(March 22, 2009 at 2:24 am)padraic Wrote: Is he more lucid than Dawkins? I ask as I find him a bit underwhelming at times.I've read countless self-help books lol...
I'm asked to read a book,written by someone I've never heard of who turns up here for the sole purpose of selling his book? The title sounds as if it's been written by an atheist Dr Phil.
I think I'll pass.
Besides,in no longer read self help books. In my experience,such books seem to help the publishers and posibly the authors, and that's about it .
My conclusion is that perhaps one day I should write a self-help book myself called 'The ULTIMATE Self-Help Book' and constantly rant on in it about how one of the best ways to help yourself - and to get on with your life - is to NOT buy self help books lol
, they certainly were counter-productive for me; overall at least.Some good bits in some of them but overall they were all a waste of time more or less.
And I'm not saying that its impossible to write a good one..
And also a lot of them were just plain utter bull of the most bullshitting kind.
I think the thing is that they can feed your need for 'needing help' and make you feel worse than you did in the first place.
You might just want a bit of help and guidance for example; and you end up wanting more and feeling a bit confused. And developing a 'need' that makes you feel worse than you did in the first place...
And then when you buy several - or many - 'self-help' books and they all disagree with each other and some are more bullshit than others - then it starts to get even more confusing.
Oh, I dunno. I was never good at selecting the best bits from different books either. Now I can do that but I realize it means taking like 1% from some of the books and 0% from others because they've just complete nonsense mostly in my experience.
Because self-help books mostly seem to just state the obvious or generally say the same kind of thing in different ways.
And some of them also spout bull lol.
But on the other hand...I've never read a self-help book by an atheist specifically about how you can still obviously have a good life if you don't believe in God (that's what it's about I assume?).
But I don't desire it - or feel that I need it - myself so I'm not going to buy it.
And if I DID buy it I'm certainly not going to fall into a trap again and start buying self-help books by atheists and how 'you don't need to believe in God to be happy'.
Because like other self-help books that would seem mostly like stating the obvious again to me. Perhaps without the bullshit part though lol
(or rather; just LESS bullshit, some of those self-help spouted on and on about 'spiritual' nonsense; or even actually mentioned 'God' like half way through and I'm sat there thinking "Oh f*ck.....ugh! How annoying" and basically feeling I've wasted my money AGAIN lol.Glad that phase of mine was over a while ago now!! Hehe.
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