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What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 489495
8/30/2008 10:42 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien. It got me in to reading. |
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Anonymous
User ID: 427882
8/30/2008 10:44 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Great Controversy by Ellen White |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494285
8/30/2008 10:53 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
LOL. No book written by a human has done anything for me. So much foolishness. Blind leading the blind. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494285
8/30/2008 10:57 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Don't look for your answers from a man or a woman, because you will not find it. Unless you're talking about a differential equation, or maybe a linear equation, concerning this illusion, then you might find a meaningless answer about principles concerning this nothingness, in general. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 491732 (OP)
8/30/2008 11:02 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Don't look for your answers from a man or a woman, because you will not find it. Unless you're talking about a differential equation, or maybe a linear equation, concerning this illusion, then you might find a meaningless answer about principles concerning this nothingness, in general. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 494285
Books are not always about answers. Often they lead us to the questions we need to be asking. Then, the search may bring in the answer, whether from external sources or from within (which you have chosen?). |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 454822
8/30/2008 11:39 PM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Chariots of the Godsby Erich von Daniken. Read it when I was 12; it started me on a lifelong quest.
The Celestine Prophecyby James Redfield, and
Journey of Soulsby Michael Newton, also good. |
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hardboiledheretic 
User ID: 493653
8/31/2008 12:24 AM
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell. That one started a long list. Quoting: Aztec Cavalry 492212
I read that book a few years ago Aztec when I was going through my personal, spiritual whirlwind - you know, that truth seeking kind of stuff when you realize that the current paradigm doesn't work anymore. And it resonated with me.
Before that, I had already been a fan of Joseph Campbell with The Power of Myth. Maybe that's what got me started, after all, come to think of it. He has more books that I need to read. Love that guy.
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494009
8/31/2008 12:50 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
WHITE LOTUS by John Hersey (author of HIROSHIMA).
Not well known but it should be. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 473495
8/31/2008 1:13 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
ah yes, Celestine Prophecy (as one of the first spiritual books I read) and books by Castaneda belong in my list as well Quoting: R...
I've read the Castaneda books, myself. They were a good read |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 473495
8/31/2008 1:15 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Hitchhikers guide, its my bible lol Quoting: Anonymous Coward 491928
Douglas Adams Rules!!!
Or, ruled.
RIP Doug, ye left us far too soon. |
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aaron_o.o
rarely pure, never simple
User ID: 487215
8/31/2008 1:29 AM
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- book of Genesis, genes of Isis ^ ^
along with Revelations, the revealing
- didn't change me i guess but.. this book was made for the game Myst. [link to www.amazon.com]
- then came Genesis revisited, which at the same time helped me question everything since we know now that Sitchen is a great scholar but flawed at what he says he knows.
- then came the Celestine Prophecy
- next, the Hidden Messages of Water by Masaru Emoto
- the Devil's Apocrypha. probably fiction but entertaining.
currently am between 2 books set aside (Rule by Secrecy by Marrs and the Synagogue of Satan by andrew carrington Hitchcock) while i am flipping around on a .pdf called Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation by Michael Tsarion, which is pretty eye opening and pretty well layed out and everything.
still need patience to read though, and meditate.
there might be a couple more books to add but those are pretty much it.
"We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not recognize the means used to advance them. ... The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst."
- J. Edgar Hoover
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes"
- Justice Felix Frankfurter
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing NO allegiance and acknowledging NO responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
Pythagoras
...never allowed his neophytes to see him during the years of probation, but instructed them from behind a curtain in his cave
- H. P. Blavatsky (Isis Unveiled) |
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The Boss
User ID: 487798
8/31/2008 1:30 AM
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We have had similar threads in the past but it is good to give a chance to newcomers. New ideas and suggestions may appear.
Let's get out of the way:
1)The Bible
2)Atlas Shrugged
3)Think and Grow Rich
Take it away... Quoting: 1echo 491732
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson or An Objectively Impartial Criticism of the Life of Man
-Gurdjieff
Fuck the rainforests. |
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Duncan Kunz
The Debunker King
User ID: 466242
8/31/2008 1:36 AM
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Protector
by Larry Niven
That anyone could sacrifice himself for the good of others Quoting: himself
Yeah, but I always thought Psssthpok was a jerk. I mean, where was his sense of humor?
July 10, 2002 - July 10, 2008
Six Years as the Debunker King on GLP! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 380178
8/31/2008 1:36 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Consulting the I Ching, I actually felt the presence of an angelic being, twice. Then it became a drill instructor and my life's be shit ever since. I suppose my character has improved...I WAS an idiot. |
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Hillcrest
Not For You*
User ID: 392015
8/31/2008 1:39 AM
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A Sea Change by Lois Gould |
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urantian
User ID: 493948
8/31/2008 1:52 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Phoenix Journals is a series of Journals presented to Earth, to give truth in these ends times, to all on the planet. Sadly, all have not had knowledge of them, because the anti-christ folks have greatly hampered the project.
