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post 1643074033 07-17-2021, 07:21 PM
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Eye-opening and enlightening books, movies, and music

What are some eye-opening, enlightening books or movies that changed the way you thought or opened your mind up to new ideas


I.e the Matrix and simulation theory
Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
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Dismantling America - Thomas Sowell

Crash Proof 2.0, the Coming Economic Collapse - Peter Schiff
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Any Thomas Sowell book srs

The Greatest Story Never Told (long but eye opening is an understatement)

Europa: The Last Battle

Those two docs will fundamentally challenge/change what you thought you knew about modern history very srs.

Puts soo much of what we see today into clear context.
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Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley was good too
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Things like the Matrix and a fight Club would be givens but I don’t think there can be just one of something.

If you read history and read how economies work, that chit will blow your mind.
The misc is full of a bunch of simp ****ots
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I agree with the Thomas Sowell recommendation. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is a good start.

Guns, Germs and Steel was painfully long and detailed, but it completely transformed my understanding of human history.
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Thomas Sowell and Rational Male seem up my alley

Economics, philosophy, history, combat/warfare, psychology, and tech are interesting imo
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Originally Posted By Kewbrah
I agree with the Thomas Sowell recommendation. The Quest for Cosmic Justice is a good start.

Guns, Germs and Steel was painfully long and detailed, but it completely transformed my understanding of human history.
Guns germs and steel has a ton of disinfo/horsechit in it.

Sorry to say bruh.

Good thread topic though op srs
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Originally Posted By NoGFnow
For relationships as a male

The Rational Male - Rollo Tomassi


Serious brah. It isnt formatted well but every relationship i've had that failed had traits outlined in the book. Every clingy chick that still wants to talk years later and will ask how high when I say jump even though I haven't seen them for years is explained in the book. I would say it's a predictive framework that you can apply to your relationships with women and explains why things are going well for you or not (srs). Most eye opening book ive read this year.

I would say you need at least some experience with women for the information to really resonate with you though, i don't think a newb on his first gf will really understand or be able to apply the knowledge until they've gone a few rounds in the ring.


I thought i understood the concepts from years of reading the misc and getting 2nd hand accounts but nope, it is worth the read and I don't recommend books ever



Recommend some books pls
This srs. A lot of the red pill comes from that, and it’s the closest thing you’ll have to a matrix experience in your life outside of losing religion. Explains everyone so perfectly. Once you are red pilled you’ll never have a “why is she mad” or “women are a mystery” or “how do I get this chick” moment
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I've skimmed through, 'the rational male' and did not think much of it.

It's like "oh yeah she should come to you and not the other way around" - and in my eyes any women or person who you don't even like that much yet chases you is f*cking crazy - and if you like somebody who likes you, and you purposefully manipulate them, you're f*cked in the next 3-5 years from that lashback

So basically this book will teach you how to attract a subordinate and codependent female which most decent guys will lose interest in anyway

Also once you fall in love with somebody none of that works - you can pretend and try and manipulate somebody's subconscious, but if you're constantly thinking of somebody, you're still in their frame - even if you're in denial about it, you're still in that person's frame.

May as well just stop fighting it.
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Originally Posted By knightofday
Any Thomas Sowell book srs

The Greatest Story Never Told (long but eye opening is an understatement)

Europa: The Last Battle

Those two docs will fundamentally challenge/change what you thought you knew about modern history very srs.

Puts soo much of what we see today into clear context.
the 12 hour long documentary?

edit:

this?

http://www.monte-aton.org/Filmes/fil...-1003-pop.html
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Yuval Noah Harari's books - generally, the history of mankind and general sociological extrapolations without being on that ****gy SJW time

Thinking Fast & Slow by Kahneman - how we think

Godel, Escher, and Bach by Hofstadter - bunch of random chit related to cognitive science

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes - interesting analysis on the possible way that consciousness developed

The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker (not super-amazing but you will notice how for some reason every general idiot is a pure social constructionist nowadays, brb everything is a social construct, brb there is no human nature it's all society's fault and we can all be shaped to be perfect utopians---it's so ridiculous when you understand how many people are parroting a theory discredited like 60 years ago)

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli - quantum physics explained nicely, I also liked The Order of Time

Factfulness by Hans Rosling - how stupid everyone is when it comes to judging how much better off we are than we used to be
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Originally Posted By Autumnal
Yuval Noah Harari's books - generally, the history of mankind and general sociological extrapolations without being on that ****gy SJW time

