books

by Coffinfeeder • 11 Dec 2006, 22:03 • Journals
Since i havent been playing that much in the last months and also have been travelling by train alot more, I got around to read much much more than in the past.
Therefore i wanna recommend some of the books i have read to all those hyperintelligent beings on this website.


Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak, Also spoke Zarathustra
Jean Paul Sartre - L'être et le néant (Being and Nothingness),The Devil and the good lord
Sam Harris - Letter to a christian nation, The End of Faith
Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion
Bertrand Russell - Why Im not a Christian, A History of Western Philosophy..
Ludwig Feuerbach - The Essence of Christianity

Thank you for your time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiZt79UKUFQ
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JobCohen 11 Dec 2006, 22:08
:\ why are you that interested in Christianity?
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biqq 11 Dec 2006, 22:13
Always know your enemy!
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Otternase 11 Dec 2006, 22:53
rofl biqq :DD
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moutoul 12 Dec 2006, 00:10
i was typing exactly the same sentence then saw your reply, i dont feel lonely in this world anymore, thx :p
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Coffinfeeder 11 Dec 2006, 22:13
Îm more interested in religion and morals itself. The mentioned books arent quite in favor of religion/Christianity you know. =)
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JobCohen 11 Dec 2006, 22:23
I wasnt implying you're a religious freak :D! I myself like fantasy books where I can imagine I'm a knight or at least a brave man (:D coward speaking)! :( Man I want to be a wizard!
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swas 11 Dec 2006, 22:50
LOL KIDDO <3

ik hou van kleine jongetjes.
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Legacy 12 Dec 2006, 00:12
wat? :<

Ik droom altijd dat ik de Beste Ridder ben, uit ridderkerk!!
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swas 12 Dec 2006, 11:37
haha!
dat is een droom. JE MOEST IS WETEN wat ik allemaal droom.
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Melkor 11 Dec 2006, 22:26
Guten Abend Professor Schütz.
Ich wünsche Ihnen einen pläsanten Abend.
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XenoMorph 11 Dec 2006, 22:35
Since I started ET I haven't read much, last book I read that was good was Machiavelli's The Prince. Judging by the sort of books you read this might also be to your liking although it is a very short book.

I haven't read Daybreak, will have to try and get it from the library when I'm not being nolife @ ET.
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Coffinfeeder 11 Dec 2006, 22:58
I allways wanteds to read Macchiavelli, but there are still lots of unread books in my shelf waiting for me. :(
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Rhand 12 Dec 2006, 16:05
Please, throw all those other books away and read Machiavelli. I love the man and you will too =)
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Coffinfeeder 12 Dec 2006, 16:09
Poor Plato. :((((

;D
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evan 11 Dec 2006, 22:54
Friedrich Nietzsche, nice. :)
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Viax 11 Dec 2006, 22:59
QuoteHave you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.

"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."

Here the madman fell silent and again regarded his listeners; and they too were silent and stared at him in astonishment. At last he threw his lantern to the ground, and it broke and went out. "I have come too early," he said then; "my time has not come yet. The tremendous event is still on its way, still travelling - it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time, the light of the stars requires time, deeds require time even after they are done, before they can be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."

It has been further related that on that same day the madman entered divers churches and there sang a requiem. Led out and quietened, he is said to have retorted each time: "what are these churches now if they are not the tombs and sepulchres of God?"


Nietzsche is a fascinating philosopher. Once I finish school and get myself some more free time I'll definately read some of his works.
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evan 12 Dec 2006, 01:10
tbh you could get hit by a bus tomorrow so its best to get things done by impluse and lead a fulfilling live that way imo
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Coffinfeeder 12 Dec 2006, 13:39
Wouldnt that imply that its worthless to think ahead and make plans? I cant quite agree then. :) You would just be a mere puppet of your shortlived desires.
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Viax 12 Dec 2006, 16:34
Ofcourse there's always a possibility that you die prematurely, but that doesn't mean you can't plan ahead. I guess I'll just watch out for busses for now. :<
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jor 11 Dec 2006, 23:15
Nietzsche, respect.
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Legacy 11 Dec 2006, 23:50
Coffin, u fucking German spasst psycologic wannabe... Go shave your balls and head. Also, these books are dull as fuck.

For a guy that isnt a christian believer u tend to read an awfull lot that strives against these morals and values... Do i smell a secret desire to learn more about God?

Ow and you are secretly playing mixes to get back in the game.. and traveling by train is for gays.. Or have did you become a Train-ee(train geek)

ow... and stop listening to cannibal corpse and dimmu borgir.
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Coffinfeeder 12 Dec 2006, 13:35
I know you still love me legacytje, dont try to hide it.
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Viax 12 Dec 2006, 16:35
Nothing wrong with Dimmu Borgir. :<
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FaTTony 12 Dec 2006, 11:21
i am avoiding books since i left school, but Jean Paul Sartre`s book i think i read at school - must have been crappy like all the others. suprise - i prefer videogames
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Coffinfeeder 12 Dec 2006, 13:49
I almost forgot, that this is xfire and this journal regrettably was missing some "fun" content. Therefore i added the phenomenal Monthy Python classic "International Philosophy". :p
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