Resources to begin your trad journey, post all you gotJordan Peterson gives the big fifteen>Here is a list of books that I found particularly influential in my intellectual development.>Trigger warning: These are the most terrifying books I have encountered.>1. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley>2. 1984 – George Orwell>3. Road To Wigan Pier – George Orwell>4. Crime And Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky>5. Demons – Fyodor Dostoevsky>6. Beyond Good And Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche>7. Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning>8. The Painted Bird – Jerzy Kosinski>9. The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang>10. Gulag Archipelago (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, & Vol. 3) – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn>11. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl>12. Modern Man in Search of A Soul – Carl Jung>13. Maps Of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief – Jordan B. Peterson>14. A History of Religious Ideas (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3) – Mircea Eliade>15. Affective Neuroscience – Jaak Panksepphttps://www.jordanbpeterson.com/books/book-list/Here are 49 books recommended by Trumphttps://www.bookmarked.club/people/donald-trump
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>>25326496This is interesting from a historical perspective but I fail to believe in god even after studying those books. It's just too inconsistent, even omnipotence itself makes 0 sense. I would love to believe, since it's a struggle to be happy otherwise. rn I just have to accept that things are what they are for no reasons and create my own happiness
>>25326467Why would I read book recommendations from a man who went insane after reading all thatAlso>putting your own book in the list of books you recommend
>>25326507Study the universe and you’ll see that matter has no reason to ever propel itself to become an organism. What makes the cell reproduce if not a push by something divine? You start by believing in an inter dimensional source creator (God). Ignore all the religious babble, that’s all humans.
>>25326610So what that's not what I'm talking about you pseud. There's numerous studies on how matter can propel itself into primitive living things in fact + there's nothing divine about cell reproduction it's all but cause and effects. All your examples are extremely basic but I get what you are trying to say I guess, the only thing to argue about here would be the original cause, which I'm open to call god, big bang or whatever you want, but I still fail to see an omnipotent and loving being behind this construction
>>25326610Why not just presume matter is god? I think the issue is you presume matter is fundamentally being when it is fundamentally flux
>>25326916Again this does not at all makes an argument for a god (in the western sense of abrahamic god) and I have no arguments against this. But that's not really a "useful" vision of god. When I say I would like to believe, this kind of thing is not really what I'm talking about. I could say god is randomness too, but that's not really "useful"
>>25326467>Talent is Overrated by Geoff ColvinI wonder why that book would resonate with a man as talented as Trump?
>>25326933I think presuming "randomness" versus "order" in an anthropomorphic sense is misplaced. Matter has its own laws that govern how it does things and matter is in the process of increasingly understanding its laws which have eventually produced its human minds, at least that is how Spinoza sees it
>>25326939It's not what you know, it's who you know. Christopher Lasch talks about why this is a good thing since it keeps intelligent poors and minorities in their own neighborhoods and preserves community
>>25326814The causal chain is self-refuting and leads directly to agency. If you make it that far, there is no longer a justification for causality in the first place because it is no longer the sole proprietor. Now you must always contend with agency. If causality is birthed, there is no reason to believe its origin is gone. The contention is a plenum of causal chains initiating at any moment. And agency is not so defeated because it is contained the one birth of agency from agency.
>>25326970There is no reason to dichotomize agency and causality since agency is just a form of causality
>>25326942I meant it in the sense of purely random events such as quantum jumps and other stuff that we can predict being not random but actually driven by a god>>25326970Can't understand a single word can you make it intelligible for a retard like me I'm genuinely interested in the topic ?
>>25326467Like any filthy capitalist Elon Musk doesn't understand what "free" really means.
>>25326986Proof?
>>25327019It's in the definition
>>25326507God is the totality, we are just figments of it, orthodoxy and the dharmic religions recognize that illusion of self prevents us from seeing this truth. But this viewpoint isn't as popular in our society as man in the sky image.
>>25326467People are zog cows. Elon is about to be a trillionare while you can't afford insurance premiums and your jobs are about to be AI automated. Obviously full blown communism won't work but given the state we are in, we should all be more sympathetic toward views that steer the needle to socialism/communism adjacent ideologies.
>>25327069>god isn't X it's YUm doesn't help me believe in it tho
>>25326953that explains why I can't get a job. Lasch is great though.
>>25326995other people's money, ofc