Thinking Fast & Slow by Kahneman - how we think

Godel, Escher, and Bach by Hofstadter - bunch of random chit related to cognitive science

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes - interesting analysis on the possible way that consciousness developed

The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker (not super-amazing but you will notice how for some reason every general idiot is a pure social constructionist nowadays, brb everything is a social construct, brb there is no human nature it's all society's fault and we can all be shaped to be perfect utopians---it's so ridiculous when you understand how many people are parroting a theory discredited like 60 years ago)

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli - quantum physics explained nicely, I also liked The Order of Time

Factfulness by Hans Rosling - how stupid everyone is when it comes to judging how much better off we are than we used to be
Figures someone like you likes Carlo Rovelli. LQG is fringe af. This isn't to take away from Rovelli, I'm sure his description of basic physics like QM is fine. But LQG is generally considered bs by most prominent physicists, and yet has been promoted a lot in the media.

You want quantum physics explained nicely, go watch the MIT lecture set by Barton Zwiebach.
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Originally Posted By Autumnal
Yuval Noah Harari's books - generally, the history of mankind and general sociological extrapolations without being on that ****gy SJW time

Thinking Fast & Slow by Kahneman - how we think

Godel, Escher, and Bach by Hofstadter - bunch of random chit related to cognitive science

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes - interesting analysis on the possible way that consciousness developed

The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker (not super-amazing but you will notice how for some reason every general idiot is a pure social constructionist nowadays, brb everything is a social construct, brb there is no human nature it's all society's fault and we can all be shaped to be perfect utopians---it's so ridiculous when you understand how many people are parroting a theory discredited like 60 years ago)

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli - quantum physics explained nicely, I also liked The Order of Time

Factfulness by Hans Rosling - how stupid everyone is when it comes to judging how much better off we are than we used to be
fukn love hans rosling. rip


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Originally Posted By gainztrain818
Dismantling America - Thomas Sowell

Crash Proof 2.0, the Coming Economic Collapse - Peter Schiff
Skimmed some goodreads reviews and definitely seems interesting.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ntling-america
Originally Posted By DivineMasculine
Things like the Matrix and a fight Club would be givens but I don’t think there can be just one of something.

If you read history and read how economies work, that chit will blow your mind.
I remember thinking history and economics was so so boring. I think it is mainly because of how the information is presented in public primary schools; lots of lists, dates,and formulas without context to give a sense of importance or meaning.
Originally Posted By Autumnal
Yuval Noah Harari's books - generally, the history of mankind and general sociological extrapolations without being on that ****gy SJW time

Thinking Fast & Slow by Kahneman - how we think

Godel, Escher, and Bach by Hofstadter - bunch of random chit related to cognitive science

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes - interesting analysis on the possible way that consciousness developed

The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker (not super-amazing but you will notice how for some reason every general idiot is a pure social constructionist nowadays, brb everything is a social construct, brb there is no human nature it's all society's fault and we can all be shaped to be perfect utopians---it's so ridiculous when you understand how many people are parroting a theory discredited like 60 years ago)

Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli - quantum physics explained nicely, I also liked The Order of Time

Factfulness by Hans Rosling - how stupid everyone is when it comes to judging how much better off we are than we used to be
Juicy list.
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[QUOTE=WiseOldApe post_id=1643098123]I've skimmed through, 'the rational male' and did not think much of it.

It's like "oh yeah she should come to you and not the other way around" - and in my eyes any women or person who you don't even like that much yet chases you is f*cking crazy - and [/]if you like somebody who likes you, and you purposefully manipulate them, you're f*cked in the next 3-5 years from that lashback[/bold]

So basically this book will teach you how to attract a subordinate and codependent female which most decent guys will lose interest in anyway

Also once you fall in love with somebody none of that works - you can pretend and try and manipulate somebody's subconscious, but if you're constantly thinking of somebody, you're still in their frame - even if you're in denial about it, you're still in that person's frame.

May as well just stop fighting it.[/QUOTE]Can you explain in a little more detail what the book says about this? I’m planning on reading it now because I’m intrigued but just curious about this part.
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Wisdom texts:

The Bible
The Vedas
The Sutras

Epics:

The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad and Odyssey
The Mahabharata

Novels:

Don Quixote
Crime and Punishment
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

In descending order, these books absolutely mog literature.

Makes trendy modern books look like babies farting and babbling at each other for publishing deals.
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I haven't read this yet.

