Book Of The Day

What do you do when you’re jobless and bored? You go to Bore-ders. A book a day keeps the senile brain away. I came across this book:

Some interesting parts I found:

Trapped.

It’s not because you are making the wrong decisions, it’s because you are making the right ones.
We try to make sensible decisions based on the facts in front of us.
The problem is that so is everyone else.

Izzit… No wonder I’m trapped in limbo. Don’t have a job, can’t get a job.

The unsafe decision causes you to think and respond in a way you hadn’t thought of.
And that thought will lead to other thoughts which will help you achieve what you want.
Start taking bad decisions and it will take you to a place where others only dream of being.

Really ah… Why did I want a safe, conventional job like teaching? Hmmm… Maybe it’s time to make a really, really BAD decision.

The book has humanism and individualism written all over it. The book tells you that:

“You are the person you chose to be.”

“There is only one person who can determine the shape of your life.
You.”

This part made me chuckle:

Are you being reasonable.

Salomon Brothers, the well-known New York investment house, met with prospective clients not once a month or once a day, but three times a day.
That is unreasonable.
But it works.
Most people are reasonable, that’s why they only do reasonably well.

This reminds me of someone I know. I always say, “If it’s not working, don’t keep banging your head against the wall.” This guy kept on banging. The wall broke.

This one justifies aksi behaviour:

No one but No.1

It is fashionable for so-called thinking people to try to lose their ego.
Well, they should think a bit harder.
Presumably we were given egos for a reason.
Great people have great egos; maybe that’s what makes them great.
So let us put it to good use rather than try to deny it.
Life’s all about “me” anyway.

Contrary to biblical teaching, huh?

This one made me ponder quite a while:

What’s your opinion?

Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,
Their lives a mimicry,
Their passions a quotation – Oscar Wilde

I suspect that Oscar Wilde is an atheist. I felt as though he was talking to me. Are your thoughts not your own, but the Bible’s opinions? Is your life just a mimicry of someone else by the name of Jesus? Is your passion merely the quotations of a person called Jesus?

We have a choice then. Agree with Oscar Wilde, that Christians are just like "anyone else", mere followers of another person, with no opinion of their own. Or, agree with me, that Oscar is the wild one.

I believe it’s just a natural course of consequence. When you start off with humanism and individualism, sooner or later, you’re gonna drift into post-modernism. True enough, it came out a few pages later. Look at this one:

There is no right point of view.

There is a conventional or popular point of view.
There is a personal point of view.
There is a large point of view which the majority share.
There is a small point of view which just a few share.
But there is no right point of view.
You are always right.
You are always wrong.
It just depends from which pole you are looked at.
Advances in any field are built upon people with the small or personal point of view.

There you go. Post-modernism in a nutshell. Just as I was thinking about the writer’s personal position about God, he answered my question. He writes in the epilogue:

My next book

Since the beginning of mankind, more thought has gone into the understanding of God than any other subject known to man and still nobody is any wiser.
In the length of a taxi ride, Paul Arden explains it once and for all.
GOD EXPLAINED IN A TAXI RIDE.

I finished the book in one sitting. The book costs RM43.95.