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What was your path leading to "waking up" ?
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Here's my path:
1. Book of Mormon (raised mormon)
2. Holy Bible (Non-lds version)
3. In-depth reading about various religions (My path through Christianity was A. Methodist B. Lutheran C. Universalist D. Ended with Orthodox Christianity)
4. Dawkins
5. Hitchens
6. Descartes (saved my life)
7. Spinoza (yes actually reading these guys works not just crib notes on the internet)
8. Locke (briefly)
9. Hume
10. Blackburn
11. Bertrand Russel (mind fuck)
12. Kant (agree with on morality)
13. Nietzsche (hard to beat)
14. Sam Harris
15. Dan Dennet (current obsession lol)
Once reconstructing my mind I was able to expand into other areas. Example for politics: Milton Friedman. I'd have to say the biggest influences on my own subjective philosophy have been Hitchens, Descartes, Dennet and Nietzsche. If you have time check out these guys.
Quoting: A t H e } s t ??? Dan Dennet is an incredible human being. A wealth of knowledge to be learned from that man. He blew my minds lmao. It was 5 days ago and I'm still smiling. Like I said he's my new obsession. What about Carl Sagan? Didn't see him on your list? Another great mind that helped open my eyes. Sagan was one of my father's. Him and Hawking had a profound influence on my father as I learned before his death. They influenced me through my father, but after he died I had no one to go to for answers anymore (I was 19) and that's when I started to question being brought up Mormon. Which led to my list :)
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