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Give me a book referral about your religion
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The Enlightened One
Contrarian
The Satanic Bible minus all the parts about might making right and confirmation bias concerning ritual
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
The Tao Te Ching is a good all around book, There are probably different styles of translation, though. I have one that seems less theistic in nature.
The Bhagavad Gita, is good, as well. There are versions with different interpretations, I suggest getting one that has explanations after the paragraghs, or chapters.
The Bhagavad Gita, is good, as well. There are versions with different interpretations, I suggest getting one that has explanations after the paragraghs, or chapters.
Sand Dancer
Crazy Cat Lady
Sounds good.
WirePaladin
Member
Mark Twain, Letters from Earth
God's Kingdom Rules.
Go to
jw.org
it should be available there
if not shoot me a pm and I'll send one.
Online Books That Help You Study the Bible
The link above takes you right to that book.
I get mine at the Kingdom Hall so I haven't a clue how to order one but the site
should help you.
Go to
jw.org
it should be available there
if not shoot me a pm and I'll send one.
Online Books That Help You Study the Bible
The link above takes you right to that book.
I get mine at the Kingdom Hall so I haven't a clue how to order one but the site
should help you.
paarsurrey
Veteran Member
“The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam”
By Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
http://www.alislam.org/library/browse/volume/Ruhani_Khazain/book/Islami_Asool_ki_Philosphy/?l=English#page/-31/mode/1up
By Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
http://www.alislam.org/library/browse/volume/Ruhani_Khazain/book/Islami_Asool_ki_Philosphy/?l=English#page/-31/mode/1up
arthra
Baha'i
I hope you've found some interesting reading Thirza ....there's one book I'd recommend to you..
Baha'u'llah and the New Era by Esslemont
http://www.amazon.com/Baha-LLah-new...6&sr=8-3&keywords=Baha'u'llah+and+the+new+era
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Anything from Osho, once you start to read his books, you will never be the same again.
There is a Three Volume series by Maurice Cornforth, who was a leading intellectual in the Communist Party of Great Britain. "Dialectical Materialism", "Historical Materialism" and "Theory of Knowledge" give a broad overview of Marxist-Leninist ideology in the 1950's when Communism was pretty much at its hieght. They draw on major works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and occassionally Mao.
A major draw back of marxist literature is that it is written from internal party discussions and ussually focus on on-going controversies. Consequently Cornforth's books are one of the few that actually gives any outline of the ideology at all. Most accounts of Marxism written by non-marxists (and sometimes even ex-communists turned anti-communist) do not take into account the subtley and complexity of the ideology and the way in which it's two major aspects, dialectics and materialism, interact. The crudest forms of Marxism are the most destructive, whereas the more sophisticaed give more 'space' to develop and be flexible. This can produce a large variety of answers to the same question; what Cornforth does brilliantly is give you the tool kit to think along these lines. The downside of these books is that they are political propaganda and present the "party's" view at that time.
The ideology is actually surprisingly diverse when you learn about the number of applications it was used for as the offical ideology of the state, (affecting art, biology, physics, etc) and how it changed over history, as well as the number of factional disputes that occured much like religious sects. However, these three books are easily adequate as a way of introducing someone to pretty much any form of marxist ideology when it was codifed by Stalin in the 1930's and provide a general blueprint for what marxism is.
They are ussually avaliable second hand on Ebay, but often can be found online in text formatt. Whilst I've had to use another much larger book (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, edited by O. Kuusinen, first edition 1961?/second edition 1963) to clarify some specific points, these books are easy reference and very accessible for the non-marxist as well as someone who is not aquainted with philosophy in any depth.
For me, they are in constant use. Even as I'm typing they are currently sitting in my paper tray for when I need to look something up. It's about the closest thing to an (English speaking) Communists bible.
A major draw back of marxist literature is that it is written from internal party discussions and ussually focus on on-going controversies. Consequently Cornforth's books are one of the few that actually gives any outline of the ideology at all. Most accounts of Marxism written by non-marxists (and sometimes even ex-communists turned anti-communist) do not take into account the subtley and complexity of the ideology and the way in which it's two major aspects, dialectics and materialism, interact. The crudest forms of Marxism are the most destructive, whereas the more sophisticaed give more 'space' to develop and be flexible. This can produce a large variety of answers to the same question; what Cornforth does brilliantly is give you the tool kit to think along these lines. The downside of these books is that they are political propaganda and present the "party's" view at that time.
The ideology is actually surprisingly diverse when you learn about the number of applications it was used for as the offical ideology of the state, (affecting art, biology, physics, etc) and how it changed over history, as well as the number of factional disputes that occured much like religious sects. However, these three books are easily adequate as a way of introducing someone to pretty much any form of marxist ideology when it was codifed by Stalin in the 1930's and provide a general blueprint for what marxism is.
They are ussually avaliable second hand on Ebay, but often can be found online in text formatt. Whilst I've had to use another much larger book (Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism, edited by O. Kuusinen, first edition 1961?/second edition 1963) to clarify some specific points, these books are easy reference and very accessible for the non-marxist as well as someone who is not aquainted with philosophy in any depth.
For me, they are in constant use. Even as I'm typing they are currently sitting in my paper tray for when I need to look something up. It's about the closest thing to an (English speaking) Communists bible.
Paranoid Android
Active Member
Yes. It's an important book written by Paranoid Android. He brings a message to the Chosen Ones, the disabled. If you're not disabled, I'm afraid your going to !@#$.
Sorry if you're not interested.
Sorry if you're not interested.
The Bible, and the book "What Does the Bible Really Teach?"
The God Delusion fom Dawkins would be a good start. You can learn everything about basically all religions at once.
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