Maybe someone here has?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...e-proofing-you

It has been somewhere on my internal "to do" list since I saw the author interviewed on Impact Theory.

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Books;

The Culture of Critique - Kevin Macdonald
Mein Kampf
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
The Republic - Plato
Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mandkind - Stephen Goodson
Manifesto - Gottfried Feder
The Art of War
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon

Docs
The Greatest Story Never Told
The Bolshevik Revolution: Darknness Descends
Europa - The Last Battle
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Originally Posted By Leonydus
Mein Kampf
check sig bro
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check sig bro
yea i dont know if you know, but hitler is dead and so are the nazis. so good luck opposing them, you going to build a time machine?
its still an interesting read, you should give it a try.
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Originally Posted By wincel
check sig bro
What is your opinion of merkel? Hitler (as bad as he was), wanted the best for his german people.
Merkel screws her people over in favor of ''refugees' from the middle east / africa.
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Books:

Fight Club.

Headmaster's Papers.

Movies?

Mmm... None really come to mind.
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Also if you guys want a in interesting book to read, check out, 'Note from the underground'.
Originally Posted By C4KE
Can you explain in a little more detail what the book says about this? I’m planning on reading it now because I’m intrigued but just curious about this part.
Dude this book and all this advice for the red-pill is stupid.

These games people play are pointless, because even if they work, they work up until a certain point after which your life crumbles.

It's basically saying that a man should not serve a women, at all - that a women should aim to serve her man, which happens naturally anyway if you're a decent person and a chick naturally submits to you.

Here's the thing that i've learned - whenever you use these manipulative control tactics in your life, you automatically create a duality where you attract some other person into your life who does the same - these can be work colleagues, professors, friends, etc.

It's basically about being in power and abusing that power, so you just notice how it works, and the sudden you have a bunch of psychopaths pop up in to your life who make you miserable.

For example, i had a really narcissistic and i presume psychopathic uni professor who would make parodies of me and in front of the class and get them to agree with him, knowing that i knew who he was talking about and i heard everybody's opinion in order to spite me and feel alpha - then he'd literally look and see if it's working, dude even had an evil laugh, and in fact once compared him self to Arnold Schwartzenegger. The list goes on with this guy.

Really weird stuff and i advise not messing with the dark arts.
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Originally Posted By WiseOldApe
Also if you guys want a in interesting book to read, check out, 'Note from the underground'.





Dude this book and all this advice for the red-pill is stupid.

These games people play are pointless, because even if they work, they work up until a certain point after which your life crumbles.

It's basically saying that a man should not serve a women, at all - that a women should aim to serve her man, which happens naturally anyway if you're a decent person and a chick naturally submits to you.

Here's the thing that i've learned - whenever you use these manipulative control tactics in your life, you automatically create a duality where you attract some other person into your life who does the same - these can be work colleagues, professors, friends, etc.

It's basically about being in power and abusing that power, so you just notice how it works, and the sudden you have a bunch of psychopaths pop up in to your life who make you miserable.

For example, i had a really narcissistic and i presume psychopathic uni professor who would make parodies of me and in front of the class and get them to agree with him, knowing that i knew who he was talking about and i heard everybody's opinion in order to spite me and feel alpha - then he'd literally look and see if it's working, dude even had an evil laugh, and in fact once compared him self to Arnold Schwartzenegger. The list goes on with this guy.

Really weird stuff and i advise not messing with the dark arts.
Wtf at the bold. How would your teacher make fun of you?
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Originally Posted By Sophus
Wtf at the bold. How would your teacher make fun of you?
Because he is a mentally deranged narcassist, that's why - dude done all sorts of illegal sh*t like making lectures compulsory and including gradable quizzes in them.

He was pretty good though and i remember heaps of stuff i've learned from his classes.

Dude would make us do 'easy' equations and then walk around the class with an evil laugh like a movie villian when he saw people struggling and had this funny yet strange expression when he's deriving joy from suffering, where he smiles and his eye brows just shoot up (SRS) - fkn crazy people i swear.
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Originally Posted By mesobuild
Lol
Originally Posted By WiseOldApe
Because he is mentally deranged, that's why - dude done all sorts of illegal sh*t like making lectures compulsory and including gradable quizzes in them.

He was pretty good though and i remember heaps of stuff i've learned from that unit.
That's strange brah

Somehow this is making me more interested in reading that book
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