These Journals were given through various receivers, mostly one called Dharma, by radio signal, from the starship, the Phoenix. We are not going to include all the Journals of this website, because they are available elsewhere.
The Journals have nearly a day to day update on the news and politics that are fascinating, in addition to many truths needed by our planet. You will find mentioned in them also, the Liberator and Contact magazine, which were magazines produced in the times of the Journals. The Journals were written between 1989 and about 1999.
There were over 200 Journals given, but only about 115 were published. The unpublished ones are available now on the Internet.
[link to phoenixjournals.org] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 494350
8/31/2008 1:56 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Some possible answers... |
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Anonymous Christian
User ID: 494364
8/31/2008 1:58 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Bible. |
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aaron_o.o
rarely pure, never simple
User ID: 487215
8/31/2008 2:04 AM
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The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot
Some possible answers... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 494350
omg i forgot about that one. i have about 2 chapters left in it. the Holographic Universe is right up there with Tsarion's book on alien visitation and genetic manipulation. everything else is pretty good, decent or alright. Talbot's and Tsarion's book however are 5 star material in my opinion.
"We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not recognize the means used to advance them. ... The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst."
- J. Edgar Hoover
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes"
- Justice Felix Frankfurter
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing NO allegiance and acknowledging NO responsibility to the people." - Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
Pythagoras
...never allowed his neophytes to see him during the years of probation, but instructed them from behind a curtain in his cave
- H. P. Blavatsky (Isis Unveiled) |
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R...
User ID: 490829
8/31/2008 3:49 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
lot of good reading tips here, great
Celestine Prophecy gets mentioned a lot, although now often seen as some oldfashioned new age hippy book, it seems to have done a lot for many people... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 391709
8/31/2008 4:05 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
the DUNE series
book 2 and the will rock your world |
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Tracy
User ID: 350460
8/31/2008 4:14 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Pollyanna
Day of the Triffids
He's Just Not That Into You
DSMV (medical diagnosies)
Death of Forever |
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seeking truth
User ID: 494415
8/31/2008 4:37 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Unlocking The Greastest Mystery of Our Time: THE MAYAN CALANDER, by Carl J. Calleman,
, seeking |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 461373
8/31/2008 4:41 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
The Gods of Eden
by William Bramley |
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OwlTalking
User ID: 483312
8/31/2008 5:02 AM
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[WarDay/u] by Whitley Strieber. After remembering the events in the book were a part of my life in the future, it got me to write again since most of the stories are oral ones. Whitley tries to write fiction but can't.
The solution to most problems is generally close at hand. |
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Winningjob
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
User ID: 385114
8/31/2008 5:04 AM
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1. Anything by the Berklee Press (berklee college of music)
2. Harrington On Holdem (Dan Harrington - Poker Player)
you're not the only one who thinks I don't know what I'm doing. |
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Curtis Loew
Bite me!
User ID: 471669
8/31/2008 5:11 AM
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1. Anything by the Berklee Press (berklee college of music) Quoting: Winningjob
I love the Modern Method for Guitar Books. I think you can get them with a DVD now with the audio samples.
My Dog Ate My Signature. |
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OwlTalking
User ID: 483312
8/31/2008 5:11 AM
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er the book , "WarDay". set to happen September 28th. I wrote to Whitley and asked why he would write such a story, and he replied he wrote it hoping it wouldn't happen. If you remember at the time the book was published, the world liked America and I couldn't figure out why China would even think of doing what they did in the book.
Now, I'm wondering when his other book "Nature's End" is going to happen.
The solution to most problems is generally close at hand. |
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Frigg Stuyvesant
User ID: 398933
8/31/2008 5:12 AM
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The Secret Teachings of all the Ages-Manly p. Hall
The Golden Bough-Sir James Frazier
Tales of Ordinary Madness-Charles Bukowski
Most Everything written -H.P.Lovecraft
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
Gravity's Rainbow-Pynchon
Morals and Dogma-Albert Pike(long but -enlightening/Frightening)
Frankenstein-Shelly
Colin Wilson has written a lot of good books
The Ultimate Evil-Maury Terry
The Franklin Cover-up-John De Camp
Programmed to kill-David McGowan
Catcher in the Rye-J.D Salinger
Acid Dreams-Martin A. Lee
Popol Vuh-Delia Goetz
Excellent works by Eliphas Levy
Tarot of the Bohemians and other Works by Papus
That's enough for now..
Most of the other great titles in this thread too. |
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Aussie chick
User ID: 493813
8/31/2008 7:29 AM | | Re: What is one book that helped change the course of your life? Fiction or non-fiction. | Quote |
Most of William Shakespeares writings!
yeah,
reading his plays helped me decide to study Performing Arts at Uni!
Was my prefrence to live stage as apose to Tv or Film.
just my 2cents
Cheers:) |
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