List some dope/thought provoking books to read brehs

[Marci-Senpai]

Think about it breh. *Everybody* poos.

 

[Dr.HannibalLecter]

 

[ineedsleep212]

Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

I don't know if it's really all that thought provoking, but it was good for me to read cuz of the frustration that builds when I'm trying to do any kind of work, but nothing gets done. I didn't try to read it in being a writer sense of thing either. Now I'm reading The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury are books I've enjoyed as well among others that I can't recall right now for some reason .

 

[ryderldb]

Outliers

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[Marci-Senpai]

to you'll...some of these books seem pretty interesting im definitely gon start reading some of these when i find them.

 

[ThisRightHere]

Mostly, I fukk with sci-fi. Check out Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, shyt is pure

 

[Higher Tech]

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet.
Great book.

 

[tonyclifton]

William s Burroughs -junky


One of my favorite books and its not too long

True story as well

 

[Jx2]

100 years of solitude

Ishmael, the sequel My Ishmael

Siddhartha

Fight club

Great gatsby

 

[Tom]

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan (Audiobook)

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark is one of the most important scientific books ever written. It's a cure for the eclipse of reason in the modern "dark" age. Sagan provides us the right tools to think critically and rationally.

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In this book, Steve Wells tried to count all of God’s killings: those that are numbered in the Bible and those that are not; the ones that God did himself; those that he instructed others to do; and those that, while he may not have taken an active role in, met with his approval.

You've probably heard of a few of the stories in this book. Noah's Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, David and Goliath, maybe. But there are more than 100 others that are unknown to pretty much everyone. These stories fill the pages of the Bible, yet they are seldom read in church and are ignored by most Bible believers. Drunk with Blood brings them out into the open. It's time for us all to take a look

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[Tom]

"...the perfect book for skeptics to carry with them whenever they venture into the dark and mysterious realms where myths, monsters, and magic lurk as pretenders to truth, and where pseudoscience and superstition rule the day."
—Michael Shermer

"A much needed tour through common delusions about reality. Harrison writes clearly and succinctly about beliefs that are not supported by science or logic. However, he does so with sympathy and understanding for the reasons so many people find comfort in the irrational."
—Victor J. Stenger

Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you're trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a homeopathy cure. Or you met someone at a party who insisted the Holocaust never happened or that no one ever walked on the moon.

How do you find a gently persuasive way of steering people away from unfounded beliefs, bogus cures, conspiracy theories, and the like? Longtime skeptic Guy P. Harrison shows you how in this down-to-earth, entertaining exploration of commonly held extraordinary claims.

A veteran journalist, Harrison has not only surveyed a vast body of literature, but has also interviewed leading scientists, explored "the most haunted house in America," frolicked in the inviting waters of the Bermuda Triangle, and even talked to a "contrite Roswell alien."

Harrison is not out simply to debunk unfounded beliefs. Wherever possible, he presents alternative scientific explanations, which in most cases are even more fascinating than the wildest speculation. For example, stories about UFOs and alien abductions lack good evidence, but science gives us plenty of reasons to keep exploring outer space for evidence that life exists elsewhere in the vast universe. The proof for Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster may be nonexistent, but scientists are regularly discovering new species, some of which are truly stranger than fiction.

Stressing the excitement of scientific discovery and the legitimate mysteries and wonder inherent in reality, Harrison invites readers to share the joys of rational thinking and the skeptical approach to evaluating our extraordinary world. Amazon

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[Tom]

"Wright makes it clear that he is tracking people’s conception of the divine, not the divine itself. He describes this as “a good news/bad news joke for traditionalist Christians, Muslims and Jews.” The bad news is that your God was born imperfect. The good news is that he doesn’t really exist."
—The New York Times

In his illuminating book, The Moral Animal, Wright introduced evolutionary psychology and examined the ways that the morality of individuals might be hard-wired by nature rather than influenced by culture. With this book, he expands upon that work, turning now to explore how religion came to define larger and larger groups of people as part of the circle of moral consideration.

