God 
Which book has had the most significant influence on you?
I’ll go first: ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins. Almost made me vanish in a puff of logic.
Amor De Cosmos@godpod The Tao Te Ching
Doreen32128 ready to rumble!@godpod Fahrenheit 451!
PapaErnie69@Doreen32128 @godpod That is exactly the one I was going to list. We're in the stage of society now. Hopefully it stops before it's to late!
Erik Harris@godpod - "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark," by Carl Sagan
I read it back in 1996 or 97, and while I felt it was informative, only years later did I realize how much it transformed my understanding of how to acquire and evaluate "knowledge," and how/why to dismiss what I thought was knowledge when I discovered I was wrong.
Its contents are a little dated, but it's still an incredibly powerful introduction to critical thinking!
Kevin Larsen 📚@godpod Stargazers and Gravediggers by Immanuel Velikovsky It taught me how much a single person could learn from using a good library and also how scientists can keep back progress. Also, later on, when I found out the mistakes Velikovsky made, it made me realize you need other people to check your work, in a good way, to make sure it's valid. https://www.velikovsky.info/stargazers-and-gravediggers/
John Spounias 
@godpod Faust. You are in it!
Shay Nelson@godpod A Game of Thrones. It sucked me back into literature after a much too long hiatus.
AnaMakesThings@shazma @godpod I'm 35 and these were the first books I got to recommend to both my mom and dad. We read them almost at the same time. Before this, all the books I had read were something they had already read before I got to them. This series brings me so much joy. My parents are divorced and we, as a family, have very little in common. Debates about the possible outcomes of Sansa in The Vale is one of them 💚
Zed Not Zee ✅@godpod green eggs and ham
RedAlert (Michael)@godpod
Der kleine Prinz
Der kleine Prinz
Lawrence@godpod Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
JonokliHave you read Lila too?
alphabetsoup
💭Kathy ♈︎ Freeman🔭🐀@godpod Saturn:A New Look At An Old Devil by Liz Greene
moliver
Sophia 🎶☃️🩵✨@godpod I actually wrote it myself. It was a Calendar. It had a pretty big influence on my decisions.
midwitch@godpod When God Had a Wife: the Fall and Rise of the Sacred Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition by Picknett and Prince. Reads like a text book but got me started on my current spiritual path, worth it IMO.
@godpod certainly, not a single religious book. Ever.
Autistic Antitheist@godpod
"Time Enough for Love," by Robert A. Heinlein. Made me totally rethink relationships and love.
"Time Enough for Love," by Robert A. Heinlein. Made me totally rethink relationships and love.
JonKramer, CIS-HET@godpod , Penthouse letters volume IV.
Jeffrey Chesner@godpod Atlas Shrugged
@godpod Moby Dick or The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins or Ulysses or War & Peace or something else.
Michael Taylor@godpod infinite jest by David Foster Wallace.
AnitaH2@godpod
One of Costeau's series on the ocean. First and foremost because it vastly expended my ability to understand english, but also because it gave me a life long obsession over anything aquatic.
Then Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
One of Costeau's series on the ocean. First and foremost because it vastly expended my ability to understand english, but also because it gave me a life long obsession over anything aquatic.
Then Carl Sagan's Cosmos.
Downfall Capital 🌊@godpod The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Barry Schwartz 🫖@godpod I think Dawkins is a delusion.
I will say "Zen in the Art of Archery" by Herrigel.
@godpod Herrigel himself was merely confused. I solved his mystery on my own. But without the book, I never would have.
Friar Paul@godpod The Way of the Pilgrim. A classic story addressing the struggle to pray.
midwesterner 🦬@godpod Principles of Mathematical Analysis
BearlyNoticeable@godpod
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
LiberalEleet@godpod Lying Liars and the Liars Who Tell Them
JAFO“The Mission, The Men, and Me”
Pete Blaber
Pinky Floyd@godpod breakfast of champions by kurt vonnegut
opened the door to his writing
@pinkyfloyd @godpod My husband and I still trade beaver jokes.
Wayne55@godpod
“Off the beaten path” with Walter Hesman. A true story of a man who becomes an outdoorsman and the adventures he has in the wilderness of Northern Ontario.
“Off the beaten path” with Walter Hesman. A true story of a man who becomes an outdoorsman and the adventures he has in the wilderness of Northern Ontario.
Poisson Ivy@godpod The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho.
Steve Wildsmith@godpod Alan Watts, The Way of Zen
Krijn Soeteman 🎙 🏳️🌈@godpod although the God delusion was interesting, I think the Dutch youth novel 'Crusade in jeans' by Thea Beckman had a significant influence on me (and many of her books).
GB@godpod Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman and Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut.
@godpod Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. I was in the military at the time. The book really made me think. There is a quote along the lines of "They say give me liberty or give me death, but has anyone ever came back and said they are glad they are dead."
Argot_Robbie@godpod The book which has had the most significant influence on me?
The Köchel Catalog.
Blackswan@godpod omg you don’t even exist :’( there’s no god
briancolfer
TexasDarkSkies@godpod Starry Messenger by Neil deGrasse Tyson
@godpod the Ministry of the Future by #KimStanleyRobinson
Tea 🥄🖤🐘🤍♾️@godpod this is a weird one but 19 minutes by Jodi picolt. It made me realize everything isn't black and white and there is reasons behind situation and it started me unraveling me whole life.
@godpod oh and little princess started me reading
Igor Sancin@godpod The book of five rings by Miyamoto Musashi
Chu 朱On this front, it was a first year religious studies textbook.
Learnt so much about how religion was all about power and control and I too finally let "faith" disappear in a puff of logic.
Serinthia Kelberry🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@godpod I thought The Babel Fish was supposed to do that.
@godpod Most influential book this year was The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Ben Crowell
windexing@godpod unready to wear by Vonnegut. In Welcome to the Monkey House.
Peter M@godpod God Is Disappointed In You!
Equiphile@godpod Desert Solitaire
@godpod brave new world aldous huxely