Books that awakened you from the deep slumber of ignorance.
ITT
Connor Davis
Cooper Davis
Blake Brown
History of Sexuality by Michel Foucault
Nicholas Miller
if people are being honest, you're going to get a lot of meme answers that are legitimate
for example, reading animal farm and 1984 in high school caused me to be much more interested in philosophy
Lucas Green
War and Peace.
Made me realize just how terrible writing like this:
is and how much fiction can achieve
David Sanders
iliad
Eli Peterson
fiction doesn't wake people up. It may "blow your mind" but you are still an automaton, dreaming that he has control over his life.
Jordan Walker
iliad is not fiction
Jonathan Barnes
How so
Wyatt Thomas
even if that were the case, what is history, but some fiction that was acted out first before being written down?
Dominic Nelson
Don't let the butterfly on the cover fool you. This book is very insightful and tells of ecological catastrophe in the works.
John Stewart
There is no such thing as "fiction" or "non-fiction"; the distinction is illusory. Evidently, you are still in the cave yourself.
Ayden Cruz
it is not history,it is a book of truth with profound insight into humanity's unceasing struggles
Isaac Ward
not a single day has gone by in the last 3000 years that the agony and tribulation in iliad has not occurred
Zachary Mitchell
it's either a story about people doing things, or it's just ideas being discussed and explained. This is the distinction I'm talking about.
It may even have the greatest insights of any story. I'm a big fan.
Still, when we use this metaphor, "waking up" from some previous state of obliviousness or ignorance, we are talking about a totally different process in one's mind.
A story may shock, enthrall, motivate, even teach. But to truly wake up, that takes work. The book I posted teaches you what that means, and how to go about this work. So, clearly, much more directly about "waking up"
I'll bring up Prometheus Rising too. A great introduction.
Blake Hill
Evan Walker
Programmed to Kill by Dave McGowan
Lucas Turner
This is awesome user
Hunter White
>no such thing as a difference between things that happened and things that didn't
Jordan Ramirez
How to Cook Meth by Dick Dawg the dude who sleeps beneath the overpass
Anthony Robinson
Reading this book changed my plans for family and career so probably this one.
Grayson Lopez
I'm currently reading "In Search of the Miraculous" and I honestly don't like it a lot. Most of it is just esoteric bullshit, there are much better books available.
Nicholas Johnson
That is the point of it I thought. It is explicitly canonical New Age philosophy shit.
Josiah Peterson
if you get so easily turned off by the particular distortions and subjectivities of the traditions you study, you are really never going to make it.
please go read your bible and leave the people who haven't given up in peace.
Jason Gonzalez
Les mots et les choses my dude