Your Bible?

[Dimensional Vortex]

well not exactly a book but more of a mix of things I have read. When at school doing my work I sometimes wish to stop what I'm doing and screw around, but then I think of who I want to become when I'm older, I think of people like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein and think that they wouldn't have just quit if they had this chance, so I work far harder and my reward is good grades

 

[k-ossuburb]

My massive catalogue of various instructional books on how to do various things involving all my little projects and hobbies.

 

[Jedoro]

Fight Club

Not even joking, the time I read that and felt like I really grasped the meaning of it, it just changed my life. I have no irrational fears and haven't panicked or stressed over anything since. You just live the life you want and let the little things slide, and it'll all be okay. I mean, I've even had a chick break my heart (and I do mean break) and I was over it within a few days. No explanation, no apology, she just started dating another guy and I got over it. Hell, still neither of those and now we're friends again.

 

[Warbandit]

"Guards Guards!" by Terry Pratchett worked for me quite a bit... Also, some points in Trainspotting. Also, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and 1984.

We had to read 1984 in highschool, and everyone who didn't read it all the way through hated it. They complained endlessly about it, and I found it really insulting to the book, and to George Orwell.

 

[hannan4mitch]

Some 21,000 years in the future, the human race has scattered throughout the known universe and populated countless planetary systems, which are ruled by aristocratic royal houses who in turn answer to the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Science and technology have evolved far beyond that of our own time despite the prohibition of computers and artificial intelligence. Humans with highly-developed minds, called Mentats, perform the functions of computers. The CHOAM corporation is the major underpinning of the Imperial economy, with shares and directorships determining each House's income and financial leverage. Key is the control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the valuable spice melange, which gives those who ingest it extended life and some prescient awareness. Melange is crucial to space travel, which is monopolized by the Spacing Guild. Their Navigators use the spice to safely plot a course for the Guild's heighliner ships using prescience and "foldspace" technology, which allows instantaneous travel to anywhere in the universe.

But the litany goes:I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Eh, I like the Mentat Mantra from the David Lynch film;
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

 

[Death916]

Some 21,000 years in the future, the human race has scattered throughout the known universe and populated countless planetary systems, which are ruled by aristocratic royal houses who in turn answer to the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV. Science and technology have evolved far beyond that of our own time despite the prohibition of computers and artificial intelligence. Humans with highly-developed minds, called Mentats, perform the functions of computers. The CHOAM corporation is the major underpinning of the Imperial economy, with shares and directorships determining each House's income and financial leverage. Key is the control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the valuable spice melange, which gives those who ingest it extended life and some prescient awareness. Melange is crucial to space travel, which is monopolized by the Spacing Guild. Their Navigators use the spice to safely plot a course for the Guild's heighliner ships using prescience and "foldspace" technology, which allows instantaneous travel to anywhere in the universe.

But the litany goes:I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Eh, I like the Mentat Mantra from the David Lynch film;
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

Ya i was debating putting that one as well, but when no one knew what I was talking about in the first place i decided not to push it.

 

[omicron1]

My Bible is an Archaeological Study Bible, NIV ('cause they were out of KJV when I went shopping). It's a two-in-one combination holy book and amazingly interesting archaeological facts compendium!

 

[Adecristo]

1. The Secret
2. The Art of War
3. Codex: Space Marines

 

[Woodsey]

I couldn't call just one book a definitive bible for my life. Far from it, since my personal religious, moral, and ethical beliefs are such a melange of different influences over the past 33 years.

I could cite everything from the Christian Bible to the Analects to the Tao te Ching to 1984 and Brave New World to the transcript of "Happy Go Nutty" and "The Screwy Truant".

So it's Playboy, right?

 

[imperialreign]

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide . . .


. . . sometimes, it's best to simply just go mad and get it over with - it makes dealing with the day-to-day reality so much easier

 

[Quaxar]

The God Delusion.

Delicious.

Deliciously ironic.

OT: Lovecraft.
Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!
Wait... no... that's not what I meant...

Can I still change my answer? Sun Tsu!
And now you better forget everything you heard about Outer Gods.

 

[Wrists]

Artaud's Manifesto. It puts things in a different light, at the very least I can think about the value of vile things now.

 

[ManicMedic]

Dune. The litany against fear is with me everyday

You sir are awesome!

 

[7|-|3 1337]

I follow my own moral code.

1. If you don't think you should do it, don't do it, unless it's funny as hell.
2. Don't trust people with funny accents. I'm not racist, but it's just weird.
3. Keep to yourself. It is a lot easier to go on day to day when you don't talk to people.
5. Try not to procrastinate.
6.

 

[Cheesus333]

Spoiler: Bam.

Not to appear insincere, but Scott Pilgrim is a videogame nerd who spends his time dicking about with music and being a charming, loveable prick to everyone he meets. He faces trials with courage and dedication and, by the end of the series, is not so stubborn as to not learn anything about himself in the process. He's a brilliant role-model.

I think so, anyway.

 

[Frotality]

the bible is stupid. every philosophical treatise youve read is stupid. dune is stupid. your opinion is stupid. my opinion is stupid.

but combine all those, and you have pure genius.

my point being: no single opinion, book, collaboration, or anything is enough to base one's life around. ultimately, everyone is one specific neuro-chemical balance with one life experienced; and only by studying as many of them as possible can you form a relatively accurate perspective of life.

ive read everything from genesis to the 5 pillars of islam to socrates to zarathustra to lovecraft to orwell to emerson to hegel to thoreau to the god delusion to...you get the idea. if there was an end all guide to life, we would all be following it. absorb all the information you can; anything and everything.

 

[kitsunefather]

Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great.