinoza, no Leibniz, no eastern texts, no Kant, no Whitehead, no Hegel
      please don't tell me you think you actually know metaphysics

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the most pseud stack ever posted to Oyish

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It depends. That book is different for everyone and it must be read at the right time in your life with the right mindset. The most important thing is that you have to be ready yourself to turn your life around. A book is a small part of the equation. I would say the big 3 writers that helped me are Henry Miller, Emerson and Thoreau. Nietzsche, Whitman, Lao Tsu, the Bhagavad Gita, and Dhammapada deserve a shout out too

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Plato, honest to God

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why Plato?

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    Anonymous
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    Anonymous

    unironically

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I thought I wanted to kill myself, then I read The Book of Disquiet and I knew.

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    ࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇

    THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE; I CANNOT IMAGINE HOW MY LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I HAD NOT READ IT WHEN I DID; IT TURNED MY LIFE THREE HUNDRED SIXTY DEGREES (360°) ON THE Z AXIS.

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