Who has read the book Celestine Prophecy?

[WODIN]

It was okay but I wouldn't read it again. I agree with Karson on the Road less Traveled.

I would recommend...
The Art of Happiness : A Handbook for Living by the Dahli Llama.

 

[studcj]

well, I wasn't gonna respond, but I don't think I ever had HappyScrappy's respect anyway. I like the book ALOT. Although it is a fiction, I think there are a lot of things that make sense. There's been alot of shit in my life that makes a lot of sense to me after I read the book. I think we are meant to meet each person we meet because either they have something to offer us or we have something to offer them. fuck, I don't know where I'm going with this...............maybe the book brainwashed me or something.

 

[TheSalami]

reading books like this is a complete waste of time. why do you give a shit what the author's opinion is? i dont need some stupid shit to tell me his philosophy. all reading does for you people is make you think you are smart because you are reading a book that a 10 year old can read.

 

[HappyScrappy]

well, I wasn't gonna respond, but I don't think I ever had HappyScrappy's respect anyway. I like the book

who gives a shit what I think - I'm just some asshole on the internet

maybe the book brainwashed me or something.

interesting you say that. my stepmother (ex) is the one that told me I really should read that book. I read it for her benefit and hated it. she then wanted to discuss it and that made me hate it more when I realize she (IMO) totally misunderstood the point of it and it seemed like she was brainwashed.
I'm not saying you are/were - just saying it is interesting you said that since that was close to home with my opinion of her.

she went on to show how truly insane she was by truly belliving she was psychic. if you asked her to prove it in anyway, she would claim that it was only with certain people, at certain times, it wasn't the type of psychic that we thought it was, and non believers just brought her down anyway.
she also thought that she could travel across the galaxy, much in the way that an electron in quantum mechanics can tunnel and it is unknown if it is in one spot and then suddenly in another spot that is comparitively very far away, and then back again. well she thought since we are made up of molecules, which were made up of atoms, that had electrons, all we needed to do was focus enough on your own body, become self aware and in control - and no problemo, you can transport yourself great distances as well.
mentally? sure thing. physically? fuck that.
then she misunderstood social conscience and thought that she could transform objects into other objects. like, if everyone decided to think that a bar stool was really a banana, then it was. she though this meant that poof, it would be a banana, like a yellowed skinned fruit you could eat. she didn't seem to understand that the theory that she was misunderstanding was based on naming conventions...

anyway, I could go on and on. I like to have myself grounded in various levels of physics and math, she was more interested in meta-physics.
which makes sense, it is far easier to understand something that is all bullshit. if something isn't totally understood, that is confusing, but if you make up some shit to fit the bill and even though there is no proof for it, you feel better b/c now you "understand" it.

Ptolemy's fucked up epiphenomenalistic planetary motion theory comes to mind.

I recommend everyone in the world read two books and then it would be a much better place:
Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark"
and
Thomas Gilovich "How We Know What Isn't So : The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life"

and for kicks - Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart's "The Collapse of Chaos : Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World" (although I disagree with their views and anaolgies on genetic manipulation)

 

[Jimsbbc]

I told you that Happy Scrappy is the biggest brain on this board.

 

[JohnnyO]

The "Philistine Prophecy" was much better.

 

[HappyScrappy]

The "Philistine Prophecy" was much better.

lol
that is a real book, I haven't read it - are you sincere when you say it is good? or rather, it is better... so I suppose good is relative in that sense.

 

[JohnnyO]

It's a real book, it's one big parody of the Celestine Prophecy.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/0452274745/reviews/102-9658644-1852144