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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:30:40 JST lainy
   what life-changing books have you read?
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     :thonk: (p@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:33:03 JST :thonk:

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     "Chaos" by James Gleick
     his political opinions less so
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     יעקב (_anti@novoa.nagoya)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:34:16 JST יעקב

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     @lain@lain.com Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" comes to mind

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:40:59 JST lainy

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     @harblinger i haven't read that one! i did read illuminatus!
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     Harblinger (harblinger@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:41:00 JST Harblinger

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     @lain not sure if for better or worse

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     Rain (rain@melonbread.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:41:09 JST Rain

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     @lain@lain.com My dad tried to get me to tried Rich Dad Poor Dad in High School because it changed they way he saw money or whatever. Ironically I would still consider him a Poor Dad 😆

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     Harblinger (harblinger@wizard.casa)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:46:46 JST Harblinger

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     @lain I remember the Illuminatus trilogy being a romp, but not really life changing :illuminati: both Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology hit similar life changing buttons: tl;dr objectivity is over-rated, reality is more malleable than we think, that type of thing. And both have experiments to try at the end of each chapter

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:46:57 JST lainy

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     @harblinger thank you, will check it out!
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 01:47:31 JST lainy

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     @harblinger reminds me a bit of 'seven experiments that could change the world' by sheldrake
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     sampo (sampo@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 02:02:19 JST sampo

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     @lain you could invert the y axis and label it "lives actually changed"
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     new me new me (lebronjames75@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 03:39:50 JST new me new me

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     @lain "Kuidas minust sai HAPKOMAH" (subtitle title: "ja lisaks kõik lood nihilist.fm'ist"
     
     "How i became a NARCOMANIAC (in cryllic)"
     subtitle title:
     "and other stories from nihilist.fm"
     
     literally 0 people i can recommend this to because its estonian. in estonian there is a concept of "Second estonia", which means the politically, ethically and socially ignored. The book is a collection of stories describing the "Third estonia". It incredibly changed and developed my understanding of other humans, be it rich and prosperous or those half a minute away from a drug overdose death statistic. And everyone in between too.
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     Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Nov-2025 14:11:11 JST Matthew Skala

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     @lain @harblinger I'd endorse this one, and have heard others say the same. Wonder where it fits on the log plot.

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