The book that I should have read (and re-read) earlier:
No more Mr. Nice Guy -- Robert Glover
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#153The bible, cover to cover: if reading western literature or philosophy produced in whatever year A.D., the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes. I'm irreligious from a muslim background myself but I'm reading it now. Same goes for the qoran, my family is not a practicing muslim family and thus I never read it, but it's a part of the canon, must be read. I'm not…
I think the secular perspective about the bible, Quran, and other Abrahamic sacred texts, is far more interesting than the contents within. This is the perspective so rarely visited by athiests, agnostics, or religious folks.
Certainly, but it's nice to at least have read the corpus before learning what others think about them. It's a long read, but rewarding.
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#154The book that I should have read (and re-read) earlier: No more Mr. Nice Guy -- Robert Glover
ingenuousness? English is such a mess!
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#155The bible, cover to cover: if reading western literature or philosophy produced in whatever year A.D., the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes. I'm irreligious from a muslim background myself but I'm reading it now. Same goes for the qoran, my family is not a practicing muslim family and thus I never read it, but it's a part of the canon, must be read. I'm not…
Can you recommend a good English translation of the Qoran if it exists? I've asked Muslim friends but they seem adamant that it must be read in Arabic or, at least, only know of the Arabic text.
Also, do you know of a good annotation of it which provides context to the text and provides information on how passages are interpreted by at least one school of thought?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know how people can read it, for me it's a pain to read more than a page. >the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes I'm sure there are modern book about rhetorics
Why is that? Some of the language isn't all that easy to get through but, taken as a piece of literary work, I don't find it that unreadable.
It's hard for me, feels like totally unrelated parts are patched together. Tons of contradiction and archaic views even on a single page. But I never read more than a page at a time I always put it back as something I should not waste my time with deciphering what they meant.
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I've seen this book recommended many times. I read a few chapters and don't feel like it was useful. Some of the stuff is obvious common sense like smile don't criticize others, be a good listener etc. Then it tells you to be genuinely interested in someone. How can you force yourself to be interested in someone? Does the book go into anything actually useful later on?
Some people are born communicators and find interaction with others completely intuitive. Others are born with a brain more ready to understand math, or writing screenplays, or software engineering, or business management - and bumble their way through communication, getting a lot wrong, not knowing where the lines are between their successes and failures, and generally having a miserable time. Books like these defin…
> learning how to learn
Look at the writings of Dr. Barbara Oakley or at https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn.
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#158The bible, cover to cover: if reading western literature or philosophy produced in whatever year A.D., the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes. I'm irreligious from a muslim background myself but I'm reading it now. Same goes for the qoran, my family is not a practicing muslim family and thus I never read it, but it's a part of the canon, must be read. I'm not…
I don't know how people can read it, for me it's a pain to read more than a page. >the bible is required reading for comprehending many the references and various rhetorical modes I'm sure there are modern book about rhetorics
The English bibles are just unreadable, with all those archaisms. I have a New World Translation that a JW gave me and it seems more pleasant to read, but many say there are problems with opinionated translations. Mine is a CEI Bible, a modern translation in Italian. Tho if you're not into it, it'll be boring nevertheless.
I was referring to the contents of rhetorical modes (allegories, metaphors, etc.), not their definitions.
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#159Books that are mentioned multiple times in this thread:
The master switch; Sapiens/Homo Deus; How to Win Friends and Influence People; The animal farm; The lean startup; The Bible.
Ctrl+F these names in this page for rationale.
Is there an "awesome books" repo on Github? I wonder.
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#160A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell