Education
Submitted by twelve on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 01:01
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What book/s had the most impact on you and your search for truth and freedom?
The purpose of this is to influence each other and inform each other to the great works out there that we may be missing that may help our education.
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work begins." -- Albert Einstein
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I don't have too many "favorite" books...
But right now I'm reading the Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin Gutzman
And I just read Dilorenzo's two books, The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked
Other than that, I really like Derek Foster's book on early retirement called Stop Working: Here's How You Can. And I really also liked Eckhart Tolle's book (specifically the audio version which is read by him, much better than the hardcover/paperback imo..) The Power of Now.
good books
also, you may want to look at the politically incorrect guide to capitalism, and thomas wood's the politically incorrect guide to u.s. history
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
Yup, both of those
are on my list. And RPM's new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Depression and the New Deal will also be on it when it comes out.
oh!
i wasnt aware it was coming out! thank you for the info, its much appreciated!
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
Any read?
Have any of you read anything by Koestler?
I just found a very cool quote by him the other day, and I'm about to track down some of his works.
"Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.
Arthur Koestler, 1970, p. 253"
I'm enthralled with it, I gotta say. Any of you know anything about him, please let me know.
Eric Hoffer
http://gplus.to/jamesrmoore
I liked
Plato The Republic....made me think about life in a different way.
to a person chained in a cave, the shadows on the wall are reality
That's a GREAT one. And "The Prince" by Machiavelli
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Explore Orthodox Christianity
Funny...
I read both in my college classes...Yeah, many missed the point but a few of us actually understood.
"to the person chained in a cave, the shadows on the wall are reality"
to a person chained in a cave, the shadows on the wall are reality
Books
I won't repeat anything listed below if I can help it.
The True Believer - Eric Hoffer
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - Ayn Rand
Why People Believe Weird Things - Shermer
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Lasker's Manual of Chess (Talks a lot about the struggle in everyday life as well as training the mind) - Emanuel Lasker
Eric Hoffer
http://gplus.to/jamesrmoore
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal...
that books rips. Chapter after chapter of hard-hitting essays. Almost no-dead weight at all in the book.
Great Topic
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Market for Liberty (available free at book.freetalklive.com)
Anthem
What Has Government Done To Our Money
That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'
That Which is Seen....
That's Bastiat right?
ps. TMFL was a pretty good one.
yes
that is bastiat
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
It started with..........
The book of Daniel and Revelation.........
Behold a pale horse- by William Cooper
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
"Observe the masses,and do the opposite."
Books that inspired me and helped my awakening.
The Forest People--Colin Turnbull
The Mountain People---Colin Turnbull
A History of World Religions--David Noss
Our Kind--Marvin Harris
Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches--Marvin Harris
The Evolution of Human Societies---Allen Johnson and Timothy Earle
Cults in America---James Lewis
The Satanism Scare---David Bromley, Joel Best, and James Richardson
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State---Frederick Engles
Kinship and Marriage---Robin Fox
Human Family Systems--Pierre Van Den Berghe
The World Order--Eustace Mullins
The Creature from Jekyll Island---G Edward Griffin
Culture and Practical Reason---Marshall Sahlins
Dramas, Fields and Metaphors---Victor Turner
Consciousness--Jeffery Mishlove
A People's History of the United States---Howard Zinn
Rules for Radicals--Saul Alinsky
Leadership---James Burns
The Toilet Assumption---Philip Slater
The Grand Chessboard--Zbignew Brzezinski
Tragedy & Hope--Carroll Quigley
How Washington Really Works---Charles Peters
And the one that started it all, Illuminati 666---????
I'm leaving out a bunch of others I have also read and will probably add more as I think of them. I didn't think people read books anymore.
Explore Orthodox Christianity
not as many as they used to
but we read!
i havent heard of most of these books, and look forward to looking them up.
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
for myself
the law
the bible(though im not a christian, i have studied it rigorously)
economics in one lesson
lincoln unmasked
a plea for the constitution
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
I like a few of your pics
The Law rips. Bastiat was a real clear writer, and he was kind humorous as well.
Lincoln Unmasked (and The Real Lincoln) is a tour-de-force exposé of the true history of Lincoln. Great books!
i shoulda mentioned
john lockes second treatise on government and the case against the fed(murry rothbard)
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
Funny, they're all fiction
The first four books to pop to my head, from high school & early college are:
- Brave New World
- 1984
- The Fountainhead
- Atlas Shrugged
I guess that brings to mind another Einstein quote: "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge" (or something like that)
Later, a book that had a profound impact on me, just as the internet was getting started was:
- The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
That is the book that really broke it wide open for me.
Web of Debt and the Creature!
"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
"Human beings with love and compassion are some of the most beautiful creatures in the universe... Those without are a plague on us all."
who wrote it?
i love to read, and i will add it to my list.
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat
Web of Debt was
by Ellen Brown. I personally wouldn't recommend the book because she advocates government fiat paper money as the solution. Creature From Jekyll Island is by G. Edward Griffin.
thank you
im secure enough to read an opposing view. the best way to defeat an enemy is to study them, though i will not place it at the top of my list.
"The state is the great myth where everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else." - Frederic Bastiat