What is the book that has most impacted your worldview?
What is the book that has most impacted your worldview?
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The Universal One, by Walter Russell
Conversations with God
The Fountainhead
Anthem was the book that most impacted my worldview, it made me hate communists more than I already did.
The best selling book of all time, the Bible, would be at the top of my list, and by a substantial margin.
I could list several in second place, but I鈥檒l go with:
The Everlasting Man
By: G. K. Chesterton
Gravity's Rainbow
Behold a Pale Horse
A Course In Miracles
https://drlwilson.com/Articles/REAL.SELF.htm
It is basically the principles of a course in miracles summarised with actions for each. Much more concise and easy to read..
I read The Creature from Jekyll Island my senior year in high school (1995). That changed everything for me. From that point forward my view of the world became an inquisition.
Atlas Shrugged
Ditto Re: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One of my fav's of all time.
The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It taught me to temper my expectations of anyone with a title, and to always seek the hilarity in any moment.
Who could have thought that SEP fields, infinite improbability and time travel could be so mis-used...
The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin was the book that most impacted my worldview.
I've been falling down this crazy rabbit hole ever since.
James Jones, from here to eternity. Read it three times as a teenager, maybe I wouldnt enjoy it much today, but it formed my take of the world
Whatever happened to penny candy.
There were other books which had more influence later. But this one was the one that made me realize school tought me nothing that really matters in economics/politics.
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
GEB
Dune (esp god emperor)
Love is the only truth, everything else is an illusion - by David Icke. Not sure about the reptiles, but his commentary on reality (everything is vibration), our limited perception, how some families control most of the world was an eye opener.
The Wealth of Nations
Thanks for the insights everybody!
L'etranger by Albert Camus. Alas, alienation pervades life
De protocol of The learned elders of Zion
The law of one
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Be an earnest truth seeker. Have you read it?