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RogerSik ,

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

from Dale Carnegie. It’s cheers up on bad days and gives helpful tipps and story (to think about it) for the live.

31415926535 ,

The phantom tollbooth. Flatland.

eagleeyedtiger ,

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

beercupcake ,
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Dune.

Terevos ,
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That would have to be… The Bible.

It’s more full of wisdom and truth than any other book I’ve ever read. There’s not even a close second IMO

18+ splinux ,
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@jack considering I never really read the bible and understood it completely, I'd say the one in the pic. Bought it in English when no course was held in English and no requirements were needed on getting anything of Informatics in English. I shipped this boy on literally the seven seas when changing continent. There are things I still don't understand such as Linear Programming ... and I will never read that section probably

jack OP ,

What pic? I don’t see it

bc3114 ,

The Art of UNIX Programming by ESR

Not saying this book is 100% correct and perfect, but most parts of it is still relevant and refreshingly insightful even after 20 years. I sure learned a lot about great engineering and generally how to approch and tackle difficult problems from it.

DeltaTangoLima ,
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* by Mark Manson

ProtonBadger ,

I have a version of The More Than Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that's genuine leather bonded with gold leaf page edges and builtin bookmark. It's on display on a special shelf. Everyone who visits thinks it's a bible, and in a way it is as it does have a lot of good advice about life, the universe and everything.

chaos ,
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Protect me from knowing what I don’t need to know. Protect me from even knowing that there are things to know that I don’t know. Protect me from knowing that I decided not to know about the things that I decided not to know about. Amen.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Amen.

kromem ,

De Rerum Natura + The Gospel of Thomas

Not a combination I would have ever expected, but once I realized the latter was building its ideas on top of the former’s atomism and evolutionary thinking, the combo suddenly clicked and I was looking at philosophical ideas not only aligned with where I’d been at previously, but advancing my thinking significantly.

Probably some of the most intriguing ideas from antiquity I’ve ever seen, and much more advanced than I’d have envisioned I’d find.

simon574 ,

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It’s terrible and fascinating at the same time. What I took away from it is that there is an inherent value in things you build yourself and a moral right to own your creations. I know the book is flawed in many ways, but I still think it’s an interesting read. Wouldn’t exactly call it my bible, but I don’t think any book fits that description.

LegionEris ,

Probably the Gateless Gate, the Eiichi Shimomissé translation. I’m actually a Discordian, but I find the Principia best for introduction. It devotes a lot of space to silly rules you’re supposed to violate and other introductory concepts and practices. And Illuminatus! is plagued by a masculine confidence and aggression that both the writers and Hagbard were aware of and tried to minimize. The Gateless Gate is, to me, much better for staying deep in the untethered state of pure Discordian existence. It talks a little much of patriarchs, but it’s not thematically essential. And it isn’t rooted in and doesn’t reference modern western theology and philosophy like the Principia because it was never intended to stand in contrast to or lead people out of modern western theology. Both the Principia and Illuminatus! reference it in some way because secular zen is important to the development of Discordianism. Maybe no book has ever changed my life as much as Illuminatus! but the Mumonkan is one of my primary tools for staying rooted in this way of being. It’s with me all the time. One of the first things I do when I get a new phone is make sure my Mumonkan made it over or go download it again. I read it whenever I’m feeling lost or confused and uncertain about a decision or life change. It always leads me back to me.

h3mlocke ,

Mumonkan!

rmuk ,

Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte.

It’s a collection of his writings from the early nineties, edited into a book. In it, he fairly accurately predicts the rise of what we now know as Google, YouTube, smartphones, on-demand, streaming, curated content, social media, multitouch, ditigal television, digital Aristotle, remote working and so on…

craigevil ,
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A Course in Miracles

reverendsteveii , (edited )

Kahlil Gibrain - The Prophet

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. As the stone of the fruit must break so that it’s heart may stand in the sun, so must you feel pain…It is the bitter potion by which the physician inside you heals your sick self. Trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

stoneparchment ,
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Love this quote, but struggling to look the book up. Do you by chance mean “The Prophet” by the same author? There’s a painting by his cousin (with the same name) called “The Prince” so I could totally see the names getting confused.

If it’s really The Prince, can you link it? I just love this quote a lot

reverendsteveii ,

Bit of a typo there, good catch. Edited!

jwiggler ,
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First heard that in The Boondocks. Lol

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