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    I’m a big post-apocalyptic nerd so the Life as we knew it series are my favorite.

    Along with Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
    What’s done in darkness will come to light

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    Quote Originally Posted by Batavia View Post
    One of my alltime favourites is The Will to Power from Nietzsche.
    I prefer Schopenhauer and he talks about the will to but in mostly not a good light. For instance, his conception of a genius is where the will is weak to non-existant :

    “Genius is the power of leaving one’s own interests, wishes, and aims entirely out of sight… so as to remain pure knowing subject, clear vision of the world.”--Arthur Schopenhauer

    I read one book by Nietzsche. It was "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". I thought it was weird and trippy almost like he wrote on psychedelics or something so that left a bad taste in my mouth and I never read anymore by him.

    Anyway, physcists have the highest IQs in all of academia and Schopenhauer influenced them more than any other :


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    Schopenhauer was well read amongst physicists, most notably Einstein, Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli,[259] and Majorana.[13] Einstein described Schopenhauer's thoughts as a "continual consolation" and called him a genius.[260] In his Berlin study three figures hung on the wall: Faraday, Maxwell, Schopenhauer.[261]:87 Konrad Wachsmann recalled: "He often sat with one of the well-worn Schopenhauer volumes, and as he sat there, he seemed so pleased, as if he were engaged with a serene and cheerful work."[261]:92

    When Erwin Schrödinger discovered Schopenhauer ("the greatest savant of the West") he considered switching his study of physics to philosophy.[262] He maintained the idealistic views during the rest of his life.[261]:132 Wolfgang Pauli accepted the main tenet of Schopenhauer's metaphysics, that the thing-in-itself is will.[2]

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    I feel like people with lower IQs like Hegel as they can't identify with Schopenhauer. The reason why Hegel is taught in public schools and colleges, rather than Schopenhauer, is because Hegel was a propagandist for the Prussian state. Germany was the first nation to institute mandatory public education with the goal of creating sheeple who all thought a like on certain subjects. So, Hegel would not be a genius under Schopenhauer's system because his writings where not disinterested since he worked for the German state.

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    Some good books:

    Österreich - ein deutscher Sonderfall by Andreas Mölzer
    Verloren straat - Louis Paul Boon

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    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    "Tainted souls who try to purify themselves with blood are like the man who steps in filth and thinks to bathe in sewage."
    - Heraclitus

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    Mmmm... there's quite a few, here are some:










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    Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.

    Just kidding

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.G View Post
    Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard.

    Just kidding
    So, what is your real favourite?

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    The Divine Invasion by Philip K. Dick

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    A few of my favourites.





    Blue eyed honey in the sun
    Warm, wet and on the run
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run,....
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run

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    Blue eyed honey in the sun
    Warm, wet and on the run
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run,....
    On the run, on the run, on the run, on the run

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