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GBFM's List (self.redpillbooks)

submitted by tenpointsix

From here, among other places:

"Does everyone agree, that if we read the following works and exalt their honorable principles in our schools, courts, colleges, and churches, we will be well on our way to restoring the Rights of Man?

  1. THE BIBLE
  2. Homer’s Iliad
  3. Homer’s Odyssey
  4. Exodus & Ecclesiastes & The Psalms
  5. Virgil’s Aeneid
  6. Socrates’ Apology
  7. The Book of Matthew & Jefferson’s Bible
  8. Plato’s Repulic
  9. Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic
  10. Aristotle’s Poetics
  11. Dante’s Inferno
  12. The Declaration of Independence
  13. The Constitution
  14. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
  15. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
  16. Newton’s Principia
  17. Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments
  18. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
  19. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn (& all of his work)
  20. Shakespeare’s Hamlet
  21. Ludwig von Mises’ A Theory of Money and Credit
  22. F.A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom
  23. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick
  24. Einstein’s The Meaning of Relativity
  25. Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Power of Myth
  26. Ron Paul’s Revolution & End the Fed
  27. THE BIBLE"

[–]jeremyfirth1 points [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link

My reflections on your list, with a few additions.

  1. Overrated. A lot. Most of the Old Testament is genealogies and a lot of wrath and just crap. New Testament: 85% of it was written by Paul. Paul never met Jesus. He had a vision one day and started traveling around and ranting/making shit up as he went. Book of Revelation: hallucinogens had to be involved.

  2. agree

  3. agree

  4. We already mentioned the Bible, and I think it is drivel. But I do agree with Ecclesiastes. That's a great book unlike anything else in the Bible. That, and the Book of Job. Exodus is lame and the psalms/proverbs are....ok. If you want to read aphorisms, I recommend Mark Twain's over Proverbs or Psalms.

  5. Don't know it because I'm not well-read enough.

  6. Agree

  7. Ditch Matthew, but Jefferson's Bible is quite interesting. Jefferson believed that the miracles of Jesus were added later, so he translated the four gospels from Latin and Greek, but removed all references to miracles or to Jesus claiming to be the Son of God. Very sublime and reads more like Buddha. Not bad.

  8. It's got some good parts (e.g. Plato's Cave), but most of it was pretty hard for me to wade through. I am a simpleton, however, so YMMV.

  9. AGREE

  10. Not bad. Serves well to help one understand the foundations of western philosophy, but we've come along way in 2500 years.

  11. Haven't read it because...I don't know why.

  12. Agree

  13. Agree

  14. Never read it.

  15. Agree.

  16. Not smart enough to understand it. I don't have the basis in mathematics to understand this one. But if you do, I imagine it would be mind-blowing.

  17. I read this. It...took a long time. Probably just as good to read the wikipedia entry on it because damn: it's a long, dense book.

  18. Excellent. Agree.

  19. Agree with Huck Finn. Tom Sawyer is also good. I prefer Twain's essays, but his biography was hilarious.

  20. On the list twice because the list writer is trying to be cute. It's pretty good.

  21. Excellent. Another eye-opener.

  22. Haven't read it. It's on the short list of things to read next.

  23. This one can be read again and again, and you will always find something new to think about. Definitely agree with it being on the list.

  24. I am not smart enough to really grok this title.

  25. Excellent. I took a class in university that used this as a text book. I credit that class as starting me down the path of losing my religion.

  26. Read them. They're not really engaging, but the message is important and powerful. Ron Paul is the only political candidate that I've donated money to. No regrets.

  27. Ugh. See #1 above.

My additions:

  1. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
  2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  3. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
  4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  5. The Theory of Poker by David Sklansky
  6. Any poker book by Ed Miller
  7. How to Cheat at Everything by Simon Lovell (some of the advice is outdated, but the principles are sound. Learning how cons work goes a long way in avoiding being conned).
  8. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  9. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  10. Loving What Is by Byron Katie
  11. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
  12. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  13. The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

[–]kzwrp -1 points0 points  (0 children) | Copy Link

You've missed the point in that the list is about restoring the Rights of Men, not generally about good reads.

Tao Te Ching is an excellent read, it's presenting a philosophy I can identify much more with than the bible, yet it's not about men's rights.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

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