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Reddit mentions of Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us. Here are the top ones.
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I love this book and I think even if you stay religious you will get a lot from it. http://www.amazon.com/Out-Character-Surprising-Truths-Lurking/dp/0307717763
One of the early pieces in it discusses all this evil and good and our understanding of what that really is. You know the whole good angel and devil sitting on your shoulder, common in christian teaching. ie: if you listen to your angel you'll do good etc etc devil gets you in trouble.
It asks you for the book and life to replace the good angel with a ant and the devil with a grasshopper. Stick with me!
The ant believes in long term plans. He works hard and devotes his time to working as part of a group for a bigger project. He always looks at the long term of each of his actions inside his colony.
Then there's the grasshopper. He wants things now. He feeds alone and grabs what he can. He won't resist a passing fly and enjoys consuming everything alone. He has his relationships anywhere. In his world its about him and his survival and instant gratification.
The book then takes on some of the more difficult characters we have known who have dramatically changed in front of our eyes. Take one like Tiger woods. Why did a guy with a beautiful wife, a perfect career, a huge sponsorship and the love of the sports world throw it away with affair after affair, the book will tell you much more than me. I will say it was to do with his development. He never had much freedom growing up. He never experienced life outside the watchful eyes of his father. He was not satisfied in his marriage and was also missing something inside himself. It goes on to show you how his grasshopper actually came to his rescue (yeah I know rescue!) but it did get him to change his life by destroying the one he was living that was actually a lie. A loveless marriage, a passionless existence. You know what, I'm not doing this book any justice at all. Just get it.
The lessons for me were that nobody is fit to be judged by me. Nobody can be fully understood by a list of shameful things. What is happening to them is a sort of evolution of themselves, a breaking of the shackles so that they can find true happiness.
I grew up in catholic ireland where looking at a girl was nearly a sin. Our entire school was like an indoctrination. To cool kids like myself that was hell. We're listening to rap, playing guitar, dropping xtc, and taking on the clubs, we wanted to rebel in the hardest way possible. I know exactly what you mean by "born a believer" sure I was baptized at four months old! The church is and was trying to get kids as early as possible. The churches of all countries want to drill this middle eastern import into your head about a guy from 2000 years ago called Jesus. The vikings came to ireland, I could have been swing Thors hammer!. The celts came here, I could have been praying to Alaunus in a river, but no a middle easter religion came in and took over. It was forced through europe by the prussians and repacked into pagan festivals like easter and christmas, or Ostara and Yule by some fella call Patrick.
But you know all this. It's just a bunch of stories to help us feel less frightened of death. I challenge you to reach above your head now, open your palm and close the eye of god. You are not being watched. You are NOT a "sinner". You forgive yourself not anybody else. You were born with morals not thought them. Nothing will give you more peace than knowing you have a life and its great. Enjoy your week and most of all have fun.