Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@TJFWainwright “Write a transcript of an episode of the Joe Rogan experience where Joe interviews Count Dracula. They both realize they are obsessed with Ivan Illich and spend the whole time talking about ideas from his 1973 book “Tools for Conviviality” pay close attention to their speech… https://t.co/JtovnC3es3 https://t.co/f3bCATXAK4

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Truthfully more inspired by my obsession with Carl Jung, and his observations from a life as a therapist in Modern Man in Search of a Soul Namely that neurosis among his patients was only solved by a return to the religious life https://t.co/NCaGai1TPI https://t.co/74Szm5t5vY

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@eoner23 @RoamResearch I learned more from @MKebedeME than I did from most of my professors at university combined He introduced me to Ben Franklin’s Junto, James Allen’s “As a Man Thinketh” and Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book Adler founded The Great Books Project, within it is the Syntopicon

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@michael_nazari The world beyond your head - by Matthew Crawford

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@divdus_tarnus @shoppingtheatre @codexeditor @beauhaan Have a feeling that an important link is probably Aquinas — one of the few philosophers Rand admired, clearly influenced all three Peter Keating’s mother reminded me of the Mother in Lewis’s [[The Great Divorce]], Toohey of the leaders of N.I.C.E. in [[That Hideous Strength]]

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@JRIngallinera @visakanv Christianity is a paradox. Gödel proves you need paradox if you want completeness. In Dante’s inferno the lowest circle of hell is frozen, as it is the furtherest place from the warmth of love’s embrace. Satan chooses to stay there in cold self absorption.

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If you only read one book from Ayn Rand, I’d strongly recommend making it The Fountainhead

Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏🔍🇺🇸

@eoner23 @RoamResearch I learned more from @MKebedeME than I did from most of my professors at university combined He introduced me to Ben Franklin’s Junto, James Allen’s “As a Man Thinketh” and Mortimer Adler’s How to Read a Book Adler founded The Great Books Project, within it is the Syntopicon

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@IrenaPumices Does it need to be exponential, or even technical? Plato’s republic or Moor’s utopia COULD HAVE BEEN presented futurist fiction, painted very different worlds to status quo without change in tech at all assumed Agree you need fiction, but that’s v old! https://t.co/5WyKGiN8iV

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@live_intheflesh Pascal was the first decision theorist, and Pragmatism was born when William James defended his choice. If you’re interested in applying philosophy to life, you’ll love this https://t.co/4hx2MYQWCl