Panel Discussion on Personally Influential Books

[Neo-Scholastic]

What books have profoundly altered how you personally perceive the world around you?

This is a call for participants in a moderated panel discussion in the DEBATE AREA of the influential books that have positively contributed to our love and understanding of life. Please send me a PM if you would like to be a part of the conversation.

[Silver]

Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series.

[Mystic]

Quran - Saheefa Sajjadiya - Nahjul Balagha - Alkafi - Misbahal Shariah - Tuhafaqal uqool are the six main books for me.

I am going to pm you but also wanted to say some other things in pm to you so will do it tonight.

[Neo-Scholastic]

I'd like to see people avoid scripture. My selection would be Towards a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow.

[Silver]

I just hope you're not limiting it to self help books, because I don't read those.

[Mystic]

I don't think any non-scriptural books influence me any longer psychologically or to my guidance, and I thank God for that. Though I've read a lot of non-fiction books and fiction books, I can't let humans influence me as opposed to God's psychological cure and his appointed healers who are trusted to cure us if we give them an ear.

I read a lot of new age books when I was a Deist, and perhaps although I was allergic to the term, I was more of a new ager during my Deist days. But I hope from God they don't influence me at all.

So I'll opt out.

[The Valkyrie]

This is a good idea.

I don't really have time to contribute at the moment but, like a certain general, I shall return...

[Neo-Scholastic]

I just hope you're not limiting it to self help books, because I don't read those.

Not at all. Recently, I read Debt: the First 5000 years and it also had a profound effect on my as well. Or going way back, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Others would be of niche topics about oil painting or business and not of interest to others.

[Brian37]

1. God The Failed Hypothesis, Victor Stinger.

2. The New Atheism, Victor Stinger

3. God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens.

4. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins.

5. The End Of Faith, Sam Harris

6. Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

But the first skeptic book I read after getting online in 01 to seek out other atheists was a book of skeptic quotes "2,000 Years Of Disbelief" by James Haught.

[Duty]

The Avacado Baby and The Player of Games  and..and..and.....that'll do for now.