Name one movie, book or experience that changed your world view

Experiences, difficult to say, so many. I've been in the desert in Egypt, in Atacama in Chile, in Peruvian deserts... rocks or sand landscapes, being in Valley of the Moon in Bolivia, saw the snows of Canada but I guess the odd place which did something within me was sleeping at night in cold weird alien environment about 4000 meters upon sea level and literally stepping on clouds at Marcahuasi, Peruvian plateau. Not even the Amazon jungle, the waterfalls in Iguazu or Niagara Falls had that effect. Though the Canadian side lit with spotlights at night are wonderful indeed. Yet the desert has something special running inside you, you feel insignificant before nature and you see falling stars at night in Middle East. spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Watching tall skyscrapers for the first time as an adult also provides a feeling of wonder about what humans can do.

Like you, I've read those in original Spanish and Sitchin I have read it in English and Portuguese, I just can't include them in the kind of books which really changed my view. Sitchin replied my letters and I even drew an image of a bacteriophague virus T4 and I said he, Daniken (or Benitez) after watching that creature they would swear to God that is a lunar lander !!!!! Whenever they saw a depiction of ancient guy with a helmet on they must believe is an ancient astronaut ignoring what ancient Mayans or Incas thought and in many cases fhey still think the depictions are. These authors carefully SELECT the humanoid gods they want to manipulate the mob and create a package of truth which is repeated forever by millions and hence the "truth" is spread in movies like Stargate. Egyptians didn' wear helmets or armor like animal shape but actually used several animals and mummified them to glorify their hybrid hum-animal shapes which is a worldwide ancient concept. I could say old movies like Jaws which terrorized everyone to the point no one wanted to swim at the beaches during the rest of their lives.... or Star Wars which was equivalent to the time parents or grandparents saw Black and white SERIALS before the coming of tv... of course, they were important but I can't say they changed my life in a profound way. Saturday Night Fever could determine fashion in men and the whole generation of disco entertainment and that indeed changes your way of life... but I guess OP meant in a deeper way and not just the superficial way of living.

Debbie does.....oh never mind.

"Dude, where's my car".

Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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There is a difference between stillness with eyes closed and stillness with eyes open.

movie : Legends of the Fall

book The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

Me three!

wait, let me guess, you dont always drink beer, but when you do, you prefer Dos Equis...

Ditto :)

Star War for sure.

eric von daniken,long time ago

The difference being sensory input through the eyes

Oscar Wilde's Soul of Man Under Socialism. Read it first at fifteen and keep going back to it.

There was also a Buddhist writer I read one time (a Tibeten Rinpoche) who explained how anger was an addiction the same way drugs or alcohol are.

Sogyal Rinpoche?

The Zeitgeist Addendum, Loose Change, The Obama Deception, and MANY more.

Gone With the Wind. Totally illustrates this:

"If tomorrow all the things were gone, I'd worked for all my life, and I had to start again, with just my children and my wife" - Lee Greenwood, Proud to be an American.

I think it is the most powerful movie ever made. It covers everything.

Everybody needs to find their OWN "red soil of Tara."

and the song "I'm Proud to be an American" too for that matter. We take it for granted now, but when it first came out, it was a very powerful message no one had ever put into words before. Still a very powerful message. It had a profound effect on me and my family, and still moves us to tears to hear it. Perhaps now moreso than ever, as the country crumbles and the song gets banned.

My Grandmother's favourite movie, I wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Great film, haven't read the book.

Yeah, makes me think about shooting myself thru the temple! Thanks!

really? You know, I'm always amazed to find out how many people have never seen it. I think a lot of people think it's a sticky sweet romance or something, and not about the horrors of the Civil War and one story of a woman who had her life ripped apart and always found a way to survive. I've seen it many times now, and always declare "I'll never go hungry again!"

Nice thread OP.

btw folks, if you haven't seen Gone With the Wind, do it. It is considered by many to be the greatest American film ever made.

And if you don't watch old movies, you are missing out on history AND entertainment.

Check all the movies made in 1939 in addition to GWTW. It was an amazing, amazing year.

A big year in film that's for sure.

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1939 Academy Awards

Best Picture: Gone with the Wind – David O. Selznick, Selznick International
Best Director: Victor Fleming – Gone with the Wind
Best Actress: Vivien Leigh – Gone with the Wind
Best Supporting Actress: Hattie McDaniel – Gone with the Wind

2001: Space Odyssey

This movie made me question my existence.

Epic start.

2001 didn't change me when I saw it because I was too young and ignorant. Celestine Prophecy didn't shake a single cell cos I know pretty well most of Peru and it's not like written, not to mention most of the characters aren't native ones but foreigner. Someone like me, used to read Nobel Prize winners like Peruvian Vargas Llosa and Colombian Garcia Márquez can't accept that superficial romance as good literature. Now if someone wants to know what a Peruvian esoteric author has to say, won't find anything interesting in any novel written by Llosa either but other ones like Arguedas.....

Can you believe I watched my DVD of Gone with the Wind day before yesterday? The railroad scene with massive number of soldiers, the fire collapsing the houses while Gable covers the eyes of the horse and manages to escape at the last minute is STILL impressive today. Scarlett biting raw vegetables because of hunger... everything well done and not with these modern gray or dark or blue monochromatic werewolves and vampires films we watch nowadays.

The Laramie Project

Atlas Shrugged by Auyne Rand

Who is John Galt???

books: Ender's GAME, Black Like Me, All Creatures Great and Small
movies: The Gods Must Be Crazy, Blood Diamonds,Schindler's List
music: Enya, Johnny Cash, CCR
experiences: birth of my children, death of my daughter, being diagnosed with cancer