Book Café

[Antonio Andolini]

Currently I am reading about modern physics, concepts about relativity, black hole...It's so fascinating and it holds me in awe, it's a disdain to common sense and logic, full of brain-twisters ideas that open new perspectives to the mind...By the way, if you want to avoid the mathematics perplexities and just take in the basics and results,

Yep,I'm also interested in Cosmology and Astrophysics but not very good at Modern physics since it's a bit confusing and hard to imagine. which part do you like the most? QED,QCD,Relativity,..?

"Relativity, a very short introduction" by Cambridge press is a very good book

never have I read that but the two Hawking's great books,A Brief History of Time and Universe in a Nutshell are the best books that I've read
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BTW- today I almost finished Foruqi's book and I got a conclusion that reading philosophy for my age is somehow a wrong and useless thing .. I mean we should obtain our philosophy by our own minds and experiences.because I believe philosophy without example is nothing except words and expressions.I mean for understanding somebody's philosophy we need to know why he/she has got to this conclusion,despite whether it is wrong or right.
I mean the fact that an Idea is right is not necessarily means that I should obey and accept it,more than anything I need to know why they've got to this conclusion.For example suppose that a philosopher states that This world is very unstable and we shouldn't rely on it at all. So what?what can I do?what is his main Idea?and if I wanna don't pay attention to my world what else can I do?what's its replacement?and hundreds of other questions .. But I believe experience can solve this statement(the kind of feeling that I think dear Sepideh called it irritating )as just a student cannot learn math without solving problems and examples and that's where we can find of our questions,mistakes and many other areas that we haven't noticed at the first sight.
but I don't mean philosophy is nothing and we should burn all the philosophical books in this world it's good .. but for the time that I've found my real myself and obtained my beliefs and so many other things that I haven't discovered.
at this moment I remembered a short story thatsomebody was writing biography about a great man of his time.and an other person comes and says:Go to hell!Why don't you do sth that somebody else comes and writes about you?
Isn't it?
sorry for being talkative

[SCYTHE]

In the response to the above post, on the subjects I may find myself enthused, I
like the aspects of physics that yield me philosophical consequences such as especial & general relativity, cosmology...As to your idea of philosophy, I realise your point, when I was younger I had certain philosophical thoughts in my mind that I could relate everything to it and I was unwilling to learn more but when someway I was subjected to otherwise ideas I completely lost my old beliefs and on the basis of the new concepts I tried to interpret my life, my world and all. I somehow enjoy these inner revolutions inside myself since I feel in whole my life the zeal for reaching the truth has made me to climb the mountains and after finding that highness just a distant mirage I departed to other eminences... I know we will never reach to the reality as it never exists or cannot be achieved but in every attempt we find a more elaborated sketch from the truth and this reward outweigh all the expenses we have payed for the truth

[SCYTHE]

I am avidly reading the book of the lord of the rings, it has overwhelmingly arrested all my attention

[SCYTHE]

It's a pity that we are not loyal friends of books, I could not imagine my life without reading Nietzsche and Tolkien books.
Currently I am amidst of reading "Human, all too human" by Nietzsche.l

What have been the most influential books in your life?l

[sepid12ir]

It's a pity that we are not loyal friends of books, I could not imagine my life without reading Nietzsche and Tolkien books.
Currently I am amidst of reading "Human, all too human" by Nietzsche.l

What have been the most influential books in your life?l

it's been a long time that I haven't checked this topic out. now that I had a quick review on older posts, I kinda missed it, thanks for bringing up the topic, my old pal i
referring to one of the most influential books !! let's see, 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Nietzcsche is one of my choices. a book full of moral statements which impressed me a lot.
of course, I don't know 'Nietzcsche' well , but as little as I know, he has ignored God several times in different articles n books, but he cares a lot to morality n 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' can be one of the examples. n that is interesting to me. I mean the one who ignores God n religious points of views n tales but writes a lot on moralities n these kinda things! ... isn't it interesting ?!i

n if I wanna refer to other influential books, I would go to literary ones! 'death of a salesman' by Arthur Miller.
one of the best dramas I've read so far. Willy Loman, my fav character. a low man who always considered himself a well-liked person. the one who lived in his own world rather than reality n ...! u have to read it yrself

[SCYTHE]

it's been a long time that I haven't checked this topic out. now that I had a quick review on older posts, I kinda missed it, thanks for bringing up the topic, my old pal i
referring to one of the most influential books !! let's see, 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' by Nietzcsche is one of my choices. a book full of moral statements which impressed me a lot.
of course, I don't know 'Nietzcsche' well , but as little as I know, he has ignored God several times in different articles n books, but he cares a lot to morality n 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' can be one of the examples. n that is interesting to me. I mean the one who ignores God n religious points of views n tales but writes a lot on moralities n these kinda things! ... isn't it interesting ?!i

n if I wanna refer to other influential books, I would go to literary ones! 'death of a salesman' by Arthur Miller.
one of the best dramas I've read so far. Willy Loman, my fav character. a low man who always considered himself a well-liked person. the one who lived in his own world rather than reality n ...! u have to read it yrself

Many thanks for your book recommendation. I read a page of it and I liked its vivid descriptions

About your question regarding the paradox between morality and atheism, from the perspective of an atheist, the basis for the morality is rationality instead of belief

In a nutshell, Do good deed because it's good, do not expect like a slave to be punished or praised because of your acts. Of course it's a long discussion and I enjoy discussing these matters if you will, in addition you can find many articles on this subject

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[SCYTHE]

At the moment I am reading "The Castle" by "Franz Kafka". I can relate to the novel, it's profound, it shows the absurdity so deeply in meaning of life, pointless goals of life, ...l
But amazingly in this desperate atmosphere, you can find many comedy scenes, that again come out of absurdity and foolishness

[SCYTHE]

I am somehow amazed by this bleak atmosphere! Anyway, now I am reading "Trail" by Kafka, so far I have read "Castle" and "Metaphorsis" by him. Reading his works are like facing the nightmarish facts of our life that we always try to avaoid them but they remain in our unconcious part of our brain and inflict us now and then. l

[SCYTHE]

Reading books is a good escape, I almost don't sense the stream of time. Currently I am reading some books simultaneously; namely, "The problems of Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell and "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The latter is a challenge to understand which makes it even more interesting.l

I have a subject that I would be happy if you share your ideas:l
Has it ever happened to you that you buy a book and after reading some pages of it throw it away? If your answer is affirmative, would you name the books?l

[Antonio Andolini]

Gita (Bhagavad Gita)
Song of God
I finished this book months ago but on these months I was trying to understand the meaning of the book. The book is only about 150 pages but it's too rich! .. it consists of Hindu prays and it is known as the holiest Hindu scriptures.. as I have got from this book the most evil thing is doing something because of its rewards or not doing your jobs because of punishment and the one who does his jobs out of rewards and punishments is considered as the real Yugi.
It is a very nice book, if you are eager to study about other religions this book gives you good picture of Hinduism.
I also should note that this book is in fact a part of a big story(Mahabharata) that Arjuna(The Prince) has won Kurukshetra war and passed very meaningful examinations and now has reached the nearest place to God and talks to him!.
The translator,Mohammad Ali Movahed, gives a good picture of the whole story and Hinduism at the preface and helps you to understand this book better.