Would You Kill Him

Author : Sheldon Kopp
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553278320
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him written by Sheldon Kopp and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1982-05-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, realistic approach to altering one's destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom. No meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddahood of each of us has already been obtained. We only need to recognize it. “The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once he accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being.” Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddhartha, The Wife of Bath, Don Quizote . . . the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespeare, Karka, Nin, Dante and Jung . . . a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape Everyman's journey through life.

Author : Bruce Schneier
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608891
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World written by Bruce Schneier and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of "smart" devices means the Internet can kill people. We need to act. Now. Everything is a computer. Ovens are computers that make things hot; refrigerators are computers that keep things cold. These computers—from home thermostats to chemical plants—are all online. The Internet, once a virtual abstraction, can now sense and touch the physical world. As we open our lives to this future, often called the Internet of Things, we are beginning to see its enormous potential in ideas like driverless cars, smart cities, and personal agents equipped with their own behavioral algorithms. But every knife cuts two ways. All computers can be hacked. And Internet-connected computers are the most vulnerable. Forget data theft: cutting-edge digital attackers can now crash your car, your pacemaker, and the nation’s power grid. In Click Here to Kill Everybody, renowned expert and best-selling author Bruce Schneier examines the hidden risks of this new reality. After exploring the full implications of a world populated by hyperconnected devices, Schneier reveals the hidden web of technical, political, and market forces that underpin the pervasive insecurities of today. He then offers common-sense choices for companies, governments, and individuals that can allow us to enjoy the benefits of this omnipotent age without falling prey to its vulnerabilities. From principles for a more resilient Internet of Things, to a recipe for sane government regulation and oversight, to a better way to understand a truly new environment, Schneier’s vision is required reading for anyone invested in human flourishing.

Author : George Parsons Lathrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill Him? written by George Parsons Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165637
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill the Fat Man? written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man.

Author : David Edmonds
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154023
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill the Fat Man? written by David Edmonds and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, a fascinating tour through the history of moral philosophy A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man? The question may seem bizarre. But it's one variation of a puzzle that has baffled moral philosophers for almost half a century and that more recently has come to preoccupy neuroscientists, psychologists, and other thinkers as well. In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the bestselling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with this ethical dilemma, sometimes called the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy. Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man. But why? After all, in taking one life you could save five. As Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex—and important—than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong.

Author : Henry Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781609417499
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That? written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR and "Vanity Fair" contributor Alford asks, what do "good" manners look like in our day and age? Troubled by the absence of good manners in his day-to-day life, Alford embarks on a journey to find out how things might look if people were on their best behavior a tad more often.

Author : George P. Lathrop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780829019599
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Would You Kill Him? written by George P. Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1986-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Heath
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761063146
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kill Your Brother written by Jack Heath and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do when faced with an impossible choice? An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of the Hangman series. 'Pure twist from start to finish' SARAH BAILEY 'twisted . . . fiendish . . . startling' GABRIEL BERGMOSER 'Survivor on steroids' GREG WOODLAND Would you kill your brother to save yourself? After months of searching, disgraced athlete Elise Glyk has finally found her missing brother, Callum. He's being held in a backyard prison by Stephanie Hartnell, a former sheep farmer with an axe to grind. But before she can free Callum or call for help, Elise is captured and locked up alongside him. Stephanie Hartnell doesn't have room for two prisoners, and she has nothing against Elise. But she needs to make sure Elise can't go to the police. So she offers her a deal: kill Callum, and you're free to go. Of course, Elise won't even consider the deal. No way. It's unthinkable. But she's running out of time to find another way out. And her brother may not have told her the whole truth ... A twisted roller-coaster of action and suspense from the acclaimed bestselling author of Hangman. 'Utterly compelling. A complex sibling relationship twisting and turning on itself . . . shades of Stephen King. Yes, it's that good . . . A wickedly delicious feast of a thriller.' SARAH THORNTON, author of Lapse

Author : Andy Andrews
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 0849949904
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Do You Kill 11 Million People? written by Andy Andrews and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get away with the murder of 11 million people? The answer is simple—and disturbing. You lie to them. Learn how you can become an informed, passionate citizen who demands honesty and integrity from your leaders. In this nonpartisan New York Times bestselling book, Andy Andrews emphasizes that seeking and discerning the truth is of critical importance, and that believing lies is the most dangerous thing you can do. You’ll be challenged to become a more careful student of the past, seeking accurate, factual accounts of events that illuminate choices our world faces now. By considering how the Nazi German regime was able to carry out over eleven million institutional killings between 1933 and 1945, Andrews advocates for an informed population that demands honesty and integrity from its leaders and from each other. This short, thought-provoking book poses questions like: What happens to a society in which truth is absent? How are we supposed to tell the difference between the “good guys" and the “bad guys”? How does the answer to this question affect our country, families, faith, and values? Does it matter that millions of ordinary citizens aren't participating in the decisions that shape the future of our country? Which is more dangerous: politicians with ill intent, or the too-trusting population that allows such people to lead them? This is a wake-up call: we must become informed, passionate citizens or suffer the consequences of our own ignorance and apathy. We can no longer measure a leader’s worth by the yardsticks provided by the left or the right. Instead, we must use an unchanging standard: the pure, unvarnished truth.

Author : Shunryu Suzuki
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1611808413
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind written by Shunryu Suzuki and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century (Spirituality & Practice) A 50th Anniversary edition of the bestselling Zen classic on meditation, maintaining a curious and open mind, and living with simplicity. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful of words provided a teaching as rich as has this famous opening line. In a single stroke, the simple sentence cuts through the pervasive tendency students have of getting so close to Zen as to completely miss what it's all about. It is an instant teaching on the first page--and that's just the beginning. In the fifty years since its original publication, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become one of the great modern spiritual classics, much beloved, much reread, and much recommended as the best first book to read on Zen. Suzuki Roshi presents the basics--from the details of posture and breathing in zazen to the perception of nonduality--in a way that is not only remarkably clear, but that also resonates with the joy of insight from the first to the last page.