Your Bible?

[Infernostrider]

i try to live by the tenets of Tymora, lady luck in the forgotten realms ^_^ fortune favors the bold!

 

[spinFX]

I follow the ten commandmants and the lessons of the new testament but my life has also been influenced by Aesop's fables and Machiavelli's "The Prince".

So you've never worked on Sunday? Double time though...

 

[TheRobotandtheBeast]

World War Z

 

[Jacob.pederson]

Dune. The litany against fear is with me everyday

Bit more depth? What's the story about?

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.

 

[Kenko]

The Codex Astartes guides me. Let the Emperors will be done!

 

[teebeeohh]

the obvious choice: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, so far it never let me down

 

[SilverUchiha]

Didn't change my life, but it does make me take a step back and think when I read it, and that would be Jackie Chan's Autobiography. "I am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action"

 

[CouchCommando]

Read the bible ,adopted the sermons on the mount even though I'm not religious, And also adopted the simple folksy "Prussian Values" tapestry I got from my mothers side of the family. All stood me in good stead. Considering I managed to climb my way out of the shitty housing estate that my dead beat of a father left us in. Managed to complete a trade and open my own business and build my dream home as well all this through maintaining a healthy respect for the community and other people as individuals.
When it comes to confronting religious types or cultists I usually just quote Nietzsche.

 

[Something Amyss]

Couldn't stand it. Which is weird, because I like Dawkins.

Blasphemer! Repent!

What kind of pennance does this entail?

 

[Gigano]

"Practical Ethics" by Peter Singer and "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill are the books most influential and closest to my chosen normative world view.

 

[ANImaniac89]

The Holy Bible for me
and no I don't see anything wrong with that.

 

[Spacelord]

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark [http://www.amazon.com/Demon-Haunted-World-Science-Candle-Dark/dp/0345409469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1290861847&sr=8-1] by Carl Sagan.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Catch 22.

That has all the life lessons there have been, is, and will be within those glorious pages.

 

[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!