Using a naïve and antiquated approach to the sociology and anthropology of religion, Wright expends far too great an effort covering well-trod territory concerning the development of religions from primitive hunter-gatherer stages to monotheism. He finds in this evolution of religion, however, that the great monotheistic (he calls them Abrahamic, a term not favored by many religion scholars) religions—Christianity, Islam, Judaism—all contain a code for the salvation of the world. Using game theory, he encourages individuals in these three faiths to embrace a non–zero-sum relationship to other religions, seeing their fortunes as positively correlated and interdependent and then acting with tolerance toward other religions. Regrettably, Wright's lively writing unveils little that is genuinely new or insightful about religion. Publishers Weekly

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[Tom]

Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's Views on Human Evolution -

"In this remarkable book, Adrian Desmond and James Moore restore the missing moral core of Darwin’s evolutionary universe, providing a completely new account of how he came to his shattering theories about human origins."
—Scientific American

There has always been a mystery surrounding Darwin: How did this quiet, respectable gentleman, a pillar of his parish, come to embrace one of the most radical ideas in the history of human thought? It’s difficult to overstate just what Darwin was risking in publishing his theory of evolution. So it must have been something very powerful—a moral fire, as Desmond and Moore put it—that propelled him. And that moral fire, they argue, was a passionate hatred of slavery.

Leading apologists for slavery in Darwin’s time argued that blacks and whites had originated as separate species, with whites created superior. Darwin abhorred such "arrogance." He believed that, far from being separate species, the races belonged to the same human family. Slavery was therefore a "sin," and abolishing it became Darwin’s "sacred cause." His theory of evolution gave all the races—blacks and whites, animals and plants—an ancient common ancestor and freed them from creationist shackles. Evolution meant emancipation. Amazon

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[Tom]

Includes contributions from Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Steven Pinker, Lawrence Krauss, Matt Ridley, V. S. Ramachandran and many more...

Featuring a foreword by David Brooks, This Will Make You Smarter presents brilliant—but accessible—ideas to expand every mind.

What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org, posed to the world’s most influential thinkers. Their visionary answers flow from the frontiers of psychology, philosophy, economics, physics, sociology, and more. Surprising and enlightening, these insights will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the world. Amazon

Topics:
Richard Dawkins on experimentation
Sam Harris on the flow of thought
Lawrence Krauss on living with uncertainty
Daniel C. Dennett on benefiting from cycles
Steven Pinker on win-win negotiating
V. S. Ramachandran on paradigm shifts
Matt Ridley on tapping collective intelligence
J. Craig Venter on the multiple possible origins of life
Brian Eno on “ecological vision”
Daniel Kahneman on the “focusing illusion”
Jonah Lehrer on controlling attention
Aubrey De Grey on conquering our fear of the unknown
Martin Seligman on the ingredients of well-being
Nicholas Carr on managing “cognitive load”
Jaron Lanier on resisting delusion
Frank Wilczek on the brain’s hidden layers
Clay Shirky on the “80/20 rule”
Daniel Goleman on understanding our connection to the natural world
John McWhorter on path dependence
Lisa Randall on effective theorizing
Richard Thaler on rooting out false concepts
Helen Fisher on temperament

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[Tom]

“Michael Shermer has long been one of our most committed champions of scientific thinking in the face of popular delusion. In The Believing Brain, he has written a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief. We have all fallen more deeply in his debt.”
—Sam Harris

In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. From sensory data flowing in through the senses, the brain naturally begins to look for and find patterns, and then infuses those patterns with meaning. Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs. Once beliefs are formed the brain begins to look for and find confirmatory evidence in support of those beliefs, which accelerates the process of reinforcing them, and round and round the process goes in a positive-feedback loop of belief confirmation. Shermer outlines the numerous cognitive tools our brains engage to reinforce our beliefs as truths. Amazon

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