Freedom: The End Of The Human Condition

Jeremy Griffith
Edited by Jeremy Griffith
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Freedom: The End Of The Human Condition

Jeremy Griffith
Edited by Jeremy Griffith
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Overall rating: 3.2857144 / 5 from 7 reviews.

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Unique and Unshackled

"Once in while you come across a mind that seems to be from another planet, so unique and unshackled to the status quo do they appear. Griffith is without a doubt the holder of one of these minds and thank goodness because to solve problems one has to bring objectivity to the table. He does this in spades. That’s all I can say, and I’ve said too much. Just read it yourself and you’ll know what I mean. Thanks."

Brian (5/5)

I feel challenged by this book

"I’m studying political science and feminist theory at college and the chapters on the ideology of the political parties and gender realities have been eye-opening to say the least. This book brings everything into a whole new light for me and while I’m still reconciling my pre-conceived views with the arguments presented in Freedom, I feel challenged, motivated even, to review my stance on both. Can’t say that about many books that seem to preach to the converted rather than present differing viewpoints."

Wquigg (3/5)

Really interesting book.

"Really interesting book. Unconventional science written in an unconventional style, which was disconcerting at first, but you get used to the author’s logic and delivery pretty quickly."

Gshello (4/5)

Unintelligible, unedited, endlessly looping, polemical ramblings of a wanna-be L Ron Hubbard.

"Every second or third run-on sentence is italicized, underlined or in bold or capitalized font; seemingly to draw attention to Griffith's more salient points. To the reader, such sentences seem of no greater clarity or importance than any other of the rambling words tossed haphazardly on these pages. Seriously unedited nonsense - if there is a intelligible, meaningful message to be taken away from this tome, it is dastardly well concealed and any reader should receive a substantial prize for discovering it. I openly admit to having survived only the first 250 or so pages and having skimmed the rest. I don't care if all the secrets of the universe are to be found in the last 500+ pages - I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than finish reading this ""book""."

Bonker (1/5)

Science of self can be too close to the bone

"Griffith's treatise brings scientific understanding to the dark realm of our deepest insecurities -- whether we are actually worthwhile. For this reason it can be hard for some people to go near, and some people just get overwhelmed and confused because of the subject matter, but it is very simple: Griffith argues that when our conscious mind evolved and started to try and manage our lives it came into conflict with our pre-established instincts. Our instincts in-effect criticised our attempts at self-management. Griffith says that without the understanding that he is now presenting -- that while a gene based learning system can orientate a species, it is ignorant of the nerves need to understand -- the criticism from our instincts made us insecure, and as a result, we retaliated against it. That insecurity over whether we were good or bad to break with our instinctive orientations, and the resulting layer of insecurity over whether we were good or bad to retaliate against our instincts, is what has plagued humans since the emergence of consciousness. Understanding why we had to do what we had to do frees us from the insecurity. It is magnificently ennobling and liberating."

Damonish (5/5)

Unedited, continually looping, tedious arguments. Unreadable.

"700+ pages of rambling nonsense. If there is a cogent argument to be found in this tome it is exceedingly well concealed."

Bonker (1/5)

Explains fundamentally what it means to be human.

"FREEDOM is a big book and necessarily so, if it is to explain fundamentally what it means to be human. When I tell people this book is the most important book you will ever read, I’m naturally met with surprise, doubt and sometimes disdain that I should be so naïve or strange. But say it how it is! It’s no fluffy, walk in the park, self-motivational book or one claiming to solve the world’s problems via a new means of saving the environment or curbing population. This book stands back and looks on at our species and at our planet and delves into the very heart of the problem, ALL of the problems. In short (v. v. short) it explains what happened to humans, how we went from being instinctively driven (like all other species on Earth) to becoming conscious - the crux juncture in the human journey when one could say, the “shit hit the fan”. It is this stage in the human story (that occurred some 2 million years ago) that Griffith explains produced an internal clash that now defines what it means to be a human; why we’re so self-driven and egotistical, why we are so self preoccupied, why we need materialism and spiritualism, why religions were invented and what they have done for humans (and why they are now so dangerously fundamentalist), why the relationship between men and women is so fraught … I could go on. But basically the human condition underpins every one of our actions, every single human, no matter how young or old, is ‘inflicted’ by this state of being a human under the duress of the human condition and as such, unless we understand that – in biological terms – we will never be freed from the psychological mess we are all in."

Tessa (4/5)

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  • Published date: May 19, 2016
  • Language: English
  • No. of Pages: 799
  • Publisher: WTM Publishing and Communications
  • ISBN: 9781741290288
  • Dimensions: 6.1" W x 1.9" L x 9.2" H
Jeremy Griffith is an Australian biologist who has dedicated his life to bringing fully accountable, biological understanding to the dilemma of the human condition-the underlying issue in all human life of our species'' extraordinary capacity for what has been called ''good'' and ''evil''. ''Transform Your Life'' is a very short but powerful condensation by Jeremy of his definitive treatise of the human condition presented in his 2016 book ''FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition''.

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